The Experiment spring 2015 FRONTLIST PLUS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS The Experiment EARLY RELEASE | OCTOBER 2014 Going the Other Way AN INTIMATE MEMOIR OF LIFE IN AND OUT OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Billy Bean with Chris Bull u Back in print and available as an A timely reissue: From major-league ebook for the first time u With a new preface by Billy Bean baseball’s only openly gay former u Unlike pro basketball, football, player—just appointed MLB’s first and soccer, baseball still lacks an Ambassador for Inclusion—a moving openly gay active player chronicle of our national pastime u As its first Ambassador for Inclusion, Billy Bean is at the fore as Major League Baseball prepares for After a decade as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles change Dodgers, and San Diego Padres, Billy Bean, at the young age of 31, walked away from the major leagues in the prime of his career. His 2 teammates and family had no idea that Bean was living in the closet in the brutally anti-gay world of baseball. So much so that, when his ¡ Outreach to national sports and partner Sam’s funeral conflicted with a ballgame, Bean made the lifestyle publications and LGBT wrenching choice to skip the memorial service of the man he loved. media Balancing hardship with humor, this unprecedented memoir ¡ Tie-in with author’s Major League Baseball–sponsored events captures Bean’s trajectory from the dusty fields of his youth to the ¡ Blog tour and giveaway targeting green grass of the majors—and his struggle to reconcile two worlds sports and LGBT blogs that seemed mutually exclusive. Throughout are clear-eyed insights ¡ Online advertising and social media into the game and the demands it makes on all its players. promotions “The courage Bean shows in telling his story is incredible.” —Los Angeles Times Twitter.com/BillyBeanBall “Adds a new dimension to the world of sports literature.” —Jim Bouton, former Yankees pitcher, author of Ball Four TRADE PAPERBACK $15.95 US | $20.95 Can. | World 5B/c x 8B /e | 272 pages BILLY BEAN played major league baseball 20 B&W in-text photographs from 1987 to 1995 for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padres. As Major League Baseball’s first Biography & Autobiography | Sports Ambassador for Inclusion, he supports the (BIO016000) League’s efforts toward equal opportunity 978-1-61519-263-2 | No. 779263 throughout major and minor league baseball. Ebook · 978-1-61519-264-9 He lives in Los Angeles. Previous ed.: 978-156924-461-6 SHIPS OCTOBER CHRIS BULL is cofounder of Gay Cities: Your Travel and City Guide and editorial director of Queerty.com, the most popular LGBT blog in the world. The Experiment EARLY RELEASE | DECEMBER 2014 My Pregnancy Journal with Sophie la girafe® My Baby’s Room Who’s going to paint it? The toys uvaiting patiently to be played uvith: All done! Add a picture of your baby’s room The color scheme I chose: The theme I picked out: My little — and big — impulse buys! Handcrafted from the heart! 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Product protected by copyright (by order of the Paris court of appeal dated 30 June 978-1-61519-234-2 | No. 779234 2000)®. SHIPS NOVEMBER My Grandfather “When I look in the mirror, I see two faces, mine and his. Would Have And a third, my mother’s. But what about on the inside? Shot Me How much of Amon Goeth do I have in me?” A BLACK WOMAN DISCOVERS HER FAMILY’S NAZI PAST Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair Translated by Carolin Sommer An international bestseller—the extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List u Millions already know Amon Goeth “I am the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, who shot hundreds through Schindler’s List, but here for the first time is the story of his of people—and for being black, he would have shot me, too.” black granddaughter In an instant, Jennifer Teege’s life turns upside down; the u More than half a year on German shock of discovering her ancestry shatters her sense of self. bestseller lists Teege is 38—married, with two small children—when by u Garnered headlines worldwide chance she finds a library book about her grandfather, Amon including across the English- speaking world Goeth. Millions of people worldwide know of him through u Grippingly explores identity, family Ralph Fiennes’ chilling portrayal in Steven Spielberg’s film ties, and our relationship to the past Schindler’s List. Goeth was the brutal commandant of the Plaszów concentration camp—Oskar Schindler’s drinking 4 buddy, and yet his adversary. Responsible for the deaths of ¡ 6-city author tour: New York, Boston, thousands, Amon Goeth was hanged in 1946. Washington DC, Chicago, San Goeth’s partner Ruth, Teege’s much-loved grandmother, Francisco, Los Angeles committed suicide in 1983. Teege is their daughter’s ¡ National TV, radio, and print daughter; her father is Nigerian. Raised by foster parents, interviews and features she grew up with no knowledge of the family secret. Now, it ¡ Book trailer ¡ Blog tour, online advertising, and unsettles her profoundly. What can she say to her Jewish social media promotions friends, or to her own children? Who is she—truly? ¡ ABA White Box galley mailing My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is Teege’s searing ¡ Book club promotion chronicle of grappling with her haunted past. Her research into ¡ Publication to tie-in to Holocaust her family takes her to Poland and to Israel. Award-winning Remembrance Day, April 16 journalist Nikola Sellmair supplies historical context in a separate, interwoven narrative. Step by step, horrified by her Jennifer-Teege.de family’s dark history, Teege builds the story of her own liberation. The Experiment NEW RELEASES | APRIL “When I look in the mirror, I see two faces, mine and his. And a third, my mother’s. But what about on the inside? How much of Amon Goeth do I have in me?” AMON GOETH, JENNIFER TEEGE the notorious Nazi had no idea she was “butcher” of Plaszów his granddaughter concentration camp. until age 38, when He was hanged for she chanced upon a genocide in 1946. library book. “An important document . proof that history never ends.” —Profile magazine RUTH IRENE MONIKA HERTWIG, KALDER, Amon Goeth’s Goeth’s lover and daughter. After an secretary. She affair with a Nigerian denied Goeth’s student, she left her crimes to the end. baby at a convent. JENNIFER TEEGE has worked in advertising since 1999 and lives in HARDCOVER Germany with her husband and two sons. In her twenties, she studied for $24.95 US | $31.95 Can. | WE four years in Israel, where she learned fluent Hebrew. A mixed-race woman 5B/c x 8B /e | 288 pages raised by adoptive German parents, she was appalled to discover her Nazi 20 B&W in-text photographs ancestry. Her compelling true story is stranger than fiction. Biography & Autobiography | NIKOLA SELLMAIR has been an editor at Germany’s Stern magazine Personal Memoirs (BIO026000) since 2000. She received the German-Polish Journalist Award for the feature 978-1-61519-253-3 | No. 779253 article that became the basis for this book. Ebook · 978-1-61519-254-0 Translator CAROLIN SOMMER lives and works in England. SHIPS MARCH The Experiment NEW RELEASES | MAY The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs USE OUTDOOR CLUES TO FIND YOUR WAY, PREDICT THE WEATHER, LOCATE WATER, TRACK ANIMALS—AND OTHER FORGOTTEN SKILLS Tristan Gooley u Draws on Gooley’s firsthand To Tristan Gooley, a budding flower is a research on the navigational methods of some of the most remote compass, the Big Dipper is a clock, and tribal peoples on Earth a fluffy cloud is the evening forecast u Caters to the ever-growing interest in “forgotten skills” and getting If you’re walking with Tristan Gooley, leave your smartphone at back to nature home! Gooley’s more than two decades of pioneering outdoor u Can be read as armchair travel or experience include research among the Dayak people of Borneo and used as a field guide the Tuareg of the Sahara.