Fall 2017 September – December Bloomsbury BLOOMSBURY USA AUGUST 2017 All the Dirty Parts Daniel Handler From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way,” he says. “Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it’s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex.” Cole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls—girls who seem to enjoy it at FICTION / COMING OF AGE the time and seem to feel bad about it afterwards. 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With short chapters recalling Major early blogger, influencer, and bookseller outreach Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation or Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever, Daniel Feature at BEA 2017 Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, and always intoxicating portrait of an Strategic online consumer review age in which the whole world is tilted through the lens of sex. “There are love campaign stories galore,” Cole tells us, “and we all know them. This isn’t that. The AT PUBLICATION: National consumer advertising campaign targeting print and story I’m typing is all the dirty ... online Broad national print, broadcast, and PRAISE online media campaign Social media campaign featuring “Take one sex-crazed teenage boy and take him seriously. Let him be an idiot, a excerpts and more Author events – 5-city author tour jerk, a cad, a hero. Make his desire into a rocket shooting him out of this too small life. Show his loneliness crash-landing him into pieces. It’s almost impossible to write tenderly and truthfully about such things. Somehow Handler has done it.” —Jenny Offill ALSO AVAILABLE We Are Pirates “Sex, desire, love, consent, coercion, sexual identity, porn—Daniel Handler takes 10/2015 | 9781608197767 it all on in All the Dirty Parts. Teenage Cole is simultaneously lovable and Trade Paperback | $16.00 troubling, but mostly he is real, and his story not only compelling but a fantastic We Are Pirates: A Novel 2/2015 | 9781608196883 jumping-off point for discussing ethical sexual behavior.”—Peggy ... Hardcover | $26.00 / $0.00 Can. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. 4 BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2017 The Best of Us A Memoir Joyce Maynard From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss—“heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life” (Anne Lamott). In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. Bloomsbury USA | 9/5/2017 9781635570342 | $27.00 / $36.00 Can. 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Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children, and makes her home in Lafayette, California. 5 BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2017 Halo Warfleet 343 Industries This official guide to the spacecrafts of the Halo universe from the game’s developers is the perfect gift for fans of the games. Halo: Warfleet is the official, authoritative guide to spacecraft in the Halo universe, featuring ten intricately detailed full-color cross-sections of the franchise’s most renowned ships--including the Pillar of Autumn, Truth and Reconciliation, Infinity, and Shadow of Intent. Discover encyclopedic information which reveals the secrets of Covenant, UNSC, and Forerunner weapons, sensors, fighters, planets, and more! 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