ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2015 Bulls Before Breakfast Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain Peter N. Milligan; Foreword by John Hemingway A wild and insightful guide to the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, by a man who has done it more than 70 times. Ever since Ernest Hemingway popularized the fiesta de San Fermín with the publication of The Sun Also Rises in 1926, the world has been enthralled with the concept of running with the bulls. For millions, running with the bulls remains on their bucket list, and for Hemingway fans it is a lifelong dream. For Peter N. Milligan, it is a way of life. Part memoir and part travel guide, Bulls Before BIOGRAPHY & Breakfast recounts Milligan's many adventures in Pamplona, Spain. In his dozen AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ADVENTURERS & EXPLORERS years of visiting the fiesta de San Fermín, Milligan has run with the bulls over 70 St. Martin's Press | 6/30/2015 times and accumulated stories both thrilling and terrifying. 9781250065735 | $27.99 / $32.50 Can. Hardcover | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H Plus one 8­page color photograph insert Bulls Before Breakfast is the definitive guide to Pamplona, its famed fiesta, and the surrounding Kingdom of Navarra. It is also a memoir of two brothers running Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press with the bulls and exploring every corner of the city, the countryside, the mountains, the beaches, and the famed restaurants of the Basque hinterland. The Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466872738 book focuses on local knowledge, and the hidden mysteries of this closed, private culture and community. Milligan has slowly pried open this trove of secrets over MARKETING the past twelve years, all while refining the art of getting between the horns of a *National Print Publicity massive, perfect Spanish killing machine, el toro bravo, and running for his life. *National Radio Publicity *Online Publicity *Early Reader Reviews PRAISE *HistoryReader.com "Best book out about everything you need to know before running with the Pamplona bulls whose author survived 70 runs. A must read if only to learn that every manhole cover there is ice. Exciting even for the non­runner. Should be Pamplona's Official Book on the subject." —Robert F. Burgess, Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona: Then and Now PETER N. MILLIGAN graduated Rutgers University School of Law ­ Camden with a Doctorate of Law (JD) and founded the Law Office of Peter N. Milligan, Esq. in 1996, where he has represented more than 2,000 clients. Peter has traveled much of the country and the world. Peter has run with the bulls over 70 times in Pamplona, Spain over 12 years. The annual fiesta de San Fermín is his all­ consuming passion. Peter resides in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. 2 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS AUGUST 2015 Everybody Rise A Novel Stephanie Clifford An extraordinary debut novel by New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford­a Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century mixed with Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep and Amor Towles's Rules of Civility. It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social­climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but St. Martin's Press | 8/18/2015 when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to 9781250077172 | $26.99 / $31.50 Can. embrace them. Hardcover | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 12 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Subrights: UK Rights: Weed Literary Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with socialites Translation Rights: Weed Literary and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging Other Available Formats: intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a Audio ISBN: 9781427265272 Audio ISBN: 9781427265289 crusading class­action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, Evelyn must contend with Ebook ISBN: 9781466889125 her own family's downfall as she keeps up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give way. MARKETING *National One Day Laydown: 8/18/15 Bracing, hilarious and often poignant, Stephanie Clifford's debut offers a *Pre­publication Tour to Booksellers *National Author Tour thoroughly modern take on classic American themes ­ money, ambition, family, *National Radio Publicity friendship ­ and on the universal longing to fit in. *National Print Publicity *National Print Advertising *Trade Advertising PRAISE *Online Advertising *IndieBound Whitebox Mailing "Full of ambition and grit. Clifford provides sharp­eyed access to a moneyed world and its *Major Goodreads Campaign glamorous inhabitants."­Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The *Book Movement Campaign *Book Reporter Campaign Vacationers *BookBrowse First Impressions "A masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions . Tense, Promotion hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st century *YPG Mailing in NYC *Regional E­blast to Trade Organizations Edith Wharton."­J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The *Discussion Guide Available Online Engagements and Maine *Featured Title at ReadingGroupGold.com *Library Marketing Campai... "A superb debut. Everybody Rise is a 21st century version of a grand 19th century novel­ a smart, moving tale of class, ambition, and identity." ­Malcolm Gladwell STEPHANIE CLIFFORD is a Loeb Award­winning reporter at The New York Times. She grew up in Seattle and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and two cats. 3 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS AUGUST 2015 A Good Family A Novel Erik Fassnacht A dramatic, ambitious first novel of a Midwestern family's self­ destruction and repair. Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois: Henry, the once­magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs of Chicago's Viagra Triangle; his wife Julie, who struggles to reclaim her life with a bottle of Zoloft and dreams of her youthful independence; Charlie, the golden­boy son, who leaves the lucrative job his father arranged to serve in Afghanistan— and returns angry, damaged and uncertain of his place in the world; and Barkley, the bumbling youngest, an aspiring writer of geeky science fiction stories who is FICTION / LITERARY interviewing for his first job at a forbidding Catholic high school. St. Martin's Press | 8/25/2015 When Henry's health abruptly declines, he tries to return to the home and the life 9781250059284 | $26.99 / $31.50 Can. Hardcover | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 16 he had dominated. But his family, once totally dependent on his love, physical 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H strength, and income, no longer needs him. As Julie, Charlie, and Barkley begin to find their ways forward, Henry tries desperately to bring them back together. In Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press the end, each one will arrive at a new understanding of what family can—and cannot—be. Unusually assured and perceptive, combining narrative drive with Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466878259 humor, insight, and powerful family dynamics, A Good Family is a memorable debut by former high school teacher Erik Fassnacht. MARKETING National Print Publicity PRAISE Online Publicity Author Events "A Good Family is a crowd­pleasing, affecting, and compassionately written novel filled Pre­pub Trade Advertising Indiebound Whitebox Mailing with a memorable cast of characters that readers will cheer for and cry with."— Regional Trade eBlasts Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Beneath the Bonfire BookBrowse First Impressions Promotion Reading Group Gold Selection Discussion Guide available online "A Good Family is an intense, compassionate and very funny book. This is a sharply Book Club Advertising and Promotion observed, deeply satisfying novel: a joy, a discovery."—Audrey Niffenegger, author of Library Marketing Campaign The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry Blog Outreach Early Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com NetGalley Campaign Email Marketing Campaign Widespread ARC Distribution Erik Fassnacht was born and raised in Chicago. He attended college at the University of Iowa before becoming a high school English and creative writing teacher. Spurred by a lifelong desire to write, he left teaching to get his MFA at Columbia College, where he wrote his debut novel, A Good Family. 4 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS AUGUST 2015 Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape Mark Felton Soon to be a major motion picture! A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic escape and the real­life adventures that followed. On August 30, 1942 ­ 'Zero Night' ­ Forty Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison. Employing HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly WAR II coordinated effort succeeded, setting 36 men free into the German countryside. Thomas Dunne Books | 8/25/2015 9781250073747 | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. Later known as the 'Warburg Wire Job', fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Hardcover | 320 pages | Carton Qty: Bader once described the attempt as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H war'.