CONTENTS PAGE 2 New Fiction and Non-fiction PAGE 49 Harper Paperbacks PAGE 78 Young Adult & Children's Titles PAGE 90 Author Index PAGE 91 Title Index PAGE 92 Key Contacts Please note: Prices, dates and specifications listed in this catalogue are subject to change without notice. The suggested retail prices are in Canadian dollars and do not include GST/HST. All resellers are free to establish their own prices. Consumer prices are suggestions only and do not reflect the prices at which books and other products will be sold. 2 HarperCollins Strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion and literature hundred years ago, the writings of Viennese satirist Karl Kraus A were among the most penetrating and prophetic in Europe: a relentless criticism of the popular media’s manipulation of reality, the JO NATHAN FRANZ EN dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jin- goistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though Kraus’s followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Thank- The Kraus Project fully, Jonathan Franzen is one of them. Translations and Annotations In The Kraus Project, Franzen not only presents his definitive new by Jonathan Franzen translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplemen- tary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer WITH ASSISTANCE AND ADDITIONAL Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult NOTES FROM PAUL REITTER author, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, and a critic capable of untangling AND DANIEL KEHLMANN Kraus’s o"en dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contempo- ņěŖŚńŝŝ rary America. ňŝśŜŕŘŘŗŘŖŗŚŖřņ œŕœœœœņŖřŚ--ņřŕŵŖ5ŜŕŵŘņ /1,+.16ňŗŖ PRAISE FOR FARTHER AWAY /&$%10 .2&/"!ň+!ŵ+$)&0%)+$2$" “An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from ,1%"//&$%10ň ///Ņ1/20+! &/,25 the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted 0-,+0,/&+$"!&1,/ň /&02-%,)*"ņ-2)& &01ň** +$/* by loss.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS PRAISE FOR FREEDOM “Like all great novels, Freedom does not just tell an engrossing story. It illuminates, through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, the world we thought we knew.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW J ONAT HAN FRANZEN is the author of four novels, The Twenty- Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections (winner of the 2001 Na- tional Book Award for Fiction) and the #1 international bestseller Free- dom; two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and Farther Away; and a personal history, The Discomfort Zone. In 2010, TIME magazine named him the “Great American Novelist.” Franzen lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. ALSO AVAILABLE BY JONATHAN FRANZEN The Corrections ŝśŜœœœŚŗŝŗœŝŖņěŕŝńŝř Farther Away ŝśŜŕŘŘŗŘŕœŝśśņěŕśńŝŝ Freedom ŝśŜŕřřŘŚŜŜŜŘřņěŖŕńŝŝ SEE YOUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE FOR OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES Fall 2013 ŗ The creators of the Freakonomics phenomenon unveil essential tools that will allow you to “think like a freak” and see the world more unconventionally and, ultimately, more clearly n their smash #1 international bestseller Freakonomics, Steven D. Lev- S TEVEN D. LEVITT & Iitt and Stephen J. Dubner showed the world that applying counter- intuitive approaches to everyday problems can bear surprising results. S TEPHEN J. DUBNER In this dynamic, essential book, they turn your brain inside-out, teaching you how to think like a freak. 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Has you gasping in amazement.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL “Prepare to be dazzled.” —MALCOLM GLADWELL, AUTHOR OF OUTLIERS ńLEVITT is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. In January 2004, he was awarded the John Bates Clark medal—for the economist under 40 who made the greatest contribution to the discipline—by the American Economic Association. ń is the author of Confessions of a Hero Worshiper and Turbulent Souls and is a former writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine, for which in 2003 he wrote the cover story about Ste- ven Levitt that launched Freakonomics. He lives in New York City with his family. ! ň ń ! ň ń ! TWITTER: @FREAKONOMICS ALSO AVAILABLE BY STEVEN D. LEVITT AND STEPHEN J. 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GREENFIELD Tservicemen, merchant mariners and civilians whose war ended in surrender, capture and imprisonment, through the eyes of a group of men in Hitler’s grasp: Private Stan Darch, who had already survived the The Forgotten cauldron of Dieppe; seventeen civilian priests and brothers captured at sea, one of whom risked his life to hide an escape tunnel a"er the Great Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders in Escape; Edward Carter-Edwards, who endured the hell of Buchenwald Europe, 1939–45 concentration camp; and RCAF Sergeant Ian MacDonald, who, having ""+,+1%"/2+#,/0&54""(0<"/"&+$0%,1!,4+Ņ40"1/6"!1, ņěŗŘńŝŝ 1%" "01-,+!02/3&3"!0&54""(0&+1%"+,1,/&,20 /"0+"0/&0,+&+ ňŝśŜŕŘŘŗŘœŘŜŝŕņ Paris. To survive the o"en horrid conditions of Stalags across Europe œŖśŕŚœŵ œŖśŕœœņŘœœ--ņŚ5ŝņ /1,+.16ňŖŘ 16 pages of b&w illustrations, maps and the hunger marches through the freezing snows of the winter of /&$%10 .2&/"!ň+!ŵ+$)&0%+! /"+ %)+$2$"0 ŕŝŘŘŏŘřŅ1%"0",1%"/4&0",/!&+/6+!&+0!"*,+01/1"!"51/,/- other rights: Factotum Literary Management dinary valour and commitment to each other and to the Allied cause. "!&1,/ň &* &8,/!ņ-2)& &01ň 2)&//"11 Nathan M. Greenfield, author of the Governor General’s Award finalist The Damned, shares never-before-heard stories of these forgot- ten Canadians in thrilling and o"en heartbreaking detail in a book that everyone will remember. ń , PhD, is the Canadian correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement and is a contributor to Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic and The Times Literary Supplement. He is the au- thor of The Damned, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction; Baptism of Fire, which was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; and the widely praised The Battle of the St. Lawrence. Greenfield lives in Ottawa. ! ň ń ! ňŹ ALSO AVAILABLE BY NATHAN M. GREENFIELD Baptism of Fire ŝśŜœœœŚŗŝřśŚŜņěŖŖńŝř The Battle of the St. Lawrence ŝśŜœœœŚŗŝŘřœŕņěŖŖńŝř The Damned ŝśŜŕřřŘŚŜŖŖœŕņěŖŖńŝŝ Fall 2013 ř A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise 3"/!& 1Ő1%"1/2"01,/6,#//&"3&"0Ņ1%"*&! who shot a Massey + "/2/6ŕŝŕřŅ*"*"/,#,+",#+!ĵ04")1%&"01#*&)&"0 was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he I C HARLO TTE GRAY was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic ser- 3+1Ņ.2& ()6 ,+#"00"!ń214%,401%"3& 1&*%"/"Ħ%/)"0Ķ"/1ķ Massey, a scion of a famous family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally 2+01)"//&"Ņ-"++&)"00/&1&0%&**&$/+1Ħ%"+1%"/&))&+1)46"/ Hartley Dewart, QC, took on her case, his grudge against the power- The Massey Murder ful Masseys would fuel a dramatic trial that pitted the old order against A Maid, Her Master and the Trial the new, wealth and privilege against virtue and honest hard work. Set That Shocked a Nation against a backdrop of the Great War in Europe and the changing face ņěŗŗńŝŝ of a nation, this sensational crime is brought to vivid life for the first time. ňŝśŜŕŘŘŗŘœŝŖŗœņ As in her previous bestselling book, Gold Diggers—now in produc- œœŚœœœŵœœŖœœœņŗŖœ--ņŚ5ŝņ /1,+.16ňŗŖ tion as a Discovery Television miniseries—multi-award-winning historian 24 pages of b&w photographs, maps and biographer Charlotte Gray has created a captivating narrative rich /&$%10 .2&/"!ň+!ŵ+$)&0%)+$2$" in detail and brimming with larger-than-life personalities, as she shines a other rights: Westwood Creative Artists light on a central moment in our past. "!&1,/ň "++&#"/*"/1ņ-2)& &01ň6)"+",3")+! PRAISE FOR GOLD DIGGERS “Nobody writes our nation’s history with quite the grace and authority of Charlotte Gray.” —TORONTO STAR “Shows why those hardscrabble years captivate us still. Reinforces her reputation as a superb narrative historian.” —NATIONAL POST Ņone of Canada’s pre-eminent biographers and historians, has won many awards for her work, including the prestigious Pierre Berton Award for a body of historical writing, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, the Ottawa Book Award and the CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. Over nine books, she has brought our past to life. Gray is a Member of the Order of Canada and was a panelist on the 2013 edition of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads.