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CONTENTS 

VIKING 2 

PAMELA DORMAN BOOKS/VIKING 30 

HUDSON STREET PRESS 36 

PORTFOLIO 44 

SENTINEL 69 

CURRENT 74 

OVERLOOK 78 

VIKING YOUNG READERS 106 

THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA 109 

INDEX 117 

ORDERING INFORMATION 120

Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times 

bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back 

WHO ASKED YOU? 

A Novel 

TERRY MCMILLAN 

With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families 

and friendships—Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, 

and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them— 

Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, 

in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice 

to characters who reveal how we live now—at least as 

lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. 

Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with 

McMillan’s inimitable humor, Who Asked You? 

opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with 

her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. 

BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her 

hands full dealing with her other adult children, 

two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her 

Praise for Terry McMillan: 

“ McMillan has a cutting wit, a knack for capturing 

the way real people think and speak.” 

—The Washington Post 

“ Perhaps the world’s finest chronicler of modern life 

among African-American men and women.” 

—San Francisco Chronicle 

“ McMillan writes as if she were your best friend, your 

sharpest, savviest, funniest confidante.” 

—Entertainment Weekly 

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own postponed dreams—all while holding down a 

job as a hotel maid. Her son Dexter is about to be 

paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, 

can’t be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of 

two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she 

needs. The drama unfolds through the perspectives 

of a rotating cast of characters, pitch-perfect, each 

playing a part, and full of surprises. 

Who Asked You? casts an intimate look at the 

burdens and blessings of family and speaks to trusting 

your own judgment even when others don’t 

agree. McMillan’s signature voice and unforgettable 

characters bring universal issues to brilliant, 

vivid life. 

• McMillan’s novels have sold more than 4.5 million 

copies and spent a combined 83 weeks on 

The New York Times bestseller list 

• Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove 

Back were major motion pictures 

• A Day Late and a Dollar Short was optioned by 

Lifetime 

• Visit terrymcmillan.com 

• Follow @MsTerryMcMillan

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978-0-451-22118-6 $15.00 

A Day Late and a Dollar Short 

978-0-451-21108-8 $15.00 

How Stella Got Her Groove Back 

978-0-451-20914-6 $15.00 

Waiting to Exhale 

978-0-451-21745-5 $15.00 

TERRY MCMILLAN’s debut, Mama, won the Doubleday 

New Voices in Fiction and American Book awards. 

McMillan has been honored by the NEA, the New York 

Foundation for the Arts, the NAACP, and Essence. She 

lives in Los Angeles. 

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A major new novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Waiting for the 

Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace 

THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 

A Novel 

J. M. COETZEE 

Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner 

J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising 

novel about childhood and destiny that is sure 

to rank with his classic novels. 

Separated from his mother as a passenger on a 

boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is 

quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining 

his situation is lost, but a fellow passenger, Simón, 

vows to look after the boy. When the boat docks, 

David and Simón are issued new names, new birthdays, 

and virtually a whole new life. 

Strangers in a strange land, knowing nothing 

of their surroundings, nor the language or cus- 

Praise for J. M. Coetzee: 

“ It’s a mark of Mr. Coetzee’s power as a storyteller 

that he makes a compelling, indeed, racing, 

narrative out of these hidden wheels within wheels.” 

—The New York Times 

“ Coetzee’s chaste, exact, ashen prose may look like 

the very embers of restraint, but it is drawn, again 

and again, to passionate extremity.” 

—The New Yorker 

“ Coetzee has always situated his characters in 

extreme situations that compel them to explore what 

it means to be human.” —Salon.com 

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toms, they are determined to find David’s mother. 

Though the boy has no memory of her, Simón is 

certain he will recognize her at first sight. “But after 

we find her,” David asks, “what are we here for?” 

An eerie allegorical tale told largely through 

dialogue, The Childhood of Jesus is a literary feat—a 

novel of ideas that is also a tender, compelling narrative. 

Coetzee’s many fans will celebrate his return 

while new readers will find The Childhood of Jesus 

an intriguing introduction to the work of a true 

master. 

• J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in 

Literature in 2003 

• He was awarded the Booker Prize in 1983 for 

The Life & Times of Michael K and again in 1999 

for Disgrace 

• Coetzee has won many other awards, 

including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 

the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Irish Times 

International Fiction Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize 

• His books have sold more than 1 million copies in 

the United States 

• Here and Now: Letters 2008–2011, an epistolary 

collaboration with Paul Auster, was published in 

March 2013

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Waiting for the Barbarians 

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Disgrace 

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The Life & Times of Michael K 

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Summertime 

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J. M. COETZEE won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 

and is the author of twenty-one books, which have been 

translated into many languages. He was the first author to 

twice win the Booker Prize. A native of South Africa, he 

now lives in Adelaide, Australia. 

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A feminist film critic’s thoughtful, 

outspoken memoir about transgender 

and family 

MY BROTHER 

MY SISTER 

Story of a Transformation 

MOLLY HASKELL 

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• Jennifer Finney Boylan’s 

She’s Not There, a transgender 

memoir, has sold 70,000 

copies 

• There is an ever-expanding 

population of transgender 

people in America, 700,000 

and growing 

• Visit mollyhaskell.com 

MOLLY HASKELL is a nationally 

recognized feminist film critic and 

the author of three books of film 

criticism. She has contributed to 

many publications, including The 

New York Times, Esquire, The 

Nation, and Vogue. She lives in 

New York City. 

On a visit to New York, the brother of wellknown 

film critic Molly Haskell dropped a 

bombshell: Nearing age sixty, and married, 

he had decided to become a woman. In 

the vein of Jan Morris’s classic Conundrum, 

Haskell’s My Brother My Sister gracefully explores 

a delicate subject, this time from the 

perspective of a family member. 

Haskell chronicles her brother Chevey’s 

transformation through a series of psychological 

evaluations, grueling surgeries, drug 

regimens, and comportment and fashion lessons 

as he becomes Ellen. Despite Haskell’s 

liberal views on gender roles, she was dumbfounded 

by her brother’s decision. With candor 

and compassion, she charts not only her 

brother’s journey to becoming her sister, but 

also her own path from shock, confusion, 

embarrassment, and devastation to acceptance, 

empathy, and love. 

Haskell widens the lens on her brother’s 

story to include scientific and psychoanalytic 

views. In an honest, informed voice, she has 

revealed the controversial world of gender 

reassignment and transsexuals from both a 

personal and a social perspective in this frank 

and moving memoir.

In this essential work of religious history, 

the New York Times bestselling author of 

Christianity explores the vital role of silence 

in the Christian story. 

How should one speak to God? Are 

our prayers more likely to be heard if we 

offer them quietly at home or loudly in 

church? How can we really know if God 

is listening? From the earliest days, Christians 

have struggled with these questions. 

Their varied answers have defined the 

boundaries of Christian faith and established 

the language of our most intimate 

appeals for guidance or forgiveness. 

MacCulloch shows how Jesus chose to 

emphasize silence as an essential part of his 

message and how silence shaped the great 

medieval monastic communities of Europe. 

He also examines the darker forms 

of religious silence, from the church’s embrace 

of slavery and its muted reaction to 

the Holocaust to the cover-up by Catholic 

authorities of devastating sexual scandals. 

A groundbreaking work that will 

change our understanding of the most fundamental 

wish to be heard by God, Silence 

gives voice to the greatest mysteries of faith. 

A provocative history of the role of silence 

in Christianity by the award-winning, 

New York Times bestselling author 

SILENCE 

A Christian History 

DIARMAID MACCULLOCH 

Praise for Christianity: 

“ A landmark contribution . . . 

It is difficult to imagine a more 

comprehensive and surprisingly 

accessible volume.” 

— Jon Meacham, The New York 

Times Book Review 

“ Immensely ambitious and 

absorbing.” 

— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker 

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DIARMAID MACCULLOCH is 

Professor of the History of the 

Church at St. Cross College, 

University of Oxford. His most 

recent book, the New York Times 

bestseller Christianity, won 

several awards. A Fellow of the 

British Academy and the Royal 

Historical Society. He lives in 

Oxford, UK. 

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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge from 

the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed 

THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS 

A Novel 

ELIZABETH GILBERT 

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns 

to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into 

an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. 

Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth 

centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of 

the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the 

enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman 

who makes a great fortune in the South 

American quinine trade, eventually becoming the 

richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s 

brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s 

money and his mind), ultimately becomes a 

botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research 

takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, 

she falls in love with a man named Ambrose 

Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids 

and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into 

the realm of the spiritual, the divine, 

and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; 

Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this un- 

Praise for Elizabeth Gilbert: 

“ Gilbert’s prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, 

wit, and colloquial exuberance that is close to 

irresistible.” —The New York Times Book Review 

“ Gilbert’s genius is in flipping an old literary script— 

she’s not addressing us as her dear readers, but 

instead acting as our dear writer, an ideal friend.” 

—The Boston Globe 

“ While Eat, Pray, Love struck a chord . . . it’s 

Gilbert’s voice that accounts for its phenomenal 

success.” —The San Francisco Chronicle 

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likely couple is a desperate need to understand the 

workings of this world and the mechanisms behind 

all life. 

Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping 

pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the 

globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to 

Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, 

the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: 

missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, 

sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. 

But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma 

Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, 

but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears 

witness to that extraordinary moment 

in human history when all the old assumptions 

about science, religion, commerce, and class were 

exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the 

bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s 

wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture 

the hearts and minds of readers. 

• Eat, Pray, Love has been published in more than 30 

languages and sold more than 10 million copies. It 

spent 222 weeks on the New York Times paperback 

bestseller list, including 57 weeks at #1 

• The film adaptation of Eat, Pray, Love starred 

Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem 

• Committed was a #1 New York Times bestseller 

• Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award 

and Stern Men was a New York Times Notable Book 

• The Last American Man was a finalist for the 

National Book Award and the National Book Critics 

Circle Award 

• Visit elizabethgilbert.com; follow @GilbertLiz

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Stern Men 

978-0-14-311469-7 $15.00 

Pilgrims 

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ELIZABETH GILBERT is the acclaimed author of five books of 

fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Frenchtown, New Jersey. 

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A second volume of short fiction—featuring fourteen uncollected stories— 

from the bestselling author and master of the form 

T.C. BOYLE STORIES II 

The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II 

T.C. BOYLE 

Few authors write with such sheer love of story and 

language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more 

evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and 

always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle 

Stories brought together the author’s first four collections 

to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II 

gathers the work from his three most recent collections 

along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished 

in book form as well as a preface in which 

Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories 

and the art of making them. 

By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, 

ironic and moving, Boyle’s stories have mapped 

a wide range of human emotions. The fifty-eight 

stories in this new volume, written over the last 

eighteen years, reflect his maturing themes. Along 

with the satires and tall tales that established his 

reputation, readers will find stories speaking to contemporary 

social issues, from air rage to abortion 

Praise for the short stories of T.C. Boyle: 

“ Boyle is capable of shifting scales from the lyrical to 

the vernacular, the literary to the mundane without 

the slightest strain.” —The New York Times 

“ Boyle is a dazzling writer, a hugely exuberant, infinitely 

capable storyteller.” —The Wall Street Journal 

“ Few writers at work have a wider set of referents, a 

broader comic range. . . . Boyle has the taleteller’s 

gift in abundance.” —The Chicago Tribune 

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doctors, and character-driven tales of quiet power 

and passion. Others capture timeless themes, from 

first love and its consequences to confrontations 

with mortality, or explore the conflict between civilization 

and wildness. The new stories find Boyle 

engagingly testing his characters’ emotional and 

physical endurance, whether it’s a group of giants 

being bred as weapons of war in a fictional Latin 

American country, a Russian woman who ignores 

dire warnings in returning to her radiation-contaminated 

home, a hermetic writer who gets more than a 

break in his routine when he travels to receive a minor 

award, or a man in a California mountain town 

who goes a little too far in his concern for a widow. 

Mordant wit, emotional power, exquisite prose: 

it is all here in abundance. T.C. Boyle Stories II is a 

grand career statement from a writer whose imagination 

knows no bounds. 

• T.C. Boyle’s Drop City and The Women were 

New York Times bestsellers and The Inner Circle, 

Talk Talk, When the Killing’s Done, and San Miguel all 

appeared on the New York Times extended list 

• His short stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, 

Harper’s, and Playboy, among numerous other 

publications 

• Boyle is a member of the American Academy of Arts and 

Letters and was the 1999 recipient of the PEN/Malamud 

Award for Excellence in Short Fiction 

• Visit tcboyle.com

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When the Killing’s Done 

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T.C. BOYLE is the author of fourteen novels, including 

Drop City, which was a finalist for the National Book 

Award, and World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner 

Award. He has also written nine short story collections. 

He lives near Santa Barbara, California. 

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OCTOBER 

A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many 

“hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire 

SMALL WARS, 

FARAWAY PLACES 

Global Insurrection and the Making of the 

Modern World, 1945–1965 

MICHAEL BURLEIGH 

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Praise for The Third Reich: 

“ Astonishing and awe-inspiring 

. . . the product of authentic 

historical genius.” 

—Niall Ferguson 

Praise for Mortal Combat: 

“ A remarkable tour de force.” 

—Simon Sebag Montefiore 

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MICHAEL BURLEIGH is the author 

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The Third Reich: A New History, 

which won the 2001 Samuel 

Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. 

His work has been translated 

into twenty languages, and 

in 2012 he was awarded the 

prestigious Nonino International 

Master of His Time Prize. He 

lives in London. 

The Cold War reigns in popular imagination 

as a period of tension between the two 

post-World War II superpowers, the United 

States and the Soviet Union, without direct 

conflict. Drawing from new archival 

research, prize-winning historian Michael 

Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal 

decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the 

many, largely forgotten, “hot” wars fought 

around the world. As once-great Western 

colonial empires collapsed, counter-insurgencies 

campaigns raged in the Philippines, 

the Congo, Iran, and other faraway places. 

Dozens of new nations struggled into existence, 

the legacies of which are still felt 

today. Placing these vicious struggles alongside 

the period-defining United States and 

Soviet standoffs in Korea, Vietnam, and 

Cuba, Burleigh swerves from Algeria to Kenya, 

to Vietnam and Kashmir, interspersing 

top-level diplomatic negotiations with portraits 

of the charismatic local leaders. The 

result is a dazzling work of history, a searing 

analysis of the legacy of imperialism and a 

reminder of just how the United States became 

the world’s great enforcer.

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Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of 

the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals 

in America,” Richard Rodriguez 

now considers religious violence worldwide, 

growing public atheism in the West, 

and his own mortality. 

Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the 

first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize 

finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon 

Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance 

Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is 

a homosexual who writes with love of the 

religions of the desert that exclude him. He 

is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who 

is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism 

and Islam because of a shared belief 

in the God who revealed himself within an 

ecology of emptiness. And at the center of 

this book is a consideration of women— 

their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual 

formation and their centrality to the future 

of the desert religions. 

Only a mind as elastic and refined 

as Rodriguez’s could bind these threads 

together into this wonderfully complex 

tapestry. 

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An award–winning writer delivers a major 

reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality 

in the aftermath of 9/11 

DARLING 

A Spiritual Autobiography 

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 

• Days of Obligation was a 

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• Brown was a finalist for the 

National Book Critics Circle 

Award 

• Rodriguez won Peabody and 

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A witty, revealing, sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder 

of Steely Dan 

EMINENT HIPSTERS 

DONALD FAGEN 

Musician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a 

group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut 

as an author, from portraits of the cultural figures 

and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account 

of his college days and of life on the road. 

Fagen begins by introducing the “eminent 

hipsters” that spoke to him as he was growing up 

in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s, 

among them Jean Shepherd, whose manic nightly 

broadcasts out of WOR-Radio “enthralled a generation 

of alienated young people”; Henry Mancini, 

whose swank, noirish soundtracks left their mark 

on him; and Mort Fega, the laid-back, knowledgeable 

all-night jazz man at WEVD who was like 

“the cool uncle you always wished you had.” He 

writes of how, coming of age during the paranoid 

From Eminent Hipsters: 

You’ll find that many chapters in this book are about 

people and things that intersected with my life 

when I was a kid . . . how the stuff I read and heard 

when I was growing up affected (stretched, skewed, 

mangled) my little brain. My mom, my dad, and my 

baby sister Susan make occasional cameos. But the 

main subjects are the talented musicians, writers, 

and performers from a universe beyond suburban 

New Jersey who showed me how to interpret my 

own world. 

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Cold War era, one of his primary doors of escape 

became reading science fiction, and of his invigorating 

trips into New York City to hear jazz. “Class 

of ’69” recounts Fagen’s colorful, mind-expanding 

years at Bard College, the progressive school north 

of New York City, where he first met his future 

musical partner Walter Becker. “With the Dukes 

of September” offers a cranky, hilarious account of 

the ups and downs of a recent cross-country tour 

Fagen made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald, 

performing a program of old R&B and soul 

tunes as well as some of their own hits. 

Acclaimed for the elaborate arrangements and 

jazz harmonies of his songs, Fagen proves himself a 

sophisticated writer with a very distinctive voice in 

this engaging book. 

• Steely Dan has sold more than 30 million albums since 

its formation in the 1970s and was inducted into the 

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 

• A Steely Dan U.S. tour is planned from July to October, 

which will coincide with the book’s release 

• Fagen continues to write, record, produce, and 

perform music, most recently issuing the solo album 

Sunken Condos 

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DONALD FAGEN was born in 1948 and grew up in New 

Jersey. He is a graduate of Bard College, where he met 

musician Walter Becker, with whom he formed Steely Dan. 

His writing has appeared in Premiere, Slate, Harper’s 

Bazaar, and Jazz Times. He lives in New York City. 

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OCTOBER 

A timely and intimate look into Abraham 

Lincoln’s White House through the lives of 

his two closest aides and confidants 

LINCOLN’S BOYS 

John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image 

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Praise for Flapper: 

“ Here is a personalized 

history that is nonetheless 

formidable in its sweep.” 

—Kevin Baker 

• 2013 marks the 150th 

anniversary of many of Lincoln’s 

landmark achievements 

JOSHUA ZEITZ was a senior policy 

adviser to the governor of New 

Jersey and has taught American 

history and politics at both 

Cambridge and Princeton. His 

previous books include Flapper 

and White Ethnic New York. He 

lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. 

Lincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and 

John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed 

more history, and knew Lincoln better than 

anyone outside of the president’s immediate 

family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers 

of the Lincoln legacy. They read poetry and 

attendeded the theater with the president, 

commiserated with him over Union army 

setbacks, and plotted electoral strategy. They 

were present at every seminal event, from the 

signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 

to Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address—and 

they wrote about it after his death. 

In their biography of Lincoln, Hay and 

Nicolay fought to establish Lincoln’s heroic 

legacy and to preserve a narrative that saw 

slavery—not states’ rights—as the sole cause 

of the Civil War. As Joshua Zeitz shows, the 

image of a humble man with uncommon 

intellect who rose from obscurity to become 

a storied wartime leader and emancipator is 

very much their creation. 

Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, 

Lincoln’s Boys is part political drama and part 

coming-of-age tale—a fascinating story of 

friendship, politics, war, and the contest over 

history and remembrance.

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter 

became the first to successfully create “synthetic 

life”—putting humankind at the 

threshold of the most important and exciting 

phase of biological research, one that 

will enable us to actually write the genetic 

code for designing new species to help us 

adapt and evolve for long-term survival. 

The science of synthetic genomics will have 

a profound impact on human existence, 

including chemical and energy generation, 

health, clean water and food production, 

environmental control, and possibly even 

our evolution. 

In Life at the Speed of Light, Venter presents 

a fascinating and authoritative study of 

this emerging field from the inside—detailing 

its origins, current challenges and controversies, 

and projected effects on our lives. 

This scientific frontier provides an opportunity 

to ponder anew the age-old question 

“What is life?” and examine what we really 

mean by “playing God.” Life at the Speed of 

Light is a landmark work, written by a visionary 

at the dawn of a new era of biological 

engineering. 

The renowned scientist and author of A Life 

Decoded examines the creation of life in the 

new field of synthetic genomics 

LIFE AT THE SPEED 

OF LIGHT 

From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life 

J. CRAIG VENTER 

Praise for J. Craig Venter: 

“ [Venter is] not just trying to 

understand how life works; he’s 

trying to make it work for him, 

and for us.” —The Atlantic 

“ An extraordinary figure.” 

—Science 

• Venter’s research and discoveries 

are media events 

• He has twice been named one of 

Time’s 100 most influential people 

• Visit jcvi.org 

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J. CRAIG VENTER is best known for 

sequencing the human genome. 

He is the founder, chairman, and 

CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, 

a not-for-profit research organization 

dedicated to genomic research. 

He is also the founder and CEO of 

Synthetic Genomics, Inc. He is the 

recipient of numerous awards and 

honorary degrees, including the 

2008 United States National 

Medal of Science. He lives in 

La Jolla, California. 

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The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth 

century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family 

THE FAMILY 

Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century 

DAVID LASKIN 

With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author 

David Laskin limns his own genealogy to tell 

the spellbinding tale of the three drastically different 

paths that his family members took across the 

span of 150 years. 

In the latter half of the nineteenth century 

Laskin’s great-great-grandfather, a Torah scribe 

named Shimon Dov HaKohen, raised six children 

with his wife, Beyle, in a yeshiva town at the western 

fringe of the Russian empire. The pious couple 

expected their sons and daughters to carry the family 

tradition into future generations. But the social 

and political upheavals of the twentieth century 

decreed otherwise. 

The HaKohen family split off into three 

branches. One branch emigrated to America and 

Praise for David Laskin and The Children’s Blizzard: 

“ Laskin captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of 

this chapter in America’s history.” —Erik Larson 

“ This account of the 1888 blizzard reads like a 

thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly 

“ Expertly threading his way among biographers, 

Laskin charts the intersections of these 

high-octane lives.” 

—Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review 

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founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra 

Company; one branch went to Palestine as pioneers 

and participated in the contentious birth of 

the state of Israel; and the third branch remained in 

Europe and suffered the Holocaust. 

In tracing the roots of his own family, Laskin 

captures the epic sweep of twentieth-century history. 

A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, 

the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: 

revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and 

farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is an 

eloquent masterwork of true grandeur—a deeply 

personal, dramatic, and universal account of a people 

caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. 

• The Children’s Blizzard has sold more than 120,000 

copies in paperback and hardcover 

• For readers of The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn, The 

Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Matalon 

Lagnado, and The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund 

de Waal 

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DAVID LASKIN is the author of The Children’s Blizzard, 

which won the Washington State Book Award and 

Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for nonfiction. He is 

the author of several other books of nonfiction and also 

writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post. 

He lives in Seattle. 

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The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! 

reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs 

MAKING MASTERPIECE 

25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS 

REBECCA EATON 

For more than twenty-five years and counting, 

Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS’s Masterpiece 

Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama 

series in American history. From the runaway hits 

Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely 

popular Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, and Poirot, 

Masterpiece Theatre and its sibling series Mystery! have 

been required viewing for fans of quality drama. 

Eaton interviews many of the writers, directors, 

producers, and other contributors and shares 

personal anecdotes—including photos taken with 

her own camera—about her decades-spanning career. 

She reveals what went on behind the scenes 

during such triumphs as Cranford and the multiple, 

highly-rated programs made from Jane Austen’s 

novels, as well as her aggressive campaign to 

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“ In the world of TV drama, names and faces appear and 

disappear with bewildering speed; Rebecca Eaton is 

immortal and immutable. . . .She has made an enormous 

contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more 

than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.” 

—Andrew Davies, Vanity Fair 

“ Rebecca has been the executive producer of Masterpiece 

for 25 of its 40 years. We Americans are fortunate 

to have Rebecca at the helm: someone committed to 

bringing great television drama to the widest possible 

audience, week after week.” 

—Gillian Anderson, The 2011 Time 100 

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attract younger viewers via social media and online 

streaming. Along the way she shares stories about 

actors and other luminaries such as Alistair Cooke, 

Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Benedict Cumberbatch 

and Daniel Radcliffe, whose first TV role was as the 

title character in David Copperfield. 

Readers will also get to know Eaton on a personal 

level. With a childhood steeped in theater, an 

affinity for nineteenth century novels and culture, 

and an “accidental apprenticeship” with the BBC, 

Eaton was practically born to lead the Masterpiece 

and Mystery! franchises. Making Masterpiece marks 

the first time the driving force behind the enduring 

flagship show reveals all. 

• The season 3 finale of Downton Abbey drew 

8.2 million viewers 

• Downton Abbey tie-ins—The World of Downton 

Abbey, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, 

and The Chronicles of Downton Abbey—have sold 

very well 

• Rebecca Eaton has been profiled in Vanity Fair 

and named one of Time’s most influential people 

• Visit pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece

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Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! for more than 

twenty-five years. She has won multiple Emmys for 

her work. She lives in Boston. 

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A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire 

mystery series, the inspiration for A&E’s hit show Longmire 

THE SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT 

A Walt Longmire Story 

CRAIG JOHNSON 

“It’s a question of what you have to do, what you 

have to live with if you don’t.” 

Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas 

Carol in his office on December 24th when he’s interrupted 

by the ghost of Christmas past: a young 

woman with a hairline scar across her forehead 

and more than a few questions about Walt’s predecessor, 

Lucian Connally. Walt doesn’t recognize 

the mystery woman, but she seems to know him 

and claims to have something she must return to 

Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff 

Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, 

Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman’s reticence 

to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her. 

Praise for As the Crow Flies: 

“ A top-notch tale of complex emotions and 

misguided treachery . . . a superb novel steeped in 

the culture of the American West.” —USA Today 

“ Walt continues to be excellent company.” 

—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review 

“ A rich and satisfying series.” —Houston Chronicle 

“ Johnson expertly highlights his conflicted hero’s 

dual role as father and sheriff in this deeply 

satisfying installment.” 

—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 

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At the Durant Home for Assisted Living 

Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy 

Van Winkle’s and swears he’s never clapped eyes 

on the woman before. Disappointed, she whispers 

“Steamboat” and begins a story that takes them all 

back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died 

in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest 

chance of survival . . . back to a record– breaking 

blizzard, to Walt’s first year as sheriff, with a young 

daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety . 

. . back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready 

to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save 

a life. 

Back to the Spirit of Steamboat. 

• A&E’s Longmire premiered to 4.1 million viewers, 

a network record, with season 2 scheduled for 

Summer 2013 

• Johnson’s new hardcover, A Serpent’s Tooth, goes on 

sale in June 

• Craig Johnson is a tireless promoter, having made 

45 tour stops for As the Crow Flies 

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Junkyard Dogs 

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The Dark Horse 

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Another Man’s Moccasins 

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Kindness Goes Unpunished 

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Death Without Company 

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The Cold Dish 

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CRAIG JOHNSON is the author of the award-winning and 

New York Times bestselling Walt Longmire mystery series, 

the basis for Longmire, the hit A&E original drama series. 

He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. 

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The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects 

brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus 

SHAKESPEARE’S RESTLESS 

WORLD 

A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects 

NEIL MACGREGOR 

We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of 

Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless 

and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the 

Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. 

They are so vital, so alive and real that we can see 

aspects of ourselves in them. But their world was at 

once familiar and nothing like our own. 

In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction 

Neil MacGregor and his team at the British 

Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration 

with the Royal Shakespeare Company and 

the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the 

essence of Shakespeare’s universe. A perfect complement 

to A History of the World in 100 Objects, 

MacGregor’s landmark New York Times bestseller, 

Shakespeare’s Restless World highlights a turning 

point in human history. 

This magnificent book, illustrated throughout 

with more than one hundred vibrant color pho- 

Praise for A History of the World in 100 Objects: 

“Beautiful and absorbing.” —The New York Times 

“ A profoundly humane book that every civilized 

person should read.” —The Wall Street Journal 

“ MacGregor demonstrates the power of objects to 

recover the place in history of lost civilisations.” 

—Financial Times 

“ A book to savour and start over.” —The Economist 

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tographs, invites you to travel back in history and 

to touch, smell, and feel what life was like at that 

pivotal moment, when humankind leaped into the 

modern age. This was an exhilarating time when 

discoveries in science and technology altered the 

parameters of the known world. Sir Francis Drake’s 

circumnavigation map allows us to imagine the age 

of exploration from the point of view of one of its 

most ambitious navigators. A bishop’s cup captures 

the most sacred and divisive act in Christendom. 

With A History of the World in 100 Objects, 

MacGregor pioneered a new way of telling history 

through artifacts Now he trains his eye closer to 

home, on a subject that has mesmerized him since 

childhood, and lets us see Shakespeare and his 

world in a whole new light. 

• A History of the World in 100 Objects garnered massive 

review and feature coverage with Neil MacGregor being 

appearing on The Colbert Report, Newshour, and in a 

three-page feature in The New York Times 

• A History of the World in 100 Objects sold more than 

88,000 copies 

• It spent 3 weeks on the The New York Times printed 

list, 10 weeks on the extended list. Other bestseller 

lists included: Publishers Weekly, IndieBound, Los 

Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and 

Boston Globe 

• Neil MacGregor will be visiting Washington D.C., and 

Houston this fall as part of his tour with the Cyrus 

Cylinder. More cities and dates are planned

Photo: Jason Bell 

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978-0-670-02270-0 $45.00 

The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society (May 2013) 

978-0-670-01463-7 $36.00 

NEIL MACGREGOR has been the director of the British 

Museum since 2002; prior to that, he was the director 

of the National Gallery in London. He is the author of 

the New York Times bestseller A History of the World in 

100 Objects. 

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NOVEMBER 

The story of the legendary Pinkerton 

detective who took down the Molly Maguires 

and the Wild Bunch 

PINKERTON’S GREAT 

DETECTIVE 

The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland 

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• The Pinkerton’s archives 

only became available to 

researchers in 2001 after 

eight decades of being closed 

BEAU RIFFENBURGH has a Ph.D. 

in history from the University 

of Cambridge, where he was 

a member of the academic 

staff. He has written numerous 

books on exploration, including 

Shackleton’s Forgotten 

Expedition. He lives in 

Llanarthne, Wales, UK. 

The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National 

Detective Agency were renowned for their 

skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, 

none more so than James McParland. 

So thrilling were McParland’s cases 

that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the 

cunning detective in a story along with 

Sherlock Holmes. 

Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently 

released Pinkerton archives to present 

the first biography of McParland and the 

agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both 

action packed and meticulously researched, 

Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers 

along on McParland’s most challenging cases: 

from young McParland’s infiltration of 

the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the 

case that launched his career to his hunt for 

the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild 

Bunch to his controversial investigation of 

the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination 

of Idaho’s former governor. 

Filled with outlaws and criminals, 

detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great 

Detective shines a light upon the celebrated 

secretive agency and its premier sleuth.

In this masterful study, historian and cartography 

expert Jerry Brotton explores a 

dozen of history’s most influential maps, 

from stone tablet to vibrant computer 

screen. Starting with Ptolemy, “father of 

modern geography,” and ending with satellite 

cartography, A History of the World in 

12 Maps brings maps from classical Greece, 

Renaissance Europe, and the Islamic and 

Buddhist worlds to life and reveals their 

influence on how we—literally—look at 

our present world. 

As Brotton shows, the long road to 

our present geographical reality was rife 

with controversy, manipulation, and special 

interests trumping science. Through 

the centuries maps have been wielded to 

promote any number of imperial, religious, 

and economic agendas, and have 

represented the idiosyncratic and uneasy 

fusion of science and subjectivity. Brotton 

also conjures the worlds that produced 

these notable works of cartography and 

tells the stories of those who created, used, 

and misused them for their own ends. 

A fascinating look at twelve maps—from 

Ancient Greece to Google Earth—and how 

they changed our world 

A HISTORY OF THE 

WORLD IN 12 MAPS 

JERRY BROTTON 

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JERRY BROTTON is Professor of 

Renaissance Studies at Queen 

Mary University of London and 

a leading expert in the history 

of maps and Renaissance 

cartography. His most recent 

book, The Sale of the Late 

King’s Goods: Charles I and 

His Art Collection (2006), was 

short-listed for the Samuel 

Johnson Prize as well as the 

Hessell-Tiltman History Prize. 

He lives in London. 

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NOVEMBER 

Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles 

with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and 

his music 

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A Life 

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PAUL JOHNSON is an acclaimed 

historian and author. In addition 

to his many biographies, his 

books also include A History 

of the American People 

and Modern Times. He has 

contributed to Forbes, The Wall 

Street Journal, The New York 

Times, and many others. He 

lives in London. 

As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, 

and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author 

Paul Johnson here offers a concise, 

illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s 

focus is on the music—Mozart’s 

wondrous output of composition and his 

uncanny gift for instrumentation. 

Liszt once said that Mozart composed 

more bars than a trained copyist could 

write in a lifetime. Mozart’s gift and skill 

with instruments was also remarkable as 

he mastered all of them except the harp. 

For example, no sooner had the clarinet 

been invented and introduced than Mozart 

began playing and composing for it. 

In addition to his many insights into 

Mozart’s music, Johnson also challenges 

the many myths that have followed Mozart, 

including those about the composer’s 

health, wealth, religion, and relationships. 

Always engaging, Johnson offers readers 

and music lovers a superb examination of 

Mozart and his glorious music, which is 

still performed every day in concert halls 

and opera houses around the world.

The political and personal relationship 

between King George VI and Winston 

Churchill during World War II is one that 

has been largely overlooked throughout 

history, yet the trust and loyalty these men 

shared helped Britain navigate its perhaps 

most trying time. 

Despite their vast differences, the two 

men met weekly and found that their divergent 

virtues made them a powerful 

duo. The king’s shy nature was offset by 

Churchill’s willingness to cast himself as 

the nation’s savior. Meanwhile, Churchill’s 

complicated political past was given credibility 

by the king’s embrace and counsel. 

Together as foils, confidants, conspirators, 

and comrades, the duo guided Britain 

through war while reinspiring hope in the 

monarchy, Parliament, and the nation itself. 

Books about these men as individuals 

could fill a library, but Kenneth Weisbrode’s 

study of the unique bond between 

them is the first of its kind. 

NOVEMBER 

The intriguing bond between monarch and 

prime minister and its crucial role during 

World War II 

CHURCHILL AND 

THE KING 

The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI 

KENNETH WEISBRODE 

Praise for The Atlantic Century: 

“ Beautifully written and 

thoroughly researched.” 

—Niall Ferguson 

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The King’s Speech 

KENNETH WEISBRODE received 

a Ph.D. in history from Harvard 

University, where he also taught. 

He is also the author of The 

Atlantic Century. He lives in 

Turkey. 

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PAMELA DOR 

THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND 

A NOVEL 

JOJO MOYES 

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Me Before You, 

a spellbinding love story of two women separated by a century 

but united in their determination to fight for what they love most 

Jojo Moyes’s bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted 

her to wide critical acclaim and has struck a chord 

with readers everywhere. “Hopelessly and hopefully 

romantic” (Chicago Tribune), Moyes returns with another 

irresistible heartbreaker that asks, “Whatever 

happened to the girl you left behind?” 

France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves 

his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When 

their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of 

World War II, Edouard’s portrait of Sophie draws the 

eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer’s dangerous 

obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything— 

her family, her reputation, and her life—to see her husband 

again. 

From The Girl You Left Behind: 

I was afraid to speak. Finally I took a small breath and 

looked up. He was still watching me. “Madame, will you 

dance with me? For Christmas’s sake?” 

“Dance?” 

“Just one dance.” 

“I don’t think . . .” I studied the Kommandant’s face. His 

request seemed genuine. Then I thought of my husband. 

Would I wish him to have a sympathetic pair of arms to 

dance in? Did I not hope that somewhere, some goodhearted 

woman might remind him in a quiet bar that the 

world could be a place of beauty? 

“I will dance with you, Herr Kommandant,” I said. “But 

only in the kitchen.” 

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Almost a century later, Sophie’s portrait is given 

to Liv Halston by her young husband shortly before 

his sudden death. A chance encounter reveals the 

painting’s true worth, and a battle begins for who its 

legitimate owner is—putting Liv’s belief in what is 

right to the ultimate test. 

Like Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress and Tatiana 

de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key, The Girl You Left Behind is 

a breathtaking story of love, loss, and sacrifice told 

with Moyes’s signature ability to capture our hearts 

with every turn of the page. 

• Me Before You debuted at #17 on The New York Times 

bestseller list 

• Me Before You was an Indie Next pick and an 

Amazon Book of the Month selection 

• Visit jojomoyes.com; follow @jojomoyes 

Praise for Me Before You: 

“ When I finished this novel, I didn’t want to review it: 

I wanted to reread it.” 

—Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review 

“ One to read . . . funny and moving but never 

predictable.” —USA Today (4 stars) 

“ Funny, surprising and heartbreaking, affecting.” 

—People (3.5 stars) 

“ To be devoured like candy, between tears.” 

—O, The Oprah Magazine

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Your Lover and Me Before You. She lives in Essex, England. 

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PAMELA DOR 

MASTERING THE ART OF 

FRENCH EATING 

LESSONS IN FOOD AND LOVE FROM A YEAR IN PARIS 

ANN MAH 

The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her 

dream of living in Paris—one dish at a time 

When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is 

given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. 

A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately 

begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. 

Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a yearlong 

post—alone. Suddenly, Ann’s vision of a romantic 

sojourn in the City of Light is turned upside down. 

So, not unlike another diplomatic wife, Julia 

Child, Ann must find a life for herself in a new city. 

Journeying through Paris and the surrounding regions 

of France, Ann combats her loneliness by seeking 

out the perfect pain au chocolat and learning the 

way the andouillette sausage is really made. She ex- 

From Mastering the Art of French Eating: 

I’ve always felt there are two states of existence: Being 

in Paris, and being out of it. This is the story of my time 

in the first state, before I returned to the second. The 

four years I spent in Paris felt like the shortest of my life, 

except for one—the year my husband was in Baghdad— 

which was the longest. It changed me, of course, living 

in France—Julia Child could have told me it would— 

even though, like a lot of big things, the change crept 

up on me little by little. Bite by bite. Which, I suppose, is 

the only way to savor life. 

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plores the history and taste of everything from boeuf 

Bourguignon to soupe au pistou to the crispiest of 

buckwheat crepes. And somewhere between Paris 

and the south of France, she uncovers a few of life’s 

truths. 

Like Sarah Turnbull’s Almost French and Julie 

Powell’s New York Times bestseller Julie and Julia, 

Mastering the Art of French Eating is interwoven 

with the lively characters Ann meets and the traditional 

recipes she samples. Both funny and intelligent, 

this is a story about love—of food, family, and 

France. 

• Ann Mah’s articles have appeared in 

The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, 

The Huffington Post, the International Herald 

Tribune, Washingtonian magazine, and the 

South China Morning Post, among other 

publications 

• Visit annmah.net; follow @annmahnet

MAN BOOKS 

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ANN MAH is a journalist and the author of 

Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, and 

Finding Yourself. The wife of a U.S. diplomat, Mah 

currently splits her time between Paris and Washington, 

D.C., but she loves eating everywhere. 

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CONTENTS 

HUDSON STREET PRESS 36 

PORTFOLIO 44 

SENTINEL 69 

CURRENT 74 

OVERLOOK 78 

VIKING YOUNG READERS 106 

THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA 109 

INDEX 117 

ORDERING INFORMATION 120

Raise the bar to become the best version of you—and have fun doing it 

THE 5 ESSENTIALS 

Using Your Inborn Resources to Create a Fulfilling Life 

BOB DEUTSCH, PHD, WITH LOU ARONICA 

As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and 

entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime 

studying people. What he has found is that most of 

us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally 

and professionally. We choose not to pursue our 

greatest ambitions because we feel we are incapable 

of reaching them. But he has also found that we are 

each born with the fundamental abilities to live the 

full, creative, dynamic life we dream about. 

These are our five inner resources: Curiosity, 

Openness, Sensuality, Paradox, and Self-Story. In 

From The 5 Essentials: 

You have everything inside of yourself necessary to 

have a great, meaningful, and constantly alive story— 

to contribute big time and live big time. 

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this compelling book, Deutsch shows us how to 

access and use them to open our lives to unimagined 

possibilities. Filled with great stories and interviews 

with inspiring people, including Wynton 

Marsalis, Richard Feynman, and Anna Quindlen, 

The 5 Essentials will appeal to readers of The Element 

and The Tools. It opens the door to a way of 

being more alive than you have ever been. 

• Deutsch has appeared on Nightline, Good Morning 

America, and PBS. He has been featured in the 

Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and the Atlanta 

Journal-Constitution 

• The 5 essentials are: Curiosity, Openness, Sensuality, 

Paradox, and Self-Story 

• Includes great interviews with Bruce Springsteen, 

Wynton Marsalis, Richard Feynman, and Anna 

Quindlen 

• Lou Aronica is also the cowriter of the New York 

Times bestseller The Element

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BOB DEUTSCH, PHD, is the founder of Brain Sells, has a doctorate 

in cognitive neuroscience, and has also taught anthropology at CUNY, 

worked at the Max Planck Institute, and consulted for the U.S. Dept. of 

Defense. His clients have included American Express, Apple, Johnson & 

Johnson, and Procter & Gamble, among many others. LOU ARONICA 

has worked in publishing for thirty years. He has cowritten many 

successful books, including The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille and 

The Element by Ken Robinson, and he is the author of the novels Blue 

and The Forever Year. 

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The skills you need to slash your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, 

and more—by 80 percent 

DISEASE-PROOF 

The Remarkable Truth About What Makes Us Well 

DAVID KATZ, MD, WITH STACEY COLINO 

Though we may not realize it, our behavior has 

tremendous effects on our health, well-being, and 

even gene expression. In Disease-Proof, renowned 

preventive medicine specialist Dr. David Katz reveals 

that we can reduce our risk of any chronic 

disease by an astonishing 80 percent—more than 

any drug or intervention could ever hope to do. 

Abundant scientific evidence shows that four 

simple things—not smoking, eating well, being 

active, and maintaining a healthy weight—play 

an enormous role in our health. Drawing upon 

Praise for Disease-Proof: 

“ In Disease-Proof, Dr. Katz advances a mission we share: empowering people 

to use what we know about the power of lifestyle to promote health. This is an 

important book.” —Mehmet Oz, MD 

“ Anyone who’s interested in protecting themselves and their loved ones from 

these problems will want to read this book—sooner not later.” 

—Dean Ornish, MD 

“ Dr. David Katz has been a mentor to me and he can be a mentor to you too, 

empowering you with practical strategies and profound insights to take control 

of your ’medical destiny’—and make it the best it can be.” —Jorge Cruise 

“ If you want to build better health and a better future, this book makes an 

excellent tool kit.” —David A. Kessler, MD 

“ Just about everybody stands to benefit from reading this book.” —Joy Behar 

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the latest scientific evidence and decades of clinical 

experience, Dr. Katz arms us with the skills to 

make lasting changes in each of these areas. Disease- 

Proof equips readers with the knowledge to manage 

weight, improve immune function, reprogram 

our genes, and prevent and reverse life-altering illnesses. 

Groundbreaking and timely, this book is for 

readers of The End of Illness by David Agus and 

Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber.

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DAVID KATZ, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, is an internationally renowned 

expert in chronic disease prevention and weight management, 

recognized in 2012 as one of the most influential figures in health 

promotion. He is a specialist in preventive medicine, and the founding 

director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. The author 

of twelve books, he lives in Connecticut. STACEY COLINO’s writing 

has appeared in the Washington Post Health Section and in dozens 

of national magazines including Newsweek, Real Simple, Health, 

Prevention, Parents, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self, Shape, Woman’s Day, 

Good Housekeeping, and more. She lives in Maryland. 

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World-renowned personality expert reveals the truth about something we all 

want more of—confidence 

CONFIDENCE 

Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt 

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC, PHD 

Millions of people are plagued by low self-confidence. 

But in Confidence, personality expert Dr. Tomas 

Chamorro-Premuzic shows us that high confidence 

makes us less likeable, less employable, and less successful 

in the long run. He reveals the benefits of low 

confidence (including being more motivated and selfaware), 

teaches us how to know when to fake it, get 

ahead at work, improve our social skills, feel better 

emotionally and physically, and much more. 

With this engaging, practical study of our 

minds and emotions, we can become more capable 

From Confidence: 

If you are concerned about your low confidence, this 

book will teach you what you can do about it. The 

main lesson is that you should not aspire to have 

high confidence—but high competence. 

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in every facet of life. Based on decades of research, 

including the author’s own groundbreaking work, 

and filled with fascinating anecdotal evidence, this 

will appeal to readers of The Willpower Instinct 

by Kelly McGonigal and Succeed by Heidi Grant 

Halvorson. Confidence will shatter every myth 

you’ve ever believed about self-confidence and its 

effects on us—ranging from the very personal to 

the global level. 

• The author is one of the youngest tenured professors 

at the University College London 

• He has appeared on the BBC and CNN 

• His work has received awards from the American 

Psychological Association, among others

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Overcoming 

Low Self-Esteem, 

Insecurity, 

and Self-Doubt 

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD 

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC, PhD, is a professor at University 

College London (UCL) and visiting professor at New York University. 

He is the author of six books (most recently, Personality 101) and also 

writes regular blogs for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. 

He lives in London and New York, and frequently appears in the media. 

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A New York Times bestselling author reveals how to find the right words for 

every situation 

PERFECTING YOUR PITCH 

How to Succeed in Business and in Life by Finding Words That Work 

RONALD M. SHAPIRO WITH JEFF BARKER 

Whether you are making a budget request, interviewing 

for a job, ending a relationship, or talking 

to children about divorce, the crux of success in 

those and other crucial situations is planned, effective 

communication. And yet, it is the tool people 

most often fail to use. In Perfecting Your Pitch, expert 

consultant and negotiator Ronald M. Shapiro 

presents his system of scripting, outlined efficiently 

as the Three D’s: Draft, Devil’s Advocate, Deliver. 

Using real-life examples, Shapiro walks readers 

step-by-step through the process of creating an 

From Perfecting Your Pitch: 

We’ve all found ourselves in delicate situations— 

perhaps an important conversation with a spouse, 

customer or boss . . . Days later, we might imagine 

the salient points we wish we had made if we had 

planned ahead. 

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effective message, preparing for counterarguments, 

and delivering the results with confidence and grace 

across a broad range of situations. He also provides 

an excellent menu of stories and model scripts for 

communication challenges affecting business, family, 

friends and consumers. 

Reaching out to readers of Difficult Conversations 

and Getting to Yes, Perfecting Your Pitch introduces 

a simple but powerful system we can all use 

for great results. 

• For fans of Difficult Conversations and Getting to Yes 

• A New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Wall Street 

Journal bestselling author 

• Shapiro brokered what at the time was the fourth 

largest Major League Baseball contract

Photo courtesy of the author. 

Cofounder of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute, RONALD M. SHAPIRO 

has negotiated more than $1 billion in contracts. His techniques have 

helped resolve a national symphony orchestra strike, facilitate solutions 

to human relations problems, and reconcile disputes in the government 

and corporate world. His bestselling books include The Power of Nice and 

Dare to Prepare. JEFF BARKER is a Baltimore Sun sports reporter. He 

has covered news, politics and sports for The Sun, Arizona Republic and 

AP and has appeared on PBS, CNN, ESPN and other networks. He lives 

with his wife and daughter in Silver Spring, Maryland. 

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MAY 

An acclaimed marketing expert pinpoints 

the loyalty strategies behind Lady Gaga’s 

unique path to success 

MONSTER LOYALTY 

How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics 

JACKIE HUBA 

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• Visit jackiehuba.com 

JACKIE HUBA is the coauthor of two 

acclaimed books, Creating Customer 

Evangelists and Citizen Marketers. As an 

expert in marketing and social media, she 

is a sought-after keynote speaker and 

coauthor of the Church of the Customer 

blog, one of the most popular business 

blogs. Her work has been featured in The 

Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, 

BusinessWeek, and Advertising Age. She 

lives in Austin, Texas. 

MONSTER 

LOYALT Y 

HOW LADY GAGA TURNS 

FOLLOWERS INTO FANATICS 

JACKIE HUBA 

COAUTHOR OF CREATING CUSTOMER EVANGELISTS 

AND CITIZEN MARKETERS 

It’s not just crazy outfits, over-the-top performances, 

and catchy tunes that have made Lady Gaga one of 

the most successful pop stars of all time. Marketers 

have also been awed by her unconventional customer 

loyalty strategy. 

With thirty-three million Twitter followers and 

fifty-five million Facebook fans, she blows away her 

peers on social media. She has methodically built 

a grassroots base of what she calls her Little Monsters—passionate 

fans who look to her not just for 

music but also for joy and inspiration. 

Now marketing expert Jackie Huba unpacks the 

method behind Lady Gaga’s success and isolates the 

seven strategies businesses can learn from her. They 

include: 

Focus on your 1 percenters. Gaga spends most of 

her effort on just 1 percent of her audience, the highly 

engaged superfans who drive word of mouth. 

Lead with values. Gaga is consistent in her message of 

being yourself and loving others for who they are. That 

display of values creates a deep emotional connection. 

Give them something to talk about. Whether by 

wearing a meat dress or “dying” in a pool of blood 

onstage, she knows what will get people talking.

How Teams Become 

Brilliant Together 

Christine Comaford 

Author of the New York Times Bestseller 

Rules for Renegades 

Leaders want three things from their teams: 

increased performance, increased innovation, and 

increased emotional engagement. Yet they often unintentionally 

send people into what Christine Comaford 

calls the Stuck State—fight, flight, or freeze—where 

optimal performance is badly comprised. 

In contrast, the Smart State gives us full access 

to creativity, problem solving, innovation, higher consciousness, 

and emotional engagement. Comaford 

explains the techniques that can help teams shift 

into, and stay in, their Smart State. When an entire 

culture maintains that state, it becomes a Smart- 

Tribe—full of energy, focus, and innovation. 

Comaford has already helped hundreds of 

leaders navigate rapid growth; increase accountability, 

communication, and execution; resolve internal 

conflicts; and execute turnarounds with the 

full support of their people. Now her book draws on 

potent yet easy-to-learn neuroscience techniques to 

help teams get where they want to go. She explains 

the five key accelerators of the Smart State: focus, 

clarity, accountability, influence, and sustainability. 

And she offers powerful case studies of Smart- 

Tribes in action. 

SmartTribes can help any team achieve optimal 

performance and engagement and leave competitors 

in the dust. 

An expert in corporate culture shows 

leaders how to build a “SmartTribe” that 

outperforms the competition 

SMARTTRIBES 

How Teams Become Brilliant Together 

CHRISTINE COMAFORD 

• Visit christinecomaford.com 

CHRISTINE COMAFORD is a 

prominent consultant who helps 

Fortune 1000 companies navigate 

growth and change; an expert in human 

behavior and applied neuroscience; 

and the bestselling author of Rules 

for Renegades. She has built and sold 

five of her own businesses, has served 

as a director or adviser to thirty-six 

start-ups, and has invested in more 

than two hundred start-ups as a venture 

capitalist or angel investor. She is a 

leadership columnist for Forbes.com 

and is frequently quoted in the business 

and technology media. She lives in Mill 

Valley, California. 

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JUNE 

The case for being useful to customers first 

and foremost, before trying to sell anything 

YOUTILITY 

Why Smart Marketing Is About Help, Not Hype 

JAY BAER 

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• Visit convinceandconvert.com 

JAY BAER is a content marketing and 

social media consultant and blogger. 

He speaks to tens of thousands of 

marketers annually at conferences 

and conventions, has founded five 

companies, and has worked with more 

than seven hundred brands, including 

Sony, Columbia Sportswear, Nike, Petco, 

WalMart, and California tourism, among 

others. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana. 

why 

SMART MARKETING 

is about 

HELP not HYPE 

Y O UTILITY 

JAY BAER 

COAUTHOR OF THE NOW REVOLUTION 

FOREWORD BY MARCUS SHERIDAN, 

’THE SALES LION’ 

utility: n. Being useful or beneficial. 

youtility: n. A revolutionary marketing strategy for 

the era of information overload that creates devoted 

customers by providing something genuinely and 

inherently useful. 

Since the first caveman sold a rock to another 

caveman, companies have acquired customers in 

pretty much the same way. “We’ve got great products, 

buy them!” shout marketers, hoping customers 

will listen. 

But those days are over. The era of self-serve 

information is upon us—many people will research 

your offerings online, without talking to a human 

being. And you can no longer survive by shouting 

the loudest and relying on anachronistic interruption 

marketing. You can’t proclaim every day is the 

biggest sale ever or simply rewrite your Web site in 

the hope that Google will funnel customers to you. 

Consultant and blogger Jay Baer defines a better 

alternative with examples of many smart companies 

that are already building their marketing approach 

around Youtility. His bottom line: If you sell 

something, you make a customer today, but if you 

help someone, you might create a customer for life.

FATE OF 

THE STATES 

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF 

AMERICAN PROSPERITY 

MEREDITH WHITNEY 

Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney became a 

household name when she predicted the subprime 

mortgage crisis a year before it fully erupted. Now 

she shows how we’re moving into a new era in which 

wealth, power, and opportunity flow away from the 

coasts toward the interior of the country. 

The housing boom was initially great for states 

like California, Nevada, and Florida. But when the 

boom ended, so did the excess tax revenue sustaining 

many profligate state and local governments. 

They’ve been forced to raise taxes and cut essential 

public services—especially education and infrastructure. 

Extreme cases led to bankruptcy filings 

in nearly a dozen cities. 

But meanwhile, in contrast to those doom and 

gloom headlines, a very different trend was developing 

in interior states like North Dakota, Indiana, 

and Texas. They survived the housing crisis relatively 

unscathed and therefore had the money to retrain 

workers and offer tax incentives to companies willing 

to relocate. Coupled with the recent booms in 

natural gas and oil extraction and the resurgence in 

manufacturing, these states are poised to become 

the new powerhouses of the American economy. 

Whitney explores the long-term consequences 

of having roughly half the country in a vicious cycle 

of decline while the other half enjoys a virtuous 

circle of growth. And she offers practical ideas to 

help the struggling parts of America—before the 

fate of the states becomes irreversible. 

A bold look at the most important new trend 

for our economy 

FATE OF THE STATES 

The New Geography of American Prosperity 

MEREDITH WHITNEY 

MEREDITH WHITNEY is the CEO of 

the investment firm Meredith Whitney 

Advisory Group, LLC. Prior to founding 

her company in 2009, she was a 

managing director and senior analyst for 

Oppenheimer & Co., where she attracted 

national attention for her predictions 

about housing prices, the mortgage 

industry, and the coming financial 

crisis. She was on Fortune’s list of the 

fifty most powerful women in business 

for four consecutive years and was 

named to Time’s list of the 100 most 

influential people in the world in 2009. 

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JUNE 

The star of the reality TV show 

Hardcore Pawn shares his street-smart, 

hard-bargaining business skills 

FOR WHAT 

IT’S WORTH 

Business Wisdom from a Pawnbroker 

LES GOLD 

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• Visit pawndetroit.com 

LES GOLD has spent the last forty 

years as a Detroit pawnbroker. He owns 

the fifty-thousand square foot American 

Jewelry and Loan, which serves more 

than two hundred and fifty customers 

every hour. He also stars in the TruTV 

show Hardcore Pawn, now in its seventh 

season with more than two-and-a-half 

million weekly viewers. He lives in 

Detroit and works alongside his wife, 

son, and daughter. 

Les Gold has been in business since age twelve, 

when he started selling used golf clubs from his 

dad’s basement. Now he’s Detroit’s biggest pawnshop 

owner and the star of the hit reality TV show 

Hardcore Pawn. 

As a third generation pawnbroker, he grew up 

dealing with customers who could be unruly and 

violent as often as they were friendly. He got good 

at selling just about anything, and at making sure 

he only bought items for what they were worth. His 

book reveals his rags to riches journey, as he grew 

his shop, and how we can all be more successful by 

thinking like a pawnbroker. 

As Gold writes, “Businesses these days talk a 

lot about figuring out what the customer wants. Well, 

here’s your first lesson: The customer doesn’t know 

what he wants. This book is going to show you how 

to convince him he wants the thing you’re selling.”

DO WHAT YOU 

W E R E M EA N T 

TO DO 

Finding Your Own True 

Measure of Success 

G. Richard Shell 

Award-Winning Author and Creator of the 

Wharton School’s “Success Course” 

Finding your own true measure of success begins 

with two essential questions: Who am I? What will 

I do with my life? The answers can’t come from the 

outside. You have to search your heart and engage 

these questions honestly to discover insights that 

go far beyond conventional notions of fame, fortune, 

and happiness. 

Award-winning author and Wharton School 

professor G. Richard Shell challenges readers to set 

aside the preconceived definitions of success promoted 

by society, schools, family, and the media. 

Then he helps readers replace these old definitions 

with aspirations based on their unique values, talents, 

personalities, and motivations. Along the way 

he shares inspiring stories of others who defined 

success for themselves. 

Take a chance. Do what you were meant to do. 

From the creator of the popular Success 

Course at the Wharton School of Business 

DO WHAT YOU WERE 

MEANT TO DO 

Finding Your Own True Measure of Success 

G. RICHARD SHELL 

G. RICHARD SHELL’s previous books, 

available in fourteen languages, include the 

award-winning Bargaining for Advantage 

and The Art of Woo (with Mario Moussa). He 

teaches college students, MBAs, and senior 

executives about success and directs the 

Wharton School’s Executive Negotiation and 

Strategic Persuasion Workshops. He lives 

with his family near Philadelphia. 

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AUGUST Where the American Dream is Moving 

A Fortune journalist examines why the 

suburbs are transforming and losing their 

appeal—and why that’s not a bad thing 

THE END OF 

THE SUBURBS 

Where the American Dream is Moving 

LEIGH GALLAGHER 

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LEIGH GALLAGHER is an assistant 

managing editor at Fortune, where she 

edits feature stories and oversees key 

Fortune franchises, including 40 Under 40 

and Best Companies to Work For. She is also 

a frequent public speaker and commentator 

on national radio and television. Earlier 

in her career she was a senior editor at 

SmartMoney and a writer at Forbes. 

LEIGH GALLAGHER 

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, FORTUNE 

Over the past few years, the American suburbs 

have undergone a dramatic shift, with millions 

of once-coveted homes now stamped with 

foreclosure signs and once-pristine neighborhoods 

plagued by crime and poverty. According 

to Leigh Gallagher, this phenomenon isn’t 

merely about the housing bust; it reflects fundamental 

changes in our society. For example: 

• The nuclear family is declining: Since the baby 

boom, birthrates and marriage rates have shrunk, 

reducing the demand for big homes in suburbia. 

• The era of “bigger is better” is over: As we 

become more concerned about the environment we 

opt for smaller homes and avoid the gas-guzzling 

nature of suburban sprawl. 

• Our cities are having a renaissance: New research 

shows that urbanized living actually makes for 

happier, healthier lifestyles. 

Blending economic data, analysis, and onthe-ground 

reporting, Gallagher paints a surprising 

and fascinating portrait of how the American Dream 

isn’t over; it’s simply changing.

Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we’ll 

always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of 

our tomorrows will run out. Each day that you postpone 

the hard work and succumb to the clutter that 

chokes creativity, discipline, and innovation will result 

in a net deficit to the world, to your company, 

and to yourself. 

Die Empty is a tool for individuals and companies 

that aren’t willing to put off their best work. 

Todd Henry explains the forces that keep people in 

stagnation and introduces a three-part process for 

tapping into your passion: 

Excavate: Find the bedrock of your work to discover 

what drives you. 

Cultivate: Learn how to develop the curiosity, 

humility, and persistence that save you from 

getting stuck in ruts. 

Resonate: Learn how your unique brilliance 

can inspire others. 

Henry shows how to find and sustain your 

passion and curiosity, even in tough times. 

A guide for reclaiming your passion, 

finding your voice, and unleashing 

your brilliance every day 

DIE EMPTY 

Unleash Your Best Work Every Day 

TODD HENRY 

• Visit accidentalcreative.com 

Also from Portfolio: 

The Accidental Creative 

978-1-59184-401-3 $25.95 

978-1-59184-624-6 $16.00 

TODD HENRY is the founder and CEO 

of Accidental Creative, a consultancy 

that helps organizations generate 

brilliant ideas. He is the author of The 

Accidental Creative and runs a top 

business podcast of the same name. 

He is a sought-after speaker, consultant, 

and coach. He lives in Cincinnati. 

SEPTEMBER 

MARKETING 



Author Events 

Agent: Melissa Sarver 


Portfolio 

978-1-59184-589-8 

$26.95 ($28.50 CAN) 

Business/Motivation 

5 1 /2 x 8 1 /4 240 pp. 



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A fearless guide to awakening your mind using simple visual language 

THE DOODLE REVOLUTION 

Unlock the Power to Think Differently 

SUNNI BROWN 

What do Einstein, Edison, Richard Feynman, Henry Ford, and 

JFK have in common? Like virtually all heavy-hitting thinkers, 

they looked beyond just words and numbers to get intellectual 

and creative insights. They actively applied a deceptively 

simple tool to think both smarter and faster: the doodle. And 

so can the rest of us—zero artistic talent required. 

Visual thinking expert Sunni Brown has created The 

Doodle Revolution as a kick-starter guide for igniting and applying 

simple visual language to any challenge. The instinctive 

and universal act of doodling need only be unleashed in 

order to innovate, solve problems, and elevate cognitive performance 

instantly. 

Praise for Sunni Brown: 

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With humor, wit, and a commitment to disrupting our 

perceptions of doodling, Brown teaches us how to: 

• Doodle any object, concept, or system imaginable. 

• Invent, innovate, and solve messy problems. 

“ The future is filled with an ever-growing density of information, so visual literacy— 

the ability to think and communicate using visual language—will become an 

essential skill. Thankfully, The Doodle Revolution gives all of us the ability to take 

the leap.” —Jane McGonigal, author of Reality Is Broken 

“ As one of the few people in the world with ’Doodle’ in their professional title, I feel 

uniquely qualified to recommend Sunni Brown’s insights on the power of visual 

literacy from the front (drawn) lines of the Doodle Revolution.” 

—Ryan Germick, Chief Doodler, Google 

“ Sunni has a finely honed gift of sense making through visual language. 

Her revolution intends to impart that gift to all of us.” 

—Nancy Duarte, author of Slide:ology and Resonate 

“ There’s a reason why so many innovative companies use visual thinking, and it’s 

not just because they want to have fun. It can become a technique for consistently 

better thinking, and in the process deliver happiness as well.” 

—Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com; author of Delivering Happiness 

• Transform text into a visual display that engages an audience. 

• Explain the relevance of visual literacy to leaders at work and at 

school. 

Despite what our culture suggests, doodling and sketching 

are powerful tools and they are for everyone, not just artsy 

types. It’s time we recognize visual literacy as a fundamental 

requirement for the future.

Photo: Korey Howell 

UNLOCK THE 

POWER TO 

THINK DIFFERENTLY 

SUNNI BROWN was named by Fast Company as one of 

the 100 Most Creative People in Business and one of the 

10 Most Creative People on Twitter. She is a consultant, 

speaker, coauthor of Gamestorming, and the leader of a 

global campaign for visual literacy. 

SEPTEMBER 

MARKETING 




Agent: Ted Weinstein 



978-1-59184-588-1 

$28.95 ($31.00 CAN) 

Business/Communication 

8 x 8 256 pp. 

2-color illustrations 

throughout 



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From the author of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller 

The Challenger Sale 

THE EFFORTLESS EXPERIENCE 

Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty 

MATTHEW DIXON, NICK TOMAN, 

AND RICK DELISI 

Conventional wisdom holds that to increase loyalty, companies 

must “delight” customers by exceeding service expectations. 

Some focus on dazzling them at the cost of neglecting to 

solve basic service problems—a big strategic mistake. 

Through extensive research and surveys, the authors have 

concluded that loyalty has much more to do with how well a 

company delivers on its basic promises than on how dazzling 

its service experience might be. The authors prove that delighting 

customers doesn’t build loyalty, and they show how acting 

Praise for The Challenger Sale: 

“ Their research has all the initial signs that it may be 

game changing. . . . My advice is this: Read it, think 

about it, implement it. You, and your organization, 

will be glad you did.” 

—Neil Rackham, author of SPIN Selling 

“ The Challenger Sale feels like the beginning of a 

wave that will take over a lot of selling organizations 

in the next decade.” —Business Insider 

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on this insight can help improve service, reduce costs, and decrease 

customer churn. 

By employing practical tactics—such as teaching reps 

not just to resolve customer issues but also to “forward resolve” 

common issues—companies will be better able to focus 

on delivering a nearly effortless experience. That will lead 

directly to the improvements in customer loyalty they had been 

aiming for all along.

Photo: Kelly Suh 

“ This is what every business 

book should be like: Stuffed 

with practical advice, 

well-supported by research, 

and written in a way that will 

keep you eagerly flipping 

the pages.” —Dan Heath 

Also available from Portfolio: 

The Challenger Sale 

978-1-59184-435-8 $27.95 

MATTHEW DIXON is the executive director of the Sales & Service Practice 

of CEB. His most recent book, The Challenger Sale, was a Wall Street Journal 

bestseller. NICK TOMAN is a senior research director of CEB’s Sales & 

Service Practice and has been published twice in HBR. RICK DELISI is a 

senior director of advisory services for CEB’s Sales & Service Practice. The 

authors are based in Washington, D.C. 

SEPTEMBER 

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Agent: Jill Marsal 



978-1-59184-581-2 

$29.95 ($31.50 CAN) 

Business/Strategy 

6 x 9 256 pp. 



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OCTOBER 

A spirited investigation into the world of 

bargain hunting and how shoppers and 

sellers try to one-up each other 

BARGAIN FEVER 

Our Obssession With Getting More For Less 

MARK ELLWOOD 

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978-1-59184-580-5 

$26.95 ($28.50 CAN) 

Business/Retail 

6 x 9 272 pp. 



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MARK ELLWOOD is a journalist whose 

reporting on retail has appeared in the 

Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 

W, GQ, The New York Times Style magazine, 

and Travel + Leisure, among other 

publications. He is also a TV producer and 

presenter. He lives in New York City. 

When Coca-Cola offered the first retail coupon in 

the 1880s, customers were thrilled. But today, one 

in four American shoppers will buy something only if 

it’s on sale, and almost half of all merchandise carries 

a promotional price. The relentless pursuit of 

deals has totally disrupted the relationship between 

buyers and sellers. 

In this playful, well-researched book, journalist 

Mark Ellwood investigates what happens to 

markets when everything’s negotiable. From the 

haggling bazaars of Istanbul to Black Friday at 

a mall in upstate New York to pinnacles of global 

luxury such as Hermès and Louis Vuitton, sellers 

and shoppers are engaged in a constant game of 

cat and mouse. 

Price consultants use the latest findings in 

neuroeconomics to fool shoppers into thinking 

they’ve gotten a great deal. Consumers, on the other 

hand, are more empowered than ever by technology, 

from coupon apps to strategic Twitter analysis. And 

some brands resist the trend entirely, opting to set 

their unsold merch out to sea and shred it rather 

than slash prices. 

Enlightening as it is entertaining, Bargain 

Fever offers invaluable insights into how shopping 

works today.

ADVERSARIES 

INTO ALLIES 

Winning People Over 

Without Manipulation or Coercion 

BOB BURG Coauthor 

of 

The Go-Giver 

The sages asked, “Who is mighty?” and answered, 

“One who can make of an enemy, a friend.” 

Faced with the task of persuading someone to 

do what we want, most of us expect, and often encounter, 

resistance. We see the other person as an 

adversary and often resort to coercion or manipulation. 

But while this approach might get short-term 

results, it leaves people feeling taken advantage of. 

And as soon as we lose our authority or power, we’ve 

lost all ability to influence. 

Bob Burg offers a better way. He shows why 

persuasion doesn’t have to be a game of win or 

lose, and why true influence is measured not by how 

many times you win but by how many people you win 

over. The more allies you can foster, the more powerful 

you’ll be—now and in the long run. 

In this new approach to the classic themes 

of Dale Carnegie and Robert Cialdini, Burg offers 

five key principles to help readers build alliances at 

work, at home, and anywhere else they seek to win 

people over. 

The bestselling coauthor of The Go-Giver 

explores what it means to be truly influential 

ADVERSARIES 

INTO ALLIES 

Winning People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion 

BOB BURG 

• Visit burg.com 


The Go–Giver 

978-1-59184-200-2 $21.95 

Go-Givers Sell More 

978-1-59184-308-5 $21.95 

BOB BURG is the bestselling coauthor of 

The Go-Giver, Go Givers Sell More, and It’s 

Not About You and the author of Endless 

Referrals. A sought-after speaker, he 

presents to corporations internationally. He 

lives in Jupiter, Florida. 

OCTOBER 

MARKETING 



Agent: Margret McBride 


Portfolio 


Unabridged 

4.5 hours, $29.95 ($31.50CAN) 

Digital: 978-0-698-13580-2 

978-1-59184-636-9 

$26.95 ($28.50 CAN) 

Business/Sales 

5 1 ⁄2 x 8 1 ⁄4 256 pp. 



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A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo 

IN MY SHOES 

A Memoir 

TAMARA MELLON 

with William Patrick 

Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into 

a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime 

minister’s trade envoy and was honored by the Queen 

with the Order of the British Empire—yet it’s her personal 

glamour that keeps her an object of global media 

fascination. Vogue photographed her wedding; Vanity 

Fair covered her divorce and the criminal trial that followed. 

Harper’s Bazaar toured her London town house 

and her New York mansion, right down to the closets. 

And the Wall Street Journal hinted at the real red meat: 

the three private equity deals, the relentless battle 

between "the suits" and "the creatives," and Mellon’s 

triumph against a brutally hostile takeover attempt. 

From In My Shoes: 

Many years later, after I’d built Jimmy Choo into a global 

brand, gone through three private equity deals and survived 

a hostile takeover; made headlines by getting my playboy exhusband 

off the hook in a wiretapping case by testifying to 

his lovable incompetence; and become embroiled in another 

courtroom drama to keep my own mother from cheating me 

out of millions, a journalist at the Sunday Times wrote that 

I often seemed “less an actual person than the heroine of 

some dicey Danielle Steel bonkathon.” 

The book that follows does have a certain narrative thrust. The 

basic Danielle Steel conceit, which goes back to The Perils of 

Pauline, is to take a plucky heroine, set her on a quest, then 

subject her to every villain and viper and obstacle imaginable. 

Which, I suppose, is not an entirely bad summary of my life 

so far. 

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In this candid memoir she shares the whole largerthan-life 

story, with genuinely shocking insider detail 

that has never been presented anywhere. From her troubled 

childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue 

to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo to her very 

public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of 

the episodes that have made her who she is today. 

The result is a must read for entrepreneurs, fashionistas, 

and anyone who loves a juicy true story about 

sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming 

adversity. 

• Visit tamaramellon.com

Photo: Deborah Anderson 

TAMARA MELLON is the founder and former CEO, and later the chief creative 

officer, of Jimmy Choo, which she led for fifteen years. Since selling her share of 

the company, she has focused on creating a new eponymous lifestyle brand to 

be launched in the fall of 2013. WILLIAM PATRICK has cowritten numerous 

memoirs, including Sidney Poitier’s no. 1 bestseller The Measure of a Man. 

OCTOBER 

MARKETING 




Agent: Rafe Sagalyn 



978-1-59184-616-1 

$29.95 ($31.50 CAN) 

Memoir/Business 

6 x 9 288 pp. 

16-pp. 4-color insert 



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OCTOBER 

How to make money when customers expect 

your products for free 

THE CURVE 

How Smart Companies Use Freeloaders to Find 

Superfans 

NICHOLAS LOVELL 

MARKETING 



Agent: Jon Elek 

First Serial, Audio: Portfolio 

978-1-59184-663-5 

$27.95 ($29.50 CAN) 

Business/Strategy 

6 x 9 256 pp. 

Export rights: C00 


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NICHOLAS LOVELL has worked with 

game companies like Atari, Firefly, 

nDreams, and Square Enix (creators of 

Tomb Raider) as well as Channel 4 and 

IPC Media. He writes a popular digital 

gaming blog, GAMESbrief, and his articles 

have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, 

TechCrunch, and Wired. He lives in London. 

For most of the last century, companies strived to 

control costs and shift as many units as possible. But 

now the price of many digital products has dropped 

to zero, requiring a new kind of business model. 

The Curve is about accepting that millions of 

people now expect your product for free—because a 

small number of high spenders are enough to build 

a profitable business. 

In games, free is the norm, but some fans 

now spend hundreds or thousands of dollars while 

playing a single title. That means the focus is no 

longer on how many units you can sell. It is on how 

you can satisfy those users who are happy to pay 

enormous amounts of money for things they value. 

This idea has already transformed areas like 

music, books, and film, and is rapidly spreading to 

the physical world as 3D printing becomes reality and 

the specter of piracy hits businesses of every kind. 

With stories drawn from cutting-edge artists, 

videogames, and more, The Curve shows you how 

to forge relationships with your biggest fans and 

sustain long-term success.

Once thought to be nothing more than diversions for 

children and nerds, games have become an integral 

part of everyday life. Educators are trying to make 

learning more fun by introducing games into the 

classroom while cutting-edge managers are doing 

the same in the workplace. Doctors, scientists, and 

entrepreneurs are deploying games to help solve 

some of the world’s most pressing problems. 

But according to Adam Penenberg, it’s not 

the games themselves that improve our lives, but 

rather smart game design and its impact on the 

brain that can lead us to become immersed in a 

task we find enjoyable. The individuals and institutions 

that have used games to achieve this effect 

are often rewarded with astounding results. 

Drawing on the latest brain science on attention 

and engagement plus his own firsthand 

reporting, Penenberg shows how organizations like 

Google, Microsoft, hospitals, and the military have 

used game design in bold new ways. 

A fascinating look at how games can help us 

learn, create, and innovate 

PLAY AT WORK 

Companies on the Cutting Edge of Gamification 

ADAM PENENBERG 

• Visit penenberg.com; 

follow @Penenberg 

ADAM PENENBERG is the editor of 

PandoDaily.com, a Web site that 

follows tech start-ups. He has written 

for The New York Times, Forbes, Fast 

Company, Inc., Slate, and Wired among 

other publications. He is the author of 

Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, 

How Today’s Smartest Businesses 

Grow Themselves and is a journalism 

professor at New York University. 

OCTOBER 

MARKETING 



Agent: Kris Dahl 



978-1-59184-479-2 

$26.95 ($28.50 CAN) 

Business/Workplace 

6 x 9 256 pp. 



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OCTOBER 

Why Western capitalism is broken and how 

the U.S. can recover its global economic 

leadership status 

THE AGE OF 

OVERSUPPLY 

Overcoming the Greatest Challenge 

to the Global Economy 

DANIEL ALPERT 

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Agent: Andrew Stuart 



978-1-59184-596-6 

$27.95 ($29.50 CAN) 

Business/Economics 

6 x 9 288 pp. 



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DANIEL ALPERT is a founding managing 

partner of investment bank Westwood 

Capital, LLC. He is widely quoted in the 

business media and was featured in the 

Academy Award-winning documentary, 

Inside Job. He is a Fellow of the Century 

Foundation, a progressive think tank, and 

he lives in New York. 

THE AGE OF 

OVERSUPPLY 

OVERCOMING THE 

GREATEST CHALLENGE TO 

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 

DANIEL ALPERT 

The governments and central banks of the developed 

world have tried every policy tool imaginable, 

yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How 

did we get here, and how can we emerge from the 

longest downturn in recent memory? 

Daniel Alpert, a progressive Wall Street banker 

and economist, argues that we are living in the age 

of oversupply. A global labor glut, a flood of excess 

productive capacity, and the persistent availability 

of cheap money have kept the developed world in a 

perpetual slump—which is unlikely to right itself 

without new policy solutions. 

For decades, economists and political leaders 

failed to see the signs of what became a cataclysmic 

shift in the global economy. Distracted by a technology 

boom and massive debt bubble, advanced nations 

failed to assess the full impact of the flood of labor 

and capital unleashed by the end of socialist economies 

until the most recent financial crisis exposed it. 

As the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and 

others continue to poach jobs from Western Europe, 

Japan, and the United States, prosperity in the developed 

world remains under threat. 

This is an alarming, insightful take on our current 

challenges, with bold policy prescriptions, from 

one of our sharpest economic minds.

Jony Ive 

The Genius Behind 

Apple’s Greatest 

Products 

By Leander Kahney 

Bestselling author 

of Inside Steve’s Brain 

Jony Ive’s designs have not only made Apple one of 

the most valuable companies in the world; they’ve 

overturned entire industries, from music and mobile 

phones to PCs and tablets. 

But for someone who has changed the world 

as much as he has, little is widely known about 

Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design. 

Unlike his former boss and creative partner Steve 

Jobs, Ive shuns the spotlight. Naturally shy and 

soft-spoken, he lets his work speak for itself and 

concerns himself only with his craft. 

In the first book to focus on Ive, Leander 

Kahney offers a rigorous and systematic examination 

of a remarkably creative career and provides 

insight into the principles underlying Ive’s success. 

Having covered Apple as an editor since the 

1990s and interviewed Ive on numerous occasions, 

Kahney offers a unique perspective on how this man 

designs killer products that attract fanatically loyal 

customers. 

The bestselling author of Inside Steve’s 

Brain profiles Apple’s legendary chief 

designer, Jonathan Ive 

JONY IVE 

The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products 

LEANDER KAHNEY 


Inside Steve’s Brain 

978-1-59184-297-2 $24.95 

978-1-59184-198-2 $19.95 

978-1-59184-551-5 $16.00 

LEANDER KAHNEY has covered Apple 

for more than a dozen years and has 

written three popular books about Apple, 

including Inside Steve’s Brain. The former 

news editor for Wired.com, he is currently 

the editor and publisher of CultofMac.com. 

He lives in San Francisco. 

NOVEMBER 

MARKETING 



Agent: Ted Weinstein 



978-1-59184-617-8 

$27.95 ($29.50 CAN) 

Business/Technology 

6 x 9 256 pp. 

30 b&w photos throughout 

Export rights:E30 


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The dramatic, behind-the-scenes story of how Twitter, built on betrayal and battles 

for power, accidentally changed the world 

THE CLOWN CAR IN 

THE GOLD MINE 

Inside the Improbable Rise of Twitter 

NICK BILTON 

Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely 

six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in 

Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes 

of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more 

than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, 

media, and other fields in innumerable ways. 

Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind 

the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened 

inside Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds. This is a tale 

of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles as 

the four founders—Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, 

From The Clown Car in the Gold Mine: 

At a small gathering at his house, Facebook founder Mark 

Zuckerberg summed up the fierce internal battles that 

didn’t appear to be slowing Twitter’s growth: “It’s like 

they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.” As 

the value of the company grew from millions to billions, 

the fight for control and power escalated. One by one, the 

Twitter founders pushed each other out of the company 

they had started together as friends. And although Twitter 

was almost killed during each dramatic fight, it continued 

to grow voraciously, changing the world in its path. The 

company that just couldn’t die. 

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and Noah Glass—went from everyday engineers to wealthy 

celebrities, featured on magazine covers, Oprah, The Daily 

Show, and Time’s list of the world’s most influential people. 

Bilton’s exclusive access and exhaustive investigative 

reporting—drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and 

internal e-mails—have enabled him to write an intimate 

portrait of fame, influence, and power. He also captures the 

zeitgeist and global influence of Twitter, which has been used 

to help overthrow governments in the Middle East and disrupt 

the very fabric of the way people communicate.

Photo: Christopher Michel 

The Clown Car 

in the Gold Mine 

Inside the Improbable 

Rise of Twitter 

Nick Bilton 

Columnist and reporter for The New York Times 

NICK BILTON is a columnist and reporter for The New York Times and 

also leads its popular Bits Blog, where he explores the disruptive aspects 

of technology on business and culture, the future of technology, privacy, 

and the social impact of the Web. He is a regular guest on national TV 

and radio and the author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. He 

lives in San Francisco. 

OCTOBER 

MARKETING 



Agent: Katinka Matson 

First Serial: Portfolio 

978-1-59184-601-7 

$28.95 ($31.00 CAN) 

Business/Technology 

6 x 9 288 pp. 



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The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy 

THE FRACKERS 

The Inside Story of the New Wildcatters and Their Energy Revolution 

GREGORY ZUCKERMAN 

In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil 

and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for 

energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the 

world’s fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi 

Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no 

previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. 

The Frackers tells the dramatic tale of how a group of 

ambitious and headstrong wildcatters ignored the ridicule 

of experts and derision of colleagues to pursue massive, 

long-overlooked deposits. Against all odds, they changed the 

world —and made astonishing fortunes in the process. 

Zuckerman’s exclusive access enabled him to get close 

to men like George Mitchell, who developed a new way to drill 

Praise for The Greatest Trade Ever: 

“ Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash 

financial books.” —Malcolm Gladwell 

“ Mr. Zuckerman is a first-rate reporter who is also able 

to explain the complexities of real estate finance in 

layman’s terms. At times, The Greatest Trade Ever 

reads like a thriller.” —The New York Times 

“ He’s written the definitive account of a strange and 

wonderful subplot of the financial crisis.” 

—Michael Lewis 

“ Possibly the greatest book to come out of the 

financial crisis of 2007–08, and it’s certainly up 

there in the top 3.” —Bnet.com 

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for gas in shale rock; Harold Hamm, who discovered so much 

oil he’s now worth more than the estate of Steve Jobs; and 

Aubrey McClendon, who lost more than $2 billion on a misguided 

gambit. Zuckerman shows how the frackers are now 

using their wealth to shake up Hollywood, education, politics, 

sports, and other fields, much like the Rockefellers and Gettys 

before them. 

He also explores the debate over the environmental risks 

of fracking, and whether those risks are worth it for the United 

States to achieve energy independence and for the rest of the 

world to follow.

Photo: Josh Kuchinsky Photography 

AWARD-WINNING WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GREATEST TRADE EVER 

G R E G O R Y Z U C K E R M A N 

THE INSIDE STORY 

OF THE NEW 

WILDCATTERS 

AND THEIR ENERGY 

REVOLUTION 

THE 

FRACKERS 

GREGORY ZUCKERMAN is a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and 

the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever. He is a two-time winner of 

the Gerald Loeb Award and a winner of the New York Press Club Journalism 

Award. He lives in New York. 

NOVEMBER 

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$29.95 ($31.50 CAN) 

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6 x 9 320 pp. 




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NOVEMBER 

A serial entrepreneur offers a plan for 

launching successful ventures 

LAUNCH! 

The Critical 90 Days for Any New Business 

SCOTT DUFFY 

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978-1-59184-606-2 

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Business/Entrepreneurship 

6 x 9 240 pp. 



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• Visit scottduffy.com 

SCOTT DUFFY is the CEO of the Scott 

Duffy Training Group. He began his career 

working for bestselling author and speaker 

Tony Robbins and went on to work for 

big media brands like CBS Sportsline, 

NBC Internet, and FoxSports.com. His 

latest venture was acquired by Richard 

Branson’s Virgin Group. He lives in Newport 

Beach, California. 

About ninety-seven percent of a rocket’s fuel is used 

in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true 

in launching a new business, product, or service. 

Those first few steps are absolutely critical. 

Scott Duffy has developed a practical approach 

for turning your big idea into a thriving venture 

by focusing on the crucial period immediately 

before, during, and after opening your doors (literally 

or online). 

His approach is based on his experiences 

working with top entrepreneurs like Tony Robbins 

and Richard Branson, who taught him how to balance 

the two key sides of entrepreneurship: 

• The personal side, including personal 

finances, relationships, and health. 

• The business side, including raising capital, 

building teams, establishing partnerships, 

and closing sales. 

Duffy also draws on the true stories of other 

big names, such as Howard Schultz, Lou Holtz, and 

MC Hammer, to offer guidance on turning your vision 

into a full-fledged enterprise.

A 

patriot ’s 

history 

o f the 

modern world 

vol. ii 

From the Cold War to the Age of 

Entitlement, 1945----2012 

o 

larry schweikart 

Coauthor of A Patriot’s History of the United States 

and dave dougherty 

Schweikart, author of the number one New York Times 

bestseller A Patriot’s History of the United States, and 

Dougherty take a critical look at America, from the 

postwar boom to her search for identity in the twentyfirst 

century. 

The second volume of A Patriot’s History of the 

Modern World picks up in 1945 with a world irrevocably 

altered by World War II and a powerful, victorious 

United States. But new foes and challenges 

soon arose: the growing sphere of Communist influence, 

hostile dictatorships and unreliable socialist 

allies, the emergence of China as an economic contender, 

and the threat of world Islamification. 

The book reestablishes the argument of American 

exceptionalism and the interplay of our democratic 

pillars—Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, 

free market capitalism, land ownership, and common 

law—around the world. 

Schweikart and Dougherty offer a fascinating 

conservative history of the last six decades. 

® 

The bestselling historians turn their focus to 

America’s role in the world since the end of 

World War II 

A PATRIOT’S HISTORY 

OF THE MODERN 

WORLD, VOLUME II 

From the Cold War to the Age of Entitlement, 1945 –2012 

LARRY SCHWEIKART AND 

DAVE DOUGHERTY 

LARRY SCHWEIKART is a professor 

of history at the University of Dayton and 

the coauthor of A Patriot’s History of the 

United States and A Patriot’s History 

Reader, among many other books. DAVE 

DOUGHERTY is the coauthor of A Patriot’s 

History Reader among other books. 

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A controversial governor recounts his fight to reform his state and issues a call to 

action for the whole country 

UNINTIMIDATED 

A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge 

GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER 

with Mark Thiessen 

In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin with 

a mandate to improve its economy and restore fiscal responsibility. 

With the state facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, he 

proposed a series of reforms to limit the collective bargaining 

power of public employee unions, which was costing taxpayers 

billions in pension and health care costs. 

The reaction was swift and severe. Angry protesters 

gathered outside the capitol, teacher unions accused him of 

sabotaging education, and the media descended on Wisconsin 

to make it a national controversy. Soon, liberals nationwide 

were denouncing Governor Walker. 

He stood his ground despite relentless political and personal 

attacks with the help of supporters across the country 

Praise for Governor Scott Walker: 

“ Throughout the 2012 election cycle Republicans 

have pined for a bold, conservative reformer—a leader 

courageous enough to make difficult choices and 

articulate enough to explain them to a skeptical public. 

The good news is they have such a candidate. The less 

good news: Scott Walker isn’t running for president. 

He’s running to hang on to his job as governor of 

Wisconsin.” —The Weekly Standard, February 2012 

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who hailed him for having the courage to drive real change. In 

June 2012, he won a special recall election with a higher share 

of the vote than he had for his original election, becoming the 

first governor in the country to survive a recall election. 

In this book, Governor Walker shows how his commitment 

to limited but effective government paid off. During his tenure 

Wisconsin has saved more than $1 billion, property taxes have 

gone down for the first time in twelve years, and the deficit 

was turned into a surplus. He also shows what his experiences 

can teach defenders of liberty across the country about 

standing up to the special interests that favor the status quo.


GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER of Wisconsin is the vice chairman of the Republican 

Governors Association. He was previously the county executive of Milwaukee County 

and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He lives in Madison with his 

family and will be running for reelection in 2014. MARK THIESSEN is a former 

speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a columnist for The Washington Post. 

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From the cohost of Fox & Friends,the true story of the anonymous spies who 

helped win the Revolutionary War 

GEORGE WASHINGTON’S 

SECRET SIX 

The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution 

BRIAN KILMEADE AND DON YAEGER 

Among the pantheon of heroes of the American Revolution, six 

names are missing. First and foremost, Robert Townsend, an 

unassuming and respected businessman from Long Island, 

who spearheaded the spy ring that covertly brought down the 

British . . . before they, or anyone else, could discover their 

names. 

Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger finally give Townsend 

and his fellow spies their proper due, telling the fascinating 

story of how they passed information to George Washington 

From George Washington’s Secret Six: 

Washington turned to Townsend, his most trusted source for factual 

information, to instead disseminate a falsehood. Now given the mission of 

advertising the Patriots’ “plan” to invade Manhattan and retake the city, 

Townsend immediately passed the news on for Rivington to print in the 

paper. He asked Jane to plant the word in Andre’s ear. Within a day, everyone 

was buzzing with the rumors: Patriot troops were amassing just outside the 

city, ready to strike the moment the British cleared out for Rhode Island. 

It was a brilliant plan that preyed on the insecurities of General Henry 

Clinton, a blustering British aristocrat who feared losing his reputation even 

more than losing a battle. A few cannons fired in the distance and some 

strategically placed soldiers on the hill, easily spotted with a spyglass from 

within the city confines, seemed to confirm the news. He knew he would be 

the laughing–stock of British society if he lost New York City. A distracted 

Clinton called off the advancement to Rhode Island and left his men in 

place, ready to defend against the invasion that never came. 

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that turned the tide of the war. Using a network of citizen operatives 

that included a longshoreman, bartender, newspaper 

editor, housewife, tailor, and femme fatale, and employing a 

series of complex codes, the so-called Culper Spy Ring used 

sophisticated tactics to subvert the British. 

Based on previously unpublished research, George 

Washington’s Secret Six is a gripping history of these amazing, 

anonymous Patriots who risked their lives for our freedom.


BRIAN KILMEADE cohosts Fox News Channel’s morning show Fox & 

Friends and hosts the nationally syndicated radio show Kilmeade & Friends. 

The author of two previous books about sports, he lives on Long Island. 

DON YAEGER has written twenty-three books, including seven New York 

Times bestsellers. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. 

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SEPTEMBER 

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biology and psychology of why we sacrifice 

for other people 

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ELIZABETH SVOBODA has contributed 

to Fast Company, Popular Science, 

Psychology Today, Discover, Salon, and 

The New York Times, among others. In 

2008, she received the Evert Clark/Seth 

Payne Award. She lives in San Jose. 

Researchers are now applying the lens of science 

to study heroism for the first time. How do biology, 

upbringing, and outside influences intersect to produce 

altruistic and heroic behavior? And how can 

we encourage this behavior in corporations, classrooms, 

and individuals? 

Using dozens of fascinating real-life examples, 

Elizabeth Svoboda explains how our genes 

compel us to do good for others, how going through 

suffering is linked to altruism, and how acting 

heroic can greatly improve your mental health. She 

also reveals the concrete things we can do to encourage 

our most heroic selves to step forward. 

It’s a common misconception that heroes are 

innately predisposed to be selfless and altruistic. 

Svoboda shows why it’s not simply a matter of biological 

hardwiring and how anyone can be a hero 

by tapping into the inherent qualities we all share.

We eat, study, copy, and idealize the octopus. Yet this 

strange creature still eludes our understanding. With 

eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a 

disarmingly intelligent look behind its eyes, it appears 

utterly alien. But octopuses have been captivating 

humans for as long as we’ve been catching 

them. Cultures have created octopus-centric creation 

myths, art, and, of course, cuisine. For all of our ancient 

fascination and modern research, however, we 

still haven’t been able to get a firm grasp on these 

slippery beasts. 

Now journalist Katherine Harmon Courage 

dives into the fascinating underwater world of these 

mysterious cephalopods. From her transatlantic 

adventures to Spain and Greece, expeditions in the 

Caribbean and back to Brooklyn, she invites readers 

to experience the scientific discoveries, deep cultural 

ties, and delicious meals connected to the octopus. 

Courage deftly interweaves personal narrative 

with interviews with leading octopus experts. 

She provides an entertaining yet informative romp 

through the world of these infinitely interesting 

creatures. 

A fascinating look at the octopus through 

its life, death, robotic replicas, and 

delicious dinners 

OCTOPUS! 

The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea 

KATHERINE HARMON 

COURAGE 

KATHERINE HARMON COURAGE 

covers health, biology, food, the 

environment, and general interest stories. 

She is an associate editor at Scientific 

American, which she joined in 2009 after 

completing an MA in journalism at the 

University of Missouri–Columbia. Her work 

has won regional and national awards. 

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for life beyond the solar system 

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LEE BILLINGS is a science writer 

whose work has appeared in Nature, New 

Scientist, and Popular Mechanics, among 

other publications. He lives in New York. 

Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our 

planet has been the sole living world in a vast and 

silent universe. Now, Earth’s isolation is coming to 

an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers 

have discovered thousands of “exoplanets” orbiting 

other stars, including some that could be similar to 

our own world. Studying those distant planets for 

signs of life will be crucial to understanding life’s 

intricate mysteries right here on Earth. 

In a firsthand account of this unfolding revolution, 

Lee Billings draws on interviews with top 

researchers. He reveals how the search for other 

Earth-like planets is not only a scientific pursuit, 

but also a reflection of our culture’s timeless hopes, 

dreams, and fears. 

This is a compelling story of the pioneers 

seeking the meaning of life in the infinite depths 

of space.

James Fallon had spent an entire career studying 

how our brains affect our behavior when his research 

suddenly turned personal. While studying 

brain scans of several family members, he discovered 

that one perfectly matched a pattern he’d 

found in the brains of serial killers. This meant one 

of two things: Either his family’s scans had been 

mixed up with those of felons or someone in his 

family was a psychopath. 

Even more disturbing: The scan in question 

was his own. 

This is Fallon’s account of coming to grips 

with this discovery and its implications. How could 

he, a happy family man who had never been prone 

to violence, be a psychopath? How much did his biology 

influence his behavior? 

Fallon shares his journey to answer these questions 

and the discoveries that ultimately led to his 

conclusion: Despite everything science can teach, 

humans are even more complex than we can imagine. 

The memoir of a neuroscientist whose 

research led him to a bizarre personal 

discovery 

THE PSYCHOPATH 

INSIDE 

A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey 

into the Dark Side of the Brain 

JAMES FALLON 

JAMES FALLON is an award-winning 

neuroscientist and the Sloan, Fulbright, 

and National Institutes of Health Scholar 

at the University of California, Irvine. His 

start-up company, NeuroRepair, was voted 

the top new biotech firm of the year and 

has engineered major breakthroughs in 

stem-cell research. He has been married 

for forty-two years and has three children. 

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Set in the exotic landscape of Bali, the spellbinding new novel of family and 

forgiveness by the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl 

CONSTANCE 

A Novel 

ROSIE THOMAS 

Over the course of three decades of writing, bestselling novelist 

Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and 

critical praise. Her latest novel, Constance, is a powerful story 

of a woman’s anguished reckoning with her past. 

Constance Thorne was a foundling, left by her mother 

within days of her birth. Only her desperate cries saved her— 

a young couple passing by found her under a hedge, wailing 

for her life. Now, decades later, she finds herself thousands 

of miles away from her home in England—and from a heartbreak 

she can never truly escape. Connie has carved out a new 

life for herself in Bali—an idyllic place of perfect beaches 

framed with lush, green trees. 

So when she hears the news that her sister Jeanette is 

dying, the last thing she wants is to leave her home and come 

back to dreary London—after all, she left home when she was 

sixteen, with no plans to return. As a child, Connie was aware 

only of the differences between herself and her sister. One of 

them was dark, the other sunny. Yet they both fell in love with 

the same man. 

Praise for The Kashmir Shawl: 

“ Mystery, intrigue, a great love, passion, and a 

terrible sorrow all come together to make The 

Kashmir Shawl a very touching and satisfying read.” 

—Barbara Taylor Bradford 

“ Thomas brings India to glorious life in this utterly 

engrossing and beautifully written epic novel, a 

bestseller in Britain. She moves the story from past 

to present with ease, never allowing one story line to 

overwhelm another. Her characters are so interesting 

and realistic that readers will be reluctant to let 

them go. Fans of Joanna Trollope and Mary Wesley 

will enjoy this moving work.” 

—Library Journal (starred review) 

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But with the bitterness of betrayal still between them, 

Connie and Jeanette have to learn to forgive each other. Do the 

bonds of shared childhood lie deeper than they had believed? 

And, surrounded by family, can Connie make her peace with 

who she really is—and who she loves? 

Constance is a grand, profoundly human story that spans 

time and space. Thomas captures diverse landscapes—Bali, 

England, even Uzbekistan—with an effortlessness matched 

only by her ability to bring her characters to vivid, messy, 

moving life. Praised as “a master storyteller” by Cosmopolitan, 

Thomas reveals herself to be a brilliant chronicler of the 

heart—at once sensitive and unsentimental. 

The Kashmir Shawl, which Overlook published in January 

2013, introduced this acclaimed, bestselling author to readers 

in the United States. Constance is the stunning second 

chapter in Thomas’s American literary career. 

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ROSIE THOMAS is the author of numerous critically acclaimed, 

bestselling novels, and has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. 

Born in a small village in northern Wales, Thomas discovered a love of 

traveling and mountaineering when her children were grown. In the years 

since, she has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the 

Peking to Paris car rally, and trekked in the footsteps of Shackleton on South 

Georgia Island. 

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Her primary interests are the art and culture of the 

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The erotic encounters depicted in shunga 

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and 1900. As urban culture expanded rapidly during the 

seventeenth century, erotic woodblock prints were in 

demand, first as books, then as single-sheet designs. 

From the 1760s printed works, produced using full-colo 

woodblock technology, constitute some of the finest 

examples of art-printing in Japan, using sumptuous 

materials and special printing effects. This book include 

pictures by some of the most renowned artists, such as 

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) and Katsushika Hokusa 

(1760–1849), who produced erotic imagery as a standard 

part of their work. 

When creating erotica, artists usually played on sexual 

situations in everyday life: a wife catches her husband 

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Autumn, 1941. At a secret meeting in Washington, 

FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman is told that 

the Soviet Union has been infiltrating the highest 

levels of the United States government. Fifty thousand 

dollars has been wired by Russian intelligence 

officers in New York to a Japanese bank in Los Angeles, 

but the trail goes cold. Special Agent Jimmy 

Nessheim knows a local informant who’s willing 

to help, but he vanishes mysteriously overnight. 

Nessheim’s frantic search leads him through the 

dense streets of L.A.’s Little Tokyo to a risky undercover 

gambit in Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese 

surprise attack. 

Hailed as the “successor to Frederick Forsyth” 

(Independent), Andrew Rosenheim shifts his focus 

from the homegrown Nazi threats in Fear Itself to 

the looming threat of war with Japan in the last 

days of peace before Pearl Harbor awoke the sleeping 

giant. The Little Tokyo Informant is a well researched 

and skillfully rendered portrait of America 

on the cusp of the world stage. 

In the thrilling sequel to Fear Itself, Jimmy 

Nessheim races to find a missing double 

agent days before Pearl Harbor 

THE LITTLE TOKYO 

INFORMANT 

ANDREW ROSENHEIM 

Praise for Fear Itself: 

“ If you like wartime political 

thrillers, you’ll love Andrew 

Rosenheim’s gripping Fear 

Itself.” —Newsweek/Daily 

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“ This top-notch historical 

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ANDREW ROSENHEIM grew up in 

Chicago and in a small town in Michigan. 

He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar 

in 1977. For many years he worked in 

publishing, at Oxford University Press and 

Penguin Books among others, and is now 

a full-time writer. He is married with twin 

daughters. 

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A major literary debut about love, loss, and self-discovery in a restless America 

THE FACADES 

A Novel 

ERIC LUNDGREN 

Along the streets of the once-great Midwestern city of Trude, 

the ornate old buildings lie in ruin. Shrouded in disappointment 

and nostalgia, Trude has become a place to “lose yourself,” 

as one tourist brochure puts it: a treacherous maze of 

convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries, and elitist 

assisted-living homes. 

One night at Trude’s opera house, the theater’s most 

celebrated mezzo-soprano vanishes during rehearsal. When 

police come up empty-handed, the star’s husband, a disconsolate 

legal clerk named Sven Norberg, must take up the 

quest on his own. But to discover the secret of his wife’s disappearance, 

Norberg must descend into Trude’s underworld 

Praise for The Facades: 

“ Enter the world of The Facades at your own risk 

. . . in a seductive sleight-of-hand, Eric Lundgren is 

conjuring a whole world into motion behind your back, a 

world of sinister enchantment and misbegotten causes. 

The Facades challenges your sense of the world you think 

you know and live in. It is a dazzling invention.” 

—Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex and The Thin Place 

“ Sven Norberg’s physical and philosophical search for 

his missing wife, conveyed through crystalline prose, is 

unexpectedly suspenseful and moving—part meditation 

on Wittgensteinian solitude, part hard-boiled detective 

story. Forget the diminutive label of debut; Lundgren 

writes like a veteran in his prime, and The Facades is 

simply one of the best novels I’ve read in years, period.” 

—Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny 

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and confront the menacing and bizarre citizens of his hometown: 

rebellious librarians, shifty music critics, a cop called 

the Oracle, and the minister of an apocalyptic church who has 

recruited Norberg’s teenage son. Faced with the loss of everything 

he loves, Norberg follows his investigation to the heart 

of the city and through the buildings of a possibly insane 

modernist architect called Bernhard, whose elaborate vision 

will offer him an astonishing revelation. 

Written with boundless intelligence and razor-sharp wit, 

The Facades is a comic and existential mystery that unfolds at 

the urgent pace of a thriller. 

• An ambitious, otherworldly literary debut set in 

the Midwest, The Facades will appeal to readers 

of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, Haruki 

Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Tom 

McCarthy’s Remainder, and Rivka Galchen’s 

Atmospheric Disturbances 

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ERIC LUNDGREN grew up in Minneapolis. He studied at Lewis & Clark 

College and earned his MFA at Washington University, where he was 

awarded a third-year fellowship. The Facades is his first novel. He works at 

a public library in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife Eleanor and their 

two cats. 

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Praise for MacDonald Harris: 

“ A delight . . . Harris’s 

sympathy for such a range 

of characters in their 

crazinesses, their various 

kinds of loneliness, their 

sheer comedy is wonderful. I 

think [The Carp Castle is] one 

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“ Every so often, one discovers 

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imagination for days after it’s 

closed and put back on the 

shelf. The Balloonist is that 

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DONALD HEINEY (MacDonald Harris was 

a pseudonym) was born in 1921 and died 

in 1993. He is the author of sixteen novels, 

including The Balloonist and Tenth. In 

1982, he received the Award in Literature 

of the American Academy and Institute of 

Arts and Sciences for the sum of his work. 

A sly, sexy, and profoundly haunting work, The Carp 

Castle is the story of a disparate group of strangers 

adrift and confused in the decade after the 

First World War. These haunted men and broken 

women find themselves bound together by an ineffable 

force: the seductive spell cast by a mysterious 

woman named Moira—one part mystic, one part 

cult leader, one part prophet. 

The Carp Castle introduces us to these misfits—to 

the unemployed American metaphysician, 

the perpetually ill English nurse, the guilt-ridden 

German captain, and a handful of others—as they 

board an airship called The League of Nations, which 

will, perhaps, deliver them to the promised land. 

Exuberantly written and rich with historical 

ironies, The Carp Castle is a remarkable final 

statement from MacDonald Harris, praised by the 

Chicago Tribune as “a gifted craftsman, a meticulous 

writer whose powers as a storyteller are as 

compelling as the sexual tensions he imagines.”

In this inspiring new history of the early Christian 

movement, award-winning historian Kate Cooper 

reveals a vivid picture of the triumphs and hardships 

of the first mothers of the infant church. As 

far as recorded history is concerned, women in the 

ancient world lived almost invisibly in a man’s 

world. Piecing together their story from the few 

contemporary accounts that have survived requires 

painstaking detective work, but it can render both 

the past and the present in a new light. 

Following the lives of influential women 

throughout the first century of the church, Band of 

Angels tells the remarkable story of how a new way 

of understanding relationships took root in the ancient 

world. As Cooper demonstrates, women from 

all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity’s 

growth to become a world religion. Peasants, 

empresses, and independent businesswomen contributed 

what they could to an emotional revolution 

unlike anything the ancient world had ever seen. 

By sharing the ideas that had inspired them, 

ancient women changed their own lives. But they 

did something more: Their story is a testament to 

what invisible people can achieve, and to how the 

power of ideas can change the world, one household 

at a time. 

OCTOBER 

The surprising story of early Christianity from 

the female point of view 

BAND OF ANGELS 

The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women 

KATE COOPER 

KATE COOPER is Professor of Ancient 

History at the University of Manchester. 

Born in Washington, D.C., and educated 

at Princeton, Harvard and Wesleyan 

universities, she is the author of The Virgin 

and the Bride and The Fall of the Roman 

Household. She is the recipient of the 

Rome Prize and a Fellow of the American 

Academy in Rome. 

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OCTOBER 

Cobb is a poet and freelance writer of 

tion books. His haiku have appeared widely, 

ng a number of international awards, as 

his haibun (The Spring Journey to the Saxon 

and Business in Eden.) He is the editor of 

enius of Haiku: Readings from R. H. Blyth and 

l anthologies of English language haiku, 

ing The Humours of Haiku. 

A beautiful pairing of poetry ganjitsu and ya kinō ni classic 

tōki asaborake 

Japanese art 

HAIKU 

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Printed in China 

ganjitsu ya kinō ni tōki 

asaborake 

the dawn of New Year’s Day — 

yesterday 

how far off! 

Ichiku 

the dawn of New Year’s Day – 

yesterday 

how far off! 

Ichiku 

appreciating haiku 

the season word unlocking the reader’s own personal store of 

with 

experience, and the cutting word inviting the reader to search for 

unstated connections, the haiku has been styled “the half-said thing” 

(Bashō again: “Is there any good in saying everything?”). The appreciation 

of haiku is a matter of collaboration between poet and reader, the one 

(to use a metaphor from photography) exposing something to the light, 

and the other developing it. As well as being half-stated, it is also understated, 

with sparing resort to the eye-catching metaphor or the subjective 

attribute, that might be said to be typical of much Western poetry. Haiku 

aims to be plain and simple, but at the same time subtle. 

ISBN 978-1-4683-0688-0 

DAVID COBB is a poet and writer. His 

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and won a number of international awards. 

He is the editor of The Genius of Haiku: 

Readings from R. H. Blyth and The Haiku Kit. 

HAIKU 

edited by 

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In Japan, the natural scene and the details of human 

life are the common focus of the haiku poet 

and many artists. The inspiration of this irresistable, 

lavishly illustrated book is to bring them 

together, revealing the talents of both artists and 

poets in making the obvious seem remarkable, and 

the everyday seem extraordinary. 

Works of art from the extensive British Museum 

collections are matched with a selection of the most 

celebrated haiku, in both their original Japanese and 

in superb English translations. Beautifully laid-out 

with Japanese calligraphy alongside peaceful scenes 

of nature, this volume travels through the seasons of 

the year in both verse and art. 

David Cobb’s comprehensive introduction and 

biographical notes on the poets explain the history 

and development of haiku from earliest to contemporary 

times. Haiku is therefore a beginner’s guide 

to the formal aspects of haiku appreciation, but 

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With 28 co 

In Japan, the natural 

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talents of both the ar 

the obvious seem rem 

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August 1914. While World War I rears its head 

across Europe, Sir Ernest Shackleton begins a daring 

expedition to be the first man to cross the Antarctic 

on foot. With him on his ship Endurance are 

twenty-eight crewmembers, sixty-nine sled dogs, a 

gramophone, a bicycle—and Merce Blackboro, a 

seventeen-year-old stowaway hidden amidst oilskins 

and sea boots. 

Their journey into the ice is by way of the sub- 

Antarctic island of South Georgia. But the Antarctic 

summer is short, and their passage remains resolutely 

closed to them. In the Weddell Sea the Endurance 

is trapped for months in pack ice and finds 

itself delivered up to an uncertain fate. 

Richly imagined and gripping right up the very 

last page, Ice-Cold Heaven traces Shackleton’s legendary 

and heroic adventure through the ice and 

explores the relationships between these men who 

were lost to the world for 635 days. 

ICE-COLD HEAVEN 

A Novel 

MIRKO BONNÉ 

Translated from the German by Alexander Starritt 

“ An impressive adventure 

novel . . . Breathless, we 

follow the crew’s struggle 

for survival amidst the grim 

solitude of the ice.” 

—Frankfurter Allgemeine 

Zeitung 

“ Our hands get chapped while 

we turn the pages to follow 

the adventures of Merce 

Blackboro . . . Bonné delivers 

a hallucinatory tableau, 

arousing and startling.” 

—Le Figaro 

“ Crazy. Extravagant. 

Admirable.”—L’Humanité 

• Ice-Cold Heaven will appeal 

to readers of richly imagined 

historical fiction and narrative 

nonfiction 

MIRKO BONNÉ, born 1965 in Tegernsee, 

lives in Hamburg. He has translated 

poetry by Keats, e.e.cummings and W. B. 

Yeats, and has published several novels 

and volumes of poetry. His novel Wie 

Wir Verschwinden was longlisted for the 

German Book Award. 

OCTOBER 

Within the tradition of the classic adventure 

novel, the gripping story of Shackleton’s 

astonishing voyage to the Antarctic 

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The provocative, lavishly illustrated discourse on the nature of ugliness . . . 

and beauty, by the bestselling author of Taste 

UGLY 

The Aesthetics of Everything 

STEPHEN BAYLEY 

What is “ugly”? Sourcing centuries of art, design, and cultural 

history, and citing examples as wide-ranging as Soviet-era 

architecture and Frankenstein’s monster to the World’s Ugliest 

Dog and the so-called jolie-laide of the human species, 

Stephen Bayley, one of the world’s leading commentators on 

design and popular culture, probes the fascinating and timeless 

question: Is there such a thing as ugliness . . . or are 

aesthetic judgments purely a matter of taste? 

Is ugliness only skin-deep, or can something that is 

beautifully engineered – a B52 bomber or a Colt .45 – also 

From Ugly: 

Why did I write Ugly? Well, one answer is as follows. 

For as long as I can remember I have been helplessly 

engrossed with the look of things, whether a ketchup 

bottle or a temple, a woman or a car. Amateur and 

indeed professional Freudians might attribute so 

near an obsession with shapes and surfaces to some 

traumatic childhood event best left deeply repressed. 

Or, less charitably, it may be attributed to a crude 

infatuation with superficialities and effects: a pimp 

writes on love, say. Still, as Pedro Almodóvar once 

said, if it’s not autobiography, it’s plagiarism. 

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be ugly, if its function is to kill or to maim? What was “Degenerate 

Art” and why was it deemed such? Why are mountains 

seen as sublime expression of nature, when only two 

hundred years ago they were regarded as loathsome things 

to be avoided at all costs? Just what is the relation, if any, 

between tattoos and crime? And lastly, if there were no ugliness 

in the world, would there be any beauty? Stephen Bayley, 

in his singular and at times tongue-in-cheek style, questions 

and explains the aesthetics of everything. 

About Stephen Bayley: 

“ I don’t know anybody with more interesting 

observations about style, tastes, and contemporary 

design.” —Tom Wolfe 

“ He has the knack of getting ahead of the everybody 

with values that turn out to be permanent.” 

—Clive James 

“ The nineteenth century Stephen Bayley.” 

—Nick Fowles (on John Ruskin) 

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STEPHEN BAYLEY is one of the world’s best-known commentators 

on design and popular culture, a bestselling author, and a columnist, 

broadcaster, and curator. He has served as Chief Executive of the Design 

Museum in London and also worked as a consultant for various brands 

including Ford, Absolut Vodka, The Coca-Cola Company, Volkswagen, BMW, 

and Harvey Nichols. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an 

Honorary Fellow of RIBA, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, and a 

Fellow of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. 

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OCTOBER 

Based on astounding new research, the 

author of Finding Merlin reveals the true 

history of King Arthur 

FINDING ARTHUR 

The True Origins of the Once and Future King 

ADAM ARDREY 

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Praise for Finding Merlin: 

“ Ardrey delivers a bombshell 

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“ Amazing . . . Disproves the 

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ADAM ARDREY is the author of Finding 

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FINDING 

Arthur 

The True origins of the 

Once and Future King 

ADAM ARDREY 

author of finding merlin 

The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold 

for centuries. As the king who united a nation, his 

is the story of England itself. But what if Arthur 

weren’t English? As writer and activist Adam Ardrey 

discovered, the reason historians have had little 

success identifying the historical Arthur may be incredibly 

simple: He wasn’t an Englishman at all. He 

was from Scotland. 

Finding Arthur chronicles Ardrey’s unlikely 

quest to uncover the secret of Scotland’s greatest 

king and conqueror, which has been hidden in plain 

sight for centuries. His research began as a simple 

exploration of a notable Scottish clan, but quickly it 

became clear that many of the familiar symbols of 

Arthurian legend—the Round Table, the Sword in the 

Stone, the Lady of the Lake—are based on very real 

and still accessible places in the Scottish Highlands. 

Sure to be controversial, Finding Arthur rewrites 

the legend of King Arthur for a new age.

Born in Weimar Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal 

grew up during the ascent of the Third Reich. He 

and his family fled from the Nazis to the other side 

of the world—first to Shanghai, then to America. 

There, he made a career in business and politics, 

as an adviser to President Kennedy and as the 

Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter. In 

1997, after a half century as an American, he did 

what many German Jews would never consider: He 

returned to Berlin. 

In Full Circle, Blumenthal explains how his life 

experiences led him to reaccept his German homeland. 

He vividly describes his youth in Berlin during 

Nazi rule, his dramatic escape to Japanese-occupied 

China, and the life he made in the United States. 

Whether as a professor of economics, a business 

leader, or a presidential adviser, Blumenthal has always 

been keenly attuned to current events. With the 

authority of an elder statesman, Blumenthal presents 

a compelling view of a new Germany—one that 

has been forced to confront its own dark past and 

become a world leader once again. 

Praise for The Invisible Wall: 

“ Blumenthal brings Jewish 

history in Germany alive by 

telling about his ancestors’ 

lives.” —Library Journal 

“ An utterly absorbing account 

of German Jewry from the 

early 18th century to the 

Holocaust . . . a crisply 

written, personal, anecdotally 

rich history of a glorious and 

ultimately tragic community.” 

—Kirkus Reviews 

OCTOBER 

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael 

Blumenthal offers an engaging portrait of 

life as a German Jew in America and abroad 

FULL CIRCLE 

My Long Journey Back to Germany 

W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL 

W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL was the 

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter 

administration from 1977 to 1979. He was 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 

the Bendix Corporation and of Burroughs 

Corporation (later Unisys). He is the author 

of The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews. 

He currently splits his time between New 

York and Berlin. 

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OCTOBER 

The lavish catalog of the artists’ lithographs 

and wrapped objects 

CHRISTO AND 

JEANNE-CLAUDE: 

PRINTS AND OBJECTS 

A Catalogue Raisonné 

CHRISTO AND JEANNE- 

CLAUDE 

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JÖRG SCHELLMANN has been 

producing and publishing fine editions of 

works by contemporary artists since 1969. 

His company also produces furniture in 

limited editions based on objects by such 

artists as Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, 

and Rachel Whiteread, as well as his own 

designs. MATTHIAS KODDENBERG is 

an art historian and specialist on the work 

of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Each was born on the 

same day in 1935, and this unusual artist couple 

worked together until Jeanne-Claude’s death in 

2009, changing the art world in the process. For 

their dramatic large-scale installations such as The 

Gates in NYC’s Central Park, Wrapped Reichstag in 

Berlin, and Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin 

counties, California, they enveloped buildings and 

entire landscapes in various materials, revealing 

at the same time the essence and beauty of these 

structures and objects of nature. 

Refusing to accept commissions, and so in 

order to finance these enormous works of art themselves, 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude began making 

editions early on in their career—prints, collages, 

and objects. This completely updated, one-of-akind 

catalogue of works, designed by Schellmann 

Art and produced to the highest specifications, is 

an essential part of the story of these sui generis 

contemporary artists and a testament to their impressive 

breadth of vision and their independence 

and courage.

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy 

was murdered in front of hundreds of onlookers. 

Everything was over in mere seconds, but the 

events of that day have been the subject of heated 

debate for five decades. The presidential commission 

tasked with finding the truth, headed by then- 

Chief Justice Earl Warren, published its findings the 

following year—Oswald had acted alone—but the 

report did little to quell conspiracy theorists. Many 

seized on what they saw as inconsistencies in the 

report and branded the whole investigation a coverup. 

Warren himself calmly dismissed the criticism, 

assuring his fellow commission members that “history 

will prove us right.” 

Now, in this eye-opening new account of the 

Commission and its findings, Howard P. Willens sets 

out to prove that Warren’s advice was prescient. Willens, 

one of the few surviving staff members of the 

Warren Commission, supervised the investigation 

from the very beginning and has waited until now 

to silence the critics and well-intentioned armchair 

detectives. Drawn from Willens’ own journals and 

extensive notes on the investigation—which have 

never before been published—History Will Prove Us 

Right tells the true and complete story, perhaps for 

the first time, of every aspect of the investigation 

into one of the century’s most harrowing events 

from a uniquely first-person perspective. 

Fifty years after JFK’s death, one of the lead 

investigators on the Warren Commission 

reexamines the group’s findings 

HISTORY WILL PROVE 

US RIGHT 

Inside the Warren Commission Investigation into the 

Assassination of John F. Kennedy 

HOWARD P. WILLENS 

HOWARD P. WILLENS is the only 

surviving member of the three-person 

supervisory staff of the Warren 

Commission. After the commission’s report 

was published, he left the Department 

of Justice and in 1965 served as the 

Executive Director of the President’s 

commission on Crime in the District of 

Columbia. In 1967, he joined a private law 

firm, where he has worked for over forty 

years. He lives in Washington, DC. 

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NOVEMBER 

The first book in half a century to explore 

the enduring influence of the legendary 

oracles of antiquity 

SIBYLS 

Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World 

JORGE GUILLERMO 

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JORGE GUILLERMO left his native 

Havana during the Cuban revolution and 

has lived in many countries since. He 

holds several degrees in theology and 

architectural history from prestigious North 

American and European universities. He 

is the author of Cuba: Five Hundred Years 

of Images. 

From myth to myth, and over thousands of years, few 

archetypes have so captured the imaginations of 

readers as that of the Sibyl. Sibyls—from the Greek 

word for prophetess—commanded a remarkable 

amount of respect and devotion in the ancient world 

for their ability to foretell the future. And even as they 

receded from myths and stories, they remained an 

inspiration to many of history’s greatest artists. 

In his definitive and erudite book, Jorge Guillermo 

tracks the story of Sibyls through polytheism (in 

Greece and Rome), paganism, and into the seemingly 

disparate tenets of Christianity. With a remarkably 

rich set of historical and artistic examples that range 

from Homer to Virgil, from Boccaccio to Michelangelo, 

Guillermo pays tribute to the surprising and enduring 

history of these singular women.

When a dead woman is discovered in Abu Al Roos, one 

of Mecca’s many alleys, no one will claim the body 

because they are ashamed by her nakedness. As we 

follow Detective Nassir’s investigation of the case, the 

secret life of the holy city of Mecca is revealed. 

Tackling powerful issues with beautiful and 

evocative writing, Raja Alem reveals a city—and a 

civilization—at once beholden to brutal customs, 

and reckoning (uneasily) with new traditions. Told 

from a variety of perspectives—including that of 

Abu Al Roos itself—The Dove’s Necklace is a virtuosic 

work of literature, and an ambitious portrait of a 

changing city that deserves our attention. 

The stunning novel that explores the secret 

life of Mecca, by the first female winner of 

the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 

THE DOVE’S 

NECKLACE 

A Novel 

RAJA ALEM 

Translated from the Arabic by Adam Talib and Katherine Halls 

Praise for Raja Alem: 

“ Raja Alem’s reputation 

in contemporary Arabic 

literature [is] similar to 

Nabokov’s in ours: masterful, 

erudite, witty, and somewhat 

dangerous.” —BOMB 

• For fans of Orhan Pamuk, Alaa 

Al Aswany, and Hisham Matar 

RAJA ALEM was born in Mecca and 

now lives in Paris. She has received many 

awards in the Arab world and in Europe 

for her novels, plays, stories, and other 

writing. In 2011, she became the first 

woman to win the International Prize for 

Arabic Fiction. 

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The bracing new historical mystery from the “genius” (Frank McCourt) author 

of Hour of the Cat 

DRY BONES 

PETER QUINN 

Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who 

Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding 

story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern 

front and its consequences more than a decade after the 

war’s end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march 

toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow 

soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind 

enemy lines to rescue a team of OSS officers trying to abet the 

Czech resistance. When the plan goes south, Dunne and Van 

Hull uncover a secret that will change both of their lives. Years 

later, Dunne is drawn back into the shadowy realm of Cold War 

espionage in an effort clear his friend’s good name and right 

an injustice so shocking that men would, quite literally, kill to 

keep it quiet. 

Praise for Peter Quinn: 

“ Fintan Dunne is a memorable hero who you want to 

meet again and again.” —James Patterson 

“ Quinn knows New York and its politics better than 

anyone. This is noir fiction at its finest.” 

—William Kennedy 

“ Gripping from the first page to the last, Peter Quinn 

creates a unique and utterly believable world, part 

history, part fiction. He is an enviably wonderful 

writer.” —Gabriel Byrne 

“ A Gotham version of Philip Marlowe.” 

—Chicago Tribune 

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A literary mystery that will keep you guessing until the 

very end, Dry Bones completes the trilogy started in Hour of 

the Cat. Peter Quinn has crafted yet another smart and stylish 

historical mystery, following his longtime hero from the last 

gasp of the Third Reich to the heady days of the Cuban revolution. 

Quinn’s signature prose—which Pulitzer Prize-winning 

author Frank McCourt described as “spare but passionate, 

wry but loving”—shines once again throughout. New York 

Times bestselling author James Patterson credits Quinn with 

“perfecting, if not actually creating, a genre you could call 

history–mystery.” Blending fact and fiction into a thoroughly 

compelling whole, this is Quinn at his very best. 

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third generation New Yorker whose grandparents were born in Ireland. 

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The pulse-quickening thriller, by “the perfect author to read late into the night” 

(Clive Cussler) 

CITY OF LIES 

A Thriller 

R. J. ELLORY 

From the much-praised Candlemoth to the international bestseller 

A Quiet Belief in Angels (which Michael Connelly called 

“a beautiful and haunting book” and “a tour de force”), R. J. 

Ellory has become an undisputed master of crime fiction. He is 

a widely acclaimed author whose novels are as unnerving and 

gritty as they are powerful. Now, in City of Lies, Ellory tackles 

his darkest story yet. 

After seventeen years away from New York, John Harper—Miami 

Herald reporter and one-time author—has just 

made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more 

than thirty years is alive—though barely. The old man is lying 

in a coma in a Manhattan hospital, the victim of a botched 

robbery in a liquor store. For Harper, returning home brings 

with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet 

he could never have prepared himself for the truth. 

Confronted with the reality of his father’s existence, Harper 

finds himself seduced by a lifestyle that he seems to have 

inherited—an underworld life of power, treachery, and menace. 

Praise for A Quiet Belief in Angels: 

“ There aren’t nearly enough beautifully written novels 

that are also great mysteries. Like The Girl with the 

Dragon Tattoo and Smilla’s Sense of Snow, A Quiet 

Belief in Angels is one of them.” —James Patterson 

“ R. J. Ellory is a uniquely gifted, passionate, and 

powerful writer, and the quality of his prose—every 

word, every sentence—hits A Quiet Belief in Angels 

far above its genre.” —Alan Furst 

“ A Quiet Belief in Angels is a rich, powerful, 

evocative novel of great psychological depth.” 

—Jonathan Kellerman 

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As he desperately tries to uncover the facts of his own past, he 

is faced with one lie after another, and with each new discovery, 

he becomes more and more entangled in a dark and shocking 

conspiracy, which will lead to one of the most audacious criminal 

enterprises undertaken in New York’s history. Twisted like a 

Gordian knot, this riveting story weaves back and forth between 

truth and fiction toward its explosive conclusion. 

As immersive and involving as early Scorsese or The 

Wire, City of Lies is a tense and gripping novel, with each twist 

and turn more shocking than the last. Praised by the Financial 

Times for his “vivid storytelling with a dark heart and angry 

conscience,” R. J. Ellory takes on family, betrayal, deception, 

and murder with tremendous passion and energy, and the result 

is another essential thriller by an author “who will quickly 

rank with the best crime writers working today” (Otto Penzler). 

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NOVEMBER 

A menagerie of animals—real and 

otherwise—by the author of the acclaimed 

City of Ravens 

THE MYTHICAL ZOO 

Animals in Life, Legend, and Literature 

BORIA SAX 

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“ Enter Boria Sax, the veritable 

Ace Ventura of contemporary 

academia.” 

—New York Journal of Books 

“ Boria Sax is a likeable writer. 

His diligent research has . . . 

illuminated the origins of 

one of Britain’s most famous 

myths.” 

—Times Literary Supplement 

“ A charming, off-kilter work of 

history and zoology.” 

—ForeWord 

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BORIA SAX is the award-winning author 

of City of Ravens (available from Overlook) 

and Animals of the Third Reich. His books 

have been translated into eight languages. 

He lives in White Plains, New York. 

From Aesop’s Fables to Mockingjay, animals have 

always played a pivotal role in human culture. Even 

today, animals wield symbolic powers as varied as 

the cultures that embrace them. Sacred cows, wily 

serpents, fearsome lions, elegant swans, busy bees, 

and sly foxes—all are caricatures of the creatures 

themselves, yet they reflect not only how different 

cultures see the natural world around them but also 

how such cultures make use of their native animals. 

In this fun and thought-provoking book, historian 

and animal enthusiast Boria Sax argues for a 

classification of animals that goes beyond the biological 

to encompass a more meaningful distinction: 

tradition. From ants and elephants to tigers 

and tortoises, The Mythical Zoo weaves together a 

cross-cultural tapestry encompassing mythology, 

history, art, science, philosophy, and literature. The 

result is a beautifully illustrated, masterfully composed 

love letter to the animal kingdom.

At fourteen, Kelsey Osgood became fascinated by 

the stories of women who starved themselves. She 

devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, 

committing the most salacious details of their 

cautionary tales to memory—how little they ate, 

their lowest weights, and their merciless exercise 

regimes—to learn what it would take to be the very 

best anorectic. When she was hospitalized for anorexia 

at fifteen, she found herself in an existential 

wormhole: how can one suffer from something one 

has actively sought out? Through her own decadelong 

battle with anorexia, which included three 

lengthy hospitalizations, Osgood harrowingly describes 

the haunting and competitive world of inpatient 

facilities populated with other adolescents, 

some as young as ten years old. 

With attuned storytelling and unflinching introspection, 

Kelsey Osgood unpacks the modern myths 

of anorexia, examining the cult-like underbelly of 

eating disorders in the young, as she chronicles her 

own rehabilitation. How to Disappear Completely is 

a brave, candid and emotionally wrenching memoir 

that explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications 

of eating disorders and subverts many of 

the popularly held notions of the illness and, most 

hopefully, the path to recovery. 

NOVEMBER 

A trenchant and deeply moving memoir 

that explores the cult of anorexia and other 

eating disorders in the 21st century 

HOW TO DISAPPEAR 

COMPLETELY 

On Modern Anorexia 

KELSEY OSGOOD 

• Eating disorders continue to 

have the highest mortality rate 

of any mental illness. How 

to Disappear Completely will 

appeal to people struggling 

with an eating disorder, family 

and friends dealing with sick 

loved ones, and medical 

professionals 

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KELSEY OSGOOD received an MFA in 

Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. 

Her essays have appeared in the New 

Yorker.com, New York Magazine, Self, and 

Tablet, among others. How to Disappear 

Completely is her first book. She lives in 

Brooklyn, New York. 

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Based on newly declassified information, the startling exploration of the 

extraordinary role of MI5 in shaping the course of the Cold War 

EMPIRE OF SECRETS 

British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire 

CALDER WALTON 

Against the backdrop of the Cold War and the looming specter 

of Soviet dominance in Britain’s dwindling colonial possessions, 

the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but virtually 

unseen role in tipping the scales in favor of America and her 

allies. Working clandestinely behind the scenes, MI5 operatives 

helped to prop up newly independent states across the globe 

against a ceaseless campaign of Communist subversion. Though 

the CIA are often assumed to be the principal actors in the prolonged 

struggle against the KGB and other Soviet agencies, the 

so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United 

States became the driving force behind an enormous overhaul of 

Britain’s colonial intelligence system, which would play a key role 

in destabilizing and defeating the Communist threat. 

In Empire of Secrets, pioneering intelligence historian 

Calder Walton reveals how Britain contributed largely silently 

yet stunningly effectively to the Cold War effort, their victories 

as invisible to the larger world as their defeats. Mining recently 

declassified intelligence records, Walton uncovers this miss- 

Praise for Empire of Secrets: 

“ A major work, and a vivid and important history. Calder 

Walton shows his ability to change our understanding 

of the end of Empire by reinserting the missing 

intelligence dimension—comparable perhaps to the 

way Bletchley Park and ULTRA have changed the 

history of WWII.” —Christopher Andrew, author of 

Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 

“ Calder Walton’s pioneering use of MI5’s imperial 

security files has unearthed a museum-full of 

historical treasures previously unknown to or 

neglected by both intelligence historians or end-ofempire 

scholars. Reading his work has taught me 

heaps.” —Peter Hennessy, author of The Secret 

State: Whitehall and the Cold War 

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ing link in Britain’s post-war history. He sheds new light on 

everything from violent counter-insurgencies fought by British 

forces in the jungles of Malaya and Kenya, to urban warfare 

campaigns conducted in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula. 

Drawing on a wealth of top-secret documents, as well as hitherto 

overlooked personal papers, this is the first book to utilize 

records from the Foreign Office’s secret archive, which contains 

some of the darkest and most shameful secrets from the last 

days of Britain’s empire. 

Packed with incidents straight out of a John le Carré novel, 

Empire of Secrets is an exhilarating read by an exciting new voice 

in intelligence history. The stories here have chilling contemporary 

resonance, dealing with the use and abuse of intelligence 

by governments—state-sanctioned terrorism, wartime rendition, 

and “enhanced” interrogation. Britain’s bloody imperial past can 

provide valuable lessons for our present and future. 

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CALDER WALTON is a leading expert among a new generation of 

intelligence historians. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Cambridge, has 

published widely on intelligence history, and reviewed books for the Times 

Literary Supplement. He was one of the principal researchers on Christopher 

Andrew’s unprecedented authorized history of MI5. This is his first book. 

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NOVEMBER 

The Wodehouse phenomenon continues 

with two more sparkling classics from the 

master of hijinks and social comedy 

IF I WERE YOU 

AND THE SMALL 

BACHELOR 

P. G. WODEHOUSE 

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SEPTEMBER 

This long-awaited sequel to the New York 

Times bestseller Impossible 

is a breathtakingly original fantasy 

UNTHINKABLE 

NANCY WERLIN 

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NANCY WERLIN was a National Book 

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and an Edgar Award Winner for The 

Killer’s Cousin. She lives near Boston, 

Massachusetts. 

unthinkabe 

nancy werlin 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 

SEQUEL TO 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

impossibe 

Fenella was the first Scarborough girl to be cursed, 

hundreds of years ago; and she has been trapped in 

the faerie realm ever since, forced to watch generations 

of daughters try to escape the evil magic that 

has enslaved them. But now Fenella’s descendant, 

Lucy, has accomplished the impossible and broken 

this curse, so why is Fenella still trapped in Faerie? 

In her desperation, Fenella makes a deal with 

the faerie queen: If she can accomplish three acts 

of destruction, she will be free, at last, to die. What 

she doesn’t realize is that these acts must be aimed 

at her own family; and if she fails, the consequences 

will be dire, for all of the Scarborough girls. 

How can she possibly choose to hurt her own 

dear family—not to mention a new beloved she 

never expected to meet? And if she doesn’t, how will 

she save them?


ALL THE 

THAT’S IN 

ME 

J u l i e B e r r y 

Ever since the horrifying trauma that left her best 

friend dead and her permanently mutilated, she’s 

been a pariah in her close-knit community. Judith 

spends her days silently pouring out her thoughts to 

the boy who’s owned her heart as long as she can 

remember—even if he doesn’t know it—her childhood 

friend, Lucas. 

But when the town is attacked, long-buried 

secrets come to light, and Judith is forced to 

choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her 

voice, even if it means changing her world, and the 

lives around her, forever. 

This startlingly original novel will shock and 

disturb you; it will fill you with Judith’s passion and 

longing; and its mysteries will keep you reading feverishly 

until the final page. 

Judith can’t speak 

ALL THE TRUTH 

THAT’S IN ME 

JULIE BERRY 

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JULIE BERRY is the author of The 

Amaranth Enchantment and Secondhand 

Charm, both fairy tale fantasies. With her 

sister, illustrator Sally Faye Gardner, she is 

the co-creator of the Splurch Academy 

for Disruptive Boys series of comic/graphic 

novels for young readers. She lives in 

eastern Massachusetts with 

her husband, four young sons, and two cats. 

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OCTOBER 

A school full of secrets . . . and one girl who 

can unlock them all 

BLYTHEWOOD 

CAROL GOODMAN 

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CAROL GOODMAN is the author of The 

Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction 

of Water, The Drowning Tree, The Ghost 

Orchid, The Sonnet Lover, The Night Villa, 

and Arcadia Falls. Her work has appeared 

in such journals as The Greensboro Review, 

Literal Latte, The Midwest Quarterly, The 

New York Quarterly, and Other Voices. After 

graduating from Vassar College, where 

she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for 

several years in Austin, Texas. She then 

received an MFA in fiction from the New 

School University, where she now teaches 

writing. She has been nominated for the 

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 

twice, the Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins 

Clark Award, and the Nero Wolfe Award, 

and was awarded the 2003 Hammett Prize. 

Her novels have been translated into ten 

languages. She lives in New York’s Hudson 

Valley. 

CAROL GOODMAN 

BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES 

A school full of secrets— 

and one girl who can unlock them all. 

After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle 

Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline 

Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite 

girls’ boarding school in New York’s Hudson Valley 

that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes 

to solve the mystery of her mother’s death and its 

connection to the students who keep disappearing 

from Blythewood. But the school is not all that it appears 

. . . and neither is the handsome young man 

who saved Ava from the fire. What’s the meaning 

of the extraordinary powers Ava possesses? Who’s 

good and who’s evil? And who has the right to make 

that distinction? 

Vivid and atmospheric, full of mystery and magic, 

this beautifully written page-turner by bestselling 

adult author Carol Goodman portrays a world—both 

real and imagined—on the brink of change, and one 

girl’s relentless pursuit of the truth.

At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was 

America’s most beloved humorist, equally admired 

by a popular audience and by literary friends like 

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports 

writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball 

bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare 

gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the 

rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. 

He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer 

of the American scene. His best stories—among 

them such masterpieces as “Haircut,” “The Golden 

Honeymoon,” “A Caddy’s Diary,” and “The Love 

Nest”—cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, 

prejudices, and petty scheming of everyday life. In 

this Library of America edition, editor Ian Frazier 

surveys the whole sweep of Lardner’s talents, offering 

contemporary readers his finest stories, the full 

texts of You Know Me Al, The Big Town, and the long 

out-of-print The Real Dope, and a generous sampling 

of his humor pieces, sports reporting, song 

lyrics, and surrealist playlets. 

Ian Frazier presents an edgy American comic 

genius in a major new collection 

RING LARDNER 

Stories & Other Writings 

Ian Frazier, editor 

“ He has an unexcelled, an 

almost unrivalled mastery of 

what has come to be known 

as the American language.” 

—Edmund Wilson 

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American writers of all time 

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works. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. 

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The Library of America presents the definitive Updike: 186 classic stories 

spanning his entire celebrated career 

JOHN UPDIKE 

The Collected Stories 

Christopher Carduff, editor 

From his first collection, The Same Door, released in 1959, to 

his last, My Father’s Tears, published fifty years later, John 

Updike was America’s reigning master of the short story, 

“our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. His 

evocations of small-town Pennsylvania life, and of his own 

religious, artistic, and sexual awakening, transfixed readers 

of The New Yorker and of the early collections Pigeon Feathers 

(1962) and The Music School (1966). In these and the works 

that followed—the formal experiments and wickedly tart 

tales of suburban adultery in Museums and Women (1972) 

and Problems (1979), the portraits of middle-aged couples in 

love and at war with aging parents and rebellious children in 

Trust Me (1987) and The Afterlife (1994), and the fugue-like 

stories of memory, desire, travel, and unquenched thirst for 

Praise for John Updike: 

“ It is in his short stories that we find Updike is 

most assured . . . and almost without fail they give 

pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly.” 

—The Washington Post Book World 

“ If one trait can account for John Updike’s staying 

power, it is the man’s exquisite grasp of ordinary 

miracles.” —The Boston Globe 

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life in Licks of Love (2000) and My Father’s Tears (2009)— 

Updike displayed the virtuosic command of character, dialogue, 

and sensual description that was his signature. 

Here, in two career-spanning volumes, are 186 unforgettable 

stories, from “Ace in the Hole” (1953), a sketch of a 

Rabbit-like ex-basketball player written when Updike was a 

Harvard senior, to “The Full Glass” (2008), the author’s “toast 

to the visible world, his own impending disappearance from 

it be damned.” Based on new archival research, each story is 

presented in its final definitive form and in order of composition, 

established here for the first time. This unprecedented 

collection of American masterpieces is not just the publishing 

event of the season, it is a national literary treasure. 

• First collected edition encompassing Updike’s 

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• Available singly or as a deluxe box edition 

• Box design by Chip Kidd

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CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is the editor of John Updike’s 

posthumous collections Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism 

(2011) and Always Looking: Essays on Art (2012), and has been 

a consulting editor for The Library of America since 2006. He 

lives in Melrose, Massachusetts. 

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SEPTEMBER 

“A superbly engaging bedside book” 

(Michael Dirda, The Washington Post), 

now in paperback 

THE COLLECTED 

WRITINGS OF 

JOE BRAINARD 

Ron Padgett, editor 

With an introduction by Paul Auster 

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“ Beautifully designed, Collected 

Writings reproduces the 

improvised, homemade feel 

of Brainard’s journal writings 

by including drawings and 

handwritten notes and memos 

and cartoons and flyers.” 

—Mark Ford, The New York 

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“ This is a really fun book, one 

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and new fans alike.” 

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RON PADGETT, editor, is the author 

of many books of poetry including How 

To Be Perfect, You Never Know, The Big 

Something, and Great Balls of Fire, as well 

as Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. 

Known during his life primarily as an artist associated 

with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard 

(1942–1994) was also a wonderful writer whose 

one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember 

(“a completely original book”—Edmund White) has 

had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this 

major new retrospective with many other works that 

for the first time allow the full range of Brainard’s 

writing to be savored in all its deadpan wit, nonstop 

goofy inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, 

and generosity of spirit. Collected Writings gathers 

journals, jottings, letters, stories, one-liners, comic 

books, mini-essays, and playlets, much of which 

exist in print only in expensive rarities, if at all, to 

create “one of the most dazzlingly minute autobiographies 

ever written” (Harper’s Magazine). “Brainard 

disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous 

nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to 

accede to the pieties of self-importance,” writes Paul 

Auster in his introduction to this collection. Assembled 

by the author’s longtime friend and biographer 

Ron Padgett and including fourteen never-beforepublished 

works, here is a fresh and affordable way 

to rediscover a unique American artist.

With the publication of her first book, Against 

Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself 

at the forefront of an era of cultural and political 

transformation. “What is important now,” 

she wrote, “is to recover our senses. . . . In place 

of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” 

She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether 

writing about camp sensibility, the films of 

Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences 

as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the 

Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and 

pornography, or a range of modern thinkers 

from Simone Weil to E. M. Cioran. She opened 

dazzling new perspectives on any subject she 

addressed, whether the nature of photography 

or cultural attitudes toward illness. This 

volume, edited by Sontag’s son David Rieff, 

presents the full texts of four essential books: 

Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will (1969), 

On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor 

(1978). Also here as a special feature are six previously 

uncollected essays including studies of William 

S. Burroughs and the painter Francis Bacon 

and a series of reflections on beauty, aging, and the 

emerging feminist movement. 

The essential works of the most provocative 

and influential critic of our time 

SUSAN SONTAG 

Essays of the 1960s & 70s 

David Rieff, editor 

“ Susan Sontag’s essays are 

great interpretations, and 

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really going on.” 

—Carlos Fuentes 

“ Everything matters!” 

—Susan Sontag 

• The essential works of a major 

American writer and critic in 

one volume for the first time 

• Includes six hard-to-find 

uncollected essays 

DAVID RIEFF, editor, is the author of 

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s 

Memoir and the editor of the journals 

and notebook of Susan Sontag, of which 

two volumes have appeared to date. His 

many other books include At the Point of 

a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed 

Intervention and A Bed for the Night: 

Humanitarianism in Crisis. He lives in 

New York. 

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Writer and downtown scenester Glenn O’Brien is your guide to the world of 

the original hipsters 

THE COOL SCHOOL 

Writing from America’s Hip Underground 

Glenn O’Brien, editor 

Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, 

Glenn O’Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through 

the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century 

America—the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of 

those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and 

drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether 

labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or 

suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in 

unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever. 

To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that 

vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, 

The Cool School includes: 

Miles Davis on Charlie Parker and the early days of 

Bop • Classic comedy routines by Lenny Bruce and 

Mort Sahl • Art Pepper on his first experience with 

heroin • Ed Sanders on orgies inspired by recorded 

poetry readings • Bob Dylan on the Greenwich 

Village folk scene • Jack Smith on the cult of the 

B-movie star Maria Montez • Del Close’s “Dictionary 

of Hip Words and Phrases” • Lord Buckley’s classic 

monologue “The Naz” • Jazz lyrics by Annie Ross, 

Fran Landesman, and King Pleasure • Joyce Johnson 

on the turning point of Jack Kerouac’s literary 

career • Seymour Krim’s satiric blast “Making It!” • 

Groundbreaking fiction by Amiri Baraka, Iris Owens, 

Ishmael Reed, Brion Gysin, and others 

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letters, essays, and song lyrics, O’Brien creates an unparalleled 

literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles 

Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. 

Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, 

Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including 

such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz 

memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, 

no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground 

filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an 

unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor: transgressive, 

raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious. 

From The Cool School: 

“ By 1948 it began to take shape. That was a wild 

vibrating year when a group of us would walk down 

the street and yell hello and even stop and talk to 

anybody that gave us a friendly look. The hipsters 

had eyes.” —Jack Kerouac 

“ And Newark always had a bad reputation, I mean 

everybody could pop their fingers. Was hip. Had 

walks.” —Amiri Baraka

Photo: Inez van Lamsweerde and 

Vinoodh Matador 

GLENN O’BRIEN is the author of Soapbox, Human Nature: Dubbed Version, 

and How To Be A Man. A former editor at Interview, Rolling Stone, Spin, and 

High Times, he writes frequently on contemporary art, supplied the lead 

catalog essay to the Whitney Museum exhibition “Beat Culture and the New 

America: 1950-65,” and is a contributing editor at Ten, L’Officiel Homme, 

and GQ, where he writes the “Style Guy” column. 

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Early America’s foremost evangelical on the 

great religious revivals he helped ignite 

JONATHAN EDWARDS 

Writings from the Great Awakening 

Philip F. Gura, editor 

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“ Philip F. Gura has given us an 

Edwards for the twenty-first 

century—an Edwards who 

made personal experience the 

cornerstone of religious life 

and who speaks to our own 

era of re-ignited spirituality.” 


—Michael T. Gilmore, 

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American Sermons: The Pilgrims to 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

978-1-883011-65-9 $40.00 

PHILIP F. GURA is the William S. 

Newman Distinguished Professor of 

American Literature and Culture at the 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

He is the author of Jonathan Edwards: 

America’s Evangelical and American 

Transcendentalism: A History, among other 

works, and serves as an editor for the 

Norton Anthology of American Literature. 

His newest book, Truth’s Ragged Edge: 

The Rise of the American Novel, will be 

published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 

April 9, 2013. 

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is recognized today 

as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian 

Perry Miller has called him “one of America’s five 

or six major artists,” a writer possessed of 

“an intelligence which, as much as Emerson’s, Melville’s, 

or Mark Twain’s, is both an index of American 

society and a comment upon it.” But in his own day 

Edwards was best known as a leader of what is 

now known as the Great Awakening: a series of 

small-town revivals that mushroomed into a 

movement credited with giving birth to American 

evangelicalism and laying the groundwork for the 

American Revolution. In authoritative texts drawn 

from first editions and manuscript sources, this volume 

brings together all of Edwards’s essential writings 

from and about the revivals, including the famous 

sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” 

and his vivid Faithful Narrative of the Surprising 

Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundreds of 

Souls, the work that first publicized the awakenings. 

Characterized by precise logic and powerful imagery, 

his writing continues to inspire students and 

spiritual seekers alike.

INDEX 

5 Essentials, The 36–37 

Adversaries into Allies 57 

Age of Oversupply, The 62 

Alem, Raja 95 

All the Truth That’s in Me 107 

Alpert, Daniel 62 

Ardrey, Adam 90 

Aronica, Lou 36–37 

Auster, Paul 112 

Baer, Jay 46 

Band of Angels 85 

Bargain Fever 56 

Barker, Jeff 42–43 

Bayley, Stephen 88–89 

Berry, Julie 107 

Billings, Lee 76 

Bilton, Nick 64–65 

Blumenthal, W. Michael 91 

Blythewood 108 

Bonné, Mirko 87 

Boyle, T.C. 10–11 

Brotton, Jerry 27 

Brown, Sunni 52–53 

Buckland, Rosina 80 

Burg, Bob 57 

Burleigh, Michael 12 

Carduff, Christopher 110–111 

Carp Castle, The 84 

Chamorro-Premuzic, 

Tomas 40–41 

Childhood of Jesus, The 4–5 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude 92 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: 

Prints and Objects 92 

Churchill and the King 29 

City of Lies 98–99 

Clown Car in the Gold 

Mine, The 64–65 

Cobb, David 86 

Coetzee, J. M. 4–5 

Colino, Stacey 38–39 

Collected Writings of 

Joe Brainard, The 112 

Comaford, Christine 45 

Confidence 40–41 

Constance 78–79 

Cool School, The 114–115 

Cooper, Kate 85 

Courage, Katherine Harmon 75 

Curve, The 60 

Darling 13 

DeLisi, Rick 54–55 

Deutsch, Bob 36–37 

Die Empty 51 

Disease-Proof 38–39 

Dixon, Matthew 54–55 

Doodle Revolution, The 52–53 

Dougherty, Dave 69 

Dove’s Necklace, The 95 

Do What You Were Meant 

to Do 49 

Dry Bones 96–97 

Duffy, Scott 68 

Eaton, Rebecca 20–21 

Effortless Experience, The 54–55 

Ellory, R. J. 98–99 

Ellwood, Mark 56 

Eminent Hipsters 14–15 

Empire of Secrets 102–103 

End of the Suburbs, The 50 

Facades, The 82–83 

Fagen, Donald 14–15 

Fallon, James 77 

Family, The 18–19 

Fate of the States 47 

Finding Arthur 90 

Five Billion Years of Solitude 76 

For What It’sWorth 48 

Frackers, The 66–67 

Frazier, Ian 109 

Full Circle 91 

Gallagher, Leigh 50 

George Washington’s 

Secret Six 72–73 

Gilbert, Elizabeth 8–9 

Girl You Left Behind, The 30–31 

Gold, Les 48 

Goodman, Carol 108 

Guillermo, Jorge 94 

Gura, Philip F. 116 

Haiku 86 

Halls, Katherine 95 

Harris, MacDonald 84 

Haskell, Molly 6 

Henry, Todd 51 

History of the World in 

12 Maps, A 27 

History Will Prove Us Right 93 

How to Disappear Completely 101 

Huba, Jackie 44 

Ice-Cold Heaven 87 

If I Were You 104–105 

In My Shoes 58–59 

Johnson, Craig 22–23 

Johnson, Paul 28 

John Updike 110–111 

Jonathan Edwards 116 

Jony Ive 63 

Kahney, Leander 63 

Katz, David 38–39 

Kilmeade, Brian 72–73 

Koddenberg, Matthias 92 

Laskin, David 18–19 

Launch! 68 

Life at the Speed of Light 17 

Lincoln’s Boys 16 

Little Tokyo Informant, The 81 

Lovell, Nicholas 60 

Lundgren, Eric 82–83 

MacCulloch, Diarmaid 7 

MacGregor, Neil 24–25 

Mah, Ann 32–33 

Making Masterpiece 20–21 

Mastering the Art of 

French Eating 32–33 

McMillan, Terry 2–3 

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Mellon, Tamara 58–59 

Monster Loyalty 44 

Moyes, Jojo 30–31 

Mozart 28 

My Brother My Sister 6 

Mythical Zoo, The 100 

O’Brien, Glenn 114–115 

Octopus! 75 

Osgood, Kelsey 101 

Padgett, Ron 112 

Patrick, William 58–59 

Patriot’s History of the 

Modern World Volume II, A 69 

Penenberg, Adam 61 

Perfecting Your Pitch 42–43 

Pinkerton’s Greatest Detective 26 

Play at Work 61 

Psychopath Inside, The 77 

Quinn, Peter 96–97 

Rieff, David 113 

Riffenburgh, Beau 26 

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Ring Lardner 109 

Rodriguez, Richard 13 

Rosenheim, Andrew 81 

Sax, Boria 100 

Schellmann, Jörg 92 

Schweikart, Larry 69 

Shakespeare’s Restless World 24–25 

Shapiro, Ronald M. 42–43 

Shell, G. Richard 49 

Shunga 80 

Sibyls 94 

Signature of All Things, 

The 8–9 

Silence 7 

Small Bachelor, The 104–105 

Small Wars, Faraway Places 12 

SmartTribes 45 

Spirit of Steamboat, The 22–23 

Susan Sontag 113 

Starritt, Alexander 87 

Svoboda, Elizabeth 74 

Talib, Adam 95 

T.C. Boyle Stories II 10–11 

Thiessen, Mark 70–71 

Thomas, Rosie 78–79 

Toman, Nick 54–55 

Ugly 88–89 

Unintimidated 70–71 

Unthinkable 106 

Venter, J. Craig 17 

Walker, Scott 70–71 

Walton, Calder 102–103 

Weisbrode, Kenneth 29 

Werlin, Nancy 106 

What Makes a Hero? 74 

Whitney, Meredith 47 

Who Asked You? 2–3 

Willens, Howard P. 93 

Wodehouse, P. G. 104–105 

Yaeger, Don 72–73 

Youtility 46 

Zeitz, Joshua 16 

Zuckerman, Gregory 66–67

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Life at the Speed of Light 

Lincoln’s Boys 

The Family 

Making Masterpiece 

The Spirit of Steamboat 

Shakespeare’s Restless World 

A History of the World in 12 Maps 

Pinkerton’s Great Detective 

Mozart 

Churchill and the King 

The Girl You Left Behind 

Mastering the Art of French Eating 

The 5 Essentials 

Disease–Proof 

Confidence 

Perfecting Your Pitch 

Monster Loyalty 

SmartTribes 

Youtility 

Fate of the States 

For What It’s Worth 

Do What You Were Meant to Do 

The End of the Suburbs 

Die Empty 

The Doodle Revolution 

The Effortless Experience 

Bargain Fever 

Adversaries Into Allies 

In My Shoes 

The Curve 

Play at Work 

The Age of Oversupply 

Jony Ive 

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