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Our most widely respected environmental writer brings 

together the essential voices on global warming, from its 

19th-century discovery to the present 

The Global Warming Reader 

A Century of Writing About Climate Change 

Edited by Bill McKibben 

ISBN 978-0-14-312189-3 

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What is happening to our planet? 

And what can we do about it? The Global Warming 

Reader provides more than thirty-five answers 

to these burning questions, from more than one 

hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here 

is Elizabeth Kolbert’s groundbreaking essay “The 

Darkening Sea,” Michael Crichton’s skeptical view 

of climate change, George Monbiot’s biting indictment 

of those who are really using up the planet’s 

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“A fantastic book.” —Al Gore 

• Publishing for Earth Day (April 22) 

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Caleb’s Crossing 

A Novel 

Geraldine Brooks 

Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman 

growing up in Martha’s Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small 

band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she 

meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two 

forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of 

the other. Bethia’s father is a Calvinist minister who seeks 

to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a 

prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually 

becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard 

College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the 

irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s Crossing brilliantly captures the 

triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits 

who risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time 

of superstition and ignorance. 

geRAldine BRooks was a 

correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in 

Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East before 

taking up fiction writing. Born and raised in 

Australia, she lives in Martha’s Vineyard with 

her husband, the author Tony Horwitz. 

“Caleb’s Crossing could not be more 

enlightening and involving. 

Beautifully written from beginning to end, it 

reconfirms Geraldine Brooks’s reputation as one 

of our most supple and insightful novelists.” 

—Jane Smiley, The New York Times Book Review 

“ Original and compelling . . . Bethia is a 

fabulously engaging character.” 

—The Washington Post 

“ A dazzling act of the imagination.” 

—The Boston Globe 

“ [Bethia’s] voice—rendered by Brooks 

with exacting attention to the language 

and rhythm of the seventeenth century—is 

captivatingly true to her time.” 

—The New Yorker 

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A New York Times bestselling 

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magic and adventure from the 

Pulitzer Prize–winning author 

n A bestseller on the New York Times, Los Angeles 

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n Geraldine Brooks’s four novels, Caleb’s Crossing, 

People of the Book, March, and Year of Wonders, 

have all been New York Times bestsellers 

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n March was awarded a Pulitzer Prize 

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Midnight in Peking 

How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China 

Paul French 

Peking, January 1937. The Legation Quarter, home to 

wealthy foreigners, glitters with privilege, and scandal and 

gossip are currency. But as the Japanese are encircling 

Peking in an ever-tightening noose, the city is on edge. 

The murder of a beautiful young British woman, her body 

found brutally mutilated, sends shockwaves through the 

city. Who could commit such a crime? With the suspect 

list growing and clues sparse, two detectives—one British 

and one Chinese—race against the clock to solve the crime 

before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is 

gone forever. Seventy-five years later, historian and China 

expert Paul French introduces this dramatic crime to 

modern readers. 

PAul fRenCh lives in Shanghai, 

where he is a business advisor and analyst. 

He frequently comments on China for the 

English-speaking press around the world. 

French studied history, economics, and 

Mandarin at university and has an M.Phil. in 

economics from the University of Glasgow. 

“ Paul French wonderfully evokes [Peking] in 

that time and, amazingly, manages to bring 

some sense of closure to this long-forgotten 

mystery. This book is an instant true 

crime classic.” —David Peace, author of 

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22 Britannia Road 

A Novel 

Amanda Hodgkinson 

Debuting its first week on the New York Times bestseller 

list and earning comparisons to Sophie’s Choice and Sarah’s 

Key, 22 Britannia Road is an astonishing first novel that 

powerfully chronicles one family’s struggle to create a 

home in the aftermath of war. 

With World War II finally over, Silvana and her sevenyear-old 

son, Aurek, board the ship that will take them to 

England, where Silvana’s husband, Janusz—determined to 

forget his ghosts—has rented a little house at 22 Britannia 

Road. But after years spent hiding in the forests of Poland, 

Aurek is wild, almost feral. And for Silvana, who cannot 

escape the painful memory of a shattering wartime act, 

forgetting is not a possibility. 

AMAndA hodgkinson was 

born in Burnham-on-Sea, England, and lives 

with her husband and two daughters in a 

farmhouse in the southwest of France. This is 

her first novel. 

“A riveting novel.” 

—O, The Oprah Magazine 

“ Hodgkinson’s portrait of the primal bond 

between mother and child . . . leaves an 

indelible impression.” 

—The New York Times Book Review 

“A most accomplished first novel—powerful 

storytelling and entirely convincing in its 

evocation of post-war England.” 

—Penelope Lively, author of Family Album 

“ Haunting . . . This moving tale of what war 

has wrought on one family captures the reader 

from beginning to end.” —BookPage.com 


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wiping her mouth with the back of her sleeve, trying to smile. 

The boy was the reason she was making this journey. A boy 

must have a father. Soon the past would be behind them and 

England would become their present. She ran her fingers 

through Aurek’s cropped hair and he wrapped his arms 

around her neck. She was on her way to a new life and her one 

piece of Poland was still with her. 

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On China 

Henry Kissinger 

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger 

turns for the first time at book length to a country he has 

known intimately for decades and whose modern relations 

with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the 

inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal 

events as the initial encounters between China and 

tight line modern European powers, the formation and 

breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, 

and Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing. With a new 

final chapter on the emerging superpower’s twenty-firstcentury 

role in global politics and economics, On China 

provides historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs 

from one of the premier statesmen of our time. 

henRy kissingeR served as 

National Security Advisor and then Secretary 

of State under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. 

He received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, the 

Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal 

of Liberty, among other awards. 

“ Fluent, fascinating . . . part history, 

part memoir and above all an examination of 

the premises, methods, and aims of Chinese 

foreign policy.” —The Wall Street Journal 

“ Part reminiscence, part 

reflection, part history, and part 

intuitive exploration.” 

—The New York Review of Books 

“ Fascinating . . . the man who helped shape 

modern East-West relations presents an often 

unsettling, occasionally hopeful, and always 

compelling account of what we’re 

up against.” —The Chicago Sun-Times 


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“ A major novel . . . the most 

beautifully executed, the clearest, and the 

most important utterance yet made by 

the generation Kerouac himself named 

years ago as ‘ beat.’” 

—The New York Times 


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Jack Kerouac’s groundbreaking novel — 

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On the Road 

Jack Kerouac 

In what is sure to be one of the major cinematic events of 2012, 

Jack Kerouac’s legendary Beat classic, On the Road, will finally hit 

the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; 

Paris, Je T’Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood’s biggest 

stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Amy Adams 

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celebrated books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and 

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“ There have been biographies of Kerouac, 

but this is an entirely different and much 

more satisfying work.” 

—Minneapolis Star Tribune 

“ Jack’s Book is first-rate . . . it offers 

the flavor and depth of good fiction while 

keeping well within the realms of literary 

truth.” —Saturday Review 

“ I consider Jack’s Book an essential 

text—it gives a far more authentic and 

balanced picture of Jack than any existing 

biography.” —Joyce Johnson, author of 

Minor Characters and Door Wide Open 

“ A fascinating literary and historical 

document, the most insightful look at 

the Beat Generation.” —Dan Wakefield, 

author of New York in the Fifties and 

Going All the Way 

Jack’s Book 

An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac 

Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee 

First published in 1978, Jack’s Book gives us an intimate look into 

the life and times of the “King of the Beats.” Through the words 

of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who 

survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount 

Jack Kerouac’s story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, 

to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including 

anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as 

Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well 

as Kerouac’s ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral 

biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably 

insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a 

generation. 

n Includes firsthand stories from the most famous creative figures 

of the Beat era—Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, 

William Gaddis, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

n Also includes a character key of the people in Kerouac’s life and their 

fictional counterparts 

n With an updated introduction 

BARRy giffoRd is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and librettist 

best known for the novel Wild at Heart, which was adapted into an 

award-winning film by David Lynch, and for cowriting the screenplay for 

Lynch’s film Lost Highway. Published in twenty-eight languages, he has 

been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the 

Arts, the American Library Association, and the Writers Guild of America. 

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

lAwRenCe lee (d. 1990) was a Peabody Award–winning 

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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 

A Novel 

John le Carré 

Setting a standard that has never been surpassed, The Spy 

Who Came In from the Cold is John le Carré’s third novel 

and the masterwork that changed his life forever. 

In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec 

Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East 

German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, 

the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement 

or worse, a desk job—Control offers him a unique 

opportunity for revenge. First published in 1963 and made 

into a movie starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom, 

this devastating tale of espionage and duplicity offers a 

perfect example of le Carré’s chillingly amoral universe. 

John le CARRé is the nom de 

plume of David Cornwell, who was a member 

of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 

1964. He is the author of twenty-two novels, 

many of which have been made into films, 

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Little Drummer Girl. He divides his time 

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“ The best spy story I have ever 

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n The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was awarded the 

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n In 2005, it was awarded the Dagger of Daggers, a onetime 

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50-year history 

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A Jane Austen Education 

How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 

William Deresiewicz 

Before he discovered Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz 

was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant 

graduate student, he never thought Austen would have 

anything to offer him. Then he read Emma—and everything 

changed. 

In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves 

the misadventures of Austen’s characters with his own 

youthful follies, demonstrating the power of the great 

novelist’s teachings—and how, for Austen, growing up and 

making mistakes are one and the same. Honest, erudite, 

and deeply moving, A Jane Austen Education is the story 

of one man’s discovery of the world outside himself. 

williAM deResiewiCz is a 

widely published book critic and the author 

of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets. 

He was nominated for National Magazine 

Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011 and the 

National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian 

Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010 

and 2011. 

“ Like Austen, Deresiewicz is lucid, principled 

and knows how to think as well as how to feel, 

without ever sacrificing one to the other . . . 

delightful and enlightening.” 

—Slate 

“ An entertaining and original version 

of literary criticism—as autobiography.” 

—The Seattle Times 

“ [Deresiewicz] writes with wit, charm and 

candor, and the result is simply delightful.” 

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The Compass of Pleasure 

How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, 

Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good 

David J. Linden 

As he did in his award-winning book The Accidental Mind, 

David J. Linden—highly regarded neuroscientist, profes- 

sor, and writer—weaves empirical science with entertain- 

ing anecdotes to explain how the gamut of behaviors that 

give us a buzz actually operates. The Compass of Pleasure 

makes clear why drugs like nicotine and heroin are addictive 

while LSD is not, how fast food restaurants ensure 

that diners will eat more, why some people cannot resist 

the appeal of a new sexual encounter, and much more. 

Provocative and illuminating, this is a radically new and 

thorough look at the desires that often define us. 

dAvid J. linden is a professor of 

neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University 

School of Medicine. The author of The 

Accidental Mind—winner of an Independent 

Book Silver Medal—he serves as the editor 

in chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology. 

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. 

“ Our behavior will never be explained by one 

brain circuit—or one book, for that matter. But 

Linden has provided the first stalwart steps 

into this new frontier.” —Brian Mossop, 

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“ Linden’s conversational style, his abundant 

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From the author of 

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vice and virtue through cuttingedge 

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n For readers of The Brain That Changes Itself , This Is 

Your Brain on Music, and A Whole New Mind 

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The real reason we overeat 

Obese people crave food more than lean people, but get less pleasure from it: 

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“ Well timed . . . a powerful 

indictment of the current system.” 

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From Web guru Eli Pariser, an 

investigation of how online 

personalization undermines the 

Internet’s original purpose 


The Filter Bubble 

How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read 

and How We Think 

Eli Pariser 

The race to collect as much personal data about us as possible— 

and to customize our online experience accordingly—is now the 

defining battle for today’s Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, 

Apple, and Microsoft. As a result, each of us will increasingly 

live in our own unique information universe—what MoveOn.org 

board president Eli Pariser calls the “filter bubble.” In this groundbreaking 

account, Pariser lays bare the personalization that is invisibly 

taking place on every major website and reveals how it will 

limit what we are exposed to in the future, and will leave less room 

for creativity, innovation, and the democratic exchange of ideas. 


n MoveOn.org is a progressive organization with more than 

5 million members 

n Named one of 10 Essential Books for Thought-Provoking 

Summer Reading by The Atlantic 


A pioneer in online politics, eli PARiseR is the board 

president and former executive director of MoveOn.org. His op-eds 

have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and 

The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

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Praise for Wayne Biddle’s A Field Guide 

to Germs: 

“ An engaging account of the merciless 

microbes among us.” —The Washington Post 

“ Biddle manages to make mayhem so 

interesting that we read on, avidly.” 

—Smithsonian Magazine 

“ An irreverent handbook for the 

microbe maniac.” —GQ 

A comprehensive and accessible guide to 

understanding how radiation affects our 

everyday lives 

A Field Guide 

to Radiation 

Wayne Biddle 

Nuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . . . radiation is part 

of the way we live on a daily basis, and yet the sources and 

repercussions of our exposure to it remain mysterious. Now 

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wayne Biddle offers a first-ofits-kind 

guide to understanding this fundamental aspect of the 

universe. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to 

cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health 

implications of one hundred scientific terms in succinct, witty 

essays. A Field Guide to Radiation is an essential, engaging 

handbook that offers wisdom and common sense for today’s 

increasingly nuclear world. 

n Wayne Biddle is a Pulitzer Prize–winning former New York Times journalist 

n Includes photos throughout 

n A Field Guide to Germs has been in print for more than 25 years 


wAyne Biddle is the author of five books, including 

A Field Guide to Germs, winner of an American Medical Writers 

Association Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was 

selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. He 

teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in rural Maryland. 






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In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly 

frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted 

on the young 

Grow Up 

A Novel 

Ben Brooks 

Hailed as “one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts 

of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read” by the trendsetting 

British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks’s 

Grow Up is a shocking and stylish coming-of-age story that plumbs 

the depths of teenage angst in the age of Facebook and viral sex 

videos. As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of 

to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in 

school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. 

But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he 

gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected. 

n For fans of Skins, A Clockwork Orange, and The Catcher in the Rye 

n Brooks has a huge online presence and a diverse network of media affiliations 

n Visit anineffableplayforvoices.blogspot.com 


“ Grow Up is absolutely knockout—Brooks is blessed with a 

blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the 

timing of a genius stand-up comic.” 

—Richard Milward, author of Apples 

“ Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An 

unacceptably witty and original debut.” 

—Tim Key, author of Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage, 

Suggestions, Other Suggestions, and Examples Etc. 

Ben BRooks is the author of Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara 

School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. He has been nominated for a 

Pushcart Prize. He was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire, England. 



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“ Playful, unpredictable, and 

emotionally resonant.” —USA Today 

“ What distinguishes Dave from her peers are 

her keen observations about creating 

lasting love in a freedom obsessed society.” 

—Marie Claire 

“ Positively shines with wisdom and 

intelligence.” —Jonathan Tropper, bestselling 

author of This Is Where I Leave You 


The Divorce Party 978-0-14-311560-1 $15.00 

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“ A fresh, funny take on the search for a 

soulmate.” —People 

The First Husband 

A Novel 

Laura Dave 

Laura Dave has already won adoring fans everywhere from 

Hollywood to the heartland. Now, with a slew of rave reviews and 

astute insights about modern love, The First Husband is certain to 

deliver her breakout success. 

Los Angeles–based travel writer Annie Adams thinks she has 

it all. Nick, her longtime film director boyfriend, has finally hit the 

big time, her column is syndicated, and they’ve got a great dog. 

Then Nick moves out. Three months later, Annie is married to 

Griffin, a down-to-earth chef with a restaurant in the Berkshires. 

When Nick asks for a second chance, Annie is torn between her 

husband and the man she might have been meant to marry. 

n Laura Dave contributes to Self, Glamour, and The Washington Post 

n For fans of Jonathan Tropper, Jane Green, and Jennifer Weiner 

n Visit lauradave.com 


lAuRA dAve is a New York City native who now lives in 

Los Angeles. She contributes to Glamour, Self, The Washington 

Post, and NPR’s All Things Considered. This is her third novel. 


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Hell Is Empty 

A Walt Longmire Mystery 

Craig Johnson 

Sheriff Walt Longmire marked his seventh outing with a 

trip to the New York Times bestseller list. Now, the Penguin 

edition of Hell Is Empty is poised to bring Craig Johnson 

and his Wyoming lawman even greater renown. 

A blizzard is coming, and Walt has just been asked to 

transport Reynaud Shade deep into the Bighorn Mountains 

to retrieve the body of a boy Shade murdered ten years 

ago. Guided only by Indian mysticism and a battered 

paperback of Dante’s Inferno, Walt braves an icy hell, 

cheating death to ensure that justice—both civil and spiritual—is 

served. 

CRAig Johnson is the author of 

the Walt Longmire Mystery series. He lives in 

Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. 

“ With Hell Is Empty, Craig Johnson delivers 

an action-packed Western thriller, rife with 

evocative setting and literary 

allusion. This seventh novel featuring 

wise-cracking Sheriff Walt Longmire creeps 

stealthily out of the corral with an increasingly 

tense setup.” —The Boston Globe 

“ Good stories that take place in the West are in 

short supply these days, and Johnson’s latest is 

the real deal with literary clout.” 

—The Denver Post 


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This New York Times bestseller 

“deserves the attention of more 

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(Wyoming Tribune Eagle) 


n There are more than 230,000 Walt Longmire books 

in print 

n Viking will simultaneously publish the next Longmire 

mystery, As the Crow Flies 

n Longmire, a television series adapted from 

Craig Johnson’s novels, is now a television series—due 

to air on A&E in summer 2012—starring Robert Taylor, 

Lou Diamond Phillips, and Katee Sackhoff 

n Visit craigallenjohnson.com 



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Praise for J. M. Coetzee: 

“ Many, this reviewer among them, would 

consider [Coetzee] the greatest 

living novelist in English.” 


“ 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.” 



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The Nobel Prize–winning author’s brilliant 

trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now 

available in one volume for the first time 

Scenes from 

Provincial Life 

Boyhood; Youth; Summertime 

J. M. Coetzee 

Few writers have won as much critical acclaim and as many 

admirers in the literary world as J. M. Coetzee. Yet the celebrated 

author rarely spoke of himself until the 1997 arrival of Boyhood, 

a masterly and evocative tale of a young writer’s beginnings. 

Continuing with the fiercely tender Youth and the innovative 

Summertime, Scenes from Provincial Life is a heartbreaking and 

often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the world’s greatest 

writers. 

n J. M. Coetzee was awarded Booker Prizes for his novels Life and 

Times of Michael K and Disgrace 

n Boyhood was selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the 

San Francisco Chronicle, was a New York Times Notable Book, and 

was a National Book Award Critics Circle Award nominee 

n Youth was a New York Times Notable Book and a Booklist 

Editor’s Choice 

n Summertime was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 

J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and 

studied first at the University of Cape Town and later at the University 

of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. in literature. The first 

author to receive the prestigious Booker Prize twice, his celebrated 

body of work includes the novels Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and 

Times of Michael K, Foe, Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man, 

and Diary of a Bad Year. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 

in 2003. He lives in Adelaide, Australia.

MoRe AwARd-winning novels fRoM J. M. Coetzee 

Age of Iron 

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Disgrace 

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Dusklands 

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Elizabeth Costello 

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Foe 

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In the Heart of the Country 

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Inner Workings 

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Life and Times of Michael K 

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The Master of Petersburg 

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The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003 

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Slow Man 

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Stranger Shores 

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Waiting for the Barbarians 

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n In the Woods, The Likeness, and Faithful Place 

were all New York Times bestsellers 


Tana French 

Faithful Place 

“ Tana French’s novels are like big 

old trees: the deeper their roots, the 

more luxurious the foliage.” 

—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review 

Also available from Penguin: 

In the Woods 978-0-14-311349-2 $15.00 

The Likeness 978-0-14-311562-5 $15.00 

Coming from Viking in July 2012— 

Broken Harbor 

Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling 

Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what made him the 

Dublin murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of 

the year into his hands in French’s exhilarating fourth novel. 

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John M. Barry 

The Great Influenza 

“ Gripping . . . Easily our fullest, richest, 

most panoramic history of the subject.” 


Coming from Viking in January 2012— 

Roger Williams and the Creation of the 

American Soul 

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Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author John M. 

Barry proved in The Great Influenza that he has a magisterial and precise 

understanding of American public health issues and their effect on politics. 

His latest book tells the story of Roger Williams—the first man to link 

religious freedom to individual liberty—and how his ideas continue to shape 

our political discourse on the separation of church and state. 


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Dave Isay 

Listening Is an Act of Love 

“ What emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom 

and boundless humanity.” 

—Seattle Post-Intelligencer 


Mom 978-0-14-311880-0 $14.00 

(on sale 3/27/2012) 

Coming from Penguin Press in 

February 2012—All There Is 

In his first two books, Storycorps founder Dave Isay shared the remarkable 

stories of everyday people all over the country, revealing the many paths 

that life and relationships can take. Now, in All There Is, Isay presents 

selections that bear witness to real love and its varied forms, enriching our 

understanding of that most enduring feeling. 

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Elaine Pagels 

Reading Judas 

“ This elegantly written book makes clear the relevance 

of a centuries-old text for a contemporary audience.” 

—Booklist (starred review) 

Coming from Viking in March 2012— 

Revelations 

Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers 

have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as 

the Gnostic Gospels. In her startling and timely new book, she turns her 

scholarly eye to the Book of Revelation and explores how often those in 

power throughout history have sought to defeat “God’s enemies.” 

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“ [A] richly insightful account of the inner 

conflicts of a generation coming of age.” 


“ Like the most skillful and subtle of 

teachers, [Ahmed] entices you with what seems 

like an afternoon chat over tea; only when it is 

over do you realize how much you have learned 

and how fascinating the journey has 

been.” —Library Journal 

“ Gracefully written and deeply 

felt.” —Booklist 


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An Egyptian woman’s reflections on her 

changing homeland—updated with an 

afterword on the Arab Spring 

A Border Passage 

From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey 

Leila Ahmed 

In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and 

the stark beauty of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed movingly 

recounts her Egyptian childhood growing up in a rich tradition 

of Islamic women and describes how she eventually came to 

terms with her identity as a feminist living in America. As a young 

woman in Cairo in the forties and fifties, Ahmed witnessed some 

of the major transformations of this century—the end of British 

colonialism, the rise of Arab nationalism, and the breakdown of 

Egypt’s once multireligious society. As today’s Egypt continues 

to undergo revolutionary change, Ahmed’s inspirational story 

remains as poignant and relevant as ever. 

n January 25, 2012, will be the anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests 

that marked the beginning of the Egyptian revolution forcing the 

resignation of President Hosni Mubarak 

n With a new afterword by the author 

leilA AhMed is the first professor of Women’s Studies and 

Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Women and 

Gender in Islam. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mary Karr 

The Liars’ Club 


n Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award 

n Kin will be released by Vanguard Records in March 2012 


Cherry 978-0-14-100207-1 $15.00 

The landmark memoir by 

bestselling author—and now 

songwriter—Mary Karr 

“ The essential American story . . . a beauty.” 

—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World 

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Poet and memoirist Mary Karr and legendary country/ 

Americana artist Rodney Crowell were born a few years 

and about one hundred miles apart in the same swampy, 

godforsaken stretch of East Texas. Kin, an album of songs 

which Vanguard Records will release in March of 2012, 

features lyrics cowritten by Karr and Crowell and inspired 

by their lives and by the ferociously loving yet dysfunctional 

families they grew up in. With performances by such stars 

as Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Vince 

Gill, Leeann Womack, Rosanne Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, 

these songs will bring a new audience to Karr’s sharp, brutally 

honest memoir. 


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The Silver Boat 

A Novel 

Luanne Rice 

In The Silver Boat, New York Times bestselling author 

Luanne Rice has written a heart-wrenching yet heartwarming 

portrait of a family in all its flawed complexity. 

The McCarthy sisters have come to Martha’s Vineyard to 

say good-bye to their family’s beach house—the place they 

were happiest together. Each has her own complicated 

issues and is struggling with the difficult process of letting 

go, but when a cache of old letters spurs them to visit 

Ireland, each woman comes to see herself in a new light. 

True-to-life sisters, the beach, laughter, and passionate 

love—The Silver Boat is everything Rice’s fans love most 

and a fantastic way to welcome this much-loved author 

to the Penguin list. 

luAnne RiCe is the author of thirty 

novels. She lives in New York City and Old 

Lyme, Connecticut. 

Praise for the novels of Luanne Rice: 

“ Exciting, emotional, terrific.” 


“ An elegant style, a sharp eye, and a real 

warmth. In her hands families, and their values 

. . . seem worth cherishing.” 

—San Francisco Chronicle 

“ Rice writes unabashedly for women, imbuing 

her tales with romance and rock-strong 

relationships.” —The Chicago Sun-Times 


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bestselling author Luanne 

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n There are more than 22 million copies of Rice’s novels 

in print 

n Pamela Dorman Books will simultaneously publish 

Rice’s next novel, Little Night 

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n Great for reading groups 

n Visit luannerice.net 


From The Silver Boat: 

Looking around the kitchen, Dar knew that “things” mattered. 

Sea glass, channeled whelks, and driftwood gathered 

on family walks were just as important as other family heirlooms. 

She took a deep breath; they had to start somewhere. 

Reaching for a small pewter dory on a mahogany shelf above 

her grandmother’s spoon collection, Dar held the boat up. 

“Who would like this?” 

No one spoke. Dar supposed they all harbored secret wishes, 

their own private desires for a piece of this paradise. 

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The Borrower 

A Novel 

Rebecca Makkai 

Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, 

finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her 

favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from 

home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his 

overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay 

classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy 

allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him 

camped out in the library after hours, and the odd pair 

embarks on a crazy road trip. But is it just Ian who is running 

away? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from 

his own parents? 

ReBeCCA MAkkAi lives in Chicago 

with her husband and two daughters. This is 

her first novel. 

“ Makkai’s probing novel reminds us that 

literature matters because it helps us 

discover ourselves while exploring the 

worlds of others.” —Chicago Tribune 

“ How could a reader of any age resist . . . The 

Borrower? Part caper . . . part coming-of-age 

story, it manages, with good humor and 

wry self-knowledge, to read our minds.” 


“ An appealing, nonromantic love story about 

an unexpected pairing—and a surprisingly 

moving one.” —The New York Times 

“ A lively, lovely read that delicately weaves 

together social activism, literary culture, and 

the quintessential road trip. . . . 

Reading The Borrower is like taking a blissfully 

nostalgic journey into the bookshelves of 

American childhood.” —WSJ.com 








“ Rarely is a first novel as smart 

and engaging and learned and 

funny and moving as 

The Borrower.” 

—Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer 

Prize–winning Empire Falls 

n Rebecca Makkai’s stories have been anthologized in 

The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009, and 

2008 and numerous other publications 

n For fans of Little Bee and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand 

n A hardcover sales favorite 


n Visit rebeccamakkai.com 


From The Borrower: 

I might be the villain of this story. Even now, it’s hard to tell. 

Back at the library, amid the books and books on ancient 

Egypt, the picture the children loved most showed the god of 

death weighing a dead man’s heart against a feather. There is 

this consolation, then, at least: One day, I will know my guilt. 

I’ve left behind everyone I used to know. I’ve found another 

library, one with oak walls, iron railings. A college library, 

where the borrowers already know what they’re looking for. 

I scan their books and they barely acknowledge me through 

their caffeinated haze. It’s nothing like my old stained-carpet, 

brick-walled library, but the books are the same—same spines, 

same codes on yellowed labels. I know what’s in them all. They 

whisper their judgment down. 

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The must-have guide to the 

2012 Summer Olympic Games 

How to Watch the Olympics 

An Instant Initiation into the Stories, Statistics, Heroes, and 

Zeroes of Every Sport 

David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton 

Next summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic 

Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. 

Yet while it’s easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised 

equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us 

know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations 

of dressage, or the origin of those crowd-pleasing legs-in-the-air 

synchronized swimming formations. Luckily, David Goldblatt 

and Johnny Acton have created this utterly thorough and always 

fun guide to the rules, strategy, and history of each sport. With 

witty, detailed descriptions and clever illustrations, How to Watch 

the Olympics will help anyone grasp handball, archery, wrestling, 

fencing, and every other Olympic event like a true pro. 

n Publishing in time for the London Summer Olympics, which begin on 

July 27, 2012 


dAvid goldBlAtt is the author of the World Football Yearbook 

and The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football, as well as a regular sports 

columnist and commentator for BBC Radio. 

Johnny ACton is a writer specializing in obscure nuggets of information—including 

just about everything from pickling food to the history of balloons 

(The Man Who Touched the Sky). 

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A completely revised edition of the 

bestselling London street map, now 

extended to include all the Olympic sites 

The London Mapguide 

Seventh Edition 

Michael Middleditch 

Michael Middleditch has revised and updated his hugely 

successful London Mapguide—first published in 1983 and now in 

its seventh edition—to include all the Olympic sites in time for the 

2012 Games. Streets and sights are mapped and named, and a full 

A–Z index makes it easy to find everything. In addition, famous 

landmarks as well as places of entertainment and shopping are 

indicated on the maps. Featuring new full-color maps of Stratford 

and the areas of East London around the Olympic venues, this is 

the perfect book for both tourists and native Londoners. 

n Publishing to coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics 

n Includes 8 additional, full-color pages covering the Olympic sites: 

stadiums, streets, bus and subway routes, and landmarks 

MiChAel MiddleditCh was chief cartographer at 

Geographia for many years. He created the Mapguides specially 

for Penguin, and there are two other highly award-winning titles in 

the series: New York and Paris. 


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The Dark Chronicles 

A Spy Trilogy: Free Agent; Song of Treason; The Moscow Option 

Jeremy Duns 

It’s 1969, and MI6 agent Paul Dark has spent the last 

twenty-five years betraying his country. When a would-be 

Russian defector turns up with information about a highlevel 

British double agent, Dark goes on the run—only to 

discover that everything he believes in is a lie. 

Bringing together three novels featuring double agent 

Paul Dark, The Dark Chronicles journeys from London to 

Nigeria and from Rome to Moscow in a heart-pounding 

Cold War saga of dubious loyalties, deadly conspiracies, 

and ruthless acts of revenge. Fans of John le Carré, Alan 

Furst, and Daniel Silva will instantly recognize Jeremy 

Duns as a new master of the genre. 

JeReMy duns grew up primarily in 

Africa and Asia. After graduating from Oxford, 

he became a journalist. He currently lives in 

Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two 

children. 

Praise for Jeremy Duns and Free Agent: 

“ An exceptional talent . . . I was 

transported back to the heyday of spy fiction 

and reminded of the best of le Carré, Deighton, 

and Forsyth.” —Christopher Reich, author of 

Rules of Deception 

“ Seldom has a thriller plot taken more unseen 

turns. . . . Readers will eagerly await 

the sequel.” 

—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 

“ A diabolically clever novel that will 

keep you guessing until the final moments.” 

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Alice Bliss 

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lAuRA hARRington is an award-winning playwright, 

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Winner of the Costa First Novel Award— 

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The first serious study of shoplifting— 

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The Steal 

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Rachel Shteir 

Shoplifting has been made punishable by death, discouraged by 

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A promising young historian takes a fresh 

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Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family—a Test of Will 

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Louisa Thomas 

This illuminating history reveals how World War I challenged 

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How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, 

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Jason Zinoman 

An enthralling behind-the-scenes account of horror’s golden 

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Bullfighting 

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Roddy Doyle 

Roddy Doyle has won acclaim for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, 

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n Many of the stories originally appeared in The New Yorker 

n Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize 

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From internationally bestselling author 

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Andrea Camilleri 

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“ It demonstrates a central 

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vivid relation.” 

— The Washington Post 

A third collection from an award-winning 

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My Favorite Warlord 

Eugene Gloria 

The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin 

are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s rich and captivating new 

collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century 

warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s 

dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial America and the 

speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and 

psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and 

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eugene gloRiA was born in Manila, Philippines, and 

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teaches creative writing and English literature at DePauw University 

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“ Julianne Buchsbaum’s third collection 

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—Lucie Brock-Broido 

Selected for the National Poetry Series 

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The Apothecary’s Heir 

Julianne Buchsbaum 

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Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her “rich, lucid, 

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Apothecary’s Heir, depicts a damaged world in which the speaker 

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JuliAnne BuChsBAuM received an MFA from the 

Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Ph.D. in literature from the University 

of Missouri. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry, 

Slowly, Slowly and A Little Night Comes, and her work has appeared 

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She lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas, where she is a humanities 

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The Kid 

A Novel 

Sapphire 

The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul 

Jones, son of Sapphire’s unforgettable heroine, Precious. 

Left alone after his mother’s death to navigate in a world 

where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, 

forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and 

the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way 

toward adulthood. In a generational story that moves 

with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to 

Harlem in its heyday, from a troubled Catholic orphanage 

to downtown artists’ lofts, The Kid is a soaring tale of body 

and spirit, rooted in the hungers of the flesh and of the soul. 

sAPPhiRe is the author of two 

collections of poetry and the bestselling 

novel Push. The film adaptation of her novel, 

Precious, received the Academy Award for 

Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. 

She lives in New York City. 

“ Demanding and raw . . . 

an accomplished work of art.” 

—Los Angeles Times 

“ Sapphire is as much a poet as a novelist. At her 

best, she uses her poetic instincts to load 

even simple moments with poignancy.” 

—The Seattle Times 

“ There’s no way around this: The Kid can be 

tough to read. . . . But put it down, and 

Abdul’s voice calls one back, demanding to be 

heard.” —Chicago Tribune 


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From The Kid: 

“Wake up, little man.” Rita’s voice is coming under the covers 

at me. It’s warm under the covers, smell good like Rita and 

clean like sheets. I curl up tighter, squeeze my eyes shut, and 

go back to sleep. In the dream it’s Mommy’s birthday party 

and she’s holding me in her arms kissing me and dancing 

with me. Our house is smelling like lasagna, wine, and people, 

mostly girls sweating and perfume. One girl is smoking weed. 

Everyone is laughing. Mommy puts me down and goes to open 

her presents. She’s sitting in the blue armchair under the light. 

All the people have presents in their hands and are holding 

them out to her. A lady, who looks nice but when she smiles 

all her teeth is black, is holding out a pretty present tied with 

a gold ribbon. No! No! NOOOO! I want to say, but no words 

come out my mouth, and Mommy takes the box. [. . .] “Abdul.” 

Someone is shaking shoulder. Rita. I squeeze my eyes shut, 

‘cause when I open them, when I stick my head out the covers, 

my mother will be dead and today will be her funeral. 

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Cocktail Hour Under 

the Tree of Forgetfulness 

Alexandra Fuller 

A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and 

forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 

is an intimate exploration of Fuller’s parents and of the 

price of being possessed by Africa’s uncompromising, 

fertile, death-dealing land. In this follow-up to Don’t Let’s 

Go to the Dogs Tonight, we accompany Tim and Nicola 

Fuller as they hopscotch across the continent, restlessly 

trying to establish a home for their family. War, hardship, 

and tragedy follow the Fullers even as Nicola fights to hold 

on to her children, her land, and her sanity. But just when 

it seems that she has been broken by the continent she 

loves, the African earth revives and nurtures her. Cocktail 

Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller 

at her very best. 

AlexAndRA fulleR was born 

in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved 

with her family to a farm in southern Africa. 

She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 

1994 she moved to Wyoming, where she now 

resides. 

“ Electrifying . . . Writing in 

shimmering, musical prose . . . 

[Fuller’s] own love for Africa reverberates 

throughout these pages, making the beauty 

and hazards of that land searingly real for the 

reader.” 

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

“ Ten years after publishing Don’t Let’s Go to the 

Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra 

(Bobo) Fuller treats us in this wonderful 

book to the inside scoop on her glamorous, 

tragic, indomitable mother.” 


“ Subtly explores the intersections of personality, 

history and landscape in ways that are 

continually fresh and thoughtful.” 

—Charleston Post and Courier 

“ Fuller’s prose is so beautiful and so 

evocative that readers will feel that they, too, 

are sitting under that tree.” 



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The Last Letter from Your Lover 

A Novel 

Jojo Moyes 

A Brief Encounter for our time, The Last Letter from Your 

Lover is a sophisticated, spellbinding double love story 

that spans decades and thrillingly evokes a bygone era. In 

1960, Jennifer Stirling wakes in the hospital and remembers 

nothing—not the car accident that put her there, not 

her wealthy husband, not even her own name. Searching 

for clues, she finds an impassioned letter, signed simply 

“B,” from a man for whom she seemed willing to risk 

everything. In 2003, journalist Ellie Haworth stumbles 

upon the letter and becomes obsessed with learning the 

unknown lovers’ fate—hoping it will inspire her own happy 

ending. Remarkably moving, this is a novel for romantics 

of every age. 

JoJo Moyes writes for The Daily 

Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Independent, 

and Woman and Home. She lives with her 

husband and three children on a farm in 

Essex, England. 

“ Hopelessly and hopefully 

romantic.” —Chicago Tribune 

“ A modern yet ageless story of the 

human heart.” —Leila Meacham, New York 

Times bestselling author of Roses 

“ A fabulous, emotional, and 

evocative book—perfect for anyone who 

loves Mad Men.” —Sophie Kinsella, author of 

Confessions of a Shopaholic 


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A Good Hard Look 

A Novel of Flannery O’Connor 

Ann Napolitano 

Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life in New 

York, Flannery O’Connor has returned to her family farm 

in the small town of Milledgeville, Georgia. With her time 

limited, all she wants is to write, but Flannery’s plans are 

upended by Melvin Whiteson, a banker from Manhattan 

who married the town belle. Melvin is at loose ends with 

his new life. Flannery knows exactly what she wants, but 

is running out of time. Through their unusual friendship, 

both will come to reflect on the paths they have chosen. 

Literary history and fiction gracefully intersect in 

this emotionally charged novel of small-town Southern 

life, which asks us all to consider how we can live our lives 

to the fullest. 

Ann nAPolitAno is the author of 

the novel Within Arm’s Reach. She lives with 

her family in New York City. 

“ An absorbing, old-fashioned tale.” 


“ A wholly believable world shaped by 

duty, small pleasures, and fateful choices.” 


“Does [Flannery O’Connor] proud. 

Be prepared to like this book.” —The Atlanta 

Journal-Constitution 





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n For fans of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife 


n Visit annnapolitano.com 


From A Good Hard Look: 

The peacocks tilted their heads back and bellowed and hollered 

their desires into the night. They snapped their shimmering 

tails open and shut like fans. Behind each male’s 

pointy head, a green-bronze arch unfurled, covered with a 

halo of gazing suns. The females brayed and shook their lessattractive 

tails in return. 

The birds didn’t care that it was the middle of the night, 

and they didn’t care who they were disturbing. They didn’t 

care that there was a wedding tomorrow, or that the groom, 

who had just arrived from New York City, was lying beneath 

a lace canopy at his in-laws’ house, paralyzed with fear. They 

didn’t care that his fiancée startled awake in the next room 

and toppled out of her high bed, and they certainly didn’t care 

that her face hit a stool on the way down. They didn’t care that 

the rest of the small Georgia town was also awake, twitching 

in their beds like beached fish. 

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“ Mr. Wood is our premier student of the 

Founding Era.” —The Wall Street Journal 

The Idea of America 

Reflections on the Birth of the United States 

Gordon S. Wood 

In The Idea of America, Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling 

historian Gordon S. Wood explains why the Revolution remains 

the most important event in U.S. history. In a series of illuminating 

essays, he explores the ideological origins of the Revolution—from 

the culture of ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment—and 

the founding fathers’ attempts to forge a democracy. He reflects 

on the origins of American exceptionalism, the radicalism and 

failed hopes of the founding generation, and the “terrifying gap” 

between us and the men who created the democratic state we 

often take for granted. This is a major work of history, more relevant 

than ever at a moment when seemingly everyone is pondering 

America’s fate. 

n Gordon S. Wood’s last book, Empire of Liberty, was a New York Times 

bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize finalist 


“ Gordon S. Wood is more than an 

American historian. He is almost 

an American institution. . . . Wood 

has done more than anyone to make the era of 

the Revolution and early Republic into one of the 

liveliest periods in American history.” 


goRdon s. wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor 

Emeritus at Brown University. His book The Radicalism of the American 

Revolution won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. He lives in 

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—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club 

“ Kohler’s tale is full of tension, 

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admirable restraint.” 

—Publishers Weekly 


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An erotic tale of passion and power and 

their dangerous consequences 

The Bay of Foxes 

A Novel 

Sheila Kohler 

In 1978, Dawit, a young and beautiful Ethiopian refugee, roams 

the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author 

M., who at sixty is at the height of her fame. Seduced by Dawit’s 

grace and his moving story, M. invites him to live with her. He 

makes himself indispensable, or so he thinks. When M. brings him 

to her Sardinian villa, beside the Bay of Foxes, Dawit finds love and 

temptation—and perfects the art of deception. 

n Features french flaps and deckle edge paper 

n Sheila Kohler’s work has been included in The Best American 

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n She has won her two O. Henry Prizes, an Open Fiction Award, a 

Willa Cather Prize, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize 

n Her books have been published in 10 countries and have sold 

more than 60,000 copies 

n Visit sheilakohler.com 


sheilA kohleR was born in South Africa and earned 

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“ It’s an unbelievable story—equal 

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“ [An] exhilarating 

narrative about redemption and 

the power of personal choice.” 

—Kirkus Reviews 


july 

The gripping and redemptive story of 

how a boy from Baltimore went looking 

for adventure and wound up trying to 

save the world 

Kicking Ass 

and Saving Souls 

The Story of a Boy from Baltimore Who Evolves from a Safecracking, 

Jewel-Heisting, Deep-Sea Diving, Ultimate-Fighting, 

International Playboy to a Globetrotting Humanitarian 

David Matthews 

In Ace of Spades—selected as an Editor’s Choice by The 

New York Times—David Matthews presented an enthralling account 

of growing up mixed-raced in a highly segregated city. Now, 

in Kicking Ass and Saving Souls, he describes the incredible life of 

his childhood friend Stefan Templeton. In this biography, which 

reads like an adventure novel, Matthews follows Templeton from 

the Baltimore ghetto to the Sudanese desert and into some of the 

bleakest corners of the globe. A true Renaissance man with an 

insatiable hunger for thrills, Templeton has been a lover, a jewel 

thief, a martial artist, and finally a real-life superhero who finds 

a focus for his life in humanitarian relief work around the world. 

n An amazing true-life adventure that spans the globe—larger-thanlife 

locales including Europe, the U.S., South America, Japan, and 

Southeast Asia 

n Matthews is currently a lead writer for Law and Order: L.A. 


dAvid MAtthews is the author of the critically acclaimed 

memoir Ace of Spades. His work has appeared in Salon, The New 

York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Post. He lives 

in New York City. 



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“ A fine, sweeping survey of the rise 

and fall of an empire and a glimpse into the 

diversity of the ancient world.” 


“ A superb achievement, a model 

for all such endeavors.” —Telegraph (U.K.) 

“ Skillfully weav[es] its way 

through the maze of Greek 

historians, Roman military accounts and 

archaeological remains.” —Financial Times 

The first full-scale history of Hannibal’s 

Carthage in decades and “a convincing 

and enthralling narrative” (The Economist) 

Carthage Must 

Be Destroyed 

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization 

Richard Miles 

Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and 

master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that 

ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental 

work charts the entirety of Carthage’s history, from its origins 

among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis 

as a Mediterranean empire whose epic land-and-sea clash with 

Rome made a legend of Hannibal and shaped the course of Western 

history. Carthage Must Be Destroyed reintroduces readers to 

the ancient glory of a lost people and their generations-long fight 

against an implacable enemy. 

n Includes a full-color photo insert 


RiChARd Miles teaches ancient history at the University 

of Sydney and is a Fellow-Commoner of Trinity Hall, University of 

Cambridge. He has written widely on Punic, Roman, and Vandal 

North Africa and has directed archaeological excavations in 

Carthage and Rome. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, 

and Cambridge, England. 



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“ An absorbing account of 

how two priesthoods—professional 

wildland firefighters and Zen 

monastics—confronted the fire’s 

threat.” —Los Angeles Times 

“ This book reads like a hairraising 

adventure novel.” 

—Shambhala Sun 


july 

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind meets Young 

Men and Fire in a real-life adventure that 

is “captivating and often exhilarating” 

(San Francisco Chronicle) 

Fire Monks 

Zen Mind Meets Wildfire 

Colleen Morton Busch 

In June 2008 more than two thousand wildfires blazed across 

California, putting Tassajara, the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery 

in the United States, at particular risk. Fire Monks is the story of 

five monks who turned back after evacuation to save the remote 

sanctuary. A gripping narrative, as well as an insider’s portrait of 

the Zen path, Fire Monks reveals how these men were able to accomplish 

the seemingly impossible, saving Tassajara by greeting 

the fire not as an enemy to defeat but as a friend to guide. Their 

composure throughout the crisis illustrates the remarkable courage 

that lives within every heart. 

n Visit colleenmortonbusch.com 


Colleen MoRton BusCh’s nonfiction, poetry, 

and fiction have appeared in a wide range of publications, from 

literary magazines to the San Francisco Chronicle and The 

Huffington Post. A Zen student since 2000, she lives in the San 

Francisco Bay Area. 



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Rules of Civility 

A Novel 

Amor Towles 

This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents 

the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of 

transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-fiveyear-old 

Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich 

Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, 

happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance 

encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey 

on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New 

York society—where she will have little to rely upon other 

than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.With 

its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its 

intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing 

characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers 

and critics alike. 

AMoR towles is a principal at 

an investment firm in Manhattan, where he 

lives with his wife and two children. Rules of 

Civility is his first novel. 

“ In the crisp, noirish prose of the era, 

Towles portrays complex relationships in 

a city that is at once melting pot and elitist 

enclave—and a thoroughly modern heroine 

who fearlessly claims her place in it.” 


“ With this snappy period piece, Towles 

resurrects the cinematic black-andwhite 

Manhattan of the golden 

age.” —The New York Times Book Review 

“ A wonderful debut novel . . . Towles 

[plays] with some of the great themes of love 

and class, luck, and fated encounters that 

animated Wharton novels.” —Chicago Tribune 


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bestselling novel that 

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(The Philadelphia Inquirer) 


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bestseller lists and was also a San Francisco Chronicle 

and Publishers Weekly bestseller 

n Foreign rights have been sold in 14 countries 

n Features a step-back cover 

n Visit amortowles.com—featuring background material 

on the 1930s, supplemental essays, and a music playlist 


From Rules of Civility: 

That New Year’s, we started the evening with a plan of 

stretching three dollars as far as it would go. We weren’t 

going to bother ourselves with boys. More than a few had 

had their chance with us in 1937, and we had no intention 

of squandering the last hours of the year on latecomers. We 

were going to perch in this low-rent bar where the music was 

taken seriously enough that two good-looking girls wouldn’t 

be bothered and where the gin was cheap enough that we 

could each have one martini an hour. We intended to smoke a 

little more than polite society allowed. And once midnight had 

passed without ceremony, we were going to a Ukrainian diner 

on Second Avenue where the late-night special was coffee, 

eggs, and toast for fifteen cents. But a little after nine-thirty, 

we drank eleven o’clock’s gin. And at ten, we drank the eggs 

and toast. We had four nickels between us and we hadn’t had 

a bite to eat. 

It was time to start improvising . . . 

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Pyg 

The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig 

Edited by Russell Potter 

Blending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with 

the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the 

story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late 

eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon 

at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher’s 

knife, Toby tours the country, wowing circus audiences 

with his abilities to count, spell, and even read the minds 

of ladies (but only with their permission, of course). He 

goes on to study at Oxford and Edinburgh—encountering 

such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns, and 

William Blake—before finally writing his own life story. 

Quirky, beguiling, and endlessly entertaining, this memoir 

of a “remarkable sapient pig” is a sharp and witty delight. 

Russell PotteR is a professor 

of English at Rhode Island College. Pyg is 

his first novel. He lives in Providence, Rhode 

Island. 

Praise for Toby, the learned pig: 

“ A far greater object of admiration 

to the English nation than ever 

Sir Isaac Newton was.” 

—Robert Southey 

Praise for Russell Potter’s Pyg: 

“ A delicious book. A reminder of the 

risks, the drama and the quite extraordinary 

comedy of being born with a snout, four 

hooves and a corkscrew tail.” 

—Marie Darrieussecq, author of Pig Tales 





A heartwarming debut 

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adventures of its overachieving 

porcine narrator 

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A First-Rate Madness 

Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness 

Nassir Ghaemi 

Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental 

instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, 

Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate 

Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders 

Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering 

exploration of the powerful connections between mental 

illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, 

compelling thesis: the very qualities that mark those with 

mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times 

of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln’s “depressive 

realism” to the lackluster leadership of such exceedingly 

sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness 

overturns many of our most cherished perceptions about 

greatness and the mind. 

nAssiR ghAeMi, M.d., is a 

professor of psychiatry at Tufts University 

School of Medicine and director of the Mood 

Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center 

in Boston. He has published more than a 

hundred scientific articles and several books 

on psychiatry. 

“ Ghaemi isn’t the first to claim that madness is 

a close relative of genius, or even the first to 

extend the idea into politics. But he does go 

further than others. . . . His explanations are 

elegant, too—intuitively accurate and 

banked off the latest psychiatric research.” 

—Newsweek 

“ A First-Rate Madness is a sophisticated work 

of psychology, but it is also a gossipy work of 

celebrity history, a who’s who of the 

eminently unhinged.” 

—The New York Observer 




“ A glistening psychological 

history, faceted largely by the 

biographies of eight famous 

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john F. Kennedy 

Winston Churchill 

Mahatma Gandhi 

Martin luther King, jr. 

Abraham lincoln 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

Adolf Hitler 

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George W. Bush 

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“ Wendy and the Lost Boys puts Wasserstein’s 

most complex character center stage, 

under bright lights. It’s a riveting 

production.” —NPR.org 

“ Salamon is a gifted 

storyteller.” 

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“ Wendy and the Lost Boys reads more 

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Wendy and the Lost Boys 

The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein 

Julie Salamon 

In this exceptional biography, bestselling author Julie Salamon 

reveals Wendy Wasserstein’s most expertly crafted character: herself. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first woman playwright 

to win a Tony Award, Wasserstein was a Broadway luminary. 

With her high-pitched giggle and unkempt curls, she projected an 

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many. She kept her inner life a secret, hiding the pain of her family’s 

past and her own medical odyssey from those closest to her. 

An intimate portrait of a complicated woman, Wendy and the Lost 

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to represent. 


n Wendy Wasserstein won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for 

Best Play for her acclaimed play The Heidi Chronicles 

n Visit juliesalamon.com 


Julie sAlAMon is the author of numerous books, 

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The Christmas Tree. Salamon, who has been a critic for The New 

York Times and The Wall Street Journal, lives in New York City. 

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“ In a gripping debut novel, 

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M. J. McGrath 

Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide—man 

or woman—in her corner of the Arctic. While Edie is leading two 

tourists on a hunting expedition, one of them is shot and killed. 

His death is dismissed as an accident, but when the other man 

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Evocative of Scandinavian bestsellers like Smilla’s Sense of 

Snow but claiming a territory all its own, White Heat launches a 

formidable new series set amid an unforgiving landscape of ice, 

rock, spirit ancestors, and never-rotting bones. 

n Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime and mystery novel of 

the year 

n M. J. McGrath was awarded the John Llewellyn-Rhys/Mail on Sunday 

Award for Best British Writer under 35 

n For readers of Henning Mankell and David Guterson 


M. J. MCgRAth is an award-winning journalist and the 

author of several books of nonfiction, including The Long Exile: 

A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic. She lives 

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instructive anecdotes and 

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“ As scholarly as [it] is . . . this book about 

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Now You See It 

How Brain Science Can Transform Schools and 

Businesses for the 21st Century 

Cathy N. Davidson 

A brilliant combination of science and its real-world application, 

Now You See It sheds light on one of the greatest problems of our 

historical moment: our schools and offices are designed for the 

last century, not for a world in which technology has reshaped 

the way we think and learn. In this informed and optimistic work, 

Cathy N. Davidson takes us on a tour of the future of work and 

education, introducing us to visionaries whose groundbreaking 

ideas will soon affect every arena of our lives, from schools with 

curriculums built around video games to workplaces that use 

virtual environments to train employees. 

n Cathy N. Davidson and Duke University made the news back in 

2003 when the school gave iPods to every member of the incoming 

freshman class 


CAthy n. dAvidson codirects the annual HASTAC/ 

MacArthur Digital Media and Learning competitions. She holds 

distinguished chairs in English and interdisciplinary studies at 

Duke University and has published more than a dozen books. 

She lives in Durham, North Carolina. 





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Acclaim for Hector and the Search for 

Happiness: 

“ Utterly charming . . . Fans of Eat, 

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Hector and the Search for Happiness 978-0-14-311839-8 $14.00 

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The delightful third book in the 

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Hector and the 

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François Lelord 

First he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, 

our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent 

march of time. 

His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. 

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Hector himself is increasingly aware of time: he doesn’t feel quite 

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his beloved Clara. 

So as time flies, so does Hector in his latest adventure, traveling 

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n The Hector series has sold more than 3 million copies in more than 

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fRAnçois leloRd is a psychiatrist who has worked in 

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“ Quite a bit of fun. There’s murder! 

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there’s a dead body in the pool.” 


“ A mesmerizing read, Ryder’s first 

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A sophisticated mystery debut in which 

priceless art and unspeakable desires 

converge 

In Malice, Quite Close 

A Novel 

Brandi Lynn Ryder 

When French expatriate Tristan Mourault becomes enamored 

with fifteen-year-old Karen Miller, he “rescues” her from her 

working-class circumstances and stages her death to mask his true 

crime. Years later, Karen is now “Gisèle” and lives with Tristan 

in rarefied Devon, Washington. She has married another man to 

keep up appearances, but when her daughter stumbles upon a secret 

cache of paintings—all nudes of Gisèle—Tristan’s carefully curated 

world begins to crumble. 

Set against a byzantine backdrop of greed, artifice, and manipulation—with 

tantalizing echoes of Lolita—In Malice, Quite Close 

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n For fans of Donna Tartt and Tana French 

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“ An intimate, affecting 

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The Bastard of Istanbul 978-0-14-311271-6 $14.00 

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Black Milk 

On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, 

and Motherhood 

Elif Shafak 

After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak experienced a profound 

personal crisis. Plagued by guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about 

her new maternal role, the acclaimed novelist stopped writing 

for the first time in her life. As she plummeted into post-partum 

depression, Shafak looked to the experiences of other prominent 

female writers—including Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Simone 

de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker—for help navigating the conflict 

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society. 

Searingly honest, eloquent, and unexpectedly humorous, 

Black Milk will be widely embraced by writers, academics, and 

anyone who has undergone the identity crisis engendered by 

being a mother. 

n Elif Shafak’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages 

n The Bastard of Istanbul was longlisted for the Orange Prize 

n Visit elifshafak.com 


elif shAfAk is the author of several novels and has 

taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona. 

Married with two children, Shafak divides her time between 

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Haunting and mesmerizing, an 

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Daniel Fights a Hurricane 

A Novel 

Shane Jones 

In his dazzling debut novel, Light Boxes, Shane Jones created an 

emotionally riveting, poetic tale about seasonal affective disorder. 

Now, in Daniel Fights a Hurricane, Jones crafts a fable grounded 

in love and loss, marriage and friendship, and the indifferent 

cruelty of the natural world. 

Ever since he was a boy, Daniel Suppleton has been deathly 

afraid of hurricanes, which he fears will arrive suddenly and 

reduce everyone he knows and loves to trembling skeletons. 

Battling demons both real and imagined, Daniel retreats to a tepee 

in the woods. As his ex-wife, Karen, frantically searches for him, 

the long-awaited hurricane finally hits, and Daniel must find a 

way to save them both. Beautifully written and deeply imagined, 

Daniel Fights a Hurricane is an affecting, original novel by a rising 

literary talent. 

n Light Boxes was named an NPR Best Book of 2010 

n Visit danielfightsahurricane.com 


Praise for Light Boxes: 

“ Magical . . . Jones’s spare, alliterative sentences are 

flawless and sometimes delightful.” —Time Out New York 

“ The kind of novel that makes you reconsider the word 

perfect.” —Rivka Galchen 

shAne Jones is the author of Light Boxes. His poetry and short 

fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including LIT, New York 

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“ Alluring . . . a crafty first novel . . . 

like the central character of Suskind’s 

Perfume, Evie is blessed and cursed by the 

heightened nature of her senses.” 


“ Ambitious . . . [Williams] can 

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like Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides, 

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A compelling story of family, empire, and 

memory—“an ambitious and prize-worthy 

debut” (The Sunday Times, London) 

The Echo Chamber 

A Novel 

Luke Williams 

Luke Williams’s exquisitely written debut novel is narrated by 

Evie Steppman, a woman born with an extraordinarily acute sense 

of hearing. Now, at fifty-four, alone in an attic in Scotland that is 

filled with objects from her past, and with her powers of hearing 

starting to fade, she sets out to record the events of her life. From 

her recollections come an outpouring of stories that transcend 

history; tales of a twelfth-century mapmaker mingle with memories 

of Evie’s childhood growing up in Nigeria in the 1950s and her 

travels across America in the 1960s. Williams’s fascination with 

history and his talent for evoking multiple voices will bring to 

mind the work of Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell. 

n Received excellent reviews in the U.K. and U.S. upon publication 

n For fans of Gunther Grass, Peter Carey, and Jonathan Safran Foer 


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JANE AUSTEN 

Mansfield Park 

Edited with an Introduction and 

Notes by Kathryn Sutherland 

Introduction by Tony Tanner 

Northanger Abbey 


Notes by Marilyn Butler 

Persuasion 


Notes by Gillian Beer 

Covers Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith 

Jane Austen’s timeless works of romantic fiction have 

earned her a place as one of the most widely read and 

adored writers in the English language. Now any fan of 

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studied typography at Reading University and lives in London. 

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CHARLES DICKENS 

Major Works of 

Charles Dickens 

Penguin Classics Hardcover Boxed Set 

Great Expectations; Hard Times; Oliver Twist; 

A Christmas Carol; Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities 

Bleak House 


Notes by Nicola Bradbury; Preface by 

Terry Eagleton; Illustrated by Hablot K. Brown 

Hard Times 


Notes by Kate Flint 

Covers Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith 

As a novelist, journalist, and satirist, Charles Dickens was a 

hugely popular writer who remains a favorite with readers 

of all ages almost one hundred fifty years after his death. 

In honor of the bicentennial of this beloved author’s birth, 

we add two new deliciously stylish clothbound classics 

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For the devoted Dickens aficionado, we offer something 

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Eye-catching and endlessly charming, this set will make 

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collection—or an excellent start for a budding collector! 

ChARles diCkens (1812–1870) was the second of eight 

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influenced his work. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper 

reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) 

brought him the success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. 

See pages 98–99 for more of his best-known books.

Commemorating the bicentennial 

of Charles Dickens’s birth, 

Penguin Classics presents his 

six most treasured works in an 

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n 2012 is the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’s birth 

n Boxed set includes: Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol 

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MAsteRPieCe ClAssiC on PBs® in APRil 2012 

Great Expectations 

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The new two-part adaptation of one of 

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Award nominee Gillian Anderson (The 

X-Files, The Last King of Scotland, Bleak 

House) as Miss Havisham, will air on 

April 1 and April 8, 2012. 


The Mystery of Edwin Drood 

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This feature-length adaptation of Dickens’s 

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P E N G U I N T H R E A DS 

Little Women 

Louisa May Alcott 

Introduction by Jane Smiley; Notes by 

Siobhan Kilfeather and Vinca Showalter 

The Wind in the 

Willows 

Kenneth Grahame 

Foreword by Gregory Maguire 

The Wizard of Oz 

L. Frank Baum 

And Other Wonderful Books of Oz: 

The Emerald City and Glinda of Oz 

Edited with an Introduction and Notes 

by Jack Zipes 

Covers by Rachell Sumpter 

Bringing together traditional handicraft with cuttingedge 

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commissioned by award-winning creative director Paul 

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children’s books Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys. 

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l. fRAnk BAuM (1856–1919) published numerous children’s books and 

is best known for his hugely popular Oz series. 

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Dickens for the Penguin Lives series. She lives in Northern California. 

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Washington, with her husband and fellow artist Jacob Magraw-Mickelson and their 

two children. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Jack Hanley, 

Allston Skirt, and Richard Heller galleries, and featured in The Boston Globe, 

San Francisco Chronicle, and McSweeney’s.

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enchanting, beautifully sewn 

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Photo: Becky Riordan 

The Greek Myths 

Robert Graves 

Introduction by Rick Riordan 

Cover by Ross MacDonald 

From the creation of the world out of Chaos and the birth 

of the Olympians to the Trojan War and Odysseus’s return, 

Robert Graves’s superb retelling of the Greek myths has 

long been acclaimed as the definitive edition. Graves draws 

on sources scattered throughout ancient literature, using a 

novelist’s skill to weave a crisp, coherent narrative of each 

myth and providing commentaries with cross-references, 

interpretations, and explanations based on solid scholarship. 

The result is a classic volume of many of the greatest 

stories ever told—stories of the gods, heroes, and extraordinary 

events that inspired Homer, the Greek tragedians, 

and so much of subsequent European literature. 

RoBeRt gRAves (1895–1985) is the author of the historical novel 

I, Claudius, the classic war memoir Goodbye to All That, and more than 140 

other published works, including translations of Homer and Suetonius for 

Penguin Classics. 

RiCk RioRdAn is the #1 New York 

Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson 

and the Olympians series. More than twenty 

million copies of his books are in print. Riordan 

lives in San Antonio, Texas. 

Ross MACdonAld is an illustrator, comic-book artist, and 

contributing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review whose illustrations have 

appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and Time, among 

other magazines. He lives in Connecticut. 

“ The Greek Myths is quite simply the 

best single accounting of Classical 

mythology you will find. . . . As 

many times as I’ve read Robert Graves, he 

still manages to astonish me. . . . Reading his 

book for the first time, I felt as if I’d put on 

3D glasses. . . . My dog-eared classroom copy 

still sits in my home office, ready to help, as 

I continue to concoct modern takes on the 

ancient myths.” 

—Rick Riordan, from the Introduction 


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mythology, in a dazzling Graphic 

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author of the Percy Jackson and 

the Olympians series 

n A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition featuring french 

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n New introduction by Rick Riordan 

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Little Women 

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Mark Twain 

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Candide 

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Edith Wharton 

Ethan Frome 

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

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An intimate look at Mark Twain that only 

he himself could offer 

Autobiographical Writings 

Mark Twain 

Edited by R. Kent Rasmussen 

A must-have for all lovers of Mark Twain, this selection of his 

autobiographical writings opens a rare window onto the writer’s 

life, particularly his early years. Born on November 30, 1835, in 

Florida, Missouri, Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used the 

pseudonym Mark Twain while a journalist in Nevada in 1863. 

When his first major book, The Innocents Abroad, appeared 

six years later, he began what would become one of the most 

celebrated and influential careers in American letters. This 

edition of his autobiographical writings will help readers know 

the author intimately and appreciate why, a century after his 

death, he remains so vital and appealing. 

A man’s experiences of life are a book, and there was never yet 

an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of 

the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. 

—Mark Twain, “The Refuge of the Derelicts,” 1904–1905 

n Includes an introduction surveying the history of Mark Twain’s 

autobiographical writings and their place in his overall work 

n Features a list of suggested readings, a timeline, and a glossary of names 

and terms in the texts 

n A compact companion to the University of California’s bestseller 

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I 

n Also available as an enriched e-book 

MARk twAin (1835–1910) wrote such American classics as 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 

The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, and A Connecticut 

Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. 

R. kent RAsMussen has written and edited many books, 

including eight on Mark Twain. He lives in Southern California.

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“ One of the most 

delightful novels I’ve 

ever read.” —Nancy Pearl 

A literary Cheers—filled with British 

charm and wit 

Poet’s Pub 

Eric Linklater 

Foreword by Nancy Pearl 

Comprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the 

Pelican Pub in Downish, England, this humor-filled collection of 

stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles 

commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—is again 

available to American readers. 

When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control 

of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the peace and freedom 

to craft his poems without being disturbed. This is the least of 

what happens, for the local watering hole soon becomes an outand-out 

attraction for various eccentric characters ranging from 

uncouth rogues to members of academia. 

n New foreword by NPR commentator Nancy Pearl 

n The basis for a 1949 feature film 

n For readers of Henry Green and Jerome K. Jerome 


eRiC linklAteR (1899–1974) is the author of Juan in America and 

The Wind on the Moon, which was awarded the Carnegie Medal and nominated 

for Best Book of 1944. 

nAnCy PeARl is a regular commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition, the 

author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and 

Reason, and the 2004 winner of the Women’s National Book Association Award. 

She lives in Seattle, Washington. 

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NGŨG Ĩ WA THIONG’O 

A Grain of Wheat 

Introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah 

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the 

cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain 

of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have 

been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the 

center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village’s chosen 

hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we 

learn of the villagers’ tangled histories in a narrative 

interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to 

real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly 

story unfolds, one in which compromises are forced, 

friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. 

Weep Not, Child 

Foreword by Ben Okri 

Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage 

heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend 

school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. 

But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in 

the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the 

white government, and the two brothers and their 

family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the 

practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge 

the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is 

a hard one to give up. 

First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving 

novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau 

uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and 

on one family in particular. 

A message from Chinua Achebe: 

“ The Penguin African Writers 

Series will bring a new energy 

to the publication of African 

literature. . . . By starting the series on 

the solid foundations laid by the renowned 

Heinemann African Writers Series, I am 

honored to join Penguin in inviting young 

and upcoming writers to accept the challenge 

passed down by celebrated African authors 

of earlier decades and to continue to explore, 

confront, and question the realities of life in 

Africa through their work, challenging Africa’s 

people to lift her to her rightful place among 

the nations of the world.” 

ngugi wA thiong’o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, 

and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than 

thirty languages. He lives in Irvine, California, where he is Distinguished Professor 

of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, 

Irvine. 

ABdulRAzAk guRnAh is the author of the Booker Prize–shortlisted 

novel Paradise, among other novels. He was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and 

teaches English literature at the University of Kent in England. 

Ben okRi won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel The Famished 

Road. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and lives in London. 

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Introducing the Penguin African 

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two best-known novels by the great 

Kenyan writer Ngũgi wa Thiong’o 

n Inaugurates the new Penguin African Writers Series 

n Both titles are exclusive to Penguin Classics 

n Weep Not, Child features a new foreword by Booker 

Prize–winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri 

n Available as e-books 

A Grain of Wheat 

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Poetry 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 176 pp. 

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A Cornerstone 


“ Edith Grossman has 

splendidly brought The 

Solitudes to life in English.” 

—Edward Hirsch 


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“ Edith Grossman has surpassed even 

her magnificent version of Don Quixote 

by the far more difficult translation of 

Góngora’s Solitudes.” —Harold Bloom 

The Solitudes 

A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text 

Luis de Góngora 

Translated with a Foreword and Notes by Edith Grossman 

Introduction by Alberto Manguel 

A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered 

poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic 

of his time that he was derided as “the Prince of Darkness.” The 

Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-inverse 

that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who 

has been spurned by his lover. Wrenched from civilization—and 

its attendant madness—the desolate hero is transported into a 

natural world that is at once menacing and sublime. 

In this stunning edition, Edith Grossman, our most celebrated 

translator from Spanish, captures the breathtaking beauty of a 

work that represents one of the high points of poetic achievement 

in any language. 

n A dual-language edition with the English and Spanish on facing pages 

n Edith Grossman’s translation of Don Quixote was a national bestseller 


luis de góngoRA (1561–1627) is among the most prominent 

figures of the Spanish Golden Age. 

edith gRossMAn is the acclaimed translator of Don Quixote as well 

as books by Nobel Prize winners Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas 

Llosa. She is the recipient of the inaugural Queen Sofia Spanish Institute 

Translation Prize, the 2006 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, and a 

Guggenheim Fellowship. 

AlBeRto MAnguel is the bestselling author of dozens of books, 

including A History of Reading and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. 


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The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades 

978-0-14-045513-7 $16.00 

Chronicles of the Crusades 

978-0-14-044998-3 $16.00 

The gripping story of the First Crusade, as 

witnessed by contemporary writers 

Chronicles of the 

First Crusade 

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Tyerman 

The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an army of exhausted and starving 

western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary 

events in history—with a legacy that remains controversial more 

than nine centuries later. This remarkable collection contains 

firsthand accounts from the knights, religious leaders, and 

peasants who experienced the First Crusade in all its cruelty 

and strangeness. Edited with an introduction and notes by one 

of the foremost experts on the Crusades, Chronicles of the First 

Crusade is a comprehensive look at the climax of Christian 

fervor and the record of an ultimately futile attempt to implant a 

European kingdom in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. 


n Christopher Tyerman’s history of the Crusades, God’s War, has sold 


ChRistoPheR tyeRMAn is a fellow and tutor in 

history at Oxford University and a lecturer in medieval history at 

New College, Oxford. His recent books include God’s War: A New 

History of the Crusades and The Debate on the Crusades. 

He lives in Oxford, England. 



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iSBN 978-0-14-242257-1 $16.00 ($17.00 CAN) 

Literature/Travel 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 320 pp. 

Rights: N15 Pub history: Penguin pb 978-0-14-009429-9 




In Patagonia 978-0-14-243719-3 $15.00 


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“ Chatwin’s bravest work yet, 

the one in which we come 

closest to penetrating 

his mind and heart . . . no one 

will put it down unmoved.” 


Book Review 

n A national bestseller when first published 


For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new 

edition of Bruce Chatwin’s classic work 

with a new introduction by Rory Stewart 

The Songlines 

Bruce Chatwin 

Introduction by Rory Stewart 

Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, 

The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin’s most famous books. Set 

in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story 

of Chatwin’s search for the source and meaning of the ancient 

“dreaming tracks” of the Aborigines—the labyrinth of invisible 

pathways by which their ancestors “sang” the world into existence. 

This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller 

when it was published in 1987, engages all of Chatwin’s lifelong 

passions, including his obsession with travel, his interest in the 

nomadic way of life, and his hunger to understand man’s origins 

and nature. 

n Introducer Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between was a 

New York Times bestseller 

BRuCe ChAtwin (1940–1989) is the author of the acclaimed 

books In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, Utz, and On the Black Hill, 

winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He died outside Nice, 

France, on January 18, 1989. 

RoRy stewARt is a member of the British Parliament and the 

author of the New York Times bestseller The Places In Between and, 

most recently, Can Intervention Work? (with Gerald Knaus). He lives in 

Dufton, England.

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Introducer of Paths of Glory 

Paths of Glory 

Humphrey Cobb 

978-0-14-310611-1 $15.00 

PeteR sís 

Illustrator of The Book of 

Imaginary Things 

The Book of Imaginary Things 

Jorge Luis Borges 

978-0-14-303993-8 $17.00 

Penguin ClAssiCs CongRAtulAtes 

ouR ReCent MACARthuR fellows 

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Translator of The Nature of Things 

The Nature of Things 

Lucretius 

978-0-14-044796-5 $15.00 

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JonAthAn letheM 

Introducer of 



Shirley Jackson 

978-0-14-303997-6 $15.00 

lydiA dAvis 

Translator of Madame Bovary 

and Swann’s Way 

Madame Bovary 

Gustave Flaubert 

978-0-14-310649-4 $16.00 

Swann’s Way 

Marcel Proust 

978-0-14-243796-4 $16.00 

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The Real Story of Ah-Q 

The Real Story of Ah-Q and 

Other Tales of China 

Lu Xun 

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JAy RuBenstein 

Editor and Introducer of Monodies 

and On the Relics of Saints 

Monodies and On the Relics of Saints 

Guibert of Nogent 

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The Harbor Ernest Poole 

978-0-14-310644-9 $16.00 

How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis 

978-0-14-043679-2 $15.00 


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n Centennial edition 

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For the centennial of its first publication: 

a new edition of a seminal work on the 

American immigrant experience 

The Promised Land 

Mary Antin 

Introduction and Notes by Werner Sollors 

Weaving introspection with political commentary, biography 

with history, The Promised Land, first published in 1912, brings to 

life the transformation of an Eastern European Jewish immigrant 

into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts “the process of uprooting, 

transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development 

that took place in [her] own soul” and reveals the impact of 

a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling 

of division—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, 

Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative is balanced by 

insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome it. In telling 

the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of 

hundreds of thousands. 

n Includes two additional works: “Malinke’s Atonement” and “The Lie” 

n Updated suggestions for further reading 


MARy Antin (1881–1949) published short stories and essays in 

addition to her novels The Promised Land and They Who Knock at Our Gates. 

weRneR solloRs is coeditor of A New Literary History of America, 

which was named a Best Book of 2009 by Entertainment Weekly and Salon. 

He teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

iSBN 978-0-14-119731-9 $20.00 (NCR) 

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A Cornerstone 

“ No translation of the 

Scrolls is either more 

readable or more 

authoritative than that 

of Vermes.” —The Times Higher 

Education Supplement (U.K.) 

“ Fascinating, not least because 

of Géza Vermes’s wonderful 

introduction and translation.” 

—The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) 

Selection 

A newly updated edition of the landmark 

translation by one of our greatest 

religious scholars 

The Complete Dead Sea 

Scrolls in English 

Seventh Edition 

Translated and Edited with an Introduction and Notes 

by Géza Vermes 

Since its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Géza 

Vermes’s translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established 

itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, 

discovered in the Judean Desert between 1947 and 1956, 

completely transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, 

early Judaism, and the origin of Christianity. Now in its seventh 

edition, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English has been 

updated with a number of previously unpublished texts, as well as 

extensive new introductory material and notes. Some sixty years 

after the Scrolls’ discovery, this revised and expanded volume 

crowns a lifetime of research by Vermes. 

n Updated with additional material and a new preface 

n Previous editions have sold more than half a million 

copies worldwide 

gézA veRMes was born in Hungary in 1924 and was the 

first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford University. Now the director 

of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Center for 

Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he lives in London. 



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The Arabian Nights: Volume 1 978-0-14-044938-9 $20.00 




july 

MAlColM C. lyons is a professor of Arabic at Cambridge 

and a widely published scholar of classical Arabic literature. 

uRsulA lyons is an emerita fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, 

Cambridge, and a specialist in modern Arabic literature. 

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Now in paperback: the best-loved tales 

from the acclaimed new translation 

Tales from 1,001 Nights 

Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Other Favorites 

Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons 

Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin 

This is the essential one-volume edition of The Arabian Nights, 

abridged from the celebrated new three-volume translation. 

Included are the timeless and unforgettable stories of Aladdin, Ali 

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The Prophecies 

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The world’s final age drawing ever close, 

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eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. He is as natural as the sun; 

he treats Briony as if she is extraordinary—and everything starts 

to change. 

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