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EVERYTHING'S PERFECT WHEN YOU'RE A LIAR
OXFORD, KELLY
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Kelly Oxford has been one of the most hysterical voices on the Internet since it was still a series of tubes. In
1997, she began sharing stories of her life as a young wife and mother on a Geocities page, then on an
anonymous blog, then on a MySpace account; eventually she found her métier in the widely followed Tumblr
blog Eject and in her raucous, often filthy, always hilarious Twitter feed, which has garnered 315,000 followers
and adds 500 to 2,000 more each day.
HUMOUR 1ST PRINTING 100,000
COLLINS 304 PAGES
9781443408202
$24.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
FAIRY TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM
PULLMAN, PHILIP
Philip Pullman retells the world's best-loved fairy tales on their 200th anniversary. Two hundred years ago, Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales.From much-loved stories like
"Cinderella" and "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel" and "Hansel and Gretel" to lesser-known treasures like "Briar-
Rose," "Thousandfurs," and "The Girl with No Hands," Pullman retells his fifty favorites, paying homage to the
tales that inspired his unique creative vision-and that continue to cast their spell on the Western imagination.
TALES & MYTHS 1ST PRINTING 30,000
PENGUIN 400 PAGES
9780670024971
$29.50 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
THE FAMINE PLOT
COOGAN, TIM PAT
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a
nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying
en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative,
Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest
chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy,
and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish
sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson."
HISTORY 1ST PRINTING 35,000
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 288 PAGES
9780230109520
$32.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
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