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A MAN OF MISCONCEPTIONS
The Life of an Eccentric
in an Age of Change
JOHN GLASSIE
The story of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century scientist
who tried to learn everything—but was frequently
wrong. “Leaves you contemplating the big
questions, delightedly scratching your head, and
laughing—all at the same time.”—Mark Kurlansky,
author of Cod.
A Riverhead hardcover
November • 240 pp. • 978-1-59448-871-9 • $26.95
ON BEING DIFFERENT
What It Means To Be a Homosexual
MERLE MILLER
Foreword by Dan Savage
Afterword by Charles Kaiser
“Forty years later, the story Miller tells remains
important and necessary to read, not only for both
gay and straight readers to understand ‘the way it
used to be,’ but because the issues Miller raised are
still being discussed and argued about.”—Nancy
Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition.
A Penguin Classics paperback original
October • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-310696-8 • $13.00
TOMORROW IS NOW
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Introduction by Allida Black
Foreword by Bill Clinton
The most influential First Lady in American history
traces the country’s struggle to embrace democracy
and presents her declaration against fear, timidity,
complacency, and national arrogance.
A Penguin Classics paperback
November • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-310699-9 • $15.00
THE SECRET LIVES
OF CODEBREAKERS
The Men and Women Who Cracked
the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park
SINCLAIR MCKAY
Riveting firsthand interviews reveal the entertainments,
pastimes, and furtive romances that helped
ease the incredible pressures faced by these heroic
covert operatives. 8-page b/w insert.
A Plume paperback original
October • 352 pp. • 978-0-452-29871-2 • $16.00
100 DIAGRAMS THAT
CHANGED THE WORLD
SCOTT CHRISTIANSON
From primitive cave paintings to the complicated
DNA helix drawn by Crick and Watson, the power of
a single drawing can enhance, change, or even revolutionize
our understanding of the world.
A Plume paperback original
November • 224 pp. • 978-0-452-29877-4 • $25.00
ARMY OF EVIL
A History of the SS
ADRIAN WEALE
“This is an extremely important book which I recommend
most highly.”—Michael Burleigh, author of
Moral Combat. Photos.
An NAL Caliber hardcover
September • 496 pp. • 978-0-451-23791-0 • $28.95
ISLANDS OF DESTINY
The Solomons Campaign
and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun
JOHN PRADOS
Though historians typically consider the Battle of
Midway to be the point when Allied forces gained
advantage over the Japanese, Prados offers a compelling
reassessment of how, and where, that turning
point happened. 16 pp. photos, 6 maps.
An NAL Caliber hardcover
October • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-23804-7 • $26.95
NO SILENT NIGHT
The Christmas Battle for Bastogne
LEO BARRON AND DON CYGAN
Taking the small Belgian town of Bastogne was
imperative to Hitler’s desperate plan to turn the tide
of the war in 1944. The attack would come just
before dawn, on Christmas Day. Maps, photos.
An NAL Caliber hardcover
November • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-23813-9 • $26.95
ROYAL ROMANCES
Titillating Tales of Passion
and Power in the Palaces of Europe
LESLIE CARROLL
From Louis XIV’s defiance of Church law to acknowledge
his mistress to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s
newly wedded bliss, this book covers five
scandalous centuries of royal desire.
An NAL paperback original
November • 416 pp. • 978-0-451-23808-5 • $16.00
MADAME BLAVATSKY
The Mother of Modern Spirituality
GARY LACHMAN
The first biography of the cofounder of the Theosophical
Society, exploring her singular contributions
toward introducing Eastern spiritual ideas to
the West during the 19th century.
A Tarcher paperback original
October • 272 pp. • 978-1-58542-863-2 • $16.95
THE AXMANN CONSPIRACY
The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich
and How the U.S. Army Defeated It
SCOTT ANDREW SELBY
The head of the Hitler Youth had enough followers
to reestablish the Nazi party in the very heart of
Allied-occupied Germany—until U.S. Army Counter
Intelligence Corps Officer Jack Hunter uncovered
the plot.
A Berkley Caliber hardcover
September • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-25270-3 • $25.95
HUMAN GAME
The True Story of the
“Great Escape” Murders
and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen
SIMON READ
When the nature of the “Great Escape” killings
finally came to light, Squadron Leader Francis P.
McKenna was dispatched to pick up a trail long gone
cold—to bring 21 Gestapo killers to justice more
than two decades later.
A Berkley Caliber hardcover
October • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-25273-4 • $26.95
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RESOLVE
From the Jungles of
WW II Bataan, A Story of a
Soldier, a Flag, and a Promise Kept
BOB WELCH
As thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered to the
Japanese in a prelude to the Bataan Death March,
Clay Conner Jr. set out for the jungles alone, inspired
by an unlikely alliance with a tribe of pygmy Negritos,
the words in a dog-eared Bible, and a tattered
American flag.
A Berkley Caliber hardcover
November • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-25773-9 • $26.95
THE GREAT PEARL HEIST
London’s Greatest Thief and
Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the
World’s Most Valuable Necklace
MOLLY CALDWELL CROSBY
In the London summer of 1913, two brilliant minds
from opposite sides of the law are pitted against
each other in the hunt for the most precious necklace
in the world—celebrated jewel thief Joseph
Grizard and Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Alfred
Ward.
A Berkley hardcover
December • 304 pp. • 978-0-425-25280-2 • $25.95
TRUST ME, I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING
100 More Mistakes that
Lost Elections, Ended Empires,
and Made the World What It Is Today
BILL FAWCETT
Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself, Nixon
arranges to tape everything he says in the Oval
Office, and more dumb things presidents have done.
A Berkley paperback original
December • 400 pp. • 978-0-425-25736-4 • $15.00
ASHOKA
The Search for India’s Lost Emperor
CHARLES ALLEN
“A fitting testament to a forgotten epic of discovery….All
who relish India’s antiquity should read
this book.”—John Keay, author of India: A History.
An Overlook hardcover
November • 480 pp. • 978-1-4683-0071-0 • $29.95
DRINKING WATER
A History
JAMES SALZMAN
A Duke professor shows how drinking water highlights
the most pressing issues of our time—from
globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate
change—and how humans have been wrestling
with these problems for centuries. 30 b/w photos.
An Overlook hardcover
November • 320 pp. • 978-1-59020-720-8 • $27.95
AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY WRITINGS
Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
Edited by James G. Basker
The first anthology to take the full measure of a body
of writing that spans nearly two centuries and,
exceptionally for its time, embraced writers black
and white, male and female, from Phillis Wheatley
to William Wells Brown.
A Library of America hardcover
November • 848 pp. • 978-1-59853-196-1 • $40.00
THE WAR OF 1812
Writings from America’s
Second War of Independence
DONALD R. HICKEY
On the bicentennial of a conflict that shaped the
future of a continent, here is the first comprehensive
collection of eyewitness accounts in over a century.
A Library of America hardcover
November • 848 pp. • 978-1-59853-195-4 • $40.00
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