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Witold Rybczynski

And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life



My Two Polish Grandfathers



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award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Witold Rybczynski delivers a revelatory collection of linked autobiographical essays—part memoir, part family history—about the upheavals of European lives during World War II, his own intellectual development, and the universal languages of art, music, and architecture.



itold Rybczynski paints a fascinating portrait of his parents and grandparents in pre-war Warsaw—a thriving, cultured family in a then sophisticated European city. With the onset of war, their world fell apart. His mother and father made separate escapes, reuniting against many odds, on a ship bound for Scotland from Marseilles. That people can lose everything, overcome stunning odds to survive, remake themselves in a foreign country, learn a new language and culture, and then do it again—is extraordinary. My Two Polish Grandfathers is testimony to the boundaryless world of art, architecture, and music—the universal languages that can be transported from one country to another—and clear affirmation of Rybczynski’s own path toward becoming one of today’s most original thinkers. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and extraordinarily subtle, this riveting work offers a rare glimpse into the development of Rybczynski’s educated, outsider’s eye and is a tribute to a European generation that has helped to define post-war American culture.



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978-0-7432-3598-3

ISBN-10: 0-7432-3598-3 $25.00 hardcover $28.99 in Canada Previous book: Last Harvest, 978-0-7432-3596-9, ISBN-10: 0-7432-3596-7, Scribner, 2007 Also available by Witold Rybczynski in paperback Last Harvest 978-0-7432-3597-6, ISBN-10: 0-7432-3597-5 $15.00/$17.50 Can. A Clearing in the Distance 978-0-684-86575-1, ISBN-10: 0-684-86575-0 $15.95/NCR Other format: eBook: 978-1-4165-6128-6, ISBN-10: 1-4165-6128-5 • National advertising in



“Compelling...wonderfully readable...explains why america looks the way it does.” —The Wall Street Journal, on Last Harvest

Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Slate.com. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.



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dan clark

A True Story of ’Roids, Rage, and Redemption

In the bestselling tradition of Jose Canseco’s Juiced, American Gladiators’, Nitro shares an entertaining and unflinchingly honest account of his twenty-year affair with steroids.



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fter nearly a decade in syndication, NBC brought a revamped American Gladiators back to primetime television in 2007, and it was the highest rated premiere of the season, attracting nearly twelve million viewers. Aggressive, explosive, and boasting awesome athletic ability, Dan Clark, a.k.a. Nitro, was the most recognizable and popular member of the show’s original cast and quickly became a reality television superstar. Now, in this fascinating, nothingto-hide tale, he candidly discusses his dark secret: a life and body torn apart by steroids. What began in high school as a way to speed up recovery from injury quickly turned into an all-consuming addiction that would leave him physically and emotionally scarred. In Gladiator, Clark provides an eye-opening account of the dangers of steroids—both obvious and unknown—and the way the drugs consume and eventually define the user. With humility and self-deprecating humor, Clark shares details on the horrific physical side effects of drug use and offers his thoughts on why steroid use remains a persistent problem today. More than just a cautionary tale, Gladiator is both an entertaining exposé—and a stirring story of self-discovery and redemption.

Dan Clark began his career as an athlete, playing football in the professional European league for the Los Angeles Rams. He later starred as Nitro on the extraordinarily popular reality television show American Gladiators. Dan then turned to acting, appearing in several films, as well as episodes of such popular television shows as Walker: Texas Ranger, Married With Children, and Saved By the Bell. Clark also hosted ESPN Classic’s American Gladiators marathon.



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978-1-4165-9732-2

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The Mother Garden

Stories

Written with humor, uncommon wisdom, and exquisite imagination, an extraordinary collection of piercing, tender, and stunningly original stories about life, death, and the points of human connection—now available in paperback. omm’s arresting and resonant stories take on the fundamental themes of the human condition: mortality, loyalty, and love. Her crisp and irreverent prose captures the moments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace. The stories in The Mother Garden are both vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre—a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn—and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting. Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection showcases a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent. “Romm is a close-up magician...Despite their confident, straightforward prose and their crystalline surface gloss, which recall ann Beattie’s early slice-of-life stories, Romm’s narratives revel in ambiguities and even a gentle magic....It’s the oldest kind we know: the ordinary incantation of words and stories to help us navigate the darkness and finally—for all that this impressive collection protests otherwise—to hold the end at bay.” —The New York Times Book Review



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Robin Romm was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon. She has been a MacDowell fellow. Her short stories have appeared Tin House, One Story, Threepenny Review, Northwest Review, The Portland Review, and Carriage House Review. Her memoir The Mercy Papers is being published in January 2009. She lives in Berkeley, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally published in hardcover by Scribner in 2007; 978-1-4165-3902-5, ISBN-10: 1-4165-3902-6 Also available by Robin Romm The Mercy Papers (Hardcover, January 2009) 978-1-4165-6788-2, ISBN-10: 1-4165-6788-7 $22.00/$24.99 Can. Other format: eBook: 978-1-4165-4642-9, ISBN-10: 1-4165-4642-1 • National print and radio publicity • Author events in Portland and San Francisco • Cross promotion with author’s new hardcover, The Mercy



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The Heroines

A Novel



eileen Favorite

Now in trade paperback, Eileen favorite’s “beguiling” (Good Housekeeping) and entertaining novel, featuring literary heroines who take refuge from their plots at a picturesque bedand-breakfast.



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lthough a true lover of books, Anne-Marie Entwhistle prefers not to read to her spirited daughter, Penny, especially from the likes of Madame Bovary, Gone With the Wind, or The Scarlet Letter. These classic novels have a way of hitting too close to home— well, to the Homestead actually, where Anne-Marie runs the quaint family-owned “Entertaining...a must-read for literature lovers.” bed and breakfast. —Booklist Throughout this enchanting novel, Penny and her mother encounter great women from “The Heroines is quirky: adolescent angst meets classic works of literature who seek respite at metaphysics, screwball-comedy trysts with the the Homestead when bad things happen in their underpinnings of reality....It’s funny and tender, stories. The heroines appear at all hours of the it’s a chance to see franny Glass and Emma day and in all manners of distress. A lovesick Bovary off duty.” —audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife Madame Bovary dozes in her hammock after Rodolphe has abandoned her. Scarlett O’Hara



tries to steal the drapes and raid the pantry. Interfering with the plotlines of the great novels would cause mayhem in literature. Anne-Marie makes each heroine feel at home and provides a shoulder to cry on. Sympathy is all the heroines get. Ultimately they must return to their plots. When Penny begins to feel overshadowed by her mother’s indulgence, the courageous and irreverent thirteen-year-old embarks on her own memorable tale— one that will make book lovers everywhere rejoice.



Pa P e R b a c k

Eileen Favorite teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her MFA in Writing in 1999. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Gangway: The Space Between Two Houses.” Her poetry and prose have appeared in literary magazines and her essays and poems have aired on Chicago Public Radio. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.



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978-1-4165-4811-9

ISBN-10: 1-4165-4811-4 $14.00 paperback $16.00 in Canada Originally published in hardcover by Scribner in 2007; 978-1-4165-4810-2 Other format: eBook: 978-1-4165-5416-5, ISBN-10: 1-4165-5416-5 7



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from the National Book awardwinning author of Middle Passage

a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin luther King Jr.’s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country’s most preeminent moral leader were the greatest. “It’s a joy to read fiction in which there is a cultivated vision at work...the greatest victory of Dreamer is the light it shines on the life of Martin luther King Jr.” —Dennis Mcfarland, The New York Times Book Review “With compelling profundity and power Johnson takes us to a time, one within living memory, when a ‘dreamer’ among us saw love as our redemptive principle and strongest weapon before he “died for our collective racial sins.” —andy Solomon, The Boston Globe

Dr. Charles Johnson, a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, received the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage in 1990, and is a 2002 recipient of the Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published three other novels, as well as three story collections. His latest nonfiction book is Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing.



Charles Johnson Dreamer: A Novel

978-0-684-85443-4

ISBN-10: 0-684-85443-0, $14.00/$21.00 Can. Also available by Charles Johnson: Dr. King’s Refrigerator 978-0-7432-6453-2 ISBN-10: 0-7432-6453-3, $20.00/$29.00 Can. Faith and the Good Thing 978-0-7432-1254-0 ISBN-10: 0-7432-1254-1, $12.00/$17.75 Can. Middle Passage 978-0-6848-5588-2 ISBN-10: 0-6848-5588-7, $15.00/$17.50 Can. Oxherding Tale 978-0-7432-6449-5 ISBN-10: 0-7432-6449-5, $13.00/$19.00 Can. Turning the Wheel 978-1-4165-7243-5 ISBN-10: 1-4165-7243-0, $13.95/$16.99 Can.



© Inye Wokoma



A literary critic, screenwriter, philosopher, international lecturer and cartoonist with over 1,000 drawings published, he is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle.



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Janis Owens



Introduction by Pat conroy



The cracker kitchen



A Cookbook in Celebration of Cornbread-Fed, Down-Home Family Stories and Cuisine

More than 150 recipes plus family remembrances and cultural history make up this irresistible salute to Cracker heritage— with an introduction by Pat Conroy.



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rackers, rednecks, hillbillies and country boys have long been the brunt of many jokes, yet this old southern culture is a rich and vibrant part of American history. In The Cracker Kitchen, novelist Janis Owens traces the root of the word Cracker back to its origins and through its proliferation in America to offer an anthropological exploration of this group of proud, fiercely independent Americans who have a deep love of their families, country, stories and food. Owens presents a hilarious and heartwarming celebration of Cracker culture sure to entertain anyone with a taste for fried chicken and fish frys, a passion for hunting season, and a secret love of NASCAR. With more than twenty different seasonal menus, Owens offers a full year’s worth of eating and rejoicing. From an Easter dinner to a Fall Tailgate party, to a February celebration of soul food in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the recipes for such Cracker favorites as Baked Armadillo, Sausage Cheese Balls, and Velveeta Rocky Road Fudge are paired with Owens’s personal family stories and entertaining essays on Cracker culture. The Cracker Kitchen is a charming, irresistible celebration of family, storytelling, and good old-fashioned eating—sure to appeal to anyone with an appreciation of Americana.



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978-1-4165-9484-0

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“Janis owens’s cookbook is a love letter written to celebrate the poor white people of the american South…it is a joy to read and a pleasure to turn to again and again. She has produced a Cracker Escoffier, or a White-Trash Julia Child that is hilarious and charming.” —from the Introduction by Pat Conroy

Janis Owens is author of three novels, My Brother Michael, Myra Sims, and The Schooling of Claybird Catts. The last child and only daughter of a Pentecostal preacher-turned-insurance salesman, she inherited her love of storytelling and biscuit making from her parents. She lives in Newberry, Florida.



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P ca Rev Ta IO lO uS Ge ly d



bruce Weber

Travels in the Land of Umpires



as They See ’em



Published to coincide with the start of the 2009 baseball season



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In the bestselling tradition of George Plimpton’s Paper Lion and Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, As They Seem ’Em gets down, dirty, and loUD with professional baseball umpires—granting readers unprecedented access to the hidden game inside america’s favorite pastime.



illions of Americans know the lore and statistics of baseball—but how many know the hundred-yearold secrets and traditions of baseball umpires? In As They See ’Em, Bruce Weber, a reporter and former theater critic for the New York Times, reveals the essence of the trade by chronicling his own experience attending umpire training school, umping games himself, and discussing games with umps from the minor and major leagues just minutes after the last out has been made. Perfect for the truly inquisitive baseball fan, Weber provides the ultimate insider’s look into the small (only sixty-eight professional umpires work in the major leagues) and largely unknown world of baseball’s men in blue. Weber not only traveled with and interviewed dozens of umpires but became one, spending part of a season calling balls and strikes in amateur games and even getting a first hand look at big league pitching, going behind the plate during spring training. This book is a lively exploration of the culture, history, personalities, techniques, recent controversies, and secret rules of the men (and the very few women) who make sure the game is clean, crisp and true. Writing with deep affection for baseball as well as self-deprecating humor, Weber delves into the questions of why everyone hates umpires, what, after all, is a strike, and why anyone would want to do this miserable job in the first place? Packed with fascinating and little-known facts, Bruce Weber’s entertaining narrative is a towering grand slam.

Bruce Weber is a reporter for The New York Times. He lives in New York City.



H a R d c O v e R On sale: March 17, 2009

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978-0-7432-9411-9

ISBN-10: 0-7432-9411-4 $25.00 hardcover $28.99 in Canada Previous book: Savion! My Life in Tap, 978-0-688-15629-9, ISBN-10: 0-688-15629-0, William Morrow, 2000 Also available by Bruce Weber Look Who’s Talking 978-0-671-68723-6 ISBN-10: 0-671-68723-9 $6.50/$7.99 Can. Other format: eBook: 978-1-4165-4538-5, ISBN-10: 1-4165-4538-7 • • • •



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The unknown knowns

A Novel

a startlingly original debut novel about a man whose marriage unravels as he becomes obsessed with an ancient aquatic race and attracts the scrutiny of homeland security—for readers of George Saunders and Donald antrim. im Rath’s wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the aquatic ape theory of human evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost aquatic race called the Nautikons. In truth, the man is a low-level agent of the Department of Homeland Security. What follows is a riveting story of two delusional and quixotic men who stalk one another toward a bloody showdown—a spectacularly moronic act of terrorism at an aging water park. The Unknown Knowns—a reference to a quote from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country’s Homeland Security department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a stunning portrayal of the human condition. The Unknown Knowns is fresh, imaginative, and deft— and it marks the arrival of a promising new voice in literary fiction.

Jeffrey Rotter holds an MFA from Hunter College where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, and Andrew Sean Greer. He was awarded the Hertog fellowship to perform research for novelist and journalist Jennifer Egan. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and young son. The Unknown Knowns is his first novel.



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978-1-4165-8702-6

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Suzy Welch

Your Life, My Life, and a Life-Transforming Idea



10-10-10



Already sold in 13 countries



Suzy Welch, former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, is a work-life columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. She is the coauthor, with her husband Jack Welch, of the #1 bestseller Winning, Winning: The Answers, and of “The Welch Way,” published in BusinessWeek magazine and internationally by the New York Times syndicate. She lives in Boston.



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from O, The Oprah Magazine columnist and coauthor of the #1 bestseller Winning, a powerful new strategy for making difficult decisions and clarifying life choices.

aught in the relentless drive of an everaccelerating world, we have all become increasingly pressed to make too many crucial decisions in too little time, both at home and at work. With 10-10-10, Suzy Welch proposes a transformative solution to deal with the oftenoverwhelming pressure of decision-making, as she shares her own life-tested strategy to help us regain control of our choices—and effectively reclaim our lives. At first glance, her process is simple: When faced with a messy and complex dilemma, stop and ask, “What will the consequences of my various options be in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years?” Yet the insights are extraordinary, illuminating, and seldom predictable. Drawing 10-10-10 moments from her own life and poignant stories from the lives of others, Welch provides the tools to tease apart our deepest goals and values, candidly face our fears and



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dreams, and rid ourselves of angst, frustration, and regret. By urging us to weigh the effects of our possible actions right at the moment, in the foreseeable mid-term, and, finally, in the far-off future when the decision no longer feels like an immediate crisis, 10-10-10 offers an inspirational yet practical approach to handle conflicts with confidence, focus, and grace. O, The Oprah Magazine readers have been relying on this innovative life-management device since Welch first introduced it in her monthly column. Now she lets the rest of us in on the life-changing power of 10-10-10—a power which promises to replace chaos with consistency, confusion with clarity, and guilt with joy, as it ultimately teaches us how to better navigate complicated choices, stop living reactively, and start enjoying more whole, satisfying, and deliberate lives.



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ISBN-10: 1-4165-9182-6 $24.00 hardcover $28.00 in Canada Previous book: Winning: The Answers, 978-0-061-24149-9, ISBN-10: 0-061-24149-0, Collins, 2006 Other format: CD: 978-0-7435-7998-8 ISBN-10: 0-7435-7998-4, $29.95/$34.99 Can. Spanish-language edition: 978-1-4391-0924-3 ISBN-10: 1-4391-0924-9, $14.00/NCR eBook: 978-1-4391-0172-8, ISBN-10: 1-4391-0172-8



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Three irresistible volumes from Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes

978-0-684-84267-7

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle award, the Los Angeles Times Book award and the abby, with over foUR MIllIoN copies in print.

“a classic modern memoir…stunning.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “a spellbinding memoir of childhood that swerves flawlessly between aching sadness and desperate humor.” —Peter finn, The Philadelphia Inquirer



’Tis



978-0-684-86574-4

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“’Tis a success story, after all.” —The New York Times Book Review “McCourt establishes himself as a Dickens for our time, a writer who can peel away the many layers of society like an onion and reveal the core.” —The Seattle Times



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978-0-7432-4378-0

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Ratio



Michael Ruhlman

from renowned cooking expert and author of The Elements of Cooking, a groundbreaking book that explains the very essential “truth” of cooking—which has nothing to do with recipes.



The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking



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ho needs another recipe collection? Nobody, says Michael Ruhlman, who is celebrated for bringing the secrets of cooking to a wider audience. In Ratio, Ruhlman explains that it is not the recipe itself but rather two unchanging components—basic proportions and fundamental techniques—that make all food come together, effortlessly. Michael Ruhlman demonstrates how the simple knowledge of a few easy-to-remember ratios will enable cooks to make thousands of different dishes. For example, pie dough is 3-2-1 (three parts flour, two parts fat, and one part water). Cookies are 1-2-3 (one part sugar, two parts fat, and three parts flour). Distilling dishes to their essence—using a few simple techniques and even fewer ingredients—is what every professional or home cook needs to know in order to create the cornerstone dishes of Western cooking. Broken down into twenty-six handy ratios, Ruhlman also includes easy and enticing variations, for example, by adding a little vinegar and cracked pepper to hollandaise sauce (which has a ratio of 1 pound of butter to 6 egg yolks), it goes from craft to art...all without a recipe. As the culinary world fills up with overly complicated recipes and never-ending ingredient lists, Michael Ruhlman blasts through the surplus of information and delivers this innovative and straightforward book that cuts to the core of cooking. Ratio provides one of the greatest lessons there is— and it makes cooking easier and more satisfying than ever.

Michael Ruhlman is recognized as one of the great translators of the craft and art of the chef. Celebrated for both his award-winning cookbooks and nonfiction narratives, Michael wrote chef Thomas Keller’s seminal The French Laundry Cookbook as well as The Making of a Chef, The Soul of a Chef, and The Reach of a Chef. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of twelve books, Michael lives in his native Cleveland with wife Donna, a photographer, and his daughter and son. Previous book: The Elements of Cooking, Scribner, 978-0-7432-9978-7, ISBN-10: 0-7432-9978-7, 2007 15



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carol Higgins clark

A Regan Reilly Mystery



cursed



Regan Reilly got married in Hitched, honeymooned in Laced, and survived a New York City blackout in Zapped. Will she end up cursed as she investigates an old friend’s past? “a quintessential breezy beach blanket read...witty and charming.” —The Irish Voice, on Laced “fresh, funny—keeps you thoroughly entertained.” —West Coast Review of Books, on Hitched



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Carol Higgins Clark is the author of eleven previous bestselling Regan Reilly mysteries and coauthor, with her mother, Mary Higgins Clark, of a bestselling holiday mystery series. Also an actress, Carol studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and has recorded several of her mother’s works as well as her own novels. She received AudioFile’s Earphones award of Excellence for her reading of Jinxed. Carol lives in New York City and Los Angeles. Her website is CarolHigginsClark.com



a humorous new Regan Reilly mystery from the author of the New York Times bestseller Zapped—the “fast-paced and very funny novel” (The Irish American) that “will keep the reader hooked and entertained” (The Boulevard).



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s Cursed begins, Regan and her husband Jack, head of the New York Major Case Squad, are relaxing on the beach near her parents’ house in the Hamptons. Regan receives a frantic call from an eccentric former neighbor, Abigail, in Los Angeles—where Regan had worked as a Private Investigator before she met and married Jack. Abigail pleads for Regan’s help, claiming she is caught in a situation that may destroy her. “My life is a curse,” she wails. Abigail begs Regan to come back to Los Angeles to track down her former boyfriend, a con man she dumped, who she believes is out to get her. Regan remembers the boyfriend hanging around the pool at their apartment building—a creepy guy who struck her as a phony. Regan



suggests to Abigail to hire a local investigator, but Abigail only wants Regan on the job. Regan finally agrees and heads to Los Angeles for a week to see what she can find. Once Regan gets involved in the case, she makes some startling discoveries about Abigail, her boyfriend and a cast of characters some of whom you’d never expect to be on the wrong side of the law. The investigation keeps Regan racing from the shores of Malibu to the newly renovated areas of downtown L.A., to the mountains north of the city. Set in the Hamptons, New York City and Los Angeles, Cursed will keep readers turning the pages as they accompany Regan Reilly on her return to her old stomping grounds.



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david and Myra Sadker and karen R. Zittleman

How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It

Now thoroughly revised and updated, the groundbreaking and highly acclaimed book on gender bias—still one of the most prevalent problems facing teachers, students, and parents today—is “required reading for anyone interested in sex bias” (The New York Times). espite a decade of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as two genders, but as different species. Yet teachers and parents often miss the more subtle signs of sexism that permeate today’s schools. Through firsthand observations and recent research, Still Failing at Fairness brings the gender issue into focus. This new edition of the classic text on gender bias in schools brings the issue up to date, examining the impact of the backlash against gender issues since the original book was published in 1994, and exploring the current movement toward single-sex education. Offering a muchneeded perspective for those who attribute gender behaviors to “hard-wired” brain differences, this book documents how educational behaviors and cultural attitudes continue to short-circuit girls and boys of different races, social classes, and ethnicities. At the end of each chapter, a section called “Succeeding at Fairness” offers practical strategies and resources for parents, teachers, and students to create more options and opportunities for both sexes. Hard-hitting and informative, Still Failing at Fairness is “an eye-opener for any parent or teacher truly interested in equality” (San Francisco Chronicle).



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John l. Parker, Jr.

A Novel



Once a Runner



The #1 most sought-after out-of-print book in the U.S., a cult classic hailed as “the best novel about running ever written,” (Runner’s World) now in hardcover for the first time.



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riginally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner captures the essence of competitive running—and of athletic competition in general—and has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever published. It has become so popular among high school and college athletes that reading it is a rite of passage. Now, this cult classic is available for long-time fans and a whole new legion of readers. Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the story focuses on Quenton Cassidy, a well-rounded distance runner who specializes in the mile. After he’s involved in an athletes’ protest, Quenton is suspended from the track team and prohibited from participating in the university’s annual meet. He then gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to train on a monastic retreat in the countryside with fictional Olympic gold medalist Bruce Denton. A rare, insider’s glimpse at the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners, Once a Runner is an inspiring, funny, and spot-on story of a one man’s quest to become a champion.



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“By far the most accurate fictional portrayal of the world of the serious runner… a marvelous description of the way it really is.” —Sports Illustrated “Part training manual, part religious tract, part love story, and all about running, Once a Runner is so inspiring it could be banned as a performance-enhancing drug.” —Benjamin Cheever, author of Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete

John L. Parker, Jr. has written for Outside, Runner’s World, and many other publications. He was the Southeastern Conference mile champion three times, and the U.S. Track and Field Federation national champion. Parker has been a practicing attorney, a reporter and columnist, a speechwriter, and editorial director of Running Times magazine. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Bar Harbor, Maine.



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Joanna Smith Rakoff



a Fortunate age

A Novel



Advanced praise for A Fortunate Age:



“a wonderful, funny, and spot-on portrait of my clumsy generation that brings to mind such hallmarks as Mary McCarthy’s The Group, Jay McInerney’s Brightness Falls, and Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children.”

—Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook



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Joanna Smith Rakoff has written for The New York Times, Time Out New York, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. from University College, London, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She lives in New York with her husband and son.



from a major new literary talent comes an instantly compelling breakout first novel that—like The Group, Mary McCarthy’s classic tale of coming-of-age in New York—tells the universal story of the starting-out years of a group of college friends living in Brooklyn.



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n her richly drawn and immensely satisfying has taken off. At the center of their orbit is wry, novel, Joanna Smith Rakoff details the lives charismatic Sadie Peregrine, who coolly observes of a group of Oberlin graduates whose her friends’ mistakes but can’t quite manage to ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel avoid making her own. as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and Set against the backdrop of the vast economic build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s. and political changes of the era—from the There’s Lil, a would-be scholar whose marriage decadent age of dot com millionaires to the to an egotistical writer initially brings the group sobering post-September 2001 landscape—Smith together (and ultimately drives them apart); Beth, Rakoff ’s deeply affecting characters and incisive who struggles to let go of her old beau Dave, a social commentary are reminiscent of the great one-time piano prodigy trapped by his own Victorian novels. This brilliant and ambitious insecurity; Emily, an actor perpetually on the debut captures a generation and heralds the verge of success—and starvation—who grapples arrival of a bold and important new writer. with her jealousy of Tal, whose acting career



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A Radical Coming of Age in Latin America

The young son of a famous radical family takes to the roads of latin america, and comes to realize that a wave of radical change is transforming not only the subcontinent, but his own take on life.



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our decades ago Chesa Boudin’s parents Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were making headlines as leaders of the Weather Underground. At the age of nineteen, hoping to discover how their politics fared in the living struggle of the Third World, Chesa paid his first visit to Latin America. His timing could not have been better: It was 1999 and Hugo Chavez was just taking power in Venezuela, heralding sweeping radical change across the subcontinent. Over the next eight years Chesa crisscrossed the region on journeys that form the raw material of this book. The stories he relates are written from the ground up, woven from the voices of ordinary Latin Americans. He never takes a plane when a fifteen-hour bus ride in the company of unfettered chickens is available. In these pages we witness him slinging his hammock on a decrepit Amazon ferry boat. We crouch with him behind smoldering cars as students battle with police in Santiago. We descend with him to the hellish tunnels of Bolivia’s silver mines where the average life expectancy is under forty. And we join him in his work as a translator for President Hugo Chavez inside the presidential palace in Caracas. The result is a marvelous mixture of coming of age memoir and travelogue that echoes the sense of adventure of Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries, and the political passion of Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire.



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Chesa Boudin is a twenty-eight year old Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Oxfrord and Yale Universities. He has contributed to the Nation magazine and is the coauthor of The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions and 100 Answers and the co-editor of Letters from Young Activists.



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With a Foreword by Richard leakey



laurel Neme



animal Investigators



How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Catching Poachers, Solving Crimes, and Saving Endangered Species

Now readers can go behind the scenes at the world’s only forensics lab dedicated exclusively to solving animal cases in this gripping “CSI for wildlife.”



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llegal wildlife smuggling ranks just behind drugs and guns as the third largest illegal trade—and only an estimated 10 percent of its trafficking is intercepted. Now, with unprecedented access to U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents, law enforcement, poachers, and more, accomplished environmental journalist Laurel Neme uncovers how forensic scientists are working to change that. Taking readers into the only animal crime lab, set up to investigate more than 30,000 species, Neme shows the incredible efforts of lab experts as they investigate cases in which illegal trade is threatening endangered tropical birds, poached for their feathers; black bears, whose gallbladders are used in traditional Chinese medicine; and the Alaskan walrus, slaughtered for ivory. Vividly depicting the circumstances of each case, the people and animals involved, and providing intricate details of the scientific methodology used, Neme combines mystery, science, and wildlife conservation in an absorbing, fast-paced account that exposes the cutthroat, complicated web of wildlife crimes and recognizes the innovative, hardworking animal investigators who are fighting to solve them.



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Advance praise for Animal Investigators: “an amazing story about concerned scientists and forensic teams working to solve the murder mysteries that all too often are overlooked: the poaching and smuggling of endangered species.” —Dr. Jane Goodall

Laurel Neme is an international consultant specializing in natural resource management. She has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Treasury Department, written for The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense, and Rainforest Action Network, and lives in northern Vermont with her husband and son.



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Rick Perlstein

Nixonland

The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

“an exceptional work of excavation, synthesis, and storytelling” (San Francisco Chronicle), Nixonland captures america’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency—now available in trade paperback.



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Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, and George Wallace but Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy, Charles Manson, and Jane Fonda. It offers fascinating glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton—and a eralded by stunning not so ambitious young man reviews coast to coast, named George W. Bush. Then, Perlstein’s best-selling in 1972, harvesting the bitteraccount opens with the blood ness and resentment born of and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, America’s turmoil, Nixon was nine months after Lyndon reelected in a landslide victory, Johnson’s historic landslide vicnot only setting the stage for his dramatic 1974 tor over Barry Goldwater seemed to anger a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. resignation but defining the terms of the ideoYet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed logical divide that characterizes America today. Told with urgency and sharp political insight, out of Congress, America was more divided than Rick Perlstein’s account of the fracturing of our ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to country confirms his place as one of today’s most a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Between 1965 and 1972, America experi- celebrated historians. enced no less than a second civil war. Out of “Rambunctious, ambitious, energetic…a remarkits ashes, the political world we know now was able work.” born. Nixonland describes the era not only of —Los Angeles Times



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Rick Perlstein is the award-winning author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. His essays and book reviews have been featured in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation. A senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s future, he lives with his wife in Chicago.



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aPRIl fEaTURED BaCKlIST



we can fight for our fundamental right to enjoy our invaluable natural resources.

a modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who took on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. “The Riverkeepers is the kind of personal account america needs to hear more often.” —al Gore, from the foreword “This fine book chronicles two great rivers: the mighty Hudson, unimaginably rich with life, and the equally mighty stream of environmental law that began flowing with the Magna Carta. If each can be freed from the sewage left by corporate polluters, they may nourish us for many centuries yet.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature reminds us that the truest idealists are warriors of a sort.” —Samuel G. freedman



John Cronin and Robert f. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how



John Cronin and Robert f. Kennedy, Jr. “The Riverkeepers comes as the tonic for a cynical age. It



The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic “a blueprint for ecosystem protection.” —Barry Werth, Outside Human Right

“The Riverkeepers often reads as much like a detective novel as it does a primer on how to reclaim a river.” —Craig Wilson, USA TODAY

John Cronin has worked on environmental affairs for thirty-five years and served as Hudson Riverkeeper from 1983 to 2000. He is Director of both The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, and the Pace Academy for the Environment. He lives in Cold Spring, New York. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. acts as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for Riverkeeper and serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and as President of the Waterkeeper Alliance. At Pace University School of Law, he is a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic. He lives in Mt. Kisco, New York.



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REYNolDS PRICE TITlES avaIlaBlE foR THE fIRST TIME IN TRaDE PaPERBaCK EDITIoNS

A Long and Happy Life

978-1-4391-0934-2, ISBN-10: 1-4391-0934-6, $14.00/$16.00 Can. on its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, “Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I’ve come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel.” From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated millions of readers since its publication more than forty years ago. “Nothing could tear me from discussing collections of short stories save this lovely book, A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price—and I cannot even begrudge the author his youth. Meticulously observed, beautifully told, it strikes too deep to fuss around with analysis. You can say only of it that it is indeed a lasting novel, a story of the South done with no violence—you can say only, a lovely novel, with the firm brilliance of its writing to keep its loveliness from sticking to your fingers.” —Dorothy Parker, Esquire, June 1962



Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides

978-1-4391-0933-5, ISBN-10: 1-4391-0933-8, $20.00/$23.50 Can. “a seductive book, in which one reads a bit and pauses to ruminate on the nature of the essential facts of one’s own life.” —The New York Times Clear Pictures is Reynolds Price’s vivid, powerful memoir of his first twenty-one years growing up in North Carolina. Spanning the years from 1933 to 1954, Price accurately captures the spirit of a community recovering from the Depression, living through World War II and then facing the economic and social changes of the 1950s. It is an autobiography set apart from others by the author’s clarity of vision, the power of his characters and the richness of his writing.



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ardent Spirits



Reynolds Price

Leaving Home, Coming Back



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award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel A Long and Happy Life—detailing his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and a teacher whose remarkably enduring career still continues. fter two earlier autobiographical works—Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life—acclaimed writer Reynolds Price delivers his most eagerly awaited memoir. Oxford University, and Britain—which he discovered in the 1950s—had scarcely recovered from the severe demands of World War II (food rationing ended only just before his arrival, and most of his undergraduate colleagues still owed the government two years of military service). Yet he found the University a place of enormous vitality—both academic and personal. From spotting J.R.R Tolkien on the street in Oxford, to intimate dinners with W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, young Price was welcomed into the company of the most respected intellectual and artistic circles. Fully entrenched in the culture of his era, Price unfailingly makes clear the connections between his experience and the great tradition of world literature. In lucid, and frequently witty prose, Price offers readers full access to six years in the early adulthood of a rich life—every mundane occasion providing an opportunity to demonstrate a connection to the great train of human accomplishment in which he so ardently believes.



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Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. A Rhodes Scholar, he has taught at Duke since 1958 and is a James B. Duke Professor of English. His first novel, A Long and Happy Life, published in 1962, won the William Faulkner Award. His sixth novel, Kate Vaiden, published in 1986, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The author of more than three dozen books, Price is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.



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The Finest Hours



Michael J. Tougias and casey Sherman

The True Story Behind the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue

The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea by two masterful storytellers. ichael Tougias proved his mettle with his breathtaking Fatal Forecast. Casey Sherman terrified readers with his true-crime account of the Boston Strangler, A Rose for Mary. Now these storytelling talents combine to bring forth a work brimming with excitement and suspense, and packed with gripping authentic descriptions of an actual Coast Guard rescue adventure. In the winter on 1952, a ferocious Nor’easter pounded New England with howling winds and seventy-foot seas. Caught in the violent storm just off Cape Cod were two oil tankers, split in half by the ravaging winds and water. Thus began a life and death drama of heroism, survival, and tragedy. Eighty-four lives were at stake, not all would survive the storm. Going to the rescue of the Pendleton were four young Coast Guard men in a thirty-six-foot life boat—a potential suicide mission in such a small vessel. Several cutters and small boats raced to the sinking sections of the Fort Mercer, and valiant rescue attempts were undertaken: some successful, some not. However, that the brave crews lived to tell about this dramatic mission, and that they were able to rescue any survivors in their small boat, is perhaps the biggest miracle of all. Praise for Michael J. Tougias:



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Michael J. Tougias is author of Fatal Forecast, and a much sought after lecturer. He lives in Franklin, Massachusetts. Casey Sherman is the author of the acclaimed true crime thriller A Rose for Mary. He’s been nominated for an Emmy Award and has been profiled by the New York Times, People, Newsweek, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts. 28



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Greg kot



How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music



a national radio host and critically acclaimed music journalist shows how the Internet revolutionized the music industry— and turned big record labels on their ear.



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reg Kot is well known to listeners as a fans’ music critic who writes entertainingly about the intersection of music, technology, and business. Now he presents a definitive account of the digital music revolution, which changed the way fans have sought and acquired music and led to the end of the recording industry as we know it. In the mid-1990s advances in Internet and digital technology made it easy for music fans to store, play, and share music, which started a shift in what was hot—and not. But for all the benefits these new mediums brought, the music industry wasn’t prepared and instead of finding innovative ways to utilize the new technology, they wasted time and resources in court, crippling themselves while online music sharing continued to thrive. With firsthand access to huge artists like Sheryl Crow, Metallica, and Radiohead, Kot masterfully chronicles the industry’s decline in this fascinating tale of digital dreams and the power of music. Praise for Greg Kot’s Wilco: Learning How to Die



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“Kot is the best sort of music writer.” —The New York Times Book Review “Kot tells the story well and thoughtfully.” —Rolling Stone (four-star review)

Greg Kot has been the music critic at the Chicago Tribune since 1990, and his Tribune-hosted blog, Turn It Up, is a must-read for music buffs and industry insiders alike. Kot is co-host of Sound Opinions, “the world’s only rock ‘n’ roll talk show,” nationally syndicated in over twenty markets and available worldwide on the web, and he has written for Details, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Journal, Guitar World, and Vibe, and has been a regular contributor to Rolling Stone since 1992. He lives in Chicago.



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The killings at Jubilee Terrace

A Novel of Suspense

Diamond Dagger award winner and critically lauded crime writer Robert Barnard returns with a beguiling new mystery set in the volatile and unpredictable world of a long-running soap opera.



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nspector Charlie Peace, who knows virtually nothing about daytime television shows and the actors who inhabit them, receives an anonymous letter. One of the actors on Jubilee Terrace has died, and the death may be suspicious. Given the animosity and jealousy that clearly pervade the set, more deaths may follow. Charlie soon finds himself steeped in an environment where reality and make believe merge in unexpected and sometimes frightening ways. Is the show’s jovial pub landlord really as benign and wise as he seems or is he just a good actor? Are bit parts in the soap handed out as a reward for services rendered? Charlie must separate fact from fiction as he searches for a cunning killer amidst a bevy of suspects—trained actors who can summon a look of innocence with little effort. Hailed as “one of the deftest stylists in the field” (The New York Times Book Review), Robert Barnard delivers another triumph with this engaging and exquisitely written tale of murder and intrigue.



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Robert Barnard is the winner of the Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award, the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards. He is a member of Britain’s distinguished Detection Club and in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing. He lives with his wife, Louise, cat, Durdles, and dog, Peggotty, in Leeds, England.



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A Love Story: Horses, Humans, and Redemption on the Wind River Indian Reservation

a journalist suffering from a broken heart documents her spiritual transformation through her work with an arapahoe medicine man and horse trainer in this captivating and beautifully rendered memoir. n her mid-forties, Lisa Jones found herself stuck in a dead-end relationship with a boyfriend who wouldn’t commit and a biological clock ticking so loudly she could barely sleep at night—until she discovered, by accident, what she really wanted out of life. On assignment to cover an Arapahoe tribe and their legendary quadriplegic trainer, renowned for his gift in breaking and taming wild horses, she found her calling, as this amazing medicine man taught her to train horses. There, in the unforgiving landscape of Wyoming’s Wind River Range, she learned things about herself she never knew. In the tradition of Eat, Pray, Love, Jones documents her soul-shifting spiritual journey, writing about horses with unbridled passion, fear, and respect. As Jones begins to fall in love with the Native American community and their horses, she becomes immersed in Arapahoe life and culture, and it is then that she rediscovers herself. Broken is an amazing journey of self-realization, a surrender to something larger than we know, and a powerful testament to the belief that love makes a broken spirit whole again.

Lisa Jones is a journalist living in Boulder, Colorado.



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doug Stanton

The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan



Horse Soldiers



Praise for In Harm’s Way:



“a stunning book.”



—Tom Brokaw



“a crisp, well-executed reconstruction of naval warfare’s darkest chapter.”

—Kirkus Reviews



“Gripping…compelling.”

—Chicago Tribune



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Doug Stanton has traveled extensively as a contributing editor for Esquire, Men’s Journal, and Outside magazines, for which he’s written numerous cover stories about travel, sport, politics, and Hollywood figures like Harrison Ford, George Clooney, and Clint Eastwood. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan.



from the bestselling author of In Harm’s Way comes a spectacular, harrowing, true-life soldiers’ tale of struggle and triumph.



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oug Stanton knows how to grip readers. His In Harm’s Way was a major international bestseller for many weeks and celebrated for its stunning prose and gripping narrative. Now Stanton has turned his literary talents and reporter’s tenaciousness to a new story: Immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small band of Special Forces soldiers entered Afghanistan on horseback on a secret mission. Outnumbered forty to one, they captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, thereby effectively defeating the Taliban in the rest of the country. They are heroes, celebrated by their own people and Afghanis alike. And then the story turns. During a surrender of



Taliban troops, the still-outnumbered soldiers are ambushed, and so begins the fight of their lives in the most intense urban combat of the times. In addition to interviewing the major U.S. figures involved in the battle (many of whom have never spoken to reporters before) Stanton returned to the battlefield in Afghanistan to meet the Afghans whose lives were changed by the war. Filled with moments of pure terror, breathtaking suspense, and soul-affirming survival, Horse Soldiers is a remarkable salute to the men and women who give so much—for so little recognition and reward. It also stands as a powerful work of literary journalism that confirms Stanton as a major talent.



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A Novel



Map of Ireland



Stephanie Grant

of the Black Power movement, toward love, and ultimately to the truth about herself. In Map of Ireland, Stephanie Grant’s searing prose, powerful storytelling, and richly drawn characters bring a tumultuous moment in American history into perfect focus. “a jagged jewel of perfection.” —Honor Moore, author of The Bishop’s Daughter “Race, sex, and community are the complicated and dangerous pillars of the novel. ann ahern wants, literally, to climb out of her own skin, to be part of something larger than herself. This urgency fuels the novel and makes her unforgettable—unknowable but unforgettable.” —Los Angeles Times



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Now in trade paperback from the acclaimed author of The Passion of Alice, the “ambitious, bold, and smart” (The Boston Globe) novel set during the tumultuous integration of the Boston public schools in the 1970s. hen Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis— Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep black children from the public schools and teenagers are raising havoc in the streets. Ann, an outsider in her own Irish-American community, is infatuated with her beautiful French teacher, Mademoiselle Eugenie, who hails from Paris, but is of African descent. Spurred by her adoration for Eugenie, Ann embarks on a journey that leads her beyond South Boston, through the fringes



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a Short History of Women

A Novel

from the critically acclaimed National Book award nominee comes a provocative and beautiful novel about four generations of women—for readers of Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham.



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rom a lecture delivered to suffragettes in Victorian England to a playdate on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, A Short History of Women is a haunting novel that chronicles four generations of women, their aspirations, the limits imposed on them, and the sometimes startling choices they make in the world. The novel opens in England in 1915, at the death bed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her descendants. Among them are her daughter Evie, who becomes a professor of chemistry at Barnard College in the middle of the century and never marries, and her granddaughter Dorothy Townsend Barrett, who focuses her grief over the loss of her son by repeatedly defying the ban on photographing the bodies of dead soldiers returned to Dover Air Force base from Iraq. The contemporary chapters chronicle Dorothy Barrett’s girls, both young professionals embarrassed by their mother’s activism and baffled when she leaves their father after fifty years of marriage. Walbert deftly explores the ways in which successive generations of women have attempted to articulate what the nineteenth century called “the woman question.” Her novel is a moving reflection on the tides of history, and how the lives of our great-grandmothers resonate in our own. Praise for Kate Walbert (see page 47 for additional praise): “Walbert, one of our finest writers, has given us a slyly comic, quietly shocking, deeply moving group portrait of a vanishing breed of american women.” —Tom Perrotta, on Our Kind

Kate Walbert is the author of three previous New York Times notable books. Winner of a Pushcart and an O. Henry Prize, she has published fiction in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Stories 2007, and other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut with her husband and daughters. 35



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MaY fEaTURED BaCKlIST

HaRolD BlooM is “a colossus among critics....His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant.” —The New York Times Magazine

How to Read and Why

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“Wonderful… Bloom writes with passion of those writers whom he loves, and whose work for him affirms life.” —John Banville, The Irish Times “Superb… a wonderful, entertaining book… extraordinarily wise, nourishing, and beautiful.” —Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun “Harold Bloom is one of the great literary critics of his time… How to Read and Why is the testament of a veteran.” —John Sutherland, The Washington Post Book World



Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

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“If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane austen, then they are best prepared if they have read lewis Carroll and Edward lear, Robert louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling,” writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of exceptional stories and poems selected to inspire a lifelong love of reading. “This volume...should indeed be shared by the generations.” —John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, where he has taught for nearly fifty years. He has published more than thirty books. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many other awards worldwide. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.



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bailey White

NPR’s beloved holiday stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mamma Makes Up Her Mind.



Nothing With Strings



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“Bailey White’s sketches evoke a sort of real-life lake Wobegon.” —The New York Times “Her voice is original, innocent, yet subversive… consistently transcending local color and catching a universal spiritual melody.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Bailey White was born in Thomasville, Georgia in 1950 and she still lives in the same house in which she grew up—on one of the large tracts of virgin longleaf pine woods. The daughter of a writer (her father) and a farmer (her mother), White graduated from Florida State University and was a first grade teacher for many years before devoting herself to writing and gardening full-time. She is a regular commentator on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine, All Things Considered, and she is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Mamma Makes Up Her Mind and Sleeping at the Starlite Motel.



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Beloved short story author and regular NPR contributor Bailey White is back with a charming collection of never-beforepublished short stories—by turns warm, tender, and funny. Nothing With Strings follows in the tradition of her New York Times bestsellers Mamma Makes Up Her Mind and Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, which originally made her famous.



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ailey White, whose annual Thanksgiving readings on NPR have established her as a master storyteller, has assembled the short stories she has read over the past thirteen years, in a collection that showcases her formidable talent. In Nothing With Strings, the dayto-day lives of ordinary people are colored by extraordinary episodes. White’s heartfelt descriptions of the eccentric, hilarious, tragic, and even absurd people and events in small Southern towns makes for a delightful and irresistible read. In one story, a man who suffers unrequited love



for forty years dies at the very feet of his beloved. In another, Aunt Ethel, the efficiency expert, crams the Christmas celebration into forty-five brief minutes, which includes time enough to trim the tree and drag it out into the street, wind up the lights, and get it all back into the attic to await next year’s hurried celebration. Juxtaposing the mundane and miraculous, Bailey White’s deep affinity for the beauty and weirdness of small Southern towns permeates every page.



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Wendy Mogel, Ph.d.

“Impassioned, lyrical, and eminently practical” (Publishers Weekly), the New York Times bestseller that became a phenomenon among parents and educators.



The blessing of a Skinned knee

Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children

• Developing independence and self-control Relevant for any era, any city, and any home, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee is an indispensable antidote to anxious, overprotective parenting and an inspiring and effective guide to raising children who will be optimistic, well-behaved, and self-reliant.



ver the last seven years Wendy Mogel’s sage reflections on raising children in a world where entitlement and competition abound have garnered her “The larger lesson is that chillegions of devoted readers, dren need to learn to fend for packed lecture halls, and a themselves...for the professionprofile in The New York Times als who work with children— Magazine. principals, teachers, camp With authority, warmth, and directors, school psychologists—that lesson is humor, Mogel distills ancient Jewish teachings worth the price of Mogel’s paperback.” and contemporary psychological insights into —The New York Times Magazine nine blessings that address key parenting issues including: “one of the finest and most challenging books on parenting to emerge in recent years…Mogel • Teaching children to honor their reminds parents and all those who care about parents and to respect others children of the sanctity of parenting.” • Determining realistic expectations —Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, for each child author of Putting God on the Guest List • Resisting over-scheduling and over-indulgence



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Muqtada al-Sadr and the battle for the Future of Iraq

Now in an expanded paperback from prize-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, “one of a small handful of books that are required reading for anyone who wants to unravel the meaning of events in Iraq five years into the war” (George Packer, The New York Times Book Review). n this compelling account, Patrick Cockburn tells the story of Muqtada al-Sadr’s rise to become the leader of Iraq’s poor Shi’ites and the resistance to the U.S. occupation. Cockburn looks at the Saddamordered killings of the young cleric’s father and two brothers; his leadership of the 70,000-strong Mehdi Army; the fierce rivalries between him and other Shia religious leaders; his complex relationship with the Iraqi government; and his frequent confrontations with the American military. The portrait that emerges is of a complex man and a sophisticated politician. Cockburn, who was among the very few



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Western journalists to remain in Baghdad during the Gulf War and has been an intrepid reporter of Iraq ever since, draws on his extensive firsthand experience to produce a book that is richly interwoven with the voices of Iraqis themselves. Though it often reads like an adventure story, this book is also a work of painstaking research and measured analysis that provides a deeper understanding of the man who many believe will be a decisive voice in determining the future of Iraq when the Americans



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Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the Independent in London. He has visited Iraq countless times since 1978 and was recipient of the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting in 2005 and the 2006 James Cameron Award. He’s author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, which was short-listed for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007.



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Tila Tequila

With Sarah Tomlinson

A Guide to Love, Fame, Happiness, Success, and Being the Life of the Party



Hooking up with Tila Tequila



“The web’s hottest mama.”

—Stuff magazine



Tila Tequila (née Nguyen), is a model, entertainer, and singer who lives in West Hollywood, California. Photographs and features of her have appeared in Stuff, Maxim, Time, Penthouse, and she is known for her role as host of the television show Pants-Off Dance-Off, and her position as the most popular artist on MySpace (according to page views). Her hit MTV reality dating show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila premiered in October 2007 and is in its second season. Nguyen was born in Singapore and raised in Houston, Texas.



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Web and reality television celebrity Tila Tequila, the “Madonna of MySpace” (Time) bares her secrets in this provocative and playful guide to love, relationships, sex, fame, and being the life of the party—just in time to spice things up this holiday season.



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he ways to celebrity are myriad, but in just two years, Tila Tequila has quite possibly become THE symbol of stardom in today’s digital age. With upwards of three million MySpace pals and thanks to MTV’s A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, the twenty-six-year-old sexy siren has become nothing less than a cultural icon. Tila’s taboo-bending lack of inhibition has made her a trailblazer for the times, and there’s no sign of slowing down this feisty fourfoot-eleven wild child whose combination of sex appeal and accessibility has made her popularity unparalleled. Hooking Up with Tila Tequila takes an exclusive and entertaining look beyond the virtual pin-



up—past the mischievous glint in her eye and sultry curve of her hip—to the real-life Tila. In her own outrageously candid words, she tackles a variety of subjects from making it big, to getting what you want in bed—and out of it! Also included are real questions from her millions of fans, and Tila’s unique brand of truthful advice, as she says, “Tequila-style.” Filled with stunning never-before-seen photographs from Tila’s private collection, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila serves up the dish on everything her fans want to know—and reveals the true story of how a fearless and determined Vietnamese model used the Internet to earn the recognition that most people only dream about.



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A Dancer’s Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World

Now available in trade paperback: the captivating memoir of the Cuban dancer considered to be one of the world’s greatest performers, in which he fearlessly depicts his journey from adolescent troublemaker to international superstar. could call home. No Way Home is about more than Carlos’s rise to stardom. It is about a young man forced to leave his homeland and loved ones for a life of self-discipline, displacement, and physical hardship. With candor and humor, Carlos vividly depicts daily life in communist Cuba, his feelings about ballet—an art form he both loves and hates— and his complex relationship with his father.



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arlos was just another kid from the slums of Havana; the youngest son of a truck driver and a housewife, he ditched school with his friends and dreamed of becoming Cuba’s best soccer “a debut memoir noteworthy player. Exasperated by his son’s for its candor, energy, and coldelinquent behavior, Carlos’s orful sketches of life in Cuba...a fresh, authentic father enrolled him in ballet school, subjecting him to grueling days that started at five thirty account of art, adversity, and family.” —Kirkus Reviews in the morning and ended long after sunset. Even as he won dance competitions and wowed “a bittersweet...spirited testament to acosta’s international critics, Carlos was homesick for prodigious talent: despite it all, when he finally Cuba, crippled by loneliness and self-doubt; he leapt, he flew.” struggled to overcome popular stereotypes and —The New York Times Book Review misconceptions; to maintain a relationship with his family; and, most of all, to find a place he



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Carlos Acosta grew up in the slums of Havana and went on to become one of the world’s most famous ballet dancers. He has appeared with ballet companies all over the world and will perform at the New York City Center in January 2009. Originally published in hardcover by Scribner in 2008; 978-1-4165-6629-8, ISBN-10: 1-4165-6629-5 • National author publicity in conjunction with author’s



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JoHN lE CaRRÉ a MoST WaNTED MaN

from the “literary master for a generation” (The London Observer) comes a fiercely compelling and current novel set in Hamburg that plays to all of le Carré’s trademark strengths— Germany, rival intelligence operations, and sympathetic protagonists who discover a taste for moral integrity. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He A Most Wanted Man says his name is Issa. 978-1-4165-9488-8 Annabel, an idealistic young ISBN-10: 1-4165-9488-4 German civil rights lawyer, deter$28.00/NCR mines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career—or safety.



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In pursuit of Issa’s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixtyyear-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance—and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humor, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.



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Gardens of Kyoto

978-0-684-86949-0, ISBN-10: 0-684-86949-0, $14.00/$19.00 Can. “In precise, delicate prose, the author renders with equal power the quiet desperation of a girl growing up in 1950s america and the ethereal.”—The New Yorker “Walbert’s true gift is her ability to create passages and phrases of beauty, and colorful prose….Readers in love with language will adore this book.” —USA TODAY



Our Kind

978-0-7432-4560-9, ISBN-10: 0-7432-4560-1, $12.00/$17.50 Can. “Wry and compressed, full of quick, telling details….zealously grapples with the passage of time as a subject.” —Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review “Our Kind is the book you read along with Updike and Cheever.” —The Washington Post Book World



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A Clearing in the Distance

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Michael Rulhman

The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef ’s Craft for Every Kitchen

978-0-7432-9978-7, ISBN-10: 0-7432-9978-7, $24.00/$28.00 Can. “Michael Ruhlman plainly intends for The Elements of Cooking to be a staple of the amateur home cook’s bookshelf, wedged somewhere in between Joy of Cooking and Marcella Hazan. It has earned its spot.” —The New York Observer “The combination of content and size makes The Elements of Cooking simply the best reference book and educational tool available for anyone interested in the basics of the culinary arts.” —Eric Ripert, chef, le Bernardin



Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker

Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition

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“Dr. Hyman, an expert’s expert on healing, shares his secrets to harvesting your body’s potential.” —Mehmet C. oz, M.D.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Acosta, Carlos, No Way Home, 44 Barnard, Robert, The Killings at Jubilee Terrace, 30 Boudin, Chesa, Gringo, 22 Clark, Carol Higgins, Cursed, 16 Clark, Dan, Gladiator, 5 Cockburn, Patrick, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq, 41 Favorite, Eileen, The Heroines, 7 Grant, Stephanie, Map of Ireland, 34 Jones, Lisa, Broken, 31 Kot, Greg, Ripped, 29 Model, Ph.D., Wendy, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, 40 Neme, Laurel, Animal Investigators, 23 Owens, Janis, The Cracker Kitchen, 9 Parker Jr., John L., Once a Runner, 19 Perlstein, Rick, Nixonland, 24 Price, Reynolds, Ardent Spirits, 27 Rakoff, Joanna Smith, A Fortunate Age, 20 Romm, Robin, The Mother Garden, 6 Rotter, Jeffrey, The Unknown Knowns, 11 Ruhlman, Michael, Ratio, 15

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Rybcynski, Witold, My Two Polish Grandfathers, 4 Sadker, David, and Karen R. Zittleman, Still Failing at Fairness, 18 Stanton, Doug, The Horse Soldiers, 32 Tequila, Tila, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila, 42 Tougias, Michael J., and Casey Sherman, The Finest Hours, 28 Walbert, Kate, A Short History of Women, 35 Weber, Bruce, As They See ’Em, 10 Welch, Suzy, 10-10-10, 12 White, Bailey, Nothing With Strings, 38



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