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Knopf
Summer
2016
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer
Space
Janna Levin
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves--by
an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational
waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably
energy-producing collision of black holes. Now Janna Levin, herself an
astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search over the last fifty years for these
elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive
project ever funded by the National Science Foundation ($1 billion-plus). Levin
delves into the lives and fates of the three scientists (Kip Thorne, Rai Weiss, Ron
Drever) who staked their careers on their obsession to discern the universe's
soundtrack. Levin's account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and
risks of this unfolding story provides us with a uniquely compelling and intimate
portrait of one of the most remarkable discoveries of modern science.
.
BREAKING NEWS: The announcement on February 11, 2016, of the discovery of
gravitational waves was a front-page story, and our book is the first and
authoritative account of that discovery.
AUTHOR: Janna Levin is an astrophysicist and has access to all the major participants in
the endeavor to detect gravitational waves. The three scientists at the center of this book
are her colleagues and this is a story that, until now, has been known only to those most
involved with the project.
APPROACH: Unlike other science books, this is not a discussion of theory or a history of
ideas--it is the story of how science gets done. Its models would include Double Helix
and Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch.
TED TALK: Levin presented "The Sound the Universe Makes" on Ted.com on March 1, 2011.
The video has had nearly 1,000,000 views.
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others
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia
University. She is also director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for arts and sciences in
Brooklyn, and has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra
dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. Her previous books include
How the Universe Got Its Spots and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which
won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She was recently named a Guggenheim fellow.
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of…
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The Hidden Reality/Greene, Brian/HC
Einsteins Cosmos/Kaku, Michio/HC
Einstein's Cosmos/Kaku, Michio/TR
Physics Of The Impossible/Kaku, Michio/HC
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Everybody's Fool
A novel
Richard Russo
A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North
Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third
novel, his first great success.
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some
unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he
only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most
important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for
years... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still
best friends... Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee
figure... Doug Raymer, now chief of police and still obsessing over the identity of
the man his wife might have been having an affair with before she died in a freak
accident... North Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, who also has
a pressing wife problem... and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of
failing upwards might now come to ruin. Everybody's Fool is filled with humor,
heart, hard times, and characters whom you can't help but love for all their faults.
It is classic Russo--and a crowning achievement from one of the greatest
storytellers of our time.
.
NOBODY'S FOOL: The 1993 novel was a huge commercial success, and it's still selling. The
strong film version--starring Paul Newman, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, and Jessica
Tandy--brought many more readers to the book, all of whom will be thrilled to return to
these fabled characters.
EVERYBODY'S FOOL: A sequel, yes, but also a great American novel in its own right, and
it's certainly not necessary to have read the earlier book in order to appreciate the
countless delights this one has to offer. Russo deals again here with some of the themes
that run through Nobody's Fool: free will, change, stasis, continuity, responsibility,
forgiveness, all the bonds of family and community. But the many new wrinkles and
developments in character and plot will both delight his many fans and win him countless
new ones.
THE AUTHOR HIMSELF: Beyond his storytelling prowess, Russo is widely known as perhaps
the most generous, genuine, and charming of living writers. Plus he'll be doing a full-court
press to support Everybody's Fool.
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Page Count: 496
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks
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National Media Appearances, including
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10 to 12-city Author Tour
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Author Residence: Portland, ME
Author Hometown: Gloversville, NY
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and
Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like
Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO mini-series.
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Agency: SOBEL WEBER ASSOCIATES, INC.
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow
David Lagercrantz
From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web--an electrifying
thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young
detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country.
It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a
witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one
is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in
his home: it is widely assumed that he committed suicide, unable to cope with the
humiliation of a criminal conviction for homosexuality. But young detective
sergeant Leonard Corell, who had always dreamed of a career in higher
mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved. In the face of opposition from
his superiors, he begins to assemble the pieces of a puzzle that lead him to one of
the most closely guarded secrets of the war: the Bletchley Park operation to crack
the Nazis' Enigma code. But he is also about to be rocked by two startling
developments in his own life, one of which will find him being pursued as a threat
to national security...
.
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Gay
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 44/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Helen Tobin
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
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Mystery Press
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techno sites
Facebook Advertising Campaign,
targeting fans of The Imitation Game, The
Secret Lives of Codebreakers, Alan
Turing: The Enigma, Robert Harris's
Enigma, The Girl in the Spider's Web,
Stieg Larsson
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AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB: We know David Lagercrantz as the author of
the fourth installment in the Millennium series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, which
debuted at #1 on The New York Times best seller list and sold more than 200,000 copies
in its first week on sale. That's a lot of readers who will want to see what else Lagercrantz
has up his sleeve. And, we might point out (as The Sunday Telegraph does below), that
Turing and Salander have quite a bit in common.
THE IMITATION GAME: Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, and the Enigma code are high on the
public's radar, promising readers a smart, fun, World War II-era mystery.
REVIEWS: MacLehose Press published in May 2015, and below are just some of the great
reviews the book received.
ED'S NOTE: Wilmslow is a pretty, sleepy town in Cheshire, notable as the home of Alan
Turing. In June, 1954, Turing was found dead in his home of cyanide poisoning, a
half-eaten apple beside his bed. It was ruled a suicide.
U.K. Reviews for Fall of Man in Wilmslow
"Absorbing...Gets the synapses sparking...Lagercrantz is at home with a damaged hero
who has more of an affinity with computers than humans." --Jake Kerridge, The Sunday
Telegraph
"Lagercrantz is perceptive in his treatment of the tragic Turing...Perhaps the most signal
achievement here is the clever melding of two narrative forms: a sympathetic biography of
a real historical figure treated appallingly by the establishment, and a police procedural in
which a dogged copper tries to crack a mystery in the teeth of bloody-minded
intransigence." --Barry Forshaw, The Independent
"Has the faintest whiff of W. G. Sebald; haunted characters determined to pull others down
into turbid, oppressive currents of memory and ideas. You are willingly drawn down with
them." --Sinclair McKay, The Spectator
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. As well as
numerous biographies (including the internationally best-selling I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for
which he was the ghostwriter), he has written four novels, including the #1 best-selling The
Girl in the Spider's Web.
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Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Alan Turing: The Enigma (MTI)/Hodges, Andrew/TR
Madman Dreams /Turing Machines/Levin, Janna/HC
Enigma/Harris, Robert/HC
Criptonomicon/Stephenson, Neal/TR
Secret Lives Of Codebreakers/Mckay, Sinclair/TR
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9781400040308
9780679428879
9780380788620
9780452298712
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The Noise of Time
A novel
Julian Barnes
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri
Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker
Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending
1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,
hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced
his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot
dead on the spot), he reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his
parents, various women and wives, his daughter--all of those hanging in the
balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet
another casualty of the Great Terror, for years to come he will be held fast under
the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference
in New York City, forced into joining the Party, and compelled, constantly, to
weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes
elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovich's career, at the same
time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union. The result is both
a stunning portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man and a brilliant meditation on
the meaning of art and its place in society.
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Page Count: 224
Trim Size: 5-1/4 x 7-1/2
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Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman
Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns
National Media Appearances, including
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National Online Interviews, reviews, and
literary blog coverage
Coverage in and on classical music
publications and sites
3-city Author Tour: Boston, New York,
and Portland, OR
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AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Barnes has been a fixture on the Knopf list for thirty years, starting
with Flaubert's Parrot, and all twenty of his books are healthfully in print. Winning the
Man Booker Prize in 2011 cemented his status as one of our most accomplished writers.
MOREOVER: On full display in this book is his extraordinary prose, intelligence,
knowledge, wit, and his profound understanding of human nature and the human
condition.
AN EXPANDED AUDIENCE: This novel will of course appeal to Barnes's many devoted fans
but will also draw in anyone interested in serious music or the stupendous history of the
Soviet Union, with characters on the political side including Stalin, Zhdanov, Khrennikov,
and Khrushchev, and on the cultural side Akhmatova, Stravinsky, Pasternak, Prokofiev,
Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tchaikovsky.
PBS: Their wonderful production of Arthur & George debuted on PBS in September 2015.
PLUS: Barnes has agreed to a reading and promotional tour in the U.S. for the first time in
ten years.
UK PUBLICATION: Jonathan Cape will publish The Noise of Time in January 2016.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: London, England
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty previous books, for which he has received the Man
Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David
Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters; in France, the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for
European Literature; and in 2004 he was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than thirty
languages. He lives in London.
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Vintage
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Vintage
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Knopf
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Anatomy of a Soldier
A novel
Harry Parker
A stunning first novel--of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism--that will
immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at
war.
Captain Tom Barnes, leading British troops in the war zone. Two boys growing
up there sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves
estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. The man who trains
one boy to fight the other's father as well as the infidel invaders. The family and
friends who radiate out from these lives on all sides of this conflict. These are the
people who populate this fiercely dramatic and moving novel. But we see them not
as they see themselves, but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and
boots, a helmet, a trove of dollars, a drone, that bike, weaponry, a bag of
fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, an improvised explosive
device--forty-five different inanimate narrators whose unexpected voices tell the
story of this heart-stopping journey. Anatomy of a Soldier gives us a way to
clearly see and understand those who fight wars in ways we never have before.
.
THE AUTHOR: Harry Parker was twenty-six, a captain of British troops, when he stepped
on the wrong patch of dirt in Afghanistan--out of modesty, he doesn't mention exactly
where in this novel--and lost one leg there and another after he was choppered out of
hell on earth.
THE AUTHOR, II: Despite losing both his legs, Parker is a keen sportsman, and in 2012 he
carried the Olympic torch--at Prince Harry's request--on the day of the Paralympic
opening ceremony. And he is up for doing publicity, which will be a walk in the park for
the soldier he was trained to be. He also happens to be extraordinarily engaging, humble,
and sympathetic.
THE FIRST ADVANCE COMMENT: Edna O'Brien, queen of Irish literature at the age of
eighty-five, says of this thirty-two-year-old's first novel: "This is a brilliant book, direct
from the battle zone, where all the paraphernalia of slaughter is deployed to tell its
particular and savage story."
TOP-DRAWER PUBLISHERS have already bought rights in England, France, Germany,
Holland, Italy, and Spain, with many more to follow.
COMPARABLE TITLES: There's good news here, starting with Kevin Powers's much awarded
The Yellow Birds (2012), set in Iraq. Also, Phil Klay's National Book Award champion
Redeployment (2014), set like this novel in Afghanistan. And finally there's Tim O'Brien's
legendary The Things They Carried (1990), out of Vietnam.
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Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
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Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: Wiltshire, England
HARRY PARKER grew up in Wiltshire and was educated at University College London. He
joined the British Army when he was twenty-three and served in Iraq in 2007 and
Afghanistan in 2009. He now lives with his wife in London, and their first child was born in
October. He's also a painter, attends art school, and completed a postgrad at the Royal
Drawing School. He sea-kayaks in his spare time.
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The Yellow Birds/Powers, Kevin/TR
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk/ Fountain, Ben/HC
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk/ Fountain, Ben/TR
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Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore
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BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
BISAC 2: History - Historiography
BISAC 3: History - United States - 20th Century
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 4-3/8 x 7-1/4
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the story of the
discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and
of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment.
When Joseph Mitchell published his profile of Joseph Gould in the December
1942 issue of The New Yorker, he deemed Gould's purportedly masterful but
rarely seen Oral History project, which allegedly consisted of nine million words
detailing everything anyone ever said to him, "the longest unpublished work in
existence."
But Mitchell, in fact, hadn't read more than a few pages of the Oral History. The
manuscript seemed to have gone missing, along with other of Gould's
possessions--his hair, his sight, his teeth--as he began to sink deeper into
poverty, drink, and destitution. And as Gould neared the end of his life, lying
pathologically, begging for money from friends and strangers alike, and deflecting
publishers' requests to read his work, Mitchell couldn't help but wonder: Had the
Oral History ever existed? After Gould's death in 1957, Mitchell wrote a second
profile in which he insisted that it did not. Was Mitchell wrong?
Joe Gould's Teeth is a literary investigation of this enigmatic figure of the early
twentieth century, who, despite doubts surrounding his sanity, captured the
imaginations of the most prominent writers and artists of the time. Renowned
master of historical storytelling Jill Lepore carefully unravels the riddle of Joe
Gould and his missing manuscript, probing deeply into our collective
self-conscious, the nature of art, and how we define our reality for the future.
Complete with appearances from the likes of E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, and
Augusta Savage, and set against the backdrop of inter-war and post-war New
York's glamour and grime, Joe Gould's Teeth is not only the portrait of one man's
mind, but also a profound meditation on the limits of how well one ever knows
another person.
.
AUTHOR: Lepore's Book of Ages was a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Wall
Street Journal wrote that The Secret History of Wonder Woman "brings that history vividly
into the present, weaving individual lives into the sweeping changes of the century."
SUBJECT: Joe Gould is as unexpected and irresistible a subject as Jane Franklin, the
subjectof Book of Ages. Lepore draws on a wealth of archival records and documents,
including Mitchell's own papers, to bring Gould to life and to explain how his story
continues to haunt writers and readers alike.
AUDIENCE: Readers of literary investigations (A.J.A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo; Janet
Malcolm's The Silent Woman; Nicholson Baker's U and I), as well as readers of the original
New Yorker pieces about Joe Gould by Joseph Mitchell and Jill Lepore.
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Cambridge, MA
Author Hometown: West Boylston, MA
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University
and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her Book of Ages was a finalist for the National Book
Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Up In The Old Hotel/Mitchell, Joseph/TR
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9780385354042
9780804173407
9780385354059
9780307958341
9780307948830
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9780679735755
9780679751403
9780679746317
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Vintage
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Vintage
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Vintage
Vintage
Vintage
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East West Street
On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands
FIRST RAVES
"A monumental achievement ... a profoundly personal account of the origins of
crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." --John
le Carré
"Astonishing and important." --Louis Begley
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Holocaust
BISAC 2: History - Jewish
BISAC 3: Political Science - Genocide & War Crimes
Page Count: 448
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 73 PHOTOGRAPHS AND 4 MAPS;
ENDPAPER MAPS
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A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story and
a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal
concepts that established humanitarian law, the result of the unprecedented
atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich. By an internationally renowned human-rights
lawyer, professor of law at University College, London, and author of Torture Team
("This may well be the most important book to appear since 9/11" --Robert Harris).
In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes
against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent
of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal
grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century before and who'd
moved to Vienna at the outbreak of the First World War, married, had a child (the
author's mother), and then moved to Paris after the German annexation of Austria
in 1938. It was a life that had been shrouded in secrecy with many questions not to
be asked and fewer answers offered if they were.
As the author uncovered, clue by clue, the deliberately obscured story of his
grandfather's mysterious life and of his mother's journey (alone?) as a child
surviving Nazi occupation, Sands realized that his own field of humanitarian law
had been forged by two men--Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht--each of
whom had studied law with the same professors, in the city of his grandfather's
birth, at Lviv University . . . Lemkin and Lauterpacht had not known one another at
school and yet at parallel times had forged diametrically opposed revolutionary
concepts of humanitarian law that had changed the world--and, Sands writes, that
each had dedicated his life to having his legal concept incorporated as a
centerpiece for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals . . .
The author writes of a third man, Hans Frank, Hitler's personal lawyer, who, as
governor-general of Nazi-occupied Poland, ordered the death of more than a
million Jews and Poles, among them the familes of the author, and of Lemkin and
Lauterpacht.
Sands pieces together how all three lives converged in October 1946, in
courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice at the International Military Tribunals at
Nuremberg.
The book's importance in its exploration of the far-reaching concepts of "genocide" and
"crimes against humanity," revolutionary ideas that established humanitarian law.
For anyone interested in the history of law; in humanitarian law; World War II; the
Nuremberg Trials; Nazi Germany.
Comparable titles: Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell; Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost;
John Hersey's Hiroshima; Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.
The author's reputation as a much-admired writer, lecturer, and internationally renowned
human-rights lawyer who has come before international courts such as the International
Criminal Court and the World Court in the Hague, and been involved in many of the most
recent international crime cases, among them: Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, England
PHILIPPE SANDS is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC World Service. In 2003
Sands was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He lives in London, England.
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Black Earth/Snyder, Timothy/HC
A Problem From Hell/Power, Samantha/HC
We Wish to Inform You.../Gourevitch, Philip/TR
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9780230603905
9780230614437
9780670034529
9780143037828
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9780307273482
9781101903452
9780465061501
9780312243357
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Knopf
Tim Duggan Books
Basic Books
Picador
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Everything Explained That Is Explainable
On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated
Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
Denis Boyles
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978-0-307-26917-1
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - World
BISAC 2: Reference - Encyclopedias
BISAC 3: History - Study & Teaching
Page Count: 464
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 49/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 85 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
The audacious, improbable tale of twentieth-century American hucksterism,
outlandish daring, and vision that brilliantly resurrected a dying Encyclopædia
Britannica.
The eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica--the most revered edition
of English-language encyclopedia--represents the high point of optimism and
belief in human progress that dominated Anglo-Saxon vision since the
Enlightenment, combining scholarship and readability in a way no previous
encyclopedia had or ever has again.
In this book, Boyles tells the story of the American tycoon Horace Everett
Hooper--bold, brash, autodidact, natural-born salesman--who found an outdated
set of reference books gathering dust in a warehouse, bought them for almost
nothing, repackaged them, and sold them on credit as "one-shelf libraries" to
farmers . . . His Western Book and Stationary Co. became one of the largest
publishers in the Midwest, selling books directly to readers, bypassing booksellers,
and forging a model that was forever after emulated.
The author writes how Hooper and his partner, Henry Haxton, a brilliant
Chicago adman, found the Encyclopædia Britannica, went to the then-floundering
London Times in search of new ways to increase its readership, and produced and
sold the Encyclopædia Britannica through the then unheard of notion of the Times
Book Club.
We see how, in a frenzy of effort and fanatical conviction, the eleventh edition
was put together--44 million words, 40,000 entries by 1,500-odd contributors,
200 of them women...contributions by the most admired writers, thinkers, and
scientists of the day, including John Muir, Lord Macaulay, G. K. Chesterton,
Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, W. M. Rossetti, among others.
And we see how it all fell apart--the arrangement with the Times, the
eleventh's editorial policy (it caused a scandal), a courtroom battle--before it
came together again and continued on with Cambridge University Press.
.
An extraordinary publishing story: how the Encyclopædia Britannica was saved from
bankruptcy; how the fortunes of the London Times were reversed; how both institutions
were taken over by Americans; and how the creation of the Times Book Club to sell the
eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica changed publishing forever.
Encyclopædia Britannica, eleventh edition: The making and selling of this edition,
steeped in world confidence and a summary of the world's knowledge before the outbreak
of WWI, considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (The New
Yorker).
History: A portrait of the end of the age of empire at its height, with imperialism
unchallenged, the world ruled by monarchs, and the tragedy of the modern world still in
the future.
Marketing and Publicity
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Simon Garfield; Encyclopedia Britannica,
Oxford Dictionary, and much more
.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Les Brouzils, France
Denis Boyles is the coauthor of The Modern Man's Guide to Life and the author of several
books of poetry, travel, and criticism. He is a veteran of National Lampoon, The New York
Times Magazine, and other magazines. He is editor-at-large and a columnist for Men's
Health and editorial director of Nova Media, a San Francisco new media group. He lives in
France.
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Agency: WRITERS REPRESENTATIVES LLC
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Superior, Nebraska/Boyles, Denis/HC
Superior, Nebraska (Ebk)/Boyles, Denis/E…
A Man's Life/Denis Boyles/HC
African Lives/Boyles, Denis/TR
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
The Map That Changed the World/Simon Winchester/HC
The Professor and the Madman/Simon Winchester/HC
On The Map/Garfield, Simon/HC
On The Map/Garfield, Simon/TR
ISBN
9780385516747
9780385524100
9780060951412
9780345356666
ISBN
9780060193614
9780060175962
9781592407798
9781592407804
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10/1996
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1998
12/12
11/13
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
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Agent: GLEN HARTLEY
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Harper Perennial
Ballantine Books
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Harper
Harper
Avery (HC)
Avery (TR)
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$13.99/$15.99
$6.99
$15.00/$22.00
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$23.00
$27.50/$29.00
$17.00/$18.00
Homegoing
A novel
Yaa Gyasi
A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a story of
race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters
torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and
America.
Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different
villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will
live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will
be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as
administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's
dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into
slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America,
from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to
twentieth-century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's novel moves through histories and
geographies and captures--with outstanding economy and force--the troubled
spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT: This is as brilliant and relevant a novel as any we could hope to
publish, and has the potential to win awards, be widely adopted for courses, and become a
classic. The launch of an important new voice.
EARLY BUZZ: Knopf prevailed in an auction that included ten publishers.
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY EVENT: Auctions were conducted in nineteen countries, with
sales pending in several others. The book's publication is destined to be a global literary
event.
SUBJECT: This is a powerful, emotional, major American novel about race and history,
about the lingering residue of colonialism and slavery in the fabric of American culture.
Truly a book for our times.
AUTHOR: Born in Ghana, raised in Alabama, Yaa Gyasi is just twenty-six years old. Her
authority and vision are astonishing.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - African American - Historical
BISAC 2: Fiction - Sagas
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Josefine Kals
Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns
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Women's Magazine Coverage
African American Press
Author Tour, including Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San
Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
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Forward, and First to Read; early
outreach to African American book clubs
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Yorker
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EARLY ACCLAIM
"Gyasi's characters are so fully realized, so elegantly carved--very often I found myself
longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself--drawing not
just a lineage of two sisters, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the
sin of selling humans on Africans, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not
excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly
virtuous victims. Sin comes in all forms, from selling people to abandoning children. I
think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible. I think I needed to
remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing
is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Homegoing is a remarkable feat--a novel at once epic and intimate, capturing the moral
weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles, hopes, and fears. A tremendous
d e b u t " - -Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Berkeley, CA
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of the Iowa
Writers' Workshop and lives in Berkeley, California.
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British: No
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Comparative Titles by Other Authors
The Bluest Eye/Morrison, Toni/TR
The Bluest Eye (Oprah Ed)/Morrison, Toni/HC
The Twelve Tribes/Mathis, Ayana/HC
The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie/Mathis, Ayana/TR
Americanah/Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi/HC
Americanah/Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi/TR
The Known World/Edward P. Jones/HC
The Known World/Edward P. Jones/TR
Breath, Eyes, Memory/Danticat, Edwidge/TR
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Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR
ISBN
9780307278449
9780375411557
9780385350280
9780307949707
9780307271082
9780307455925
9780060557546
9780060557553
9780375705045
On sale
5/07
12/93
12/12
10/13
5/13
3/14
09/03
05/04
5/98
Publisher
Vintage
Knopf
Knopf
Vintage
Knopf
Anchor
Amistad
Amistad
Vintage
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: ERIC SIMONOFF
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$14.00/$17.99
$24.95/$28.95
$24.95
$15.95
$28.95
$15.95
$14.95
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Wintering
A novel
Peter Geye
An exceptional and acclaimed writer joins Knopf with his third novel, far and away
his most masterful book yet.
There are two stories in play here, bound together when the elderly, demented
Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding northernmost
Minnesota wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint--instantly changing the
Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He'd done this once before, thirty-some
years earlier, in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his
eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme to
him--winter already coming on, in these woods, on these waters--as a
reenactment of the ancient voyageurs' journeys of discovery. It's certainly a
journey Gus has never forgotten. Now--with his father pronounced dead--he
relates its every detail to Berit Lovig, who'd waited nearly thirty years for Harry, her
passionate conviction finally fulfilled for the last two decades. So, a middle-aged
man rectifying his personal history, an aging lady wrestling with her own, and with
the entire history of Gunflint.
.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary
BISAC 2: Fiction - Action & Adventure
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews, and
Literary Blog Coverage
Author Tour, including Minneapolis/St.
Paul, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Wisconsin
and upper Midwest
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Also available as an eGalley
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Campaign, targeting fans of Kent Haruf,
David Guterson, Leif Enger, Tim O'Brien,
Robert Olmstead, Tim Gautreaux
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A JAW-DROPPING EPIC: A love story that spans sixty years. Generations' worth of the
families Eide, Aas, and Grimm, as well as the ferocious feuds between them. Sagas
reaching back to Norway. Secrets desperately withheld and ultimately revealed. In this and
other respects, it will remind many readers of the great Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall.
A REAL ADVENTURE: Geye's "a first-rate adventure novelist," according to The New York
Journal of Books, and he delivers a superabundance of physical marvel here: the Devil's
Maw of a river, a fantastic variety of beloved maps, ice floes and waterfalls, endless
portages, a magical abandoned shack, Thanksgiving and Christmas improvised at the far
ends of the earth, the brutal cold, a magnificent bear, the sheer beauty of it all. And men
hunting other men.
WHAT THE AUTHOR BRINGS WITH HIM: The adoration of many peers, reviewers, and
virtually every bookseller in the Upper Midwest, and many more all over the country. With
Geye, touring possibilities are endless.
WHAT ELSE?: Comparisons to David Guterson, Bob Olmstead, Leif Enger, Ivan Doig, even
John Cheever for his fairy-tale ability. But also Tim Gautreaux (also great on frontier life)
and Kent Haruf, since Geye owns Gunflint and its environs as Haruf does Holt, and Kent
would've loved this novel.
AND FOR US?: The opportunity to duplicate Emily St. John Mandel's very successful
transition from Unbridled Books to Knopf with Station Eleven.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Minneapolis, MN
Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Peter Geye was born and raised in Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and their three
children. His previous novels are Safe from the Sea and The Lighthouse Road.
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The Lighthouse Road/Geye, Peter/TR
Safe from the Sea/Geye, Peter/HC
Safe from the Sea/Geye, Peter/TR
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The Clearing/Gautreaux, Tim/HC
The Clearing/Gautreaux, Tim/TR
Clearing, The (Ebk)/Gautreaux, Tim/EL
Plainsong/Haruf, Kent/HC
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Translation: Yes
Agency: LAURA LANGLIE LITERARY AGENT
ISBN
9781101946473
ISBN
9781609530846
9781609531003
9781609530082
9781609530570
ISBN
9780375414749
9781400030538
9780307428257
9780375406188
On Sale
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06/2013
10/2010
9/2011
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5/04
12/07
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Knopf
Publisher
Unbridled
Unbridled
Unbridled
Unbridled
Publisher
Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Knopf
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: LAURA LANGLIE
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Price US/Can.
$24.95
$15.00
$24.95
$14.95
Price US/Can.
$23.00/$35.00
$17.00/$19.00
$13.99/$13.99
$28.95/$33.95
Code Warriors
NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the
Soviet Union
Stephen Budiansky
A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking from its roots in World War II
through the end of the Cold War.
The National Security Agency grew out of the legendary codebreaking
programs of World War II that turned the tide of Allied victory by cracking the
famed Enigma machine and other seemingly impenetrable German and Japanese
codes. But things became murky in the postwar years, when our intelligence
community found itself targeting not battlefield enemies, but suspected spies,
foreign leaders, and even American citizens. Now Stephen Budiansky--a longtime
expert in cryptology--tells the fascinating story of how the NSA came to be, and
of its central, often fraught and controversial role in the major events of the Cold
War, from the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam and beyond. He
also guides us through the fascinating challenges faced by cryptanalysts, and how
they broke some of the most complicated codes of the twentieth century. A
riveting, essential history of the underbelly of the Cold War.
.
CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE: Budiansky puts today's NSA headlines in historical
context, showing how our intelligence efforts have always been guided by the principle of
"getting everything," and how this has created conflicts of interest from the start.
HOW THE SPIES DO IT: Budiansky breaks down the process of cryptanalysis and makes it
accessible to general readers, often with illustrations of the actual code. Aside from
readers interested in codes, this will be of interest to people who love puzzles in general,
which gives us an excellent market to target.
CODES AND PUZZLES: For readers of books like The Code Book by Simon Singh, Code
Warriors has several appendices that dive into the intricacies of Cold War codebreaking.
We see how various encryption machines worked and the science and logic behind the
great breakthroughs. The placement of this material in the appendices allows readers to
study it at their own pace without breaking up the flow of the narrative.
COLD WAR HISTORY: Even people familiar with the history of the Cold War will be
surprised to see how many events involved the NSA: the vast majority of our Cold War
intelligence came through intercepting signals (NSA) rather than running spies (CIA).
BALANCE AND PERSPECTIVE: Budiansky's approach is quite different from that of James
Bamford or Matthew Aid. Their books are works of investigative journalism primarily
aimed at exposing the NSA's reach. Code Warriors tries to understand why and how the
NSA does what it does.
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Category: Political Science
BISAC 1: Political Science - Intelligence & Espionage
BISAC 2: Mathematics - Logic
BISAC 3: History - Military - United States
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 16 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 9
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TXT, 5 MAPS
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Author Residence: Leesburg, VA
STEPHEN BUDIANSKY was the national security correspondent and foreign editor of U.S. News
& World Report; Washington editor of Nature; and editor of World War II magazine. He is the
author of six books of military and intelligence history, including Blackett's War, a
Washington Post Notable Book. He has served as a Congressional Fellow, frequently lectures
on intelligence and military history, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, and others. He is
a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, the leading academic journal of codes,
codebreaking, and cryptologic history.
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The Crow Girl
A novel
Erik Axl Sund
A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER
The newest crime novel sensation: In this shocking and suspenseful psychological
thriller, a police detective must confront a hideous evil that forces her to question
how much suffering one person can inflict upon another before creating a monster.
In a Stockholm city park, police discover the hideously abused body of a young
boy. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling
an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote
resources to solving the murder of a nameless immigrant child. But with the
discovery of two more mutilated children's corpses, it becomes clear that a serial
killer is at large. Jeanette turns to therapist Sofia Zetterlund for her expertise in
psychopathic perpetrators, and their lives become increasingly intertwined,
professionally and personally. As they draw closer to the truth about the
killings--working together but, ultimately, each on her own--we come to
understand that these murders are only the most obvious evidence of a hellishly
insidious evil woven deep into Swedish society. As viscerally dramatic as it is
psychologically intense, The Crow Girl is a tale of almost unfathomably heinous
deeds, and of the profound damage--and the equally profound need for
revenge--left in their wake.
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Translated by Neil Smith.
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THE LATEST SCANDINAVIAN THRILLER PHENOM: The Crow Girl has been a huge
commercial and critical success in Sweden and translation rights have been sold to 38
countries so far. Swedish rave reviews to the tune of "Addictive, intelligent entertainment
of the highest order" (Kristianstadsbladet).
INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER: As a trilogy, The Crow Girl has sold more than 250,000
copies so far in Sweden, and more than 100,000 hardcover copies in France and also 1.2
million copies in Germany since its publication in 2014. It has occupied top-ten positions
on best seller lists in Sweden and Germany for ten weeks. It's also been a top ten best
seller in Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Croatia, Portugal, Russia, and Slovakia, and has
forthcoming publications in Turkey, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, China, Brazil,
Bulgaria, and South Korea.
ACCOLADES FOR THE AUTHORS: In 2012 Erik Axl Sund received the Special Award from
the Swedish Crime Writers Academy. The author duo really stand out among other crime
writers--they have performed many live shows around Eastern Europe with their punk
rock band and also share an art gallery where they host monthly exhibitions together.
THE STORY: At once horrific and heart-wrenching, it involves the trafficking of children,
and gives us yet another riveting look at the unexpectedly dark underbelly of Swedish
society.
HOLLYWOOD: The TV rights to The Crow Girl sold after a long and extremely heated
auction to Tomorrow Studios ITV Studios, in a deal that's rumored to be unprecedented.
The project will be developed as a TV series by executive producer Marty Adelstein (Prison
Break) together with producer Michael London (Sideways, Milk).
978-0-385-34987-1
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Page Count: 784
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 47/32
Carton Count: 12
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Sweden
Author Hometown: Sweden
ERIK AXL SUND is the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander
Sundquist. Håkan is a sound engineer, musician and artist. Jerker has been the producer of
Håkan's electro punk band iloveyoubaby! and as a librarian in a prison. They are now
full-time writers and run an art gallery. Translated by Neil Smith
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9780385349888
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9780307961228
9780307961235
9780345802521
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Dog Gone
A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him
Home
Pauls Toutonghi
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Category: Pets
BISAC 1: Pets - Dogs - General
BISAC 2: Family & Relationships - General
BISAC 3: History - Modern - 20th Century
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/2
Spine/Depth: 32/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 6 ILLUSTRATIONS & 1 MAP
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Author Tour, including Portland, Seattle,
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The true heartwarming story of a lost dog's journey and a family's furious search to
find him before it is too late.
Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian
Trail. His beloved dog--a six-year-old golden retriever named Gonker--bolts into
the woods. Just like that, he has vanished. And Gonker has Addison's disease. If
he's not found in twenty-three days--he will die.
The search begins. Fielding and his father, John, are dispatched to the field.
They have the family's other dog, Uli, in tow. Combing the trails, Fielding and his
father bond like never before. Fielding's sister, Peyton, calls and talks him through
some of his lowest moments. And--at home--Fielding's mother, Virginia, sets up
a command center.
Virginia becomes a field general. With a map and a phonebook at her side--she
contacts animal shelters, police precincts, general stores, community centers,
newspapers, radio stations, churches, and park rangers. She is tireless. The local
paper in Waynesboro writes a small story about the family's search. The story hits
the AP Newswire. Tips--many of them of questionable authenticity--pour in from
across the country. But as the search continues, the Marshalls realize they may not
survive losing him. Even as the wounds of their past return to haunt them and
threaten to jeopardize everything--they know they have one mission: Bring
Gonker home.
With a big heart, intelligent humor, and a deft touch, Pauls Toutonghi tells this
true tale of loss, love, and resilience. Dog Gone is by turns a story about how a
family comes together in a crisis--and the way heroism can assert itself in the little
things we do each day.
COMMERICIAL UPSIDE: A race against time! A matter of life and death! An adorable,
rambunctious dog who has gone missing! A family coming together! Everyday heroes!
Have I mentioned the dog?! Dog Gone is a one-of-a-kind book. It's like Marley & Me
meets All Over but the Shoutin' meets A Walk in the Woods.
AUDIENCE: Dog owners will love this book. Not only does it show the healing powers of
dogs, but it shows (and justifies!) just how far we will go to save a beloved pet. To that
point, this is a book for ALL pet owners, even cat people.
LOST PETS: At this moment, in every town--large or small--a pet is lost. A flyer has been
stapled to a telephone poll, with the word LOST above the cutest picture they had available
to them (unless it's a lost snake because that's just scary). This book is about that
universal experience, and its happy ending will help give all those folks hope that they too
will find their pets.
FAMILY STORY: Yes, this is a "dog book," but it is also the story of an American family
and how they supported one another through hard times.
AUTHOR: Pauls is extremely charming and inquisitive. His readings are incredible.
Booksellers will love him. Other writers already love him. He is married to Peyton Marshall,
a novelist published by FSG, and they are adored in the writers' community. This is Pauls's
first nonfiction book, which should allow us to expose him to a whole new readership.
"A hugely entertaining book. It's got humor, pathos, gorgeous prose, and its details are
arranged with the precision of a jeweler." --Tom Bissell
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Portland, Oregon
Pauls Toutonghi is a first-generation American. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, and
his writing has appeared in Granta, Tin House, One Story, VQR, The Millions, The Rumpus,
Zoetrope, the Boston Review, and many other periodicals. He lives in Oregon. He teaches at
Lewis & Clark College.
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You Had Me At Woof/Klam, Julie/HC
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9780307382153
9780307955722
9780307336750
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9781401310752
9780446546317
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9781416559139
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Crown
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Hachette
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Fatal Pursuit
A novel
Martin Walker
A pair of murders, a little romance, and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of
unfathomable value--Bruno, chief of police, is busy in another mystery set in the
beautiful Dordogne.
At an annual fête in St. Denis, Bruno's biggest worry is surviving in the rally
race. The rally and a classic car parade are new to the festivities and draw a spate
of outsiders with deep pockets, big-city egos, and, in the case of a young
Englishman, an intriguing story. It's the tale of a Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic, lost
somewhere in southern France during World War II. Among the most beautiful
cars ever made, one of only four of its kind, it is worth untold millions and drives
its pursuers mad with greed.
As the parade begins, a local scholar turns up dead--and Bruno suspects
unnatural causes. To complicate matters, a family squabble over land brings to St.
Denis a comely Parisienne who turns Bruno's head. And: there's mounting evidence
that the events in St. Denis are linked to international crime. As usual, Bruno's
village life offers its challenges--but there is always time for a good bottle and a
home-cooked meal.
.
GROWING SALES: Bruno titles across all platforms now exceed 190,000 copies sold, and
each new book wins new readers for the series as well as spurring backlist sales.
UNIQUE HOOK: Fatal Pursuit will introduce a wider audience to the fascinating story of the
Bugatti Type 57, one of which is owned by Ralph Lauren, providing an opportunity to
widen the audience by targeting car aficionados.
ONLINE PRESENCE: Walker has two eBook originals with more than 14,000 in combined
downloads. He actively updates his website (www.brunochiefofpolice.com), which has a
loyal following and features a personal blog, recipes from the books, travel suggestions
for the Périgord region, and more.
AUTHOR APPEAL: Walker has charisma plus. He has committed to a full slate of media and
in-person appearances--booksellers love his visits--and we will add more to his schedule
this time around.
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Category: Fiction
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Crime
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 1 MAP
Series: Bruno, Chief of Police Series
"Life in the Dordogne region of France looks positively idyllic in Martin Walker's enticing
novels." --The New York Times
.
About the Author/Illustrator
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Author Residence: The Dordogne, France Author Hometown: London, England
MARTIN WALKER is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think tank
based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor in chief emeritus and international affairs
columnist at United Press International. His previous novels in the Bruno series are Bruno,
Chief of Police; The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond; The Crowded Grave; The Devil's Cave;
The Resistance Man; The Children Return; and The Patriarch, all international best sellers. He
lives in Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.
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Agency: FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES LTD.
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9780385354172
9780385354189
9780385354158
9780804173421
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9780375405914
9780375705625
9780307269010
9780307389190
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The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear
A novel
Stuart Stevens
ON SALE 6/28/2016
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978-0-451-49319-4
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Humorous
BISAC 2: Fiction - Political
BISAC 3: Fiction - Satire
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
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In this dark comedy from a leading political operative and commentator, a cynical
campaign manager finds his family skeletons coming out of the closet on the eve of
the convention
New Orleans, July 2020: It's hot and sticky and JD Callahan is fighting the
campaign of his life. His candidate, the sitting vice president, is neck and neck
with an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist as the Republicans head into their first
brokered convention in decades. Callahan, a New Orleans native without much
affection for his hometown, is frantically trying to coordinate the convention and
round up delegates when his estranged brother shows up, asks for an
inconvenient favor, and threatens to reveal embarrassing family secrets if JD says
no. Soon after, a series of bombs sets off a mass panic and tilts the convention
toward the vice president's law-and-order opponent. As JD scrambles to contain
the damage, he finds himself contending with a sexy, gun-toting local gossip
columnist, an FBI agent convinced that JD is cynical enough to set the bombs
himself, and a host of family secrets.
The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear is a hilarious, sharply entertaining whodunit
and a knowing satire of our political culture--the perfect summer read for
everyone who says he or she is sick to death of the 2016 campaign, but can't stop
reading about it.
.
TIMING: This is a sharp and entertaining political satire, published into the heart of the
2016 presidential campaign.
INSIDER'S PORTRAIT: Stuart Stevens has worked on several presidential campaigns and
knows this world better than almost anyone. He captures the strange mix of cynicism and
idealism, as well as the bare-knuckle tactics that make our political system so endlessly
fascinating.
CONTROVERSIAL: Stuart's portrait of this world--from journalists to political operatives to
the politicians themselves--is as scathing as it is entertaining, and it may ruffle some
feathers.
MEDIA: Stuart is in high demand as a political commentator and will be on all the key
shows leading up to the elections. The book is a natural fit for those audiences and
discussions and will be highlighted throughout.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Stowe, VT
Author Hometown: Jackson, MS
STUART STEVENS is the author of six previous books, and his work has appeared in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has
written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief,
and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some
of the nation's toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke
College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and UCLA film school. He is a former fellow of the
American Film Institute. This is his second novel.
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The Last Season/Stevens, Stuart/HC
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ISBN
9780385353021
9780385353441
9780743222907
9780743225106
ISBN
9781455513475
9780399161308
9780679448594
9780679472766
On sale
9/15
9/15
8/01
11/07
On sale
05/12
7/13
1/96
9/93
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: PETER MATSON
Publisher
Knopf
Knopf
Simon & Schuster / Free Press
Simon & Schuster / Free Press
Publisher
Twelve
Blue Rider Press (HC)
Random House
Pantheon
Price US/Can.
$24.95/$32.49
$12.99/$14.99
$13.99
Price US/Can.
$25.99
$27.95/$29.50
$24.00/$33.50
$23.00/$30.00
Who Shot Sports
A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
Gail Buckland
ON SALE 7/5/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-35223-9
$45.00/$60.00
Category: Photography
BISAC 1: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Sports
BISAC 2: Sports & Recreation - General
BISAC 3: Sports & Recreation - History
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 9-1/2 x 10-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 280 4-C AND B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Erinn McGrath
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
Sports Press
Men's Magazine Coverage
Coverage in and on Photography
Publications and Sites
Select Author Appearances
Online Advertising Campaign, including
top news, entertainment, lifestyle, and
sports sites
Pinterest Advertising
Facebook Advertising Campaign,
targeting fans of Annie Leibovitz, Richard
Avedon, Al Bello, Cartier-Bresson, Robert
Capa, Georges Demeny, Toni Frissell,
Ernst Haas, Danny Lyon
Outreach to sports and photography blogs
Big Mouth Mailing to all those featured in
the book
Repromotion at the holidays
Jacket Blowups Available
From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll ("I loved this book" --Dwight
Garner, The New York Times): the first book to show the range, cultural importance,
and aesthetics of sports photography through the work of 165 extraordinary
photographers--most of them heralded, most of their names unknown.
Here in almost 300 spectacular images--more than 120 in full color--are great
action photographs; portraits of athletes, famous and unknown; behind the
scenes, athletes off the field; athletes practicing, working out, the daily relentless
effort of training and achieving, physical perfection.
Here are photographs by Al Bello, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Georges
Demeny, Toni Frissell, Ernst Haas, Danny Lyon, Annie Leibovitz, Stanley Kubrick,
and 142 more, names not necessarily known to the public but their photgraphic
work considered iconic...Here are photographs of Willie Mays...Rocky
Graziano...Carl Lewis... Kobe Bryant...Magic Johnson...Satchel Paige...Muhammad
Ali...Serena Williams...Bobby Orr...Jesse Owens...Mark Spitz...Secretariat...
Gail Buckland's text, interwoven throughout and written with a grasp and a
profound understanding of the history of photography, makes clear the
importance and groundbreaking nature of this work and writes of the
photographers and their technical and artistic advancements that, against all odds,
captured the instant of the sport.
Here are the classic images that capture the uncapturable, that allow us to
experience the "kinetic beauty," that give us the essence and meaning--the
transcendent power--of sports.
The Brooklyn Museum will open Who Shot Sports as their major spring exhibition on July
15, 2016, to coincide with the book's publication, and will run for an unheard of, for
them, six months, until January 2017.
The exhibition will travel to Grand Rapids Art Museum from February 3-April 30, 2017;
Tampa Museum of Art, January 5-April 1, 2018; and Allentown Art Museum, May 4-July
29, 2018. More venues to come.
Will open at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, fall 2018.
The Olympic Museum, a cultural arm of the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne,
Switzerland, with satellite museums in China, South Korea, Mongolia, Greece, Poland,
France, Germany, Spain, Egypt, and elsewhere, will open the exhibition for their newly
renovated museum from May 26-December 10, 2017.
The critical and commercial success of Who Shot Rock & Roll
The exhibition based on Who Shot Rock & Roll went to ten museums, opening at the
Brooklyn Museum in 2009 and closing at the Auckland Art Gallery in 2013. It traveled to
the Worcester Art Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Columbia
Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Allentown Art
Museum, and the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
A one-hour television documentary of Who Shot Sports is being made. Will be seen on PBS,
HBO, or Discovery (to be determined).
The Annenberg Space for Photography in LA had their greatest success since the
museum's opening in 2009 with Who Shot Rock & Roll. More than 1,300 books sold there
with long lines of a three-hour wait to see the exhibition.
The Summer 2016 Olympics will take place from August 5 to August 21.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
Gail Buckland has written and been a collaborater on twelve books of photographic history,
including Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton),
The American Century (by Harold Evans), and Who Shot Rock & Roll. She is former curator of
the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, professor of the history of photography at the
Cooper Union, and guest curator at many American museums. She lives in Warwick, New
York, and New York City.
Rights
Territories: World
Audio: Yes
British: Yes
Restriction: World
Author's Previous Titles (Sales Track)
Who Shot Rock And Roll/Buckland, Gail/HC
White House In Miniature/Buckland, Gail/…
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Sports Illustrated 50 Years/HC
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: JANKLOW & NESBIT ASSOCIATES
ISBN
9780307270160
9780393036633
ISBN
9781932273496
On sale
10/09
10/94
On sale
10/04
Publisher
Knopf
WW Norton
Publisher
Sports Illustrated
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: LUKE JANKLOW
Price US/Can.
$40.00/$47.00
$29.95
Price US/Can.
$29.95
Break in Case of Emergency
A novel
Jessica Winter
A smart, irreverent, blistering workplace satire set in the world of a nonprofit
feminist startup, for fans of Then We Came to the End and The Love Affairs of
Nathaniel P.
When Jen takes a poorly defined job at a start-up chaired by Leora Infinitis--a
wealthy sit-com actress and celebrity philanthropist--she finds herself swept into
a toxic office culture ironically steeped in the language of uplift and self-discovery.
The foundation's aim is ostensibly to empower women, but its all-female staff
spends their time devising acronyms for useless programs, ruthlessly undermining
one another, and stroking Leora's ego. Amid the absurd operations of the
foundation, Jen's status anxiety, professional frustrations, and her fear that she
may never have a baby begin to threaten her relationship with her husband and
her two best friends.
Ferociously intelligent, Break in Case of Emergency is a scathingly funny satire
of celebrity do-goodism, as well as a heartfelt exploration of the difficulty of
navigating female friendships as they shift to accommodate marriage and family,
and the unspoken tensions that can erode even the strongest bonds.
.
LITERARY AND COMMERCIAL: This is both super-smart and frothy--brainy and
accessible--summer reading with style and panache.
TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC: The novel will have enormous appeal to young women in their
20s and 30s experimenting with first jobs and adult life.
IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Fresh, witty, and exceptionally sure-handed, Winter's novel delights
with withering observations of the nonprofit world, feminist organizations, relationships,
class anxieties, and pretty much anything in the modern world she can sink her sharp
teeth into. A terrific new voice.
AUTHOR: A former arts editor at Time and O, currently Features Editor of Slate, she is
articulate, young, and highly promotable.
ON SALE 7/12/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-1-101-94613-8
$25.95/$34.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary
BISAC 2: Fiction - Satire
BISAC 3: Fiction - Urban
Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 34/32
Carton Count: 12
.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Jessica Winter is features editor at Slate and the former culture editor of Time. Her writing
has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Bookforum, The Believer, and many
other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Josefine Kals
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews, and
Literary Blog Coverage
Women's Magazine Coverage
Select Author Appearances
Extra Galleys with color covers
Also available as an eGalley
Goodreads and Shelf Awareness
giveaways
National Print Advertising, including
New York Magazine
Online Advertising Campaign on news,
culture, and feminist sites including,
NYTimes.com, SF Chronicle, Slate,
Salon, Jezebel, Bustle
Facebook Advertising Campaign,
targeting 20- and 30-something women
and fans of literary commercial fiction
Reading Group Guide
Jacket Blowups Available
Rights
Territories: US, Canada, open market
Audio: No
British: No
Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Then We Came to the End/ Joshua Ferris/ HC
Then We Came to the End/ Joshua Ferris/TR
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P./Adelle Waldman/ HC
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P./ Adelle Waldman/ TR
The Circle/Eggers, Dave/HC
The Circle/Eggers, Dave/TR
The Knockoff/Sykes, Lucy/HC
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR
ISBN
9780316016384
9780316016391
9780805097450
9781250050458
9780385351393
9780345807298
9780385539586
On sale
3/07
2/08
6/13
5/14
10/13
4/14
5/15
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: CLAUDIA
BALLARD
Publisher
Little, Brown
Back Bay Books
Henry Holt and Co.
Picador
Knopf
Vintage
DDay Gen Adult
Price US/Can.
$23.99
$15.00
$25.00
$15.00
$27.95
$15.95
$25.95/$30.00
Dr. Knox
A novel
Peter Spiegelman
From the author of Red Cat and Thick as Thieves: a gripping new thriller about a
doctor with a potent humanitarian impulse, an unhealthy appetite for risk, and a
knack for finding himself between a rock and a hard place.
When Dr. Adam Knox served with an NGO in Central African Republic, his
attempt to protect patients from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace.
Now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making
house calls--for cash and no questions asked--on those too famous or too
criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is abandoned at his clinic,
Knox is determined to find his family and save him from the not-so-tender
mercies of the child welfare bureaucracy. Knox's search for the volatile woman
who may or may not be the boy's mother leads him and his friend--former Special
Forces operator Ben Sutter--into a labyrinth of human traffickers, Russian
mobsters, and corporate security thugs, and to a powerful, secretive, and utterly
ruthless family that threatens to destroy Dr. Knox and all that he holds dear.
.
ON SALE 7/12/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-0-307-96127-3
$26.95/$35.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - General
BISAC 2: Fiction - War & Military
BISAC 3: Fiction - Medical
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 41/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews, and
Literary Blog Coverage
Mystery Press
Author Tour, including Houston, New
York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, St. Louis,
and Seattle
Extra Galleys with color covers (Also
available as an eGalley)
Prepub Advertising and Promotion on
Shelf Awareness, Early Word, and Library
Journal; early giveaways on GoodReads,
Read it Forward, First to Read;
video/book trailer, June 2016
National Print Advertising in The New
York Times Book Review, full page, July
17, 2016; Los Angeles Times, full
page--tentatively Wednesday, July 20;
The Strand Magazine, Summer issue
Major Online Advertising and
Promotion Campaign: NPR.org
Campaign (15 million unique monthly
visitors); Goodreads Ad Campaign (13
million unique monthly visitors)
Newsletter Ad Campaign: NYTimes,
New Yorker, USA Today, Esquire, EW,
Hollywood Reporter; LAWeekly.com Arts
homepage takeover; Display
Advertising: NYTimes, LATimes, USA
Today, WSJ, Hollywood Reporter, Variety,
Fandango, IMDB, Parade Mag, EW,
BookPage, mystery sites, YouTube
Major Facebook Advertising Campaign
Jacket Blowups Available
INTELLIGENT, LITERARY CRIME WRITER: Spiegelman's brand of thriller is unusually
accomplished, ahead of the pack in its deft plotting and subtly rendered characterization.
He has been praised for the quality of his literary writing in his previous novels, and
among his fans are Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Don Winslow, and Daniel Woodrell. DR. KNOX
won't disappoint!
SERIES: This novel won't be the last readers see of DR. KNOX. We already have a sequel
signed up.
MAJOR MARKETING CAMPAIGN (See Marketing and Publicity)
HOUSE AUTHOR: Spiegelman is an author we have been building--you'll remember his
previous series featuring John Marsh, as well as his stand-alone, Thick as Thieves. He's
got the bona fides, and sales have been growing. It's time to break him out.
REVIEWS: Spiegelman's books have all earned him raves. (Just look at the ones below!)
This one will be no different.
Praise for Thick as Thieves
"A complex, satisfying tale.... Spiegelman's sharp prose and deft plotting elevate this
Ocean's Eleven-style caper story." --Entertainment Weekly
"Heart-pounding, pulse-racing, stomach-dropping moments.... [Spiegelman's] prose
creates a special tension and pictorial vividness, to add to the book's intelligently
structured thriller plot. Readers may find themselves lingering over many of these
well-wrought phrases before racing to the final exciting page." -- The Wall Street Journal
"A pure delight.... Heists, money-laundering, and smart plotting in a novel that's
reminiscent of Elmore Leonard's best work." --Jeffery Deaver
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Rigefield, Connecticut
Peter Spiegelman is the author of Thick as Thieves, and the John March novels, Black Maps
(winner of the 2004 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel), Death's Little Helpers, and Red
Cat.
Rights
Territories: US, Canada, open market
Audio: Yes
British: No
Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt
Author's Previous Titles (Sales Track)
Thick As Thieves/Spiegelman, Peter/HC
Thick As Thieves/Spiegelman, Peter/TR
Thick As Thieves (Ebk)/Spiegelman, Peter…
Red Cat/Spiegelman, Peter/HC
Red Cat/Spiegelman, Peter/TR
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
The Murderer's Daughter/Kellerman, Jonathan/HC
The Burning Room/Connelly, Michael/HC
Solitude Creek/Deaver, Jeffery/HC
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: DENISE MARCIL LITERARY AGENCY
ISBN
9780307263179
9781400097050
9780307596802
9780307263162
9781400097043
ISBN
9780345545312
9780316225939
9781455517152
On sale
7/11
7/12
7/11
2/07
2/08
On sale
8/15
11/14
05/15
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: DENISE MARCIL
Publisher
Knopf
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Knopf
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Little, Brown
Grand Central
Price US/Can.
$24.95/$27.95
$13.95/$16.95
$9.99/$12.99
$22.95/$29.95
$12.95/$14.95
Price US/Can.
$28.00/$36.00
$28.00
$28.00
Zo
A novel
Xander Miller
ON SALE 7/12/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
A riveting fiction debut--a love story, told in gorgeous prose, and set on an
extraordinary stage: Haiti, on the eve of the 2010 earthquake.
When we first meet Zwazo Delalun--Zo--as a young orphan in a fishing village
in Haiti, he already possesses every trademark of a hero: he's handsome, strong,
independent, honest, courageous, and determined to make a life for himself, on
his own terms. As he grows up, Zo comes to possess something else, too--an
unfailing instinct for how to make a woman happy. And yet he has never been in
love. Until the morning when, working under the broiling sun as a day laborer, he
meets the stunning twenty-one-year-old Anaya. Instantly, fiercely, the two are
attracted to each other. But Anaya's rich and powerful father wants her to marry
the man he has chosen for her--a well-regarded doctor, just like himself.
Zo and Anaya therefore love in secret, wherever they can, and at any hour they
can find. But just as they think they have found a way to be together, an
unstoppable force crosses their path: an earthquake that roils the ground beneath
their feet and rips their country apart. Lost to one another, wounded, each fears
the other has died. In the face of the suffering that blankets the island, Zo must
risk everything to try to find the woman he loves. Impassioned and suspenseful,
this luminous debut captures the sensory splendor of Haiti as it tells an
unforgettable story--of love and heartbreak, forgiveness and redemption.
.
DEBUT: A staggeringly immediate, fresh new voice that will garner major critical attention.
Miller gives us a Haiti drawn with elemental power.
COMPS: The richness and verisimilitude about the Caribbean of the work of Edwidge
Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, and Madison Smartt Bell; a gripping story with the unabashed
romance of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera; and a evocative journey
to a magical, culturally rich landscape, recalling prior breakout debuts: Téa Obreht's The
Tiger's Wife, Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and Tiphanie Yanique's
Land of Love and Drowning.
INSPIRATION: Miller rushed to Port-au-Prince as a volunteer medic after the earthquake hit
in 2010. While there, he met a man whose life would become the foundation for this
modern-day Romeo-and-Juliet tale. Miller is a young star in the making with a compelling
backstory that will attract off-the-book-page coverage.
978-1-101-87412-7
$26.95/$35.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
BISAC 2: Fiction - Magical Realism
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 37/32
Carton Count: 12
.
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Helen Tobin
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews, and
Literary Blog Coverage
Women's Magazine Coverage
Select Author Appearances
Extra Galleys with color covers
Also available as an eGalley
Pre-pub Promotion through Facebook,
Goodreads, and Shelf Awareness
National Print Advertising in The New
York Times Book Review
Online Advertising Campaign, including
NYTimes.com, Salon, and the Litbreaker
network
Facebook and Goodreads Advertising,
targeting fans of Edwidge Danticat,
Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the
Time of Cholera, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's
Wife, Anthony Marra's A Constellation of
Vital Phenomena, and Tiphanie Yanique's
Land of Love and Drowning, among
others.
Reading Group Guide and reading
group promotion
Library Marketing Campaign, including
EarlyWord and Library Journal
Jacket Blowups Available
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Santa Fe, NM
Author Hometown: OH
XANDER MILLER has worked for the national parks in Washington and Arizona, and as an
emergency medical technician in New Mexico. During and after the 2010 Haitian earthquake,
he was a volunteer EMT and founded a nonprofit called Ambulance for Haiti. Zo is his first
novel.
Rights
Territories: US, Canada, open market
Audio: Yes
British: No
Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt
Other Editions of This Title (Title Family)
E-book
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Land Of Love And Drowning/Yanique, Tiphanie/HC
Land Of Love And Drowning/Yanique, Tiphanie/EL
Claire Of The Sea Light/Danticat, Edwidge/HC
Claire Of The Sea Light (Ebk)/Danticat, Edwidge/EL
Constellation Of Vital Phenom/Marra, Anthony/HC
Constellation Of Vital Phenom/Marra, Anthony/TR
Constellation Of Vital Ph(Ebk)/Marra, Anthony/EL
The Tiger's Wife/Obreht, Tea/HC
The Tiger's Wife/Obreht, Tea/TR
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: THE GERNERT COMPANY
ISBN
9781101874134
ISBN
9781594488337
9780698168800
9780307271792
9780385349680
9780770436407
9780770436421
9780770436414
9780385343831
9780385343848
On Sale
7/16
On sale
7/14
7/14
8/13
8/13
5/13
2/14
5/13
3/11
11/11
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: SETH FISHMAN
Publisher
Knopf
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
Riverhead Trade
Knopf
Vintage
Hogarth
Hogarth
Hogarth
Random House
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price US/Can.
Price US/Can.
$27.95/$32.95
$11.99/$13.99
$25.95/$30.00
$11.99/$12.99
$26.00
$16.00
$11.99
$25.00/$28.95
$16.00/$19.00
This Must Be the Place
A novel
Maggie O'Farrell
An irresistible love story for fans of The Beautiful Ruins and Where'd You Go,
Bernadette : Maggie O'Farrell's This Must Be the Place is a smart, sophisticated,
spellbinding summer read that captures the collapse--and reawakening--of an
extraordinary marriage.
Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and
a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with
Claudette, a world-famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive
life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two
more children in blissful seclusion--until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to
destroy their meticulously constructed and fiercely protected home. What follows is
a journey through Daniel's many lives told in his voice and the voices of those who
have made him the man he is: the American son and daughter he has not seen for
many years; the family he has made with Claudette; and irrepressible, irreverent
Claudette herself. Shot through with humor and wisdom, This Must Be the Place is
a powerful rumination on the nature of identity, and the complexities of loyalty
and devotion--a gripping story of an extraordinary family and an extraordinary
love.
.
BEST-SELLING, AWARD-WINNING BRITISH WRITER: The Hand That First Held Mine won
the Costa Novel Award for the best novel of the year in 2010, The Distance Between Us
won the Somerset Maugham Award. O'Farrell's work garners first-rate reviews and massive
sales overseas. This Must Be the Place is superbly written and utterly engrossing, a perfect
summer read that has the potential to deliver commensurate sales and stature in America.
SETTING AND SUBJECT: Hilarious set pieces in Los Angeles provide a brilliant, satirical
look at contemporary Hollywood, celebrity culture, and fame, and the remainder of the
novel is beautifully set in rural Ireland. Along with the novel's central love story, a terrific
hook for American audiences.
COMPS: O'Farrell's gifts for creating page-turning novels that abound in texture and
emotion are comparable to those of Maria Semple, Meg Wolitzer, Kate Atkinson, and Anne
Tyler. This is smart, accessible commercial fiction of the first order.
ON SALE 7/19/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-34942-0
$26.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Historical
BISAC 2: Fiction - Humorous
BISAC 3: Fiction - Sagas
Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 40/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 27 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Helen Tobin
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances, including
NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews,
and Literary Blog Coverage
Women's Magazine Coverage
Extra Galleys with color covers
Also available as an eGalley
Prepub Promotion through Facebook,
Goodreads, First to Read, Read It
Forward, and Shelf Awareness
National Print Advertising Campaign,
including New York magazine
Online Advertising Campaign on news
and culture sites, including NYTimes.com,
SFChronicle.com, LATimes.com,
WashingtonPost.com, Guardian, Salon,
BookPage
Facebook Advertising Campaign,
targeting fans of Maria Semple, Meg
Wolitzer, Kate Atkinson, Anne Tyler,
Reading Group Center, and more
Reading Group Guide
Reading Group Promotion
Library Marketing Campaign, including
advertising on Early Word and Library
Journal
Jacket Blowups Available
.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London
Author Hometown: Northern Ireland
Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland and now
lives in London. She has worked as a waitress, chambermaid, bike messenger, teacher, arts
administrator, and journalist in Hong Kong and London, and as the deputy literary editor of
The Independent on Sunday. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone (2000), won a Betty Trask
Award and was followed by My Lover's Lover (2002); The Distance Between Us (2004),
winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006); The Hand
That First Held Mine (2010), winner of the Costa Novel Award; and Instructions for a
Heatwave (2013).
Rights
Territories: US, open market (no Europe, no
Canada)
Audio: Yes
British: No
Restriction: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)
Author's Previous Titles (Sales Track)
Instructions For A Heatwave/O'Farrell, M…
Instructions For A Heatwave/O'Farrell, M…
Instructions For A Heat (Ebk)/O'Farrell,…
The Hand That First Held Mine/O'Farrell,…
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Beautiful Ruins/Jess Walter/HC
Beautiful Ruins/Jess Walter/TR
Where'd You Go, Bernadette/ Maria Semple/ HC
Where'd You Go, Bernadette/ Maria Semple/TR
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: C. FLETCHER & COMPANY, LLC
ISBN
9780385349406
9780345804716
9780385349413
9780547330792
ISBN
9780061928123
9780061928178
9780316256193
9780316204262
On sale
6/13
5/14
6/13
4/10
On sale
06/12
04/13
11/12
04/13
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: CHRISTY
FLETCHER
Publisher
Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher
Harper
HarperPerennial
Little, Brown
Back Bay Books
Price US/Can.
$25.95
$14.95
$11.99
$25.00
Price US/Can.
$26.99
$15.99
$25.99
$14.99
The Accidental Life
An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about
writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing
business.
Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the
most influential beacons of American journalism: from his early days at Outside
through tenures at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and, most
recently, as cofounder of LitHub. Now he tells us what really happens between
editors and writers--behind the scenes and between the lines--with deadlines
ticking. Here are intimate portraits of the most important (and most eccentric)
journalists, novelists, and media personalities: from Hunter S. Thompson and
George Plimpton to Richard Ford and James Salter; from David Carr and Steve Jobs
to Jimmy Buffett and one remarkable Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. And here
is an insider's unimpeachable advice on how to get, and keep, the best writers;
what makes a great lede and headline; how to style a cover that flies off
newsstands (whether or not there's a celebrity on it); how to build the online
traffic that translates into dollars; and how--in whatever format--a good editor
really works. From the storied past to today's tumultuous media landscape, this is
an incisive, galvanizing account of the pressures, joys, and obsessions of a writing
and editing life.
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AUTHOR: McDonell seems to know everyone in the business and has stories about all of
them; his network will be a major asset in promotion.
INSIDE LOOK: Like The Devil Wears Prada, The Kid Stays in the Picture, or the acclaimed
documentary The September Issue, this book pulls back the curtains on an exclusive,
ego-saturated world. As with Michael Herr's Dispatches and Timothy Crouse's classic The
Boys on the Bus, it is journalism about journalism, both hilarious and profound.
VOICE: McDonell's no-nonsense, matter-of-fact style captures the clip and drama of the
writing and publishing universes: it is a reading experience as exhilarating as it is probing
and astutely observed.
GUIDE: Short chapters on magazine how-tos will be invaluable resources for young
writers, or anyone curious about how the news, and stories, are really shaped.
INDUSTRY INSIDER: McDonell's career spans the 1970s through today, during which many
media outlets--and their founders--have risen and fallen, inside stories that in
themselves made headlines. He recognizes the challenges of saving our publishing
institutions even as he reaches for new opportunities in the digital age.
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
Memoirs
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Editors,
Journalists, Publishers
BISAC 3: Language Arts & Disciplines - Journalism
Page Count: 384
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 18 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
TERRY MCDONELL is an award-winning veteran of the publishing industry. He has edited
Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Outside, among others, and was a
leader of the migration to digital media. He is widely published as a journalist, novelist, and
poet, as well as writing and producing for film and television. His magazines and websites
have won seven Ellie awards (presented by the American Soceity of Magazine Editors), and
he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2012.
McDonell is president of the board of The Paris Review and serves on the board of overseers
of the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Collected Poems
Marie Ponsot
At last, the stunning lifework of this beloved, prize-winning poet gathered in one
volume, covering sixty years of poetry, from 1956 to 2016.
Born in 1921, Marie Ponsot began her career in 1956 with True Minds, one of
the famous Pocket Poets pamphlets published by City Lights. After this auspicious
beginning, Ponsot went on to an unconventional career and would not publish
again until 1981, when Admit Impediment was published by Knopf. Her
reemergence--after raising seven children and always writing, if not actively
publishing--brought us a writer of mature wit, unusual rhythms and a poetry of
sparkling surface, though her ear is tuned always to the deeper music of human
feeling. Ponsot values the local and personal as a proving ground for the grand
mysteries, and in examining the powerful underground life of women, her poetry
is as practical as it is profound.
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REVIEW ATTENTION: Ponsot's selected poems, Springing (2002), saw her praised on the
cover of The New York Times Book Review, and we should see her similarly celebrated
here for this six decades of work which includes some wonderful new poems written
during this tenth decade of her life.
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Category: Poetry
BISAC 1: Poetry - American - General
BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors
BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Family
Page Count: 528
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/8
Spine/Depth: 50/32
Carton Count: 12
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York NY
Marie Ponsot's books include The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle
Award for poetry in 1998, and, most recently, Easy. Professor emerita of English at Queens
College, CUNY, she has also taught at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and
the New School. Her awards include the Phi Beta Kappa Medal, the Shaughnessy Prize of the
Modern Language Association, and the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for lifetime
achievement. She lives in New York City.
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Peacock & Vine
On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
A. S. Byatt
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Category: Literary Collection
BISAC 1: Literary Collections - Essays
BISAC 2: Design - Textile & Costume
BISAC 3: Design - History & Criticism
Page Count: 192
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 6-3/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 50 FULL-COLOR IMAGES IN TEXT
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This ravishing book opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of
Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are
passions of the writer A. S. Byatt.
Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s, Fortuny and Morris were seeming
opposites: Fortuny a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete
and Knossos; Morris a member of the British bourgeoisie, enthralled by Nordic
myths. Through their revolutionary inventions and textiles, both men inspired a
new variety of art that is as striking today as when it was first conceived. In this
elegant meditation, Byatt traces their genius right to the source.
Fortuny's Palazzo Orfei in Venice is a warren of dark spaces imbued with the
rich hues of Asia. In his attic workshop, Fortuny created intricate designs from
glowing silks and velvets; in the palazzo he found "happiness in a glittering
cavern" alongside the French model who became his wife and collaborator,
including on the famous "Delphos" dress--a flowing, pleated gown that evoked
the era of classical Greece.
Morris's Red House outside London, with its Gothic turrets and secret gardens,
helped inspire his stunning floral and geometric patterns; it likewise represented a
coming together of life and art. But it was a "sweet simple old place" called
Kelmscott Manor in the countryside that he loved best--even when it became the
setting for his wife's love affair with the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Generously illustrated with the artists' beautiful designs--pomegranates and
acanthus, peacock and vine--among other aspects of their marvel-filled worlds,
A.S. Byatt brings the visions and ideas of Fortuny and Morris to vivid life.
AUTHOR/BACKLIST: Reviewers and readers are drawn to whatever fascinates the capacious
mind of A. S. Byatt. Her most recent novel, The Children's Book, which has nearly 100,000
copies in print across all formats, was hailed by critics from coast to coast, and was named
a best book of the year by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and
Salon, among others. Her now-classic Possession won the Booker Prize and has sold more
than 725,000 copies across formats.
NONFICTION: Although best known for her fiction, Byatt has published a number of works
of literary criticism. But here she turns to nonfiction--with her eye toward visual arts and
fashion--in a way that's new and exciting as well as personal and engaging.
FASHION: Liberty prints that often feature Morris's designs are of growing popularity, and
as such this book will draw strong interest from women's magazines and among a general
fashion audience.
FORMAT: A small-format hardcover, beautifully produced with more than 50 full-color
images throughout--ideal for museums, libraries, and design and other specialty shops.
SUBJECTS: Readers will be drawn into Byatt's own fascination with these designers'
works--whether they have heard of them or not.
PUBLICATION/TIMING: Chatto will publish in the UK in July 2016, just a month before
Byatt's 80th birthday in August.
Praise for A. S. Byatt:
"Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into
being." --The New York Times
"She has a roving imagination; an uncanny ability to create ageless, read-aloud prose...and
a fascination with the variety and uses of art." -- The Washington Post Book World
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, UK
A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's
Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also written two novellas,
published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories and several works of
nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for
her "inspiring contribution to life writing," she lives in London.
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Divorce Is in the Air
A novel
Gonzalo Torné
The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny,
acerbic novel about love--and the end of love--and how hard it can be to let go.
There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't
know--but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first
marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in
a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance. The recollection of
this ill-fated trip triggers in him a series of flashbacks through which he narrates
his life story, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid. Starting from pivotal
moments in his childhood--his earliest sexual encounters, his father's suicide, his
mother's emotional decline--he moves through the years to the origin of his
relationship with Helen and the circumstances surrounding its deterioration. The
result is a provocative exploration of memory, nostalgia, romance, the ways in
which the past takes hold--a powerful portrait of a man struggling with his
illusions about life and love.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary
BISAC 2: Fiction - Psychological
BISAC 3: Fiction - Urban
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
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UP-AND-COMING AUTHOR: Torné is one of the most promising new writers in Spain,
poised for an international readership.
HIGHLY ORIGINAL: The narrative is mostly flashback--playful and layered in its structure,
a high-wire act. The first-person voice is distinctive, wry, self-deprecating, and creates an
unusually intimate relationship between narrator and reader: we become complicit in the
narrator's mistakes and manipulations.
GENERATIONAL TOUCHSTONE: Torné has a sharp wit and he skewers the trappings of our
modern lives: post-divorce dating, social media, aging parents. He does for
forty-somethings what Ben Lerner in Leaving the Atocha Station did for
thirty-somethings.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS: Harvill Secker in the UK will publish alongside us. The
book is also being published in Italy, Germany, Holland, Brazil, and France.
POLARIZING: Joan-Marc is deeply flawed--and this portrait may be controversial--but we
are all the more likely to relate because of it.
Praise for Gonzalo Torné
"At last a momentous occasion in the landscape of new Spanish writing. One has to go
back a long time to find an equivalent to Gonzalo Torné, who joins straight away the top
flight of writers, the first of his generation to do so . . . Readers and booksellers, make
room for him: great literature still comes forth." --Ignacio Echevarría (Spain's most
important literary critic)
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Barcelona
Author Hometown: Barcelona
GONZALO TORNÉ is the author of two previous novels published in Spain, for which he won
the Premio Jaén de Novela and was a finalist for the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. He has
also translated work by William Wordsworth and John Ashbery into Spanish. He lives in
Barcelona. Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
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Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning
A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they
shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship.
By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind
Union lines, in what became known as "contraband camps." These were crowded,
dangerous places, yet some 12-15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population
took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places
Northerners came to know former slaves en masse. Ranging from stories of
individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled
Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union
soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to
destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of re-enslavement.
But it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American
civil and military authority, and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship, to
the benefit as well as the lasting cost of African-Americans.
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TOPICALITY: This is the foundational moment of black citizenship, whose unresolved
problems lately have seized the national discourse anew.
AUDIENCE: Readers are continuously interested in the American Civil War, its aftermath,
and the African-American experience. Witness the success of books such as The Warmth of
Other Suns , Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering, and Slavery By Another Name
by Douglas Blackmon
SUCCESS OF MANNING'S PREVIOUS BOOK: What This Cruel War Was Over was the recipient
of the Avery O. Craven Award and a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - United States - Civil War Period
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BISAC 2: History - United States - 19th Century
BISAC 3: Social Science - Discrimination & Race
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Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 45/32
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Illustrations: 2 PHOTOS & 5 MAPS IN TEXT
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Rave reviews for What This Cruel War Was Over
"An essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War." - - T h e
Philadelphia Inquirer
"A breathtakingly thorough examination of attitudes toward slavery of the rank-and-file
troops, blue and gray, black and white." --Glenn C. Altschuler, Baltimore Sun
"An engrossing study of Civil War soldiers . . . by breathing life into them, she breathes
life into debates over why the war came and how it was waged." --Michael S. Green,
Chicago Tribune
"A splendid book that should be read carefully by all who have an interest in the Civil
War." --Richard M. McMurry, Civil War News
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Braintree, MA
Chandra Manning graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1993,
received the M.Phil from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1995, and her Ph.D. at
Harvard in 2002. She has taught history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma,
Washington, and at Georgetown University. Currently, she serves as Special Advisor to the
Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She lives in
Braintree, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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The Promised Land/Lemann, Nicholas/TR
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The Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright
Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the
Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent
beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became
generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the
Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching
that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how
al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include an
indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of
the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but
already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the
2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in disparate values of human
lives. Others continue to look into al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its
future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a
growing web of terror in the world. The American response is covered in profiles
of two FBI agents and a chief of the CIA. It ends with the recent devastating piece
about the capture and beheading by ISIS of four American journalists and aid
workers, and how our government failed to handle the situation.
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LARGE AUDIENCE: Two of Wright's last three books--The Looming Tower and Going
Clear- - w e r e New York Times best sellers, and all, including Thirteen Days in September,
were on the front cover of The New York Times Book Review, and were reviewed widely
elsewhere.
TIMELY: September 2016 is the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11--a good time to look back
at where we've been and to see where we might be headed in our "war on terror."
INFORMATIONAL: Although we've come a long way in understanding what is happening
in the Middle East, these pieces will further our knowledge. Wright has added an
introduction and some updating of material in the pieces.
PUBLICITY: Wright is great at publicity, and a very successful speaker for the Knopf
Speaker's Bureau.
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-35205-5
$28.95/$38.95
Category: Essays
BISAC 1: Literary Collections - Essays
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Composers &
Musicians
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Religious
Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 40/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Erinn B. Hartman
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances, including
CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, and
print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews, and
Blog Coverage
Coverage in and on Foreign Policy
Publications and Sites
Outreach to World Affair councils
Author Tour, including Austin, New York,
and Washington D.C.
Extra Galleys
Also available as an eGalley
National Print Advertising Campaign,
including The New York Times Book
Review
Online Advertising Campaign, including
NYTimes.com, WashingtonPost.com,
CNN.com, LATimes.com, Foreign Affairs,
Economist, Politico, Reuters, and
Facebook
Academic Advertising in the American
Political Science Review and the
Chronicle of Higher Education
Jacket Blowups Available
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About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Austin, Texas
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of eight previous books
of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and Thirteen Days in September,
and one novel. His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize.
He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin,
Texas.
Rights
Territories: US, Canada, open market
Audio: No
British: No
Restriction: US, Canada, Open Mkt
Author's Previous Titles (Sales Track)
Thirteen Days In September/Wright, Lawre…
Thirteen Days In September/Wright, Lawre…
Thirteen Days In Sept (Ebk)/Wright, Lawr…
Going Clear/Wright, Lawrence/HC
Going Clear/Wright, Lawrence/TR
Going Clear (Ebk)/Wright, Lawrence/EL
Comparative Titles by Other Authors
The Great War of Our Time/Morell, Michael/HC
Black Flags/Warrick, Joby/HC
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: THE WYLIE AGENCY LLC
ISBN
9780385352031
9780804170024
9780385352048
9780307700667
9780307745309
9780385350273
ISBN
9781455585663
9780385538213
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Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: ANDREW WYLIE
Publisher
Knopf
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