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How to Fly a Horse
The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton
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Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 38/32 Carton Count: 12
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Inspiring and empowering, this journey behind the scenes of humanity's greatest
creations reveals the surprising way we make something new.
What do Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe, Coca Cola, and Chanel No. 5 have in
common? They all depended on a nineteenth-century African boy who, with a single
pinch, solved one of nature's great riddles and gave birth to the multimillion-dollar vanilla
industry. Kevin Ashton opens his book with the fascinating story of the young slave who
launched a flavor revolution to show that invention and creation come in unexpected
shapes and sizes. From the crystallographer's laboratory where the secrets of DNA
were first revealed by a long-forgotten woman, to the electromagnetic chamber where
the stealth bomber was born on a 25-cent bet, Ashton weaves tales of humanity's
greatest creations to unpack the surprising true process of discovery. Drawing on the
Amish and the iPhone, Kandinsky and cans of Coke, Lockheed, South Park, and the
Wright brothers--who set out to "fly a horse"--he showcases the seemingly unremarkable
individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary--and usually
uncredited--acts that led to our most astounding breakthroughs. Creators, he shows,
apply everyday, ordinary thinking that we are all capable of in particular ways, taking
thousands of small steps, working in an endless loop of problem and solution. He
explores why innovators meet resistance and how they overcome it, why most
organizations stifle creative people, and how the most creative organizations work. In a
passionate and profound narrative that amazes and inspires, Ashton's book sheds new
light on how "new" comes to be.
AUTHOR IS AN INNOVATOR: Kevin Ashton coined the term "the Internet of Things," a phrase
that is suddenly on everyone's lips and was just added to the Oxford Dictionaries. Ashton
speaks on innovation to business audiences internationally.
A BIG IDEA BOOK ABOUT NEW IDEAS: This is for the listener of TED Talks, attendee of
SXSW, reader of Malcolm Gladwell and Wired. Ashton appeals to artists and
entrepreneurs--idea people of all stripes--who aspire to make their mark on the world.
ENGAGING WRITING: Ashton's style is upbeat, instantly quotable, powered by unusual passion
and original thought. His work crosses centuries, it surprises and inspires, and even awes with
its polymathic range of reference.
Author Residence: Austin, TX
Kevin Ashton began his career at Procter & Gamble, where he led pioneering work on
RFID (radio frequency identification) networks, for which he coined the term "the Internet
of Things." He went on to co-found the Auto-ID Center at MIT and led three successful
start-ups in the field. His writing about innovation and technology has appeared in
Quartz, Medium, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. His speaking is handled by the
Leigh Bureau.
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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
A Novel
Irvine Welsh
The famed--some would say notorious--author of Trainspotting and many other
brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with
a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading
glitter of Miami's South Beach, with a novel that asks the provocative question:
Why would you want to be "the Biggest Loser" anyway?
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently
crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway at
night, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy
becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though: the "crazed gunman," turns out to
be a victim of child sexual abuse and the two men are serial pedophiles.
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The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by
Lucy's heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrolls as a
client at her Bodysculpt gym. It quickly becomes clear that Lena is more interested in
Lucy's body than her own. Then, when one of the pedophiles she allowed to escape
carries out a heinous sex attack, Lucy's transition from hero to villain is complete. When
Lucy imprisons Lena, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the
real problems start. In Lucy and Lena, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most
memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sadomasochistic folie à
deux in contemporary fiction. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great
obsessions of our time--how we look and where we live--and tells a story so subversive
and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.
THE FAMED SCOTTISH NOVELIST ARRIVES ON THESE SHORES FOR THE FIRST
TIME--AND WITH NO LESS CORROSIVE COMIC ENERGY: Welsh pulls off the American
setting and our obsessions with weight loss and personal appearance without a hitch or false
note.
ANY AND ALL RESEMBLANCES TO CERTAIN TELEVISION REALITY-SHOW
PSYCHO-BULLIES IN SPANDEX BROWBEATING A BUNCH OF HAPLESS CHUBSTERS
ARE COMPLETELY COINCIDENTAL.
THE CULT OF IRVINE WELSH PERSISTS--AND IT'S NOT JUST TRAINSPOTTING THAT
CAUSED IT: More than 400,000 copies of his novels have been sold in the U.S. since the first
publication of The Acid House in 1994.
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUTHOR PROMOTION: Irvine Welsh now lives in
Chicago and is a spectacularly good reader; the combination of his heavy Scottish accent with
the all-American subject matter of this novel is a delicious prospect.
Author Residence: Chicago, IL
Irvine Welsh is the author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork
Nightmares, The Acid House, and, most recently, Skagboys. He currently lives in
Chicago, IL.
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The Half Brother
A Novel
Holly LeCraw
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Evocative of Dead Poets Society and The Starboard Sea, Holly LeCraw's The Half
Brother is the story of secrets and betrayals between two brothers set amid the
ivy-covered walls of an elite New England boarding school.
When Charlie Garrett arrives as a young teacher at the Abbott School, he finds a
world steeped in privilege and tradition. The school's green quads are lined by gothic
stone halls, students dart across campus in blazers and bright plaid skirts. Fresh out of
college and barely older than the students he teaches, Charlie longs to find his place in
the rarefied world of Abbottsford. He is particularly drawn to the school chaplain, Preston
Bankhead, and Preston's beautiful daughter, May. Then, Charlie's younger half brother,
Nick, arrives on campus. Nick is, quite literally, the golden child, with sandy blond hair
and a dazzling smile. Teachers welcome him warmly, students stay late to talk after
class, and May Bankhead proves susceptible to his magnetic draw. As Charlie sees the
unmistakable connection between his first love and his half brother, he struggles with
emotions far more complicated than mere jealousy. A terrible secret threatens to
surface, and Charlie's peaceful campus life is shattered. A complex, sexy, page-turning
novel, Holly LeCraw's latest asks us just how much we will sacrifice to protect those we
love and how far we will go to keep the past safely buried.
TWIST ON A BOARDING SCHOOL STORY: From J. D. Salinger to Curtis Sittenfeld, prep
school novels are perennial favorites, and Holly LeCraw brings a refreshingly bold and new
perspective, telling the story from the point of view of a professor.
GUESS AGAIN: LeCraw has a real gift for keeping her readers guessing, revealing twists and
turns that are sexy and surprising.
BROTHERHOOD: Cain and Abel, Payton and Eli, George and Jeb--fraternal bonds are
complicated, to say the least, and in LeCraw's deft hands the clash of male egos is rendered
with pathos, keen insight, and satisfying poignancy.
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Family Life
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Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Praise for The Swimming Pool:
"Holly LeCraw weaves timelines, story lines, and relationships with the skill of a master
storyteller." --The Tampa Tribune
Author Residence: Boston, MA
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Holly LeCraw lives outside of Boston with her husband, a journalist, and three kids. Her
first novel, The Swimming Pool, was published by Doubleday in 2010.
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A Touch of Stardust
A Novel
Kate Alcott
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Category: Fiction
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Page Count: 304
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker, comes a
blockbuster novel that takes you behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with
the Wind, while turning the spotlight on the passionate romance between its
dashing leading man, Clark Gable, and the blithe, free-spirited actress, Carole
Lombard.
When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana for Hollywood, she never
imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the dazzling actress from Julie's
provincial Midwestern hometown. Although the young woman has dreams of becoming
a screenwriter, the only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the
notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick - who is busy burning through
directors, writers and money as he begins filming Gone with the Wind.
Although tensions run high on the set, Julie finds she can step onto the back lot, take
in the smell of smoky gunpowder and the soft rustle of hoop skirts, and feel the magical
world of Gone with the Wind come to life. Julie's access to real-life magic comes when
Carole Lombard hires her as an assistant and invites her into the glamorous world
Carole shares with Clark Gable--who is about to move into movie history as the dashing
Rhett Butler.
Carole Lombard, happily profane and uninhibited, makes no secret of her relationship
with Gable, which poses something of a problem for the studio as Gable is technically
still married--and the last thing the film needs is more negative publicity. Julie is there to
fend off the overly curious reporters, hoping to prevent details about the affair from
slipping out. But she can barely keep up with her blonde employer, let alone control what
comes out of Carole's mouth, and--as their friendship grows - soon finds she doesn't
want to. Carole, both wise and funny, becomes Julie's model for breaking free of the
past.
In the ever-widening scope of this story, Julie is given a front-row seat to not one but
two of the greatest love affairs of all time: the undeniable on-screen chemistry between
Scarlett and Rhett, and off screen, the deepening love between Carole and Clark. Yet
beneath the shiny façade, things in Hollywood are never quite what they seem, and Julie
must learn to balance career aspirations and her own budding romance with outsized
personalities and the overheated drama on set. Vivid, romantic, and filled with Old
Hollywood details, A Touch of Stardust will entrance, surprise, and delight.
ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET: The Dressmaker has netted over 180,000 copies, but this is the
subject to take sales to the next level
GONE WITH THE WIND'S 75th ANNIVERSARY: In February 1940, the film swept the Oscars,
and (adjusted for inflation), it's still the highest grossing film in box-office history
PARIS WIFE MEETS BEAUTIFUL RUINS: Take a romance that fueled tabloids, add a landmark
film, a touch of wide-eyed innocence, lots of Hollywood glam and stir!
THE BRAD AND ANGIE OF THEIR DAY: Gable famously only agreed to play Rhett Butler if
MGM would get him out of his current marriage so he could be with Carole
HOLLYWOOD WIFE: Kate Alcott married into the Mankiewicz Family (of Citizen Kane,
Cleopatra, & All About Eve fame), and delicious never-before-told stories from the period are
artfully woven in
Author Residence: Washington D.C.
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Lucky Alan
And Other Stories
Jonathan Lethem
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The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine brilliant stories that prove
he is a master of the short form as well as the novel.
Jonathan Lethem stretches new literary muscles in this scintillating new collection of
stories. Some of these tales--such as "Pending Vegan," which wonderfully captures a
parental ache and anguish during a family visit to an aquatic theme park--are, in
Lethem's words, "obedient (at least outwardly) to realism." Others, like "The Dreaming
Jaw, The Salivating Ear,", which deftly and hilariously captures the solipsism of blog
culture, feature "the uncanny and surreal elements that still sometimes erupt in my short
stories."
The tension between these two approaches, and the way they inform each other,
increase the reader's surprise and delight as one realizes how cleverly Lethem is playing
with form. Devoted fans of Lethem will recognize familiar themes and tropes--the anxiety
of influence pushed to reduction ad absurdum in "The King of Sentences"; a hapless
outsider trying to summon up bravado in "The Porn Critic;" characters from the comics
stranded on a desert island; the necessity and the impossibility of action against
authority in "Procedure in Plain Air." As always, Lethem's work, humor, and poignancy
work in harmony; people strive desperately for connection through words and often
misdirect deeds; and the sentences are glorious.
A-LIST PROVENANCE: Many of these stories appeared in The New Yorker, to which Jonathan
is a frequent contributor. Others were published in The Paris Review, Harper's and Conjunctions.
FOR LETHEM FANS: His readers come out for his stories and essays as well as his novels.
REVIEW ATTENTION: Jonathan is a major literary figure, and the reviews are always there.
Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including
Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, and The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn,
and of the nonfiction collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book
Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem's work has appeared in The New Yorker,
Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times, among other
publications.
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Future Crimes
Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and
What We Can Do About It
Marc Goodman
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Category: Technology
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Page Count: 400
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From one of the world's leading authorities on global security, Future Crimes
takes readers deep into the digital underground to illuminate the alarming ways
criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging
technologies against you--and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than
you ever thought possible.
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways--but
there is an ominous flip side. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative,
adopters of technology, and modern times have lead to modern crimes. Today's
criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank accounts and wiping out computer
servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby monitors to spy on families, pacemakers
can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity, and thieves are analyzing your social
media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion. Meanwhile, 3D printers
produce AK-47s, terrorists can download the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels
are building drones. This is just the beginning of the tsunami of technological threats
coming our way. In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman rips opens his database of hundreds
of real cases to give us front-row access to these impending perils. Reading like a sci-fi
thriller, but based in startling fact, Future Crimes raises tough questions about the
expanding role of technology in our lives. Future Crimes is a call to action for better
security measures worldwide, but most importantly, it will empower readers to protect
themselves against looming technological threats--before it's too late.
VOTED MOST LIKELY TO "FREAK OUT" THE TED COMMUNITY: Goodman earned this
distinction after a recent TED talk (viewed by 1,000,000+ people), and this book is sure to freak
out, fascinate and inform tech connoisseurs, business executives, policy makers, parents, true
crime aficionados and anyone looking for a thrilling glimpse of innovation from the underworld
SMART HOME INVASION: iPhones, GPS systems and pet microchips can be redeployed to
track your whereabouts, and every "smart" item in your home--AC, sprinklers, lights, garage
doors, security systems and even toilets--is fair game for misappropriation
BIG DATA=BIG RISK: Goodman unravels the risks associated with how we share data,
knowingly and unknowingly. For example, your "friends" on Facebook could affect your credit
score and insurance companies have denied coverage based on a potential client's search
history
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN JEOPARDY: Virtually everything on the electric-grid is
vulnerable. Critical infrastructure has already been exploited by countries (like the U.S. allegedly
commandeering Iran's uranium enrichment facility's operating system), terrorists (who changed
the chemical distribution in a Houston-area water treatment plant), and even that nerdy teenager
next door (like the Polish kid who used Warsaw's transit system as his personal train-set)
Author Residence: San Francisco, CA
Author Hometown: New York, NY
MARC GOODMAN has spent a career in law enforcement, including work as Futurist
with the FBI, Senior Advisor to Interpol and street police officer. As the founder of the
Future Crimes Institute and chair for Policy, Law & Ethics at Singularity University, he
has continued to investigate the intriguing, often terrifying intersection of science and
crime, uncovering nascent threats and combating the darker side of technology.
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9780316037709
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Vintage
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HarperCollins
Little Brown
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Girl in the Dark
A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey
A gorgeous memoir of an unthinkable life: a young woman writes of the
sensitivity to light that has forced her to live in darkness, and of the love that has
saved her.
"Something is afoot within me that I do not understand, the breaking of a contract that
I thought could not be broken, a slow perverting of my substance."
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Category: Biography
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BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Women
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/4
Spine/Depth: 32/32
Carton Count: 12
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Anna was living a normal life. She was ambitious and worked hard; she had just
bought an apartment; she was falling in love. But then she started to develop worrying
symptoms: her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer.
Soon this progressed to an intolerance of fluorescent light, then of sunlight itself. The
reaction soon spread to her entire body. Now, when her symptoms are at their worst,
she must spend months on end in a blacked-out room, losing herself in audio books and
elaborate word games in an attempt to ward off despair. During periods of relative
remission she can venture cautiously out at dawn and dusk, into a world that, from the
perspective of her normally cloistered existence, is filled with remarkable beauty.
And throughout there is her relationship with Pete. In many ways he is Anna's savior,
offering her shelter from the light in his home. But she cannot enjoy a normal life with
him, cannot go out in the day, and even making love is uniquely awkward. Anna asks
herself "By continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a
public companion nor a welcoming home--do I do wrong?" With gorgeous, lyrical prose,
Anna brings us into the dark with her, a place from which we emerge to see love, and
the world, anew.
AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE: Anna Lyndsey describes an unthinkable existence with
remarkable clarity, warmth, and wit. Like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, her story is a
testament to "impossible lives" that nonetheless endure.
A ROMANCE WITH WORDS: What sets this book apart is the beauty of the writing. Words
themselves are a theme. In the dark, Anna--who admits she once skimmed over descriptive
passages!--now immerses herself in books and word games and ultimately picks up a pencil and
begins to write.
INTERNATIONAL SENSATION: The sale of Girl in the Dark was announced at the London
Book Fair. There have been sales in eight countries.
Author Residence: Hampshire, UK
Anna Lyndsey worked for several years in London as a civil servant until she became ill.
She now lives with her husband in Hampshire, England. She is writing under a pen
name.
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The Devil's Detective
A Novel
Simon Kurt Unsworth
Debut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The
Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell...and a man named Thomas Fool
is caught in the middle.
Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing
reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job
holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is
stamped "Do Not Investigate" and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy.
But when an important political delegation arrives and a human is found murdered in a
horrific manner--extravagant even by Hell's standards--everything changes. The
murders escalate, and their severity points to the kind of killer not seen for many
generations. Something is challenging the rules and order of Hell, so the Bureaucracy
sends Fool to identify and track down the killer...But how do you investigate murder in a
place where death is common currency? Or when your main suspect pool is a legion of
demons? With no memory of his past and only an irresistible need for justice, Fool will
piece together clues and follow a trail that leads directly into the heart of a dark and
chaotic conspiracy. A revolution is brewing in Hell...and nothing is what it seems.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Private
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Occult
Page Count: 304
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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The Devil's Detective is an audacious, highly suspenseful thriller set against a
nightmarish and wildly vivid world. Simon Kurt Unsworth has created a phantasmagoric
thrill ride filled with stunning set pieces and characters that spring from our deepest
nightmares. It will have readers of both thrillers and horror hanging on by their fingernails
until the final word. In Hell, hope is your worst enemy.
A THRILLER (IN HELL): Don't let the demons and hellfire fool you; The Devil's Detective takes
you on a white-knuckled hunt for a killer with enough devious twists and surprises to entice
thriller readers ready for a different perspective.
MURDER, POLITICS, HIDDEN AGENDAS, INTRIGUE: The investigation leads Fool down a
labyrinth of lies and deceit...and opens up a mind-blowing world that must be read to be
believed. And Unsworth absolutely nails the ending.
"THE WIRE"...WITH SOUL-SUCKING DEMONS: Unsworth turns expectations on their head.
He goes beyond Milton, Dante, and the Bible to create a stunning landscape and cast of
characters that surprise, captivate, and terrify on every page. Just wait until you read about the
Flame Garden and the Orphanage, or meet the Man of Plants and Flowers for the first time...it is
a wild ride.
THE DEBUT OF A WRITER POSSESSED: Simon Kurt Unsworth is the soul child of Clive
Barker, H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, Terry Gilliam, and Robert Crais. He will open up a new
world to thriller fans.
A RECURRING CHARACTER: Thomas Fool will be back for a second novel...and Heaven will
open its gates.
Author Residence: Cumbria, England
Simon Kurt Unsworth was born in Manchester and lives in a farmhouse in Cumbria, in
the United Kingdom. He is the author of many short stories, including the collection Quiet
Houses. The Devil's Detective is his first novel.
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Crown
Broadway Books
William Morrow
Putnam
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A Blink of the Screen
Collected Shorter Fiction
Terry Pratchett
A collection of stories and other short-form fiction that spans Terry Pratchett's
entire prolific career, from his teenage years, to his first professional writing job,
to the origins of his first novel, and on to the phenomenally successful Discworld
series. Foreword by A. S. Byatt.
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the most beloved, bestselling, and most prolific writers of
his generation. A Blink of the Screen is the first career-spanning collection of his short
stories and other short-form fiction; from his school days (he wrote the first story, "The
Hades Business," at age thirteen) to his first job writing on the Bucks Free Press; to the
origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on through the stories that evolved
into--and sometimes out of--the Discworld series. Fans will find unfamiliar new
characters alongside well-known ones, fictional worlds set aside and others still growing,
adventure, chckens, death, disco, and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about
Christmas, all inflected with Pratchett's inimitable brand of humor and energetic writing.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Fantasy - Collections &
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Fantasy - Collections &
Anthologies
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Illustrations: 24 PAGES OF 4-COLOR
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SALES TRACK: Pratchett's first book with Doubleday, the Discworld novel Raising Steam
(March 2014) debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list--a career-best showing.
FIRST U.S. PUBLICATION: Originally published in the UK in 2012, this edition is the first
opportunity for Pratchett's thousands of American fans to access this piece of their favorite
author's history.
THE DISCWORLD EXPANDS: One-third of the stories in the collection are set in the Discworld
universe and feature fan favorite characters such as the witch Granny Weatherwax, the City
Watchman Sam Vimes, and Death.
COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS: In addition to Pratchett's writings, A Blink of the Screen features
three full-color inserts with artwork by the acclaimed Discworld illustrators Josh Kirby and Paul
Kidby, and by the author himself.
FOREWORD BY A. S. BYATT: The Booker Award-winning author, a longtime Pratchett fan, tells
how she discovered his work and compares him to the other major British fantasy authors
(Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling, Pullman). She describes Pratchett's books in such an exciting way that
you can't help but want to pick them up, even if you've never read him before.
Praise for A BLINK OF THE SCREEN
"Clever, neatly constructed and funny. Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers
of our time." --The Guardian
Praise for RAISING STEAM
"Rewarding to both longtime readers and novices...Pratchett's appeal isn't just his roller-coaster
plots but the depth of his ideas." --Sam Thielman, Newsday
"A delightful fantasy send-up...Pratchett melds politics, finance and the occasional dark turn with
his fantasy and humor...How many writers are more fun to spend time with?" --Ken Armstrong,
The Seattle Times
"Spectacular...A tremendous synthesis of everything that makes Pratchett one of the world's
most delightful writers." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Author Residence: Somerset, UK
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the globally bestselling Discworld series. His
books have won multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, and he was awarded a
knighthood for services to literature.
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Bantam
Bloomsbury
William Morrow
Knopf
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Signature Kill
A Novel
David Levien
A stunning serial-killer novel from David Levien, featuring his acclaimed and
indomitable investigator, Frank Behr...this is the bigger thriller we've been wanting
for from Levien.
A young woman's body is found on a side street in Indianapolis, horrifyingly arranged.
Meanwhile, Frank Behr, who is down on his luck and virtually broke, takes on a no-win
case to locate a single mother's wayward daughter who's been missing for months.
Suddenly Behr feels the two cases may be connected, but he is years removed from his
life as a legitimate police officer and has few friends left on the force. His relentless
focus has always been his greatest strength...and his deepest flaw.
As the death toll rises, it becomes clear Indianapolis has a serial killer in its midst...an
invisible average Joe who passes beneath the radar but commits unspeakable acts.
Frank Behr's pursuit will lead him to a dark place--and ultimately to a devastating
decision from which he will not be able to turn back.
Signature Kill is David Levien's most masterful novel yet--a book that will attract
attention from a wider group of thriller fans.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - Crime
Investigators
BISAC 3: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
Page Count: 304
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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A BREAKTHROUGH BOOK FOR DAVID LEVIEN: Levien is known for his excellent cop-novel
chops, but this is the commercial step-up we've been waiting for. Levien delivers a bigger
thriller, and Frank Behr steps into his own here.
SEE THROUGH THE EYES OF A KILLER: Levien writes brutal, cinematic, and smart prose,
and he fearlessly takes us into the dark mind of an unassuming killer who could live next door to
any of us.
LEVIEN'S A-LIST FILM-WRITING CAREER CONTINUES: Levien and writing-partner Brian
Koppelman (Rounders, Oceans Thirteen, and Runaway Jury) will be announcing new film and
television projects soon.
CONSISTENT CRITICAL AND BOOKSELLER RAVES: Booksellers, readers, critics, and fellow
novelists alike have been extremely supportive of David Levien.
Author Residence: Greenwich, CT
David Levien is the author of the Frank Behr novels: Thirteen Million Dollar Pop, Where
the Dead Lay, and City of the Sun. He has been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, and
Shamus Awards, and he is also a screenwriter and director. Levien lives in Connecticut.
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9780316405348
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Delacorte Press
Little, Brown and Company
Grand Central Publishing
Putnam
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Unplayable Lies
(The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)
Dan Jenkins
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Category: Sports
BISAC 1: Sports & Recreation - Golf
BISAC 2: Sports & Recreation - Essays
BISAC 3: Humor - Topic - Sports
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 4-7/8 x 7-1/2
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Thirty-eight essays on golf. Half of the essays are brand new, the others are all
reworked and rewritten, based on pieces that were originally published in Golf
Digest. Often biting, usually cranky, always hilarious and surprising--this is Dan
Jenkins at his best, writing about the sport he loves the most.
"I've always wanted to do something for the golfer who has everything. I thought
about a suede golf cart, or maybe a pair of cashmere Footjoys. Then I settled on writing
this book." So begins Dan Jenkins's latest--and funniest--collection of golf essays. The
book consists of thirty-eight essays, all of them, as Dan says in the first essay, are
"literally throbbing with opinion."
In this book Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen; the funniest
things said on a golf course; the rivalries on tour and in the press box; the game's most
magical moments--and its most absurd. Unplayable Lies is an ode to the game Jenkins
loves. But it is Dan Jenkins, so nothing--even the game of golf--can escape his wrath,
his critical eye, or his acerbic pen. The best way to describe it is to turn the book over to
Mr. Jenkins:
In "Titanic and I"--probably the most hilarious and surprising essay in the book, telling
true stories of Titanic Thompson: gambler, golf hustler, accused murderer, legendary
storyteller--Dan explains how Titanic would win a wager by saying he could knock a bird
off a telephone wire: "Titanic would drop a ball on the ground and take out his four-wood,
waggle it, and pretend to aim at the bird on the wire. When some sucker would bet him
he couldn't do it, Ti would pull out a gun he carried and shoot the bird off the wire."
In "The Greatest Rounds": "Show me a man who doesn't know what Arnold did in the
last round of the '60 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills, and I'll show you a soccer fan in
Paraguay."
This is a perfect follow up to His Ownself. It even has an Introduction by Sally
Jenkins, one of the country's top sportswriters and Dan's own darling daughter.
WITH HIS OWNSELF: A SEMI MEMOIR, Dan proved his writing skills are in top form. This is up
to the level of that book--and geared for his strongest and most specific audience: golf fans.
WITH HIS OWNSELF, Dan also showed that he can still garner superb reviews and the love of
the media. He did a lot of publicity for that book and should get as much for this new one.
TIMING: We're publishing into the beginning of the spring golf season, and that will help with
bookstore placement and publicity.
Author Residence: Fort Worth, Texas
Author Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas
Dan Jenkins is one of America's most acclaimed sportswriters as well as a bestselling
novelist. A native Texan, he has spent a lifetime at the typewriter and computer. He
might best be known for his twenty-four years of stories in Sports Illustrated and now
Golf Digest. Three of his bestselling novels, Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Baja
Oklahoma, were made into movies. His sportswriting has won him many awards. In
2012 he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame--one of only three writers to be
honored thus far--and was given the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary
Sports Writing. He is also the 2013 winner of the Red Smith Award, the highest honor in
his profession.
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The Folded Clock
A Diary
Heidi Julavits
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - General
BISAC 3: Literary Collections - Diaries & Journals
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 5-1/8 x 7
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
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childhood journal entries
A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of one year in the life of the
incomparable Heidi Julavits
Like many young girls, Heidi Julavits wrote in her diary every day. Years later, she
found her old diaries, hoping to find proof that she was always destined to be a writer.
Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor."
The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity.
Reading these lines from her past self, writes Julavits, "I want to good-naturedly laugh at
this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I
want today."
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something
woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the
diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, sex and marriage,
childhood and parenting, art and ambition, regret and pleasure. In keeping with the spirit
of a diary, the tone is confessional, sometimes shockingly so, as the focus shifts from
whom she wants to be to whom she may have become. Unlike her childhood diary the
order is not chronological, but instead guided by the dictates of events that trigger
memory and reflection--a small-town parade, trying to flirt her way out of a traffic ticket,
asking her husband if her new sunglasses are flattering.
What elevates the book above an exercise in self-absorption is Julavits's raucous
sense of humor about her foibles and misadventures. The Folded Clock is as playful as
it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.
DEAR DIARY: If you're a book-buying American woman, chances are you kept a diary when you
were young. Julavits's stunning re-imagining of the form will trigger nostalgia for that time when
everything was so urgent.
LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY: Yes, she's a genius and all that, but what makes the book an utter
joy to read is how hilarious it is.
JULAVITS IS BRUTALLY HONEST ABOUT HERSELF. BOY, IS SHE HONEST: Whether the
subject is adultery at writers' colonies, her propensity toward selfishness, spying on other
people, or the shipwreck fantasies she had when she was breast-feeding, Julavits holds nothing
back--there are dozens of the kind of stories that people are going to have to talk about when
they pick their jaws off the floor.
LITERARY "IT" GIRL: She'd hate that description, but as a founding editor of The Believer, a
renowned teacher of writing at Columbia, a controversial book reviewer, and an acclaimed
novelist, she fits the bill.
BIG SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE: Heidi has 70,000 followers on her wonderfully enagging
Tumblr page; the perfect media platform to match Clock's content and audience.
Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Portland, ME
Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: The Vanishers, The Uses
of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace. Her fiction
has appeared in Harper'sMagazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories,
among other places. She's a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient
of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, and was born and raised in
Portland, Maine.
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Translation: No
Agency: THE WYLIE AGENCY LLC
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Pulphead/ John Jeremiah Sullivan/TR
Slouching Towards Bethlehem/ Joan Didion…
The Middle Place/ Kelly Corrigan/ HC
The Middle PLace/ Kelly Corrigan/ TR
ISBN
978-0-385-52381-3
978-0-307-38736-3
978-0-307-94759-8
978-0-385-51323-4
ISBN
9780374532901
9780374531386
9781401303365
9781401340933
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Anchor
Anchor
DDay Gen Adult
Publisher
FSG
FSG
Hachette/ Hyperion
Hachette/ Voice
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1st Serial: No
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The Winter Family
A Novel
Clifford Jackman
Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil
War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter
Family is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads like a full-on assault to the
senses.
Spanning the better part of three decades, The Winter Family traverses America's
harsh, untamed terrain, both serving and opposing the fierce advance of civilization.
Among its twisted specimens, the Winter Family includes the psychopathic killer Quentin
Ross, the mean and moronic Empire brothers, the impassive ex-slave Fred Johnson,
and the dangerous child prodigy Lukas Shakespeare But at the malevolent center of this
ultraviolent storm is their cold, hardened leader, Augustus Winter--a man with an almost
pathological resistance to the rules of society and a preternatural gift for butchery.
From their service as political thugs in a brutal Chicago election to their work as
bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, there's a hypnotic logic to Winter's grim
borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.
With its haunting, hard-edged style, The Winter Family is a feverishly paced
meditation on human nature and the dark contradictions of progress.
ON SALE 4/14/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53948-7
$26.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Westerns
BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - Historical
BISAC 3: Fiction - Adventure
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Galleys
Create a Wanted Poster filter for a Mug
Shot Contest on Instagram or Facebook
Mug Shot Mug for Father's Day as part
of promotion
Create an infographic for the members
of the Winter Family
Outreach to History and Thriller bloggers
Promote on Goodreads.com
Facebook ads targeting fans of Clint
Eastwood, Deadwood TV show,
Quentin Tarantino, Western genre, True
Grit
Promote through sites such as
Goodreads.com, Three Guys One
Book, GuysRead.com, AskMen.com,
and AmericanCowboy.com
Post on EverydayeBook.com
NOT QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: With J.J. Abram's upcoming Westworld series for
HBO and a remake of The Magnificent Seven (starring Tom Cruise, Javiar Bardem, Ryan
Gosling, Liam Neeson, Josh Brolin, Nick Cage and Michael Fassbender) scheduled for spring
2015, the genre's resurgence will have gained tremendous steam by the time we pub in April
APOCALYPTIC: Jackman draws inspiration from giants of the genre, but the bleakness of the
landscape--where the normal rules of society are held in a state of suspended animation--also
has chilling echos of The Stand and The Walking Dead and should appeal to fans of both.
TARANTINO-ESQUE STYLE THAT GRABS YOU IN A CHOKEHOLD: There's a brilliant
shock-cut intensity to the visual splatterfest. You may want to cover your eyes, but you won't be
able to look away!
NOT YOUR MAMA'S SPAGHETTI: Yes, there are many violent crescendos typical to the
Western genre, but The Winter Family takes deadly aim at the unrelenting contest between
civilization and nature and the havoc wrought in the name of progress, giving the novel ample
thematic weight in addition to high-octane fun.
FIENDISHLY INTELLIGENT NEW VOICE: Jackman has published a short story collection,
Deeper, and novella, The Black Box, with a very, very, very small Canadian publisher, so
consider The Winter Family (which is being published by Anne Collins at Random House
Canada) his wonderfully depraved coming-out party.
Author Residence: Ontario, Canada
CLIFFORD JACKMAN received a Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of
Arts from Queen's University, and a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School.
He practices law in Richmond Hill.
Rights
Territories: World
Audio: Yes
British: Yes
Restriction: World except Canada
Book Club: Yes
Translation: Yes
Agency: WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS
Other Editions
E-book
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Black Box: A Novella/Clifford Jackman/TP
Deeper: Stories/Clifford Jackman/TP
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The Son/Philip Meyer/HC
A Land More Kind/Wiley Cash/TP
The Devil All The Time/Pollock, Donald R…
The Sisters Brothers/Patrick DeWitt/TP
The Devil All The Time/Pollock, Donald R…
Doc/Russell, Mary Doria/HC
ISBN
978-0-385-53949-4
ISBN
9781897453230
9781897453346
ISBN
9780062120397
9780062088239
978-0-307-74486-9
9780062041289
978-0-385-53504-5
978-1-4000-6804-3
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1/13
7/12
2/12
7/11
5/11
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: CAROLYN
FORDE
Publisher
DDay Gen Adult
Publisher
Manor House Publishing
Manor House Publishing
Publisher
Ecco
HarperCollins
Anchor
HarperCollins
DDay Gen Adult
Random House
Price
Price
$16
$16.95
Price
$27.99
$14.99
$15.00/$18.00 Can.
$14.99
$26.95/$31.00 Can.
$26.00/$30.00 Can.
A Little Life
A Novel
Hanya Yanagihara
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly
moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the
twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever
traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an
amazement--and a great gift for its publisher.
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to
make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel
Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a
prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of
gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction,
success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself,
by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and
body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of
trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome--but that will define his life forever.
ON SALE 3/10/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53925-8
$30.00/$35.00 Can.
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Saga
Page Count: 736
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Local Author Promotion: NYC
Galleys
and blogs
Outreach to literary bloggers
Giveaways on GoodReads
Promotion via some of the more literary
book social media outlets like BookRiot,
etc.
In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent
hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of
the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.
THE PERFECT FOLLOW-UP TO THE AUTHOR'S WIDELY PRAISED, PEN FINALIST FIRST
NOVEL, THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES: Totally different in setting, subject matter, and style but
even more audacious in its scope and in the risks it hazards.
IMAGINE (JUST TRY) THAT MARCEL PROUST AND CHARLES DICKENS WERE
COMMISSIONED TO WRITE THE NOVELIZATION OF FRIENDS: You may think this is
outlandish, but just wait until you read A Little Life--you'll see.
WITH A LITTLE LIFE, HANYA YANAGIHARA JOINS THE COMPANY OF VISIONARY
WRITERS WHO HAVE PRODUCED DARK, INDELIBLE MASTERPIECES: Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry, The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, even David Foster
Wallace's Infinite Jest, allowing for vast differences in style.
A BOOK THAT DEMANDS (AND DESERVES) TO BE READ AND REVIEWED AND TALKED
AND TALKED AND TALKED ABOUT.
LIKE ELEANOR CATTON'S THE LUMINARIES AND ROBERTO BOLANO'S 2666: A Little Life
is a very long, complicated, and sometimes confounding book that will attract readers of a mind
to measure themselves against its challenges.
Hanya Yanagihara is the author of The People in the Trees. She lives in New York City.
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Audio: Yes
British: No
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: AITKEN ALEXANDER ASSOCIATES,
L
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The Luminaries/Eleanor Catton/HC
Tampa/Nutting, Alissa/HC
The Patric Melrose Novels/St. Aubyn, Edw…
2666/Roberto Bolano/HC
2666/Roberto Bolano/TR
ISBN
978-0-385-53926-5
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978-0-385-53677-6
978-0-345-80331-3
978-0-385-53678-3
ISBN
9780316074315
9780062280541
9780312429966
9780374100148
9780312429218
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1/12
11/08
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DDay Gen Adult
Publisher
DDay Gen Adult
Anchor
Anchor
Publisher
Hachette/Little Brown
Ecco
Picador
Macmillan/FSG
Macmillan/Picador
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: ANNA STEIN
Price
Price
$26.95/$32.00 Can.
$15.95/$18.95 Can.
$11.99/$12.99 Can.
Price
$27.00
$25.99
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$30.00
$20.00
The Job
True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
Steve Osborne
ON SALE 4/21/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53962-3
$25.00/$29.95 Can.
Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Law
Enforcement
BISAC 2: Humor - Essays
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - General
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Local Author Promotion: New York
Select Author Appearances: Tie-in with
Moth Tour Schedule
Galleys
Facebook Ads and Google InVideo Ads
targeted to the author's large YouTube
following
Reddit AMA
Promotion through The Moth's social
channels, live shows, and radio program
"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic
New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the
legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and many tens of thousands more via
YouTube) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his twenty years
served as an NYPD street cop. Steve Osborne is the real deal, people, the tough
streetwise New York cop of your dreams, one with a big big heart. Kojak? NYPD
Blue? Law & Order? Fuggedaboutem! The Job blows them out of the water with
this unputdownable book.
Steve Osborne has seen a thing or two in his twenty years in the NYPD--some
harmless things, some definitely not. In "Stakeout," Steve and his partner mistake a
Manhattan dentist for an armed robbery suspect and reduce the man down to a puddle
of snot and tears when questioning him. In "Mug Shot," the mother of a suspected
criminal makes a strange request and provides a sobering reminder of the humanity at
stake in his profession. And in "Home," the image of his family provides the adrenaline
he needs to fight for his life when assaulted by two armed and violent crackheads. From
his days as a rookie cop to the time spent patrolling in the Anti-Crime Unit--and his
visceral, harrowing recollections of working during 9/11--Steve Osborne's stories capture
both the absurdity of police work and the bravery of those who do it. His stories will
speak to those nostalgic for the New York City of the 1980s and '90s, a bygone era of
when the city was a crazier, more dangerous (and possibly more interesting) place.
EVERYBODY LOVES NY COP STORIES. THEY ARE REALLY GOING TO LOVE STEVE
OSBORNE'S COP STORIES. These tales have been audience tested at The Moth, the major
leagues of storytelling, and they lose nothing of their power to rivet an audience in their
transition to print.
EVERYBODY LOVES NY COPS. THEY ARE REALLY GOING TO LOVE STEVE OSBORNE.
Steve is 100 percent cop, the guy with heart and smarts you want out there protecting you. What
a publicity asset he is going to be.
THESE STORIES RUN THE GAMUT FROM THE HILARIOUS TO THE HEARTBREAKING:
There are stories in here that will have you ROTFL (look it up). There are stories in here that will
bring tears to your eyes. A street cop's life is a roller coaster of emotions, and Steve Osborne
takes you along for the complete ride.
AUTHOR IS ALREADY A STAR: Steve's stories have nearly 100,000 views on YouTube, and
countless more impressions through The Moth's ever-expanding, wide-reaching audience via its
weekly podcast, NPR radio shows, live events, and New York Times bestselling story collection.
Author Residence: Stony Point, NY
Steve Osborne is retired after twenty years working as a lieutenant in the New York
Police Department Detective Bureau. His stories have appeared on NPR's The Moth
podcast and radio show and in The Moth's story collection. He lives in Stony Point, New
York with his family.
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Audio: Yes
British: No
Other Editions
E-book
Comp Titles
The Moth: Stories/Edited by Catherine Bu…
Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully T…
Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully T…
Blue Blood/Edward Conlon/HC
Blue Blood/Edward Conlon/TR
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: FOLIO LITERARY MANAGEMENT,
LLC
ISBN
978-0-385-53963-0
ISBN
9781401311117
9781439158005
9781439157992
9781573222662
9781594480737
OS
4/15
On sale
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10/10
5/11
4/04
4/05
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: Yes
Special Markets:
Agent: JEFF
SILBERMAN
Publisher
DDay Gen Adult
Publisher
Hyperion
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Penguin/Riverhead
Penguin/Riverhead
Price
Price
$15.99
$24.00
$14.00
$28.95
$20.00
Make Something Up
Stories You Can't Unread
Chuck Palahniuk
Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author
Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of
21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and
delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best
and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug
craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell
one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a
massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in
"Excursion," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before
in a precusor story to Fight Club.
Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have
come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.
ON SALE 5/5/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53805-3
$26.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 3: Fiction - Humorous
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Carton Count: 12
National Author Tour: 7-10 Cities TBD
2015 Comicon Promotion and
cross-promote with Dark Horse Comics
FIGHT CLUB 2 launch
Galleys
Major Online Advertising Campaign
Major Facebook and Website Promotion
FIGHT CLUB TIE-IN: To cross-pollinate with the publicity for the 10-issue graphic novel series
of Fight Club 2 (also publishing in May), the collection will feature a brand new short story
featuring the protagonist of Fight Club, Chuck's must enduring and popular property to date
(over 1.4 million copies sold in paperback).
CHANGE OF PACE: The first full-fledged short story collection of Chuck's career, and his first
experimentation with form since fan-favorites Rant (which sold nearly 400,000 in all formats) and
Haunted (over 500,000 copies in all formats).
PUBLICITY FIRESTORM: Chuck will be hitting the road hard in 2015, attending many
Comic-Con events and readings to promote his work.
CRAZY-LOYAL FANBASE: Chuck commands one of the most loyal, committed, and interactive
fanbases in the world. They love them some Chuck, and he loves them back.
HUGE EVENTS: His author readings attract crowds in the many hundreds, routinely, and they
buy books.
Author Residence: Washougal, WA
CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels--Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned,
Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters,
Survivor, and Fight Club--which all have sold more than five million copies in the United
States. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown
Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the
Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.
Rights
Audio: No
British: No
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: DONADIO & OLSON INC
Other Editions
Trade Paper
E-book
Hist/Prev Titles
Beautiful You/Palahniuk, Chuck/HC
Beautiful You/Palahniuk/TR
Beautiful You (Ebk)/Palahniuk, Chuck/EL
Doomed/Palahniuk, Chuck/HC
Doomed/Palahniuk, Chuck/TR
Doomed (Ebk)/Palahniuk, Chuck/EL
Damned/Palahniuk, Chuck/HC
Damned/Palahniuk, Chuck/TR
ISBN
978-0-345-80712-0
978-0-385-53806-0
ISBN
978-0-385-53803-9
978-0-345-80711-3
978-0-385-53804-6
978-0-385-53303-4
978-0-307-47654-8
978-0-385-53315-7
978-0-385-53302-7
978-0-307-47653-1
OS
9/16
5/15
On sale
10/14
7/15
10/14
10/13
7/14
10/13
10/11
10/12
Publisher
Anchor
DDay Gen Adult
Publisher
DDay Gen Adult
Anchor
DDay Gen Adult
DDay Gen Adult
Anchor
Anchor
DDay Gen Adult
Anchor
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: EDWARD
HIBBERT
Price
Price
$25.95
$14.95/$0.00 Can.
$12.99
$24.95
$14.95
$11.99
$25.95
$15.00
Little Victories
Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
Jason Gay
ON SALE 5/5/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53946-3
$25.95/$30.00 Can.
Category: Humor
BISAC 1: Humor - Essays
BISAC 2: Humor - Topic - Family
BISAC 3: Self Help - Happiness
Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Radio Drive Tour
Galleys
Online Advertising campaign
Facebook and Twitter ads
Reddit AMA
Giveaways through prominent sports
twitter feeds, as well as Goodreads and
Shelf Awareness
Launch author's Instagram feed as he
covers major sporting events
Trailer / Author video featuring stories
from the book
From The Wall Street's Journal's most popular columnist comes a hilarious and
heartfelt guide to modern living.
Four times a week, millions of people--men and women--turn to Jason Gay's column
in The Wall Street Journal. The Journal has made him the face of their television
marketing campaign, and he is the most tweeted writer to the paper's 4.32 million Twitter
followers.
Why is Gay so celebrated? It starts with his witty, fan's-eye-view of the sports world,
which he loves but doesn't take too seriously. But his most celebrated features are his
"Rules" columns, which provide untraditional, highly amusing but useful advice for
maneuvering through the minefields of everyday life. Rules for the Office--"Your job is
your job and, yes, people are talking behind your back." Rules for Managing
Money--"Or, at least that $45 you owe me. C'mon, you had three California rolls and two
beers, with tip that's $45." Rules for Family Gatherings--"And other happy things that
should maybe make you run for your life."
In this, his first book, Gay presents his case that happiness is not a matter of grand
accomplishments like climbing Mt. Everest (which, as he points out, is expensive and
stressful) but conquering the small everyday challenges, like putting pants on before
2:00 p.m. on a Saturday.
Little Victories is a life guide for people who hate life guides. Whether the subject is rules
for raising the perfect child without infuriating all of your friends, rules for how to be cool
(related: Why do you want to be cool?) or rules of how to tell the difference between real
depression or just eating five cupcakes in a row, Gay's whimsical essays make you
laugh, and then you think, "You know, he's kind of right."
COMP TO 10% HAPPIER: Jason's book is not a memoir like Dan Harris's book, and Jason
does touch many of the same consumer bases as that happy bestseller. (Harris is a friend of
Jason's)
FOR FANS OF DAVE BARRY, MINDY KALING, AND FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER, ERMA
BOMBECK: Like these authors, Gay's humor works so well because people instantly recognize
themselves in his personal anecdotes and foibles
PERFECT FOR FATHER'S DAY--AND MOTHER'S DAY--AND GRADUATION: Although he's a
sports columnist, the Journal's metrics consistently show his readers split equally between men
and women. It's one of the reasons why the paper has chosen him as the face of their marketing
efforts: bringing in female readers is key to expanding their readership
SOCIAL MEDIA STAR: In addition to the 4.32 million people who follow him on the Journal's
Twitter feed, his personal feed and the TV show feed provide tens of thousands more eyeballs.
Doubleday will be magnifying his presence with our own robust efforts
TV PRESENCE: Jason was one of the hosts of Fox Sports "Crowd Goes Wild" along with Regis
Philbin. The network will have a new show with Jason this fall. In addition, he has a deal with
HBO for a fiction series called "Love You, Hate You," which is in development.
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Jason Gay is a daily sports columnist at the Wall Street Journal. Jason has written for
publications including GQ, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Observer, and Vogue.
He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he plays adequate tennis, dreadful basketball, hideous
golf, and races a bicycle very, very slowly.
Rights
Audio: Yes
British: No
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: MCCORMICK & WILLIAMS LLC
Comp Titles
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty/ Dav…
10% Happier/ Dan Harris/ HC
Is Everyone Hanging Out Withou/Kaling, M…
Is Everyone Hanging Out Withou/Kaling, M…
Is Everyone Hanging Out (Ebk)/Kaling, Mi…
Short Guide To A Happy Life, A/Quindlen,…
Short Gde/Happy Life (Ebk)/Quindlen, Ann…
ISBN
9780399165948
9780062265425
978-0-307-88626-2
978-0-307-88627-9
978-0-307-88628-6
9780375504617
9780375506475
On sale
3/14
3/14
11/11
9/12
11/11
10/00
4/01
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
Special Markets:
Agent: DAVID
MCCORMICK
Publisher
Penguin Adult/ Putnam
It Books
Crown Archetype
Three Rivers Press
Three Rivers Press
Random House
Random House
Price
$26.95
$25.99
$25.00/$26.95 Can.
$14.00/$17.00 Can.
$9.99/$9.99 Can.
$12.95/$19.95 Can.
$11.99/$13.99 Can.
The Forgotten Room
A Novel
Lincoln Child
ON SALE 5/5/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53140-5
$26.00/$31.00 Can.
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - General
BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense
BISAC 3: Fiction - Fantasy - Historical
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Galleys
National Print Advertising Campaign
Online Advertising targeting thriller fans
Facebook ads
Giveaways/Promotion on Facebook and
GoodReads
Outreach to Mystery/Thriller Bloggers
Lincoln's Facebook page has 15,200
fans (52/48 F/M, mostly 35 to 64)
New York Times bestseller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller
featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned
investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret
experiment only rumored to have existed.
Jeremy Logan (The Third Gate, Deep Storm) is an "enigmalogist"--an investigator
who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. In this
newest novel Logan finds himself on the storied coastline of Newport, Rhode Island,
where he has been retained by Symposikon, one of the oldest and most respected think
tanks in America. Just days earlier, a series of frightening events took place in the
sprawling seaside mansion that houses the organization. One of its most distinguished
doctors began acting erratically--violently attacking an assistant in the mansion's opulent
library and, moments later, killing himself in a truly shocking fashion. Terrified by the
incident and the bizarre evidence left behind, the group hires Logan to
investigate--discreetly--what drove this erudite man to madness.
His work leads him to an unexpected find. In a long-dormant wing of the estate,
Logan uncovers an ingeniously hidden secret room, concealed and apparently
untouched for decades. The room is a time capsule, filled with eerie and obscure
scientific equipment that points to a top secret project long thought destroyed, known
only as "Project S." Ultimately, the truth of what Project S was...and what has happened
in that room...will put Logan in the path of a completely unexpected danger.
One of his most thrilling novels to date, The Forgotten Room is replete with veiled,
fascinating history, and all the exhilarating action and science that are the hallmarks of a
Lincoln Child blockbuster.
FANTASTIC HIGH CONCEPT--LINCOLN CHILD AT HIS BEST. The discovery of a hidden
chamber filled with antiquated technology beyond our wildest imagination lead Jeremy Logan to
face a mind-boggling conspiracy. It's fast-paced, smart, and compulsively commercial.
PRESTON/CHILD PARTNERSHIP ROARS TO NEW HEIGHTS: Their Pendergast series have
become #1 bestsellers, and their new Gideon series is a hot bestseller, too.
THE THIRD GATE--#4 DEBUT ON THE NYT LIST: Jeremy Logan has come into his own as a
major series character:, and The Forgotten Room is an even stronger, more mysterious novel
featuring the quirky Logan.
OVER 1.5 MILLION LINCOLN CHILD SOLO NOVELS SOLD! Lincoln Child has a huge
following, and the future for his solo novels has never been brighter.
HUGE SCHEDULING OPPORTUNITY! Lincoln can own the summer: Preston/Child's BLUE
LABYRINTH (Pendergast)-Nov 11, 2014; THE FORGOTTEN ROOM-May, 2015;
Preston/Child's New Pendergast hardcover-November 3, 2015.
Author Residence: Morristown, NJ
Lincoln Child is the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Gate, Terminal
Freeze, Deep Storm, Death Match, and Utopia, as well as coauthor, with Douglas
Preston, of numerous New York Times bestsellers, most recently Two Graves. He lives
with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Deep Storm/Child, Lincoln/HC
Deep Storm/Child, Lincoln/TR
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And Sometimes I Wonder About You
A Leonid McGill Mystery
Walter Mosley
ON SALE 5/12/2015
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
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Investigators
Page Count: 304
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The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his
East Coast foil to his immortal L.A.-based detective Easy Rawlins. As the Boston
Globe raved, "A poignantly real character, [McGill is] not only the newest of the
great fictional detectives, but also an incisive and insightful commentator on the
American scene."
In the fifth Leonid McGill novel, Leonid finds himself in an unusual pickle of trying to
balance his cases with his chaotic personal life. Leonid's father is still out there
somewhere, and his wife is in an uptown sanitarium trying to recover from the deep
depression that led to her attempted suicide in the previous novel. His wife's condition
has put a damper on his affair with Aura Ullman, his girlfriend. And his son, Twill, has
been spending a lot of time out of the office with his own case, helping a young thief
named Fortune and his girlfriend, Liza.
Meanwhile, Leonid is approached by an unemployed office manager named Hiram
Stent to track down the whereabouts of his cousin, Celia, who is about to inherit millions
of dollars from her father's side of the family. Leonid declines the case, but after his
office is broken into and Hiram is found dead, he gets reeled into the underbelly of
Celia's wealthy old-money family. It's up to Leonid to save who he can and incriminate
the guilty; all while helping his son finish his own investigation; locating his own father;
reconciling (whatever that means) with his wife and girlfriend; and attending the wedding
of Gordo, his oldest friend.
THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS PROTAGANIST, WALTER MOSLEY RENDERS HIS
ADOPTED HOMETOWN OF NEW YORK CITY JUST AS VIVIDLY AS HIS BIRTH HOME OF
LOS ANGELES. Here is an undisputed mystery master at work.
THE LAST MCGILL MYSTERY, All I Did WAS SHOOT MY MAN, WAS NOMINATED FOR AN
EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST MYSTERY NOVEL OF 2012.
WALTER MOSLEY IS NOT JUST A MAJOR CRIME WRITER: HE'S AN IMPORTANT
LITERARY FIGURE, PERIOD. For instance, he's represented in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Norton
Anthology of African American Literature.
THIS ONE IS FOR THE GENRE FANS. And Sometimes... has all the rich literary vitamins that
infuse every Walter Mosley book. But it is also the book that will probably best satisfy the taste
of the vast audience for hard-boiled mysteries expertly done.
Series Overview
Fifth novel in the Leonid McGill series, a private eye based in New York City.
Walter Mosley is the author of more than forty-three books, most notably thirteen Easy
Rawlins mysteries, the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into an acclaimed
film starring Denzel Washington. Always Outnumbered, adapted from his first Socrates
Fortlow novel, was an HBO film starring Laurence Fishburne. Mosley is the winner of
numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy Award, and PEN America's
Lifetime Achievement Award. A Los Angeles native and graduate of Goddard College,
he holds an MFA from CCNY and now lives in Brooklyn.
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When The Thrill is Gone/Walter Mosley/HC
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978-0-385-53597-7
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9781594488245
9780451239167
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Penguin/Riverhead
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The Knockoff
A Novel
Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
ON SALE 5/19/2015
DOUBLEDAY
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978-0-385-53958-6
$24.95/$28.95 Can.
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Humorous
BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Romantic Comedy
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny debut of fashion in the digital age, this is
the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her
twenty-something former assistant, Eve Morton, plotting to reduce Glossy,
famous for their lavish 367-page September issue, into an app--with herself at the
helm, of course.
When Imogen returns to work after a summer leave, the Glossy offices are barely
recognizable. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs," put
the managing editor in a supply closet, disconnected the landlines, and hired a bevy of
manicured assistants who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen may have
Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenburg on speed dial, but she can't tell Facebook
from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for a week. The new
women of Glossy are an entirely different species: they order their cars on Uber, their
dinners on Seamless, and their men on Fetch. Under Eve's reign, Glossy is rapidly
becoming a digital sweatshop--hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and
"fun" means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé songs. Wildly
out of her depth, Imogen must channel her inner geek and engage Eve in a battle royal
to save both the magazine and her career. Featuring a cast of thinly veiled fashion
characters, icons of tech, and an army of editorial assistants wearing Google Glass, this
sparkling debut is a fabulous romp for our Internet-addicted age.
AUTHORS: Lucy and Jo are fabulously well connected with friends throughout the fashion, tech,
and publishing industries. Expect stellar blurbs and buzz.
MEDIA: News of the book deal made Page Six. Lucy Sykes is a New York It Girl, a fixture on the
social scene, and adored by the press.
COMPS: It's The Devil Wears Prada meets The Circle, full of fashion, backbiting, gossip, and
geeks.
Author Residence: New York City
Author Hometown: London
Lucy Sykes moved to New York City in 1997 from London and has worked in the fashion
world as a stylist, fashion editor, and fashion director. For six years Lucy was the fashion
director at Marie Claire magazine, and was most recently fashion director for Rent the
Runway. Her own children's clothing line, Lucy Sykes New York, is found at Saks,
Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and Nordstrom. Her sister, Plum Sykes, is the bestselling
author of Bergdorf Blondes. Jo Piazza is the managing editor of Yahoo Travel. Her
journalism has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Glamour,
New York magazine, and The Huffington Post. Piazza is also the author of the novel
Love Rehab and Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money. She has appeared
as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR.
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Translation: No
Agency: JANKLOW & NESBIT ASSOCIATES
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978-0-385-53698-1
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9780385510912
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Broadway Books
Broadway Books
Miramax
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Reagan
The Life
H. W. Brands
ON SALE 6/2/2015
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$35.00/$41.00 Can.
Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Presidents
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
BISAC 3: History - United States - General
Page Count: 816
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 16 PP OF PHOTOS
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From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling biographer H. W. Brands,
twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the first full life of Ronald Reagan
since his death.
Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the
American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the
Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along
with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took
office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was
widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty. Reagan
sought to restore democracy by bolstering capitalism. In Brands's telling, how Reagan,
who voted four times for FDR, engineered a conservative transformation of American
politics is both a riveting personal journey and the story of America in the modern era.
Brands follows Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him from a
troubled childhood in small-town Illinois to become a radio announcer and then the
quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. In Hollywood, Reagan
edged closer to public service as the president of the Screen Actors' Guild, before a
stalled film career led to his unlikely reinvention as the voice of General Electric and a
spokesman for corporate America. Reagan follows its subject on his improbable political
rise, from the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, to his triumphant
election in 1980 as president of the United States. Brands employs archival sources not
available to previous biographers and dozens of interviews with surviving members of
the administration. The result is an exciting narrative and a fresh understanding of a
crucially important president and his era.
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED POPULAR BIOGRAPHER: H. W. Brands is a highly respected
academic historian who is also a master storyteller. His biographies are both incredibly readable
and praised by reviewers: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, etc. His
biographies of Ben Franklin and FDR were both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
REAGAN IS A CONTEMPORARY ICON: Reagan's legacy exerts incredible influence over
contemporary conservatives, and a new full biography will command attention across the media
spectrum.
FIRST SINCE EDMUND MORRIS'S DUTCH: In 1999 Morris famously turned his authorized
biography of Reagan into a fictionalized memoir of a Reagan school chum. No one has
accepted the challenge of a full life of Reagan since. Lou Cannon's much-praised volumes
cover only the governship and the presidency.
ACCESS TO NEW SOURCES: Brands mines minutes of top-level national security meetings
and notes of some of Reagan's closest advisers made newly available by presidential libraries
and the Library of Congress to take us into the Oval Office for the critical events of Reagan's
presidency with you-are-there immediacy.
Author Residence: Austin, TX
H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at
Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. His website is
www.hwbrands.com.
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Age Of Reagan: The Conservativ/Hayward,…
President Reagan/Reeves, Richard/HC
Age Of Reagan/Hayward, Steven F./HC
President Reagan/Cannon, Lou/TR
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978-0-385-53640-0
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978-0-385-53241-9
978-0-307-47515-2
978-0-385-53242-6
978-0-385-52333-2
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978-1-4000-5357-5
9780743230223
9780761513377
9781891620911
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Crown Forum
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China Rich Girlfriend
A Novel
Kevin Kwan
ON SALE 6/16/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53908-1
$25.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Asian American
Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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NYC's Craziest Richest Asian hotspots
Pursue readers of Crazy Rich Asians
across all social channels through viral
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly
funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick
billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu,
engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in
Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from
JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a
fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still
mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her
down the aisle. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai
splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. Here we meet Carlton, a
Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics; Colette, a celebrity girlfriend
chased by fevered paparazzi; and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to
meet: her father. Meanwhile, Singapore's It Girl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover
that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. A romp
through Asia's most exclusive clubs, auction houses, and estates, China Rich Girlfriend
brings us into the elite circles of Mainland China, introducing a captivating cast of
characters, and offering an inside glimpse at what it's like to be gloriously, crazily,
China-rich.
BUZZ: The media was obsessed with Crazy Rich Asians. It was one of the most talked-about,
celebrated, beloved books of the year.
CHINA: In Crazy Rich Asians Kwan opened the door to life among the elite in Singapore, where
families aren't just rich but are crazy rich. With China Rich Girlfriend Kwan brings us inside
Mainland China where the upper echelon, as Nick's mother says, "aren't just regular rich with a
few hundred million. They are China Rich!"
MOVIE: The movie rights to Crazy Rich Asians have been sold to Color Force to be produced by
Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games.
BESTSELLER: Crazy Rich Asians was an international bestseller, not only a hit stateside but a
wild success from Germany to Australia to Singapore.
Author Residence: Manhattan
Author Hometown: Singapore
Kevin Kwan is the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians. Born and raised in
Singapore, Kwan has worked for Martha Stewart Living and Interview magazine and in
1998 joined M&Co, where he developed commercial and cultural projects for such
clients as The Museum of Modern Art, Vitra, and The New York Times. Kwan is the
co-author of the nonfiction special-markets hit Luck: The Essential Guide (Collins, 2008),
which has been translated into nine languages. For over a decade, he has been sought
after as a creative consultant to publishers and authors as a specialist in celebrity and
visually-driven projects.
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Crazy Rich Asians/Kwan, Kevin/TR
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Rules of Civility/Towles, Amor/HC
Rules of Civility/Towles, Amor/TR
Shanghai Girls/See, Lisa/HC
Shanghai Girls/See, Lisa/TR
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
MANAGEM
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978-0-385-53764-3
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9780670022694
9780143121169
978-1-4000-6711-4
978-0-8129-8053-0
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Viking
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Random House
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Invasion of Privacy
A Novel
Christopher Reich
One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her
against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most
dangerous conspiracy in America--Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new
standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher
Reich.
On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant
and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is
Mary Grant, Joe's young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report
places blame for the deaths on Joe's shoulders...but the story just doesn't add up and
Mary has too many troubling questions that need answers. How did Joe's final voice
mail--containing a cryptic warning for Mary, recorded moments before the fatal
shooting--disappear without a trace from her phone? Stonewalled by the FBI, Mary will
be drawn into a deadly conspiracy that puts her in the crosshairs of the richest and most
powerful men in America...and the newest and most terrifying surveillance system
known to man.
ON SALE 6/23/2015
DOUBLEDAY
HARDCOVER
978-0-385-53157-3
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 3: Fiction - Thrillers - Political
Page Count: 384
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich is the master of crafting
thrillers of the highest caliber, with nonstop action and nail-biting suspense. Invasion of
Privacy is his richest, most relevant novel to date and will have readers hooked from the
first page to the last. Your privacy is for sale.
REICH'S STRONGEST NOVEL...A TRUE BREAKOUT: That is not an exaggeration....Invasion
of Privacy is superbly written, plotted, and conceived. Reich characters are rich and the human
angle keeps you tearing through this book-which features Reich's always-terrific thriller plotting.
CHILLING REAL-TECH SURVEILLANCE: Cell-phones, data mining, email security...the
premise grows directly out of real-world fears, and Chris Reich makes the most of a worst-case
scenario.
FANTASTIC CHARACTERS PLUS FIRST-RATE SUSPENSE: In a novel full of richly drawn and
complicated characters, Mary Grant is Reich's best character yet. She's fiercely motivated,
crafty, and her quest for the truth makes for truly compelling reading.
THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME: Reich has a proven track record and real support and
love from fans, critics, and his fellow writers. This is his timeliest novel yet and should launch
him into the highest tier of bestselling commercial brand names.
Author Residence: Encinitas, CA
Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Risk, Rules
of Deception, Rules of Vengeance, Rules of Betrayal, Numbered Account, and The
Runner. His novel The Patriots Club won the International Thriller Writers award for Best
Novel in 2006. He lives in Encinitas, California.
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Rules Of Vengeance/Reich, Christopher/HC
Rules Of Vengeance/Reich, Christopher/MM
Rules Of Vengeance (E-Bk)/Reich, Christo…
Rules Of Deception/Reich, Christopher/HC
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978-0-385-53156-6
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978-0-385-53506-9
978-0-385-53507-6
978-0-385-53154-2
978-0-385-53155-9
978-0-385-52407-0
978-0-307-38783-7
978-0-385-53030-9
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Anchor Mass Market
Anchor
DDay Gen Adult
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The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand comes the riveting story
of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the
agency's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the
Cold War.
While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's
Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned
the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military
technology that was totally unknown to the United States.
From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center,
cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment, using his access to
hand over tens of thousands of pages of material about the latest advances in aviation
technology, alerting the Americans to possible developments years in the future. He was
one of the most productive and valuable spies ever to work for the United States in the
four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union. Tolkachev took enormous
personal risks, but so did his CIA handlers. Moscow station was a dangerous posting to
the KGB's backyard. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow,
and Tolkachev became a singular breakthrough. With hidden cameras and secret
codes, and in face-to-face meetings with CIA case officers in parks and on street
corners, Tolkachev and the CIA worked to elude the feared KGB.
Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA, as well as interviews
with participants, Hoffman reveals how the depredations of the Soviet state motivated
one man to master the craft of spying against his own nation until he was betrayed to
the KGB by a disgruntled former CIA trainee. No one has ever told this story before in
such detail, and Hoffman's deep knowledge of spycraft, the Cold War, and military
technology makes him uniquely qualified to bring readers this real-life espionage thriller.
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO TOP-SECRET DOCUMENTS: Hoffman was given unique access to
CIA documents pertaining to the Tolkachev operation, as well as summaries of documents that
still remain classified.
RIVETING STYLE: A gripping narrative style makes this impeccably researched history a
page-turner.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR: The Dead Hand earned Hoffman raves and a Pulitzer
Prize. We can expect the media to pay close attention to his next book.
COOL VISUALS: Copies of original CIA cables will be used to enrich the design of the book.
Author Residence: Potomac, MD
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at The Washington Post and a correspondent
for PBS's FRONTLINE. He was previously foreign editor, Moscow bureau chief, and
White House correspondent for the newspaper. He is the author of The Dead Hand: The
Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, which won the
Pulitzer Prize, and The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. He lives with
his wife in Maryland.
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Dexter Is Dead
A Novel
Jeff Lindsay
After seven national bestsellers and eight seasons as one of the most successful
shows on television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay bids a
thrilling farewell to his uniquely twisted and beloved serial killer, Dexter Morgan.
Dexter Is Dead is the definitive conclusion of the character who has become a
global icon.
Dexter Morgan has burned the candle at both ends for many years. Blood spatter
analyst...husband...father...serial killer. And now, for the first time, his world has truly
collapsed. Dexter is arrested on charges of murder. He has lost everything--including his
wife, his kids, and the loyalty of his sister. Now completely alone, Dexter faces a murder
charge (for a crime...ironically...he did not actually commit). His only chance for freedom
lies with his brother, Brian, who has a dark plan to prove Dexter's innocence. But the
stakes are deadly, and the epic showdown that lies in Dexter's path may lead, once and
for all, to his demise.
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Jeff Lindsay's trademark devilish wit and cutting satire have never been sharper.
Dexter Is Dead marks the end of a beloved series, but is also Dexter's most satisfying
and suspenseful outing yet.
JEFF LINDSAY BROUGHT DEXTER INTO THIS WORLD...ONLY HE CAN TAKE HIM OUT:
Who's your daddy, Dexter? The story lines for Showtime's series departed from the books long
ago, and the finale -- to put it mildly -- jumped the shark (...just Google "Lumberjack Dexter").
Dexter's devoted but deeply disappointed fans can finally get the true conclusion that they, and
Dexter, deserve...from the man who created him.
PUBLICITY AND REVIEW ATTENTION AWAIT: We plan to have lots of fun promoting this as
the final word for Dexter, which should bring reviewers and publicity outlets to the table in a way
we haven't seen in many books.
ACTION-PACKED FINALE FOR A CULTURAL ICON: Get your duct tape, favorite knife, and
fifty-pound nylon fishing line, then buckle in for a hell of a good read.
FANS ARE HUNGRY: Dexter Is Dead will fill the void for fans lamenting the end of the
Showtime series.
1.8 MILLION DEXTER BOOKS SOLD
Author Residence: Cape Coral, Florida
Jeff Lindsay is the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Dexter novels,
most recently Dexter's Final Cut. He lives in south Florida with his wife and three
daughters. His novels are the inspiration for the hit Showtime and CBS series Dexter.
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Bennington Girls Are Easy
A Novel
Charlotte Silver
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Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two
recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple.
Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters
of good families, maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. There, acres
outnumber students, the faculty is composed of fading hippie and clothing is largely
optional. Or, as J. D. Salinger put it in Franny and Zooey: a Bennington-type "looked like
she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as
though she had a leotard on under her dress."
Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school but cement what they ardently
believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus.
Graduation sees Sylvie moving to New York City, where, later on their twenties,
Cassandra joins her. These early, delirious years are spent decorating their Fort Greene
apartment with flea market gems, dating "artists", and trying to figure out what they're
doing with their lives.
The girls are acutely and caustically observant of the unique rhythms of the city but
tone deaf to their own imperfections, which eventually drives a wedge between them.
Equal parts heartfelt and hilarious, Bennington Girls Are Easy is a novel about female
friendships--how with one word from a confidante can lift you up or tear you down--and
how difficult it is to balance someone else's devastatingly funny lapses in judgment with
your own professional and personal missteps.
NATHANIEL P COULDN'T HANDLE THESE GIRLS: Like Adelle Waldman's bestselling debut,
Bennington Girls Are Easy is a razor-sharp, quasianthropological coming-of-age novel capturing
a recognizable Brooklyn subset--but it's a subset that not only reads but also likes to read about
themselves!
WHAT DO BETTY FORD, BRET EASTON ELLIS, AND MICHAEL POLLAN HAVE IN
COMMON? They're all Bennington alum! Along with Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tart, Alan Arkin,
Martha Graham, and Knopf's very own Judith Jones. We could have some fun surveying these
folks about their college days and the veracity of the novel's title...
YOU'LL LAUGH, YOU'LL CRINGE: In the vein of Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses
(except in this case, add leggings, threadbare sailor shirts, and motorcycle boots), Silver treats
her characters with the wryly affectionate touch of an older sister. Still, she's very comfortable
pointing out that these particular Bennington Girls are "so incredibly young and often really
fucking annoying." And, yes, they're also pretty easy.
Author Hometown: Cambridge, MA
A graduate of Bennington College, CHARLOTTE SILVER is the author of Charlotte au
Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood, and the YA novel, The Summer Invitation
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The Ambassador's Wife
A Novel
Jennifer Steil
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Page Count: 400
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From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a spectacular novel about the brutal
kidnapping of an American woman living with her diplomat husband in the Middle
East and the heartbreaking choices each must make in the hopes of being reunited
Finn and Miranda waited a lifetime to find love and now they are living a fairy tale. In
Mazrooq, where Finn is the British ambassador, the couple and their toddler daughter
have a staff of servants to meet their every need and a stately mansion with all the
modern comforts. But while their lifestyle affords them luxuries that the majority of
citizens in the desperately poor country will never know, for Miranda it comes at a price:
the loss of freedom. Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers
of a country wracked by civil war, forced to give up work she loves, struggling to master
a bewildering role as ambassador's wife, her world is shattered when she is kidnapped,
an act of terror that has complex and far-reaching consequences.
Diplomatic life is a far cry from Miranda's previous life as a free-spirited Seattle artist.
After following her girlfriend to Mazrooq, she spent years wandering the labyrinthine
streets of the ancient capital, finding inspiration for her art and befriending a group of
young women, teaching them to paint in ways their culture has forbidden. As the
narrative weaves past and present, we come to see how Finn and Miranda's idealism,
and darker secrets they have each sought to hide, have placed them and those who
trust them in peril. And when Miranda grows close to a child who joins her in captivity, it
is not clear that even her freedom can restore the simple happiness that once was hers
and Finn's. Suspenseful and moving, The Ambassador's Wife is a harrowing story of
love, marriage, and friendship tested by impossible choices.
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS: When Jennifer Steil's husband, the British ambassador Tim
Torlot, was stationed in Yemen, Jennifer was kidnapped by a local warlord while expecting their
first child. Tim was able to arrange her swift release, but the experience forced Jennifer to
imagine a much worse fate.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF A ROMANTIC WAY OF LIFE: Miranda's rocky path from Bohemian
artist to wife of the British Ambassador allows Jennifer Steil to take us behind the scenes at the
ambassador's residence. She reveals the ins and outs of life as a diplomatic wife, many of which
she learned on the job, first in Yemen, now in Bolivia.
HIGH-END WOMEN'S FICTION: Jennifer writes in an accessible, vivid narrative style and her
concerns --love, marriage, motherhood, work, art---along with the dramatic choices her
characters must make will appeal to readers of Ann Patchett and Jodi Picoult.
Author Residence: La Paz, Bolivia
Author Hometown: Seattle, WA
Jennifer Steil is the author of the memoir The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, about her
experience as a journalist living in Yemen. Before moving to Yemen in 2006, she was a
senior editor at The Week, which she helped to launch in 2001. She currently lives in
Bolivia, where her husband is European Union ambassador.
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Street Poison
The Biography of Iceberg Slim
Justin Gifford
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The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and
influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of
the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick
Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s
and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of
"street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as
Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.
You can't understand contemporary black (and even American) culture without
reckoning with Iceberg Slim and his many acolytes and imitators.
Literature professor Justin Gifford has been researching the life and work of Robert
Beck for a decade, culminating in Street Poison, a colorful and compassionate
biography of one of the most complicated figures in twentieth-century literature. Drawing
on a wealth of archival material--including FBI files, prison records, and interviews with
Beck, his late wife, and his daughters--Gifford explores the sexual trauma and racial
violence Beck endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most
infamous pimps of the 1940s and '50s. From pimping to penning his profoundly
influential confessional autobiography, Pimp, to his involvement in radical politics,
Gifford's biography illuminates the life and works of one of American literature's most
unique renegades.
THE BIGGEST NAMES IN ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO
ICEBERG SLIM: Among them Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Jay-Z, Irvine Welsh, and even, yes,
Sapphire--see quotes on page two of this TI.
A LIFE STORY THAT IN IMPORTANT WAYS PARALLEL THAT OF MALCOLM X: Both had a
life that began in various illegal street enterprises; both did highly formative stretches in prison;
both wrote immensely influential and classic autobiographies that have become canonical.
AN AUTHOR WHO IS AN EDGAR AWARD-NOMINATED SCHOLAR OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES AND WHO HAS THE TOTAL COOPERATION OF ICEBERG SLIM'S
ESTATE: Justin Gifford's u-press book Pimping Fictions (2013) explores the genre of literature
that Beck created. He has done tireless research into the facts behind his subject's both mythic
and murky life story.
WILL COINCIDE WITH THE VINTAGE/BLACK LIZARD PUBLICATION OF A NEWLY
DISCOVERED NOVEL BY ICEBERG SLIM, SHETANI'S SISTER:a scorching novel of pimps
and prostitutes and vice cops in L.A. that out Ellroys James Ellroy.
FIRST THE DOCUMENTARY, NOW THE BIOGRAPHY: Last year saw the release of the
documentary Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, produced by the rapper Ice-T.
Author Residence: Reno, NV
Justin Gifford is a professor of American Literature and African American culture at the
University of Nevada, Reno. His most recent courses focus on zombies in American
culture and hard-boiled detective fiction of the post-WWII era. He began his research on
Iceberg Slim and black crime literature over ten years ago, after buying the legendary
author's velvet suits and snakeskin shoes on eBay from his widow, Diane Beck.
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Voices in the Ocean
Susan Casey
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From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth
and The Wave, a breathtaking look into the mysterious world of dolphins and their
conflicted history with man.
Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and
beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seems like
an aquatic mirror of mankind. In recent decades, scientists have discovered dolphins
recognize themselves in reflections, count, feel despondent, adorn themselves, rescue
one another (and humans), deduce, infer, form cliques, throw tantrums, gossip, scheme.
Several native peoples trace their lineage to dolphins. They are the stars of
multimillion dollar aquatic theme parks, money that has fueled a sinister illicit trade as
shown in the documentary Blackfish. The U.S. Navy has a secret program using
dolphins as undersea soldiers. The theory that they are a superior, extraterrestial
species is popular among the New Age fringe. They are the victims of brutal slaughters
as depicted in the documentary The Cove. To swim with a dolphin is a transporting
experience, an encounter with a being seemingly so like us, yet so alien.
No writer is better positioned to portray these magical creatures than Susan Casey,
whose combination of personal reporting, intense scientific research, and evocative
prose made The Wave and The Devil's Teeth contemporary classics of writing on the
oceans. For two years Casey traveled the world, and now she has written a thrilling book
about the other intelligent life on the planet.
GREAT TRACK: The Wave has sold nearly 185,000 in the Unites States since publication
FEARLESS AUTHOR: Just as she swam with sharks in The Devil's Teeth and surfed giant
waves in The Wave, for two years Susan Casey personally investigated the violent criminal
network of illegal dolphin traders and hunters, which makes for very scary reading.
DOLPHINS: People love dolphins, it's that simple, and here Casey dives deep into their world
revealing and chronicling this beloved animal.
Author Residence: Maui, HI
Susan Casey, author of New York Times bestsellers The Wave and The Devil's Teeth: A
True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks, is the
former editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a National Magazine
Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Best American Science
and Nature Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Magazine Writing
anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Outside, and
National Geographic. Casey lives in Maui.
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Hissing Cousins
The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice
Roosevelt Longworth
Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer
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A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide
a sweeping look at the twentieth century.
As Theodore Roosevelt's beautiful and flamboyant daughter, "Princess Alice"
became arguably the century's first global celebrity when her father entered the White
House in 1901. Twenty-four years later, her first cousin Eleanor moved into the White
House as First Lady. Born eight months and twenty blocks apart from each other in New
York City, Eleanor and Alice spent a large part of their childhoods together and were far
more alike than most historians acknowledge. But their politics and temperaments
couldn't have been more distinct. Do-gooder Eleanor was committed to social justice but
hated the limelight; acid-tongued Alice, who became the wife of philandering Republican
congressman Nicholas Longworth, was an opponent of big government who gained
notoriety for her cutting remarks (she famously quipped that she would "rather vote for
Hitler" than see Eleanor's husband, FDR, win a third term). While Eleanor revolutionized
the role of First Lady with her very public activism, obvious concern for the poor and
oppressed, and outspoken passion for human rights, Alice relied on inside maneuvering
to influence politics, doing as much to defeat the League of Nations as anyone in
elective office. The cousins themselves liked to play up their oil-and-water relationship,
even going so far as to pen competing syndicated newspaper columns in the 1930's. But
until now their full story has remained untold. Vivid, intimate, and stylishly written,
Hissing Cousins reveals the contentious relationship between two feminist heroes who
short-circuited the rules of gender and power, each in her own way.
NEW ANGLE: No previous book has given center stage to the story of Alice and Eleanor, even
though the longest relationship of their lives was with each other.
INTIMATE AND STYLISH: This is a book about people more than politics. Lively and novelistic,
it's full of human and humorous stories that bring an immediacy to the past. And it offers a
ringside seat to the incredible goings-on of the Roosevelt clan.
NEVER A DULL MOMENT: One thing's certain--the Roosevelts were never boring. There aren't
many people who, in the middle of a 60 Minutes profile, would break into a buck-toothed,
warbling imitation of a national treasure, which is exactly what Alice did in 1969, less than seven
years after saintly Eleanor's death.
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARY: PBS airs The Roosevelts six months prior to our publication,
which should renew interest in the family without spoiling anything about the cousins'
relationship, which is mentioned only briefly.
Author Residence: New York City
Author Hometown: Eatons Neck, NY and Columbia, MD
Marc Peyser is a writer and former deputy editor at both Newsweek and Budget Travel.
His work has appeared in the New York Times, Life, Vogue, Time Out New York, Conde
Nast Traveler, and the Best Business Writing, 2003. Timothy Dwyer was raised on Long
Island's Eatons Neck, swimming distance from Theodore Roosevelt's homestead at
Sagamore Hill. He studied history and politics at Georgetown University's School of
Foreign Service and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His work has
appeared in Life and on The Atlantic.com. He is the chief executive officer of School
Choice International, an education advisory company.
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The Jazz Palace
A Novel
Mary Morris
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Acclaimed author Mary Morris returns to her Chicago roots in this sweeping novel
that brilliantly captures the dynamic atmosphere and the dazzling music of the
Jazz Age.
In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows.
The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard.
The Chimbrovas, who run a saloon, lost three of their boys on the SS Eastland when it
sank in 1915. Each family holds out hope that one of their remaining children will rise to
carry on the family business. But Benny Lehrman has no interest in making hats. His
true passion is piano--especially jazz.
At night he sneaks down to the South Side, slipping into predominantly black clubs to
hear jazz groups play. One night he is called out and asked to "sit in" on a group. His
playing is first-rate, and the other musicians are impressed. One of them, the trumpeter,
a black man named Napoleon, becomes Benny's close friend and musical collaborator,
and their adventures together take Benny far from the life he knew as a delivery boy.
Pearl Chimbrova recognizes their talent and invites them to start playing at her family's
saloon, which Napoleon dubs "The Jazz Palace." But Napoleon's main gig is at a mob
establishment, which doesn't take too kindly to freelancing. And as the '20s come to a
close and the bubble of prosperity collapses, Benny, Napoleon, and Pearl must all make
hard choices between financial survival and the music they love.
NEARLY TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING: this novel is truly a labor of love and the ultimate
expression of a writer's commitment to craft--as well as Nan Talese's commitment to her authors.
A WRITER'S WRITER: Whether Morris is writing fiction or nonfiction, her work is met with
glowing praise from critics. She has taught some of this country's most gifted writers, such as
Jonathan Ames, Elissa Schappell, and Jodi Picoult.
THE JAZZ AGE CONTINUES TO CAPTIVATE: with the success of novels like Z, television
series such as Boardwalk Empire, and yet another remake of The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age's
luster only seems to shine brighter as the years go by.
"The Jazz Palace is like the music it celebrates--haunting and unexpected, with twists
and turns that take you by surprise, and a clarity in each word and phrase that can bring
you to tears or steal your breath away." --Jodi Picoult
"This is history in real time, and the novel is packed with so much love, heartbreak,
endurance." --Peter Orner
"A sweeping tribute, a jazz ode by a wonderful writer to her native city." --Valerie Martin
"In this compact tour de force, Mary Morris has written her best novel yet. As she evokes
jazz and its era, this is a writer working at the top of her game." --Dani Shapiro
Author Hometown: Chicago, IL
Mary Morris's novels include Revenge, Acts of God, House Arrest, The Night Sky, and
The Waiting Room. She has also authored two collections of short stories and written
extensively on travel, including four memoirs of her solo journey. She lives in Brooklyn,
New York with her husband and daughter and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence
College.
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Killer, Come Hither
A Novel
Louis Begley
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Page Count: 256
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From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a sly, pacey
international thriller ranging from the suites of an elite Manhattan law firm to the
tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough and tumble western plains of Brazil.
Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of
him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he
is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a
novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch
up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to live with his uncle Harry, a partner in a
leading New York law firm and Jack's surrogate father. With Harry's help he quickly finds
a publisher, and the book's swift success launches Jack as a professional writer. After a
second successful publication, Jack feels entitled to a vacation and leaves for a
three-month trip to South America. The isolation from modern life on a ranch in western
Brazil suits him perfectly, but on his way back home he looks at his e-mails and finds
shocking news: his uncle Harry is dead, hanged in his Sag Harbor summer home,
clearly a suicide.
Horrified and incredulous, Jack digs into the facts surrounding his uncle's death.
Aided by Harry's most trusted associate, Kerry Black, with whom Jack falls in love, and
by his college friend Scott Prentice, who now works for the CIA, Jack discovers that
Harry had pierced the secret of his most important client, Abner Brown, a right-wing
multibillionaire notorious for backing extremist causes: Alongside his legitimate
businesses, Brown owns and operates parallel criminal enterprises. The stakes and
dangers are huge. Harry's death now seems anything but a suicide. And in order to
avenge his uncle, Jack might have to circumvent the law and take matters into his own
hands. Begley's taut, intelligent thriller takes readers from the knotty politics of New York
law firms to the intimacy of life on the Long Island shore, all with his trademark wit and
nuance.
CRITICS' FAVORITE: Begley's good old-fashioned style ("comedy of manners so dry it
crackles" --The New Yorker) have made him a consistent favorite of reviewers.
NEW DIRECTION: Best known for his novels chronicling the lives of New York City's old guard,
this is a departure for Begley that seamlessly marries his trademark style with an intricate plot
full of deception and intrigue. And he's hard at work on a follow-up.
Louis Begley's previous novels are Memories of a Marriage, Schmidt Steps Back,
Matters of Honor, Shipwreck, Schmidt Delivered, Mistler's Exit, About Schmidt, As Max
Saw It, The Man Who Was Late, and Wartime Lies, which won the Hemingway/PEN
Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into
eighteen languages.
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Madeleine's War
A Novel
Peter Watson
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A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in
Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944
Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during
World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost
him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his
country by training new resistance fighters.
One of the recruits under his tutelage is Madeleine, a spellbinding, impassioned
French-Canadian with eyes of "burnished whiskey." Despite protocols discouraging
romance, they are deeply in love, and Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in
danger. He already has one tragic affair with a Resistance fighter under his belt--his
former lover, Celestine, was killed because her assassination of a German doctor went
awry.
But the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings in
Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will need to play a role. It will be a very
dangerous mission: parachuting in behind the Nazi line. As Madeleine progresses
through the training with her fellow recruits, Matthew can only hope that luck will guide
her through when the drop finally arrives.
HISTORICAL AUTHENTICITY: As a well regarded historian, Watson is able to inject his fiction
with a special historical flavor. He wears his knowledge lightly and uses it to great effect when
plunging the reader into spycraft training and conjuring the tension of life behind enemy lines.
EPILOGUE: Watson will supply an epilogue outlining what events in the novel actually took
place.
SUMMER READ: The combination of a wartime setting, a gorgeous heroine, and bittersweet
romance make this a perfect book to take to the beach.
Author Residence: Cambridge, UK
Peter Watson is a well-known and respected historian whose books are published in
seventeen languages. He was educated at the Universities of Durham, London, and
Rome, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times,
and numerous publications in the United Kingdom. Since 1998 he has been a research
associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of
Cambridge. He has written two previous novels, Gifts of War and The Clouds Beneath
the Sun, under the pen name Mackenzie Ford.
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I Saw a Man
A Novel
Owen Sheers
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An utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets, and the
enduring power of words. I Saw a Man fulfills the promise of Owen Sheers's
acclaimed novel, Resistance.
While on assignment in Pakistan, Caroline Turner is killed in a drone strike. Her
grief-stricken husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and returns to London to
try to build a new life. He quickly develops a close friendship with his neighbors, Josh
and Samantha Nelson and their two young daughters.
Michael's friendship with the Nelsons marks the beginning of a long healing process,
which is interrupted when Michael receives a letter from the soldier responsible for
Caroline's death. After much soul-searching, the truth is the path the solider has chosen
so he can begin to rebuild his life. The letter stirs up complex emotions that overwhelm
Michael and cloud his judgment.
Shortly thereafter, a terrible accident involving one of Josh and Samantha's
daughters brings more grief and the burden of a shattering secret into Michael's life.
When Josh learns the truth about what happened on that fateful day, Michael knows he
must leave London. He moves to New York, where he leads the empty existence of a
haunted man. What path to redemption will Michael choose? The answer is eloquent,
resonant, and completely unforgettable.
A TREAT FOR IAN McEWAN FANS: An ordinary event takes on extraordinary, life-changing
proportions and raises profound moral questions, not unlike the picnic in Enduring Love or the
lies of a young girl in Atonement.
A YOUNG AUTHOR HITTING HIS STRIDE: Owen's work as an award-winning playwright and
poet are evident on every page of I Saw a Man: gorgeous writing and sharp, smart dialogue are
among the many pleasures of the novel.
BIG IDEAS EXPERTLY MIXED WITH SECRETS AND LIES: The irresistible nature of secrets
and lies lend the novel a page-turning pace, but at its heart are important ideas about the "truth"
and its power to destroy as well as heal.
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Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was
translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean
nonfiction narrative won the Wales Book of the Year. His awards for poetry and drama
include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, The Hay Festival Poetry Medal
for Pink Mist and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play
The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He lives in Wales with his wife and daughter. He has been
a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow.
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