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Knopf Catalog
Fall 2013
Publicity Assignments for Knopf Fall 2013 Paul Bogaards pbogaards@randomhouse.com and
Madeline Caldwell mcaldwell@randomhouse.com
BRIDGET JONES: Mad About the Boy / Helen
Fielding – with Erinn Hartmann
THE MOST OF NORA EPHRON / Nora Ephron
Gabrielle Brooks grbooks@randomhouse.com and
Elizabeth Lindsay elindsay@randomhosue.com
LONGBOURN / Jo Baker – with Lena Khidritskaya
ON PAPER / Nicholas A. Basbanes
A FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN HOUSES
MY AGE OF ANXIETY / Scott Stossel
FORGIVING THE ANGEL / Jay Cantor
Kathryn Zuckerman
kzuckerman@randomhouse.com and Brittany
Morrongiello bmorrongiello@randomhouse.com
CATASTROPHE 1941 / Max Hastings
LEVELS OF LIFE / Julian Barnes
QUEEN ANNE / Anne Somerset
THE GREAT WAR / Hilary Roberts and Mark
Holborn
EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI / Jung Chang
THE PARTHENON ENIGMA / Joan Connelly
THIRTY GIRLS / Susan Minot
Erinn Hartman ehartman@randomhouse.com and
Erinn McGrath emcgrath@randomhouse.com
REIGN OF ERROR / Diane Ravitch
THE AFTERMATH / Rhidian Brook
THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY / Geoff Dyer
THE MAXIMALISTS / Stephen Sestanovich
Michelle Somers msomers@randomhouse.com
and Brittany Morrongiello
bmorrongiello@randomhouse.com
THE BLOOD TELEGRAM / Gary J. Bass
BOOK OF AGES / Jill Lepore
THOMAS JEFFERSON’s QUR’AN / Denise
Spellberg
THE BURGLARY / Betty Medsger
LOVE AND TREASURE / Ayelet Waldman
Kim Thornton kthornton@randomhouse.com
THE WOLVES OF MIDWINTER / Anne Rice
BY BLOOD WE LIVE / Glen Duncan
Sara Eagle seagle@randomhouse.com and Erinn
McGrath emcgrath@randomhouse.com
LIDIA’S COMMONSENSE ITALIAN COOKING
/ Lidia Bastianich
THE AOC COOKBOOK / Suzanna Goin
THE ART OF FRENCH PASTRY / Jacquy Pfeiffer
DEPT. OF SPECULATION / Jenny Offill
Lena Khidritskaya
lkhidritskaya@randomhouse.com and Brittany
Morrongiello bmorrongiello@randomhouse.com
SUBTLE BODIES / Norman Rush
NOTHING BY DESIGN / Mary Jo Salter
COUNTRYMEN / Bo Lidegaard
EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BODY / Daniel
Lieberman
STAY, ILLUSION / Lucie Brock-Broido
ARIK / David Landau
CORRESPONDENCES / Anne Michaels
OUR MATHEMATICAL UNIVERSE / Max
Tegmark
LEAVING THE SEA / Ben Marcus
Erica Hinsley ehinsley@randomhouse.com and
Erinn McGrath emcgrath@randomhouse.com
JAPAN 1941 / Eri Hotta
BEYOND THE SEA / Lincoln Paine
MURGOSKY AND HIS CIRCLE / Stephen Walsh
DUST / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Elizabeth Lindsay elindsay@randomhouse.com
THE LAST FIRST DAY / Carrie Brown
Josie Kals jkals@randomhouse.com
THE LOWLAND / Jhumpa Lahiri
MUSIC IN THE CASTLE OF HEAVEN / John
Eliot Gardiner
The Aftermath
Rhidian Brook
A courageous, emotionally gripping new novel (already sold in 18 countries
worldwide, and soon to be made into a major motion picture) from an
award-winning author and screenwriter: set in Germany during the tumultuous
year following the end of World War II, the profoundly moving story of two
families, one house, and love grown from hate.
Hamburg, 1946. While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel
Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the
de-Nazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe.
He is waiting for the arrival of his wife Rachael--still grieving for their eldest son, one of
the war's many casualties--and their only surviving son, Edmund. But rather than force
the owners of the house, a German widower and his rebellious daughter, out onto the
streets, Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged atmosphere,
both parents and children will be forced to confront their true selves as enmity and grief
give way to passion and betrayal, to their deepest desires, their fiercest loyalties, and
the transforming power of forgiveness.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Historical
BISAC 2: Fiction - War
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 288
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 34/32 Carton Count: 12
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INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: The book has sold in 18 countries. There were heated
auctions around the world during the London Book Fair. ERA: A novel that mines the richness of its WWII setting, but from a previously unexplored
angle: the year after the war's close, with Germany divided into zones, a country on its knees. UK LAUNCH: Viking UK is publishing in May and we can make use of their media coverage.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY: The Colonel is based on the author's grandfather, giving the novel
great immediacy and emotional resonance, and there are very strong hooks for publicity. MOVIE: Ridley Scott optioned the film rights and commissioned the author to write the script. AUTHOR: Dynamic, passionate, and a great speaker, Brook is a regular contributor to the BBC
Radio 4 program Thought for the Day. His feature film Africa United was likened to Slumdog
Millionaire for Africa (made by the same film company). He also traveled for nine months with
his wife and two young children to those places in the world most ravaged by HIV/AIDS--Africa,
India, and China--which is the subject of a memoir he wrote and published in the UK.
Early praise for The Aftermath
"Rhidian Brook's arresting novel brings vividly to life a little-told aspect of World War II: its
aftermath. His story--energetically and authoritatively told--is unsettling and compelling, suffused
with suffering and, mercifully, some hope." --Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children
"A moving, always enthralling journey into the dark and light of history. Rhidian Brook has
written a brilliant novel." --Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
"Rhidian Brook takes a piece of history I thought I knew well and breaks it open; The Aftermath
is a compelling, surprising, and moving novel." --Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London
Author Hometown: Tenby, Wales
RHIDIAN BROOK is an award-winning writer of fiction, television, and film. His debut
novel The Testimony of Taliesin Jones won the Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty
Trask Award, and the Author's Club Best First Novel Award. His stories have appeared
in The Paris Review and New Statesman. He lives in London with his wife and two
children.
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Almost Invisible
Mark Strand
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an exquisitely witty and poignant series of
prose poems, each one a precise drama revealing the receding vista of our lives.
In these sparkling, often hilarious short paragraphs, Mark Strand, writing as both a
skeptic and a believer, comments on our foibles, our transient passions, and our
dauntless pursuit of the beautiful. His paragraphs, sometimes appearing as pure prose,
other times as impure poetry, are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they come
into view. Strand has the longest stare of any poet in our pantheon; nevertheless he
loves to tread lightly, to be "almost invisible," while his writing remains indelible. It
speaks of the human condition in all its folly, sorrow, and persistence, and does so with
eloquence.
AUTHOR: Mark Strand is one of the preeminent poets of our time. His books invariably attract
review and reader attention.
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Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Prince Edward Island, Canada
MARK STRAND is the author of thirteen earlier books of poems. He is also the author of
a book of stories, three volumes of translations, a number of anthologies (most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century), and monographs on the artists William
Bailey and Edward Hopper. He has received many honors and awards for his poems,
including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), the Bollingen
Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In
1990 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. He teaches at Columbia
University.
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Subtle Bodies
Norman Rush
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Humorous
BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Contemporary
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 9-1/4
Publicist: Lena Khidritskaya
Marketing Contact: Jonathan Lazzara
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His long-awaited new novel: a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and
particular joys of marriage and friendship as a group of college friends reunites
20-some years after graduation...a novel filled with unexpected, funny, telling
aperçus, alongside a deeper, moving exploration of the meanings of life.
When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility"
dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the
Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing. Responding to an obscure sense
of emergency in the call, Ned, our hero, flies in from San Francisco (where he is the
main organizer of a march against the impending Iraq war), pursued instantly by his
furious wife Nina: they're at a critical point in their attempt to get Nina pregnant, and
she's ovulating! And it is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the
friends begin to catch up with one another. She is not above poking fun at some of their
past exploits and the things they held dear, and she's particularly hard on the departed
Douglas, who she thinks undervalued her Ned. Ned is trying manfully to discern what it
was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with before time, sex, work, and
the brutal quirks of history shaped them into who they are now--and, simultaneously,
what will come next.
SETTING AND ACCESSIBILITY: This is the first of Rush's novels to be set in the U.S., and it's
both lighter and more straightforward fun than his African trilogy. CRITICAL ATTENTION: A literary event. Whites was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Mating
won the National Book Award; Mortals received major review attention. This book is
long-awaited (Mortals was published in 2003) and will undoubtedly be widely reviewed as well.
AUTHOR: Rush's reputation as one of the major writers of our time has continued to grow
despite the fact that it has been 10 years since his last book. In 2010, he was interviewed in The
Paris Review as part of their widely read Art of Fiction series. Praise for Mortals
"An astounding accomplishment...A detonation of talent that threatens to incinerate
competitors for miles around."--The Christian Science Monitor
Praise for Mating
"Exhilarating...One of the wisest and wittiest fictional meditations ever written on the
subject of mating."--Jim Shepard, The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Whites
"A haunting glimpse of individuals in the grip of passions and history."--Time
Author Residence: New City, New York
NORMAN RUSH is the author of three previous works of fiction: Whites, a collection of
stories, and two novels, Mating and Mortals. His stories have appeared in The New
Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Mating, was the recipient of
the National Book Award. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.
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Countrymen
Bo Lidegaard
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Jewish
BISAC 2: History - Military - World War II
BISAC 3: History - Europe - General
Page Count: 432
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Illustrations: 3 MAPS & 41 PHOTOGRAPHS IN
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York Review of Books and The Jewish
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Online Advertising on history sites A work of eminent historical import and utter fascination: the literally
extraordinary story of how Denmark saved its Jews from the Nazis in World War
II-- told in full for the first time.
The bare facts of this exodus have been known for decades but astonishingly, no full
history of it has ever been researched or written. Now, acclaimed Danish journalist, Bo
Lidegaard--with access to diaries, letters, and family accounts--gives us a riveting
account of how, in 1943, the Danish king, his ministers, and parliament agreed that no
one in Denmark would aid the Nazis in rounding up the 7000 Danish Jews for
deportation and certain death. Lidegaard takes us, day-by-day, over the two weeks
during which an incredible 6,500 Jews out of the 7,000 total escaped to Sweden:
assisted, hidden, protected by ordinary people who came together spontaneously to the
aid of their countrymen, who were suddenly refugees. After a powerful historical
introduction, the book vividly, viscerally recounts the heart-stopping experiences of real
people during those fateful, heroic days from September 26 to October 9, 1943. This is a
story of ordinary glory, of simple courage and moral fortitude that shines out in midst of
the terrible history of the twentieth century.
AN UPLIFTING STORY AMIDST THE HOLOCAUST: That utter rarity, and never before told in
such detail, covering fourteen riveting days from September 26 to October 9, 1943.
BREATH-TAKING: The sheer human adventure of getting 6,500 Jews out of Denmark in a mere
two weeks on big boats, little boats, fishing boats, anything that could float, to Sweden.
A HISTORICALLY PROVOCATIVE STORY: Throws the behavior of all other countries under
the Nazis back under the spotlight. There were in fact moral choices to be made, brave people
made them, and they prevailed. AUTHOR: Lidegaard is quietly charismatic, speaks perfect English, and is globally known to
journalists at all major media outlets.
Author Residence: Denmark
Bo Lidegaard, after a stellar career in the Danish Diplomatic Service, became
editor-in-chief of Denmark's most important newspaper, Politiken. His two previous
books have been both bestsellers in Denmark and winners of major literary and
historical awards. Widely known to leading journalists around the world, he lives in
Copenhagen.
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Nothing by Design
Mary Jo Salter
A beautiful collection of verse--both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative--from
one of our most admired poets.
The title Nothing by Design is a phrase taken from Salter's villanelle "Complaint for
Absolute Divorce," in which we're asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe.
The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied
as "Our Friends the Enemy," about the Christmas football match between German and
British soldiers in 1914; "The Afterlife," in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve
the dead; and "Voice of America," where Salter returns to the St. Petersburg of her
exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as
counterpoint to another series entitled "Bed of Letters," in which Salter addresses the
end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems
movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness
and loss in our lives.
MARY JO'S PRESENCE: A well-known figure in the poetry world, Mary Jo promotes well and
will receive many invitations to read.
NEW SUBJECT MATTER: This book has a human warmth and dignity in the face of divorce and
other midlife losses that will win new readers for her as well as giving the critics something new
to discuss in her work.
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Praise for Salter's A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems
"Only a few poets transcend the history of taste to participate in the history of art--and only in a
handful of poems. Salter has been struck by lightning more than once."--James Longenbach, The New York Times Book Review
"A wholly attractive volume...Twenty-three years' worth of elegantly shaped and voiced
creations, all of which emanate from a writer committed to making humorous sense of life."
--William H. Pritchard, The Boston Globe
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Page Count: 128
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Author Residence: Baltimore, MD
Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was educated at Harvard and
Cambridge and taught at Mount Holyoke College for many years. She also served as
poetry editor of The New Republic. In addition to her six previous poetry collections, she
is the author of a children's book, The Moon Comes Home, and a coeditor of The Norton
Anthology of Poetry. She is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in The Writing Seminars at
Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore. Rights
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Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the
Danger to America's Public Schools
Diane Ravitch
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Category: Education
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Page Count: 416
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From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower
extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on
education and the history of education in the United States, author of the
best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The
Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it
is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School Wars: A
History of the New York City Public Schools--an incisive, comprehensive look at
today's American public schools that argues persuasively against those who
claim our public school system is broken, beyond repair, and obsolete; an
impassioned but reasoned call to stop the rising "privatization movement"
draining students--and funding--from our public schools, a book that puts forth a
detailed plan of what needs to happen to schools and with public policy to insure
the survival of this American institution so basic to our democracy.
In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made
about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the
highest they've ever been in history--and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this
according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no-stakes test for
children of all races.
Ravitch puts forth a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of what can be done to preserve
public school education, making clear what is right with our education system, how
policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and
discussing in detail how to fix these problems.
Diane Ravitch, author of ten acclaimed books on education and policy, has been a force in the
education debate for four decades. Her blog, started in April 2012, has had more than two
million views, with 15,000 to 20,000 readers a day. Ravitch has 46,000 followers on Twitter.
These numbers are increasing daily.
The success of Ravitch's last book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System
(2010): 95,000 HC, 20,000 TR, 19,000 eBook.
A chapter-by-chapter breakdown of what works and what has to be changed in public schools.
Ravitch's controversial claim that we are reverting to life before Brown v. Board of Education,
with class--rather than race--as the deciding factor of segregation, will be news.
In the past two years, Ravitch has lectured before more than two hundred audiences, among
them, to general sessions of both the National Education Association and the American
Federation of Teachers, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the American
Association of School Administrators, and the National School Boards Association, as well as a
dozen state school boards.
Author Residence: Brooklyn, New York
Author Hometown: Houston, Texas
DIANE RAVITCH was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Wellesley College
and Columbia University. She is a Research Professor of Education at New York
University. She was appointed by President Clinton in 1997 and 2001 to the National
Assessment Governing Board. Ravitch is the author of ten previous books. She is a
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the United Federation of Teachers John
Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. Ravitch lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass
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A riveting history--the first full account--of the involvement of Richard Nixon and
Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India
and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in its wake a host of major strategic
consequences for the world today.
Drawing on recently declassified documents, unheard White House tapes, and
investigative reporting, Gary Bass gives us an unprecedented chronicle of a crucial but
little-known chapter of the Cold War. He shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported
Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free
election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan
(today an independent Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people, and
sending ten million refugees fleeing into India--one of the worst humanitarian crises of
the twentieth century. It soon sparked a major war. But Nixon and Kissinger remained
untroubled by Pakistan's massacres, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the
Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military--an unknown
scandal that presages Watergate. And Bass makes clear how the United States's
embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would affect geopolitics for decades. A
revelatory, compulsively readable work of essential recent history.
WORLD-HISTORICAL EVENT: The bloodshed in Bangladesh was arguably a genocide on the
scale of Rwanda, and as a refugee crisis, it dwarfs even Bosnia.
RIVETING STORY: From Nixon's and Kissinger's cynical decisions and casual racism, to the
political pressures on Indira Gandhi, to the slaughter and subsequent war, this is a book
thrillingly full of dramatic events and galvanizing characters--including Ted Kennedy, one of the
leading critics of U.S. policy. Bass gives an unmatched inside view of how the White House
really works in crisis.
PUBLIC MEMORY: This book cuts through Nixon and Kissinger's own misrepresentations and
cover-up, giving readers a captivating account of their secret roles in backing the perpetrators of
one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. Given this history's newness to Americans, and
the author's extensive use of recently released documents, we expect exceptional review
coverage.
AUTHOR: Gary Bass is a highly respected professor at Princeton and is well known within the
human rights community. His previous book, Freedom's Battle, got significant attention, and we
can expect even more for this one.
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GARY J. BASS is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.
A former reporter for The Economist, he has written often for The New York Times, as
well as for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston
Globe, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other publications. His
previous two books are Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
(Knopf, 2008) and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
(2000). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife.
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Levels of Life
Julian Barnes
Fifteen months after the publication of his phenomenally successful novel The
Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes now gives us his most powerfully moving book
yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely
personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the
subject of grief.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is
changed..." Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief;
about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of
the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as "an
unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.
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Page Count: 144
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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: Awarded the 2011 Man Booker Prize, this has gone on to sell
well over 400,000 copies across all formats and is still on best-seller lists from coast to coast
and will backlist beautifully for the indefinite future; it has gone viral, as they say, and is all over
the Internet on a daily basis.
LEVELS OF LIFE: As eloquent and intelligent as anything Julian has ever written, similar in
some respects to Nothing to Be Frightened Of, this book is also heartrendingly direct and will
inevitably be compared to Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.
Praise for The Sense of an Ending
"A book for the ages." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A page turner, and when you finish you will return immediately to the beginning. Who are you?
How can you be sure? What if you're not who you think you are? What if you never were?"--San
Francisco Chronicle
"Elegant, playful, and remarkable." --The New Yorker
"Of universal importance." --The Observer (UK)
"Elegantly composed, quietly devastating." --NPR
Author Residence: London, UK
JULIAN BARNES is the author of eleven novels, three books of short stories, and three
collections of journalism. In addition to the Man Booker Prize, his other honors include
the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the E. M.
Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
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Catastrophe 1914
Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War
I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before
the war bogged down in the trenches.
World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that
sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war,
from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly different, full of
advances and retreats, tactical maneuvering, and significant gains and losses. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings re-creates this dramatic year, from the diplomatic crisis
to the fighting in Belgium and France on the western front, and Serbia and Galicia to the
east. He gives vivid accounts of the battles and frank assessments of generals and
political leaders, and shows why it was inevitable that this first war among modern
industrial nations could not produce a decisive victory, resulting in a war of attrition.
Throughout we encounter high officials and average soldiers, as well as civilians on the
home front, giving us a vivid portrait of how a continent became embroiled in a war that
would change everything.
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NEW SUBJECT FOR HASTINGS: After writing Inferno, widely acclaimed as the best
one-volume account of World War II, Hastings has switched his focus to World War I. As ever,
his work is massively researched, ranges from high leadership to grunts on the ground to
everyday civilians, and offers sharp, often iconoclastic analysis.
ANNIVERSARY: Given the huge number of books likely planned for the anniversary of the
outbreak of war in August 1914, we are coming out ahead to have more room for our own book.
AUTHOR'S GROWING STATURE: Inferno got more reviews and sales than any Hastings book
in recent memory. He is better known in America than ever before, while he has also emerged
as one of the foremost historians in his own country, where he can be seen as Britain's David
McCullough.
NOT YOUR FAMILIAR TAKE ON WWI: Most books on the First World War focus on who
caused the outbreak of war, or on the repetitious, futile horrors of the trenches. But the last
months of 1914 made for a highly dramatic war as Germany attempted to overrun France, and
the Austrians engaged with the Serbians and then the Russians. These were big, cataclysmic
confrontations involving offensive thrusts, strategic retreats, communication breakdowns, and
much more. These were by far the most lively months of the war, and they make for riveting
reading.
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MAX HASTINGS is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Inferno: The
World at War, 1939-1945. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor
of Britain's Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph. He has received numerous
British Press Awards, including journalist of the year in 1982 and editor of the year in
1988. He lives outside London.
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The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a
country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times
best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel--set in both India and
America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past
death.
Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra
are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites,
with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan--charismatic
and impulsive--finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to
eradicate inequity and poverty: he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes.
Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home
to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America. But when
Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home,
he comes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal
the wounds Udayan left behind--including those seared in the heart of his brother's wife.
Suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland expands the range of one
of our most dazzling storytellers, seamlessly interweaving the historical and the personal
across generations and geographies. This masterly novel of fate and will, exile and
return, is a tour de force and an instant classic.
AUTHOR/CRITICS: A literary superstar. Unaccustomed Earth was a New York Times Book
Review, Washington Post, LA Times, People, and Time Best Book of the Year. The Namesake
was a New York Times best seller hailed across the country. Interpreter of Maladies won the
Pulitzer Prize.
AUDIENCE: Huge and devoted. Her most recent book, a story collection, was an
unprecedented #1 New York Times best seller. This fully realized new novel will push her
readership into the stratosphere.
SUBJECT/SCOPE: Known for her poignant depictions of immigrant life in America, Lahiri
broadens her canvas in this multigenerational story of a family split across continents, decades,
and the permeable boundaries between life and death.
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JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of three previous works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, and most recently, Unaccustomed Earth. A recipient of the Pulitzer
Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award,
and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in 2012.
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Book of Ages
The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore
From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory
portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, whose obscurity and poverty were
matched only by her brother's fame and wealth but who, like him, was a
passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political
commentator.
It is a life that has never been examined before: that of the sister of one of the most
remarkable men of their time, living unknown to the world at large, but a constant
presence and influence in her brother's life through their correspondence (he wrote more
letters to her than to anyone else). Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied
material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore
brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary
woman but an entire world. Lepore's life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original
vantage on Benjamin Franklin, is at once a wholly different account of the founding and
one of the great untold stories of American history and letters.
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Page Count: 464
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SUBJECT: The story of Jane Franklin is not only a landmark biography, but a profound
meditation on how to write history from what is lost. "One half of the world does not know how
the other half lives," Benjamin Franklin once wrote. His sister is his--and America's--other half. OPPORTUNITY: This book fulfills the promise of all of Jill Lepore's previous books--her
brilliance as a historian, a biographer, a detective, and a storyteller are all here on full display. THE NEW YORKER: Lepore's luminous essays for The New Yorker are much admired and the
author is writing a piece on Jane Franklin for this publication to run ahead of our on-sale date.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
"This is a brilliant and delightful book! By weaving together the tales of Benjamin Franklin and
his beloved little sister, Jill Lepore creates a richly-textured tapestry of life in early America. I
devoured this book and will treasure it." --Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
"Book of Ages is an ardently told life story, brimming with love and loss against a background of
political strife and war...While Benjamin was able to forge a path to greatness from his obscure
beginnings, Jane, trapped by gender, starved of education, was not. The contrast between the
two destinies is by turns captivating, enraging, and profoundly moving. As Lepore sheds light on
this one unsung life, she brilliantly illuminates an entire era." --Geraldine Brooks, author of March
"The subject is tailor-made for Lepore, as artful a writer as she is exact a scholar. She delivers
two marvels at once: an authentic eighteenth-century female voice, cheerful, inquisitive, and
saucy, as well as an intimate portrait of Jane Franklin's revered brother himself." --Stacy Schiff,
author of Cleopatra
"This poetic and powerful diptych takes readers on a fascinating journey. With consummate skill,
Lepore moves us beyond the story of a famous brother and his woebegone sister, instead
bringing both Benny and Jenny--and the relationship between them--to life. A book to ponder
and prose to savor." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale
Author Residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard
University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
Islam and the Founders
Denise A. Spellberg
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A fascinating new understanding of the birth of American religious freedom and
of how Islam shaped the thinking of the Founding Fathers.
In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas
Jefferson bought a Qur'an. His interest in Islam did not belie his personal disdain for the
faith, a sentiment then rampant among his Protestant contemporaries. But unlike most of
them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. In
this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little known but crucial
dimension of the birth of American religious freedom, a drama in which Islam played a
surprising role. She recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost, drew
upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims--then deemed the ultimate
outsiders in Western society--to fashion from what had been a purely speculative debate
a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not
even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an
unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the
actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute
concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson's political foes would
vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders' ultimate judgment
not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. Their radical ideal is
being tested to this day, as popular suspicions about Islam persist and Muslim citizens
number in the millions.
SUBJECT: Certain to play into media debates about the proper--and intended--role of religion in
American life, as well as the more particular vexed issue of Muslim rights brewing since 9/11.
Lots of op-eds waiting to be written. AUTHOR: Exciting scholar, fluent in Arabic, came to prominence for warning RH about the
publication of the Aisha novel, cancelled before publication.
ALREADY GATHERING ACCLAIM: Jon Meacham and Bernard Bailyn have already endorsed. ORIGINALITY: An unprecedented marriage of hugely compelling subjects.
Author Residence: Austin, Texas
Denise A. Spellberg is a graduate of Smith College and received her PhD in Middle
Eastern History from Columbia University. In 2009, she was awarded a
nationally-competitive Carnegie Scholarship to support the completion of this book. A
specialist in early Islamic history and religion as well as Islam in Europe and America,
she is the author of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha bint Abi
Bakr (Columbia University.) She is currently an associate professor of History and
Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Left-handed
Jonathan Galassi
Now in paperback: an elegant, emotionally riveting collection--his first in a
decade--by the acclaimed poet, translator, and publisher, which tells a powerful
story of passion, loss, and transformation.
Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a
one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires
the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems--decisive,
wrenching, exquisite--show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative,
invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house
in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum. They reach back to the
sonnets of Shakespeare but find inspiration, too, in contemporary life. Naked and raw,
lyrical and formally inventive, rich with the melancholy wisdom of age, this is a work of
resonant and shimmering beauty.
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Page Count: 128
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
RECEPTION: Chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman ("Galassi writes
about love with an almost reckless freedom of feeling, chastened by an arduous purity of style.
The language clears your head, but the emotion produces a high."), Left-handed was met with
praise from major names in literature and poetry; John Ashbery ("Heart-wrenching"), W. S.
Merwin, Paul Harding, D. A. Powell, David Trinidad ("Courageous"), David Leavitt ("Deft and
elegiac, funny and often heart-stopping"), and Wayne Koestenbaum ("An Apollonian, sonorous
account of a trip to the edge"); Charles McGrath wrote a remarkable New York Times profile. AUTHOR: Galassi is a poet and translator. As the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, he has published some of the world's most renowned poets, including Elizabeth Bishop,
Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Derek Walcott, as well as fiction writers from Jonathan
Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides to Marilynne Robinson.
SUBJECT: Like Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, this is a searing account of an unraveling
marriage. But it is also about finding a new "left-handed" love when one least expects it.
JONATHAN GALASSI is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Morning Run
and North Street. He is also the author of acclaimed translations of the work of the
Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he
was a poetry editor of The Paris Review for many years, and currently serves as
Honorary Chairman of the Academy of American Poets.
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Longbourn
Jo Baker
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Page Count: 352
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A brilliantly imagined, irresistible below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a
story of the romance, intrigue, and drama among the servants of the Bennet
household, a triumphant tale of defying society's expectations, and an
illuminating glimpse of working-class lives in Regency England.
The servants at Longbourn estate--only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's
classic--take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets
as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors,
cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned
housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia
marches into town, a new footman arrives under mysterious circumstances, and Sarah
finds herself the object of the attentions of an ambitious young former slave working at
neighboring Netherfield Hall, the carefully choreographed world downstairs at Longbourn
threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, up-ended. From the stern but
soft-hearted housekeeper to the starry-eyed kitchen maid, these new characters come
vividly to life in this already beloved world. Jo Baker shows us what Jane Austen
wouldn't in a captivating, wonderfully evocative, moving work of fiction.
ANNIVERSARY: 2013 is the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, and there has already
been significant media coverage and attention devoted to it, with more to come. PREMISE: For fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs, and for those who have ever
wondered: Who had to get the mud out of Elizabeth Bennet's skirts after she went walking
through the countryside? What was it like to sew the roses onto the Bennet sisters' shoes for the
ball, or to clear the dishes from the dining room after Mr. Darcy came to visit? Here are the
answers, mapped day by day against the events of Pride and Prejudice, each chapter taking its
cue from a line in Jane Austen's text.
FILM: Focus Features and RH Studio just concluded a major deal for the film rights. INTERNATIONAL BUZZ: Publishers around the world are preempting translation rights. Deals
have been made in 11 countries--France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Holland, Brazil, Finland, Russia--and this is just the beginning. Knopf Canada will publish
alongside our edition.
UK PUBLICATION: Doubleday UK will publish in August, making a big push for the book that we
can follow. PERIOD DETAILS: Baker's family used to be in service, and she has done comprehensive
research into the history and conventions of the time. REIMAGINING A CLASSIC: As P. D. James did in Death Comes to Pemberley, and Jean Rhys
did in Wide Sargasso Sea. But Longbourn stands strongly on its own; you don't have to have
read Pride and Prejudice to be completely swept up. GREAT GIFT BOOK: To sell through the holidays. "Captivating and delicious. A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world
beyond the margins and outside the parlors of Pride and Prejudice." --Maggie Shipstead, author
of Seating Arrangements
Author Residence: Lancaster
Author Hometown: Lancashire
JO BAKER was born in Lancashire and educated at Oxford University and Queen's
University Belfast. She is the author of The Undertow and of three earlier novels
published in the United Kingdom: Offcomer, The Mermaid's Child, and The Telling. She
lives in Lancaster.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones, the iconic character who sold 15 million books worldwide, inspired
a major motion picture franchise, and became beloved as a Chardonnay-swilling
everywoman, is back in this hotly anticipated third installment.
Set in contemporary London, the new novel brings us Bridget in a new phase of life.
SALES: Named "One of the 10 books that best define the 20th century," and published in forty
countries around the world, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) was a New York Times best seller, as
was the sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999).
BELOVED CHARACTER: Bridget has been celebrated as one of the most relatable creations in
contemporary literature, capturing the trials of modern womanhood. "How can a reader not love this woman?" --The New York Times
"Fielding is a wonderful comic novelist." --Time
"One of the most enchanting heroines to ever overdraw her bank account." --USA Today
"A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh." --Salman Rushdie
"Bridget Jones is a joy and a comfort, and Helen Fielding is bloody great." --Mademoiselle
"Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers alive and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic
genius." --Nick Hornby
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HELEN FIELDING, a journalist and novelist, is the author of four previous
novels--Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Cause Celeb, and Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination.
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Lidia's Commonsense Italian Cooking
150 Delicious and Simple Recipes Everyone Can Master
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich with Tanya Bastianich
Manuali
From one of the most beloved and best-selling chefs at work today . . . Lidia
Bastianich channels her passion for teaching into a trustworthy curriculum of
kitchen wisdom. A paean to the importance of mealtime, and Lidia's heartfelt
insights.
Accompanied by a 26-part TV series with the same title, here is Lidia's cooking
wisdom--collected through years in the kitchen and at the family table--focusing on a
commonsense approach to techniques and products. ON SALE 10/15/2013
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Beyond proper nutrition and scrumptious taste, these 150 recipes channel the innate
kitchen wisdom within all of us. We learn how to conjure simple, seasonal, and
economical dishes with grace, confidence, and love. Beautifully illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, Lidia's Commonsense
Italian Cooking tells us that nothing could be more important than the meals we prepare
for ourselves, our families, and our friends. From the pantry to the garden, Lidia shows
us how to draw on roots, allow for spontaneity, and cultivate a sense of home.
There will be a 26-part TV series with the same title on PBS accompanying this book. Lidia
returns with a brand-new season of Lidia's Commonsense Italian Cooking, a 26-part Public
Television series, to be released in October of 2013. Lidia's previous series have more than
95% coverage in the U.S. and air in 100% of the Top 25 Markets. Lidia's Favorite Recipes has over 110,000 copies in print. A return to the beautiful size and format of Lidia's classic cookbooks, with 150 recipes and
informative commonsense sidebars.
Once again featuring 59 stunning color photographs by Marcus Nilsson.
Author Residence: Long Island, NY
Author Hometown: Pula, Istria
LIDIA MATTICCHIO BASTIANICH is the author of eight previous cookbooks, five of
which have been accompanied by nationally syndicated public television series, and two
children's books. She is the owner of several restaurants nationwide such as the New
York City restaurant Felidia,and the Italian eating center Eataly, and she gives lectures
on Italian cuisine throughout the country. She lives on Long Island, New York. TANYA
BASTIANICH MANUALI received her Ph.D. in Renaissance art history from Oxford
University. In 1996 she started Esperienze Italiane, a travel company that arranges food,
wine, and art tours to Italy. She also coauthors books with her mother, Lidia; manages
Lidia's product line; and serves as the cultural and art consultant for the TV series. She
lives on Long Island, New York.
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On Paper
The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Civilization
BISAC 2: Antiques & Collectibles - Books
BISAC 3: Antiques & Collectibles - Paper Ephemera
Page Count: 448
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Extra galleys (with color covers)
York Review of Books
GoodReads and Facebook A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human
civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on
society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers--by the admired cultural
historian, and author of the trilogy on all things book related: A Gentle Madness
("A jewel."--David McCullough); Patience and Fortitude ("How could any
intelligent, literate person not just love this book"--Simon Winchester); A
Splendor of Letters ("Elegant, wry, and humane . . . No other writer has traced the
history of the book so thoroughly or engagingly."-- André Bernard, New York
Observer).
From its invention in China eighteen hundred years ago to recording the thoughts of
Islamic scholars and mathematicians; from Europe, North America, and the rest of the
inhabited world, Basbanes writes about the ways in which paper has been used to
record history, make laws, conduct business . . . He makes clear that without paper,
modern hygienic practice would be unimaginable; that as currency, people will do almost
anything to possess it . . . that without it on which to draw designs and blueprints, the
Industrial Revolution would never have happened.
We see paper's crucial role in the unfolding of political scandals and sensational trials
(the Dreyfus Affair and the forged memorandum known as the bordereau; Daniel
Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers and Watergate).
Basbanes writes of his travels to get to the source of the story--to China along the
Burma Road . . . to Landover, Maryland, and the National Security Agency with its one
hundred million secret documents pulped by cryptologists and recycled as pizza boxes .
. . to the Crane Company paper mill of Dalton, MA, the exclusive supplier of paper for
American currency since 1879; and much more . . .
A masterly guide through paper's inseparability from human culture.
THE SUBJECT itself. Basbanes's writing is a revelation and great fun.
THE AUTHOR'S REPUTATION and the acclaim for his previous books on book collecting.
The last great history of paper, Dard Hunter's Papermaking, was published in 1943--by
Knopf--and is still in print by Dover.
SUPPORT from Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, whose book fairs are in
California, New York, and Boston; British Association of Paper Historians; International
Association of Paper Historians; etc.
INTEREST from Folger Shakespeare Library, National Archives, and Harvard University Library,
each of which is represented in Basbanes's book.
Think Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman, The Meaning of Everything, The Map
That Changed the World) and Henry Petroski.
Author Residence: North Grafton, MA
Author Hometown: Lowell, MA
NICHOLAS A. BASBANES is an award-winning investigative journalist and was literary
editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram. His articles have appeared in The New York
Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian. Basbanes lives in North Grafton,
Massachusetts, with his wife.
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Queen Anne
The Politics of Passion
Anne Somerset
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
BISAC 3: History - Great Britain
Page Count: 656
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 8-PAGES OF 4C ILLUSTRATIONS
National Print Features
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NYTimes.com, and major news and
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She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1702, at age
thirty-seven, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland,
as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. By the end of her
comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power--the
succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke
of Marlborough--had humbled France, and laid the foundations for Britain's future
naval and colonial supremacy.
While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own
attention--indeed her realm--rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship, on
which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of
utter torment.
At the core of Anne Somerset's fascinating new biography, just published to acclaim
in England ("Formidable" --Sunday Times, London; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"
--Daily Mail), is a portrait of this fraught, complex bond between two very different
women: Queen Anne, reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of
Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great general--beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose
acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper.
The book tells the extraordinary drama of how Sarah goaded and provoked the
Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her
replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, another lady-in-waiting,
became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, Sarah publicly claimed to great scandal,
the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.
A riveting assessment ("Definitive . . . The fullest, best, and most sympathetic account of
[Queen] Anne yet written" --Evening Standard; "Fascinating and rewarding . . . [Queen] Anne's
reputation is reclaimed" --Sunday Express) of this shy, often overlooked monarch, formerly
regarded as the bridge between William III and the Protestant House of Hanover (George III and
Victoria), whose victories against France were, in the past, credited more to the Duke of
Marlborough's military genius than to the Queen's wisdom.
Winner of the 2013 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.
The author's formidable reputation as royal biographer and historian; her admired biographies
of, among others, William IV and Elizabeth I ("The most comprehensive, the most reliable, and
the most readable biography of Elizabeth." --The New York Times Book Review).
The endless appeal for Anglophiles of all things royal and historic.
To tell the definitive, remarkably rich, and passionate biography whose backdrop is Restoration
England, the author made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal
correspondences, and previously unpublished material.
Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: London, England
ANNE SOMERSET was born in London and graduated from King's College, London.
She is the author of The Life and Times of King William IV, Ladies in Waiting, and Elizabeth I. She has worked as a research assistant for several historians, among them
Antonia Fraser. Somerset, the daughter of the 11th Duke of Beaufort, lives in London.
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Stay, Illusion
Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido
The much anticipated volume of poems from acclaimed poet Lucie
Brock-Broido--a pioneering collection that brings her work, and our
understanding of the broken but beautiful world she inhabits, to a whole new level.
In these stirring, long-lined poems, we meet a poet as gifted and dangerous as ever,
a poet with an unflinching, ironic, and unique vision. As Brock-Broido puts it, she has, by
now, "contracted the habit of believing in the interior world." Yet, despite the plaintive
siren call of that interior, this most restless and powerful of American poets asserts: "I
am of a fine mind to worship the visible world, the woo and pitch and sign of it." And in
this collection, she does just that, striking out through gorgeous vistas of the seeable
and knowable, drawing us into a stunning new way of perceiving, both haunting and
playful, where we experience fresh understandings of our great loves and our great
foolishness, and the often invisible ways these things might move us, in the end, to "still
have plenty heart."
LUCIE'S PROFILE: A popular teacher of poetry at Columbia, Lucie is a figure with a following
and each new book is greeted as a significant occasion. Stay, Illusion should be well reviewed
and talked about in the poetry world.
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"Brock-Broido's best yet. This is a poet who cultivates elegant nerviness and a riveting poetic
clairvoyance, daring the soul to push deeper and deeper into unwrit dimensions...Gorgeous."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"She has begun to write what Stevens called 'the poem of the mind in the act of finding what will
suffice.' No reality, that is, without imagination."--The New York Times Book Review
"A jumpy, brooding, highly charged poetry...Brock-Broido leaves our cramped imaginations
divinely readjusted."--Boston Review
Author Residence: New York, NY and Cambridge, MA
Publicist: Josefine Kals
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters, and Trouble in Mind. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the
Arts at Columbia University and has been the recipient of awards from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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The Wolves of Midwinter
The Wolf Gift Chronicles
Anne Rice
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The tale of The Wolf Gift continues . . .
In Anne Rice's surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange
and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers ("I devoured these pages . . . As
solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early Vampire Chronicle
fiction." --Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe; "A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned
lost-race adventure, shape-shifting, and suspense." --Elizabeth Hand, The Washington
Post), readers were spellbound as Rice imagined a daring new world set against the
wild and beckoning California coast.
Now in her new novel, as lush and romantic in detail and atmosphere as it is sleek
and steely in storytelling, Anne Rice brings us once again to the rugged coastline of
Northern California, to the grand mansion at Nideck Point--to further explore the
unearthly education of her transformed Man Wolf.
The novel opens on a cold, gray landscape. It is the beginning of December. Oak
fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For
Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift and under the loving tutelage of the
Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes
aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the
Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within the Nideck forest.
From out of the shadows of the exquisite mansion comes a ghost--tormented,
imploring, unable to speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate affection . . .
As Reuben finds himself caught up with the passions and yearnings of this spectral
presence and as the preparations for the Nideck town Christmas reach a fever pitch,
astonishing secrets are revealed, secrets that tell of a strange netherworld, of
spirits--centuries old--who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with
their dark magical powers . . .
With the publication of The Wolf Gift, it was made clear that Anne Rice is back--in the
persuasive creation of a new cosmology and the robustness of her writing--and in her ability to
do what she could to help publish the book. Rice is equally excited about The Wolves of
Midwinter and will do all she can to help publicize it.
The overwhelming embrace--by critics and readers alike--of The Wolf Gift. Sales-to-date: more
than 175,000 in combined formats.
Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment have just purchased Anne Rice's screenplay of The Tale of the Body Thief, written with her son Christopher, and will develop it with Roberto
Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, $386 million, 2009; Transformers, $710 million, 2007). A film
adaptation of Christ the Lord is currently in preproduction with Cinecetta Studios.
The extraordinary success of the reissue by Plume of Rice's The Sleeping Beauty
trilogy--312,000 copies sold to date (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty selling 10,000 copies in
December 2012 alone), and 128,000 eBooks sold.
Author Residence: Palm Desert, California
Author Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-two books. She lives in Palm Desert, California.
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The A.O.C. Cookbook
Suzanne Goin
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Category: Cookbooks
BISAC 1: Cooking - Mediterranean
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Page Count: 448
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 110 4-COLOR IN TEXT
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From the James Beard award-winning chef and author of Sunday Suppers at
Lucques--a long-awaited book of her delectable recipes for the kind of small
shared plates that have made her restaurant A.O.C. one of the most popular
eateries in Los Angeles.
Suzanne Goin developed the idea for A.O.C. at the bar of her restaurant Lucques,
where diners would casually enjoy wines by the glass and share several seasonal
appetizers rather than sitting down for a main course. So she and her business partner
and wine director, Caroline Styne, opened a restaurant where ordering and eating
became a communal affair, and simple, seasonal flavors became the stars of every dish,
easily enhanced by a perfectly paired glass of wine. Now, Goin shares the recipes for
these wonderfully distinct dishes: Bacon-Wrapped Dates with Parmesan; Duck Sausage
with Candied Kumquats; Dandelion and Roasted Carrot Salad with Black Olives and
Ricotta Salata; California Sea Bass with Tomato Rice, Fried Egg, and Sopressata;
Crème Fraiche Cake with Santa Rosa Plums and Pistachios in Olive Oil; S'mores with
Caramel Popcorn and Chocolate Sorbet; and many many more. Organized by season,
the recipes are adapted to be served as main courses as well as small plates. And each
dish comes with Styne's suggestion for the most complementary glass of wine, so you
will learn exactly what kind of flavors flatter your favorite varietal. There is something for
everyone, every food mood, every time of year--all in this delicious new book.
ANTICIPATION: At the time of publication it will be eight years since Knopf released Sunday
Suppers at Lucques and Suzanne's fans and the foodie community can't wait for her next book.
Illustrated again with the gorgeous photography of Shimon and Tammar Rothstein, there has
already been buzz in the press about the arrival of this book, with mentions this fall in Bon
Appétit, Sunset magazine, and LA Weekly.
EXPANSION AND GROWING POPULARITY: Suzanne's restaurants have grown into a mini
Los Angeles empire, now including Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern, and The Larder. She is as popular
as ever, and A.O.C. will be relocating and relaunching for its ten-year anniversary in early 2013.
Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA
SUZANNE GOIN was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from Brown
University. In 2006 she was the recipient of two awards from the James Beard
Foundation (Best Chef California and Sunday Suppers at Lucques won Best Cookbook
from a Professional Viewpoint), and she has received five concurrent nominations for
Outstanding Chef of the Year. Goin is the chef and owner of Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern,
and The Larder, all in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, David Lentz.
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang
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BISAC 1: History - China
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BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Women
Page Count: 480
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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From a coauthor of the best-selling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic
biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of
traditions and formalities--and found ways to modernize China, exposing its
culture to western political ideas and technology.
Empress Dowager Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of twelve
to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gives birth to his only male heir, who at
four years old is designated emperor when his father dies in 1861. Enlisting the help of
Xianfeng's widow, Cixi orchestrates a coup that ousts the appointed regents and makes
herself the regent on behalf of her son. Her son ends up dying in his mid-twenties and
Cixi is able to designate a young nephew as the emperor--continuing her reign, which
stretches to her death in 1908. In this remarkable chronicle, Chang gives us a portrait of
Cixi that is complex and riveting: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her startling
curiosity to learn all she can, not only about China (she is not allowed to leave the court
compound); her reliance on her advisers and officials, often Westerners who she has
placed in key positions of responsibility; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the
distinctiveness of China's past. Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the
most formidable--and enlightened--rulers of a nation.
BEST SELLER: Mao was a New York Times best seller. Jung Chang's earlier book, Wild
Swans, was an international best seller: it has been published in thirty-seven languages and
sold more than thirteen million copies around the world. Both books have been banned in China.
SUBJECT: Little has been written that gives us a historically accurate portrait of the Dowager
Empress. The account that first began to correct the vilification of the life and legacy of
Cixi--which started with contemporary historians sympathetic to her opponents--is Sterling
Seagrave's The Dragon Lady (Anchor, 1993). NEW SOURCES: The author has had access to court records of the Qing Dynasty that give
intimate details of court life--the restrictions, protocols, and rituals that insulated and isolated the
court from the world outside. Praise for Mao: The Unknown Story
"An atom bomb of a book." --Time
"A magisterial work...This magnificent biography methodically demolishes every pillar of Mao's
claim to sympathy or legitimacy...A triumph." --The New York Times Book Review
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Author Hometown: China
JUNG CHANG was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard
briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a
steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later,
an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was
subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in
linguistics in 1982, the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a
doctorate from a British university.
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A Field Guide to American Houses
The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding
America's Domestic Architecture
Virginia Savage McAlester
The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most
comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print
since its publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched,
essential guide to American houses.
Among the new material in this edition: a section on neighborhoods; expanded and
completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an
appendix on "Approaches to 20th-Century Building"; an expanded bibliography; and 600
new photographs.
COMPREHENSIVE: Encyclopedic and utterly informative about the architectural components of
home design and construction in every detail; spanning 300 years, divided into seven historical
periods and 55 housing styles; more than 2,000 illustrations (photographs, line schematics,
maps, and photographs).
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BISAC 1: Architecture - Domestic
BISAC 2: Architecture - History
BISAC 3: Architecture - Regional
Page Count: 880
Trim Size: 7-1/2 x 10
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 2000+ ILLUS & MAPS; 2-C
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HUGELY IMPROVED VISUALS: A fresh typographical design with improvements to existing art
for better detail and 600 additional photographs and line art.
EASE OF USE: This book is to domestic architectural styles what Sibley is to birds: a true field
guide, perfect for anyone from curious amateur to trained architect. And it's become a bible for
the real estate industry.
SALES HISTORY: There are more than a quarter of a million copies in print, hardcover and
paper combined. It has never been out of print in the nearly 30 years since its initial publication.
"The best field guide to American residential architecture that has ever been published." --Peter
Kaufman, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
" To read A Field Guide to American Houses is to appreciate the lost splendor of neglected
buildings and the rich heritage of superficially humdrum suburbs. Here is a book that will be a
landmark in its own right." --Edward Tenner, The Wall Street Journal
"This is one of those special books which really is for everyone--whether you're a
preservationist, historian, or someone who just loves to take weekend strolls and admire old
houses." --Old House Journal
Author Residence: Dallas, Texas
Author Hometown: Dallas, Texas
VIRGINIA MCALESTER, who lives in Dallas, was educated at Radcliffe and attended
the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president
of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National
Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. Virginia is author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue,
Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that
historic groups across the U.S. used as a guide in creating their historic districts during
the 1970s and 1980s. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great
American Suburbs, published by Abbeville Press in 2008, which won a WOW Award
from the American Association for State and Local History.
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The Great War
Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts Imperial War
Museums
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Category: History
BISAC 1: Photography - History
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BISAC 3: History - Military - General
Page Count: 504 Trim Size: 11-3/8 x 11-3/8
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Illustrations: 380 DUOTONES AND 7 4-C PHOTOS
On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in August 2014--an
unprecedented, spectacular pictorial history of the first global war in 380
black-and-white photographs, many never seen before, from Imperial War
Museums in London
This monumental, dramatic photographic narrative captures the war from the early
arms race that developed around the massing of prewar battleship fleets to the final
moments of the conflict with the sinking of the German fleet in Scapa. The photographs
span the many battlefronts throughout the world: from the British Isles to the south
Atlantic, across Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Sudan and East Africa, Jerusalem and
Damascus. Here are soldiers from across the globe, vast battleships, dirigibles
overhead, the streets of London, the first battle of Ypres, German submarines at sea, the
beaches of Gallipoli, the battle of Jutland, the battle of the Somme trenches, and much,
much more.
TIMING: This book will be published in time for centenary commemorations both here and
abroad. Imperial War Museums in London will be opening its new wing at the beginning of 2014
with a vast show of photographs drawn from its archives to commemorate its WWI collection.
GIFT: An ideal gift for the holidays.
WWI FANS: Enthusiasts of modern warfare and WWI will love the photographs of uniforms, and
the then-new equipment and hulking machines of destruction: the 18,000-ton dreadnoughts,
tanks, submarines, planes, and advanced artillery.
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MARK HOLBORN has edited a number of books on photography, and has worked with
Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Hiro, Susan Sontag, and Issey Miyake,
among many others. HILARY ROBERTS studied at University College London,
University of London. She is the head of Collections of Imperial War Museums'
photography archive and has coauthored Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War (September
2012), also with Mark Holborn.
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Japan 1941
Countdown to Infamy
Eri Hotta
A groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese
perspective--and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.
When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in
large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing
herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by
historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men--military men, civilian
politicians, diplomats, the emperor--put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why
did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the
doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta
brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed--eager to avoid war but fraught with
tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping
disaster before it finally proved inevitable.
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BISAC 1: History - Military - World War II
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BISAC 3: Political Science - World - Asian
Page Count: 320
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REVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE: Unlike most scholarship on Japan's involvement in World
War II, Hotta asks why Japan chose to fight a war that it knew was unwinnable, and makes clear
that the nation's divided leadership was torn by doubt in the months preceding Pearl Harbor; that
saving face was more important than saving lives; that military leaders won out over vacillating,
insecure politicians; that the decision to go to war had as much to do with incompetence and
lack of political will as it did with bellicosity.
A NUANCED VIEW: Hotta changes our understanding of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister
Hideki Tojo, describing how the two men tried, at different points, to reverse the course toward
war.
BREAKING NEW GROUND: Hotta draws on material rarely examined by Western
scholars--and barely explored in depth in Japan itself--including conference proceedings and
official documents, as well as the diaries and memoirs of the men involved.
Author Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
ERI HOTTA, born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, the U.S., and the U.K., has taught at
Oxford, in Tokyo, and in Jerusalem, specializing in international relations. She lives in
New York.
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The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's
favorite funny--and perceptive--writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as
we've been living it these last forty years.
It's all here--from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the
notorious piece on being flat-chested, the clarion call of her commencement address at
Wellesley) to her devastating best-selling novel, Heartburn, written in the wake of her
disastrous marriage to Carl Bernstein, to her hilarious and touching screenplay for her
movie When Harry Met Sally . . . ("I'll have what she's having"). From her ongoing love
affair with food, recipes and all, to her extended takes on such iconic women as Lillian
Hellman and Helen Gurley Brown to her pithy recent blogs on politics to her moving
meditations on aging ("I Feel Bad About My Neck") and dying. A Cornucopia
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BISAC 3: Drama - American
Page Count: 576
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Publicist: Paul Bogaards
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The tsunami wave of love and admiration unleashed by her death last year. Through her superb
writing and movies, her honesty and fearlessness, her nonpareil humor, she had become an
icon for America's women--and not a few of its men.
This spring, her new play, Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks, is hitting Broadway and will be
published first in this book.
There will be endless attention in the media.
Introduction by Robert Gottlieb.
In Praise of Nora Ephron
"[Nora Ephron is] a tremendously talented woman. Tremendous talent is her forte, her strong
suit, her fiendish trump card. . . She'll dazzle you with strings of perfect prose." --Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World
"She's self-effacing and brilliant. I use lines of hers all the time . . . She's like Benjamin Franklin
or Shakespeare: her words are now part of the fabric of the English language." --Alex
Kuczynski, The New York Times Book Review
"A woman for all seasons, tender and tough in just the right proportions." --The New York Times
"Ephron's voice helped launch a whole new way of writing, and I still love to hear it." --Los
Angeles Times Book Review
"Stylish, opinionated, with a kind of take-no-prisoners fearlessness rooted in both the women's
movement and the equally complex terrain of her own emotions." --Los Angeles Times
"Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything." --The New York Times
NORA EPHRON was the author of the best sellers I Feel Bad About My Neck, I
Remember Nothing, and Heartburn. She received Academy Award nominations for Best
Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally . . . , Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle,
which she also directed. Her other credits include the plays Imaginary Friends; Love,
Loss, and What I Wore; and the about-to-open Lucky Guy; and the films You've Got Mail
and Julie & Julia; both of which she wrote and directed. She died in 2012.
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Music in the Castle of Heaven
A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
John Eliot Gardiner
From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters: a landmark study which explains
in wonderful detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how
it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the
history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when
we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque--and occasionally so
intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner has been studying and performing Bach ever since,
and the fruits of this lifetime's immersion are now distilled in this remarkable book. It is
grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it as well, taking
us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is an unparalleled
book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.
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BISAC 3: Music - History & Criticism
Page Count: 608
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Illustrations: 24 PP OF 4-C; 1 MAP
Extensive Media Coverage on
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3-city Author Tour: Boston, New York,
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LANDMARK STUDY: Gardiner is a giant of the music world, and this book will be essential (and
the perfect gift) for anyone who loves classical music.
NO COMPETING TITLES: Dissects the music, mystery and spiritual life of Bach as no other
book has done.
AUTHOR: John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world's leading conductors and an extraordinarily
prominent figure in classical music. About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: England
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world's leading conductors, not only of Baroque
music but across the repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Players, and
L'Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted a great number of the
world's great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He lives in London
and Somerset.
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The Sea and Civilization
A Maritime History of the World
Lincoln Paine
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Military - Naval
BISAC 2: History - Oceania
BISAC 3: Transportation - Ships & Shipbuilding History
Page Count: 784
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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history
through the lens of maritime travel, revealing in breathtaking depth how people
first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods,
languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's
waterways.
Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our
ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He
demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt and
Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures
of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India,
Southeast and East Asia who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques,
and commercial acumen to establish vibrant overseas colonies and trade routes in the
centuries leading up to the age of European overseas expansion. His narrative traces
subsequent developments in commercial and naval shipping through the post-Cold War
era. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be traced to
the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and
Civilization is a stunning work of history.
UNPRECEDENTED: While there have been many successful books covering certain parts of
maritime history, no one has yet put it all together the way Paine does here.
ACCESSIBILITY: With short, episodic sections, Beyond the Sea breaks down a tremendous
amount of information into approachable and readable portions. REFERENCE: While this is absolutely a book you can read straight through, its beautiful maps
and illustrations will make it a great reference volume. SHIPS: Boat lovers still buy books--and they will be a critical part of Paine's audience. In each
era of maritime history, he describes new types of boats and new developments in boatbuilding.
"The most enjoyable, the most refreshing, the most stimulating, the most
comprehensive, the most discerning, the most insightful, the most up-to-date--in short,
the best maritime history of the world."
--Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Civilizations About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Portland, ME
LINCOLN PAINE is the author of four books and more than fifty articles, reviews, and
lectures on various aspects of maritime history. He lives in Portland, Maine.
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Correspondences
A poem and portraits
Anne Michaels and Bernice Eisenstein
A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet
Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a
stir for both its form and its content.
Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages
of this accordion book--ranges from the universal to the intimate, as she writes of
historical figures for whom language was the closest thing to salvation; on the other side,
we have Bernice Eisenstein's luminous portraits of and quotes from such
twentieth-century writers and thinkers as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, W. G. Sebald, Anna
Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein. The poetry and portraits join together in a
dialogue that can be read in any direction and any order, in a format that perfectly
reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration: "an alphabet of spirits and
spirit; an elegy of remembrance" (Eisenstein); "just as a conversation becomes the third
side of the page . . . the moment one life becomes another" (Michaels).
For Anne Michaels's sizable audience and literary readers/collectors, this onetime produced
format of the shrink-wrapped accordion book will make a perfect gift.
The status and popularity of Anne Michaels as novelist and poet; the added value of Bernice
Eisenstein's internationally acclaimed graphic work. ON SALE 11/5/2013
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Page Count: 128
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Praise for Michaels's Fugitive Pieces:
"Lovely, musical and magical . . . Put this book alongside The English Patient." --Chicago
Tribune
Praise for Poems:
"These are poems that go way beyond games or fashion or politics...They represent the human
being entire." --Michael Ondaatje
Praise for Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors:
"Remarkable . . . The most lucid, funny, moving book I encountered in 2006." --Molly Peacock, Globe and Mail Books of the Year
Author Residence: Toronto, Canada
Illustrator Residence: Toronto, Canada
ANNE MICHAELS is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Fugitive Pieces,
winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Chapters/Books in Canada First
Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, and the Orange Prize for Fiction, among
many other honors. Fugitive Pieces was made into a major motion picture. Her second
novel, The Winter Vault, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Book
Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a nominee for the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of three highly acclaimed poetry
collections. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. BERNICE
EISENSTEIN is the author of the critically acclaimed graphic memoir I Was A Child of
Holocaust Survivors, which was translated into ten languages, and won the Canadian
Jewish Book Award. Eisenstein, whose artwork has appeared in exhibitions in Europe
and the United States, lives in Toronto.
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The Art of French Pastry
Jacquy Pfeiffer with Martha Rose Shulman
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Category: Cookbooks
BISAC 1: Cooking - Pastry
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BISAC 3: Cooking - Desserts
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Illustrations: 131 FULL-COLOR ILLUS IN TEXT
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The definitive book on classic French pastry recipes from an award-winning
pastry chef, star of the documentary Kings of Pastry, and cofounder of the
renowned French Pastry School in Chicago.
What does it take to make a flawless éclair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To
perfectly pipe dozens of macarons? All the answers are here in this comprehensive,
easy-to-use, wonderfully written and gorgeously illustrated book of French pastry
fundamentals. With a wealth of information on ingredients (how they react in various
combinations, how different environments affect those reactions), equipment, and
techniques, you will be able to start with the basics and learn how to make everything
from pâte à choux to pastry cream, from brioche to Black Forest Cake, from Vacherin to
Croquembouche. Laced with charming, witty memories and anecdotes from a lifetime in
pastry, Chef Pfeiffer will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition
that shaped these 75 recipes into the classics that we know, love, and--with the help of
this wonderfully engaging and endlessly edifying book--can now prepare and serve to
our friends and families over and over again. The Art of French Pastry is a master class
from a master teacher.
Media: As he demonstrated in Kings of Pastry, Jacquy Pfeiffer is extremely media-genic. And he
will tirelessly promote this book. His charming French accent and patient teaching style will be
fantastic for giving demos and interviews on any of the recipes in this book.
No Other Book Like This: There are dozens of cookbooks about desserts, but very few even
scratch the surface of what Pfeiffer covers in these 75 recipes. And with all the serious bakers in
this country and the network that he has built through The French Pastry School, there is an
absolutely ripe audience for this book.
Authenticity: As Pfeiffer recalls in the book, he comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has
been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father's bakery in Alsace. No one
takes the time-honored traditions of French pastry more seriously and, with of his accolades, no
one could be better suited to write this book.
Author Residence: Chicago, IL
Jacquy Pfeiffer's is the Academic Dean for Student Affairs at The French Pastry School,
widely considered one of the leading pastry institutions in the world. His career began
with an apprenticeship at the famous Jean Clauss Pâtisserie in Strasbourg, Alsace. In
1995, he cofounded The French Pastry School in Chicago with Chef Sébastien
Canonne. He has placed in many of world's most prestigious pastry competitions; was
named one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America by Chocolatier and Pastry Art &
Design for two consecutive years; was inducted into l' Académie Culinaire de France,
and into the Dessert Professional's Pastry Hall of Fame and The Chicago Culinary
Museum's Chefs Hall of Fame. In 2009, he was featured in Kings of Pastry, a
documentary by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, and in 2012, he was named
Chevalier des Palmes académiques, the highest honor an educator can receive from the
French Minister of Education.
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Musorgsky and His Circle
A Russian Musical Adventure
Stephen Walsh
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A fascinating collective biography of Musorgsky and the composers he
associated with, creators of some of the best-known and most admired music of
the 19th century.
The emergence of Russian music in the 19th century comprises one of the most
fascinating and colorful stories in all musical history. Arising from the unlikely conjunction
of a group of composers of extraordinary originality but almost no technical training, it
led to the creation of works ranging from Musorgsky's magnificent opera Boris Godunov
to Borodin's (alas unfinished) Prince Igor and such orchestral staples as
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. How this happened where it did--in the St.
Petersburg of the 1860s--and the nature and genius of the men responsible is the
subject of this brilliant study. As both an experienced biographer able to deal with original Russian sources and a
musicologist competent to bring wonderfully fresh insights to the music of the five
composers--the moguchaya kuchka or "mighty heap," as they were called--Stephen
Walsh is exceptionally placed to illuminate a dramatic but little-known episode of cultural
history. Written with deep understanding and panache, Musorgsky and His Circle is as
engaging as it is important.
AUTHOR: Stephen Walsh is the prizewinning author of the standard biography of Igor
Stravinsky (Knopf 1999, 2006).
SUBJECT: Lively and deeply informed account of the lives and works of the five composers
known as the Kuchka--Musorgsky, Balakirev, Cui, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov--who brought
Russian music into the modern world with such masterpieces as Boris Godunov and Prince Igor
PRAISE: Walsh's two-volume biography of Stravinsky was widely (and favorably) reviewed. The
first volume won the Royal Philharmonic Society prize for the best music book of 2000, and the
second was namedby The Washington Post Book World in its ten best books of 2006. PUBLICATION STRATEGY: U.S. and UK publication both scheduled for fall 2013
Praise for Stravinsky: The Second Exile (2006)
"One of the best books ever written about a musician." --The Washington Post Book World
"Walsh's biography is precise and sensitive, sensible in sorting through some tricky issues
and--not least--quite beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review
"Among the best musical biographies of the last half-century, patiently disentangling fact and
myth." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Author Residence: Herefordshire, UK
STEPHEN WALSH is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University and the author of
a number of books on musical subjects. He is a frequent broadcaster and writes music
reviews for several British papers.
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My Age of Anxiety
Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Scott Stossel
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Category: Psychology
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A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author's history of anxiety and
the history of the efforts by scientists, philosophers, artists, and writers to
understand anxiety.
As recently as thirty years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today,
it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Drawing on his lifelong
battle with anxiety, Stossel gives us an astonishing history, at once intimate and
authoritative, of the efforts to understand anxiety both from the medical and experiential
perspective--from the earliest medical accounts (Galen, Hippocrates) through later
observers (Robert Burton, Søren Kierkegaard) to the great nineteenth-century scientists
who began to explore its sources and causes (William James, Freud). Included are
accounts of individuals who struggled with anxiety (Charles Darwin, Samuel Johnson,
Walker Percy), as well as afflicted generations of his own family. Stossel's portrait of
anxiety reveals not only the complexities and anguish it produces--he also shows the
myriad manifestations of anxiety, as well as the countless therapies, medications, and
treatments that have been developed to counteract it. And always Stossel returns to
anxiety's human toll--to its crippling impact, devastating power to paralyze, and yet at
the same time how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it. My Age
of Anxiety is an account at once humorous and inspirational, learned and empathetic,
that exposes the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive and too often misunderstood.
His masterly chronicle allows us to see the biological, cultural, and environmental factors
that contribute to the affliction.
SUBJECT: The National Institute of Mental Health estimates some forty million Americans suffer
from some form of anxiety disorder.
OPPORTUNITY: There has not been a cultural/personal investigation of anxiety--S&S published
a very moving memoir called Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith in 2012.
COMPARATIVE TITLES: In the same way that victims of depression were drawn to Andrew
Solomon's The Noonday Demon and Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, sufferers of
anxiety will find Stossel's book essential.
AUTHOR: Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic.
Author Residence: Washington, D.C.
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Sargent Shriver. A graduate of Harvard, he lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
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The Burglary
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger
The never-before-told full story of the 1971 history-changing break-in of the FBI
offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists--quiet, ordinary,
hardworking Americans--that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what
some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating
his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
The book shows how the break-in, and subsequent release of the contents of the
FBI's files to newspapers across the country, upended the public's perception of the
up-till-then inviolate head of the Bureau, paving the way for the FBI's overhaul for the
first time since its inception forty-seven years before, in 1924, and setting the stage for
the sensational release three months later by Daniel Ellsberg of the top-secret
seven-thousand-page Pentagon study of U.S. decision making regarding the Vietnam
War that became known as the Pentagon Papers.
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Page Count: 512
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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The first full telling of the burglary--a crime left unsolved after a six-year FBI investigation that
amassed a file of thirty-three thousand pages, and that remains one of the most lasting and
consequential moments of political awareness--a story about the potential power of non-violent
resistance and about the destructive power of excessive government secrecy.
Medsger's book makes clear how and why this break-in changed history, and how it revealed a
J. Edgar Hoover who was diametrically different from the FBI head many Americans revered.
The release of the stolen files resulted in congressional investigations of U.S. intelligence
agencies, the establishment of congressional oversight of intelligence agencies, and major
reform of the FBI.
The revelation for the first time of just who seven of the eight burglars were. After hiding in plain
sight for more than forty years of silence, they were extensively interviewed about the burglary
and their lives in the aftermath. The author also interviewed FBI agents who investigated the
burglary and staff members of congressional committees who investigated the Bureau.
A documentary on the break-in with the burglars talking will be shown at the time of the book's
publication and will be media fodder. The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and
will be shown on PBS's Independent Lens (dates TK) with other screening events to follow
(dates TK).
The ACLU will show the film nationally and will host panels and discuss the book (details TK).
The National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit specializing in declassifying
classified documents, will plan a large event around the book and film to coincide with
publication.
Quotes will be forthcoming from James Carroll, Adam Hochschild, Nicholas Lemann, Anthony
Lewis, and Dana Priest, among others.
Author Hometown: Johnstown, PA
BETTY MEDSGER was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Grove
City College. She began covering the FBI break-in as a reporter for The Washington
Post. Medsger, after many years, found the burglars and persuaded each to break his
silence. Medsger is a former chair of the Department of Journalism at San Francisco
State University and is the founder of its Center for Integration and Improvement of
Journalism. She is the author of Winds of Change, Framed, and Women at Work. She
lives in New York.
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Leaving the Sea
Stories
Ben Marcus
From one of the most innovative and important writers of his generation, a
brilliant collection of stories that showcase his gifts--and his range--as never
before.
In the dystopian "Rollingwood," a divorced father struggles to hold on to his job while
taking care of his ill infant son. In the hilarious "I Can Say Many Nice Things," a writer
toying with infidelity teaches a brutal creative writing workshop on a cruise ship. In
"Watching Mysteries with My Mother," a man spends time with his aging mother and
meditates on mortality. And in the title story, told in a single breathless sentence, we
watch as the narrator's marriage and his sanity unravel. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea brings us an utterly
unique writer at the height of his powers.
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Page Count: 288
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SUPERLATIVE NEW WORK: Leaving the Sea is the best work of his career, as well as the
warmest and most accessible, featuring compulsively readable traditional narratives alongside
the experimental short fiction for which he is best known. EXTRAORDINARY ACCLAIM: "The insane genius of Ben Marcus somehow manages to wrest
something new and unheard of." --Michael Chabon; "It's become impossible to imagine the
literary world--the world itself--without his daring, mind-bending, and heartbreaking writing."
--Jonathan Safran Foer
PACKAGE: The Flame Alphabet was one of the most recognized and lauded jackets of the
season. Leaving the Sea will be packaged with equal distinctiveness and wit to mirror the
exceptional work within.
Author Residence: New York City and Maine
BEN MARCUS is the author of four books of fiction: Notable American Women, The
Father Costume, The Age of Wire and String, and The Flame Alphabet, and he is the
editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories, essays, and
reviews have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's,
The Believer, The New York Times, Salon, and Time. He is the recipient of a Whiting
Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and three
Pushcart Prizes.
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Our Mathematical Universe
My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark
The ideas of one of the most original cosmologists at work today--accessible,
anecdotal, animated by the author's wit and passion--which will fascinate readers
of Brian Greene, Roger Penrose, and Ray Kurzweil.
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future,
and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his
work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical
structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both
popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling
theories (his website gives a flavor of how they might boggle the mind), but he also
shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have
shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last--here is a book for the full
science-reading spectrum.
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Category: Mathematics
BISAC 1: Mathematics - General
BISAC 2: Science - Physics
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Page Count: 464
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Subject: This is at once a work of original science and a personal journey, a work that
combines powerful accessible explanation with the author's colorful and idiosyncratic
adventures--reminiscent of Richard Feynman.
Audience: Readers of Briane Greene, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near, Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality, David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality. Opportunity: Tegmark is promotable, has appeared in numerous documentaries and science
shows, and is well known among his peers.
Author Residence: Winchester, MA
Author Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden
MAX TEGMARK is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers, nine of which
have been cited more than 500 times. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley, and is a professor at MIT.
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Forgiving the Angel
Four Stories for Franz Kafka
Jay Cantor
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From one of our most admired and thought-provoking writers: a brilliant,
beautifully written, sometimes heart-wrenching gathering of stories that center on
a circle of real people whose lives were in some way shaped by their encounters
with Franz Kafka.
In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the
reverberations of Kafka's influence on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who
survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both
passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...Max Brod, his friend and literary
executor, struggling with Kafka's instructions to burn all his unpublished stories upon his
death, work that Brod thought some of the most precious ever written...the militant
German Communist Lusk Lask, whom Dora--still enraptured by the memory of
Kafka--marries, and then loses to the Soviet Gulag...a Nazi concentration camp prisoner
whose survival will depend on her love for Milena Jesenska, who once survived on her
own love for Kafka. Imbued with a gravitas and dark humor that recall Kafka's own work,
these stories nonetheless bear the singular imaginary stamp and the keen psychological
and emotional insight that have marked all of Cantor's remarkable works of fiction.
BASED ON ACTUAL PEOPLE AND EVENTS, which will attract readers who are interested in
Kafka. (Kafka's books sell about 15,000 copies a year in Shocken.)
COMPS: The popularity of similar books, such as Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change
Your Life and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and the many novels written in tribute to
Jane Austen and other famous writers.
AUTHOR'S REPUTATION: Cantor--recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship--has a broad base of
very loyal fans.
AUTHOR PROMOTION: Cantor is willing, and he's proven that he's very able, to do whatever
he can to promote the book.
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Page Count: 224
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Own Mother. A MacArthur Fellow, Cantor teaches at Tufts University and lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
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Arik
The Life of Ariel Sharon
David Landau
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Political
BISAC 3: History - Middle East - Israel & Palestine
Page Count: 656
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Illustrations: 16 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
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From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth comprehensive
biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader
of the last forty years.
The life of Ariel Sharon spans much of modern Israel's history: A commander in the
Israeli Army from its inception in 1948, Sharon participated in the 1948 War of
Independence, and played decisive roles in the 1956 Suez War and the six day War of
1967, and most dramatically is largely credited with the shift in the outcome of the Yom
Kippur War of 1973. After returning from the army in 1982, Sharon became a political
leader and served in numerous governments, most prominently as the defense minister
during the 1983 Lebanon War in which he bore "personal responsibility" according to the
Kahan Commission for massacres of Palestinian civilians by Lebanese militia, and he
championed the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. But as
prime minister he performed a dramatic reversal: orchestrating Israel's unilateral
disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Landau brilliantly chronicles and analyzes his
surprising about-face. Sharon suffered a stroke in January 2006 and remains in a
persistent vegetative state. Considered by many to be Israel's greatest military leader
and political statesman, this biography recounts his life and shows how this leadership
transformed Israel, and how Sharon's views were shaped by the changing nature of
Israeli society.
SUBJECT: The drama, the significance, and the complexity of Sharon's story is beyond dispute.
The only other accounts--one by a longtime political aide that is more memoir than biography,
and an apologia of a life by one of Sharon's sons--do not approach the authoritative and analytic
mastery of Landau's. AUTHOR: As the editor in chief of Haaretz, Landau was an eyewitness to many of the events he
writes about in Arik. Landau writes as critic and supporter of Sharon's policies, and as an
outsider (he immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man). UNIQUENESS: Landau's account combines the immediacy of firsthand reportage with the
analysis and independent insight of a historian's perspective.
AUDIENCE: Readers of Michael Oren and David Remnick. About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Jerusalem, Israel
Author Hometown: London, England
DAVID LANDAU immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man. His
career in journalism began in 1972 at The Jerusalem Post, and he joined Haaretz in
1993 as news editor. He was the founder and editor in chief of the Haaretz's English
edition from 1997 to 2004, and is currently the Israel correspondent for The Economist.
Landau collaborated with Israel's president, Shimon Peres, on his memoir, Battling for
Peace (Random House, 1995). He published, with President Peres, Ben-Gurion, A
Political Biography (Nextbook/Schocken, 2012). He is the author of Piety and Power
(1993), an account of the increasingly significant role the ultra-orthodox ("haredi") play in
Israel, the United States, and Europe. Landau graduated in law from University College,
London and studied in leading yeshivas in Israel. Landau is married with children and
grandchildren and currently lives in Jerusalem.
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Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
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Category: Fiction
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Page Count: 176
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Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on
the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal
shipwreck that unites us all.
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once
exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code
name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a
long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby,
bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament,
invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the
lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious
experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it,
as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of
art.
With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing,
Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a
train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of
Speculation can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional
insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel.
EXTRAORDINARY EARLY ACCLAIM: "A heartbreaking and exceptional book by a writer who
doesn't settle for less. I have been longing for a new novel from Jenny Offill since her stunning Last Things, and it was worth the wait. Sad, funny, philosophical, at once deeply poetic and
deeply engaging, this is a brilliant, soulful elegy to the hardships and joys of married life." --Lydia
Millet; "Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art.
Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways."
--Sam Lipsyte
COMPULSIVE READING EXPERIENCE: Dept. of Speculation is taut, tightly paced, and
propulsive, a uniquely compact novel that begs to be read in a single sitting.
IMMEDIATE BUZZ: Offill's novel was acquired by Knopf in an auction against eight other
houses; international auctions are currently under way in six countries. The immediacy and
intensity of the early response suggests the novel has the potential to become a literary
sensation.
PREVIOUS ACCLAIM: Last Things (FSG, 1999) was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The
New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Guardian, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles
Times First Book Award.
Author Residence: Red Hook, New York
Author Hometown: Massachusetts
JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novel Last Things, which was chosen as a notable
book of the year by The New York Times and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times
First Book Award.
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Dust
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Page Count: 352
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From a breathtaking new voice, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, a
novel about a splintered family in Kenya and the struggling nation around it--a
story of power and deceit and survival, grief and madness, unrequited love,
sacrifice and perseverance.
Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His
grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their father bring his body back
to their crumbling home deep in the Kenyan drylands, seeking some comfort and peace.
But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched, and unleashed a series of
unexpected events: Odidi and Ajany's mercurial mother flees in a fit of anguish and rage;
a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas' house, seeking his missing father; a
hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case;
and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge. In scenes
stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya, back through a shocking
political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in
the 1950s, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, buried deep
within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation. Here is a spellbinding
novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to
pass, history is written, and war stains us forever.
PRIZES: Yvonne won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, whose patrons include
Chinua Achebe and the African winners of the Nobel: Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, and J.
M. Coetzee.
WRITING: Yvonne has a unique, unmistakable voice: powerful, exuberant, absorbing, rich with
the many songs, legends, and languages of Kenya.
McSWEENEY'S: McSweeney's published a chapter from the novel in 2011. FILM: Yvonne's short story "The Knife Grinder's Tale" was adapted into an award-winning short
film, and she is the former executive director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. KENYA: December 2013 is the fiftieth anniversary of Kenyan independence, and 2013 is also
an election year there. Yvonne has long been inspired by her home country--as she says, "its
paradoxes and quests, its self-irony, its spaces and multiple layers"--and her novel succeeds in
its ambition to portray and unpack this complex, troubled place. AUTHOR: She is a vibrant presence: an education activist, a world traveler, an ambassador for
the arts. She was a TEDx Nairobi speaker in 2010. About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Australia
Author Hometown: Kenya
YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR was born in Kenya. She won the 2003 Caine Prize and
is a past recipient of a Chevening Scholarship and an Iowa Writers' Fellowship. She was
named Woman of the Year by Eve magazine in Kenya in 2004 for her contribution to the
country's literature and arts. From 2003 to 2005, she was the executive director of the
Zanzibar International Film Festival, and she has also been a TEDx Nairobi speaker and
a Lannan Foundation resident.
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The Parthenon Enigma
Joan Breton Connelly
A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in
the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient
civilization that we most identify with.
For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of
Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest
ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its intricately
sculpted surface believed to depict a celebration of civic continuity in the birthplace of
democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, accidentally
discovered on a papyrus wrapping an Egyptian mummy, Joan Connelly began to
develop a new theory that has sparked one of the fiercest controversies ever to rock the
world of classics. Now, she recounts how our most basic sense of the Parthenon and of
the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient
structure from its natural environment to its pediment, and using a breathtaking range of
textual and visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in
a world of cult rituals quite unlike anything conventionally conjured by the word
"Athenian."
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award" winner whose ideas have shaken an understanding that has stood since the eighteenth
century. Her book Portrait of a Priestess was named one of the year's 100 Notable Books in
2007 by The New York Times. 978-0-307-59338-2
$35.00/$40.00 Can.
THE PARTHENON: Its image appears on countless cups of morning coffee, but its actual
meaning has been crucially misinterpreted, and with it, the nature of fifth-century B.C. Athenian
society, the very source of Western civilization.
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FANS: Connelly has a host of big name fans beyond the field of classics, including George
Lucas, Freeman Dyson, and Bill Murray.
JOAN BRETON CONNELLY is a classical archaeologist and the author of two previous
books, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece and Votive
Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. She received her A.B. in classics from Princeton
University and Ph.D. in classical and near eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College,
where she now serves on the Board of Trustees. In 1996, Professor Connelly was
awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She received the Archaeological Institute of America's
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007 and held NYU's Lillian Vernon
Chair for Teaching Excellence in 2002-2004. She has also held visiting fellowships at All
Souls College, Magdalen College, New College, and Corpus Christi College at Oxford
University, and has been a visiting fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University, and at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. She has
written for The Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News and is currently a
professor of classics at New York University.
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By Blood We Live
Glen Duncan
From the author of the best sellers The Last Werewolf and Talulla Rising, the
hair-raising conclusion to the saga that has galvanized readers' imaginations: an
electrifying, startlingly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival
between werewolves and vampires, and one last incisive--brilliantly ironic--look at
what it means to be, or to not be, human.
Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium: with her twins at her side and the
devotion of her lover Walker, it's a normal family life--except for their monthly
transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this tenuous peace is
interrupted for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi, the 20,000-year-old vampire who
haunts her dreams. In turn Remshi can't escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from
years before (many, many, many years). They have their distractions: Talulla is being
pursued by a fanatical Christian cult, and Remshi is following the trail of reckless
feedings by a newly turned vampire. But, as the novel unfurls, they are inextricably
drawn to each other--and toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally
come to pass--in this tale of pulse-pounding supernatural suspense.
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SALES: The Last Werewolf was a national best seller and has more than 140,000 copies in print
across all formats. Talulla Rising was a regional best seller and continues to broaden Glen
Duncan's audience.
VOICES: A switch from the single-voiced narration of the previous two books, this novel is told
from multiple characters' perspectives, creating a wider, richer world than we've had before. GENRE-BUSTING: Duncan continues to push boundaries and defy expectations with his unique
combination of werewolf/vampire exploits and erudite philosophical observations. UK PUBLICATION: Canongate plans to publish roughly simultaneously, to make this conclusion
to the trilogy a publishing event on both sides of the pond. Category: Fiction
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Page Count: 256
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"Duncan's throbbing, fornication-crazy plot defies easy encapsulation but is best described as a
gleeful three-way between Raymond Chandler's entire oeuvre, Anne Rice's vampire novels, and
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum...Duncan [has] scathingly intelligent psychological insights,
flat-out killer writing, a companionably high-mannered narrative voice, and mad plot chops."
--Heidi Julavits, The New York Times Book Review
GLEN DUNCAN is the author of nine previous novels. He lives in London.
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The Contest of the Century
The New Era of Competition with China--and How
America Can Win
Geoff Dyer
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From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing
analysis of the emerging competition between China and America that will
dominate twenty-first-century world affairs. It is both an inside account of
Beijing's new quest for influence and an explanation of how America can come
out on top.
China's rise has entered a new and critical phase where it seeks to turn its economic
heft into global power and influence. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer makes a
lucid and convincing argument that China and the U.S. are now embarking on a great
power-style competition that will dominate the century. With its new navy, China is trying
to ease the U.S. out of Asia and reassert its traditional leadership. Beijing is planning to
turn the renminbi into the main international currency, toppling the dominance of the U.S.
dollar. And by investing billions to send its media groups overseas, it hopes to shift the
global debate about democracy and individual rights. China is taking the first steps in an
ambitious international agenda. Yet China will struggle to unseat the U.S. China's new
ambitions are provoking intense anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global
influence has deep roots. If Washington can adjust to a world in which it is no longer
dominant but still immensely powerful, it can retain its ability to set the global agenda in
the face of China's challenge. At a time of great uncertainty about America's future, this
is an essential book for businessmen, politicians, financiers, and anyone interested in
current world affairs.
PERSPECTIVE: Geoff Dyer has covered both China--he was one of very few journalists ever to
interview Wen Jiabao--and the U.S. State Department and Pentagon, giving him unparalleled
insight into both countries. He goes beyond the familiar analyses of competition with China to
uncover the real issues that will dominate news in coming decades. OPTIMISTIC: Unlike most
analysts, Dyer believes America can and will win if it plays its cards right. This will be a
refreshing and much-needed opinion in the current climate about American decline.
AUTHOR PROFILE: As one of the leading journalists at the Financial Times, Dyer regularly
appears on television and radio programs. He has extensive contacts that will help promote the
book.
GLOBAL VIEW: Dyer paints vivid pictures of the places that are defining this new era of
competition, from China's James Bond-style underground submarine base, through Vietnam and
Malaysia and Brazil, to the cafés in Burma where activists plotted campaigns against Chinese
influence.
Author Hometown: Edinburgh
GEOFF DYER is a journalist for the Financial Times and has been a correspondent in
China, the U.S., and Brazil. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and of several
journalism awards, including one Society of Publishers in Asia Award for a series of
2010 opinion pieces about China's role in the world. He studied at Cambridge and the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He lives with his family in
Washington, D.C.
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Maximalist
America in the World from Truman to Obama
Stephen Sestanovich
From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a lively,
provocative, and eminently readable reexamination of American foreign policy,
capturing not only its extraordinary achievements but the diplomatic missteps,
intellectual confusion, and political discord from which they usually emerge.
American foreign policy since World War II has long been seen primarily as a story of
strong and successful alliances, domestic consensus, and continuity from one
administration to the next. Why then have so many presidents--even those most admired
today--left office condemned for their foreign policy record? In his fresh and compelling
history of America's rise to dominance, Stephen Sestanovich makes clear that U.S.
diplomacy has always stirred controversy, both at home and abroad. He shows how
successive administrations have struggled to find new solutions, alternating between
bold "maximalist" strategies and retrenchment efforts to downsize America's role. Almost
all our presidents--and all their most important decisions, from defeat in Vietnam through
victory in the Cold War to today's new challenges--emerge from this vivid retelling in a
sharp and unexpected light.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - United States - 20th Century
BISAC 2: Political Science - International Relations Diplomacy
BISAC 3: Political Science - International Security
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Illustrations: 12 IMAGES IN TEXT
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Economist.com, and major political and
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HUMAN HISTORY: Sestanovich captures the human scale of high-stakes presidential decisions
in a way that is accessible to a nonexpert reader. He challenges conventional wisdom about
American foreign policy over the entire period of U.S. global dominance, emphasizing the
disagreements, reversals, and uncertainty that define the record of every administration. AUTHOR PROFILE: Stephen Sestanovich has been in and out of government since the 1980s,
serving at a high level in both the Reagan and Clinton administrations. He is well known and
widely respected across the political spectrum in Washington and in foreign policy circles. This is
his first trade book and it will be highly anticipated.
AUDIENCE: A book for people who want to understand how presidents and their advisers have
shaped America's global role--the kind of people who read David Sanger or James Mann to
understand the politics and personalities behind our biggest successes and most colossal
failures. For anyone who loved The Wise Men or Bob Woodward's series on George W. Bush's
wars.
Author Hometown: Palermo, Italy
STEPHEN SESTANOVICH served as ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union
during the Clinton administration, as a senior staff member at the National Security
Council and the State Department during the Reagan administration, and as senior
legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He is currently the Kathryn and
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, and
the George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Council on
Foreign Relations.
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Thirty Girls
Susan Minot
The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of Evening is
a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to
witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and
to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist
who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her
center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their
stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting
displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them
both in unimaginable ways. With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa's beauty and
its horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet.
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Page Count: 336
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MAJOR NOVEL: This is Susan Minot's first major work since her beloved 1997 novel Evening,
which catapulted her on to best seller lists worldwide and became a major motion picture
starring Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave.
SUBJECT, SCOPE, SETTING: Thirty Girls is Susan Minot's most ambitious novel. Set in Africa,
its riveting central story tracks a group of thirty girls abducted from a Catholic boarding school by
Joseph Kony's Ugandan rebels. Gripping, spare, unforgettably powerful, this is Minot at her
inimitable best.
HOUSE AUTHOR: We have nearly all of Minot's work on the Vintage backlist.
Author Residence: New York City and Maine
Author Hometown: Boston
SUSAN MINOT is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter.
Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina
Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major
motion picture. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives with her
daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.
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