Fall 2011

1,000 PLACES TO SEE

BEFORE YOU DIE ®

SECOND EDITION
Patricia Schultz
• 200 new entries
• 28 new countries Removable
• 500 color photographs sticker on
cover.
• Completely revised and updated

T he world’s bestselling travel book is back in a more informative,

more experiential, more budget-friendly full-color edition.
A #1 New York Times bestseller that stayed on the list for 185 weeks,
1,000 Places has over 3 million copies in print. It reinvented the idea of
travel book as both wish list and practical guide. As Newsweek wrote, it
“tells you what’s beautiful, what’s fun, and what’s just unforgettable—
☛ $250,000 colorful marketing,
everywhere on earth.” And now the best is better. There are more than 500 full-color promotion and advertising campaign
photographs. Over 200 entirely new entries, including visits to 28 countries like
Lebanon, Croatia, Estonia, and Nicaragua, that were not in the original edition. There ☛ Trip sweepstakes promotion
is an emphasis on experiences: an entry covers not just Positano and Ravello, but the with Parade magazine
full 30-mile stretch along the Amalfi Coast; Chichen Itza and Tulum are now treated
as one, La Ruta Maya. ☛ 21-city author tour
Every entry from the original edition has been readdressed and made fuller, with
more suggestions for places to stay, restaurants to visit, festivals to check out. And ☛ 40-city radio satellite tour
throughout, the book is more budget-conscious, recommending not only the Ritz, but
also moderately priced gems that don’t compromise on atmosphere or charm. ☛ Online promotion including new
website, 1000beforeyoudie.com
Following the romance, comes the nuts and bolts: web addresses, phone numbers,
costs, best times to visit. Of special interest are subject-specific indexes, making the 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU
1,000-plus pages entirely user-friendly, no matter if you’re dreaming or going. DIE®, SECOND EDITION
The world is calling. Time to answer. Color photos; 1,200 pages; 51/ 4" x 71/ 4"
Paper: $19.95/$22.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5686-4
Patricia Schultz is also the author of the #1 New York No. 15686
Previous ISBN: 978-0-7611-0484-1
Times bestseller 1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Hardcover: $32.95/
Before You Die. A veteran travel journalist with 25 years of experi- $36.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6337-4
ence, she has written for guides such as Frommer’s and Berlitz and No. 16337
periodicals including The Wall Street Journal and Everyday With Ships: October
Rachael Ray. She also executive-produced a Travel Channel television 5-copy counter display:
show based on 1,000 Places to See Before $99.75/$114.75 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6626-9
You Die. Her home base is New York City. No. 26626
16-copy floor display:
$319.20/$591.20 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6643-6
No. 26643
PAPERBACK
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING
OF 1,000 . . . BEFORE YOU
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THE
RECORDSETTER
BOOK OF WORLD
RECORDS
300+ EXTRAORDINARY FEATS
BY ORDINARY PEOPLE
Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman
Who can resist: Fastest Time to Burp the Alphabet. Most Air Guitar
Windmills in One Minute. Largest Nose Flute Orchestra. Greatest
Height to Drop a Hot Dog into a Bun. Longest Shh.

A celebration of the nuttiness

and obsessives in all of us,
RecordSetter is the new world record–
URDB BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS

Most Strangers
Photographed
In 5 Hours
F Most Big Lebowski C
Catchphrases Recited
In One Minute
resh out of college, Ryan
Rombough moved to Salt
Lake City with the goal
of becoming a professional
portrait photographer. The
desperate need to drum up
new business is what fueled
The Creative Arts

hannelling The Dude, the

RECORD: 720 his world record idea. Ryan
spent a manic Fourth of July
uber-slacker at the heart
of the 1998 comedy classic,
The Big Lebowski, Matt
Reynolds donned the character’s
signature bathrobe to set this
record. Armed with a litany
☛ Because everyone can be the
world’s best at something
RECORD: 31 of quotations from the movie,
he was a man on a mission—a

setting phenomenon, a website that ☛ Guinness World Records for

NAME: Ryan Rombough NAME: Matt Reynolds

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah wandering up to strangers in LOCATION: New York City, New York mission that came from seeing
DATE: July 4, 2009 a local park, offering to take DATE: June 29, 2010 Brandon Martinez set the
TOOLS: Camera, willing strangers, five hours their photographs. Ryan’s TOOLS: Appreciation of The Dude, bathrobe catchphrase record at 10.

the YouTube generation

of free time endeavors landed him a (optional) Considering the achievement

believes everyone can be the world’s

World Record, but he has “an embarrassment to Lebowski
since made a career change, fans around the world,” Reynolds became hell-bent on trumping it.
ditching portraiture for He approached the challenge with both a sharp memory and a sense
commercial photography. of moral responsibility: “I decided choosing the shortest catchphrases
Wise man. would violate the spirit of the record. The honorable thing to do was

best at something—and where 80,000 CRITERIA

UU Multiple strangers allowed in each photo,
recite a variety of phrases mixing up the short/long, common/obscure,
vagina-related/Johnson-related.” The Dude abides.

☛ Authors appear regularly on Late

but faces must be visible.
UU May not photograph any stranger more Tip For Beating This Record

people a month come to prove it, or

than once. Lebowski Fest co-creator Will Russell Don’t mess with Hey! Watch it man,
suggests a sneaky workaround: turning the Jesus. there's a beverage
RELATED URDB RECORDS a curse into a quote. “The F-word is said Shomer here.

Night With Jimmy Fallon; website

CU Largest U.S. State Capitol Building Photo 287 times in the film, so technically f#$k*#g
Collection: 42 if someone could string together some shabbos.
F bombs they could exceed 287.”
CU Most Strangers’ Drinks Sipped Out Of In 15

just enjoy watching. Corey Henderson

Seconds: 15 CRITERIA

has received more than 2 million

RECORDS BEGGING TO BE SET U Quotes must be recited in their
entirety from memory.
UU Most Strangers Kissed n One Hour
RELATED URDB RECORDS
If you want to resuscitate Ryan’s CU Most Goodfellas Quotes

and Dan Rollman, the creators of

portraiture career, contact him Exchanged With A Muppet

page views in 2010, and hosts

through ryanrombough photography. In One Minute: 28
com.
RECORDS BEGGING TO BE SET
U Largest Bathrobe Collection

7,000 records and counting

10 11

RecordSetter, are two entrepreneurs

obsessed by world records who appear regularly on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
and host events in cities around the country. The RecordSetter Book of World ☛ Full-color illustrated book
featuring more than 300 of the
Records captures all the exuberance, energy, and quirky good humor of the records
longest, loudest, fastest, weirdest,
and record-setters. Here are more than 300 of the longest, loudest, slowest, weirdest, and most appealing records
coolest, and most-difficult-to-break world records. There are Food & Drink Records.
Sports & Games Records. Records set by (not-so) average Joes, and records set by ☛ 15-city author tour with record-
celebrities (Most Bunnies Snuggled in a Hammock by Cameron Diaz). breaking events

☛ 40-city national radio satellite

tour
Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson
are the cofounders of RecordSetter.com. Dan is a lifelong
THE RECORDSETTER BOOK
world-record fanatic who tried in college, unsuccessfully, OF WORLD RECORDS
to set a Guinness World Record for eating ravioli. A former Four-color photos; 352 pages; 6" x 8"
advertising executive, he set five RecordSetter records, and Paper: $12.95/$14.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6577-4
saw them all get crushed. Corey is an entrepreneur who’s No. 16577
been working in web development since 1997, and proudly Ships: September
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holds the world record for Most Fiery Crashes in One Game 8-copy counter display:
of Pole Position. Dan lives in Brooklyn. Corey lives with his $103.60/$119.60 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6640-5
family in New York City. No. 26640

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BARNYARD
DANCE!
PAJAMA TIME!
BELLY BUTTON
BOOK!
LAP BOOK EDITIONS
Written and Illustrated
by Sandra Boynton

I t’s classic Boynton, supersized!

Little kids love Boynton on Board, the
board books that have sold over 12.5 million
copies. Now, three of the most beloved, bestsell-
Barnyard Dance!, Pajama Time!,
ing titles—Barnyard
and Belly Button Book!, which together have
over 5.7 million copies in print—are available
as lap-sized board books. With their appealing
format and sturdy board construction, Boynton Lap Books are easy for little fingers ☛ Classic Boynton, supersized
to grasp, and are the perfect size for big people to read aloud during story time.
The colorful illustrations positively pop on the large pages. Kids will twirl with ☛ Three bestselling BOYNTON ON
the pig, spin with the chickens, and trot with the turkey in Barnyard Dance! BOARD titles, which together have
over 5.7 million copies in print
Proudly display their middles alongside the crooning hippos in Belly Button
Book! Put on pajamas—old or new, striped or polka-dotted—and pajama-dee-bop
☛ Big pages are the perfect size
with the animals in Pajama Time! for little fingers to hold and turn

☛ Great for preschools and libraries

for group read-alouds

Sandra Boynton is the BOYNTON LAP BOOK EDITIONS

☛ For ages 0–4
bestselling children’s author of such 81/ 2" x 91/ 4" board book with rounded corners and diecut cover
Paper: $9.95/
diverse books as Philadelphia Chickens, $11.95 Can. each ☛ Storytime bookstore event kit
Snuggle Puppy, One Shoe Blues, and, Barnyard Dance! with music CD
most recently, the amazing Amazing ISBN: 978-0-7611-6616-0
No. 16616
Cows! She lives with her family in rural Pajama Time!
Connecticut. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6617-7
No. 16617
Belly Button Book!
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF ISBN: 978-0-7611-6618-4
SANDRA BOYNTON TITLES, No. 16618
see pages 44–47. Ships: September

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WHEN PARENTS TEXT

SO MUCH SAID . . .
SO LITTLE UNDERSTOOD
Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli

A collection of insanely funny texts between parents and kids, When

Parents Text is a surprisingly affecting window into the complicated
time when parents aren’t ready to let go, and kids aren’t ready to be let go. The
parents are well-meaning but hopeless, silly and a little corny, and befuddled
by the technology. The kids are bewildered yet patient: the perfect straight
man. And the authors, two recent college graduates, Lauren Kaelin and Sophia
Fraioli, have an unerring editorial instinct to select the funniest, sweetest,
quirkiest, most-telling exchanges.
There’s the revelatory: Mom: My fingers are saying words. This is amazing.
☛ The gift for every kid to give to
The virtual scolding: Dad: I will deal with your sassy behavior when I get home. his or her parents
Meanwhile have some fiber.
The autofill-challenged: Mom: dig up some tadpoles on ur way homo. Me: ☛ Cutting-edge humor with a heart
ummm, what? Mom: It autocorrected me. I mean to say dig up some tadpoles on
ur way homo. (4 minutes later) Mom: PICK UP SOME TAMPONS ON YOUR ☛ whenparentstext.com a Web
sensation, with 300,000 to 500,000
WAY HOME. page views a day, named “#1 Time-
The manically inappropriate: Mom: Woo Hoo—Ruth died, you know Uncle Wasting Site” by The Huffington
Post and called “a daily dose of
Lyman’s wife, BUT I have your Braves tickets and check on the table!! hilarity” by Entertainment Weekly
And the downright inexplicable: Dad: You could poop your pants in the yankee
candle store and no one would know. ☛ The best of whenparentstext
.com, plus more than 50 percent
Launched as a website just last year, www.whenparentstext.com is a phenomenon. all-new material
It receives 300,000 to 500,000 page views a day, with features in The Huffington
Post, Entertainment Weekly, College Humor, and more. When Parents Text ☛ For parents who don’t want to let
includes the best of texts from the website, plus more than 50 percent all-new mate- go, and for kids who don’t want to
be let go
rial never before published.
Includes an emoticon glossary and 16-page color insert of MMS texts—
multimedia messaging service, aka, bizarre photos from mom and dad. It’s the ☛ National radio satellite tour
perfect gift for every text-savvy kid to give to his or her parents.

WHEN PARENTS TEXT

Includes 16-page color insert; 256 pages; 5" x 7"
Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli Paper: $10.95/$12.95 Can.
grew up in Montclair, N.J., and have been best friends ISBN: 978-0-7611-6604-7
since sixth grade. After graduating from Smith No. 16604
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(Lauren) and the University of Vermont (Sophia), PAPERBACK
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popular website, www.whenparentstext.com. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6641-2
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THE
ROSIE’S BAKERY
NO APOLOGIES
BUTTER, CREAM
& SUGAR BAKING
BOOK
Judy Rosenberg

T hrow moderation out the window. When you want that real
homemade flavor, from-scratch frosted layer cakes, brown-
ies that taste like brownies, and cookies that taste like the ones
your grandma used to make, only real ingredients will do: real
butter, real cream, real chocolate, and lots of it. That’s how Rosie’s
has been baking its award-winning treats for over thirty years, and why the Rosie’s
☛ The two bestselling Rosie’s
Bakery All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book won Bakery books (over 310,000 copies
an IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award. Now, that book and the follow-up—Rosie’s in print) updated, revised, and
Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book, combined into one decadent volume
which together sold over 310,000 copies—are back, updated, revised, and combined
into one super recipe collection. ☛ Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Fresh
Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-
Packed with more than 300 irresistible recipes—more than 40 never before Barred Baking Book won the IACP/
published—from Judy Rosenberg, owner of Rosie’s Bakery, the famous chain of Julia Child Cookbook Award
New England bake shops that has won numerous Best of Boston awards, The Rosie’s
Bakery No Apologies Butter, Cream & Sugar Baking Book is for holidays, ☛ More than 300 recipes—40 of
birthdays, pick-me-ups, the cookie jar, bake sales—when only genuine homemade them never before published—for
indulgent cakes, cupcakes, pies,
goodness will do.
cookies, and bars for every occasion
Fabulous cakes and cupcakes: Lemon Coconut Layer Cake, Velvet Underground
Cake, Chocolate Custard Sponge Roll, Sour Cherry Fudge Cake, Coconut Pecan
☛ Judy Rosenberg is a baking
Oatmeal Cake, Maya’s Little Butter Cupcakes, and Coconut Fluff Babycakes. authority—the owner of Rosie’s
Delectable cookies and bars: Pecan Crunchies, Fresh Ginger Crisps, Dagwoods, Bakery, one of the Boston area’s
Honeypots, Noah Bedoahs. Plus the unspeakably delicious Chocolate Orgasms, most-popular bakery chains, and
winner of many Best of Boston
and more.
awards

☛ National radio satellite tour

THE ROSIE’S BAKERY

Judy Rosenberg opened the first Rosie’s Bakery in NO APOLOGIES BUTTER,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1974. The bakery now has three CREAM & SUGAR BAKING BOOK
locations throughout the greater Boston area. Judy lives in Two-color; 368 pages; 73/ 4" x 91/ 8"
Paper: $15.95/$18.95 Can.
Newton, Massachusetts.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5407-5
No. 15407
Ships: September

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THE ALZHEIMER’S
PREVENTION
PROGRAM
KEEP YOUR BRAIN HEALTHY
FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Gary Small, M.D., and Gigi Vorgan

W ritten by Gary Small, M.D., and his wife, Gigi Vorgan, authors of The
New York Times bestseller, The Memory Bible, The Alzheimer’s
Prevention Program is a whole body, whole mind, easy-to-follow regimen
based on the latest research on Alzheimer’s disease, and especially the connec-
tion between lifestyle and susceptibility.
The only “cure” for Alzheimer’s is prevention, and The Alzheimer’s
☛ A breakthrough program to
Prevention Program shows the reader how to take control. The program begins prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s
with an assessment test, checking everything from recall to physical balance. Then,
with a baseline established, it introduces the 7-Day jumpstart program—just seven ☛ By a leading longevity researcher
days to begin to improve everything: memory training 101, including the author’s and New York Times bestselling
easy-to-use “LOOK, SNAP, CONNECT ” memory technique. Daily mental workouts to author of The Memory Bible
sharpen your brain: wordplay, letter scrambles, 3-D drawings, tricky equations, logic
challenges, and number sequences. Healthy brain nutrition, filled with antioxidants— ☛ Alzheimer’s is poised to become
the world’s greatest epidemic, with
berries, avocados, raw vegetables; omega-3 rich, anti-inflammatory food choices, a new American diagnosed every
including fish, whole grains, legumes; and the memory-boosting spices most often 70 seconds—every 30 seconds by
found in Indian curries. Stress-reduction strategies to fortify neurons. Best aerobic mid-century
and strength exercises.
An American is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s every 70 seconds. Here, right now, is ☛ Includes the 7-Day jumpstart
program, and simple memory
an easy-to-follow, science-based breakthrough program that will add years of brain exercises, dietary changes, and
health and mental clarity to a person’s life. suggestions for physical exercise
that will add years to brain health

Gary Small, M.D., is director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the ☛ 20-city author tour
university’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and profes-
sor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School ☛ National radio satellite tour
of Medicine. Named one of the world’s leading
☛ Advance Reader’s copies
innovators in science and technology by Scientific
American, he appears frequently on Today, Good
Morning America, CNN, and PBS. He is also
the author of The New York Times bestseller,
The Memory Bible. Gigi Vorgan has
THE ALZHEIMER’S
PREVENTION PROGRAM
been a writer and producer for feature films and B/W photos and charts; 288 pages; 6" x 81/ 2"
television, and now works as a co-author with her Hardcover: $24.95/
husband. Dr. Small and Ms. Vorgan live in Los $28.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6526-2
Angeles with their children. No. 16526
Ships: November

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THE SPLENDID
SPOTTED SNAKE
A MAGIC RIBBON BOOK
Betty Ann Schwartz and Alexander Wilensky

I t’s a marvel! Every time you turn the page the little snake grows bigger.
And it’s a book that teaches colors: with every page his spots change color.
Amazing! But how does it work???
Using a unique Magic Ribbon format invented by the authors—whose
previous Magic Ribbon book, What Makes a Rainbow, has 2.5 million copies
in print—The Splendid Spotted Snake follows the adventures
of a little spotted snake made out of sturdy, polka-dotted cloth ribbon.
When Yellow Snake was born,
he had bright red spots.
But then he grew . . .
His new spots were blue. ☛ It’s a marvel!

Not only does the little snake double ☛ By the authors of What Makes a
in size, his spots also change color! Rainbow: Magic Ribbon Book with
2.5 million copies in print
Red to blue to purple to orange and
more, it’s an enchanting lesson in learn-
☛ A mesmerizing way for a child
ing colors. And for little kids and parents to learn colors
alike, a true page-turner—because with
every turn of the page the little ☛ For ages 3–6
snake grows and changes.
And look for it: a wonderful, ☛ Advertising in regional holiday
gratifying surprise ending. catalogs

Betty Ann Schwartz and Alexander THE SPLENDID SPOTTED SNAKE

Wilensky are the authors of What Makes a Rainbow and Four color; 9 spreads; 71/ 2" x 107/ 8"
other children’s novelty books. They are married and live in Paper over board: $13.95/$15.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6360-2
New York City. No. 16360
Ships: August
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$83.70/$95.70 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6633-7
No. 26633

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THE BEST OF THE

REJECTION
COLLECTION
293 CARTOONS THAT WERE
TOO DUMB, TOO DARK, OR TOO
NAUGHTY FOR THE NEW YORKER
Rescued by Matthew Diffee

I t’s the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by
The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available
to enjoy. Originally published in two hardcover books, The Rejection
Collection and The Rejection Collection Vol. 2, with over 70,000 copies
in print, it brings together some of The New Yorker’s brightest talents—Roz Chast, ☛ The funniest cartoons you never
saw in The New Yorker
Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more—and reveals their
other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their naughty side.
☛ Everybody is rejected—Roz
Their outrageous side.
cerc3p.mech 8/4/06 6:06 AM Page 24
Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross,
And what a treat. Ventriloquist dummy cartoons. Operating room cartoons. Bring Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and
your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row).
cerc3p.mech 8/4/06 6:06 AM Page 24 more
Lots of couples in bed, quite a few coffins, wise-cracking animals—an obsessive’s
plumbing of the weird, the scary, the off-the-wall, and done so without restraint. ☛ Originally published in two
hardcover volumes—The Rejection
Every week The New Yorker receives 500 cartoon submissions, and rejects a great Collection and The Rejection
majority—mostly, of course, for not being funny enough. There’s no question why Collection Vol. 2, with over 70,000
these were rejected, and it’s not for lack of laughs. One can almost hear Eustace copies in print—now in paperback
Tilley sniffing, We are not amused.
☛ Lowbrow, risqué, politically
incorrect, in questionable taste—
in other words, hilarious

THE BEST OF THE

REJECTION COLLECTION
320 pages; 71/ 4" x 9"
Paper: $13.95/$15.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6578-1
Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to No. 16578
The New Yorker since 1999, and to date has had more than Ships: September
PAPERBACK

200 cartoons published in the magazine. He is the author of 6-copy counter display:
$83.70/$95.70 Can.
The Rejection Collection and The Rejection Collection, Vol. 2, ISBN: 978-0-7611-6771-6
and lives in Brooklyn, New York. No. 26771
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THE OBITS:
THE NEW YORK
TIMES ANNUAL 2012
Edited by William McDonald

T he obits. It’s the first section many of us turn to when we open the
paper, not to see who died, but rather to find out about who lived—
to discover the interesting lives of people who’ve made a mark.
A new annual that collects nearly 300 of the best of The New York
Times obituaries from the previous year, The Obits Annual 2012 is a
compelling, addictive-as-salted-peanuts “who’s who” of some of the most
fascinating people of the twentieth century. Written by top journalists,
each entry is a jewel, a miniature, nuanced biography filled with the facts
we love to read, with the surprise and serendipity of life. There’s David L.
Wolper, the producer of Roots—and the story of how he got his start pur-
chasing film footage from Sputnik. The jazz singer, Abbey Lincoln, and
her change from glamorous performer—she
☛ A compelling collection of the
owned a dress of Marilyn Monroe’s—to civil year’s most interesting obituaries
rights activist (she burned the Monroe dress).
Owsley Stanley, the quirky perfecter of LSD, ☛ For biography lovers, history
who blamed a heart attack on the fact that buffs, news junkies, and everyone
his mother made him eat broccoli as a child. who turns to the obituaries first for
their personal view of people and
Patricia Neal—known by most as a movie history
star, but her real life, filled with tragedy,
adversity, and incredible profes- ☛ Nearly 300 New York Times
sional ups and downs, is almost a obituaries in an annual, covering
surreal play of triumph and tragedy. August 2010 to August 2011
Arranged chronologically, like the
obits themselves, it’s a deliciously ☛ A snapshot of the twentieth
century: movie stars, philosophers,
random walk through the recent newsmen, spies, soul singers,
past, meeting the philosophers, models, publishers, moguls, Nobel
newsmen, spies, publishers, moguls, Prize winners, political cartoonists,
soul singers, baseball managers, baseball managers, and classical
musicians
Nobel Prize winners, models, and
others who’ve shaped the world.
☛ National radio satellite tour
THE OBITS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
ANNUAL 2012

William McDonald has been the obituaries B/W photos; 608 pages; 6" x 9"
Paper: $13.95/$16.95 Can.
editor at The New York Times since 2006. He started at ISBN: 978-0-7611-6576-7
the Times in 1988 and held numerous editorial positions, No. 16576
including being on the team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Ships: October
PAPERBACK
Prize for the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” 4-copy counter display:
He lives in New York City. $58.80/$67.80 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6632-0
No. 26632

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HOW DO YOU
FEED A HUNGRY
GIANT?
Caitlin Friedman
Illustrated by Shaw Nielsen

K ids are never too young to learn about helping

others—that when people are in need, the right
thing to do is to step up.
When a boy named Oscar discovers a giant—a very
hungry giant holding a sign that says “Food Please”—in
his backyard, he knows he can’t turn his back on him.
Yet it’s not easy feeding a hungry giant. A whole pizza Even the cover pops up!
disappears in a single gulp. Twelve blueberry muffins,
33 jars of peanut butter, 197 chocolate chip cookies—all
just an appetizer. So what is little Oscar to do? Just how ☛ A pop-up, pull-tab foldout book
do you feed a hungry giant?
In this warmly illustrated and ☛ The story of a boy who cares and
his mother who helps
interactive picture book full of
pull tabs, gatefolds, and pop-ups,
☛ Includes an 8-page mini
the reader gets to help Oscar feed cookbook with recipes for giant-
the giant. But despite Oscar’s best sized foods, including The Pizza-
efforts—he cleaned out the fridge size Chocolate Chip Cookie, Pasta
Mountain, The Giant’s Giant Cheese
AND the pantry!—the giant still
Crackers—enough to serve eight
remains hungry. That’s when mom small kids
comes to the rescue. She has eight
great recipes, including Mega-Pigs ☛ Front cover pops up for self-
in Blanket, Jumbo Fries, The display
Biggest Burger in the World, Ginormous Blueberry Muffin. Each serves one giant—
or eight kids. Yes, the “feed a giant” recipes are included in the book, printed in a ☛ For ages 4–8
separate 8-page mini cookbook, and are ideal for a kid’s party.
So how do you feed a hungry giant? With giant food. And a giant heart. ☛ In-store event kit with crafts
and recipes

☛ “Make a Giant Difference” food

drive and event kit

HOW DO YOU FEED A HUNGRY GIANT?

Four-color book with pull tabs, pop-ups, and gatefolds;
30 pages; 73/ 4" x 91/ 2"
Caitlin Friedman is the author of The Girl’s Guide Paper over board: $18.95/$22.95 Can.
series and other books. She lives with her husband and two ISBN: 978-0-7611-5752-6
children in Brooklyn, New York. Shaw Nielsen was No. 15752
Ships: September
educated in San Francisco at the Academy of Art and currently PAPERBACK

resides in Denver. 4-copy counter display:

$75.80/$91.80 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6634-4
No. 26634

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THE ART OF
CONFESSION
RENEWING YOURSELF THROUGH
THE PRACTICE OF HONESTY
Paul Wilkes

P aul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book—a spiritual

gem—that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audi-
ence. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health.
It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious
living. And for thousands of years people have used the power of confession to
find their best selves.
Liberating confession from the confessional, The Art of Confession
draws on traditions as old as ancient Greece and as modern as psychoanalysis,
as diverse as Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, to show readers how to incor-
porate a confessional practice into their daily lives. There are visualizations, spiritual ☛ “There are insights here I will be
exercises, prompts, and meditations; private confessions, direct confessions, psycho- incorporating into my own life.”—
logical confessions. Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When
Bad Things Happen to Good People
Accompanied throughout by a wise “confessional chorus”—a rabbi, a priest, a
psychiatrist, a nun, whose points-of-view complement and augment the text—The Art
☛ An authentic tool for self-
of Confession is an antidote to our age of oversharing, where we happily broadcast awareness
the minutest details of our lives in public, yet never find the time to discover the risk,
relief, and ultimately the renewal that real, considered self-reflection offers. ☛ The power of confession
rediscovered for a secular
readership, drawing on
traditions from ancient Greece to
contemporary psychoanalysis

☛ By the author of In Due Season:

A Catholic Life and the award-
winning In Mysterious Ways: The
Life and Death of a Parish Priest

☛ 12-city national tour

Paul Wilkes is the author, most recently, of ☛ National radio satellite tour
In Due Season: A Catholic Life, chosen by Publishers
Weekly as one of 2009’s 100 outstanding books. ☛ Advance Reader’s copies
His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the THE ART OF CONFESSION
founder of Homes of Hope India-U.S., which shelters One color, 144 pages, 5" x 7"
and educates orphan girls in India, and cofounder Hardcover: $18.95/$21.95 Can.
of CHIPS (Christian Help in Park Slope), a Brooklyn ISBN: 978-0-7611-5596-6
No. 15596
center serving poor and homeless young women and Ships: December
mothers for over 35 years. He lives with his wife in
Wilmington, North Carolina.
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THE BIG BOOK OF

VISUAL SUDOKU
273 PUZZLES THAT REINVENT
THE WORLD’S MOST
POPULAR NUMBER GAME
Maki Kaji and the Sudoku creators
at Nikoli Publishing

P ure wow—announcing a dazzling new idea in Sudoku!

The Big Book of Visual Sudoku reinvents the world’s
most popular number game by adding a second visual “layer” on
top of the traditional number/logic puzzle—using symbols and
pictures instead of numbers.
It’s a paradigm shift, 273 puzzles that present Sudoku for
both sides of the brain, left (the logical) and right (the visual).
The puzzles are oversized,
☛ A dazzling new idea in Sudoku!
colorful, graphically arresting—
eye-candy—but also challenging.
☛ The world’s most popular number
The underlying puzzles are hand- game, now reinvented to be visual—
crafted by an expert; unlike Sudoku for both sides of the brain
computer-generated Sudoku, these
puzzles draw in the user with sym- ☛ Nikoli’s Original Sudoku books
metry, elegance, and surprise and and calendars have over 2 million
copies in print
give the effect and deep satisfaction
of matching wits with a master.
☛ The only Sudoku in America
But then comes the twist: Instead of traditional numbers, the boxes are filled by: with handcrafted puzzles from the
clock faces, with the hands pointing from one o’clock to nine o’clock; dominoes, with Japanese inventors of the game,
dots to fill in; box score graphics from a baseball game (players one through nine, Nikoli
of course); plus Roman numerals, playing cards, human hands signing numbers,
Japanese characters, and more.
The puzzles have to be translated, from number to symbol, for a smart and stun-
ning visual challenge. The puzzles are rated Easy to Hard, and solutions are printed
in the back. THE BIG BOOK OF VISUAL SUDOKU
Four color; 304 pages; 8" x 91/ 8"
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING Paper: $14.95/$17.95 Can.
OF SUDOKU TITLES,
Maki Kaji, the “Godfather of see page 64.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6579-8
No. 16579
Sudoku,” is president of Nikoli, the Ships: September
premier Japanese puzzle and game 6-copy counter display:
company, and is credited with giving $89.70/$107.70 Can.
Sudoku its name. Nikoli holds the ISBN: 978-0-7611-6630-6
No. 26630
trademark on Sudoku in Japan, and PAPERBACK
supplies 100 percent of the puzzles
published in Japanese newspapers
and magazines.

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LOVE THE BEASTIE

Henrik Drescher

B e kind to your pets! That’s the message of Love the Beastie.

Gross, outrageous, but pure fun in a book, Love the Beastie is
a pull and poke, spin and play, and cuddle and kiss Valentine for kids,
and especially kids with pets.
Meet Paul and Judy. And meet their pet, Beastie. Paul and Judy used
to be so mean to Beastie. They pulled Beastie’s hair, tickled Beastie’s
feet. So, Beastie feastied! Good thing Paul and Judy learned their
lesson (stuck inside the belly of the Beastie).
Written and illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Love the Beastie
picks up where his irresistibly offbeat Pat the Beastie left off. Now Paul
and Judy really are best friends with Beastie, and treat him with the
love and respect he deserves. They go to the playground and spin on the
carousel—don’t throw up! Brush Beastie’s gunky teeth (Gross!), and
help Beastie play dress-up (ha, look at Beastie’s funny clothes). Then, at
the end of a long day, they all cuddle together in bed. Ahhh.
So what if Beastie’s kisses ☛ Pure fun in a book: Brush
are scratchy or Beastie farts in Beastie’s teeth, spin Beastie on the
carousel, help him get dressed
his sleep. That doesn’t mean a
thing when you love someone.
☛ Googly eyes on cover

☛ An innovative, offbeat, and

affectionate Valentine for children
and their pets

☛ Sequel to the subversive classic

Pat the Beastie, with over 125,000
copies in print in two editions

☛ For ages 3 and over

Henrik Drescher, an illustrator whose work regularly
appears in The New York Times Book Review and other national
and international publications, is the author of Pat the Beastie and
other children’s books, including McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy,
Revenge, and Death (with a Happy Ending); Hubert the Pudge: A
LOVE THE BEASTIE
Vegetarian Tale; and The Strange Appearance of Howard Cranebill, Four color; 11 spreads; 73/ 4" x 91/ 2"
which won The New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Paper over board: $12.95/$15.95 Can.
He splits his time between Toronto and China. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6109-7
No. 16109
Ships: December
6-copy counter display:
$77.70/$95.70 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6635-1
No. 26635
BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
PAPERBACK
See page 53.
Pat the Beastie
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5610-9
No. 15610

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MISSED
CONNECTIONS
LOVE, LOST & FOUND
Sophie Blackall

I n her first book for adults, the artist Sophie Blackall creates a deeply
felt, poignant book about love—a book that captures the mystery, the
yearning, at times the cosmic humor behind the “what if?” of a missed
connection.
Like a message in a bottle, a “missed connection”
classified (usually posted on a website) is an attempt,
however far-fetched, by one stranger to reach another
on the strength of a remembered glance, smile, or
blue hat. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless, ☛ The universal appeal of love—
lost and found
funny and sad. Ms. Blackall, award-winning illustrator of
Ruby’s Wish and Big Red Lollipop, has turned some of the
most evocative (or hilarious) of them into exquisite paintings. ☛ “Beautiful, wistful . . .
fantastic.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
And now this exquisite gift of a book.
Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love ☛ By award-winning illustrator
stories. There’s “We Shared a Bear Suit.” “If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine.” Sophie Blackall (sophieblackall
“Hairy Bearded Swimmer.” Each is told in the shorthand of a .com), whose Missed Connections
“missed connection,” and then illustrated in Chinese ink and blog and paintings have already
received attention from The New
watercolor. The paintings are extraordinary: delicate yet full York Times, The Daily News, NPR,
of feeling, each springing from one littleDo Youdetail of the post into
Believe in Love @ First New York Magazine, Apartment
a fully imagined world. Each brings the voyeuristic pleasure Therapy, The Huffington Post, and
Sight?
-m4w
(l train)

of watching love at first sight, and the pleasure of watching an

You were reading Catch-22 on the subway this morning.
I have never seen such a beautiful profile. I wanted to say hi,
more
but then you’d turn towards me and I wouldn’t be able to
look at your profile anymore. You were so into your book,

artist discover a fresh new way to tell a story. And not all the
I don’t think you noticed me falling in love with you. But I
thought I’d ask, just in case.

connections are missed. Hidden in the book are three pieces ☛ Full-color, exquisitely appealing
illustrations in delicate Chinese ink
that conjure up the magic of love found. and watercolor
34-35 missed connections

☛ Celebrates the hugely

popular phenomenon of “missed
connections,” the anonymous
Sophie Blackall has illustrated over twenty books messages posted by strangers who
for children, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award–winning wished they had spoken up
Ruby’s Wish, Meet Wild Boars, which won her a Founder’s
Award from the Society of Illustrators, ☛ Shelf Awareness advertising
the Ivy and Bean series, and more. Her MISSED CONNECTIONS
editorial illustrations have appeared Four color, 128 pages; 7" x 9"
in The New York Times, The Wall Paper with flaps: $13.95/$16.95 Can.
Street Journal, The Washington ISBN: 978-0-7611-6358-9
No. 16358
Post, and many magazines. She lives Ships: September
in Brooklyn, New York, with her PAPERBACK
6-copy counter display:
family and a stuffed armadillo. $83.70/$101.70 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6639-9
No. 26639

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THE STUPIDEST
THINGS EVER SAID
BOOK OF ALL-TIME
STUPIDEST TOP 10 LISTS
Kathryn and Ross Petras

N ot just stupidity, but obsessive stupidity! Not just random stupid-

ity, but organized stupidity! Here, from the celebrated collectors
of the stupidest things ever said, it’s the crème de la crème of stupidi-
ties, made even funnier and more compelling in an irresistible top 10
list format. Try one:

The Top 10 Stupidest Actual Book Titles:

1. A Toddler’s Guide to the Rubber Industry ☛ The ultimate collection of stupid
humor, from the experts
2. Constipation and our Civilization
3. Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers ☛ The stupidest of the stupidest in
an irresistible top 10 list format
4. The Secret of Sphincters
5. A Pictorial Book of Tongue Coating ☛ Curated by the authors of the
6. Life and Laughter ’midst the Cannibals 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said
calendar with over 4 million copies
7. Be Bold With Bananas in print
8. Hand-Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
☛ Over 1,000 quotes from
9. Collect Fungi on Stamps celebrities, politicians, sports stars,
plus book titles, road signs, menu
10. A Study of Hospital Waiting Lists in Cardiff, 1953–1954 translations, and so much more

Plus lost-in-translation moments. Doubles entendres. Political speeches, foreign ☛ National radio satellite tour
menus, traffic signs. Celebrities on literature, on homelessness, on revealing too
much about themselves. Mangled clichés and bizarre analogies, the wit of the witless
and comedy of the clueless—never before have so many said something so dumb,
now in one book.
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING
OF K ATHRYN AND ROSS
PETRAS TITLES, THE STUPIDEST THINGS EVER SAID
see pages 113, 115. 256 pages; 61/ 4" x 61/ 4"
Paper: $10.95/$12.95 Can.
Kathryn and Ross Petras, brother ISBN: 978-0-7611-6591-0
and sister, are the specialists in stupidity whose No. 16591
365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar has Ships: September
over 4 million copies in print. Their other books 10-copy counter display:
$109.50/$129.50 Can.
include “Dance First, Think Later,” “Don’t Forget ISBN: 978-0-7611-6629-0
to Sing in the Lifeboats,” and Age Doesn’t Matter No. 26629
Unless You’re a Cheese. Kathryn Petras lives in PAPERBACK

Manhattan with her husband; Ross Petras lives in

Toronto with his family.

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THE FASHION
DESIGNER’S
HANDBOOK
AND KIT
BECOME A DESIGNER IN
33 FABULOUS DOLL PROJECTS
Marjorie Galen

T ween girls love clothing, style, and expressing themselves

through what they wear. In fact, the No. 1 dream career for
girls ages 7 to 12 is fashion designer, according to The New York
Times. Just what a girl needs to learn design and sewing basics,
The Fashion Designer’s Handbook and Kit Make It
☛ A wonderful introduction to
Little Black Dress
combines a lively instruction book with a kit
Cut the fabric Make the dress
Level:
1. Copy or
trace the
pattern pieces
1. With right sides together, place the
two back pieces on atop
Making tunicof the front,
matching the shoulders and sides,
making and designing clothes for
Connecting the dots

H
on page 127 and pin in place. Sew shoulder and

loaded with tools and trimmings—a doll-sized tween girls, whose No. 1 dream
orrified by the gaudy array of colors worn for the front side seams 1⁄8 inch in from the edge.
by women at parties, designer Coco and back of
Chanel decided that we would be the dress. Cut
more dignified in black and in the 1920s out the paper

job is to be a fashion designer,

introduced the now famous little black dress. patterns.

dressmaker dummy, 27 patterns, rick rack,

She was right! Today just about every woman 2. Fold the Folding triangles
in the Western world has at least one—it’s fabric in half.
easy to wear, easy to dress up or down Pin the front

according to The New York Times

depending on the occasion, and above all, pattern piece to the fabric along the
Bodice pieces
easy to look good in. Our version is inspired by fold through both layers of fabric. Pin
the back pattern piece through both

measuring tape and thread, and three different

the simple black sheath Audrey Hepburn wore
in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.. But there’s no rule that
says it must be black, so make it silver, gold,
red, or any color you like.
layers of fabric, but not on the fold.
3. Cut carefully around the pattern
edges, and remove pins and pattern.
You will have one front and two back
pieces.
2. Turn right side out and try on the
Pin in place
dummy. Sew on a few tiny pieces of
Velcro or snaps along the center back
opening to close the dress, leaving
Trace triangular shapes
1 inch or so open at the bottom.

prints of fabric. Everything, in fact, a young Mark the fabric

☛ THE BOOK: a 136-page, full-color

Supplies
* 7-inch by 7-inch piece
of lightweight wool or The Perfect Little Dress
S
designer needs to create a hip wardrobe for her
synthetic fabric that
lim and sophisticated, effortless and elegant, Audrey
won’t unravel (like the
Hepburn was a lot like the little black dress itself. She

guide to sewing and fashion design,

synthetic fabric used to
make sports uniforms), looked great but never like she was trying too hard.One of
or even T-shirt fabric the most famous little black dresses (right) was designed for
her role in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s by French designer Sewing the hem 80
* Scissors Hubert de Givenchy. The Givenchy creation was the perfect
* Ruler

11 ⁄2-inch fashion dolls, including, of course,

1
dress, the scene outside Tiffany’s windows was the perfect Double layered bodice 86

packed with fashion ideas and step-

* Needle and thread fashion moment in film, and Audrey, in her role as Holly
* Small piece of Velcro
Pattern
Golightly, was the perfect new icon: the fashion forward
included New York City single girl.

Barbie.
70 71

by-step instructions
the fashion designer's handbook dresses

Gather the skirt 86

Matching seams 80

The illustrated, four-color book guides readers from inspiration to design. How to
think and sketch like a designer. Getting to know fabrics and fibers. Plus, why knowing ☛ THE KIT: with a doll-sized dress
form, 27 patterns, rick rack, and
your colors helps you put together a really cool outfit; assembling a sewing box; making fabric in three different prints
appliqué and embroidery; and working with patterns.
The 33 delightful projects are hand-sewn (the few basic stitches are taught), and ☛ A great value at $25.95
simple enough for girls to complete with little or no adult help. Each is clearly explained
with illustrations and modeled by dolls in charming full-color photographs. ☛ For ages 7–12
Plus a bonus: Three of the projects are for girls to make in their size, for
themselves: a Skirt T-Shirt Dress, Trapezoid T-Skirt, and an adorable tote. ☛ No sewing machine required

☛ Bookstore “Project Runway”

Marjorie Galen is the author of Summer Crafts: event kits
Fun and Creative Summer Projects for the Whole Family.
She’s written articles for Country Living and Martha
THE FASHION DESIGNER’S
Stewart Living, and writes HANDBOOK AND KIT
quilting patterns and books Kit with dress form, fabric, rick rack, measuring tape and
with well-known quilter thread; 91/ 2" x 10"; 136-page book, 7" x 97/ 8"; includes
four-color photos throughout
Denyse Schmidt. She lives Paper: $25.95/$29.95 Can.
outside of New York City. ISBN: 978-0-7611-5479-2
No. 15479
Ships: October

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BANANAGRAMS ! ®

THE ON-THE-GO
EDITION
575 ALL-NEW WORD GAMES
Joe Edley and the Creators of Bananagrams

B ananagrams is on a roll. Its latest game, Zip It!, was named one of Toy
Fair’s 15 smartest toys (Time.com); puzzles from the Bananagrams!
books are syndicated nationwide by King Features; and the series has 429,000
copies in print. Now introducing Bananagrams! The On-the-Go Edition, a
Bananagrams! book in the bestselling chunky 4 by 6–inch format of Original
Sudoku and Little Book of Big Brain Games.
It’s an appealing puzzle-book format that’s perfect for on-the-go play—to be ☛ All the challenge of BANANAGRAMS!
pulled out of a purse, messenger bag, or knapsack. And just like crosswords, Sudoku, in the appealing chunky, portable
and word searches, Bananagrams! are the kind of puzzles best for when commuting format
or in the waiting room, or to play before bed—whenever there are a few minutes to
challenge and stretch the brain. ☛ 575 all-new puzzles
On-the-Go offers a total of 575 original puzzles in three levels of difficulty and
☛ BANANAGRAMS! books have
sixteen lively and varied puzzle types, including two created exclusively for this 429,000 copies in print
book. Plus there are Weords (weird words that are fun to play), lists of common two-
and three-letter words to improve your game, fun facts about bananas and monkeys, ☛ Features sixteen puzzle types
and (of course!) an answer key. (including two specially created for
this edition) ranking in difficulty
from one to three bananas
Rena Nathanson, along with her father, Abe, and her
children, invented BANANAGRAMS! while spending the summer of 2005 in ☛ Includes word lists, fun facts, and
Narragansett, Rhode Island. The game debuted at the 2006 London Toy Fair an answer key
and quickly became an international sensation. The company now
has offices in London and in Providence, Rhode Island.

BANANAGRAMS!
Joe Edley is the only three-time National Scrabble Champion THE ON-THE-GO EDITION
and is the Director of Clubs and Tournaments for the National Scrabble Two color; 408 pages; 4" x 6"
PAPERBACK
Association. In addition to the three BANANAGRAMS! books for adults, he Paper: $9.95/$11.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6580-4
has written several Scrabble books, created thousands of word puzzles No. 16580
for The Scrabble News, and writes the syndicated news- Ships: August
paper column “Scrabblegrams.” He lives with his family 8-copy counter display:
on Long Island. $79.60/$95.60 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6631-3
No. 26631
18-copy mixed display
(6 each of LITTLE BOOK OF BIG
BRAIN GAMES, BANANAGRAMS!
ON-THE-GO EDITION, and
ORIGINAL SUDOKU):
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF $179.10/$215.10 Can.
BANANAGRAMS! TITLES, ISBN: 978-0-7611-6772-3
see page 62–63. No. 26772

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letter tile designs are trademarks of Hasbro in the United States and Canada. © 2011 Hasbro. All rights reserved.
 Fall 2011

BEAN BY BEAN
A COOKBOOK
MORE THAN 200 RECIPES FOR
FRESH BEANS, DRIED BEANS,
COOL BEANS, HOT BEANS, SAVORY
BEANS . . . EVEN SWEET BEANS!
Crescent Dragonwagon

H as there ever been a more generous ingredient than the bean?

Down-home, yet haute, soul-satisfyingly hearty, valued, versatile,
deeply delectable, healthful, and inexpensive to boot, there’s nothing
a bean can’t do—and nothing that Crescent Dragonwagon can’t do
with beans. From old friends like chickpeas and pintos to rediscovered
heirloom beans like rattlesnake beans and teparies, from green beans and fresh
☛ Bean cookery, taken to the next
shell beans to peanuts, lentils, and peas, Bean by Bean is the definitive cookbook level
on beans. It’s a 200-plus recipe cornucopia overflowing with information, kitchen
wisdom, lore, anecdotes, and a zest for good food and good times. ☛ By the author of Passionate
Consider the lentil, to take one example. Discover it first in a delicious slather, Vegetarian, Dairy Hollow House
Lentil Tapenade. Then in half a dozen soups, including Sahadi’s Lebanese Lentil Soup & Bread Cookbook, and The
Cornbread Gospels, together with
Soup with Spinach, Kerala-Style Dahl, and Crescent’s Very, Very Best Lentil,
395,000 copies in print
Mushroom & Barley Soup. It then turns up in Marinated Lentils De Puy with Greens,
Baked Beets, Oranges & Walnuts. Plus there’s Jamaica Jerk-Style Lentil-Vegetable ☛ More than 200 recipes for the
Patties, Ethiopian Lentil Stew, and Lentil-Celeriac Skillet Sauce. Do the same for beloved bean, through the menu
black beans—from Tex-Mex Frijoles Dip to Feijoada Vegetariana to Maya’s Magic and around the world, including
Black Beans with Eggplant & Royal Rice. Or shell beans—Newly Minted Puree of lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans,
and cannellini, favas, haricot verts,
Fresh Favas, Baked Limas with Rosy Sour Cream, Edamame in a Pod. And on and shell beans, tofu, peanuts—all
on—from starters and soups to dozens of entrees. Even desserts: Peanut Butter Cup manner of beans in all manner
Brownies and Red Bean Ice Cream. of dishes

☛ 12-city author tour

Crescent Dragonwagon is the James BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

See page 95.
BEAN BY BEAN
Two color; 400 pages; 8" x 9"
Beard Award–winning author of seven cookbooks, The Cornbread Gospels
ISBN: 978-0-7611-1916-6 Paper: $15.95/$18.95 Can.
including Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook, No. 11916 ISBN: 978-0-7611-3241-7
Passionate Vegetarian, and, most recently, The Cornbread No. 13241
Gospels. She is also a contributing editor to Relish maga- Ships: October
zine and has appeared on Good Morning America, Today,
and NPR’s The Splendid Table. She lives, grows, and
cooks her beans on a farm in Putney, Vermont.

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THE SECRETS
OF PEOPLE WHO
NEVER GET SICK
WHAT THEY KNOW, WHY IT WORKS,
AND HOW IT CAN WORK FOR YOU
Gene Stone

W ho does not want to be healthier?

Now in paperback: the book that Andrew Weil calls “offbeat, informa-
tive, and fun . . . a great read,” and that has been praised as “a delightful dance
through science” (New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, M.D.) and
as a “remarkable and insightful book [that] offers you the chance to achieve the
best health of your life” (Mark Liponis, M.D., Medical Director, Canyon Ranch).
Written by bestselling author Gene Stone, The Secrets of People Who Never ☛ An “amusing . . . crash course”
Get Sick arose from his desire to discover what might actually prevent him from (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) on
getting sick himself. This book, the result of that exploration, tells the stories of the subject that obsesses readers
most—health
twenty-five people who each possess a different secret of excellent health—a secret
that makes sense and that Stone discovered has a true scientific underpinning. There
☛ “Health-giving gems of wisdom
are food secrets—why to take garlic and vitamin C, eat more probiotics, become wrapped in stories and science that
a vegan, drink a tonic of brewer’s yeast. Exercise secrets—the benefits of lifting will leave you healthier and happier
weights, the power of stretching. Environmental secrets—living in a Blue Zone, and wiser.”—Mark Hyman, M.D.,
understanding the value of germs. Emotional secrets—seek out and stay in touch New York Times bestselling author
of UltraMetabolism
with friends, cultivate your spirituality. Physical secrets—nap more, take cold show-
ers in the morning. And the wisdom that goes back generations: Yes, chicken soup
☛ Profiles of twenty-five people
works. who never get sick, the secrets of
The stories make it personal, the research makes it real, and the do-it-yourself their healthfulness, the scientific
information shows how to integrate each secret into your own life, and become the research behind each, plus practical
tips to bring the practice into your
next person who never gets sick.
own life

☛ National radio satellite tour

☛ www.secretsofpeople.com,
a community website
Gene Stone is a writer, journalist, and
former Peace Corps volunteer. He is the co-
☛ Rights sold in 20 countries
author, most recently, of The New York Times
bestseller, The Engine 2 Diet, and his articles and
columns have appeared in New York, Esquire,
Vogue, Elle, GQ, and The Huffington Post. He THE SECRETS OF PEOPLE
WHO NEVER GET SICK
lives in New York City and is a vegan (secret
256 pages; 6" x 81/ 2"
#17). His website is www.secretsofpeople.com.
Paper: $12.95/$14.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6581-1
See page 69 for The Secrets of People No. 16581
Who Never Get Sick, hardcover Ships: December

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THE ALL-IN-ONE
WEDDING PLANNER
& ORGANIZER
Mindy Weiss

W eddings require organization, record-keeping, legwork,

logistics. In other words, a planner. From the celebrity
wedding planner and author of the 100,000-copy-plus bestsell-
ing The Wedding Book, Mindy Weiss’s All-In-One Wedding
Planner & Organizer helps couples keep track of every detail
leading up to their Big Day. It’s the organizer that includes exactly
what you need for on-the-go, on-the-ground wedding planning.
Created as a three-ring binder, it has tabs for each category:
• The Big Picture and Contacts
Removable
• Budget Bellyband
• Location, Location, Location!
☛ What every bride-to-be needs—
• Menu and Flowers a practical, informative planner
• Rentals filled with sanity-saving tools,
tips, checklists, and schedules
• The Dress! (And
What Everyone Else ☛ From Mindy Weiss, the media’s
Is Wearing) go-to wedding expert and
• The Guests and the Invitations author of the 100,000-copy-plus
bestseller The Wedding Book
• Music, Photography, and Videography
Form marries function: nine tabbed
• Making It Official: dividers with reinforced pockets ☛ Organized as a user-friendly
Rings, Licenses, Vows, Officiants three-ring binder with nine tabbed
dividers with reinforced pockets,
Packed throughout are tips, tools, checklists, spreadsheets, and schedules to help a plastic zippered pouch, and a
brides (and grooms) manage everything from building a wedding timeline and business card sleeve
organizing the dreaded seating chart to getting the wedding party matched and fitted.
From “Will you marry me?” to “I do,” nothing will slip through the cracks. ☛ The most useful engagement gift

THE ALL-IN-ONE WEDDING

PLANNER & ORGANIZER
Mindy Weiss, author of the bestselling The Wedding 176 pages; 3-ring binder: 101/ 2" x 111/ 2" with nine divider pages
Book, is one of the most-sought-after wedding and party with pockets; interior pages: 81/ 2" x 11"
planners in the country. She has worked with celebrities Paper over board: $27.95/$32.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6597-2
from Ellen DeGeneres and Heidi Klum to Gwen Stefani and No. 16597
Shaquille O’Neal. She is regularly featured in magazines Ships: December
like People, US Weekly, Brides, Modern Bride, and InStyle BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
Weddings. She lives in Los Angeles, and her website is See page 78.
www.mindyweiss.com. The Wedding Book
ISBN: 978-0-7611-3960-7
No. 13960

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DINOMAZES
THE COLOSSAL FOSSIL BOOK
Elizabeth Carpenter

T hey’re ginormous! A marriage of two things kids love—dinosaurs

and mazes—DinoMazes is a one-of-a-kind collection of 31
super-sized, way more fun than 81⁄2 x 11–inch, colossal fossil mazes. It
is hours and hours of fun that spans hundreds of millions of years.
Created by Elizabeth Carpenter, Mazeology founder and author of
the recently published, award-winning Mummy Mazes, DinoMazes
was originally packaged inside a large plastic bone; it sold 117,000
copies but could no longer be published in its original format. The new
DinoMazes features unique fold-over binding, several new mazes,
and redrawn original mazes.
Work your way through the skeletons of a Stegosaurus,
Velociraptor, T. Rex, Triceratops, plus giant sloths and a saber-toothed
tiger. Discover the earliest known turtle, Proganochelys—unable to
retract its head, it grew fierce spikes on its neck—and Acanthostega,
an ancient “fish” with feet instead of fins. The dazzling illustrated
mazes are challenging—start ☛ They’re ginormous!
at a tail, find your way through BORN WITH HORNS Triceratops was a
plant-eater and

the rib cage, and exit at the
mouth. Interspersed are
T RICERATOPS had one curved horn over each eye, a straight had hundreds of
single horn on its snout, and a large bony frill covering its
neck. Its skull was huge and could grow to
almost one third the length of
teeth that were
continually replaced
during its life. It
☛ Innovative, fold-over binding
that shelves at 91⁄2 inches by
its body, which is saying a probably lived and
traveled in large herds
lot, since Triceratops for protection, the way
could grow to many animals do today.

miniature speed mazes—how

30 feet long!
12 inches and opens up to
12 inches by 171⁄2 inches
fast can you get through the
Styracosaurus head? Each What's in a Name?
In the summer of 2010,
☛ 31 poster-size mazes and
maze comes with sidebars and
it was discovered that
the popular three-horned

8 mini-mazes, featuring the biggest,

dinosaur Triceratops was
really the child version of
Torosaurus. Although both

captions about the animal,

dinosaurs had three horns,

coolest, most fearsome dinosaurs

the frill on Torosaurus’s skull
was much larger and had two
holes. Paleontologists concluded
that as Triceratops matured, its horns
TRICERAT: OPS
including meaning of the
changed shape, its frill continued to grow, and
try-SERR-a-tops the two center depressions thinned out,
PRONUNCIATION
MEANS: “three-ho
rned face” forming the holes in the skull attributed
,
IN: USA: Colorado
FOSSILS FOUND Wyoming: to Torosaurus. The fortunate ending to
Montana, South Dakota, wan this story is that Triceratops was named
Canada: Alberta, Saskatche

name, when the creature lived, ☛ The original DinoMazes has

WHEN: 68 to 65
million years ago two years before Torosaurus, so the name
HABITAT: plains
and woodlands Triceratops remains.
SIZE: 26 to 30 feet
long; 7 to 10 feet tall;
frill; 13,000 to
up to 7 foot wide skull

117,000 copies in print

26,000 pounds
27
and its lifestyle and habitat.
DIET: plants

☛ For ages 6 and up

Elizabeth Carpenter, author of Mummy Mazes,

is an illustrator, a game designer, and an entrepreneur and
founder of Mazeology. She lives in New York City.

DINOMAZES
Three color; 80 perforated pages; 91/ 2" x 12"
Paper: $11.95/$13.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6575-0
No. 16575
Ships: October
6-copy counter display:
BY THE SAME AUTHOR: $71.70/$83.70 Can. PAPERBACK

See page 56. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6636-8

Mummy Mazes No. 26636
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6074-8
No. 16074

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YOUNGER
NEXT YEAR:
THE BOOK & JOURNAL
GIFT SET FOR MEN
THE BOOK & JOURNAL
GIFT SET FOR WOMEN
Chris Crowley and
Henry S. Lodge, M.D.

T he gift to give others. The gift to give yourself. The gift that combines a
bestselling program for becoming younger and healthier with a full-fledged
52-week journal that makes it easier to change your life, bringing planning, record-
keeping, and motivation to the equation. For gym-goers who haven’t yet bought the ☛ The perfect gift: how to reset
your biological clock
book, for the fitness-minded, for husbands and wives making a commitment to one
another—for anyone looking to turn back the biological clock and live fit, strong, and ☛ For Men: The New York Times
sexy into their 80s and beyond—it’s exactly the right gift. bestseller Younger Next Year, with
Younger Next Year: The Book & Journal Gift Set for Men combines The 479,000 copies in print, packaged
New York Times bestseller Younger Next Year, with 479,000 copies in print, with a in a gift sleeve with a perfect-bound
Younger Next Year Journal
now perfect-bound edition of the Younger Next Year Journal, with 41,000 copies
in print. The book is “brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious. If you’re up for it . . . [it]
☛ For Women: Younger Next Year
could change your life”—The Washington Post. It shows how to become functionally for Women, with 367,000 copies in
younger through a program of exercise, diet, and emotional connection, and continue print, packaged in a gift sleeve with
to live to the end of your years with newfound vitality and pleasure. The fill-in jour- a perfect-bound Younger Next Year
nal is the right companion to keep track of the Younger Next Year program. Younger Journal
Next Year: The Book & Journal Gift Set for Women combines Younger Next
Year for Women, with 367,000 copies in print, with the same Younger Next Year ☛ Extremely active authors: Chris
Crowley lectures widely on the
Journal. Younger Next Year program, and
Dr. Lodge writes a monthly column
in Self. His Younger Next Year PBS
special premieres in June 2011

Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D., YOUNGER NEXT YEAR:

THE BOOK & JOURNAL
YOUNGER NEXT YEAR:
THE BOOK & JOURNAL
authors of the Younger Next Year books, are also patient and GIFT SET FOR MEN GIFT SET FOR WOMEN
doctor, and creators of the Younger Next Year™ program (www Book: 352 pages; 51/ 8" x 8"; Journal: two Book: 432 pages; 51/ 8" x 8"; Journal: two
color; 240 pages; book and perfect-bound color; 240 pages; book and perfect-bound
.youngernextyear.com). Mr. Crowley was, until his retirement, a journal boxed in a sleeve journal boxed in a sleeve
litigator and partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell in Manhattan. Dr. Paper: $19.95/$23.95 Can. Paper: $19.95/$23.95 Can.
Lodge is a board-certified internist in New York City, head of a ISBN: 978-0-7611-6605-4 ISBN: 978-0-7611-6606-1
No. 16605 No. 16606
23-doctor practice, and member of the clinical faculty at Columbia
Ships: October Ships: October
University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He writes a
monthly column in Self magazine. Both authors live in New York.

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EYELIKE
STICKERS:
CHRISTMAS
D eck the halls! The refrigerator! Your bedroom door!
Christmastime is sticker time. Stickers are perfect for holiday
cards, gift tags, notebooks, and more. Plus, it’s scrapbooking season.
And with its great value price of $6.95, EyeLike sticker books are the
perfect sticker resource.
A spirited gift for kids, crafters, scrapbookers, and anyone who loves
getting into the holiday state of mind, EyeLike Stickers: Christmas is
a brand-new title from the bestselling EyeLike Stickers series, which has
over 450,000 copies in print.
Coa
te
It’s an abundance of twinkling Christmas trees, prancing reindeer, Insid d
shiny ornaments, delectable cookies, and beautifully wrapped gifts to Cov e
ers
peel off, stick, and peel off and stick again. These 400 colorful, reus-
able photographic stickers are perfect for embellishing holiday cards,
crafts, Christmas party invitations, and so much more. The book’s ☛ The EyeLike Stickers series has
inside covers are glossy and illustrated, over 450,000 copies in print
and serve as backgrounds on which kids
can create delightful holiday scenes—and ☛ 400 beautiful, bright, reusable
change them up as often as they’d like. An Christmas-themed stickers
incredible bargain at only $6.95, this book
is a feast for the eyes and imagination. ☛ A gift for kids, scrapbookers, and
sticker lovers of all ages

☛ Perfect for decorating holiday

invitations, cards, and crafts
Illustrated inside
front cover
☛ Value priced at $6.95

☛ A PlayBac book

HALLOWEEN
EYELIKE STICKERS: HALLOWEEN
12 pages; 8" x 10"
Paper: $6.95/$7.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-1-60214-126-1
No. 784126
Available Now!
10-copy Halloween counter
display: $69.50/$79.50 Can.
ISBN: 978-1-60214-140-7
No. 784140
PAPERBACK
FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF
EYELIKE STICKERS TITLES,
see pages 60–61.
EYELIKE STICKERS: CHRISTMAS
12 pages; 8" x 10"
Paper: $6.95/$7.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-1-60214-127-8
No. 784127
Ships: September
10-copy counter display:
$69.50/$79.50 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6773-0
No. 26773
PAPERBACK

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THE
COMPLETE
MAGICIAN
EVERYTHING YOU NEED
TO PUT ON A SHOW
Joshua Jay

G ive the gift of magic. The gift of performing a

trick that leads to oohs and ahhs. Of learning a
new sleight of hand and dazzling your dinner guests.
Of adding fun to parties, delighting coworkers, com-
pletely bowling over your friends.
Combining a book, instructional DVD, five great props, and a sturdy, handsome ☛ A complete magician’s kit: Magic:
case to hold it all, The Complete Magician is made for giving—an impressive, all- The Complete Course book, the
in-one kit with everything an aspiring magician needs to put on a show. Magic DVD, and five classic props,
all in a reusable gift box/carrying
The book is Magic: The Complete Course—“Finally, a book that brings the art of case
magic into the 21st century!” (Rick Merrill, 2006 World Champion of Magic)—which
combines expertise, full-color photographs, and step-by-step directions for more than ☛ A fantastic deal at $39.95—DVDs
100 amazing tricks. Each trick is broken down into the Effect, the Secret, the Set-up, of single tricks typically sell for $50
and, most important, the Performance, with lessons on what to say, how to direct the to $100, and the props—four metal
audience’s attention, where to keep your hands, and more. The DVD demonstrates 35 linking rings, one Svengali Deck,
one Paranormal Deck, one Magic
tricks, showing both how to do them and how to perform them convincingly. “Pen-etrating” Pen, and one false
And the props are classics: four metal 4-inch thumb tip—have a combined retail
linking rings, one Svengali Deck, one Paranormal value of at least $50
Deck, one Magic “Pen-etrating” Pen, and one false
thumb tip. ☛ Magic: The Complete Course has
62,000 copies in print
It’s a fantastic value at $39.95. The props alone
would retail for over $50.
☛ 6-city author tour
How do we do it? It’s magic.

Includes 4 linking rings,

Svengali Deck & Paranormal
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and false thumb tip THE COMPLETE MAGICIAN
272-page book with DVD; includes five magic props;
box: 111/ 2" x 9" x 2"

Joshua Jay was crowned champion at the World Paper: $39.95/$46.95 Can.
ISBN: 978-0-7611-6760-0
Magic Seminar in 1998, at the age of sixteen. He’s a monthly No. 16760
columnist for Magic, the world’s largest magazine for magi- Ships: October
cians; has headlined at the prestigious Magic Castle in
BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
Hollywood; performed and lectured in more than 50 coun- See page 65.
tries; and has produced a series of top-selling instructional Joshua Jay’s Amazing Book
DVDs for magicians. Joshua Jay lives in New York City, and of Cards
ISBN: 978-0-7611-5842-4
his website is www.joshuajay.com. No. 15842

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FEARLESS CRITIC

THE WINE
TRIALS 2012
Robin Goldstein and
Alexis Herschkowitsch
“An excellent book.”—Steven Levitt, The New York Times
“Proof that counting pennies is compatible with dining well.”—Oprah.com
“Everyday wine drinkers can rejoice.”—Newsweek
“Devilishly delightful.”—Dallas Morning News

T he Wine Trials is the essential under-$15 wine guide that shook the wine
world to its core by proving that, in brown-bag blind tastings, people actu-
ally preferred cheaper wines to more expensive ones.
It all began as a blind-tasting academic experiment: Could everyday wine
drinkers tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine? When the results, ☛ Updated edition of the
showing that drinkers couldn’t tell the difference, were published, the wine world bestselling Wine Trials, with
lit up with controversy. The Wine Trials 2012, by Robin Goldstein and Alexis 80,000 copies in print
Herschkowitsch, is the brand-new fourth edition of the wine guide that grew out of
this experiment, challenged the wine establishment, and revealed the widely avail- ☛ Covers 175 wines for under $15
able wines under $15 that beat out wines costing up to ten times as much. The Wine
Trials has since become the bestselling guide to inexpensive wine, with 80,000 ☛ Bottle photographs for each
entry
copies in print.
The 2012 edition is the biggest and most informative, with full-page reviews of 175 ☛ Hide the label and the truth
all-new wines for 2012, based on completely new blind tastings of the latest vintages. comes out
Each review includes a cheeky, unpretentious discussion of each wine’s flavors and
aromas, and a photo of the bottle for easy identification. It also includes an updated
version of the “blind tasting manifesto,” which explains how the power of price-based
expectations dominates our experiences of wine; challenges the validity of glossy
wine magazines’ 100-point numerical ratings; and explains how to beat the placebo
effect and unlock our palates. As The New York Daily News writes, it is “a powerful
piece of advice to consumers: like what you like, not what you think you should like.”

Robin Goldstein is the founder and editor in chief of the THE WINE TRIALS 2012
288 pages; 5" x 8"
Fearless Critic series and co-author of The Wine Trials and The
Paper: $14.95/$17.95 Can. 8-copy counter display:
Beer Trials. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times’ ISBN: 978-1-60816-098-3 $119.60/$143.60 Can.
Freakonomics blog, and has contributed to more than 30 Fodor’s No. 206098 ISBN: 978-1-60816-097-6
Ships: October No. 206097
travel guides around the world. A graduate of Harvard University 18-copy floor display:
and Yale Law School, he has a certificate in cooking from the $269.10/$323.10 Can.
ISBN: 978-1-60816-096-9
French Culinary Institute and a WSET advanced wine and spirits No. 206096
certificate. Alexis Herschkowitsch is the co- BY THE SAME AUTHORS: PAPERBACK

author of five Fearless Critic restaurant guides and a contributor See page 92.
to Fodor’s travel guides. She is a graduate of the University of The Beer Trials
ISBN: 978-1-60816-009-9
Texas and has a WSET advanced wine and spirits certificate. No. 206009

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