Spring 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade & Reference Catalog

Contents • Fall 2011
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books .............................................................. 3
Mariner Books.............................................................................................. 50
American Heritage® Reference................................................................ 100
The Old Farmer’s Almanac........................................................................ 103
From the HMH Children’s Book Group..................................................... 108
Index of New Titles..................................................................................... 111
Bookstore Sales Representatives............................................................ 114
Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information....................... 115
International Information.......................................................................... 116 © 2011 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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HHH Books into Movies HHH
Extremely Loud
and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
978-0-547-73502-3 • $14.95
The Warner Brothers film is in theaters

December 2011 (NY, LA, and Toronto) with
a national release in January 2012.
DRIVE
by James Sallis
978-0-547-79109-8 • $12.95
Director Nicolas Winding Refn won the best director

prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival; the film stars
Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina
Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, and more.
Wael Ghonim
Revolution 2.0
A Memoir and Call to Action
One of the most dramatic and galvanizing

stories of the Arab Spring, told by the
Google executive at the center of it all
T he revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were

unlike any the world had ever seen. Brutal regimes
that had been in power for many decades were suddenly
swarmed by unstoppable mobs of freedom-seekers. Now,
one of the key figures behind the Egyptian uprising tells the
riveting inside story of what happened and presents lessons
for all of us on how to unleash the power of crowds.
Wael Ghonim was a little-known 30-year-old Google
executive in the fall of 2010 when he anonymously launched
a Facebook page to protest the death of one Egyptian man at 978-0-547-77398-8 • $26.00 CL
the hands of security forces. The page’s followers expanded Revolution 2.0
quickly and moved from online protests to non-confronta- January • Current Affairs • 272 pages
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made history when they announced a revolution. Over
350,000 friends clamored to join. On January 25, as the rev-
olution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for
• Major national media
twelve days of brutal interrogation—and when he emerged
• National author tour, including New York,
and gave a speech on national television, the protests grew
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston,
even more intense. Four days later, Mubarak was gone. Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
The lessons Ghonim draws will inspire each of us: For- Toronto
get the past. Don’t plan ahead. Let the crowd make its own • National print and online advertising,
decisions. Welcome to Revolution 2.0. including the Wall Street Journal, Huffington
Post, and Al Jazeera English
Wael Ghonim was born in Cairo and grew up in Egypt and
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Saudi Arabia, earning a degree from Cairo University in 2004 Facebook advertising
and an MBA from the American University
• Buzz-building mobile campaign
in Cairo in 2007. He joined Google in 2008,
rising to become head of marketing for • Dedicated site on www.hmhbooks.com to
Google Middle East and North Africa. He feature video content and links to news,
reviews, and social media
is currently on sabbatical from Google to
© Sam Christensen
launch an NGO supporting education and • Academic and reading group promotion
technology in Egypt. • E-book ISBN 978-0-547-77404-6
Author’s residence
Cairo, Egypt
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New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer
Imagine
How Creativity Works
An exhilarating look at how we can use the latest

science to unleash our imaginations — and make our
cities, our companies, and our culture more creative
D id you know that the most creative companies have

centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings
are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double
your creative output?
From the best-selling author of How We Decide comes a
sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity.
Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative
“types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a
single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct
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thought processes that we can all learn to use more effec-
Imagine tively. Lehrer reveals the importance of embracing the rut,
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Dylan’s writing habits and the drug addiction of poets. We’ll
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meet a bartender who thinks like a chemist, and an autistic
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist why Elizabethan England experienced a creative explosion,
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and how Pixar designed its office space to get the most out
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New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., the finished symphony, Imagine reveals the deep inventive-
Dallas, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San
ness of the human mind, and its essential role in our increas-
Francisco, Madison, Minneapolis, Denver,
Boulder, Austin, Raleigh/Durham, St. Louis, ingly complex world.
Chicago
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shows how anyone can be more creative.
“Jonah Lehrer’s new book confirms what his fans have known all along –
that he knows more about science than a lot of scientists and more about
writing than a lot of writers.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
from IMAGINE
Dan Wieden is co-founder of the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. In 1988, he was hard at work on
a series of television spots for Nike. Wieden knew that the campaign needed a tag line, a slogan that could link
the disparate commercials together. Unfortunately, he was drawing a blank.
But then he started thinking about a murderer named Gary Gilmore who had been executed in 1977.
“He just popped into my mind,” Wieden says. “And so it’s the middle of the night, and I’m sitting at my
desk, and I’m thinking about how Gilmore died. This was in Utah, and they dragged Gilmore out in front of
the firing squad. Before they put the hood over his head, the chaplain asks Gilmore if he has any last words.
And he pauses and he says: ‘Let’s do it.’ And I remember thinking, ‘That is so fucking courageous.’ And then,
the next thing I know, I’m thinking about my shoe commercials. So I started playing around with the words,
and I realized that I didn’t like the way it was said, actually, so I made it a little different. I wrote ‘Just Do It’ on
a piece of paper and as soon as I saw it, I knew. That was my slogan.”
The question, of course, is why Wieden started thinking about Gary Gilmore while working on a slogan
for cross-trainers. “I swear, I don’t normally think about murderers at midnight,” he says. “So I asked myself:
Where did this thought come from? And the only explanation I could come up with is that someone else in
the group had mentioned Norman Mailer to me earlier in the day, and I knew that he’d written a book about
Gary Gilmore. And that was it. Just a little sentence from someone else.”
JONAH LEHRER is a contributing editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The

New Yorker. He writes the Head Case column for the Wall Street Journal and regularly
appears on WNYC’s Radiolab. His writing has also appeared in Nature, the New York
Times Magazine, Scientific American, and Outside. The author of two previous books,
Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide, he graduated from Columbia Univer-
sity and attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
© Leah Lehrer
Los Angeles
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Michael Ryan
This Morning
Acclaimed poet and memoirist Michael Ryan

treats the great subjects of art and life—
love, sex, pain, compassion, mortality—with
powerful insight and fresh immediacy.
I n Michael Ryan’s first collection since his 2004 Kingsley

Tufts Award–winning New and Selected Poems, he draws
on his gift for story and song to fashion poems that are at
times dark, absurd, and funny. In “Half Mile Down,” he
displays his consummate skill as a formal poet: “My sick
heart and my sick soul/ I’d gladly fasten in a bag/ and drop
into an ocean-hole/ to float in darkness as a rag.” In “Air-
plane Food,” he uses free verse to describe a situation any
reader will quickly recognize: “Compressed chicken prod-
uct, festive succotashed rice,/ dead iceberg lettuce with a
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This Morning
pale cherry tomato/ hard as a mothball . . .”
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produce. What may surprise Ryan’s readers the most are
the notes of hard-won joy and consolation expressed at
Also available the book’s conclusion. This Morning lives up to Edward
New and Selected Poems Hirsch’s observation that Ryan’s “gift for going for the jugu-
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lar” has produced a vision that’s “finely honed, provocative,
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MICHAEL RYAN is the author of four volumes of poetry, two

memoirs, and a collection of essays. He is a professor of Eng-
lish and creative writing at the University
of California, Irvine, where he lives with
his wife and daughter.
Irvine, California
© Chi-lin SUn

Jean Zimmerman
Love, Fiercely
A Gilded Age Romance
The New York love story of a beautiful heiress

and a wealthy young architect, captured in
a famed John Singer Sargent painting
F or readers who savored The American Heiress, Jean

Zimmerman recreates the glittering world of Edith
Minturn and I. N. Phelps Stokes. Contemporaries of the
Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the
shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege — her
grandparents built the world’s fastest clipper ship, his family
owned most of Murray Hill. Theirs was a world filled with
mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European
vacations.
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tory and published the finest collection of Manhattan maps Love, Fiercely
and views in a six-volume series. Edith became the face of March • History / Biography • 320 pages
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the age when Daniel Chester French sculpted her for Chica-
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go’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as The Republic, a colos-
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sus intended to match the Statue of Liberty’s grandeur.
Together they battled on behalf of New York’s poor and
powerless, as reformers who could never themselves want for including The New Yorker
anything. Through it all, they lived what might be the great-
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world long relegated to fiction.
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JEAN ZIMMERMAN is the author of several works of criti-
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cally acclaimed nonfiction that focus on the changing role
of women in America. She earned an MFA
from the Columbia University School of the
Arts.
Westchester County, New York
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“Epic times make for epic books.”
Carole DeSanti
The Unruly Passions

of Eugénie R.
A transporting debut set in the backstreets

and bordellos of nineteenth-century Paris
L ove and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young

woman’s struggle with life and love during and after
the Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-
soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and trans-
formed by cataclysmic social upheaval.
Eugénie R., born in France’s foie gras country, follows
the man she loves to Paris, but soon finds herself marooned,
pregnant, and penniless. She gives birth to a daughter she is
forced to abandon and spends the next ten years fighting to
get her back. An outcast, Eugénie takes to the streets, navi-
gating her way up from ruin and charting the treacherous
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The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. with an artist, a woman, and a revolutionary. The capital, the
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its final years of wanton prosperity before galloping headlong
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into the Franco-Prussian War. For Eugénie it is a conflicted
landscape—grisly, evocative, and addictive. As the gates
of the city close against the advancing army, Eugénie must
• National media from New York make a decision between past and present—between the
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• National advertising, including the New York The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. is a testament to the
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“DeSanti’s debut novel paints an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a
landscape of Parisian decadence.”
—Deborah Harkness,
author of A Discovery of Witches
“The Unruly Passions is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail.

Eugénie’s story, from naive goose girl to resilient survivor, makes for wonderful,
suspenseful reading, but tumultuous Paris is equally compelling, laid out here in all
her grisly or gorgeous glory.”
—Karen Joy Fowler,
author of the The Jane Austen Book Club
“Lord! This is a great piece of work. Eugénie is a wonderfully maddening heroine.

She lives up in her head even as her boots are in the mud of desperation. How
beautifully this is written! How rare that can be to discover on the page.”
—Dorothy Allison,
author of Bastard out of Carolina
CAROLE DeSANTI is vice president, editor at large at the Penguin Group, where she
has held various positions for over twenty years and where she is known for cham-
pioning independent, original voices in women’s fiction, including Terry McMillan,
Tracy Chevalier, Melissa Bank, Marisha Pessl, and Penelope Lively. DeSanti has been
profiled in Poets & Writers and published in the Women’s Review of Books. For over a
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decade she has been clandestinely writing The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.
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Marcel Beyer
Translated from the German by Alan Bance
Kaltenburg
From a German literary star, a haunting novel about

a charismatic scientist and his dark secrets
H ailed by The New Yorker as one of the best young

novelists and recipient of Germany’s most prestigious
literary awards, Marcel Beyer returns with an elegantly
wrought novel that brings to life both an individual and
a whole world: the zoologist Ludwig Kaltenburg (loosely
based on Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz) and his insti-
tute for research into animal behavior.
Hermann Funk first meets Kaltenburg when still a
child in Posen in the 1930s. Hermann’s father, a botanist,
and Kaltenburg are close friends, but a rift occurs. In 1945,
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fleeing the war, the Funks move to Dresden, and Hermann
Kaltenburg
finds his way to Kaltenburg’s newly established Dresden
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Institute. He becomes his protégé, embracing the Institute’s
T/A/P/M: Suhrkamp Verlag unconventional methods. Yet parts of Kaltenburg’s past life
remain unclear. Was he a member of the Nazi Party? Does he
believe his discoveries about aggression in animals also apply
Also available to humans? Why has he erased the years in Posen from his
Spies official biography? Hermann struggles to reconcile love and
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Marcel Beyer is a poet and novelist. He has received the

Heinrich Boll Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and the Ber-
lin Literature Prize, among many other
awards.
Alan Bance is professor emeritus at the

University of Southampton.
Dresden
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Julie Zickefoose
The Bluebird Effect

Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
Lasting bonds between injured wild

birds and a writer/painter
J ulie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free-

living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes
back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of
understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescu-
ing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty
minutes all day long—is her empathy with them and the sat-
isfaction of knowing the world is a birdier and more beautiful
place.
The Bluebird Effect is about the change that’s set in
motion by one single act, such as saving an injured blue-
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twenty-five chapters covers a different species, and many The Bluebird Effect
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Not just individual tales about the trials and triumphs of rais-
ing birds, The Bluebird Effect mixes humor, natural history, Also available
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featured in Bird Watcher’s Digest, on NPR’s
All Things Considered, and in her book of
illustrated essays Letters from Eden.
Whipple, Ohio
© Shila Wilson

A compelling saga of redemption and renewal from
Anthony Shadid
House of Stone
A Memoir of Home, Family,
and a Lost Middle East
The epic memoir of a house in the Middle

East, once ruined, that again became a home
for the family who left its heart there
L ast spring, when Anthony Shadid—one of four New

York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region
erupted—was freed, he went home. Not to Boston, Beirut,
or Oklahoma where he was raised by his Lebanese-American
family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather,
a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle
East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected
departures. For two years previous, Shadid had worked to
reconstruct the house and restore his spirit after both had
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House of Stone Draws Near (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist,
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that have passed through it. Shadid juxtaposes past and pres-
ent as he traces the house’s renewal along with his family’s
flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. House of
• First serial in the New York Times Magazine
Stone is an unforgettable memoir of the world’s most volatile
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Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Oklahoma
City, Tulsa, Houston, Wichita, St. Louis,
Washington, D.C., Seattle
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two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid
“Shadid’s beautifully rendered memoir is a rich account of a man’s gradual
immersion into the world of [the] Middle East where the rooms and hallways of his
great-grandfather’s house tell stories that will linger with every reader for decades.”
—André Aciman, author of Out of Egypt
from
Minutes after leaving the town square, I was at the house of my great-grandfather, but it was my grand-
mother Raeefa, who spent her first twelve years here, who was most on my mind. Hers were the rhymes
brought to the bare plains of America from Lebanon and sung to children, including me. Oh Laila,
there are no eyes like her eyes and the magic in her eyes. I heard these simple songs on that strange,
complicated day as I sat on the step near where, less than a century before, Isber had lifted Raeefa up
into the buggy that would take her away, past Mount Hermon and down the Litani Valley. It was before
she became someone else, before Beirut, the ship, or the sea. It was before Ellis Island, or Mexico, or
crossing the river to America. It was before Oklahoma with its cowboy belt buckles and women with red
lipstick under hair-dryer helmets. I wondered whether the ancient olive trees on either side of me were
ones she might have glanced at as she parted.
And then, my eyes turning to what I had instinctively sensed was awaiting my inspection, I found myself
wondering what my grandmother would have made of the half-exploded Israeli rocket that had crashed
into the second story of her father’s house, taking out a good chunk of wall before bursting into flame.
ANTHONY SHADID, author of Night Draws Near and an unparalleled chronicler of the
human stories behind the news, gained attention and awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize, for his front-page reports in the Washington Post from Iraq. More recently, as
Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times, he has covered the revolution in Egypt and
the events that are reshaping the Middle East. In 2011, he earned his second Pulitzer.
He lives in Boston and Beirut and was raised in Oklahoma City.
© Nada Bakri
Boston and Beirut

Helen Knode
Wildcat Play
A Mystery
A nomad writer working on a California oil rig

investigates the murder of a roughneck on her crew.
A s a hipster movie critic, Ann Whitehead pushed

a Hollywood murder case to a bloody climax and
almost died herself. Changed forever—less stupid and more
fun—she has moved on to a place she knows well—the San
Joaquin Valley, where her grandfather’s closest friend, Joe
Balch, owns the oil company that keeps one town alive.
Balch gets Ann a job with the Oklahoma company drill-
ing his wildcat well. It’s hard work, but Ann loves both it and
her crusty old boss, Emmet. Then a guy on her crew is killed
by a falling hammer. Sheriffs rule it an accident but Ann’s
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Wildcat Play Ann can’t resist the challenge of chasing a killer — and then
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the killer starts chasing her back . . .
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From a writer whose first novel was praised as “highly
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literate, exceptionally action-packed and occasionally har-
rowing” (Chicago Tribune), this is a wild ride — full of
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bad behavior and laughs, oilfield characters and small-
town atmosphere — starring a heroine who never does
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HELEN KNODE put her experience as a staff writer and film

critic for L.A. Weekly into her first novel, The Ticket Out. She
was born in Calgary, Alberta, the heart
of the Canadian oil business, and Knodes
have worked in oil since the nineteenth
century, a history that inspired Wildcat
Play.
© Kevin J. Miyazaki
Austin, Texas

Kathy Hepinstall
Blue Asylum
Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, a plantation

wife wrongly sent away to an asylum finds love
with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
P ut on trial by her slaveholder husband and convicted

of madness by a Virginia judge, Iris Dunleavy is sent to
Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a good wife. But Iris knows
her husband is the true criminal; she is no lunatic, only guilty
of violating Southern notions of property.
A pompous superintendent heads this asylum popu-
lated by wonderful characters, including his self-diagnosing
twelve-year-old son, a woman who swallows anything in
sight, and Ambrose Weller, a Confederate soldier whose
memories terrorize him into wild fits that can only be calmed
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beckon to Iris.
Blue Asylum
The institution calls itself modern, but Iris is skeptical of
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its methods, particularly the dreaded “water treatment.” In
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Prince of Lost Places, has been praised for • E-book ISBN 978-0-547-71208-6
her “vibrant”* and “sensuous”** writing.
*Washington Post Book World

**New Orleans Times-Picayune
© Melinda Kanipe
Santa Barbara, California
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“A whole book of Ian Knauer’s recipes — and
Ian Knauer
The Farm
Rustic Recipes for a Year of Incredible Food
Perfectly simple, perfectly seasonal food from a Bon

Appétit columnist, with a foreword by Ruth Reichl
D uring the week, Ian Knauer leads the life of a New

York food writer, developing recipes for the Food
Network and writing articles for magazines like Bon Appétit
and Men’s Health. But on weekends, he repairs to the farm in
rural Pennsylvania that his family has owned for generations,
where he tends a huge garden, raises chickens, keeps bees,
forages, hunts, and most importantly, creates deliciously
easy meals for friends and family from the fruits of his labor.
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From Spaghetti with Arugula Carbonara to Chicken
The Farm
with Garlic Scape Pesto, the 150 recipes of The Farm
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inspire cooks to make the most of their market, garden,
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hors d’oeuvre, he puts the tops in Pasta with Blue Cheese
and Radish Greens. In other recipes, he teaches the craft
• Curtain-raiser media event
of small-batch canning, from Tomato Jam to Peaches in
• National media from New York
Honey Syrup. Knauer also expertly tweaks the recipes of his
• E-mail blasts to food mailing lists Pennsylvania Dutch mother and grandmother in homey but
• Promotion at ALA as well as DIY bloggers and spectacular-tasting desserts like Strawberry Sour Cream Ice
online cooking sites
Cream and Blueberry Belle Crunch.
• Events with festivals and farmers’ markets Whether it’s Spinach and Walnut Lasagna or Cowboy
throughout the mid-Atlantic
Steaks with Guinness Sauce, this is weekday and weekend
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-51693-6 cooking at its best.

stories to boot? Pure heaven!” — Ruth Reichl
“You need to own

this book.”
— John Willoughby,
America’s Test Kitchen
A former food editor of Gourmet, IAN KNAUER contributes articles and recipes to Bon
Appétit, Fine Cooking, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, theatlantic.com, AOL Food, salon.
com, and gilt.com. He also develops recipes for the Food Network, including for The
Next Food Network Star, and the Cooking Channel. He appears regularly on the Cook-
ing Channel’s Unique Eats. Besides writing extensively for Gourmet, he cohosted two of
the magazine’s award-winning television series, Diary of a Foodie and Adventures with
Ruth.
© Sara York
Brooklyn, New York, and Knauertown, Pennsylvania

Jane Shore
That Said
New and Selected Poems
A collection of poems written over five decades by one

of America’s most distinguished and beloved poets
T hat Said deftly traces Jane Shore’s career from her first
two awarding-winning volumes, Eye Level and The
Minute Hand, with their fascination for objects, to Music
Minus One, Happy Family, and A Yes-or-No-Answer, which,
taken together, fashion a memoir in verse about her child-
hood in Bergen, New Jersey, where she lived above her par-
ents’ dress shop.
A group of new poems makes it clear that Shore is Amer-
ican poetry’s most original inheritor of Marianne Moore’s
and Elizabeth Bishop’s amazing knack for discovering the
978-0-547-68711-7 • $22.00 CL uncanny in everyday experience. The search for the source
That Said of authentic speech, especially as it’s found in the words of
April • Poetry • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • CTN 12
family and friends, has been at the heart of Jane Shore’s work
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from the beginning, and it has helped her to become, as Julia
P/M/S: Author
Alvarez writes, “without question, one of our best and most
perceptive chroniclers of family life.”
Also available
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• National Poetry Month promotion

• Online promotion
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-68735-3
JANE SHORE is the author of five previous books of poems,

including Music Minus One, a National
Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She
teaches at George Washington University
and lives in the District of Columbia with
her husband, Howard Norman.
© Sid Sabak
Washington, D.C.

Hart Seely
The Juju Rules

Or, How to Win Ballgames from Your
Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed
From an award-winning humorist, a touching

memoir and manifesto that reveals the deep
secrets of fan jinxes, hexes, and charms
D id you know there is a secret to winning ballgames?

It’s not players, managers, money, or luck. It’s the
fans’ juju, and no one knows it better than Hart Seely. Seely
has spent a lifetime practicing the art of juju from his living
room and winning ballgames for the New York Yankees. He
paces floors. He yells at defenseless TVs. He rallies the team
like Churchill addressing the collective British soul. All this
to harness juju energy to influence the outcome of games.
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And it works.
The Juju Rules
In this uproarious, unforgettable fan confessional,
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homer— to advanced juju—“Bringing the Neg,” predict-
ing bad events to keep them from actually happening—to
• National media and events from New York
the deepest, darkest secrets of this age-old art. Nostalgic,
heartwarming, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Juju Rules is a • Print and online advertising, including
The New Yorker
memoir of a life well lived in service to one’s team that shows
how love can be a powerful passion in the best way. • National sports-radio tour
• Online outreach to sports bloggers
• On Twitter, follow #Juju
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-62239-2
HART SEELY is an award-winning reporter for the Post-

Standard in Syracuse and a popular humorist. His pieces
have appeared in The New Yorker, National
Lampoon, and Slate. He is the co-editor of
O Holy Cow: The Selected Verses of Phil Riz-
zuto, and he wins Yankees games from his
living room.
© Jance Whitcraft
Syracuse, New York

Bill Thompson III
The Young Birder’s Guide

to Birds of North America
The perfect starter guide to introduce kids to the

world of birding, with 300 easy-to-understand
species accounts, color photos, and fun facts
W ith The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern

Northern America, Bill Thompson helped spawn a
new generation of bird watchers and created the ideal field
guide for children and beginning birders alike. Now, he
has expanded the scope of that guide to cover the entirety
of North America (north of Mexico). Retaining the same
visually appealing design, this expanded guide has 100
additional species that inhabit western North America. Now
including 300 of the most common birds on the continent,
978-0-547-44021-7 • $15.95 PA the book is loaded with color photographs, drawings show-
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North ing typical behaviors, range maps, an easy-to-use checklist,
America
fun facts, and authoritative information about each bird, its
April • Nature • 368 pages • 4 ½ x 7 ½
vocalizations, and its habitat.
450 color photos, 300 line drawings, 300
maps • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights:
While other field guides might overwhelm kids who are
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Agency America was created with help from kids. Bill’s own son and
daughter and their elementary school classes helped select
ALSO AVAILABLE
the content. Kid tested, kid approved!
Identifying and Feeding Birds
978-0-618-90444-0 • $14.95 PA
Hummingbirds and Butterflies
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• National drive-time radio tour

• Special preview edition for the National BILL THOMPSON III is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, and
Science Teacher convention the author of Identifying and Feeding Birds, Hummingbirds and
Butterflies, and Identify Yourself. He lives
• Promotion at birding and nature shows
across the country with his family on eighty acres.
• E-newsletter to birding and nature lists Author’s residence

• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-72747-9 Whipple, Ohio
© Julie Zickfoose

Jonathan Gottschall
The Storytelling Animal

How Stories Make Us Human
A provocative young scholar shows how storytelling

has made our species successful and how it
continues to shape us in startling ways.
H umans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin

fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even
our sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives.
Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered
and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are
“wired” for story, but why?
In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall
offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that
stories are a way of rehearsing life’s complex social problems.
Our penchant for story has evolved, like other behaviors, 978-0-547-39140-3 • $24.00 CL
to enhance our survival, and, crucially, that of our social The Storytelling Animal
group. (In fact, studies show that people who read fiction are April • Science/Literary Criticism • 272
pages • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 65 b/w photos • CTN
more empathetic.) Gottschall explores the deep pattern in
children’s make-believe, and what that reveals about story’s
Brockman, Inc.
prehistoric origins. He shows how a story was partly respon-
sible for Hitler’s rise, how schizophrenia is an example of the
• National media from New York and
story mind run amok, and how successful fiction is inher- Washington, D.C.
ently moral. We are master shapers of story. The Storytelling
Animal finally reveals how stories shape us. author interviews
• Academic promotion
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-64481-3
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL teaches English at Washington and

Jefferson College and is the author or editor of five books.
His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine,
Scientific American, and the Chronicle of
Higher Education, among others. Steven
Pinker has called him “a brilliant young
scholar” whose writing is “unfailingly
clear, witty, and exciting.”
© Ross Mantle
Washington, Pennsylvania

It happens every spring . . .
Harvey Araton
Driving Mr. Yogi

Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and
Baseball’s Greatest Gift
A moving story of baseball, tradition, and friendship
I t happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron

Guidry arrives at the airport to pick up Hall of Fame
catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him
to the ballpark. They watch young players. They talk shop.
They eat dinner together. They tease each other. And as
every former ballplayer knows, in that routine there emerges
a certain magic.
Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of how a unique friend-
ship between a pitcher and catcher is renewed every year. It
started in 1999, when Berra was reunited with the Yankees
after a long self-exile, the result of being unceremoniously
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Driving Mr. Yogi
ation meant Berra would attend spring training again, and
April • Sports & Recreation/Baseball
Guidry befriended “Mr. Yogi” instantly. After all, Berra
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Books Literary Agency pitching. Guidry knew the young players would benefit
greatly from “Mr. Yogi’s” knowledge of the game. So he
encouraged him to share his insights. And soon an offhand
• National media and select appearances by
Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry tip from Yogi turned Nick Swisher’s season around. Stories
about handling a hitter like Ted Williams or catching Don
• Press event at spring training
Larsen’s perfect game captured their imaginations. And for
• National sports-radio tour with Harvey Araton
Yogi and Guidry, a deep and lasting friendship was forged.
• National print and online advertising, Tender, funny, heartwarming, and teeming with unfor-
including the New York Times, USA Today, and
AARP.com gettable baseball yarns, Driving Mr. Yogi is a universal story
about the importance of passing wisdom from one genera-
• Yankee Stadium parking garage advertising
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An Excerpt from DRIVING MR. YOGI
Soon Berra was ushered outside by the airline attendant and his
face brightened when he spotted the familiar white truck, Guidry
waiting on the sidewalk. He took the bags from the attendant—two
moderately sized suitcases, one with the familiar interlocking NY
Yankees insignia.
“How come you didn’t come in?” Berra asked, before proceeding
to recite the itinerary for the remainder of the day—hotel check-in,
shopping, supper, etc.
Guidry rolled his eyes and complained aloud about what he again
had gotten himself into.
“Get your ass in the truck,” he barked at Berra, who giggled like
a little boy on his way to his first ball game. Guidry reached inside
the truck, picked up the dark blue baseball cap with the inscription
“Driving Mr. Yogi,” and placed it atop his neatly combed hair. With
him at the wheel and Berra in the passenger seat, they pulled into
traffic and drove off for another long adventure together, just as
they had for the past eleven years.
Harvey Araton joined the New York Times as a sports reporter and national basket-
ball columnist in 1991. He is the author of many books, including When the Garden Was
Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the Old Knicks. His work has
also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, ESPN, Sport, and Basketball Weekly.
Driving Mr. Yogi was inspired by his front page New York Times story about Yogi Berra
and Ron Guidry at spring training, which elicited an outpouring of response from read-
© Robert A. Cumins
ers across the country.
Montclair, New Jersey

David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie
Peterson Field Guide to

Moths of Northeastern
North America
A comprehensive new guide to the more than

1,500 colorful and intricately patterned moths
found in northeastern North America
W hile other nature lovers might go bird watching,

David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie go mothing,
with a sheet and a lamp to attract the bugs. Here, they share
their vast knowledge in the most comprehensive guide to
moths on the market.
There are more than 1,500 species of moths in the
northeast of North America, and while it might seem that
978-0-547-23848-7 • $32.00 PA
they are all drab grays and browns, there is actually a star-
Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern tling variety. Many have swirls and swaths of pinks, yellows,
North America and violets. There are moths with colorful leopardlike spots,
April • Nature • 640 pages • 4 ½ x 7 ¼ and ones that look more like B-movie aliens than the moths
• Four-color throughout • CTN 12 • Terr: we try to keep out of our closets.
World English • Rights: B: HMH, With helpful tips on how to set up a moth trap, range
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Agency
well as photographs that have been silhouetted and arranged
onto plates for easy comparison, this
• Promotion at birding, nature, and
lepidopterist shows across the country guide provides everything an amateur or
experienced moth-watcher needs. Let the
• Poster of the most beautiful moths
mothing revolution begin!
• Images available for online accounts
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-72743-1 © James Beadle
DAVID BEADLE has photographed more
than 2,000 species of moths in the prov-
ince of Ontario alone.
SEABROOK LECKIE is a biologist, natu-

ralist, writer, photographer, and lover of
Courtesy of the Author
nature. She blogs her discoveries at

seabrookeleckie.com.
Authors' residences
Beadle: Toronto, Ontario
Leckie: Perth, Ontario

Bill Pennington
On Par
The Everyday Golfer’s Survival Guide
From the New York Times “On Par” columnist, a

delightful, insightful, game-changing guide to life on the
tees, greens, and fairways, and, of course, in the rough
B ill Pennington, the voice of the everyday golfer, has

traveled the globe in search of golf’s essentials – those
basic principles, those ultimate truths (and, who are we kid-
ding, any trick or quick fix he can pick up along the way)
that will improve anyone’s game. He has consulted elite
golf instructors as well as countless caddies, groundskeep-
ers, parking lot attendants, and bartenders. He has played
rounds with Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, and Justin
Timberlake. He has spoken with psychiatrists, economists,
and Zen masters. On a particularly bad outing, he even dis- 978-0-547-54844-9 • $26.00 CL
coursed on the fickleness of golf with a wise raccoon. On Par
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Pennington informs and entertains readers as he gets to the
essence of the game, including that holy grail, the hole in
• National media from New York
one. Part instruction, part therapy, and shot through with
Pennington’s trademark wit and humor, this is a book for
everyone who has felt the game’s distinct pull — and slice. • National print and online advertising,
including the New York Times and ESPN.com
• National sports-radio tour
Award-winning New York Times sportswriter BILL PENNING- • E-book ISBN 978-0-547-54815-9
TON writes the “On Par” column and stars in the related
video series on nytimes.com. He has also written for the New
York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and
the Sporting News. A longtime golfer, Pen-
nington grew up near some of New Eng-
land’s historic courses, but has not been
© Joyce Pennington
able to get his handicap below 11.
Warwick, New York
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Paul Theroux
The Lower River
From the realm of Conrad and Graham

Greene, a powerful new novel of Western
illusions and African reality
E llis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa.

He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small
town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four
years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short
when he had to return to take over the family business.
When his wife leaves him, taking the family home, he realizes
that there is one place for him to go: back to Malawi on the
remote Lower River, where he can be happy again.
Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed:
the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone,
978-0-547-74650-0 • $25.00 CL
and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They
The Lower River remember him — the White Man with no fear of snakes —
May • Fiction • 336 pages • 6 x 9 • CTN 12 and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an
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Agency Interweaving memory and desire, hope and despair,
salvation and damnation, this is a hypnotic, compelling, and
brilliant return to a terrain no one has ever written better
See page 88 for The Tao of Travel about than Theroux.
Also available
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978-0-618-21915-5 • $14.00 PA
A Dead Hand
978-0-547-23449-7 • $14.95 PA
• Online promotion and advertising, including
PAUL THEROUX’s highly acclaimed novels include Hotel
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Honolulu and The Mosquito Coast. His travel books include
• Social networking campaign Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-74691-3 Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great
Railway Bazaar, and The Happy Isles of
Oceania.
Hawaii and Cape Cod
26 May • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Jon Young
What the Robin Knows

How Birds Reveal the Secrets
of the Natural World
Go beyond identifying bird calls and listen to

their messages: a groundbreaking introduction
to avian communication and what it can reveal
about the natural world around us
J on Young’s ear- and eye-opening research begins

with a simple premise: if you sit quietly, for as long as it
takes nearby birds to stop worrying about you, you can begin
to hear what they say to one another and understand what
it means.
The techniques in What the Robin Knows will help read-
ers to expand their zone of awareness while shrinking their
zone of disturbance. Birds are the sentries for other animals: 978-0-547-45125-1 • $22.00 CL
What the Robin Knows
the animals attend to the birds’ warnings—their language and
May • Nature • 272 pages • 5 ½ x 8 ¼
behaviors, such as the hook, the bird plow, and the ditch—so
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pret these warnings, we can observe animals behaving as they Enterprises, S: HMH
do when they’re not feeling threatened by human presence.
Understanding deep bird language is an ancient prac- • Promotional video
tice; this groundbreaking book combines the knowledge of
• Promotion at birding and nature shows
Native cultures with current scientific research to guide read- across the country
ers to an enhanced understanding of the natural world and a
• E-newsletter announcement to birding and
deeper connection with both animals and themselves. other nature groups.
• National interviews from New York and San
Francisco
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-72741-7
JON YOUNG grew up in New Jersey and was mentored
from the age of ten as a naturalist and tracker in a Native
American tradition. Now married with
six children, his passion for teaching the
benefits of truly experiencing the natural
world has only grown.
Santa Cruz, California

A thrilling tale of filial sleuthery
Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother?

A Comic Drama
From the best-selling author of Fun Home,

Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a
brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel
becoming the artist her mother wanted to be
A lison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and liter-

ary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial
sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader,
music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman,
unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspi-
rations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood
. . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good-
night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously,
978-0-618-98250-9 • $22.00 CL Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the
Are You My Mother? mother-daughter gulf. It’s a richly layered search that leads
May • Memoir • 224 pages • 6 x 9 • 220 b/w readers from the fascinating life and work of iconic twentieth-
halftones • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively
Jonathan Cape, T/S: HMH, A/P/M: Susan illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially
Rabiner Literary Agency monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—
Also available to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic all adult children of gifted mothers.
978-0-618-87171-1, $13.95 PA
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
978-0-618-96880-0, $25.00
• National author tour, including

New York, Boston, western Mass., Vermont,
Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta,
Miami, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco,
Portland, Seattle
including the New York Times Book Review
and the Los Angeles Times
• ComiCon and social media promotion
• On Twitter, follow #RUMyMother
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-52436-8
from Alison Bechdel
Praise for
Fun Home
•••
“Gripping.”
—Time
“Splendid.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Graphic
storytelling at its
most profound.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Wry, poignant
humor on
every page.”
—Washington Post
•••
ALISON BECHDEL is the author of the best-selling memoir Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly,
the New York Times, People, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, and the
San Francisco Chronicle, among others. For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the
comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life—queer and oth-
erwise—considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms
magazine). Bechdel is guest editor of The Best American Comics 2011, and has drawn
comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times
© GreG Martin
Book Review.
Vermont
The best simple recipes
Gourmet Weekday
Recipes for busy weeknights and easy entertaining
S ometimes the easiest way to cook something is also the

best. From the hundreds of effortless dishes published
in Gourmet over the years, the editors selected the best
loved, the most memorably simple, and the riotously tasty—
the ones that have entered their personal repertoires. They
include vegetarian mains like Black Bean Burgers; seafood
dishes that are ready in minutes, such as Seared Scallops
with Tarragon-Butter Sauce; quick-cooking favorites like
Deviled Chicken Drumsticks; and for dessert, Chocolate
Fallen Soufflé Cake.
All of the recipes come with cooking times, and menus
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Gourmet Weekday
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The Gourmet Cookie Book Pancetta on
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Gourmet Today
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The Gourmet Cookbook
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editor-in-chief
• 8-page blad
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from Gourmet magazine
Gourmet Italian
Fresh, uncomplicated classics from the world’s most

popular cuisine, with an introduction by Sara Moulton
A s a nation, we are in love with Italian food. Over the

years, Gourmet helped shape our tastes, expanding our
repertoire from pizza and spaghetti with red sauce to risotto,
osso buco, and panna cotta. For this sterling collection, the
editors chose their best from the hundreds of Italian recipes
published over the years.
There are vegetarian classics, including Pasta with Len-
til and Kale and a sumptuous rendition of Manicotti. From
Calamari Salad to Quick Chicken Ragu to Lasagna Bolo-
gnese, most of these recipes are perfect for easy entertaining.
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cooking times and kitchen tips. May • Cookbook • 192 pages • 7 1/2 x 9 • 4/C
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Over the course of

Breadsticks almost seventy years,
courtesy of Sara Moulton
Wrapped in Gourmet’s editors

Prosciutto won three coveted
National Magazine
Awards, sixteen James
Beard Awards, and an
Emmy Award. Sara
Moulton, who intro-
duces the book and is its spokesperson, is
the former executive chef of the magazine.
A longtime personality on the Food Network,
she is the food editor of ABC’s Good Morning
Calamari
Salad America and host of Sara’s Weeknight Meals
on PBS.
Moulton: New York City

“It’s hard to resist any novel whose heroine hallucinates that
Jennifer Miller
The Year of the Gadfly
Praised by Gary Shteyngart as “Special Topics in

Calamity Physics with Portnoy’s Complaint for
girls,” this debut follows two outcasts on the hunt
for a prep school’s vigilante secret society.
S toried Mariana Academy was founded with a serious

honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now
Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls.
A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-
smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris Dupont knows
that she can break into the ranks of The Devil’s Advocate, the
Party’s underground newspaper, and there uncover the real
source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors. Some
involve her favorite teacher, Mr. Kaplan. Others point to an
albino student who left school abruptly, never to return. And
everything connects to a rare book called Marvelous Species.
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The Year of the Gadfly
between her allegiances, her reporter’s instinct, and her own
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cence, following in the footsteps of classic school novels like
Prep and The Secret History, and reminding us how these
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she’s in conversation with Edward R. Murrow.”— David Ignatius
“Jennifer Miller is a writer of exceptional promise. In The Year of

the Gadfly, her literary gifts are on virtuoso display; readers will
be drawn deeply into this narrative and never want to leave it!”
—Carol Goodman, author of The Lake of the Dead Languages
from The Year of the Gadfly
Hazel rose from the couch and took our mugs to the kettle for more hot water . . . She
returned with the tea and my eyes fell on her fingers, curved around the mug. “That’s an inter-
esting ring.” I pointed to the thick silver band she wore on the middle finger of her right hand.
Perched atop the band was a silver fly with globular eyes and sharp, flexed wings.
“It’s a horsefly,” she said. “The Greeks called it the Gadfly. A good friend gave it to me.”
She leaned toward me. “In ancient Greece Socrates was called the Gadfly of Athens. No mat-
ter how hard his opponents tried to swat him away, he kept biting them with difficult ques-
tions.”
“He sounds like a journalist.”
Hazel nodded, a sly smile oozing across her lips. “So he was. Not unlike yourself, I’d
think.”
I glowed with the compliment. Only then Hazel grew serious. “Do you know what it took
for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”
“Hemlock,” I said, eager to show off my knowledge of the classics. But Hazel regarded me
with concern, like I was about to drink a cup of the poison myself.
“Yes,” she said slowly. “That’s right.”
JENNIFER MILLER, author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Search for Hope
in the Middle East, holds an undergraduate degree from Brown and graduate degrees
in journalism and fiction from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York
Times, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, the Christian Science Monitor, salon.com, and else-
where. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
© Diana Levine
Brooklyn, New York

A father/son memoir like no other—
Buzz Bissinger
Father’s Day
A Journey into the Mind and Heart
of My Extraordinary Son
The best-selling author of Friday Night Lights

journeys across country and into the psyche of his son
and traveling companion, where he finds not only the
remarkable skills and debilities known as savantism,
but a host of qualities we might all emulate.
B uzz Bissinger’s twin sons were born three minutes—

and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate
student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother
Zach has spent his life attending special schools. He’ll never
drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant,
challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed
with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack
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poignant, funny, frank, and revelatory
from father’s day
We ride the Screamin’ Eagle and the Rush Street Flyer and the Ninja and the Joker and the Tidal
Wave and Mr. Freeze and the Log Flume and the River King Mine Train and Tony Hawk’s Big Spin. The
day winnows down, the amusement park has emptied out. As we walk to the exit, I spot a ride I hadn’t
noticed before that hoists you 153 feet to the top of a crane. Then you pull a ripcord and bungee jump
in a horrific freefall.
“You want to try it, Zach?”
“Yeah.”
This is not the answer I hoped for.
“It’s dangerous, Zach.”
“Yeah.”
“We could get killed.”
“Yeah.”
I’ve been hearing “yeah’s” like these from Zach for years now. They artfully manage to avoid con-
flict without giving ground. Still, I press on, the unreasonable voice of reason:
“I don’t think your mother would like you to go on this.”
“Yeah.”
“Are you sure you want to try it?”
“I’m sure.”
Which I knew all along, of course.
The line moves far faster than I expected. Soon we’re putting on elaborate outfits, wet suits with
Velcro straps and strategically placed hooks. We are joined to each other face-to-face, nose-to-nose. The
cord is attached to the hooks, and we are slowly lifted to the top of the crane. There are two workers up
there in a little perch, chatting. It’s hard to hear, but I think they’re talking about hair, or nails. They get
clearance from below.
I count down: “Three . . . two . . . one . . . Go.”
I pull the ripcord. . . .
We freefall. My arms are wrapped around Zach. His arms are wrapped around me. His eyes are
closed. Mine are open. We fall faster than I thought possible. The nauseous churn in my stomach rises
like lightning. We miss the roof of the waiting area by what seems like inches. Then we swing high,
flinging into the sky.
I feel an exhilaration I have never felt before. We swing low, and I can sense Zach holding me more
tightly. Then we swing high again. Zach and I merge into one. I gaze at him with his eyes still shuttered.
I feel the press and pressure of his body like nothing I have ever felt before with him. He is my lifeline,
and I am his.
Buzz Bissinger is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of four books, including the
New York Times bestseller Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, which has
sold two million copies and spawned a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing
editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for the Daily Beast. He has written for
© Mikhail Lemkhin
the New York Times, the New Republic, Time, and many other publications.
Philadelphia

Bernd Heinrich
Life Everlasting
The Animal Way of Death
The author of The Mind of the Raven and Why

We Run asks, How does the animal world
deal with the death-to-life cycle, and what
can we humans learn from the process?
W hen a good friend with a severe illness wrote, ask-

ing if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd
Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed
biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fas-
cinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with
the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, eco-
logical to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal
world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly original
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Life Everlasting otherwise turn away from—field mouse burials conducted
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“inadvertent teamwork” among wolves and large cats, foxes
and weasels, bald eagles and nuthatches in cold-weather dis-
persal of killed prey. Heinrich reveals, too, how and where
humans still play our ancient and important role as scaven-
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sites and blogs
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BERND HEINRICH is an acclaimed scientist and the author of

numerous award-winning books, including the best-selling
The Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and
Winter World. He is a frequent contributor
to national media, and professor emeritus
of biology at the University of Vermont.
© Richard B. Clark
Maine and Vermont
36 June • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Emily Jeanne Miller
Brand New Human Being
“A whip-smart first novel that gripped me with its

wry humor and wonderfully real characters, and
kept me captivated through the last page. This
is a fast-paced, first-rate book by an immensely
talented new writer.” —Curtis Sittenfeld
L ogan Pyle, a lapsed grad student and stay-at-home dad,

is just barely holding it together: His father has died,
his wife Julie is distant, and his four-year-old son has gone
back to drinking from a baby bottle. One Sunday morning
at a children’s birthday party, he finds Julie kissing another
man, and something snaps. Logan packs a bag, buckles his
son into his car seat, and heads north with a 1920s Louis-
ville Slugger in the back of his truck, a maxed-out American
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but when she doesn’t, she opens the door to unexpected
redemption—for both of them.
A deftly plotted exploration of marriage, family, and the
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studies program at the University of Montana and an MFA
from the University of Florida in Gaines-
ville. She lives, writes, and teaches in
Washington, D.C.
©Patrice Gilbert
Washington, D.C.
www.facebook.com/hmhtrade • @hmhbooks • www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • June 37

Natalie Serber
Shout Her Lovely Name
“In the tradition of Lorrie Moore and Tobias Wolff,

Natalie Serber’s stories uncover the secret hearts of
seemingly ordinary people. Funny, heartfelt, and keenly
perceptive, this is a book worth shouting about.”
—Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply
“Shout Her Lovely Name joins the ranks of the finest

books ever to address relations between daughters and
their mothers — equal parts love and sandpaper.”
—Robin Black, author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You
M others— both reluctant and euphoric — ride the

familial tide of joy, pride, regret, guilt, and love
in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a battle
between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread
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Shout Her Lovely Name student, married to her much older professor, sneaks ciga-
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questioning her place. And in a suite of stories, we follow
capricious, ambitious single mother Ruby and her cautious,
steadfast daughter Nora through their tumultuous life—stray
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• Advance reading copies Lovely Name heralds the arrival of a stunning new writer.
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NATALIE SERBER received an MFA from Warren Wilson

College. Her work has appeared in the
Bellingham Review and Gulf Coast, among
others, and her awards include the Tobias
Wolff Award. She teaches writing at
various universities in Portland, Oregon,
© Deena Hofstad
where she lives with her family.
Portland, Oregon

Elizabeth Speller
The Strange Fate

of Kitty Easton
Dark family secrets are unearthed—and some are

forever buried—in this sequel to Speller’s “marvelous”*
mystery The Return of Captain John Emmett.
*Wall Street Journal
W hen Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives

in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the
place: a crumbling manor, a venerable church, and a memo-
rial to the village’s soldiers, almost all of whom died in one
bloody battle.
Now peace prevails, and the rest of England is newly
alight with hope, but Easton Deadall remains haunted by
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vanishes in a sinister echo of Kitty’s disappearance. And
when a body is discovered in the manor’s ancient church,
Laurence is drawn into the grounds’ forgotten places, where
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deadly secrets lie in wait. The Return of Captain John Emmett
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SPELLER has written for various publications and taught at
the universities of Cambridge, Birming-
ham, and Bristol. She divides her life
between Gloucestershire and Greece.
© Michael Bywater
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

From America’s greatest ultramarathoner
Scott Jurek with Steve Friedman
Eat and Run

My Unlikely Journey to
Ultramarathon Greatness
An inspiring memoir that reveals Jurek’s

secrets to success as an endurance athlete
who fuels himself with a plant-based diet
F or nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant

force — and darling — in the grueling and growing
sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, a complete unknown, he took
the lead in the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile
jaunt over the Gold Rush trails of the Sierra Nevada. He
went on to win that race seven years in a row. Jurek was also
one of the elite runners who traveled to Mexico to run with
the Tarahumara Indians, as profiled in the bestseller Born to
Run. Jurek’s accomplishments are nothing short of extraor-
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Eat and Run In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career
June • Sports/Lifestyle • 288 pages — as an elite athlete and a vegan — and inspires runners at
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to his epic, record-breaking races, Jurek’s story shows the
power of an iron will and the importance of thinking of food
• National author tour, including Boulder/
as fuel. Full of stories of endurance and competition as well
Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, as practical advice and some of his original recipes, Eat and
Philadelphia, St. Louis Run will motivate people to go the distance, whether that
• National print advertising in Runner’s World means getting out for a first run, expanding food horizons, or
• Postcard promotion in registration bags at simply exploring the limits of human potential.
marathons and ultramarathons
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and the star of Born to Run
An excerpt from eat&run

Maybe my grandfather was right. That’s what I am thinking while I puke up my
guts onto the baking dirt of Death Valley. I’ve just run 70 miles, and with 65 to go I
should be chugging along. I’ve consumed 60 ounces of water each hour for the past 13
hours and lost about three pounds every hour. The temperature has dropped to 105
degrees—at night—and even though people have died just walking where I’m trying
to race, even though runners get blisters underneath their toenails so bad they tear off
their toenails midrace to relieve their agony (one guy did it before the race, just in case),
even though I’ve heard that runners’ shoes melt on the pavement, I should be chugging
along. It’s what I do. I chug along while others slow down; I keep going while others
give up. I should be gliding—or at least plodding—along the terrain where Charles
Manson searched for the “Portal to Hell” because that’s who I am—seven-time winner
of the Western States Endurance Run, the long-distance legend who never quits, the
vegan who can run forever.
But I can’t even walk another step.
SCOTT JUREK is a world-renowned ultramarathon champion who trains and races on

a plant-based diet. He has appeared in two New York Times bestsellers, Born to Run
and The 4-Hour Body. Known and admired for his earth-conscious lifestyle, Scott is
also a highly sought-after motivational speaker, physical therapist, coach, and chef.
STEVE FRIEDMAN has been published in the New York Times, Esquire, and The Best
American Sports Writing. He is the author of Lost on Treasure Island and coauthor of the
bestseller Loose Balls.
© Ben Moon
AuthorS’ residenceS
Jurek: Boulder, Colorado
Friedman: New York City

W. K. Stratton
Floyd Patterson
The Fighting Life of Boxing’s
Invisible Champion
A powerful tribute to an invisible champion and a

nuanced portrait of a man who fought his way to
the top of a knock-down world, carrying many of
the hopes and fears of the battle for civil rights
I n 1956, Floyd Patterson became at age twenty-one the

youngest boxer to win the title of World Heavyweight
Champion and then, later, the first ever to lose and regain it.
Here, acclaimed author W. K. Stratton chronicles the
life of “The Gentle Gladiator”—an athlete overshadowed
by Ali’s theatrics and Liston’s fearsome reputation, and a
civil rights activist overlooked in the Who’s Who of race
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Floyd Patterson
Cus D’Amato to a final rematch against Ali in 1972, Patter-
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son’s career spanned boxing’s golden age and included an
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Schulberg. A complex, misunderstood figure—he once
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kissed an opponent at the end of a match—he was known for
Chasing the Rodeo his peekaboo stance and soft-spoken nature. In the words of
978-0-15-603121-9 • $14.00 PA the renowned sportswriter George Kimball, Floyd Patterson
is “a refreshingly honest and even-handed deconstruction of
the owner of the uneasiest head to wear a crown this side of
• Online outreach and promotion,
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W. K. (KIP) STRATTON is the author of Backyard Brawl, Chas-
ing the Rodeo, and Boxing Shadows. He has written for many
publications, including GQ, Sports Illus-
trated, and Outside. A longtime student of
boxing, Stratton trains at a gym alongside
top professionals and amateurs.
© Brian H. Powell
Austin, Texas
42 July • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Elly Griffiths
A Room Full of Bones

A Ruth Galloway Mystery
The fourth in the beloved series featuring Ruth Galloway,

one of the most engaging heroines in crime fiction today
O n Halloween night, Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise

the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medi-
eval bishop. But upon arriving she finds the museum’s cura-
tor lying dead beside the coffin. It is only a matter of time
before she and Detective Inspector Nelson cross paths once
more, as he is called in to investigate.
Together they discover that before the curator’s death
the museum’s owner, Lord Smith, had received threatening
letters demanding that he hand over the museum’s collection
of Aborigine skulls. When he finds a dead snake in his stable
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smuggling may hold the answer to these deaths and their
own survival in the latest installment of this “must-read” Also available
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The Crossing Places
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as “gripping” (Louise Penny), “highly atmospheric” (New York
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start to finish” (Kirkus Reviews). She is
the winner of the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark
Award.
© Jerry Bauer
Brighton, England
www.facebook.com/hmhtrade • @hmhbooks • www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • July 43

Tabish Khair
The Thing about Thugs
A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian

man’s misadventures in Victorian London as
the city is racked by a string of murders
I n a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows

finds just the man to further his phrenological research
back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous
Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali
gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there
to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his
story is, so when a killer begins depriving London’s under-
class of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the “thug.”
With help from fellow immigrants led by a shrewd Punjabi
woman, Ali journeys deep into a hostile city in an attempt to
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save himself and end the gruesome murders.
The Thing about Thugs Ranging from skull-lined mansions to underground
July • Fiction • 256 pages • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ tunnels concealing a ghostly people, The Thing about Thugs
CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/ is a feat of imagination to rival Wilkie Collins or Michael
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this Victorian role reversal is a sly take on the post-colonial
novel and marks the arrival of a compelling Indian novelist to
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TABISH KHAIR is an award-winning poet,

journalist, critic, educator, and novelist.
A citizen of India, he lives in Denmark and
teaches literature at Aarhus University.
© Lars Kruse
Risskov, Denmark
44 July • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Monica Wood
When We Were
the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
A “breathtaking, evocative” (Ken Burns)

memoir of the season when a family lost its
father and the nation lost its president
1 963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like

its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent
on a father’s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until
the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely
connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone
moving, When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how
this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob,
Mum’s youngest brother, a charismatic Catholic priest who
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feels his new responsibilities deeply. And then, as the nation When We Were the Kennedys
is shocked by the loss of its handsome Catholic president, July • Memoir • 256 pages • 5 ½ x 8 ¼
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some rescuing of her own. An indelible story of how family
and nation, each shocked by the unimaginable, exchange one • Author appearances
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oir. I don’t know that I’ve ever pulled so hard for a family.” • Promotional author video
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MONICA WOOD is the author of four works of fiction, most
recently Any Bitter Thing, which spent twenty-one weeks
on the American Booksellers Association
extended bestseller list and was named a
Book Sense Top Ten pick. Her other fiction
includes Ernie’s Ark and My Only Story, a
finalist for the Kate Chopin Award.
© Dan Abbot
Portland, Maine
www.facebook.com/hmhtrade • @hmhbooks • www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • July 45

Luisita López Torregrosa
Before the Rain

A Memoir of Love and Revolution
A lyrical, sensuous memoir of passionate love played out

against the adventure of an alluring nation’s revolution
I n a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the

Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bonds
and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita
Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking,
reserved—and married—reporter with whom Torregrosa
falls deeply in love. Their story—tentative romance becom-
ing intersecting ambitions and delicate union—unfolds as the
narrative shifts to the Philippines and the fall of Ferdinand
Marcos. There, on a beautiful, troubled island, the couple
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unique, and conflicted heroines but also by Torregrosa’s
lyrical portrait of the Philippines and the even more exotic
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LUISITA LÓPEZ TORREGROSA is the

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was an editor at the New York Times. Her

articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair,
the New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler,
and Vogue.
New York City
46 August • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Karin Fossum
Translated from the Norwegian by Kyle Semmel
The Caller
An Inspector Sejer Mystery
“Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological

suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum
of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary
fiction.”— Washington Post Book World
O ne mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying

dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her
stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is
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Book Prize for mystery/thriller.
Sylling, Norway
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Rick Bass
The Black Rhinos

of Namibia
Searching for Survivors in
the African Desert
From one of our most gifted writers on the

natural world comes a stunning exploration
of a unique landscape and the improbable and
endangered animal that makes its home there.
R ick Bass first made a name for himself as a writer and

seeker of rare, iconic animals, including the grizzlies
and wolves of the American West. Now he’s off on a new,
far-flung adventure in the Namib of southwest Africa on the
trail of another fascinating, vulnerable species. The black
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brought on by poaching and war. Against the backdrop of
one of the most ancient and harshest terrains on earth, Bass,
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relationship between humans and nature and meditates on
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The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s The Tree Where
Home in Montana
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Man Was Born, Bass captures a haunting slice of Africa,
especially of the black rhinos that glow ghostly white in the
• Online promotion, including photos and slides gleaming sun.
of Rick Bass’s travels
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-72582-6
RICK BASS is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction
and nonfiction. Recently, his memoir Why
I Came West was a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle Award and his novel
Nashville Chrome was a finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize.
© Nicole Blaisdell
Missoula, Montana
48 August • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • @hmhbooks • www.facebook.com/hmhtrade

Daniel Klaidman
Kill or Capture
The War on Terror and the Soul
of the Obama Administration
Not since Game Change has there been such a revealing

look at President Obama and his inner circle.
I s Barack Obama an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist? He

vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive inter-
rogation and military tribunals, and restore American prin-
ciples of justice, yet in his first term he has backtracked on
each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone
strikes and covert operations. Behind the scenes, wrenching
debates between hawks and doves—those who would kill
versus those who would capture—have repeatedly tested the
very core of the president’s identity.
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Top investigative reporter Dan Klaidman has spoken
Kill or Capture
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kinetic-war operations. Klaidman’s fly-on-the-wall reporting Washington, D.C.
reveals who has his ear, how key national security decisions • National drive-time radio tour
are really made, and whether or not President Obama has • National print and online advertising,
lived up to the promise of candidate Obama. Readers making including the Wall Street Journal
up their minds about him during the 2012 election year will • Online promotion, including podcasts and
turn to Kill or Capture to decide. author interviews
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DANIEL KLAIDMAN worked for Newsweek from 1996 to 2011,
serving as Washington bureau chief, managing editor, and,
ultimately, as co-editor. He was respon-
sible for breaking a number of stories
about the Obama administration, the Bush
administration, and the war on terror.
© Stephen Lewis
Brooklyn, New York
www.facebook.com/hmhtrade • @hmhbooks • www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • August 49

Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
“An avalanche of facts and observations . . . A fine piece

of muckraking, alarming without being alarmist . . .
Schlosser makes it hard to go on eating fast food in
blissful ignorance.” —New York Times
As disturbing as it is irresistible . . . Exhaustively

researched, frighteningly convincing . . . channeling
the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
T he New York Times bestseller that blew the lid off the
fast food industry—exposing how it has malled our
landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled
an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural
imperialism abroad—with a new afterword from the master- 978-0-547-75033-0 • $14.95 PA
ful muckraker who started it all, Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation
Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from Cali- March •Current Affairs • 368 pages
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many of fast food’s flavors are concocted. Along the way, he
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mic changes the industry has wrought in food production,
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Eric Schlosser is a contributing

editor for the Atlantic and the author of
Reefer Madness and Chew On This (with
© Mark Mann
Charles Wilson).
paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • March 51

“A defining profile of compassion, courage and commitment that
Eric Greitens
The Heart and the Fist

The Education of a Humanitarian,
the Making of a Navy SEAL
A New York Times bestseller
“A remarkable story you’re not likely to forget.”

—Washington Post
“Meet my hero—Eric Greitens. His life and this

book reminds us that America remains the land
of the brave and generous.” —Tom Brokaw
L ike many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make

a difference, so he traveled to the world’s trouble spots
to work in refugee camps and serve the sick and the poor.
Yet when innocent civilians were threatened with harm,
there was nothing he could do but step in afterward and try
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The Heart and the Fist
to ease the suffering. In studying humanitarianism, he real-
April • Memoir • 336 pages • 5 5/16 x 8 ized a fundamental truth: when an army invades, the weak
16-pp b/w insert • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover, need protection. So he joined the Navy SEALs and became
2010, Previous ISBN 918-0-547-42485-9 one of the world’s elite warriors.
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on to deployments in Kenya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where
• Tie-in with author’s lecture schedule he faced harrowing encounters and brutal attacks. Yet even
• National NPR advertising in the deadliest combat situations, the lessons of his humani-
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education guide and promotion at NCTE a paradox: sometimes you have to be strong to do good, but
• Reading group promotion you also have to do good to be strong. The heart and the fist
• Promotional author video together are more powerful than either one alone.
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52 April • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback

gets to the heart of why we wear the uniform.” —Paul Rieckhoff
Q&A with Eric Greitens
You do humanitarian work and you are a Navy SEAL. Are the two contradictory?
I believe that strength and compassion are two parts of the same whole. The whole is what
happens when one human being really cares for and loves another. Just as surely as any par-
ent would both hug and protect their child, any real love for others means that we are aware
of the practical necessity to confront evil. The strong sometimes need to protect the weak, and
for me, the decision to become a SEAL was a way to live my values rather than just talk about
what should be done when people needed protection.
The heart and the fist are both essential, especially when you are working, as I am, with peo-
ple who have lived through tragic circumstances and are trying to transform their lives. The
combination of the heart and the fist has helped me to build purpose in my life, and I hope
the stories in the book will also help others to build purpose in their own lives.
This is a story about the American character as it’s been shaped over the past
twenty years, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Global War on Terrorism. As we
enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, what, in your view, does it mean
to be an American?
Americans have always had a sense of purpose, of destiny, a belief that we’re about something,
and Americans have also always put a premium on hard work, courage, and taking care of the
least among us. While the circumstances and challenges of our world have changed, these ide-
als continue to define what it means to be quintessentially American.
Eric Greitens is a senior fellow at the University of Missouri and the founder and
Courtesy of the Author
director of The Mission Continues, a charity that helps wounded veterans find work
back at home. A former Rhodes scholar and White House fellow, Greitens served as a
Navy SEAL until he was wounded in Iraq.
Columbia, Missouri
paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • April 53

Margaret Drabble
A Day in the Life of

a Smiling Woman
Complete Short Stories
“Glimmer[s] with irony, lyricism, moral vision and . . .

amplitude.” —New York Times Book Review
“Landmark.” —Vogue
“Woman in her essence: complicated, contradictory

and courageous . . . [The stories] bring magic that
will stay with us.” —San Francisco Chronicle
M argaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past

fifty years, especially the changing lives of women,
like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique bril-
978-0-547-73735-5 • $13.95 PA liance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display
March • Fiction • 256 pages • 5 5/16 x 8 here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the
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The Pattern in the Carpet
a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.
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The Sea Lady
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• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-55041-1
MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of the novels The Seven

Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle’s Eye, among
other books. For her contributions to
contemporary English literature, she was
made a Dame of the British Empire in
2008.
© Ruth Corney
London
54 March • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback

Bradford Morrow
The Diviner’s Tale

An Otto Penzler Book
“Spooky as hell, beautifully written, tight as a tripwire.”

—BoingBoing
“Subtle, distinctive and well-wrought.”

—Washington Post
“A splendidly written mystery with evanes-

cent snippets of observed nature . . . Grade: A.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
H ired by a developer to dowse a lonely forested valley in

upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks happens upon
a girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with the authori-
ties, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra’s
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sanity. The next day, a dazed, mute girl emerges from the
The Diviner’s Tale
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a mortal chess match with a real-life killer who has returned
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from the past to haunt her once more. The Diviner’s Tale is
at once a journey of self-discovery and a murder mystery, a • Reading group promotion
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BRADFORD MORROW is the author of numerous acclaimed

works of fiction and the founder of the literary magazine Con-
junctions. He is a professor of literature at
Bard College and divides his time between
New York City and upstate New York.
© Michael Eastman
New York City

Stephen Baker
Final Jeopardy
The Story of Watson, the Computer
That Will Transform Our World
“Plenty of observers have weighed in on Watson

. . . Few have done it better than Stephen Baker.”
—Bloomberg News
“The place to go if you’re really interested

in this version of the quest for creating
Artificial Intelligence.” —Seattle Times
I , for one, welcome our new computer overlords.” So

responded Ken Jennings in the final round of one of the
most exciting Jeopardy matches in history, in which two of
the game’s greatest all-time winners were dominated by a
978-0-547-74719-4 • $14.95 PA machine called Watson. It was clear to all who were watching
Final Jeopardy that the future had arrived.
March • Science/Technology • 288 pages Stephen Baker’s Final Jeopardy traces the arc of Wat-
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ence to arts, entertainment, and game strategy. We see how
Also available a new generation of Watsons could transform medicine, the
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amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions,
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• Award-winning promotional video
as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines
will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it.
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-51943-2
STEPHEN BAKER was BusinessWeek’s senior technology

writer for a decade. He has also written for the Los Angeles
Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall
Street Journal. Roger Lowenstein called
his first book, The Numerati, “an eye-
opening and chilling book.” Baker blogs at
thenumerati.net.
© Jalaire Craver
Montclair, New Jersey
56 March • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback

Tim Wakefield with Tony Massarotti
Knuckler
My Life with Baseball’s Most
Confounding Pitch
“Enjoyable and even enlightening . . . A must-read.”

—Boston Globe
“A terrific book about one of baseball’s most

underrated pitchers, not to mention baseball’s
most misunderstood pitch.” —Stephen King
T im Wakefield is an enigma. At forty-four years old, he

is the longest-serving member of one of baseball’s most
popular franchises. He has pitched more games than any
other player in Red Sox history. And he is close to eclipsing
the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers ever to
have played the game. Yet few realize the full measure of his 978-0-547-75034-7 • $14.95 PA
success. In fact, that his career can be characterized by such Knuckler
words as longevity and consistency defies all odds, because March • Sports/Biography • 288 pages
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he has achieved all of this with the game’s most mercurial
hardcover, 2011, Previous ISBN 978-0-547-
weapon—the knuckleball.
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and the inevitable ironies it brings to bear.
TIM WAKEFIELD has played in the major leagues since 1992

and for the Red Sox since 1995. He has won two World Series,
and was recently given the Roberto Cle-
mente Award for his service off the field.
© Matt Stone / Boston Herald
TONY MASSAROTTI is a nationally recog-

nized sports columnist and the author of
© The Boston Red Sox
Big Papi (with David Ortiz).
Boston

Silent Spring 50th Anniversary
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
The classic that launched the environmental movement

50 th
Anniversary “The cornerstone of the new environmentalism . . . well

crafted, fearless, and succinct.” —Peter Matthiessen
R achel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in

three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of
1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the
outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of
DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting
our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the
future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the
world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching
the environmental movement. It is without question one of
the landmark books of the twentieth century.
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Silent Spring
In 2012 we invite you to join us in celebrating the 50th
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

by Linda Lear
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• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-52762-8
RACHEL CARSON, 1907–1964, spent a good deal of her pro-

fessional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. Her first three books — Under the Sea-Wind,
The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea — established her
reputation as a first-rate writer on the natural world.
58 AVAILABLE • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback

Adam Hochschild
To End All Wars

A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
New York Times bestseller
“Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story, and

explores it in provocative ways . . . Exemplary in all
respects.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
“This is a book to make one feel deeply and

painfully, and also to think hard.” —Christopher
Hitchens, New York Times Book Review
W orld War I stands as one of history’s most sense-

less spasms of carnage. In a riveting, suspenseful
narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam
Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on
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the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside
To End All Wars
its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition March • History • 496 pages • 5 5/16 x 8
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future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an edi- hardcover, 2011, Previous ISBN 978-0-
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mately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most
prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who Also available
King Leopold’s Ghost
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known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up Bury the Chains
publishing newspapers that attacked each other. 978-0-618-10469-7 • $16.00 PA
Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across • National advertising, including the
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of millions of men who died in the “war to end all wars.” Can • Academic promotion and outreach
we ever avoid repeating history?
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ADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of many
works of nonfiction, including the award-
winning King Leopold’s Ghost, and Bury the
Chains, a finalist for the National
Book Award.
© Spark Media
San Francisco
Timothy Beal
The Rise and Fall

of the Bible
The Unexpected History of
an Accidental Book
“[A] succinct, clear and fascinating look at

two phenomena: what Beal calls ‘biblical
consumerism’. . . and the history of how the
book came to be assembled.” —Salon.com
T imothy Beal takes us back to early Christianity to ask

how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and
forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has
brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the
Bible’s sacred capital.
978-0-547-73734-8 • $15.95 PA Among his surprising insights:
The Rise and Fall of the Bible •E arly Christianity thrived for centuries without any
April • Religion • 256 pages • 5 5/16 x 8 Bible—there was no official canon of scriptures, much
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• National media from New York find.
•T he idea of the Bible as the literal Word of God is
• Academic promotion, including outreach to
the American Academy of Religion and the only about a century old.
Society for Biblical Literature Beal offers a chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith,
• E-book ISBN 978-0-547-50441-4 that is truer to its own history—not a book of answers but a
library of questions.
TIMOTHY BEAL is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion

at Case Western Reserve University. He has published twelve
books, including Biblical Literacy and
Roadside Religion, a New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice, and essays in the
New York Times and the Washington Post,
among others.
© SOphie Beal
Shaker Heights, Ohio

James Carroll
Jerusalem, Jerusalem
How the Ancient City Ignited
Our Modern World
“A masterful look at the paradoxical city on a hill . . . A

meditation unlike any book published this season, indeed
a meditation for all seasons.” —Boston Globe
“Provocative . . . The book brims with splendid

insights.” —Los Angeles Times
J ames Carroll’s masterful Jerusalem, Jerusalem uncovers

the ways in which the ancient city became a transcen-
dent fantasy that ignites religious fervor. In Carroll’s provoc-
ative reading of the deep past, the Bible came into being as
an act of resistance to the violence that threatened Jerusalem
from the start. Centuries later, holy wars burned apocalyptic 978-0-547-74762-0 • $16.95 PA
Jerusalem into the Western mind, sparking expressly reli- Jerusalem, Jerusalem
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Hot
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Fifty Years on Earth
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The Captain
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As Always, Julia
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IACP
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The highly anticipated sequel to the New York
Oliver Pötzsch
A Mariner Original
The Dark Monk

A Hangman’s Daughter Tale
The hangman returns when a priest turns

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Jakob Kuisl brushed the mortar dust from his threadbare coat
and snorted contemptuously. With the stem of his pipe, he
pointed to the pastor’s corpse.
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for that? As a hangman and a skinner, I’m responsible for dead
beasts, but dead priests—they don’t concern me.”
“I believe he’s been poisoned,” Simon said softly.
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master of his craft, not only with the sword but also in the field
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pointing at the stiff frozen body of the priest. “Perhaps we’ll
find a clue about the murderer.”
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well-known line of Bavarian executioners that inspired the novel.
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I’m Feeling Lucky

The Confessions of Google
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Carsten Jensen
We, the Drowned
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PKD Ubik
G
For April and May, six novels by Philip K. Dick
in all-new Mariner trade paperback editions
Including Ubik, one of Time’s 100 best English language novels
len Runciter runs a lucra-

Ubik: The
Screenplay
Counter-
Clock World
tive business—deploying his
teams of anti-psychics to corpo-
rate clients who want privacy and
I n 1974, Philip K. Dick was
commissioned to write a screen-
play based on his novel Ubik.
W hat would happen if time
started moving backward?
In Counter-Clock World, this is
security from psychic spies. But The film was eventually scrapped the reality. Now people greet each
when his team is ambushed by a (though Michel Gondry is cur- other with “goodbye,” blow smoke
rival, he is gravely injured. Soon, rently in the process of adapting it), into cigarettes, and rise from the
the surviving members of the team but the screenplay was saved and dead. When one of those rising
begin experiencing some strange later published in 1985. Includ- dead is the famous and powerful
phenomena, like Runciter’s face ing scenes that are not in the novel prophet Anarch Peak, a number of
appearing on coins and the world and a surreal playfulness—the film groups start a mad scramble to find
seeming to move backward in time. style goes back in time just like the him first—but their motives are
As consumables deteriorate and technology in the story’s dream not exactly benevolent. Because
technology gets ever more primi- world—this screenplay is the only Anarch Peak may just be worth
tive, the group needs to find out one Dick ever wrote, and features more dead than alive, and these
what is causing the shifts and what his signature mix of paranoia, groups will do whatever they must
a mysterious product called Ubik humor, and big-idea philosophy. to send him back to the grave.
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Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is
considered one of the most visionary writers of the twentieth century. His
work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into
more than twenty-five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film,
including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?),
© Frank Ronan
Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.
Eye in the Sky The Man Who Japed The Zap Gun
W hen a tour group is in an

accident that sends them
into alternate worlds, Philip K.
I n a society where displaying a
neon sign is grounds for arrest,
something as simple as a practi-
I n this biting satire, the east-
ern and western governments
have managed an elaborate ruse,
Dick gets free reign to espouse his cal joke can spur a revolution. In wherein each side comes up with
individualistic worldview—and The Man Who Japed, the govern- increasingly outlandish doomsday
take potshots at everyone else’s. ment’s new propaganda minister weapons—weapons that don’t
The mix of thrills as the group tries begins experiencing doubts about work. But when aliens invade, the
to escape and the upside-down the society and his place in it, top designers of each side have
rules of the various worlds serve doubts that are exacerbated when to come together to make a real
to couch Dick’s morality lesson, he drunkenly chops the head off a doomsday device, if they don’t kill
making for a truly wild ride. From statue of the government’s founder. each other first. With its combina-
a place ruled by strict Old Testa- tion of romance, espionage, and
ment laws—blaspheming can bring alien invasion, The Zap Gun skew-
on a plague of locusts—to a Com- ers the military-industrial complex
munist dystopia full of snarling in a way as relevant today as it was
capitalists, Eye in the Sky leaves no at the height of the Cold War.
worldview unscathed.
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“Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly
José Saramago
Translated from the Portuguese
by Margaret Jull Costa
Small Memories
“[An] impish reminder of what good company Saramago

has been over time . . . Rich moments are to be had.”
—New York Times
“A small but nourishing last gift from a great

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S hifting back and forth between childhood and his

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JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922–2010) was the

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ness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda,
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and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In

1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature.

senses the presence of a master.” —Christian Science Monitor
José Saramago
A Mariner Original
Translated from the Portuguese
by Giovanni Pontiero
Manual of Painting
and Calligraphy
A novel about intellectual and political struggle that

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M anual of Painting and Calligraphy is José Saramago’s

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Suzanne Marrs, editor
What There Is to Say

We Have Said
The Correspondence of Eudora
Welty and William Maxwell
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guished Welty Scholarship. She is a pro-
fessor of English at Millsaps College.
Jackson, Mississippi

Steve Earle
I’ll Never Get Out of

This World Alive
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Bharati Mukherjee
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nonfiction. She is a professor of English at
the University of California, Berkeley.
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Elizabeth Speller
The Return of Captain

John Emmett
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Kiss Her Goodbye

“Extremely well constructed . . . The key element

to the novel’s success is its convincing re-creation
of its iconic hero, worn and weary but as capable
as ever when it comes to rendering vengeance of
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Stephen Kelman
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Thomas Perry
The Informant
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Boy, and Metzger’s Dog was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Studio City, California

Thomas H. Cook
The Quest for Anna Klein

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revenge . . . this book is to be treasured, and is bound to
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THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne,

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the Barry for Best Novel, and has been
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nominated for numerous other awards.
Author’s residences
New York City and Cape Cod

Paul Theroux
The Tao of Travel

Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“This distillation is high, fine entertainment, but

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Hawaii and Cape Cod
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Dean Bakopoulos
My American Unhappiness
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PKD For July and August, six novels by Philip K. Dick
in all-new Mariner trade paperback editions
Including Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, winner of the
1975 John W. Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of the year
Flow My Tears, the

Policeman Said
The Cosmic
Puppets
Gather Yourselves
Together
F G
Nominated for the 1975
ollowing an inexplicable ather Yourselves Together is
Hugo and the 1974 Nebula
urge, Ted Barton returns to one of Philip K. Dick’s earli-
G
his idyllic Virginia hometown for est novels, written when he was
rappling with many of the
a vacation, but when he gets there, just twenty-four years old. It tells
themes Philip K. Dick is best
he is shocked to discover that the the story of three Americans left
known for—identity, altered real-
town has utterly changed. The behind in China by their employer,
ity, drug use, and dystopias—Flow
stores and houses are all different biding their time as the Com-
My Tears, the Policeman Said is
and he doesn’t recognize any- munists advance. As they while
both a rollicking chase story and a
body. The mystery deepens when away the days, both the young
meditation on reality. Jason Tav-
he checks the town’s historical and naïve Carl Fitter and the older
erner—talk show host and man-
records . . . and reads that he died and worldly Verne Tildon vie for
about-town—wakes one day to find
nearly twenty years earlier. As he the affections of Barbara Mahler, a
that no one knows who he is. In a
attempts to uncover the secrets of woman who may not be so tough-
society where lack of identification
the town, Barton is drawn deeper as-nails as she acts. But Carl’s
is a crime, Taverner must evade
into the puzzle, and into a super- innocence and Verne’s boorishness
the secret police while trying to
natural battle that could decide the could end up driving Barbara away
unravel the mystery of why no one
fate of the universe. from both.
remembers him.
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Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is
considered one of the most visionary writers of the twentieth century. His
work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into
more than twenty-five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film,
including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?),
© Frank Ronan
Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.
Solar Lottery We Can Build You The World

Jones Made
I n Solar Lottery anyone can
become the ruler of the solar
system. There are no elections,
I n this lyrical and moving novel,
Philip K. Dick tells a story
of toxic love and compassion- P recognition; a world ruled
by Relativism; giant alien
no interviews, not even any pre- ate robots. When Louis Rosen’s jellyfish. The World Jones Made is
requisites—it all comes down to electronic organ company builds a classic Philip K. Dick mash-up
the random turns of a giant wheel. a pitch-perfect robotic replica of of deep philosophical musings set
But when a new Quizmaster takes Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled among wild set pieces and charac-
over, the old one still keeps some into the orbit of a shady business- ters.
rights, namely the right to hire an man, who is looking to use Lincoln Floyd Jones has always been
unending stream of assassins to for his own profit. Meanwhile, able to see exactly one year into his
attempt to kill the new leader. And Rosen seeks Lincoln’s advice as he future, a gift and curse that began
in the meantime, a religious group woos a woman incapable of under- one year before he was born. As a
is trying to escape from Earth to standing human emotions—some- fortuneteller at a post-apocalyptic
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A magical debut For fans of Aimee Bender,
Lucy Wood
A Mariner Original
Diving Belles
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story collection that reinvents the stuff of myth
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Karen Russell, and A. S. Byatt
“Each year, book blurbs tell you that a thousand

new writers have fresh, distinctive voices.
But fresh, distinctive voices are actually
very rare. Lucy Wood has one.”
—Michel Faber
A note from the author:

While writing Diving Belles, I was interested in the connection between Cornwall’s folk-
lore and landscape. Dangerous stretches of sea were said to be haunted by mermaids,
who lured men away from their homes and into the water. Huge stones scattered across
the moor and piled up on cliffs were explained as the work of giants. These wild land-
scapes were imbued with stories by the people who lived and worked within them —
stories that became ways of exploring and understanding what it means to live and
belong in a place.
Drawing on nineteenth-century collections of Cornish folklore, I have reworked common
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when these stories were first told.
LUCY WOOD grew up in Cornwall and attended Exeter University, where she com-
pleted a BA in English literature and an MA in creative writing. She is twenty-six years
old; this is her first book.
© Ben Smith
Exeter, United Kingdom

Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Clare
Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
Here
“No reader should miss the bright revelations of Nobel

laureate Szymborska.” —Booklist
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was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Kraków, Poland

Janet Reitman
Inside Scientology
The Story of America’s Most
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Four books from Amos Oz, a writer
Black Box
S even years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a
letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging
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Bad Intentions
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Helen Smith
Alison Wonderland
“Only occasionally does a piece of fiction leap

out and demand immediate cult status. Alison
Wonderland is one . . . Smith is at the very
least a minor phenomenon.” —Times (UK)
A fter Alison Temple discovers that her husband is

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Deborah Reed
Carry Yourself Back to Me

“A complex story of love and longing that’s mysterious,
intelligent, and full of heart. She had me from
page one.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Torch
F amed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than

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around her. A violent murder connected to her brother
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© Andrew ReEd
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Audrey Braun
A Small Fortune
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Index
Alison Wonderland..............................................................97 Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, The.........................................76
American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, The................... 101 Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead.................................77
American Heritage Children’s Thesaurus, The.................... 102 Cook, Thomas H., The Quest for Anna Klein....................... 85
American Heritage First Dictionary, The........................... 101 Cosmic Puppets, The...........................................................88
American Heritage Picture Dictionary, The........................ 101 Counter-Clock World...........................................................70
American Heritage Student Dictionary, The....................... 100 Dark Monk, The.................................................................66
American Heritage Student Thesaurus, The....................... 102 Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, a.................................54
Araton, Harvey, Driving Mr. Yogi......................................... 22 DeSanti, Carole, The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R................. 8
Are You My Mother?............................................................28 Dick, Philip K., The Cosmic Puppets.................................... 88
As Always, Julia..................................................................65 Dick, Philip K., Counter-Clock World................................... 70
Bad Intentions....................................................................96 Dick, Philip K., Eye in the Sky.............................................. 71
Baker, Stephen, Final Jeopardy............................................ 56 Dick, Philip K., Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said............... 88
Bakopoulos, Dean, My American Unhappiness..................... 87 Dick, Philip K., Gather Yourselves Together........................... 88
Bass, Rick, The Black Rhinos of Namibia............................. 48 Dick, Philip K., The Man Who Japed................................... 71
Batt, Matthew, Sugarhouse................................................... 78 Dick, Philip K., Solar Lottery............................................... 89
Beadle, David and Seabrooke Leckie, Peterson Field Guide to Dick, Philip K., Ubik........................................................... 70
Moths of Northeastern North America................................... 24
Dick, Philip K., Ubik: The Screenplay................................... 70
Beal, Timothy, The Rise and Fall of the Bible........................ 60
Dick, Philip K., We Can Build You....................................... 89
Bechdel, Alison, Are You My Mother?................................... 28
Dick, Philip K., The World Jones Made................................ 89
Before the Rain...................................................................46
Dick, Philip K., The Zap Gun.............................................. 71
Beyer, Marcel, Kaltenburg................................................... 10
Diviner’s Tale, The.............................................................55
Bissinger, Buzz, Father’s Day............................................... 34
Diving Belles......................................................................90
Black Box...........................................................................94
Drabble, Margaret, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman..... 54
Black Rhinos of Namibia, The.............................................48
Driving Mr. Yogi.................................................................22
Blue Asylum.......................................................................15
Earle, Steve, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive............... 75
Bluebird Effect, The............................................................11
Eat and Run......................................................................40
Brand New Human Being...................................................37
Edwards, Douglas, I’m Feeling Lucky................................... 68
Braun, Audrey, A Small Fortune........................................... 99
Eye in the Sky......................................................................71
Caller, The.........................................................................47
Farm, The..........................................................................16
Captain, The......................................................................63
Fashion Coloring Book, The............................................... 110
Carol + Lulu, The Fashion Coloring Book........................... 110
Fast Food Nation.................................................................51
Carroll, James, Jerusalem, Jerusalem................................... 61
Father’s Day.......................................................................34
Carry Yourself Back to Me....................................................98
Final Jeopardy...................................................................56
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring.............................................. 58
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.......................................88
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Floyd Patterson...................................................................42 Klaidman, Daniel, Kill or Capture........................................ 49
Fossum, Karin, Bad Intentions............................................. 96 Knauer, Ian, The Farm........................................................ 16
Fossum, Karin, The Caller................................................... 47 Knode, Helen, Wildcat Play................................................ 14
Gather Yourselves Together...................................................88 Knuckler............................................................................57
Ghonim, Wael, Revolution 2.0............................................... 3 Lehrer, Jonah, Imagine.......................................................... 4
Gottschall, Jonathan, The Storytelling Animal...................... 21 Life Everlasting..................................................................36
Gourmet Italian.................................................................31 Love, Fiercely........................................................................7
Gourmet Weekday...............................................................30 Lower River, The................................................................26
Gran, Sara, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead............... 77 Man Who Japed, The..........................................................71
Greitens, Eric, The Heart and the Fist.................................. 52 Manual of Painting and Calligraphy....................................73
Griffiths, Elly, A Room Full of Bones...................................... 43 Marrs, Suzanne, editor, What There Is to Say We Have Said.. 74
Heart and the Fist, The.......................................................52 Miller, Emily Jeanne, Brand New Human Being................... 37
Heinrich, Bernd, Life Everlasting........................................ 36 Miller, Jennifer, The Year of the Gadfly.................................. 32
Hepinstall, Kathy, Blue Asylum............................................ 15 Miss New India...................................................................80
Here..................................................................................92 Montgomery, Sy, Temple Grandin...................................... 109
Hertsgaard, Mark, Hot........................................................ 62 Morrow, Bradford, The Diviner’s Tale.................................. 55
Hochschild, Adam, To End All Wars.................................... 59 Mukherjee, Bharati, Miss New India..................................... 80
Hot....................................................................................62 My American Unhappiness..................................................87
House of Stone....................................................................12 O’Connor, Ian, The Captain................................................ 63
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive...................................75 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013, The...................................... 103
I’m Feeling Lucky................................................................68 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Country Calendar, The........... 104
Ichiro............................................................................... 108 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Engagement Calendar, The..... 105
Imagine...............................................................................4 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Everyday Calendar, The......... 105
Informant, The...................................................................84 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Gardening Calendar, The....... 104
Inside Scientology................................................................93 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Recipe Calendar, The............. 105
Inzana, Ryan, Ichiro.......................................................... 108 Old Farmer’s Almanac 2013 Weather Watcher’s Calendar,
The................................................................................... 104
Jensen, Carsten, We, the Drowned........................................ 69
Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, The................................... 107
Jerusalem, Jerusalem..........................................................61
Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Fresh Cookbook, The............ 106
Juju Rules, The..................................................................19
On Par...............................................................................25
Jurek, Scott with Steve Friedman, Eat and Run.................... 40
Oz, Amos, Black Box........................................................... 94
Just, Ward, Rodin’s Debutante............................................. 64
Oz, Amos, The Slopes of Lebanon......................................... 94
Kaltenburg.........................................................................10
Oz, Amos, Soumchi............................................................. 95
Kelman, Stephen, Pigeon English......................................... 83
Oz, Amos, Where the Jackals Howl...................................... 95
Khair, Tabish, The Thing about Thugs................................. 44
Pennington, Bill, On Par...................................................... 25
Kill or Capture...................................................................49
Perry, Thomas, The Informant............................................ 84
Kiss Her Goodbye................................................................82
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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America.24 Tao of Travel, The...............................................................86
Pigeon English....................................................................83 Temple Grandin............................................................... 109
Pötzsch, Oliver, The Dark Monk.......................................... 66 That Said..........................................................................18
Quest for Anna Klein, The...................................................85 Theroux, Paul, The Lower River.......................................... 26
Reardon, Joan, editor, As Always, Julia................................ 65 Theroux, Paul, The Tao of Travel......................................... 86
Reed, Deborah, Carry Yourself Back to Me............................ 98 Thing about Thugs, The......................................................44
Reitman, Janet, Inside Scientology........................................ 93 This Morning.......................................................................6
Return of Captain John Emmett, The...................................81 Thompson III, Bill, The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North
America.............................................................................. 20
Revolution 2.0......................................................................3
To End All Wars..................................................................59
Rise and Fall of the Bible, The..............................................60
Torregrosa, Luisita López, Before the Rain........................... 46
Rodin’s Debutante..............................................................64
Ubik..................................................................................70
Room Full of Bones, a..........................................................43
Ubik: The Screenplay...........................................................70
Ryan, Michael, This Morning................................................ 6
Unruly Passions of Eugénie R., The........................................8
Saramago, José, Small Memories.......................................... 72
Wakefield, Tim with Tony Massarotti, Knuckler................... 57
Saramago, José, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy........... 73
We Can Build You...............................................................89
Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation......................................... 51
We, the Drowned.................................................................69
Seely, Hart, The Juju Rules.................................................. 19
Westoll, Andrew, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary................ 76
Serber, Natalie, Shout Her Lovely Name............................... 38
What the Robin Knows........................................................27
Shadid, Anthony, House of Stone.......................................... 12
What There Is to Say We Have Said.....................................74
Shore, Jane, That Said........................................................ 18
When We Were the Kennedys................................................45
Shout Her Lovely Name.......................................................38
Where the Jackals Howl.......................................................95
Silent Spring......................................................................58
Wildcat Play.......................................................................14
Slopes of Lebanon, The........................................................94
Wood, Lucy, Diving Belles................................................... 90
Small Fortune, a.................................................................99
Wood, Monica, When We Were the Kennedys......................... 45
Small Memories..................................................................72
World Jones Made, The.......................................................89
Smith, Helen, Alison Wonderland........................................ 97
Year of the Gadfly, The........................................................32
Solar Lottery......................................................................89
Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America, The.............20
Soumchi.............................................................................95
Young, Jon, What the Robin Knows...................................... 27
Speller, Elizabeth, The Return of Captain John Emmett........ 81
Zap Gun, The.....................................................................71
Speller, Elizabeth, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton.............. 39
Zickefoose, Julie, The Bluebird Effect................................... 11
Spillane, Mickey and Max Allan Collins, Kiss Her Goodbye... 82
Zimmerman, Jean, Love, Fiercely............................................ 7
Storytelling Animal, The.....................................................21
Strange Fate of Kitty Easton, The.........................................39
Stratton, W. K., Floyd Patterson........................................... 42
Sugarhouse.........................................................................78
Szymborska, Wisława, Here................................................. 92
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American Heritage® Reference................................................................ 100

The Old Farmer’s Almanac........................................................................ 103

From the HMH Children’s Book Group..................................................... 108

Index of New Titles..................................................................................... 111

Bookstore Sales Representatives............................................................ 114

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The Warner Brothers film is in theaters

Director Nicolas Winding Refn won the best director

One of the most dramatic and galvanizing

T he revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were

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An exhilarating look at how we can use the latest

D id you know that the most creative companies have

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JONAH LEHRER is a contributing editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The

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Acclaimed poet and memoirist Michael Ryan

I n Michael Ryan’s first collection since his 2004 Kingsley

MICHAEL RYAN is the author of four volumes of poetry, two

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The New York love story of a beautiful heiress

F or readers who savored The American Heiress, Jean

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The Unruly Passions

A transporting debut set in the backstreets

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“The Unruly Passions is both sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail.

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From a German literary star, a haunting novel about

H ailed by The New Yorker as one of the best young

Marcel Beyer is a poet and novelist. He has received the

Alan Bance is professor emeritus at the

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The Bluebird Effect

Lasting bonds between injured wild

J ulie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free-

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The epic memoir of a house in the Middle

L ast spring, when Anthony Shadid—one of four New

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A nomad writer working on a California oil rig

A s a hipster movie critic, Ann Whitehead pushed

HELEN KNODE put her experience as a staff writer and film

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Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, a plantation

P ut on trial by her slaveholder husband and convicted

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Perfectly simple, perfectly seasonal food from a Bon

D uring the week, Ian Knauer leads the life of a New

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“You need to own

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A collection of poems written over five decades by one

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JANE SHORE is the author of five previous books of poems,

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Spring 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade & Reference Catalog

Spring 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade & Reference Catalog