july 2011 hmh adult trade new releases

8/6/2019 July 2011 HMH Adult Trade New Releases

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ILL NEVER GET OUT

Sara Gran

ISBN: 9780618820962

Hardcover, $26.00Rights: US, C, O

From celebrated musician Steve Earl

redemption of Doc Ebersole as he i

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghostsense, not just because he was o

not just because he is rumored to

that killed him.

In 1963, ten years after Hanks dSince he lost his license to practic

to support as it used to be. So he

Antonio, performing abortions anMexican immigrant, appears in th

happen. Graciela sustains a woun

hand. Everyone she meets is tranall pleased to see Doc doing well.

A brilliant excavation of an obscu

is also a marvelous novel in its oremake ourselves and our world t

INSIDE SCIENTOLOG

Janet Reitman

ISBN: 9780618883028Hardcover, $28.00

Rights: World

The first full account of Scientology bt

Scientology, created in 1954 by aHubbard, claims to be the worlds

members around the world and hbelievers keep its profile high, an

aid at disaster sites such as Haiti

Scientology is also a notably closethrough litigation and intimidation

government to further its goals. I

requirement that believers pay asdrawn scrutiny and skepticism. A

Now Janet Reitman offers the firsaccount that at last establishes th

development from the birth of Diahelp group to a worldwide spiritua

Based on five years of research,extensive interviews with current

world.

FTHIS OWRLD ALIVE

comes a novel imagining the life, addiction, a

haunted by his former atient, Hank Williams.

of Hank Williamsnot just in the figurativee of the last people to see him alive, and

have given Hank the final morphine dose

ath, Doc himself is wracked by addiction.e medicine, his morphine habit isnt as eas

lives in a rented room in the red-light dist

patching up the odd knife or gunshot woe neighborhood in search of Docs services,

d on her wrist that never heals, yet she he

sformed for the better, except maybe for H

e piece of music history, Steve Earles Ill

n right, a ballad of regret and redemption,hrough the smallest of miracles.

y a journalist who gained unprecedented accesthe church

prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ronfastest growing religion, with millions of

ge financial holdings. Its celebrityits teams of volunteer ministers offer

and the World Trade Center. But

d faith, harassing journalists and others, even infiltrating the highest levels of the

s attacks on psychiatry and its

much as tens and even hundreds of thoud ex-members use the Internet to share s

full journalistic history of the Church of Se astonishing truth about the controversial

netics to today, following its metamorphosl corporation with profound control over it

nprecedented access to Church officials, cand former Scientologists, this is the defini

d

y

ict on the south side of San

nd. But when Graciela, a youngmiraculous things begin to

ls others with the touch of her

anks angry ghostwho isnt at

ever Get Out of This World Aliv

and of the ways in which we

ands of dollars for salvation havtories of harassment and abuse.

ientology, in an evenhandedreligion. She traces Scientology

is from a pseudoscientific self-followers and even ex-followers

nfidential documents, andng book about a little-known


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THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT

Elizabeth Speller

ISBN: 9780547511696

Hardcover, $26.00

Rights: US, O

In this stellar debut of a new mystery series, a friends death and a string of

murders lead reluctant detective Laurence Bartram backto the horrors of the

Western Front.

London, 1920. In the aftermath of the Great War and a devastating

family tragedy, Laurence Bartram has turned his back on the world. But

with a well-timed letter, an old flame manages to draw him back in.Mary Emmetts brother Johnlike Laurence, an officer during the warhas apparently killed himself while in the care of a remote veterans

hospital, and Mary needs to know why.

Aided by his friend Charlesa dauntless gentleman with detective skillscadged from mystery novelsLaurence begins asking difficult

questions. What connects a group of war poets, a bitter feud within Emmetts regiment, and a hidden loveaffair? Was Emmetts death really a suicide, or the missing piece in a puzzling series of murders? As veterantied to Emmett continue to turn up dead, and Laurence is forced to face the darkest corners of his own war

experiences, his own survival may depend on uncovering the truth.

At once a compelling mystery and an elegant literary debut, The Return of Captain John Emmettblends the

psychological depth of Pat Barkers Regeneration trilogy with lively storytelling from the golden age of British

crime fiction.

PIGEON ENGLISH

Stephen Kelman

ISBN: 9780547500607Hardcover, $24.00

Rights: US, O

A jubilant, endearing debut told in the infectious voice of an eleven-year-oldboy named Harri

Lying in front of Harrison Opuku is a body, the body of one of hisclassmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems tohave been murdered for his dinner.

Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and detective techniquesabsorbed from television shows like CSI, Harri and his best friend,

Dean, plot to bring the perpetrator to justice. They gather evidence

fingerprints lifted from windows with tape, a wallet stained with bloodand lay traps to flush out the murderer. But nothing can prepare them

for what happens when a criminal feels you closing in on him.

Recently emigrated from Ghana with his sister and mother to Londons enormous housing projects, Harri ispure curiosity and ebullienceobsessed with gummy candy, a friend to the pigeon who visits his balcony,

quite possibly the fastest runner in his school, and clearly also fast on the trail of a murderer.

Told in Harris infectious voice and multicultural slang, Pigeon English follows in the tradition of our great

novels of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery, and danger in his new, ever-expandingworld.


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BUDDHAS ORPHANS

Samrat Upadhyay

ISBN: 9780547469904

Paperback, $14.95

Rights: US, C, O

Raja and Nilu are fated to fall in love.

They both have been abandonedhe through his mothers suicide in

the public pond, she through her mothers constant escape into drink.

He has grown up on the streets, she in a crumbling mansion. And yet,they find each other, again and again. First when they are children.Then when they are young lovers. And finally after they both fear they

have lost their marriage. But the events of the past, even those we areignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. And Raja and Nilus story isnot only their own.

Using Nepals political upheavals as a backdrop to demonstrate how weare irreparably connected to past and home, Buddhas Orphans is an engrossing, unconventional love story,seductive, transporting read, and further evidence that Samrat Upadhyay is one of our finest writers,

thoroughly deserving of his acclaim as the Buddhist Chekhov and comparisons to Amitav Ghosh, WilliamTrevor, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

ON THE ROAD TO BABADAGTravels in the Other Europe

Bharati Mukherjee

ISBN: 9780151012718

Hardcover, $23.00Rights: US, C, O

A Beat-style collection of travel narratives from central and easternEurope

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys

take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To

small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangelyevocative names. The heart of my Europe, Stasiuk tells us, beats inSokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna.

Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is

being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audiloose wireshanging from the dashboardby a driver in shorts and bare feet, a

cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the opencoffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the

deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque-Byzantine-Tatar-Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way

to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, simple andsevere, a pencil pointed at the sky.

A brilliant tour of Europes dark undersidetravel writing at its very best.


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LOST RIGHTSThe Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic

David Howard

ISBN: 9780547520216

Paperback, $15.95

Rights: US, C, O

April 1865. Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Lincoln is

assassinated, and Shermans army marches into Raleigh. Sometimeamid that tumultuous stretch of days, an unknown infantryman rifles

through the North Carolina statehouse hunting for Confederate

mementosbut what he finds is no ordinary souvenir. He returns

home with a touchstone of our Republic: one of the fourteen originalcopies of the Bill of Rights.

Lost Rights follows that documents epic passage over the course of138 years, from the Indiana businessman who purchases the looted

parchment for five dollars to the antique-furniture dealer who tries topeddle it more than a century later for $5 million. The parchment drifts

from the living room wall of a midwestern family into the corruptible world of high-end antiquities before itsjourney ends with a dramatic FBI sting on the thirty-second floor of a Philadelphia office tower.

THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS

Bruce Machart

ISBN: 9780547521947Paperback, $14.95

Rights: US, C, O

A Barnes and Noble Discover Selection and

An Indie Next List Pick

Bruce Machart tells an epic story of a Texas family at the turn of thetwentieth century: a family of men led by a father, emotionally

crippled following the death of his wife while in childbirth with their

fourth boy, Karel. From an early age, Karel proves so talented on

horseback that his father enlists him to ride in acreage-staked

horseraces against his neighbors, culminating in the ultimate high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring

daughters. Hanging in the balance are his fathers fortune, hisbrothers futures, and his own fate. Fourteen years later, with the

stake of the race still driven hard between him and his brothers, Karel

is finally forced to dress the wounds of his past and salvage thetattered fabric of his family.

With rich descriptive language and a cadence as deliberate and determined as the people and horses of the

story, The Wake of Forgiveness compels us to consider the inescapable connections between sons and their

mothers, between landscape and family, and between remembrance and redemption.


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THE LOST CYCLISTThe Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Appearance

David V. Herlihy

ISBN: 9780547521985

Paperback, $14.95Rights: US, C, O

In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel

racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world.

He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the

downsized safetybicycle with inflatable tires, the forerunner of themodern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the

spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to

cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondentfor Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless

near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe forthe final leg.

He never made it. His mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey

sparked an international outcry and compelled Outing to send William

Sachtleben, another larger-than-life cyclist, on Lenzs trail. Bringing to

light a wealth of information, Herlihys gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers

accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles.

THE TAKEN

A Hazel Micallef Mystery

Inger Ash Wolfe

ISBN: 9780547521732

Paperback, $13.95

Rights: US, O

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After majorback surgery, she moves into her ex-husbands home to be cared forby his new wife. As if that werent enough to cope with, her

octogenarian mother is insisting that Hazel end her dependence on

painkillersan insistence that takes the form of secretly flushingHazels stash down the toilet.

Its almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body found in one of

the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of

her neck is that the local paper has just published the first installment

of a serialized story featuring such a scenario. Even before they headout to the lake, she and Detective Constable James Wingate knowthey are being played. But who is pulling their strings and why are

not clear, nor is what they find at the lake at all what they expected.This is no simple drowning accident or even a straightforward murder.Its Micallef herself who is snared, caught up in a cryptic game being

played by a maven of the art of deception.


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REVOLUTIONARIESA New History of the Invention of America

Jack Rakove

ISBN: 9780547521879


In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet,provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted

primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth andhappiness. None set out to become revolutionary by ambition, butwhen events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into

a crisis that moved quickly from protest to war. In Revolutionaries,

Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men weresuddenly transformed into public careershow Washington became

a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a

sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliantpolicymaker.

From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from

Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution tothe disputes that led to our two-party system, Rakove explores the competing views of politics, war,

diplomacy, and society that shaped our nation. We see the founders before they were fully formed leaders,

ordinary men who became extraordinary, altered by history.

THE LOVE SONG OF A. JEROME MINKOFFAnd Other Stories

Joseph Epstein

ISBN: 9780547520223Paperback, $13.95

Rights: US, C, O

Joseph Epstein is perhaps the smartest American alive who alsowrites well. That he has done so quietly, with impeccable modesty, is

a mark of

what might be called wisdom. Forward

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph

Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect:stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life,told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the

title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular worldJews whose lives are anchored in Chicagoin rich, revealing detaileven as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and

unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments.

Epstein, who happens to possess a standup comics gift for punchlines (New York Times Book Review), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoffis a marvelous collectio

from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.


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THE LAST TALK WITH LOLA FAYEAn Otto Penzler Book

Thomas H. Cook

ISBN: 9780547520292


Middling historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a sparselyattended readingnothing out of the ordinary. Except among theyawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the

other woman he has for decades blamed for his fathers murder.

Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye at a hotel bar. As one drink turns intoseveral, these two battered souls relive, from their different

perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly butsurely, they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this

defining momenta violent crime of passionis turned in the light

once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there ismuch Luke doesnt know. And what he doesnt know can hurt him.Trapped in an increasingly intense emotional exchange, and with noplace to go save back into his own dark past, Luke struggles to gain control of an ever more threatening

conversation, to discover what Lola Faye is afterbefore it is too late.

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