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RECENT AWARDS • RECENT AWARDS • RECENT AWARDS

Donald Hall Named Poet Laureate of the United States

American Dietetic Association’s Media Excellence AwardAnne Fletcher

California Book Awards Gold Medal for NonfictionBury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild

Francis Parkman PrizeThe Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall

Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction: FinalistsGatsby’s Girl, by Caroline PrestonTorch, by Cheryl Strayed

Kiriyama PrizeThe Reindeer People, by Piers Vitebsky

Lambda Literary AwardFebruary House, by Sherrill Tippins

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: FinalistIncentive of the Maggot, by Ron Slate

Los Angeles Times Book PrizeBury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild

MacArthur FellowshipDavid Carroll

MacArthur FellowshipDavid Macaulay

Mark Lynton History PrizeThe Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall

Massachusetts Book AwardThe Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall

Outdoor Writers Association of America’s Excellence in Craft AwardThe Grail Bird, by Tim Gallagher

PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative NonfictionRebuilt, by Michael Chorost

PEN Center USA Literary Award in Research NonfictionBury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild

PEN/Nabokov AwardPhilip Roth

Pulitzer Prize: FinalistThe Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall

Quill Award: Nominee, Best Graphic NovelFun Home, by Alison Bechdel

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award:Distinguished HonorJudgment Days, by Nick Kotz

Robert Ridgway Award (Sponsored by the AmericanBirding Association)The Singing Life of Birds, by Donald Kroodsma

Science in Society Journalism Book Award (Sponsoredby the National Association of Science Writers)Pandora’s Baby, by Robin Marantz Henig

Washington State Book AwardThe Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright FoundationLegacy Award: NomineeThird Girl from the Left, by Martha Southgate

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Michael Patrick MacDonaldEASTER RISINGAN IRISH AMERICAN COMING UP FROM UNDERA coming-of-age memoir by the author of the national bestseller All Souls, “a well-wrought tale of personal transformation, Easter Rising hits all the right notes.”—Clint Conley, Mission of BurmaISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-47025-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-47025-5 • $24.00

Ward JustFORGETFULNESSAn absorbing novel about revenge and terrorism from the author of PulitzerPrize–nominated An Unfinished Season, “superb—as suspense, as theater, as psychological warfare . . . [Just] is as seductive a raconteur as ever: companionableand worldly in an unaffected way . . . Vintage Just.”—KirkusISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-63463-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-63463-0 • $25.00

Richard DawkinsTHE GOD DELUSIONAn impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of “intelligent design,” or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East—or Middle America.ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68000-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-68000-4 • $27.00

Edna O’BrienTHE LIGHT OF EVENINGA personal and moving novel by the author of Wild Decembers, “this is a book supple with mature power and feeling, where a delicate, everyday, even humorouslove between mother and daughter is revealed as the grandest of passions.”—Nuala O’FaolainISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71867-2 • ISBN-10: 0-618-71867-2 • $25.00

Harvey Pekar, editorAnne Elizabeth Moore, series editorTHE BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2006The newest addition to the best-selling series—the first Best American annual dedicated to the finest in graphic literature.ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71874-0 • ISBN-10: 0-618-71874-5 • $22.00



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Dorie GreenspanBAKINGFROM MY HOME TO YOURSFrom the James Beard and IACP award–winning author of Baking with Julia comes amasterpiece filled with more than 300 recipes that any cook can reproduce. “A book that every home baker will love—and have fun with. Dorie’s style makes you feel that you have a good friend in the kitchen with you.”—Barbara Fairchild, editor-in-chief,Bon AppétitISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-44336-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-44336-3 • $40.00

Anne M. FletcherWEIGHT LOSS CONFIDENTIALA groundbreaking study showing how teens find weight-loss success, by the author ofthe best-selling Thin for Life. “If I had to pick one book to help a teen, parent, or physi-cian address teen weight issues, it would definitely be Weight Loss Confidential.—HelenM. Seagle, program director of weight management for Kaiser Permanente, Colorado.ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-43366-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-43366-X • $26.00

Howard NormanDEVOTION“Any novel by Howard Norman is cause for celebration. In this, his newest, he demonstrates with marveling deliberation that devotion is its own romantic adventure.Here is a wonderfully intelligent author whose every work possesses an incisiveness ofvisitation and depth of spirit.”—Lorrie MooreISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-73541-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-73541-0 • $24.00

Sara PritchardLATELYA sparkling collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book Crackpots,Lately offers more of the charming, offbeat, and empathetic characters that distinguishedher debut.ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61004-4 • ISBN-10: 0-618-61004-9 • $12.95

Wayne G. Hammond and Christina ScullTHE J.R.R. TOLKIEN COMPANION AND GUIDECHRONOLOGY, VOL. 1 / READER'S GUIDE, VOL. 2The most comprehensive, in-depth reference to Tolkien’s life and works ever publishedincludes synopses of all his writings, a Tolkien A–Z, a who’s who, and a chronology.

Boxed Set: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39113-4 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39113-4 • $100.00Chronology, Vol. 1: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39101-1 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39101-0 • $50.00Reader’s Guide, Vol. 2: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39102-8 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39102-9• $50.00

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Natalie AngierTHE CANONA Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

NATALIE ANGIER writes about biolo-gy for the New York Times, whereshe has won a Pulitzer Prize, theAmerican Association for theAdvancement of Science journalismaward, and other honors. She is theauthor of The Beauty of the Beastly,Natural Obsessions, and Woman,named one of the best books of theyear by the Los Angeles Times,Chicago Tribune, People, NationalPublic Radio, Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly, among others. A New York Times bestseller andNational Book Award finalist,Woman is “a text so necessary andabundant and true that all efforts ofits kind, for decades before and afterit, will be measured by it” (LosAngeles Times Book Review). Angierlives with her husband and daughteroutside of Washington, D.C.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCETakoma Park, Maryland

With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Womanan international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a “guided

twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws on conversationswith hundreds of the world’s top scientists, and her own work as aPulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times, to create athoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. People magazinesays, “Angier has that rare dual talent: a true passion for science combined with a poet’s linguistic flair.” Those gifts are on full displayin The Canon, an ebullient celebration of science that stands to becomea classic.

The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines:physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It’s vital readingfor anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—fromstem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It’s also one ofthose rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring outhow things work: we learn what’s actually happening when our icecream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eata caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we reallyare all made of stardust. It’s Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas—abook that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten.

From the Pulitzer prize winner and best-selling author ofWoman, a playful, passionate guide to the science around us

DARRYL ESTRINE

A Celebration of Science That’s Destined to Become a Modern Classic


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FROM

The CanonMaybe you’re one of those people who hasn’t clicked with

science since that dreadful year of high school when you

flunked physics because you showed up for the final exam an hour

late, in your pajamas, and carrying an insect collection. Or maybe

you fulfilled your college science requirements by taking courses

like the Evolutionary Psychology of Internet Dating, and you

regret that you still can’t tell the difference between a proton, a

photon, and a moron. Or maybe you’re just curiouser and curi-

ouser and you don’t know where to start. You think that the begin-

ning might be a reasonable place, but whose beginning? Not the

kiddie beginning, not the contemptuous or embarrassing or didac-

tic digit-wagging beginning, but the beginning as an adult. The

beginning as a relationship between equals, you and science. And

before you raise your hands defensively, and cry, Whoa, that’s not

a fair competition, me versus science, let me say, It’s not you

against science, but you with science, you the taxpayer who sup-

ports science whether you realize it or not, you the person who

does science more often than you’d suspect. Every time you try to

isolate a problem with the vacuum cleaner, for example—machine

heats up; machine stops running; holy hairball, when was the last

time you changed the bag in this thing, anyway? Or when you

know that if you don’t stir the hollandaise sauce constantly at a hot

but not boiling temperature you’ll end up with a mass too lumpy to

pour over your asparagus. You do science, you support science,

you’re baking the cake, you may as well lick the spoon.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-24295-5 • $27.00ISBN-10: 0-618-24295-3 The CanonMAY • Science • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • Q

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Anchee MinTHE LAST EMPRESSA Novel

ANCHEE MIN was born in Shanghaiin 1957. At seventeen she was sentto a labor collective, where a talentscout for Madame Mao’s ShanghaiFilm Studio recruited her to work asa movie actress. She came to theUnited States in 1984 with the helpof actress Joan Chen. Her memoir,Red Azalea, was named one of theNew York Times Notable Books of1994 and was an international best-seller, with rights sold in twentycountries. Her novels BecomingMadame Mao and Empress Orchidwere published to critical acclaimand were national bestsellers. Hertwo other novels, Katherine andWild Ginger, were published to wonderful reviews and impressiveforeign sales.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEWalnut Creek, California

The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions

and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ingdynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi,or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min’s critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of this complexwoman’s life.

The Last Empress is the story of Orchid’s dramatic transition froma strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvyleader. Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into thespotlight of the world stage, Orchid must not only face the perilouscondition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to earlydeath. Yearning only to step aside, and yet growing constantly into her role, only she—allied with the progressives, but loyal to the conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty—can hold the nation’s rivalfactions together.

Anchee Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history. Viciously maligned by the western press of the time as the“Dragon Lady,” a manipulative, blood-thirsty woman who held ontopower at all costs, the woman Min gives us is a compelling, very humanleader who assumed power reluctantly, and who sacrificed all she hadto protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die.

Following the national bestseller Empress Orchid,the dramatic, heroic story of the woman who presidedover the last decades of the Ch’ing dynasty

© LEI Q. MIN

“A lavish, stirring, exotic novel that is a treat for the senses and intellect alike.”—Los Angeles Times on Empress Orchid


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From

THE LAST EMPRESS

Because of Nuharoo’s restrictions and my own Court

schedule I had hardly been a presence during Tung Chih’s

childhood. Although I had kept the marks on my door-

frame measuring my son’s latest height, I knew few of his favorite

things or thoughts, only that he resented my expectations for him.

He couldn’t stand my questioning him, and even my morning

greetings made him knit his eyebrows. He told everyone that

Nuharoo was much easier to please. The fact that Nuharoo and I

competed for his affection made matters worse. It was understand-

able that he had little respect for me. I was desperate for his love,

yet the more I begged, the less he desired me.

Now all of a sudden, it seemed, he was an adult. My time to

be close with him had passed.

With a smile on his face, Tung Chih entered the Grand Hall,

dressed in the color of gold. Unlike his father, Tung Chih would

participate in the selection. Thousands of fine maidens from all

over China were led through the gates into the Forbidden City for

the eyes of the Emperor.

“Tung Chih has never been willing to rise early, but today,

he was up before the eunuchs,” Nuharoo told me.

I wasn’t sure if I should take this as good news. Tung

Chih’s experience at the brothel haunted me. With Doctor Shen-

pao-tien’s help, Tung Chih seemed to have brought the disease

under control. But no one was sure that he was completely cured.

Tung Chih would be given total freedom to do whatever

he preferred with his private life now that he was considered

“officially ascended to the throne.” To Tung Chih, marriage

equaled freedom.

senses and intellect alike.”—Los Angeles Times on Empress Orchid

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Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the imagination’s limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While

many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our currentAmerican realities of empire, state violence, the endless “crisis-chatter” oftalking heads, and the eerie, weightless feeling of impending catastrophe,they are tethered to the gravitational pull of love and hope. In Sleigh’spoems, rocket motors and pancake houses, space stations and mom’skitchen, terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part oflove’s intergalactic amplitude. As the poet writes in “After Nietzsche,” “Inthe face that must conceal / what is necessary / to bear / love appears inthe face / of the face of what is necessary.” Hailing Tom Sleigh’s work, theLos Angeles Times writes that he “stakes a claim on the planet of the imagi-nation.” In The New Yorker’s words, he “asserts the importance of poetryitself,” showing us in Space Walk its restorative, recuperative powers.

TOM SLEIGH is the author of seven collections of poetry. He hasreceived grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila WallaceFund, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerousawards, including the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Award andan Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.He currently teaches in the creative writing program at Hunter College in New York and resides in Brooklyn.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEBrooklyn, New York

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A book of poems that fearlessly explores the unsettling inner andouter spaces of post-9/11 culture, from the award-winning authorof Far Side of the Earth

“Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well-founded. I greatlyadmire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yetachieves a sense of lyric absolution.”—Seamus Heaney

SPACE WALKPoems

Tom Sleigh


In Grace Schulman’s luminous new collection, music inspires meditations on joy, faith, death, and the heart. The title refers to Itzhak

Perlman’s resolution to perform despite a missing string, and so the bookcelebrates life in its fullness and in its limitations. Here Thelonius Monkevokes Creation when he snaps his fingers “to shape pain into order.” At a street intersection where churches and a synagogue stand together,the poet recalls that “music soared in quarrels, / moans, blues, calls-and-answers, hymns that rose up / together from stone.” Hailed by HaroldBloom as “a vital and permanent poet,” Grace Schulman praises the dayeven in moments of deepest sorrow.

GRACE SCHULMAN is the recipient of the Aiken-Taylor Award, the Delmore Schwartz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three Push-cart prizes. Library Journal selected her collection Days of Wonder:New and Selected Poems as one of the best books of poetry for 2002.She lives in New York City, where she is distinguished professor ofEnglish at Baruch College, CUNY; poetry editor of the Nation; and aformer director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-44370-3 • $22.00ISBN-10: 0-618-44370-3The Broken StringMARCH • Poetry96 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCENew York City

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An award-winning poet’s new collection that praises life through the power of music

THE BROKEN STRINGPoems

Grace Schulman


Short & Sweet is all about instant gratification. Using ordinary ingredi-ents (seven ingredients or less) and radically streamlined techniques,

James Beard Award–winner Melanie Barnard shows how to make elegantdesserts in less than thirty minutes. From fruit desserts to mousses andpuddings, to cakes and cookies, to frozen desserts, and even to candiesfor gift giving, all your favorites are here: Baked Fudge Cake, StrawberryCream Shortcakes, Chocolate Thin Mint Triangles, Country Apple Tart,Scotch Butterscotch Sauce, Broiled Peach Crunch, plus 150 more.

MELANIE BARNARD has written or cowritten thirteen cookbooks,including the James Beard Award–winning American Medical Association Family Cookbook and 365 More Ways to Cook Chicken.She is the restaurant critic for the Stamford Advocate and GreenwichTimes Connecticut daily newspapers and appears often on local andnational television. She is a former Bon Appétit columnist.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87269-5 • $14.95 PAISBN-10: 0-618-87269-8Short & SweetMARCH • Cooking240 pages • 9 x 9 • Q8 pages of color photographsHoughton Mifflin hardcover, 1999Previous ISBN 0-395-90145-8

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCENew Canaan, Connecticut

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Now in paperback

“With 7 ingredients max, Melanie Barnard has proven that the best recipes are often the simplest ones.”—Sara Moulton, executive chef, Gourmet

“Smartly assembled with recipes that are appealing and sophisticated.”—New York Times

“These 150 streamlined recipes will have you putting decadentdesserts on the table in no time.”—Country Home

SHORT & SWEETSophisticated Desserts in Thirty Minutes or Less

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-89464-2$26.00ISBN-10: 0-618-89464-0The Children of HúrinAPRIL • Literature320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4More than 8 illustrations and a 2-color gatefold map

THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN

The first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien in three decades—since

the publication of The Silmarillion in1977—The Children of Húrin reunitesfans of The Hobbit and The Lord of theRings with Elves and Men, dragonsand Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs.

Presented for the first time as a complete, standalone story, this stirring narrative will appeal to casualfans and expert readers alike, return-ing them to the rich landscape andcharacters unique to Tolkien.

J.R.R. TolkienEdited by Christopher Tolkien • With illustrations by Alan Lee

Return to Middle-earth in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Epic Tale

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Jabari AsimTHE N WORDWho Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why

JABARI ASIM is deputy editor of theWashington Post Book World. Healso writes a weekly syndicated column on popular culture. His writing has appeared in Essence,Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times,the Village Voice, the Hungry MindReview, Emerge, and elsewhere. He lives in Maryland with his wifeand five children.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEBaltimore, Maryland

In 2003, Randall Kennedy’s book Nigger started an intense conversation about the use and implications of that epithet.

The N Word moves far beyond Kennedy’s short, provocative book by revealing how the slur has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the last 400 years.

Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduringimage of the “nigger.” In Jefferson’s seminal but now obscure essay, he marshaled a welter of pseudo-science to define the stereotype of a shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self control. Asimreveals how nineteenth-century “science” then colluded with popularculture to amplify this slander. What began as false generalizationsbecame institutionalized in every corner of our society: the arts and sciences, sports, the law, and on the streets.

Asim’s conclusion is as original as his premise. He argues evenwhen uttered with the opposite intent by hipsters and hip-hop icons, using the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America’s socio-economic ladder.

But, Asim also proves, there is a place for this word in the mouthsand on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history—from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle to Mos Def. Only when we knowits legacy can we loosen this slur’s grip on our national psyche.

A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word

WILL O’LEARY

An investigation of the most incendiary word in our culture today



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Supporters defend such lyrics as keeping itreal, or merely reflecting accurately whatis said and done in urban neighborhoods

on a daily basis. But that explanation fails toaccount for other rappers, whose “reports” on the same conditions use far different language.“Nigger” and/or “nigga” appear far less frequentlyin the work of socially conscious rappers such asChuck D of Public Enemy, Mos Def, Common, andLauryn Hill, although they also address suchpotentially explosive issues as inner city poverty,racial discrimination, and relations between blackmen and women. Just as much of black culturaloutput can be considered as a counternarrative to the majority culture’s enduring myth of blackinferiority, the work of intellectually astute hip-hop artists can be heard as a counternarrativeto gangsta rap’s legacy of rampant nihilism.Because much of gangsta rap turns a blind eye to history, it often abets a white supremacistagenda by keeping alive dangerous stereotypeslinking African Americans to laziness, criminalviolence, and sexual insatiability. Instead ofstanding up to “the Man,” gangsta rappers serveas his henchmen.

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Paul DaviesCOSMIC JACKPOTWhy Our Universe Is Just Right for Life

PAUL DAVIES is an internationallyacclaimed physicist and cosmologistnow at Arizona State University,where he is setting up a pioneeringcenter for the “study of life, the uni-verse, and everything.” In additionto his many scientific awards, he isthe recipient of the 1995 TempletonPrize—the world’s largest annualprize—for his work on science andreligion. He is the author of morethan twenty books, including TheMind of God, About Time, The Originof Life, and How to Build a TimeMachine. He also chairs the Searchfor Extraterrestrial Intelligence post-detection committee, so that if SETIsucceeds in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know.The asteroid 1992OG was officiallyrenamed Pauldavies in his honor.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEPhoenix, Arizona

People have long gazed in wonder at the universe and asked, Whyare we here? Until recently, the answer has been the province of

priests and philosophers, but now scientists are starting to weigh inwith ideas that are both surprising and deeply controversial. In his newbook, physicist Paul Davies shows how recent scientific discoveriespoint to a perplexing fact: many basic features of the physical uni-verse—from the speed of light to the most humble carbon atom—seemtailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it’s because ouruniverse is just one of an infinite number of universes, each one slightlydifferent. Our universe is bio-friendly by accident; we just happened to win the cosmic jackpot.

While this multiverse theory is compelling, it has bizarre implica-tions, from infinite copies of each of us to Matrix-like simulated uni-verses. Davies believes there’s a more satisfying solution to the questionof existence: the observations we make today could help shape thenature of reality in the remote past. If this is true, then life and, ultimately, consciousness aren’t just incidental byproducts of nature,but central players in the formation of the universe.

Whether he’s elucidating dark matter or dark energy, M-theory or the multiverse, Davies brings the leading edge of science into sharpfocus, making us think about the cosmos in new and thrilling ways.

The author of the classic bestseller The Mind of Godtakes on one of today’s deepest scientific mysteries

EFFY ALEXAKIS / MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

“[Davies] can make sense out of quite daunting ideas…”—New York Times Book Review



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We human beings have been made privy to the deepestworkings of the universe. Other animals observe the

same natural phenomena as we do, but alone among the creatures on this planet, Homo sapiens can also explain them.

How has this come about? Somehow the universe hasengineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, not just mind, but understanding. Theevolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merelyto watch the show, but to unravel the plot. What is it thatenables something as small and delicate and adapted to terres-trial life as the human brain to engage with the totality of thecosmos and the silent mathematical tune to which it dances?For all we know, this is the first and only time anywhere in the universe that minds have glimpsed the cosmic code. Ifhumans are snuffed out in the twinkling of a cosmic eye, itmay never happen again. The universe may endure for a trillion years, shrouded in total mystery, save for a fleetingpulse of enlightenment on one small planet around one average star in one unexceptional galaxy, 13.7 billion yearsafter it all began.

Could it just be a fluke? Might the fact that the deepestlevel of reality has connected to a quirky natural phenomenonwe call “the human mind” represent nothing but a bizarre andtemporary aberration in an absurd and pointless universe? Or is there an even deeper subplot at work?

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Mark SloukaTHE VISIBLE WORLDA Novel

An exquisite, powerfully romantic novel about a son’s attempt to understand his mother’s past

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“The Visible World reveals what is invisible within us. It’s a pure pleasure to turn its pages.”—Ha Jin

A U T H O R P R O F I L E

The child of Czech immigrants himself,MARK SLOUKA draws on his personalexperience and the inevitable intru-sions of the past on the present. He isthe author of the novel God’s Fool,named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, theshort story collection Lost Lake, a New York Times Notable Book in 1998,and the nonfiction work War of theWorlds. Three of his essays have beenselected for inclusion in The BestAmerican Essays, and his short story“The Woodcarvers Tale” won theNational Magazine Award for fiction.He is a contributing editor at Harper’sMagazine, and is currently the directorfor the writing program at the University of Chicago.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEChicago, Illinois

The unnamed narrator of The Visible World, the American-bornson of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an

atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand.Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother, Ivana, a spontaneous, passionate woman moving ever closer to genuine despair.As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to learn about a loveaffair between his then young mother and a member of the CzechResistance named Tomas, an affair whose untimely end, he senses, lays behind Ivana’s unhappiness. Ultimately unable to complete hisknowledge of the past, he imagines the two lovers as participants in one of the more dramatic moments of the war: the actual assassinationof a high-ranking Nazi official. And, in the almost unimaginably roman-tic story he tells, he creates the ending of their story and the beginningof his own.

From an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W. G.Sebald, The Visible World is a literary page-turner and an immenselypowerful novel about the vagaries of love and our need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.



“The Visible World gains on itself from page to page, deepening its shadow, enlarging its implication,

refining the pitch of its clear tragic note. It’s also a genuine page-turner, a read.”—SVEN BIRKERTS

ike all children, there were many things I didn’t under-

stand. I didn’t understand why it was that the roses of Karlovy

Vary, when dipped into a bucket of mineral water at the cost of ten

crowns a stem, would grow streaked with gray and green deposits

and harden to stone. I didn’t understand the story I’d overheard of

twenty-year-old Robert Nezval, the poet’s son, whose mother had

walked into the family parlor one winter afternoon to find him

playing the piano with both his wrists slashed.

But some things I knew. I knew there had been a war. That all

the people we knew had gone through it in one way or another.

That Czechoslovakia, the country my parents came from, had been

taken over. That some had fought back, and others hadn’t.

I knew other things. I knew that once upon a time there had

been someone for whom my mother had cared very much. Who

had gone out hunting in the rain one morning and never returned.

Who had lost his way in the forest. Or leaned too far over the

water. I knew this the way children know things, and knowing it

didn’t trouble me. It had to be that way so that things could be the

way they were now. So that in the early mornings my father could

draw me whales with his fountain pen instead of working on his

dissertation—three quick strokes made a spout; a single touch of

ink, a backward-glancing eye.

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Don Kroodsma has a rare ability to make science entertaining. Tens ofthousands of readers have already gone behind the music of bird-

song. From the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, the book wasuniversally acclaimed for encouraging the reader to listen to birdsong withan inquisitive mind.

The Singing Life of Birds is a fascinating read for anyone who yearnsto understand the hidden dramas unfolding in his or her own backyard.Using highly personal stories, Kroodsma puts the reader inside the mindof a research scientist to explore how and why birds sing and how we canbetter understand them through their songs. He deals with questions suchas How does an individual acquire its songs—are they innate and encodedin the DNA, or are they learned? How and why do songs of individualsdiffer from place to place? Why do birds expend so much effort insinging?

DONALD KROODSMA, winner of the 2006 John Burroughs MedalAward and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts,has studied birdsong for more than thirty years. He was recognizedas the “reigning authority on the biology of avian vocal behavior” in the citation for his 2003 Elliot Coues Award from the AmericanOrnithologists’ Union.

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Avolume for a lifetime” is how The New Yorker described the first ofDonald Culross Peattie’s two great classics, referred to elsewhere as

“the most eloquent, informative, and entertaining books ever writtenabout the trees of North America.”

In Peattie’s accounts of more than one hundred tree species, we learnabout everything from how the tree was discovered to the part treesplayed (or oversaw) in our country’s history, including the Penn TreatyElm; the beech trees where Audubon painted the Passenger Pigeons; thewood that earned the nickname “Old Ironsides”; the tulip trees thatDaniel Boone hollowed out to make a canoe for his family; and the com-mercial uses of its wood—for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house construction, box crates, airplane wings, and dozens ofother preplastic uses.

The result is a picture of life in America from its earliest days to themiddle of the last century. The information is always interesting, but itoften is heartbreaking as well. While Peattie looks for the better side ofman’s nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that hasdoomed so much of America’s virgin forests. No one will read this bookwithout the occasional lump in the throat.

More than one hundred of the original, stunning black-and-whiteillustrations by Paul Landacre make this a visual as well as a literary treat.

DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE (1898–1964), a trained botanist, publishedtwo dozen books in his lifetime, but the tree books are the ones he isremembered for.

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With an introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

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A NATURAL HISTORY OFNORTH AMERICAN TREES

Donald Culross Peattie

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David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D.with Suzanne Rostler, M.S., R.D.

ENDING THE FOOD FIGHTGuide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World

A pioneering pediatrician and researcher delivers a landmark book for families of overweight children

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“Impeccably researched and brilliantly practical. Thank you, thank you, Dr. Ludwig.”—Christiane Northrup, M.D.


DR. DAVID LUDWIG is an associate pro-fessor of pediatrics at Harvard MedicalSchool, as well as director of the OWLprogram at Children’s Hospital Boston.He has published more than seventyarticles in major scientific journals. Dr.Ludwig’s research, including reportson the relationship between childhood obesity and the consumption of fastfood and soda, is regularly covered innational media. SUZANNE ROSTLER is adietician at the OWL clinic. Shereceived a master’s of science in clinical nutrition from New York University.

As an endocrinologist at Harvard, Dr. David Ludwig pioneered theuse of a low-glycemic diet in combating obesity. His groundbreak-

ing research is the basis for some of the most successful diets of the lastdecade, including the “South Beach Diet” and “SugarBusters.” Tenyears ago, Dr. Ludwig founded the Optimal Weight for Life Program(OWL) at Children’s Hospital Boston. There he and his team tailoredhis low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a powerfulnine-week progressive plan that benefits the patient and the entire family.

This scientifically proven approach addresses, for the first time, all three key factors affecting body weight—biology, behavior, andenvironment—and integrates them into a practical prescription forweight loss. It also recognizes the challenges children and their parentsface in today’s toxic food world. We are surrounded not only by high-calorie, low-quality fast food, but also by more and more “fake food”:processed foods unlike anything found in nature.

In Ending the Food Fight, Dr. Ludwig shares his program with parents everywhere, giving them all the tools they need to help theirchildren win the food fight, once and for all.

~~~“With childhood obesity soaring, it is essential to draw on cutting-edge

research in nutrition to develop effective programs for prevention and treatment. Ending the Food Fight does just that. I highly recommend it.” —ANDREW WEIL, M.D.



“This book comes from a wise and caring physician andnutritionist whose compassion and devotion to children’shealth shines through on every page . . . Should give hopeand courage to any parent wondering how best to help anoverweight child.”

—MARION NESTLE, author of What to Eatand professor of nutrition, New York University

“At a time when obesity in children has already become an epidemic this book should be a must for all parents.”

—T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., professor of pediatrics emeritus, Harvard Medical School

“Dr. Ludwig is our hope for a healthier, saner society.”—MARK HYMAN, M.D., author of Ultrametabolism

“This book has the potential to revolutionize the way wedeal with childhood obesity.”

—SANDRA WOODRUFF, past president of the Florida Dietetic Association

“Anyone caring for children will want to read this book.”—WALTER WILLETT, M.D., chair of the department

of nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

“This book is fresh, compassionate, and above all, right.”—KELLY D. BROWNELL, Ph.D., chair of the

department of psychology, Yale University

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Andrew BeyerBEYER ON SPEEDNew Strategies for Racetrack Betting

Andrew Beyer shows the handicapper how to make his BeyerSpeed Figures the focal point of a horse wagering strategy for

pursuing spectacular profits.No serious horseplayer should be without Beyer on Speed. It

explains how to relate speed figures to such factors as pace, track bias,and track conditions. It helps the bettor utilize the new opportunitiesfor picking winners, such as video replays or a successfully structuredpick-six ticket—whether betting online, on the phone, or at the track.Written in Beyer’s engaging, rapid-fire prose, Beyer on Speed revealsoptimal use of the figures based on computer analysis of more than10,000 races. This invaluable book on wagering is a classic of the sportand can be enjoyed by the novice as well as the advanced player.

“A wonderfully entertaining and informative book . . . All racefans should read it.”—Daily Racing Form

With a new preface

© 2001, THE WASHINGTON POST. PHOTO BY NATEPARSONS. REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION.


ANDREW BEYER thoroughly revolution-ized handicapping when he createdhis “Beyer Speed Figures,” a measureof how fast a horse has run in a givenrace, and an indispensable tool forhorseplayers. Making the necessarycalculations to develop a set of figuresfor each horse in each race was tootime-consuming for most horseplay-ers, so in 1992 the Daily Racing Formcommissioned Beyer and his associ-ates to provide his speed figures forevery horse competing in North America. Beyer has been a columnistfor the Washington Post since 1978,and contributes regularly to the Daily Racing Form. He is considered one ofthe leading experts on horse racing.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEWashington, D.C.


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introduces the concept of trip handicapping. Beyer offers anunbeatable combination of case studies and lively anecdotesthrough which bettors can substantially improve theirchances of making a profit.

PICKING WINNERSA Horseplayer’s Guide

With a stunning new jacket

“If the Daily Racing Form is the horseplayer’s Bible, I believe that Beyer has written its mostinformative Testament.”—Bill Nack

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Ever see Mike Piazza block the plate? Or Derek Jeter slide hard intosecond? Illegal. But it happens every game. Baseball’s rules, it seems,

were made to be broken. And they are, by the players, the front office, andeven sometimes the fans. Like it or not, cheating has been an integral partof America’s favorite pastime since its inception. The Cheater’s Guide toBaseball will show you how cheating is really done.

In this lively tour through baseball’s underhanded history, readers will learn how to cork a bat, steal signs, hurl a spitball, throw a WorldSeries, and win at any cost!

They’ll also see the dirty little secrets of the game’s greatest manipula-tors: John McGraw and Ty Cobb; Billy Martin and Gaylord Perry; GraigNettles and Sammy Sosa; and, yes, even Barry Bonds. They’ll find outhow the Cleveland Indians doctored their basepaths to give new meaningto the term home field advantage. They’ll delight in a hilarious examina-tion of the Black Sox scandal, baseball’s original sin. And, in the end,they’ll come to understand that cheating is as much a part of baseball aspine tar and pinch hitters. And it’s here to stay.

DEREK ZUMSTEG co-authored five editions of the best-selling BaseballProspectus annual and runs the most popular Seattle Mariners Web site, U.S.S. Mariner (ussmariner.com). He also contributes toESPN.com and has only cheated at baseball, football, basketball, golf, and poker—as far as we know.


An uproarious and wholly original history of cutting corners andplaying dirty in the national pastime—you’ll never watch baseballthe same way again

THE CHEATER’S GUIDE TO BASEBALL

Derek Zumsteg

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When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levin-son revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business

owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based onhundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has givenbirth to a new way of learning about market share and how to gain it. Inthis completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Levinson offers anew arsenal of weaponry for small-business success in the next century.Filled with strategies for marketing on the Internet (explaining when andprecisely how to use it), tips for putting other new technologies to work,programs for targeting prospects and cultivating repeat and referral busi-ness, and management lessons in the age of telecommuting and freelanceemployees, this book will be the entrepreneur’s marketing bible in thetwenty-first century.

JAY CONRAD LEVINSON is the author of more than a dozen books in the Guerrilla Marketing series. A former vice president and creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising and Leo BurnettAdvertising, he is the chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a consulting firm serving large and small businesses worldwide.

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GUERRILLA MARKETINGEasy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making BigProfits from Your Small Business

Jay Conrad Levinson

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COOKING FROM THE HIPFast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals

CAT CORA attended the Culinary Insti-tute of America and trained with suchcelebrated chefs as Larry Forgione,George Blanc, and Roger Vergé. Sherecently starred in NBC’s CelebrityCooking Showdown. As president and cofounder of Chefs for Humanity,she spearheads a number of charityevents, including Hurricane Katrinarelief efforts for New Orleans and hernative state, Mississippi. ANN KRUEGERSPIVACK wrote the series MichaelChiarello’s Napa for public televisionand Visions of Chocolate.

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCESCora: Fairfield, CaliforniaSpivack: Gilroy, California

The Food Network’s first and only female Iron Chefchampion shares her secrets for creating unforgettable dinners in no time flat

“With her boundless energy and southern drawl, the kitchen goddess charms audiences and dazzles palates with Mediterranean-inspired dishes.”—Vanity Fair

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From the star of Food Network’s top-rated Iron Chef America

As the star of the enormously popular TV program Iron Chef America, Cat Cora regularly battles the legendary chefs Bobby

Flay, Mario Batali, and Masaharu Morimoto to create spectacular mealsin record time. So she is used to putting together inspired dishes on amoment’s notice. Now the vivacious chef and mom shows how toapply her friendly “go-with-what-you’ve-got” philosophy to create sim-ple, sensational meals.

Cooking from the Hip showcases more than 100 dishes, dividedinto convenient categories: FAST (thirty minutes or less), EASY(interruption-proof), FUN (relaxing to prepare with friends), andPHENOMENAL (special dishes for special evenings). Cooks can turnto whichever section suits their needs, whether it be dinner in twentyminutes or a fantastic recipe for a spur-of-the-moment Friday get-together.

“Cooking from the hip” means flexibility. It means cutting downsteps, combining just a few ingredients in inventive ways, pulling inleftovers, and wowing family and friends in the process.



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Faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts UniversityEdited by Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, MRCVSwith Lawrence Lindner

PUPPY’S FIRST STEPSRaising a Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Dog

A world renowned animal behaviorist,NICHOLAS DODMAN is the best-sellingauthor of the immensely popular TheDog Who Loved Too Much, The CatWho Cried for Help, and Dogs Behav-ing Badly, among other books. He hasappeared on Oprah, the Today Show,Good Morning America, 20/20, andCNN, among many other televisionand radio programs. CUMMINGSSCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE ATTUFTS UNIVERSITY treats more than28,000 patients annually. Its four-yearprogram that leads to a doctor of veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) degree isconsistently ranked among the topprograms in the country. LAWRENCELINDNER was a collaborating writer on Strong Women and Men BeatArthritis, a New York Times bestseller,and has written for numerous publica-tions, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Condé NastTraveler, Woman’s Day, and McCalls,among others.

Move over Monks of New Skete. Sit down Cesar Millan. Your theories are outmoded and not universally supported by science.

Puppy’s First Steps is a comprehensive, accessible, and humane guideto puppies from one of the world’s premiere veterinary schools.Nowhere else will readers find this whole-dog approach—a uniquecombination of training, behavior, and health care.

Based on cutting-edge research, real day-to-day clinical experi-ence, and unparalleled expertise, the faculty of the Tufts UniversityCummings School, led by the renowned animal behaviorist NicholasDodman, provides the very best information on the health and behav-ior of puppies. Covering everything from how to pick a puppy, what tofeed him, and how to housetrain, to why puppies behave the way theydo and what to do in a host of medical situations, Puppy’s First Steps isthe only book a puppy owner will need.

The book for the enlightened dog owner: a groundbreaking,whole-dog approach for raising a puppy from the halls of oneof the most prestigious and pioneering veterinary schools inthe world

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The new gold standard in raising puppies from the leading authorities in the field



Experience shows that the first twelvemonths of a dog’s life are the most

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Get your puppy off on the right foot with advice from the experts

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• Whole-Dog Approach: Experts at the Cummings School havethe unique expertise to look at a puppy from all sides—health,behavior, and proper training. Their integrative, body-and-mindapproach sets them apart from the one-size-fits-all mentality thatpervades the dog training world.

• Evidence Based: This book is not about just one dog trainer orbreeder’s “idea” for what works most of the time. Puppy’s FirstSteps is based on observation and experiment from the frontlinesof the veterinary field.

• Positive Training: The popular school of thought says the bestway to train a pup is to punish or “correct” his bad behavior. Butthe experts at the Cummings School have found that dogsbehave better—and more consistently—when rewarded for theirgood actions rather than punished for their bad ones. In fact, badactions are best managed by the absence of reward.

• Preventative Medicine: Tufts is world renowned for its emer-gency dog care and high-tech facilities, but this book also focuseson the everyday care of puppies and what they need to thrive,from the most effective training to environmental enrichment torevolutionary ideas about diet and nutrition.

• Advice You Can Trust—and Embrace: Experts at the Cum-mings School demonstrate puppy training in a way that enablesan owner to feel comfortable and sure, and won’t jeopardize along, healthy bond between owner and pet.

• Putting the Dog’s Needs First: Others may claim to be dogwhisperers, but experts at the Cummings School believe it ismore important to be dog listeners. Based on a vast knowledge ofthe canine species, they help owners “listen” to and consider thedog’s needs. Understanding and meeting these needs almostalways results in what the owner wanted in the first place.

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from the leading authorities in the field


Good Birding Tips

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“The greatest compilation of birding know-how of all time.”—Pete Dunne, from the foreword

GOOD BIRDERS DON’T WEAR WHITE50 Tips from North America’s Top Birders

Lisa White, editorForeword by Pete Dunne

Alight and fun collection of birding advice, with contributions fromKenn Kaufman, David Sibley, Pete Dunne, Tim Gallagher, Don and

Lillian Stokes, Bill Thompson III, and forty-four others.Original essays from the biggest names in birding dispense advice to

birders of every level, on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaningbinoculars to pishing and pelagic birding. Whether satirizing bird snobsor relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, each essay ischock-full of helpful information and entertaining as well.

Pete Dunne’s lively foreword kicks off the collection of essays, whichare organized by category. Half of the essays are illustrated with delightfulblack-and-white line drawings by artist Robert Braunfield.

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

• Do your part for conservation

• Take field notes• Go birding in bad weather

• Keep your optics clean

• Slow down and see more birds

• Use a scope • Learn birdsongs


In Once Upon a Game, Alan Schwarz, author of the critically acclaimedThe Numbers Game, assembles a delightful collection of personal

memories about baseball from some of the game’s all-time legends and itsmost famous fans. Derek Jeter tells how at age ten he declared to his par-ents that he would be a major leaguer; Ernie Banks recalls the moment hecoined the phrase “Let’s play two!”; Mike Piazza recounts his backyardbatting lesson with Ted Williams. With intimacy and insight, dozens ofthe game’s greatest players remember the finest moments of their careers.

Lavishly illustrated and handsomely designed, Once Upon a Game isa one-of-a-kind collective reminiscence.

Includes personal reflections from Yogi Berra, Kevin Costner, ReggieJackson, Pedro Martinez, Cal Ripken Jr., Nolan Ryan, Charles Schulz,and more.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

ALAN SCHWARZ is the senior writer of Baseball America magazine,the host of “Baseball Today” on ESPN.com, and a regular contributorto the New York Times. His first book, The Numbers Game, wasESPN’s 2004 Baseball Book of the Year. He is a frequent on-air guest analyst for ESPN, National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation,and MSNBC.

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A baseball lover’s delight—a stirring and beautifully illustratedcollection of personal memories from the game’s greatest starsand celebrities

Alan SchwarzForeword by George Will

ONCE UPON A GAMEBaseball’s Greatest Memories



Nicole MonesTHE LAST CHINESE CHEFA Novel

T he Last Chinese Chef is the transporting story of how the sensual,romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect

ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.For food writer Maggie McElroy, it’s been a year of trying to get

her equilibrium back in the wake of her husband’s premature death.Now comes a shock: a paternity claim has been filed against her hus-band’s estate. Could he, while working in his firm’s Beijing office, havefathered a child?

As Maggie plans a difficult trip to China to investigate the claim,she is offered a chance to profile chef and rising star Sam Liang. Whatbegins as a hoped-for distraction while in Beijing, however, turns into alife-changing event. As Maggie watches three generations of Liangsprepare sumptuous feasts together, she is moved by the Chinese beliefthat food must always be eaten in a circle of family and friends. As shereads Sam’s grandfather’s account of life as a cook in the Emperor’skitchen, Maggie discovers the centrality of food in Chinese history.And as Sam cooks a chicken as soft as velvet—spiced along centuries’-old notions of what heals the heart—Maggie begins to fall in love.

In the end, Maggie does unravel the truth about her husband. Butmost profoundly, The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of awoman coming home to herself in the most unexpected of places.

A sensuous new novel from the author of the best-selling Lost in Translation

KRISTIN FINNEGAN

Chinese Haute Cuisine is the backdrop for this thrilling story of epicurean love and adventure


NICOLE MONES is the author of the NewYork Times Notable Book Lost in Trans-lation and A Cup of Light. She started a textile business in China at the end of the Cultural Revolution and ran it foreighteen years, and she brings to herfiction writing an in-depth understand-ing of China and its culture. Mones is a frequent contributor to Gourmetmagazine, which ran an excerpt of TheLast Chinese Chef—marking the firsttime Gourmet has ever published fictionin its pages.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEPortland, Oregon



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She plucked a morsel from the side of the bird, low on the

breast where the moistness of the thigh came in, and tasted it.

It was soft as velvet, chicken times three, shot through with ginger

and the note of onion. Small sticks of bone, their essence exhausted,

crumbled in her mouth. She passed them into her hand and

dropped them on the plate. “But it’s perfect,” she said. “All chicken

should be cooked that way, all the time. I may have never tasted

anything so good.”

“Thank you.”

“I mean it.” She bit into another piece, succulent, soft, perfect-

ed. It made her melt with comfort. It put a roof over her head and a

patterned warmth around her so that even though all her anguish

was still with her it became, for a moment, something she could

bear. She closed her eyes in the bliss of relief. She finished and

passed out the bones. “Are you going to make this for the ban-

quet?”

“No,” he said. “This I made for you.”

She looked up quickly.

“These are flavors for you, right now,” he explained, “to bene-

fit you. Ginger and cilantro and chives; they’re very powerful. Very

healing.”

“Healing of what?” she said, and put her chopsticks down.

She felt his human force suddenly, as if he were standing quite close

to her instead of sitting across the counter, and she sat up in appre-

hension.

“Grief,” he said.

Grief? The unpleasant nest of everything she felt pressed up

against the surface: sadness, shame, anger at Matt. Anger at Sam for

presuming, for intruding; gratitude to Sam for those same things.

Her voice, when it came out, sounded bewildered. “You’re treating

me for grief?”

“No,” he insisted. “I’m cooking for you. There’s a difference.”

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thrilling story of epicurean love and adventure


Julia Whitty paints a mesmerizing, scientifically rich portrait ofteeming coral reefs off Rangiroa in French Polynesia—the underwater

equivalent of an African big game safari—where hammerhead sharks, the thugs of the reef, rule a cascading chain of extraordinary underwatercreatures.

Equally inspiring for armchair or expert divers, The Fragile Edgeilluminates eastern-influenced diving techniques that transform ourunderstanding of diving from sport to breath-inspired art. Whitty reportson the latest ways in which science extends our understanding of unfath-omable waters, including the sonar tracking of a huge, unknown lonerwith a voice louder than that of any known species.

On the island of Mo’orea in the South Pacific, she witnesses theentrapment of a group of spinner dolphins caught inside the sievebetween barrier reef and coral atoll. In this and scores of other intenselymemorable scenes, Whitty emerges as one of our finest writers on themystery, beauty, and fragility of the underwater ocean world.

JULIA WHITTY is the author of A Tortoise for the Queen ofTonga. Her writing on oceans has been featured as coverarticles in Mother Jones and Harper’s magazines. She hasalso written and produced more than seventy documen-taries for PBS, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and more. Whitty lives in northern California.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCESebastapol, California

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A master diver and filmmaker on the mystery, fragility—and heart-stopping adventure—of underwater life in the South Pacific

THE FRAGILE EDGEDiving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

Julia Whitty

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The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds fromthe beginning of our Republic. Today, we focus less on the Roman

Republic than on the Empire that took its place. Depending on who’sdoing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warming of imminent collapse.

Esteemed editor and author Cullen Murphy ventures past the pundits’ rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoidRome’s demise. Working on a canvas that extends far beyond the issue of an overstretched military, Murphy reveals a wide array of similaritiesbetween the two empires: the blinding, insular culture of our capitals; thedebilitating effect of corruption; the paradoxical issue of borders; and theweakening of the body politic through various forms of “privatization.”Most pressingly, he argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeon-ing corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of theworld outside—two things that are in our power to change.

In lively, richly detailed historical stories based on the latest scholar-ship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts our own contemporaryworld in a provocative new light.

As managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly for more than twodecades, CULLEN MURPHY worked with many of today’s best writersand helped to define the magazine’s editorial direction. He recentlyleft to become the editor at large at Vanity Fair. He is the author ofThe Word According to Eve and Rubbish.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEMedfield, Massachusetts

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A compelling look at the unexpected ways America resemblesancient Rome and what we must do to avoid a catastrophic fall.

ARE WE ROME?The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

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Susan Gregory ThomasBUY, BUY BABYThe Mass Seduction of Our Youngest Consumers,and How It’s Changing the American Family

An investigative journalist examines how marketers exploitinfants and toddlers, and the broad, often shocking, impact ofthat exploitation in our society at large

GREG MARTIN

A call to action for parents of the very youngest consumers


SUSAN GREGORY THOMAS is an inves-tigative journalist and broadcaster.Formerly a senior editor at U.S. News& World Report and co-host of publictelevision’s Digital Duo, she has alsowritten for Time, the Washington Post,Glamour, and elsewhere. She has twochildren, five and three years old.


It’s no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecu-rities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils

the chilling fact that these corporations are using—and often funding—the latest research in child development in order to sell things directlyto babies and toddlers. Thomas offers other, perhaps even moreunnerving epiphanies: the lack of evidence that “educational” showsand toys provide any educational benefit at all for young children; andthe growing evidence that some of these products actually impair earlydevelopment, and could harm our kids socially and cognitively for life.Underlying these revelations is a dangerous economic and culturalshift: our kids are becoming consumers at alarmingly young ages andsuffering all the ills that rampant materialism used to visit only onadults—from anxiety to hyper-competitiveness to depression.

Thomas blends prodigious reportage with an empathetic voice.Her two daughters were toddlers while she wrote this book, and shenever loses sight of the temporal and emotional challenges that parentsface. She shows how we can help our kids live at their natural pace, notthe frenetic clip that serves only the toddler-industrial complex. Buy,Buy Baby helps us fight the power marketers wield by exposing thefalse fears they spread.



What might be called the baby genius phenomenon—the widely held notion

that infants and toddlers can be made smarter viaexposure to the right products and TV programs—hasspread throughout the toy industry. Today, to be com-petitive in the baby and toddler business, a toymakermust make toys that encourage “learning,” or at leastclaim that they do. The fastest-growing segment ofthe $3.2 billion infant and preschool toy business isrepresented by “educational” products, those that areadvertised to stimulate babies’ and toddlers’ cognitiveabilities. Indeed, the demand for such playthings hascompletely transformed the toy industry. It has helpedcatapult dot-com era start-ups such as LeapFrog intothe major leagues. It has also drastically shifted thebusiness strategies of long-time players such as Mattel’s Fisher-Price and Hasbro’s PlaySkool, as theytry to compete in a market driven by so-called educa-tional value as defined by wholesale buyers whoemploy no educational guidelines in their decisions,but who are governed only by how they believe customers will respond to packaging claims. It is nowstandard practice for anyone marketing to very youngchildren and their families to make certain that hisproduct—and brand—wears what is called an educa-tional halo. As one kids’ marketing executive affirmed,if your company can establish a halo, “you can prettymuch get away with anything.”

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the very youngest consumers

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BUY, BUY,BABY


In The Knowledge Deficit, the esteemed education critic, activist, andbest-selling author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., illuminates the real issue in educa-

tion today: without an effective curriculum, American students are losingthe global education race. This book corrects popular misconceptionsabout hot issues in education, such as standardized testing, and takes totask educators’ claims that they are powerless to overcome class differ-ences. Hirsch explains why schools have taken the wrong path inresponse to No Child Left Behind, and shows that although schools areteaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledgeneeded for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehen-sion. In the end, Hirsch gives parents and teachers specific tools forenhancing children’s abilities to fully understand what they read.

E. D. HIRSCH, JR., is the author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy anda fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is president andfounder of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organizationdevoted to educational reform.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87225-1 • $13.95 PAISBN-10: 0-618-87225-6 The Knowledge DeficitAPRIL • Education192 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • QHoughton Mifflin hardcover, 2006Previous ISBN 0-618-65731-2

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCECharlottesville, Virginia

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“American schools are failing to teach our children to read intelligently, and The Knowledge Deficit explains why . . . indispensable.”—Wall Street Journal

THE KNOWLEDGE DEFICITClosing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.


In this eating tour of America, the gurus of the road, Jane and MichaelStern, hunt down nearly 100 examples of supreme sandwichery and

show how to recreate them in the kitchen.The United Sandwiches of America includes nearly every state, from

California (a quintessential Grilled Gruyère with Braised Leeks on multi-grain from Clementines in L.A.), to New York (Chopped Liver from thefamous Katz’s Deli), up to Maine (an overflowing, warm lobster roll fromthe Maine Diner in Wells), and down to Florida (a Cuban: ham, pork,Swiss, and garlicky salami with pickles, lettuce, and tomato). It embracesthe Muffuletta of New Orleans and the Hot Brown of Louisville (whiteturkey meat under sizzling cheese with tomato and bacon), not to be confused with the Hot Truck of Ithaca, New York (a pizza sub). JuliaChild’s when-nobody’s-looking favorite is here (baked beans on a master-ful brown bread), and so is Elvis’s beloved Peanut Butter and Banana.

Each of the legendary heroes, hoagies, wraps, grinders, blimps,gyros, and subs comes with its own quirky story. All in all, it’s a giantslice of life.

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are contributing editors to Gourmet,where they write the James Beard Award–winning monthly column“Roadfood.” In 1992 the Sterns received a James Beard LifetimeAchievement Award.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72898-5 • $14.95 PAISBN-10: 0-618-72898-8Roadfood SandwichesMAY • Cooking240 pages • 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 • ATwo-color throughout

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCEWest Redding, Connecticut

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The best-selling authors of Roadfood and Two for the Road serveup the finest sandwiches in America and tell how to make them,where to find them, and why we love them

“Jane and Michael Stern are America’s leading authorities onthe culinary delights to be found while driving.”—Newsweek

ROADFOOD SANDWICHESRecipes and Lore from Our Favorite Shops Coast to Coast

Jane and Michael Stern


Part memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all parts hilarious,Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns have learned during

thirty years of sampling regional fare on America’s back roads. If you wanta great restaurant, forget the Yellow Pages, ask the local cop—and avoidanything that calls itself “world famous.” Sure bets are places with a giantplastic pig on the roof or pictures of Jesus on the walls. As the Sternssearch for the Holy Grail of barbecue, they relate achingly funny adven-tures and misadventures, and what emerges is a big picture of America,revealing exotic eating customs that flourish right under our noses.

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are contributing editors to Gourmet,where they write the James Beard Award–winning monthly column“Roadfood.” They appear weekly on The Splendid Table on NationalPublic Radio. In 1992 the Sterns received a James Beard LifetimeAchievement Award and were inducted into the Who’s Who of Foodand Beverage in America.

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AUTHORS’ RESIDENCEWest Redding, Connecticut

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The rollicking story of thirty years on the road, by two“culinary giants.”—Salon

“Jane and Michael Stern write about ordinary food so simply and exuberantly that I couldn’t help thinking as I read this latest bookof theirs, that they deserved a room of their own in the SmithsonianInstitution, right next to Julia Child’s Cambridge kitchen.”—NORA EPHRON, New York Times Book Review

TWO FOR THE ROADOur Love Affair with American Food

Jane and Michael Stern


Covering the thirty-six species of gulls that occur in North and SouthAmerica, this unparalleled resource includes detailed identification

information for the many plumages gulls display as they mature. Morethan just a field guide, this large and ambitious volume is the definitivereference work on gulls of the Americas. A group of birds that is popularamong birdwatchers, gulls can be frustrating to identify, as they can takeup to four years to mature, with different plumages each year. With 1,160photographs illustrating these plumages, and descriptions by two ofNorth America’s top gull experts, this new reference guide is the authori-tative word on gulls.

STEVE N. G. HOWELL has written more than six books and two hundred papers and book reviews on birds, including Hummingbirdsof North America, A Bird-finding Guide to Mexico, and A Guide tothe Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. He has been affiliated with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory for twenty years andis currently a senior birding tour leader for WINGS, Inc. JON DUNNis the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Warblers and chief consultant for the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds ofNorth America.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72641-7 • $35.00ISBN-10: 0-618-72641-1Peterson Reference Guides: Gulls of the AmericasMAY • Nature560 pages • 7 x 10 • Q

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCESHowell: Bolinas, CaliforniaDunn: Bishop, California

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in New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts,Louisiana


The flagship title in a new series, Peterson Reference Guides, is the first comprehensive guide to gulls of the Americas andincludes more than 1,100 color photographs

PETERSON REFERENCEGUIDES: GULLS OF THEAMERICAS

Steve N. G. Howell and Jon Dunn



Russ ParsonsHOW TO PICK A PEACHThe Search for Flavor from Farm to Table

One of the foremost food journalistsof the nation, RUSS PARSONS is the food and wine columnist of theLos Angeles Times. He has beenwriting about food and agriculturefor more than twenty years and haswon many James Beard Awards for his newspaper articles, as well as the IACP/Bert Greene Award for distinguished writing. He lives inCalifornia, which produces morethan half of the fruits and vegetablesgrown in this country.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCELong Beach, California

Critics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable

voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factualinformation.”

Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottestfood topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, andnowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigeratethat peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those differ-ent varieties of pears? Most of us aren’t sure.

Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market byilluminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts aboutvegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providinginstructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whetherexplaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never berefrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomatobusiness in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor,or giving tips on how to recognize a ripe melon, How to Pick a Peach isParsons at his peak.

From the author of the best-selling How to Read a French Fry,a provocative cook’s-eye view of the revolution at the produce counter

© MARISSA ROTH

An uncommonly illuminating look at common fruits and vegetables, including 100 recipes



1. To prepare asparagus for cooking, you shoulda) cook the entire stalk and trim any tough parts before serving.

b) trim the tough part with a knife.

c) hold the tip in one hand, the base in the other, and snap off the tough part.

2. Which variety of corn is sweeter and has more corn flavor?

a) yellow

b) white

c) bicolor (yellow and white)

3. When buying tomatoes out of season, for the best flavor choose

a) vine-ripened tomatoes

b) tomatoes sold still on the vine

c) grape tomatoes

4. To get really fresh artichokesa) avoid those with black spots on the leaves.

b) rub the leaves together and see if they squeak.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-46348-0• $27.00ISBN-10: 0-618-46348-8 How to Pick a PeachMAY • Cooking416 pages • 6 x 9 • Q

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fruits and vegetables, including 100 recipes1.b)The conventional method of snap-

ping wastes too much asparagus; trimthe last 1 1/2inches or so with a knife.

2.None of the above.The carotene thatgives yellow corn its color is flavor-less—which color you like depends onwhere you live.

3.c)Grape tomatoes are much higher insugar than the others, and because of

their thick skin, they can be pickeddead ripe and still survive shipping.Vine-ripened tomatoes are pickedwhen the surface is barely red, andtomatoes on the vine only smell more flavorful because of their leaves.

4.b)Black spots don’t hurt. They are frost spots, and some experts think they actually make the artichokestaste better.

Answers:

What’s YourVegetable IQ?


Today a single family can include strict vegetarians and passionatemeat lovers. When company shows up, the situation gets even more

complicated. How can one meal please everybody without driving thecook crazy?

The award-winning author, caterer, and personal chef to the starsPeter Berley has the answer: flexible, exciting menus designed to satisfyvegetarians and nonvegetarians simultaneously. Composed of two orthree simple dishes, the forty seasonally arranged menus are of severalkinds.

• “Convertible” meals that can be prepared with a vegetable and/or meatprotein: Crispy Pressed Chicken/Tofu with Garlic and Mint

• Hearty vegetarian meals to please the staunchest meat lover: SaffronLasagna with Vegetables and Gruyère

• Meals featuring fish, poultry or, occasionally, red meat, with ample vegetable sides that can double as mains: Grilled Harissa Shrimp withFresh Corn Polenta

All of the 150 dishes in the book can be mixed and matched.

PETER BERLEY is the author of The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen,which won a James Beard Award and an IACP Award. He is a frequent contributor to Cooking Light, Food & Wine, Health, Fine Cooking, and Everyday with Rachel Ray.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65865-7 • $30.00ISBN-10: 0-618-65865-3The Flexitarian TableJUNE • Cooking304 pages • 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 • QMore than 70 full-color photographs byQuentin Bacon


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The first cookbook to satisfy everyone at the table: easy, stylishmenus for vegetarians, semivegetarians, and even meat eaters toshare, by a winner of the James Beard and IACP awards

Flex•i•tar•i•an (n) 1. A person who consumes mainly vegetarianfood but occasionally eats chicken or fish.

THE FLEXITARIAN TABLEInspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between

Peter Berley with Zoe Singer

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Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frighten-ing childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the

sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded byFDR, “a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital ofcrippled children.”

There the young Shreve meets Joey Buckley, paralyzed from thewaist down and determined to leave Warm Springs able to play football.The dual shocks of first love and separation from her fiercely protectivemother propel Shreve careening between bad girl rebellion to over-achieving saint. This indelible portrait of the psychic fallout of childhoodillness ends—like Tobias Wolff’s Old School—with a shocking collisionbetween adolescent drive and genteel institution.

During Shreve’s stay at Warm Springs, the Salk vaccine was discovered; Shreve is now among the last Americans to have survivedchildhood polio. Her memoir is both a fascinating historic record and an intensely felt story of childhood.

SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE has published thirteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things. She is a professor of English at George Mason University and formerly cochairman and presidentof the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEWashington, D.C.

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A rich and moving memoir of childhood illness and its aftermath by one of the last Americans to have experiencedchildhood polio

WARM SPRINGSTraces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven

Susan Richards Shreve



Neal BascombRED MUTINYEleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

NEAL BASCOMB is the criticallyacclaimed author of The PerfectMile, a New York Times bestseller, as well as Higher: A Historic Race tothe Sky and the Making of the City.A former editor and journalist, Bas-comb has appeared in documen-taries on A&E and the History Chan-nel. He has also written for the NewYork Times. Foreign rights to RedMutiny have been sold in the UnitedKingdom, Italy, Brazil, and Spain. Anative of St. Louis, Bascomb nowlives in New York with his wife anddaughter.


In 1905 after being served rancid meat, more than 600 Russian Navysailors mutinied against their officers aboard what was then the most

powerful battleship in the world. Theirs was a life barely worth living—a life of hard labor and bitter oppression, an existence similar in itshopelessness and injustice to most of the working class in Russia at thetime. Certainly their rebellion came as no surprise. Still, against anyreasonable odds of success, the sailors-turned-revolutionaries, led bythe charismatic firebrand Matiushenko, risked their lives to take controlof the ship and raise the red flag of revolution. What followed was aviolent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days andcame to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself.

A pulse-quickening story that alternates between the opulent courtof Nicholas II and the razor’s-edge tension aboard the Potemkin, RedMutiny is a tale threaded with terrific adventure, epic naval battles,heroic sacrifices, treachery, bloodlust, and a rallying cry to freedomthat would steer the course of the twentieth century. It is also a finework of scholarship that draws on the long-closed Soviet archives toshed new light on this seminal event in Russian and naval history.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The PerfectMile comes a riveting look at the rebellion that inspired theRussian Revolution

JILLIAN MCALLEY

For readers of Hunt for Red October and In the Heart of the Sea



FROM

RED MUTINYThe sailors stood stiffly at attention on the quarterdeck, a sea of

men in white and blue, the long ribbons hanging from their

caps embroidered with the name Potemkin. Assembled at the port

and starboard sides of the deck their lines stretched from the ship’s

stern to the hulking black steel of the aft turret. It was a few minutes

after noon, and the sun appeared swollen red in the blue sky.

Watching the heavyset captain pass between the ranks and

awkwardly climb onto the capstan, Matiushenko waited amongst

the others to see what he would do. Golikov was known to simply

stare at a sailor until he withered, but this time he had an entire

crew challenging his authority. He was a speck amidst the hun-

dreds of sailors surrounding him. Most quietly despised him or

what he represented or both. Each had his reason: an overzealous

punishment received; a family that suffered without help because

of his conscription; sleeping quarters more suited for cattle; the

indignity of being forbidden to walk on a city street; a life divided

into four- to eight-hour watches; the threat of dying in a war against

an enemy he didn’t know existed; a lack of hope—or perhaps too

much hope—in the future. The rotten batch of borsch was merely a

symbol of each sailor’s own particular reason. But Golikov under-

stood none of this.

“It seems you all are dissatisfied with the soup.” He addressed

the crew, Giliarovskii standing behind him like an enforcer. “Very

well then, I shall seal a container of it and send it to the chief com-

mander in Sevastopol for inspection. But I’m warning you, only

bad will come out of it for you. I’ve repeatedly told you, and I shall

not repeat myself again, of what’s in store for sailors who forget dis-

cipline. You will be hanged.”

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In Senior Year, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sports writingtalents on his son’s senior year of high school, a turning point in any

young life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Usingthat experience, Shaughnessy circles back to his own boyhood and callsupon the many sports greats he’s known over the years—Ted Williams,Roger Clemens, Larry Bird—to capture that uniquely American rite ofpassage that is sports.

Sam Shaughnessy came by his love of sports naturally. As a boy hisfather was so baseball obsessed that he played games by himself and did-n’t even let himself win. Sam was born a natural hitter and quickly ascend-ed the ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonish-ing ability to hover between success and failure in everything he does,Sam is finally a senior, and it’s all on the line: what college to attend; howto keep his grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether ornot his final high school baseball season, which features foul weather, ahitting slump, and a surprising clash with a longtime coach, will end indisappointment or triumph.

All along the way, Dad is there, chronicling that universal experienceof putting your child out on the field—and in the world—and hoping forthe best. With gleaming insight, wicked humor, and, at times, the search-ing soul of an unsure father, Shaughnessy illuminates how sports connectgenerations and how they help us grow up—and let go.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY is an award-winning columnist for the BostonGlobe and the author of several books, including the best-selling classic The Curse of the Bambino, Reversing the Curse, and Fenway.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCENewton, Massachusetts

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A celebrated sportswriter chronicles his son’s senior year as anaspiring slugger in this “heartfelt, humorous and engaging bookfilled with the lasting lessons of life.”—Tim Russert

SENIOR YEARA Father, a Son, and High School Baseball

Dan Shaughnessy

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The marriage of Gerhard and Suzannah Falktopf is already in trouble when tragedy strikes on the morning of September 11,

2001. As the quintessentially hip, downtown, art couple—he a famouschoreographer; she his muse, principal dancer, and now mother to theirfour-year-old son—the strains in their marriage have been kept at bay bythe glamorous velocity of their lives.

Though they themselves escape harm when the planes crash into thetowers, husband and wife are suddenly cast into a unpredictable psycho-logical space that allows their buried selves, and their sharp differences,to rise to the surface. Packing up the car, with their gorgeous youngnanny in tow, they head for the safety of the Hamptons. But despite theirseemingly soft landing in this cocoon of privilege, unleashed demonscontinue to push them to their psychic limits—so much so that by thenext morning they will hardly recognize each other.

Taking place over a manic twenty-four hours, A Day at the Beachgives us a fast-paced, razor-sharp story whose personal tragedy containssparks of dark humor about American life pre- and post-9/11. It is a storythat will speak to our memories of that day, and of how—for all of us, andin so many different ways—it meant the end of a world and the birth ofsomething new. Or so it seemed. . . .

HELEN SCHULMAN is the author of the novels P.S., The Revisionist,and Out of Time, and the short story collection Not a Free Show.Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue,GQ, The Paris Review, and the New York Times Book Review.

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A moving portrait of a complex marriage set against the backdrop of a national tragedy

“Helen Schulman is one of the most gifted writers of our generation.”—Jennifer Egan

A DAY AT THE BEACHA Novel

Helen Schulman



Jim GorantFANATICTen Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die

JIM GORANT is a senior editor andwriter at Sports Illustrated. He is theauthor of two books, Fit for Golf,with renowned PGA Tour trainerBoris Kuzmic, and America’s TopGolf Courses. He has also written formany publications, including Men’sJournal, Travel & Leisure, GQ, andMen’s Health.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEMontclair, New Jersey

When Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sportsfan, realized that he had never actually attended any of sports’

most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, any-way? And if he had to pick the top ten events, what would they be?These questions resulted in a growing obsession, first with determiningthe events that should make the list and then with actually attendingthem. What began as a personal challenge quickly evolved into a year-long journey into the heart of sports in this country by way of its mosticonic and beloved events.

From the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl, from a day game atWrigley to a fortnight at Wimbledon, from the NCAA Final Four to thefrozen tundra of Lambeau Field, Gorant takes us along for the ride,evoking the best (and sometimes worst) sports has to offer in a stylethat marries Bill Bryson and John Feinstein. We’re there as Gorantenters the inner sanctum of NASCAR, witnessing the pomp and cir-cumstance while perched atop an RV; as he encounters a fire-eatingPatriots fan at the Super Bowl; and as he watches Jack Nicklaus tee offat the Masters for the last time. Part adventure, part pilgrimage, Fanaticcaptures these events in all their color and commotion and reveals whysports matter so much to so many. This is the perfect gift for sportsenthusiasts—no matter what their allegiances.

Every sports fan’s dream—a rollicking journey to the greatest sports events for fans

STAN GROSSFELD

The sports lover’s ultimate road trip



FROM

“The Kentucky Derby”

Iknow for many people part of the appeal is the horses them-selves. I imagine the devotees who press up against the iron

fence that surrounds the entire scene, craning and stretching to geta view of the animals, are the horse lovers. They revere them. Talkabout their personalities and character. The true fanatics havecamped out in the best spots along the edge of the fence. Two guysnext to me sit on a cooler drinking Coors Light from cans. I knowthey’ve been there for a while because when one of them raises hishand to drink, pink sunburn lines appear on his arm where hissleeve rides up. Beside them a blonde in a rhinestone-encrustedblue dress and horseshoe-shaped earrings studded with diamondsshouts into a cell phone, “Tell him he better rate that horse. If hedoesn’t rate that horse he’ll never ride it again.” Not only does sheown horses, she wants everyone to know it.

A Kentucky State Trooper stands inside the gate where thejockeys enter. “Hey how can I get a seat like that?” someone askshim.

The officer smiles. “Join the police force.”“No, thanks,” the guy yells back. “You got an easier way?”“Yeah,” the officer says. “Become a millionaire.” ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61298-7 • $24.00

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The Super Bowl

The Daytona 500

The Final Four

The Masters

The Kentucky Derby

Wimbledon

Day Game at Wrigley Field

Ohio State vs. Michigan

Lambeau Field

Fenway Park, Opening Day



Lucy J. Puryear, M.D.UNDERSTANDING YOURMOODS WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTINGEmotions, Mental Health, and Happiness—Before,During, and After Pregnancy

A nationally recognized expert on women’s reproductivemental health offers the first book on the emotional passagesof pregnant women

JEFF WILSON

The first guide to this critical aspect of pregnancy

A U T H O R P R O F I L ELucy J. Puryear—a mother of four—is a pioneering expert in

women’s emotional health before, during, and after pregnancy.Through stories from her own practice, she lifts the lid off little-dis-cussed feelings that are virtually universal for pregnant women. Sheexplains exactly what is happening to your hormonal system trimesterby trimester, including what she calls the postpartum “fourthtrimester.” Dr. Puryear’s clear and compassionate advice on reducingthe risk of postpartum depression will be of special interest, with thisissue of urgent concern both in the media and in our homes.

Here, and throughout her book, Dr. Puryear illustrates whyknowledge is power when it comes to the overwhelming hormonal

floods that accompany pregnancy and postpartum.

Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting includes reassuring,expert advice on• how to deal with the normal fears most women face• making a birthing plan for emotional well-being• how and why to get essential rest• real-life bonding with your baby• eating disorders and OCD• how to make decisions about necessary medications during pregnancy

A book as essential to a woman’s emotional health during pregnancy as What to Expect When You’re Expecting is to her physical health.

LUCY J. PURYEAR, M.D., is a practicingpsychiatrist specializing in women’sreproductive mental health. She hasbeen director of the Baylor PsychiatryClinic at the Baylor College of Medicine,and was expert witness for the defensein the trial of Andrea Yates. She lives inHouston, Texas.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEHouston, Texas



FROM

Understanding Your Moods When You’re

Expecting

At the time I started my professional life there were very few

psychiatrists who knew about the interplay between women’s

hormonal fluctuations and the effect of these changes on a woman’s

mood and mental health. I became an expert in treating women with

severe premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy and psychiatric illness,

postpartum and mood disorders, and psychiatric illness during

menopause.

Today there are more women asking for this specialized type

of care than I can possibly see. I have patients who come from very

far away because there is no one in their area with the specialized

knowledge to care for them during pregnancy or postpartum. Many

women slip through the cracks.

Unfortunately, women having emotional symptoms during

pregnancy or after the baby is born nearly always feel shame and

guilt. They believe if they are experiencing anything besides great

joy, all the time, that they are bad mothers. This compounds the

problem of getting the right help. It is time to acknowledge how

disabling emotional problems during pregnancy and postpartum

can be for women and their families and how the proper recognition

and treatment can change lives for generations.

Women with postpartum mood disorders will be at increased

risk for a recurrence with subsequent pregnancies and around the

time of menopause. It is important for women, their families, and

physicians who treat women to realize that the reproductive years

are a time when a woman’s mental health is linked to what is hap-

pening to her hormonally.

Having a baby isn’t just a physical experience, it is a profound

emotional one as well.

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Set in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain recounts the life and times of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. A renowned local

bookwoman and bird carver, she is the sole proprietor and last resident of a remote and wild mountain situated on the U.S.–Canadian border,now threatened by the “Connector,” a proposed new highway over hermountain.

On Miss Jane’s fiftieth birthday, a mysterious stunt pilot and weather-maker enters her life, crashing his biplane onto the frozen lake at the footof the mountain. He brings with him a riddle—handed down from hisgrandfather—containing a clue to the whereabouts of $100,000 in stolengold that may be buried on Miss Jane’s property. As she and the footlooseaviator befriend each other and begin to search for the treasure, Miss Janefinds herself confronted by the most important decisions of her life.

Abounding with Howard Frank Mosher’s trademark action scenes,from daring bank robberies to outrageous comedy to a passionate andsurprising love affair, On Kingdom Mountain is rooted deeply in Mosher’sown family history, in one of America’s last frontiers, and in a way of lifeon the brink of extinction.

HOWARD FRANK MOSHER is the author of ten books, including Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was corecipient of the New England Book Award for fiction. He lives in Vermont.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEIrasburg, Vermont

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In the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Country of the Pointed Firs, the story of a remarkable woman’s struggleto preserve a unique and endangered place

ON KINGDOM MOUNTAINA Novel

Howard Frank Mosher


Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China’smost wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run

from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsizedtale of rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, in thehope that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will alsobetter understand the tectonic forces transforming modern China.

Lai embodies the story of China’s recent success as well as itsAchilles’ heel: the blending of its command economy with the free marketis riddled with corruption. Moving ever closer to the elusive tycoon,August introduces us to a people in the midst of head-spinning self-trans-formation. We meet a nightclub hostess and her gaggle of “Miss Tempo-raries”; powerful businessmen on a debt-settling round of nocturnal golf;and a foie gras king who markets his goose liver by the ton and prefers itdeep fried. This is a China seething with desire, engaged in a slap-stickfight with its past, and hell bent on the future.

Inside the Red Mansion is the first book to capture the giddy vibe ofcontemporary China and its darker vulnerabilities.

After studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, OLIVER AUGUST joined the Times of London to become its youngest ever New York correspondent. He spent seven years in China as Beijing bureau chief and will be moving to the MiddleEast in 2006.

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AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEBeijing

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A suspenseful, slyly irreverent journey into the heart of newChina by the Beijing bureau chief of the Times of London

INSIDE THE RED MANSIONOn the Trail of China’s Most Wanted Man

Oliver August

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A novice teacher and an alienated senior endure a year underthe hand of the school’s manipulative headmaster, who has asinister agenda of his own

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Taylor AntrimTHE HEADMASTER RITUALA Novel

JOYCE RAVID

“The best novel set in a boarding school since A Separate Peace. For my money, even better. A stunning debut in every way.”—CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY


TAYLOR ANTRIM is an editor atForbesLife and a regular contributor to the New York Times and Vogue.His work has appeared in Esquire,the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, and other magazines and journals. A graduate of Stanfordand of Oxford, Antrim earned his MFA from Virginia, where he held the Poe-Faulkner Fellowship.


Journalist Taylor Antrim’s debut is a clear-eyed examination of hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can only be

understood from inside: the insular ecosystem of boarding school; the thorny dynamics of fathers and sons; and the self-deluding excessesof blind ideological commitment.

Dyer Martin, a new history teacher at the prestigious BrittonSchool, arrives in the fall ready to close the door on the failures of hispast: a disastrous first job, a broken relationship, and acute uncertaintyabout his future. James, a lonely senior, just wants to make it throughhis last year unscathed, avoiding both the brutal hazing of dorm life andthe stern and unforgiving eye of his father, the school’s politically radi-cal headmaster, Ed Wolfe.

Dyer and James are inescapably drawn into Wolfe’s hidden agendafor Britton, however, when the headmaster orders Dyer to set up andrun a Model UN for students. As the United States moves steadilytoward a conflict with an increasingly hostile North Korea—whose pur-suit of nuclear technology is pushing the world to the brink of nuclearArmageddon—Wolfe’s political fervor begins to consume him, and hesets in motion a plan that will jeopardize his job, his school, and eventhe life of his own son.

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“Here it is: a first novel in which the characters are distinct, their inner lives believable, their initiations

various and complex. Taylor Antrim has written a bookthat forces us to grapple with the challenges of integrating

the public, the private, the personal, and the political.”

—ANN BEATTIE

FROM

Headmaster Wolfe scratched his cheek with a fingernail—alow, rough sound. “You know Britton’s motto?”

Dyer’s mind raced. “Not by heart, I’m afraid.”“‘Youth from Every Quarter.’ Sounds nice—except when you

consider that for the last two hundred years we’ve been a game pre-serve for New England Wasps. ‘Youth from Every Quarter’ meansno power class, no hegemony of thought. No elite. The word itselfshould be meaningless. But our elite is alive and well. Last year wehad Henry Fieldspar in the upper form. You recognize the name?”

“Son of Angus?” Angus Fieldspar was a Republican senatorfrom Tennessee.

“Major donor to the school. Or ex-donor, I should say. Henrythought his name meant he could get away with anything, but thenhe was caught drinking and what they call ‘cruising’ in the samenight. We give you two strikes here. Those were his. Discipline is aquestion for the collective. You’d call that a radical cliché, per-haps.” Wolfe thought for a moment, then held his hand flat abovehis stomach. “Think of the school as a balanced seesaw. Privilegeone class of student over another . . .” He tilted his hand up anddown, then let it drop to the arm of the chair. A puff of dust roselike smoke.

Outside, in heavy, syncopated tones, a carillon began to ring.Dyer felt a headache coming on, a bunched feeling in his forehead.He tried to assure himself that he’d made no major missteps, thatthey were still building a rapport. “Do we have many senators’sons?” Dyer asked, smiling.

“I’m getting rid of them one by one.” Wolfe deadpanned astare, then smiled and leveraged himself up from the chair.

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For my money, even better. A stunning debut in every way.”—CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY


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David SheffBEAUTIFUL BOYA Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction

Sheff’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent

into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.Before meth, Sheff’s son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student,

and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraithwho stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on thestreets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first subtle warningsigns, the denial (by both child and parents), the three A.M. phone calls(is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab, and, at last,the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, therest of the family must care for each other too, lest they become addict-ed to addiction.

Meth is the fastest-growing drug in the United States, as well as themost addictive and the most dangerous—wreaking permanent braindamage faster than any other readily available drug. It has invadedevery region and demographic in America. This book is the first thattreats meth and its impact in depth. But it is not just about meth. Nic’saddiction has wrought the same damage that any addiction will wreak.His story, and his father’s, are those of any family that contains anaddict—and one in three American families does.

Anyone who cares about an addict will find hope in Sheff’sforthright, one-of-a-kind account of his struggle to overcomehis son’s methamphetamine habit

BART NAGEL

Based on an award-winning New York Times Magazine piece that drew a powerful reader response


DAVID SHEFF’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Outside, RollingStone, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere.His piece for the New York Times Maga-zine, “My Addicted Son,” generatedseveral hundred letters from readersand won an award from the AmericanPsychological Association for “Out-standing Contribution to Advancing theUnderstanding of Addiction.”

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCEInverness, California


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FROM

Every time the phone rings, my stomach constricts. Wherecan he be? I cannot imagine, or more accurately, I choose

not to imagine. I push away the grisliest thoughts. Finally I call thepolice and the hospitals, asking if he is in jail or if there has been anaccident. Each time I call, I brace myself for unthinkable news. Irehearse the conversation—the stolid, disembodied voice, and thewords: “He is dead.” I rehearse hearing it in order to preparemyself. I go toward the thought, pace around it. He is dead.

Waiting is ghastly, but I can do nothing else. This horror lastsfour days.

Then one night he calls.His voice trembles, but still it brings a wave of relief.“Dad . . .”“Nic.”“I . . .” Weakly. “I blew it.” A guttural sigh. “I’m in trouble.”“Where are you?”He tells me and I hang up.I drive to meet him in an alleyway behind a bookstore in San

Rafael. I stop the car and get out near a wall of trash bins strewnwith empty bottles, broken glass, torn cardboard, and grimy blan-kets.

“Dad . . .”The muffled, scratchy voice comes from behind another series

of bins. I walk toward it, pushing aside discarded boxes, turn thecorner, and see Nic shakily walking toward me.

My son is bruised, sallow, skin and bone, and his eyes arevacant black holes. When I reach him he goes limp in my arms. Ihalf carry him to the car, his feet shuffling beneath him.

In the car, before he passes out, I tell him that he must go intorehab.

“That’s it,” I say. “There’s no choice now.”“I know, Dad.”

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Robert Emmons, Ph.D.THANKS!How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier

As editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology, Dr. RobertEmmons is uniquely qualified to put Albert Schweitzer’s famous

dictum “Gratitude is the secret to life” to a rigorous scientific test. In a book that will appeal to readers of Stumbling on Happiness andMartin Seligman’s classic Learned Optimism, Emmons draws on thefirst major scientific study of the subject to show how the systematic cultivation of gratitude can measurably change people’s lives.

• People who regularly practice grateful thinking can increase their “set point” for happiness by as much as 25 percent.

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An eloquent examination of why gratitude plays a criticalrole in the search for human happiness.

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A leading researcher and scholar in positive psychology presents groundbreaking science


DR. ROBERT EMMONS is a professor atthe University of California, Davis, andone of the leading scholars in the posi-tive psychology movement. He is alsoeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Posi-tive Psychology. His work on gratitudehas been featured in the WashingtonPost, the New Republic, Newsweek,and other mainstream media. Dr.Emmons has received multiple grantsfrom the National Institute of MentalHealth and the John Templeton Foun-dation.

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Gratitude can be a bitter pill to swallow, humbling us and demanding as it does that

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Across cultures and time spans, experiences andexpressions of gratitude have been treated as bothbasic and desirable aspects of human personalityand social life. Gratitude is literally one of the fewthings that can measurably change people’s lives.Our groundbreaking research has shown that grateful people experience higher levels of positiveemotions such as joy, enthusiasm, love, happiness,and optimism, and that the practice of gratitude as a discipline protects a person from the destructiveimpulses of envy, resentment, greed, and bitterness.We have discovered that a person who experiencesgratitude is able to cope more effectively with everyday stress, may show increased resilience inthe face of trauma-induced stress, and may recovermore quickly from illness and benefit from greaterphysical health. Experiencing gratitude leads toincreased feelings of connectedness, improved relationships, and even altruism. Happiness is facilitated when we enjoy what we have been given, when we “want what we have.”

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Miss Read

VILLAGE DIARY

STORM IN THE VILLAGE

OVER THE GATE

THE FAIRACRE FESTIVAL

THE CAXLEY CHRONICLES

MISS READ is the pseudonym of Mrs.Dora Saint, a retired schoolteacherbeloved for her novels of Englishrural life, especially those set in thefictional towns of Thrush Green andFairacre.

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The English village of Fairacre, comfortably nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, is a picturesque place of tile-roof cottages, a

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Millions of readers around the world have been drawn intoFairacre’s cozy spell, beginning more than half a century ago with the publication of Miss Read’s debut novel, Village School. These five newpaperback editions will invite readers to spend more time with theendearing inhabitants of Fairacre. The heartwarming tales of MissRead “remind us of what is really important . . . and if we can’t live inher world, it’s certainly a comforting place to visit” (USA Today).

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village, with these five charming editions in Miss Read’s most popular series

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STORM IN THE VILLAGETrouble brews when it becomes known that Farmer Miller’s hundred acre field is slated for a real estate development—and the village school will close—in this third installment in the Fairacre series.

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OVER THE GATEMiss Read shares many treasured stories of Fairacre that village friends have told her in passing throughout her years as schoolmistress.


THE FAIRACRE FESTIVALAfter a heavy storm damages the church roof, the villagers launch the Fairacre Festival to raise money to have it repaired.


THE CAXLEY CHRONICLESMARKET SQUARE and THE HOWARDS OF CAXLEY,published here as one volume, are delightful companions to the Fairacre books. Set in the neighboring town of Caxley, they follow the stories of the Norths and the Howards from the turn of the century through World War II.


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The newly updated American Heritage® High School Dictionary,Fourth Edition, offers the distinctive qualities that characterize the

American Heritage® line without including obscene words or offensiveslurs. The dictionary features a modern, readable defining style, helpfulguidance on English usage, and more than 2,500 photographs and drawings that enhance definitions and invite browsing.

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Six concise chapters cover basic concepts, from understandingtypography to designing a page to manipulating art. Dozens of specifictechniques—Keys to Success—translate theory into practice. Readers can apply the Keys to Success immediately to create more compellingdocuments. There are no boring discussions or arcane terminology; allthe principles are presented in easy-to-understand language. Plenty ofillustrations, many in a before-and-after format, show examples of com-mon print projects, such as business cards, letters, brochures, posters,wedding invitations, and personal ads. Both thorough and succinct, thishandy guide will enable anyone to create documents that stand out fromthe crowd.

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THE ELEMENTS OF VISUAL STYLEThe Basics of Print Design for Every PC and Mac® User

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Newly updated The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition, presents some 20,000 terms that appear in text messages, chat-

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W ebster’s New Essential Writer’s Companion is a helpful guide tothe mechanics of good writing and effective research including the

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New treatments, new tests, and new insights into health and disease have resulted in an unprecedented explosion in medical

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-2-03-542156-2 • $6.95 PAISBN-10: 2-03-542156-X Larousse Japanese PhrasebookAPRIL • Phrasebooks/Travel192 pages • 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 • C

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LAROUSSE POCKETDICTIONARY

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Editors of the LarousseBilingual Dictionaries

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The Diccionario práctico para México is a complete and compact dictionary of the Spanish spoken in Mexico. Up to date for the twenty-first century, it

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Special features include• More than 20,000 entries with more than 50,000 definitions• 66 models of conjugation• Slang usage• Easy-to-use portable format

CONJUGACIÓN LENGUA ESPAÑOLA

This practical guide will help solve any problems of Spanish verb conjugation.It covers more than 5,000 verbs shown in 78 models of conjugation and will

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T he Chambers Dictionary, now with a new look, is established as thedictionary of choice for word-lovers and crossword enthusiasts. It is

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CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF MUSIC

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THE OFF SEASON

This hilarious, heartbreaking, and triumphant sequel to the criticallyacclaimed Dairy Queen takes D.J. and all the Schwenks from Labor Day

to a Thanksgiving football game that you will never, ever forget.

Though she never played high school ball or milked cows, CATHERINEGILBERT MURDOCK is a big fan of family farms and Wisconsin. She herselfgrew up on a tiny farm (two goats, honey bees) in Connecticut, andattended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. She nowlives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband, two children, and Sparkythe cat. The Off Season is her second novel.

DAIRY QUEEN“A fresh teen voice, great football action, and cows—this novelrocks.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Here is the novel that started it all. This is the summer that fifteen-year-old D.J. Schwenk, expert at cows and football, learns an awful lot about

love and life.

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THE NEDDIADHow Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization

Young Neddie finds himself on a life-changing and epic journey from Chicago to Hollywood in this original and hilarious story that could only

come from the mind of Daniel Pinkwater.This is the story of how Neddie, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost,

a movie star, a gigantic turtle, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

DANIEL PINKWATER has written about a hundred books and is a popularcommentator and children’s book reviewer on NPR. He lives with his wifeJill in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

Illustrated in full color by Jan Ormerod

MAY I PET YOUR DOG?The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (and Dogs Meeting Kids)

A one-of-a-kind introduction to meeting dogs safely

The right way for a child to approach a dog begins with this question to theowner: “May I pet your dog?” Stephanie Calmenson addresses this valuable

yet overlooked topic with care and precision, and Jan Ormerod’s warm illustra-tions portray a wide variety of breeds and depict situations that are realistic butnever scary.

STEPHANIE CALMENSON lives in New York City with her husband, Mark, and their dachshund, Harry. JAN ORMEROD lives in Leicestershire, England

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-59444-3$16.00ISBN-10: 0-618-59444-2The NeddiadAPRIL • Fiction320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/49-copy floor displayISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87546-7ISBN-10: 0-618-87546-8$144.00


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Adrian DingleIllustrated by Simon Basher

THE PERIODIC TABLEElements with Style!

Aquirky and unique guide to the elements of the periodic table, with a moderntwist! The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the

elements as it has never been seen before.

High school chemistry teacher ADRIAN DINGLE is the creator of the award-win-ning chemistry Web site: adriandinglechemistrypages.com. Artist and designerSIMON BASHER has fun playing in the world of contemporary character design.

8-copy counter display • $71.60 • ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-6188-8287-8 • ISBN-10: 0-6188-8287-1

Nina LugovskayaI WANT TO LIVEThe Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s RussiaThe diary that sent a thirteen-year-old girl and her family to five years of hard labor and seven years of Siberian exile

Recently unearthed in the archives of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, thisdiary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin’s Russia—when

fear of arrest was a fact of daily life.

NINA LUGOVSKAYA’s experience in exile silenced her forever. She lived in the ancient town of Vladimir with her husband until her death in 1993.

James RumfordBEOWULFA Hero’s Tale RetoldA richly illustrated and graphic retelling of how Beowulf defeated Grendel,Grendel’s mother, and the dragon that threatened his kingdom

James Rumford forges his own account of Beowulf with the few Anglo-Saxonwords still present in our language. These iron-strong ancient words recall the

boldness of the original poem and together with Rumford’s illustrations, they fashion an unforgettable story.

JAMES RUMFORD lives in Honolulu with his wife and has been writing and illustrating children’s books for more than ten years and has garnered severalawards for his work.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75637-7$18.00 • ISBN-10: 0-618-75637-XBeowulfAUGUST • Picture Book48 pages • 7 3/4 x 9 1/2Full-color illustrations

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-7534-6085-6$8.95 • ISBN-10: 0-7534-6085-8The Periodic TableAPRIL • Nonfiction128 pages • 5 1/8 x 5 1/8

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-60575-0$17.00 • ISBN-10: 0-618-60575-4I Want to LiveJUNE • Memoir267 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4b/w photographs

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