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FICTION / LITERARY Picador Modern Classics | 11/5/2013 9781250046703 | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 544 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The TwentySeventh City (25th Anniversary Edition) A Novel

Jonathan Franzen; With an Introduction by Philip Weinstein

THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF FREEDOM AND THE CORRECTIONS

Published in 1988, The TwentySeventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new introduction by Philip Weinstein, professor of English at Swarthmore College. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an allpervasive political conspiracy. Set in mid1980s, The TwentySeventh City predicts every unsettling shift in American life for the next two decades: suburban malaise, surveillance culture, domestic terrorism, paranoia. A classic of contemporary fiction, The TwentySeventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy. • The 25th anniversary edition comes with a distinct wraparound cover illustration by Marc Yankus

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“A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that it seems ahead of them.”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times “A huge and masterly drama...Gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing.”—Laura Shapiro, Newsweek “A startling, scathing first novel about American ambition, power, politics, money, corruption and apathy.”—Jeff Jarvis, People “An AllAmerican hybrid that is nothing less than brilliant.”—Dan Cryer, Newsday

JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of four novels (Freedom, the National Book Award–winning The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The TwentySeventh City); a personal history (The Discomfort Zone); two collections of essays (Farther Away and How To Be Alone); and translations of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening and Karl Kraus’s essays titled The Kraus Project. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

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FICTION / ANTHOLOGIES (MULTIPLE AUTHORS) Picador | 11/5/2013 9781250047762 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The Book of Men Eighty Writers on How to Be a Man

Curated by Colum McCann and the Editors of Esquire and Narrative 4

EIGHTY PIECES OF SHORT FICTION ON MANHOOD BY SOME OF THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS, PRESENTED BY COLUM MCCANN, ESQUIRE, AND NARRATIVE 4

To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world’s greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, “How to Be a Man.” The result is The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of manhood. With contributions from literary luminaries as diverse as the subjects they capture, and curated by the editors of Esquire, the National Book Award–winning Colum McCann, and Narrative 4, a global nonprofit devoted to using storytelling as a means to empathy, The Book of Men might not teach you how to negotiate a deal or mix a Manhattan, but it does scratch at that most eternal of questions: What is a Man? Contributors include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kurt Andersen, Amy Bloom, James Lee Burke, Sloane Crosley, Michael Cunningham, Geoff Dyer, Ben Fountain, Aleksandar Hemon, Khaled Hosseini, William Kittredge, Ayana Mathis, Ian McEwan, Téa Obreht, Joseph O’Connor, Benjamin Percy, Salman Rushdie, Mona Simpson, Jess Walter, and Terry Tempest Williams, among others.

COLUM MCCANN, a contributing editor at Esquire and cofounder of Narrative 4, is the National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin. His new novel is Transatlantic. A showcase for the world's premiere fiction, ESQUIRE is a general interest men's magazine published by Hearst. NARRATIVE 4 is an organization dedicated to creating social change through storytelling, helping people, and communities be heard by weaving their stories into a global narrative. Visit narrative4.com.

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FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 1/7/2014 9781250045782 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The Exiles Return A Novel

Elisabeth de Waal; With a Foreword by Edmund de Waal

SET IN THE ASHES OF POST–WORLD WAR II VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF FIVE PEOPLE AS THEY RETURN HOME, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER BEING EXILED BY HITLER’S DEADLY REIGN

Elisabeth de Waal’s stunning novel follows a number of exiles, each returning has come to terms with a city in painful recovery: Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, is tired of his drab existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman seeks to plunder some of the spoils of war; MarieTheres, a brooding teenage girl, has been sent by her parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her funk; and Prince “Bimbo” Grein, a handsome young man with a title divested of all its social currency. In The Exiles Return, de Waal captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same, with immaculate precision and sensitivity. As mesmerizing as Stefan Zweig’s World Before Yesterday, and as tragic as Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well. • Includes a foreword by Edmund de Waal, author of the bestselling The Hare with Amber Eyes • A posthumously discovered masterwork comparable to the work of Irène Némirovsky, W. G. Sebald, and Howard Jacobson

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“This is a rewarding study of loss, and a fine snapshot of a city and society standing ravaged at a crossroads.”—The Guardian (London) “The Exiles Return is a novel of great vividness and great tenderness….Within its pages it reflects a truly ambitious writer and a woman of considerable courage.”—Edmund de Waal, The Times (London) “[Elisabeth de Waal] captures the fragility of a city trying to rebuild itself on uncertain foundations....It is an important story and now, at last, it has been told.”—The Spectator (London)

ELISABETH DE WAAL was born in Vienna in 1899. She studied philosophy, law, and economics at the University of Vienna, and completed her doctorate in 1923. She also wrote poems (often corresponding with Rilke), and was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at Columbia. She wrote five unpublished novels, two in German and three in English, including The Exiles Return in the late 1950s. She died in 1991.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY Picador | 12/24/2013 9781250039569 | $26.00 Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes 8 blackandwhite photographs throughout

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The Trip to Echo Spring On Writers and Drinking

Olivia Laing

WHY HAS SOME OF THE BEST LITERATURE BEEN CREATED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT CAUSES THEM AND THEIR LOVED ONES TO SUFFER SO GREATLY?

In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America’s finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast. Often, they did their drinking together: Hemingway and Fitzgerald ricocheting through the cafes of Paris in the 1920s; Carver and Cheever speeding to the liquor store in Iowa in the icy winter of 1973. Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself. One spring, wanting to make sense of this ferocious, entangling disease, she took a journey across America that plunged her into the heart of these overlapping lives. As she travels from Cheever’s New York to Williams’s New Orleans, and from Hemingway’s Key West to Carver’s Port Angeles, she pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, from the horrors of addiction to the miraculous possibilities of recovery. Beautiful, captivating, and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert. • For readers of Amanda Vaill’s When Everyone Was So Young, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed, and Kingsley Amis’s Everyday Drinking

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“Olivia Laing’s writing is beautifully modulated, her tone knowledgeable yet intimate. She can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she evokes a landscape...One of the best books I’ve read about the creative uses of adversity: frightening but perversely inspiring.”—Hilary Mantel “I loved The Trip to Echo Spring. It's a beautiful book that has stayed with me in a profound way.”—Nick Cave “A beguiling, beautifully written journey in search of six famous literary drunks. What gives her book its brilliance and originality...[is] the quality of its writing.’”—The Sunday Times (London)

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HISTORY / MILITARY Picador | 12/24/2013 9781250045065 | $17.00 / $19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes two 8page blackandwhite photograph sections

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Kill Anything That Moves The Real American War in Vietnam

Nick Turse

BASED ON CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AND FIRSTPERSON INTERVIEWS, A STARTLING HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WAR ON VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few “bad apples.” But as awardwinning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.” Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded—what one soldier called “a My Lai a month.” Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us facetoface with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day. • Includes a new afterword • A New York Times bestseller, with seven printings in hardcover, this is a wordofmouth sensation • A subject of national importance; Turse’s work provides an opening for important discussions • For readers of Tim O’Brien, Philip Caputo, and Stanley Karnow

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“Harrowing.”—The New York Review of Books “An indispensable new history of the war… All these decades later, Americans still haven’t drawn the right lesson from Vietnam.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A powerful case… With superb narrative skill, Turse spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?”—Washington Post

NICK TURSE, an awardwinning journalist and historian, is the author of The Complex and the managing editor for the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation. Turse’s investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He lives near New York City.


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FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 1/7/2014 9781250043528 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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Love Is a Canoe A Novel

Ben Schrank

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, A NOVEL COMES ALONG THAT’S FULL OF WISDOM ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS AT EVERY AGE...“WHIPSMART AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING” (PEOPLE).

The author of a classic selfhelp guide to love and relationships, Peter Herman has won the hearts of romantics and cynics alike. But decades have passed since Marriage Is a Canoe was published, and a recently widowed Peter begins to question his own advice. Much to his chagrin, he receives a call from an ambitious young editor in New York City that forces him to reconsider his life’s work, not to mention the full force of his delusions. The book’s fiftieth anniversary is approaching, and Stella Petrovic has devised a contest to promote the new edition. The prize? The chance for the winning couple—a pair of outwardly happy Brooklynites named Emily and Eli—to save their relationship by spending a weekend with the reclusive author. Smart, funny, and hugely satisfying, Love Is a Canoe is a poignant novel about the fragility of human relationships—and a heartwarming reminder of what it really means to be good to one another. • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • For readers of Jonathan Tropper, David Nicholls, and Matthew Quick

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“A crackling sendup of bookmarketing schemes and an inquiry into twentyfirstcentury togetherness.”—Vogue “Delightfully unpredictable...Schrank has done something here that may sound impossible: He’s written a funny novel about publishing that is not caustic but optimistic, not biting but bighearted—a story about the delusions with which selfaware, smart people are all too willing to live in order to avoid the painful (yet entertaining) upheaval that comes with truth.”—The New York Times Book Review “It’s The Devil Wears Prada meets All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”—Newsday

BEN SCHRANK is the president and publisher of Razorbill, a Penguin imprint that is home to many awardwinning and New York Times–bestselling books for children and young adults. He grew up in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and son.


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FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Picador | 12/31/2013 9781250032317 | $15.00 Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The Red Pole of Macau An Ava Lee Novel

Ian Hamilton

AVA LEE RETURNS TO RESCUE HER FAMILY FROM GANGSTERS AND BANKRUPTCY IN THE THIRD BOOK IN THIS “SEDUCTIVE AND INTRIGUING” (BOOKGASM) CRIME SERIES.

Family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her halfbrother Michael and his business partner Simon from a disastrous multimilliondollar realestate deal in Macau. When the developers turn out to be gangsters, Michael and Simon are threatened with bankruptcy and much worse. Ava struggles to salvage the deal and her family’s money, but then Simon is kidnapped, and the rules of the game abruptly change. Determined to keep her mentor, Uncle, out of the affair, Ava is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong, for help. With time running out, Ava must use all her skills to outwit the gangsters, rescue Simon, and save her family’s future. • Hamilton’s Ava Lee series is steadily gaining many fans in the bookseller mysteryreading community. • Prepublication author appearance and marketing at Bouchercon • For readers of Colin Cotterill and John Burdett

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“Hamilton makes each page crackle with the kind of energy that could easily jump to the movie screen.”—Rachel Kramer Bussel, Penthouse “Formidable...Ava Lee is unbeatable at just about everything....She’s perfect.”—The Toronto Star “Slick, fastmoving escapism reminiscent of Ian Fleming.”—Booklist

IAN HAMILTON has been a journalist, a diplomat, and traveled the world as a businessman. He is the author of two previous books in the Ava Lee series, The Disciple of Las Vegas and The Wild Beasts of Wuhan. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife.


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FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Picador | 12/31/2013 9781250043559 | $25.00 Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The Red Pole of Macau An Ava Lee Novel

Ian Hamilton

AVA LEE RETURNS TO RESCUE HER FAMILY FROM GANGSTERS AND BANKRUPTCY IN THE THIRD BOOK IN THIS “SEDUCTIVE AND INTRIGUING” (BOOKGASM) CRIME SERIES.

Family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her halfbrother Michael and his business partner Simon from a disastrous multimilliondollar realestate deal in Macau. When the developers turn out to be gangsters, Michael and Simon are threatened with bankruptcy and much worse. Ava struggles to salvage the deal and her family’s money, but then Simon is kidnapped, and the rules of the game abruptly change. Determined to keep her mentor, Uncle, out of the affair, Ava is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong, for help. With time running out, Ava must use all her skills to outwit the gangsters, rescue Simon, and save her family’s future. • Hamilton’s Ava Lee series is steadily gaining many fans in the bookseller mysteryreading community. • Prepublication author appearance and marketing at Bouchercon • For readers of Colin Cotterill and John Burdett

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“Hamilton makes each page crackle with the kind of energy that could easily jump to the movie screen.”—Rachel Kramer Bussel, Penthouse “Formidable...Ava Lee is unbeatable at just about everything....She’s perfect.”—The Toronto Star “Slick, fastmoving escapism reminiscent of Ian Fleming.”—Booklist

IAN HAMILTON has been a journalist, a diplomat, and traveled the world as a businessman. He is the author of two previous books in the Ava Lee series, The Disciple of Las Vegas and The Wild Beasts of Wuhan. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife.


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FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Picador | 12/24/2013 9781250046550 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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A Grave Talent A Novel

Laurie R. King

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TRADE PAPERBACK, READ THE FIRST KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING, EDGAR AWARD–WINNING LAURIE R. KING.

The unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred. For Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who’s less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it’s a diffficult case that just keeps getting harder. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a casebreaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century’s greatest woman painter, and a notorious felon once convicted of a heinous crime. But what really happened eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist’s dark past—even if it means losing everything she holds dear. • 2014 is the twentieth anniversary of King’s bestselling The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. • Repackaged with a new paperback cover look. • Winner of the Edgar Award

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“A Grave Talent kept me reading deep into the night.”—The Boston Globe “Unusually sensitive and densely imagined.”—Kirkus Reviews “Prickling with excitement, full of intriguing characters...a story told well enough to hook and hold Rendell and P. D. James fans.”—Booklist (starred) “[An] amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy.”—Library Journal

LAURIE R. KING is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve Mary Russell mysteries, beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, and five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, including To Play the Fool andWith Child. An Edgar Award winner, she lives in Northern California, and her new novel, The Bones of Paris will be published September 2013.


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To Play the Fool A Novel

Laurie R. King

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TRADE PAPERBACK, THE SECOND KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY, BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING, EDGAR AWARD–WINNING LAURIE R. KING

When a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the authorities are willing to overlook a few broken regulations. But three weeks later, when the dog’s owner gets the same fiery sendoff, the SFPD has a real headache on its hands. The autopsy suggests homicide, but Inspector Kate Martinelli and her partner, Al Hawkin, have little else to go on. They have a homeless victim without a positive ID, a group of witnesses who have little love for the cops, and a possible suspect, known only as Brother Erasmus, who is certainly articulate, but difficult to understand. Kate begins the frustrating task of interrogating a man who communicates only through quotations. Trying to learn something of his history leads her along a twisting road to a disbanded cult, long buried secrets, the thirst for spirituality, and the hunger for bloody vengeance. • 2014 is the twentieth anniversary of King’s bestselling The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. • Repackaged with a new paperback cover look.

PRAISE

“Beautifully written, with clearly defined characters.”—The Boston Globe “Its characters, and its language, linger in the mind long after more conventional entries in the genre are gone.”—San Jose Mercury News “Combines a thoughtful complexity of crime and character with graceful writing.”—Orlando Sentinel



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With Child A Novel

Laurie R. King

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TRADE PAPERBACK, THE THIRD KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY, BY NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING, EDGAR AWARD–WINNER LAURIE R. KING

Adrift in mistshrouded San Francisco mornings and alcoholfogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelveyearold Jules Cameron comes to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for distraction. Jules is worried about her friend Dio, a homeless boy she met in a park. Dio has disappeared without a word of farewell, and Jules wants Kate to find him Reluctant as she is, Kate can't say no—and soon she finds herself forming a friendship with the bright, quirky girl. When Jules disappears while taking a trip with Kate, a desperate search begins—and Kate knows all too well the odds of finding the child alive. • 2014 is the twentieth anniversary of King’s bestselling The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. • Repackaged with a new paperback cover look.

PRAISE

“Martinelli is the kind of person you’d like to know and talk with over many lunches, a smart and tough woman.”—Chicago Tribune “Smart, thoughtful…Ms. King has a way with children….Warm characterizations…searching insights…this detective has a mind that is always on the move.”—The New York Times Book Review “A contemporary, somber psychological thriller, more character study than caper...A compelling cast of characters.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review



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POLITICAL SCIENCE / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Picador | 12/31/2013 9781250043535 | $20.00 / $23.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 496 pages | Carton Qty: 24 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Includes 1 map and 9 blackandwhite photographs throughout

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Going to Tehran Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

AN EYEOPENING ARGUMENT FOR A NEW APPROACH TO IRAN, FROM TWO OF AMERICA’S MOST INFORMED AND INFLUENTIAL MIDDLE EAST EXPERTS

Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America’s strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran—just as Nixon revolutionized U.S. foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. Former analysts in both the Bush and Clinton administrations, the Leveretts offer a uniquely informed account of Iran as it actually is today, not as many have caricatured it or wished it to be. They show that Iran's political order is not on the verge of collapse, that most Iranians still support the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's regional influence makes it critical to progress in the Middle East. Drawing on years of research and access to highlevel officials, the Leveretts’ indispensable work makes it clear that America must “go to Tehran” if it is to avert strategic catastrophe. • With a new afterword • A Foreign Policy Magazine Book to Read in 2013 • For readers of Jeremy Scahill and David Crist

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“A reasoned, methodical critique of the ideological folklore that prevents Washington from setting up normal diplomatic relations with Tehran...Going to Tehran is likely the most important book on U.S. foreign policy in 2013.”—The Washington Spectator “Read this book. You’ll find a lot of information that’s not generally available or not available at all and valuable insights that are sharply at odds with conventional views in the United States, views so unchallenged they can fairly be called a ‘party line.’ This book may help, if it’s widely enough understood, to halt a very clear drift towards what could be a terrible war.”—Noam Chomsky

FLYNT LEVERETT served at the National Security Council, State Department, and CIA, and is now a professor of international affairs and law at Penn State. HILLARY MANN LEVERETT served at the National Security Council and State Department and negotiated for the U.S. government with Iranian officials; she is now senior professorial lecturer at American University. Their writing has appeared in The New York Times, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Washington Monthly. They live in northern Virginia.


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PSYCHOLOGY / GENERAL Picador | 12/31/2013 9781250043511 | $15.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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Missing Out In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips

A TRANSFORMATIVE BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES WE WISH WE HAD AND WHAT THEY CAN TEACH US ABOUT WHO WE ARE

All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires. We become haunted by the myth of our own potential, of what it might be that we have in ourselves to be or to do. Our lives become testaements to our missed opportunities. But what happens if we remove the idea of failure from this equation? With his flair for graceful paradox, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips suggests that if we accept frustration as a way of outlining what we really want, satisfaction suddenly becomes possible. To crave a life without frustration is to crave a life without the potential to identify and accomplish our desires. In this elegant, compassionate, and absorbing book, Phillips draws deeply on his own clinical experience as well as on the works of Shakespeare and Freud, of Donald Winnicott and William James, to suggest that missing out, getting away with it, and not getting it are all chapters in our unlived lives—and may be essential to the one fully lived. • For readers of Erich Fromm and Mark Epstein

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“A wonderfully concise appeal for presentness....elegantly stated.”—The Boston Globe “Missing Out is [Adam Phillips’s] most poetic, paradoxical, repetitive, and punning yet; he doesn’t argue in a linear fashion but nestles ideas within ideas, like Russian dolls.”—Sheila Heti, The New York Times Book Review “[Adam Phillips] has an elegant prose style...with a talent for turning a phrase, a knack for epigrams.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books

ADAM PHILLIPS is a psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York who writes frequently for the London Review of Books. He is the author of many books, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Going Sane; Side Effects; and On Balance. He is also the coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, of On Kindness.


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The Orphan Choir Sophie Hannah

FROM MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE SOPHIE HANNAH COMES A SHOCKING NEW WORK OF DOMESTIC HORROR THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO A NEW LEVEL OF HAIRRAISING TERROR.

Louise Beeston is haunted. Louise has no reason left to stay in the city. She can’t see her son, Joseph, who is away at boarding school where he performs in a prestigious boys’ choir. Her troublesome neighbor has begun blasting choral music at all hours of the night—and to make matters worse, she’s the only one who can hear it. Hoping to find some peace, Louise convinces her husband, Stuart, to buy them a country house in an idyllic, sundappled community called Swallowfield. But it seems that the haunting melodies of the choir have followed her there. Against the pleas and growing disquiet of her husband, Louise starts to suspect that this sinister choir is not only real, but a warning. But of what? And how can it be, when no one else can hear it?

In The Orphan Choir, Sophie Hannah brings us along on a darkly suspenseful investigation of obsession, loss, and the malevolent forces that threaten to break apart a loving family. • The Orphan Choir was a major bestseller in the U.K. when it published in June 2013, outselling Hannah’s immensely popular Zailer and Waterhouse series. • For fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King

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“Horrifically good. The Orphan Choir is a very modern ghost story. The best thing, though? It has proper oldfashioned ghosts in it. There’s nothing like ghostly children to give you the collywobbles.”—The Independent (London) “This bestselling thriller writer knows how to pile on the tension, and her ending is chillingly, memorably disturbing.”—The Sunday Times (London) Praise for Sophie Hannah “Gripping...It's like watching a nightmare come alive.”—Tana French on The Truth Teller’s Lie “Sophie Hannah is a prodigous talent. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”—Laura Lippman

SOPHIE HANNAH is an internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers, poetry, and


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Autobiography of Us A Novel

Aria Beth Sloss

“AN HOMAGE TO FRIENDSHIP” (MARIE CLAIRE) AND A DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT TWO GIRLS GROWING UP IN 1960S CALIFORNIA WHO BECOME BOUND TO EACH OTHER IN WAYS THEY NEVER IMAGINED

“A potent story of altered expectations and thwarted dreams…[Autobiography of Us] blossoms in stirring and surprising ways.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Autobiography of Us tells the story of Rebecca Madden and her reckless friend Alex Carrington—two women who, against a backdrop of white gloves and tinkling cocktail glasses in 1960s Pasadena, become fast friends and confidants. Over the years, as both girls’ dreams change shape both struggle to define themselves against their mothers’ expectations and against a nation on the verge of sweeping cultural change. One summer night, an act of betrayal will forever shake their friendship and define the course of their lives. Decades later, Rebecca looks back on her relationship with Alex, revealing the truths of that night and the years that follow, her life still irrevocably braided into another’s. A “delicate, bittersweet” (USA Today) story of a decadeslong bond, Sloss’s debut is also a powerful portrait of love, loss, and two friends caught between repression and revolution. • For readers of Mary McCarthy’s The Group and Maggie Shipstead’s Seating Arrangements

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“A sharply imagined debut...Sloss writes with assured grace, capturing the conflicted sensibilities of a generation of women.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “Engaging…explores the loves, losses, and shifting friendship of two privileged southern California girls.”—People “Every female friendship has a script of its own. The one playing out in this debut novel is a gripping hybrid—Beaches crossed with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”—More “Powerful...You’ll find this story both moving and engrossing.”—Parade

ARIA BETH SLOSS is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Iowa Arts Foundation, the Yaddo Corporation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in New York City.


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The Book of My Lives Aleksandar Hemon

“AT ONCE UNIMAGINABLE AND UNFORGETTABLE.”—TIME

The first nonfiction book—searing, revealing, unforgettable—from one of our most acclaimed writers Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo. There, a boyhood of street soccer and sibling rivalry matures—into a young man’s life of bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. Years passed, and Hemon embarked on a trip that would mark a third beginning, this time in the United States. As a tourist in Chicago, he watched as war broke out from Sarajevo, his parents and sister fleeing, and Hemon himself unable to return. Stranded, Hemon eventually started his own family, and permanent life in this new city. Yet this, his first book of nonfiction, is much more than a memoir of these experiences. At once a love song to two cities and a paean to the bonds of family, The Book of My Lives is a singular work of passion, built on fierce intelligence, unspeakable tragedies, and sharp insight. Like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader when you finish—and a different person, with a new way of looking at the world. • With a new essay

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“An extraordinary story.”—The New Yorker “As crowded as the pool of contemporary writers wrestling with the American experience has become...no discussion is complete without Aleksandar Hemon.”—Chicago Tribune “There’s a tendency to look askance at essay collections...as if they had no urgency of their own. I defy anyone to make such an argument after reading Aleksandar Hemon’s The Book of My Lives.”—Los Angeles Times

ALEKSANDAR HEMON is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.


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Give Me Everything You Have On Being Stalked

James Lasdun

A TRUE STORY OF OBSESSIVE LOVE TURNING TO OBSESSIVE HATE IN THE CRUCIBLE OF THE DIGITAL AGE

Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author’s strange and harrowing ordeal being stalked by a former student, a selfstyled “verbal terrorist,” who began trying, in her words, to “ruin him.” Hate mail, online postings, antiSemitic abuse, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “smart, rigorous, and beautifully written,” James Lasdun’s account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humor, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, mythology, Middle East politics, and the meaning of honor and reputation in the Internet age. • For readers of Janet Malcolm, Mary Karr, and David Carr

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“[A] smart, rigorous and beautifully written memoir about being on the unwelcome end of some else's attention...Lasdun’s prose is absorbing, involving and perfectly expressed.”—The New York Times Book Review “A fierce and compelling memoir.”—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air “This must be the most informative, the most insightful, and the most beautifully written of any account from the victim’s perspective of what has come to be called ‘cyberbullying.’” —Joyce Carol Oates “[Lasdun is] keenly aware of the boundary between obsession and madness....a psychologically rich narrative.”—The Boston Globe

JAMES LASDUN was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels, as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry, and he was the winner of the inaugural BBC National Short Story Award. His nonfiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books.

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Shouting Won't Help Why Iand 50 Million Other AmericansCan't Hear You

Katherine Bouton

“A HEARTFELT [AND] EVOCATIVE ACCOUNT” OF HEARING LOSS (THE WASHINGTON POST)—AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO OVERCOME IT.

“Fascinating, profound and important….Katherine Bouton’s journey from acceptance to action is inspiring....An astonishing book.”—Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow Audiologists agree that we’re experiencing a national epidemic of hearing loss. At present, 48 million Americans—17 percent of the population—suffer some degree of loss. More than half are under age fiftyfive. In cases like Katherine Bouton’s, who experienced sudden onset in early adulthood, the cause is unknown. Bouton began to lose her hearing at the age of thirty, and it continued to deteriorate during her twentytwoyear career as an editor at The New York Times. In this deftly written and deeply felt look at a widespread and widely misunderstood phenomenon, Bouton recounts her own journey into deafness—and her return to the hearing world through the miracles of technology. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, neurobiologists, and others searching for causes and a cure, as well as those who have experienced hearing loss, weaving their stories with her own. Shouting Won’t Help is an engaging and informative account of what it’s like to live with an invisible disability—a mustread not only for those with hearing loss, who will recognize their stories in Bouton’s, but for their families, friends, employers, and caregivers. • With a new introduction by the author • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

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“Reminds us of Helen Keller’s famous observation that hearing loss is more devastating than blindness because it deprives us of ‘the intellectual company of man.’...Bouton writes eloquently of a condition that is far more common than we think.”—More “Reveals the daily challenges faced by America’s fortyeight million hearing impaired, a number expected to grow as the population ages...Four out of four stars.”—People “Essential.”—The New Yorker

KATHERINE BOUTON is a former editor at The New York Times. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, among others, and she is currently a regular reviewer and contributor to Science Times. She lives in New York City with her husband, Daniel Menaker.


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American Isis The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

Carl Rollyson

“THE FIGURE THAT EMERGES FROM ROLLYSON’S STUDY IS CERTAINLY COMPELLING, AND VERY MUCH A WOMAN OF HER MOMENT AND CULTURE.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the sturm und drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected, accepted—and ultimately embraced by readers everywhere. At age thirty she committed suicide by putting her head in an oven while her children slept on the floor above in rooms she had sealed off from the poisonous gas. Ariel, a collection of poems she wrote at whitehot speed during her final months, became a modern classic. Her novel, The Bell Jar, has become a part of the literary canon, appearing on student reading lists worldwide. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Carl Rollyson gives us a new biography of Plath that shows her as a powerful figure who embraced both high and low culture to become the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature, a writer who wanted nothing less than to become central to the mythology of modern consciousness. This is the first biography of Sylvia Plath to use materials newly deposited in the Ted Hughes archive at the British Library—including fortyone letters between Plath and Hughes—to create a fresh and startling look at this American icon.

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“Concise, fastmoving, and reliable.”—The New York Times

“Refreshingly judicious and often eloquent...Rollyson’s account credibly outlines the claustrophobic effects on Plath of social, familial and marital pressures that may have proved her undoing.”—The Washington Post “Rollyson...has diligently combed the archives and interviewed Plath’s Smith College classmates and others who knew her. His workmanlike narrative gathers force when it reaches the inevitably fascinating marriage, which Rollyson compares to Monroe’s illfated union with playwright Arthur Miller.”—The Boston Globe

CARL ROLLYSON, professor of journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York, has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, Dana Andrews, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism. He lives in Cape May County, New Jersey.


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The Force of Things A Marriage in War and Peace

Alexander Stille

A MASTERPIECE OF LITERARY MEMORY—A POWERFUL EXPLORATION OF THE INTERSECTIONS OF FAMILY, HISTORY, AND MEMORY

“One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father.” So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy’s most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascistdominated Europe in the 1930s and in the shadow of World War II. It is the story of a crucial, painful moment in history that reshaped much of American culture and society—but also that of two seemingly incongruous people who manage to find love. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Acclaimed author and frequent New Yorker contributor Alexander Stille’s The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things. • For readers of Anatole Broyard, Anne Roiphe, and Alfred Kazin

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“[Stille] leaves us not just with extraordinarily powerful portraits of these terribly mismatched individuals, but also with a deeply felt understanding of how they were shaped.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Stille uses the domestic drama as a starting point for a sweeping narrative that blends memoir, history, and psychology, and spans generations and continents....Moving effortlessly between the intimate and the grand, Stille shows how our lives acquire meaning.”—The New Yorker “[A] richly detailed narrative....The Force of Things maps a complex family tree, tracing a lavish cultural history through each branch and twig.”—Oprah.com

ALEXANDER STILLE is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, Benevolence and Betrayal, and The Future of the Past. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times.


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The Faithful Executioner Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

Joel F. Harrington

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCEERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED JOURNAL

In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenthcentury executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured over fortyfive years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate—even progressive? In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt’s journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt’s life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes of the day; the medical practice that he felt was his true calling; and his lifelong struggle to reconcile his craft with his religious faith. The biography of an ordinary man struggling for his soul, this groundbreaking book also offers an unparalleled view of Medieval Europe on the cusp of modernity, a society riven by conflict and encumbered by paranoia, superstition, and abuses of power. In this intimate portrait, Harrington shows us that our thinking about justice and punishment, and our sense of our own humanity, are not so remote from the world of The Faithful Executioner.

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“Joel F. Harrington has written a considered and fascinating book.”—Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize–winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies “An engrossing study...Mr. Harrington has not only rescued the life of an individual from disgust and condescension but also, by focusing on a career in killing, brought a whole world back to life.”—The Wall Street Journal “The Faithful Executioner is much more than a description of the many imaginative and horrifying means of torturing and putting prisoners to death. It is a rare and utterly fascinating examination of the society that demands it.”—New York Journal of Books

JOEL F. HARRINGTON is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Unwanted Child, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany, and A Cloud of Witnesses.


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Bitter Eden A Novel

Tatamkhulu Afrika

A MODERN CLASSIC BEING INTRODUCED TO THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIRST TIME, TATAMKHULU AFRIKA’S NOVEL OF THE PROFOUND BONDS FORGED BETWEEN PRISONERS OF WAR

Bitter Eden is based on Tatamkhulu (Tata) Afrika’s own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisonerofwar in World War II in Italy and Germany. This frank and beautifully wrought novel deals with three men who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in the maleonly camps. The complex rituals of camp life and the strange loyalties and deep bonds between the men are heartwrenchingly told. Bitter Eden is a tender, bitter, deeply felt book of lives inexorably changed, of a war whose ending does not bring peace. • For readers of André Aciman, Pat Barker, and Sándor Márai

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“One of those rare books that is both tender and tough, that is a punch to the stomach and a caress to the face...Bitter Eden is earthy and lyrical, caustic and moving. It is a thrilling read.”—Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap “Bitter Eden reinvents and rescues that thing called the love story from the knowing, arch exile of the last fifty years with a willful, passionately perverse innocence.”—The Independent (London) “A powerful story of men driven together by adversity.”—Daily Mail (London) “An extraordinarily powerful novel...it reads like an epic prose poem—or like a kind of deathbed confession.”—The Independent on Sunday (London)

TATAMKHULU AFRIKA was born in Egypt in 1920 of an Arab father and a Turkish mother. He was brought to South Africa in 1923, orphaned and raised by Christian foster parents. He served in World War II in the North African Campaign, and was a POW for three years in Italy and Germany. At the age of seventeen he published a novel in Great Britain entitled Broken Earth, but did not write again for fifty years. Bitter Eden was first published when he was eighty years old. He died in December 2002.


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In the Body of the World A Memoir

Eve Ensler

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES AND ONE OF NEWSWEEKS’S 150 WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, A VISIONARY MEMOIR OF SEPARATION AND CONNECTION—TO THE BODY, THE SELF, AND THE WORLD

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.” But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world. Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

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“Unforgettable...A story of stark, inspiring, often confrontational honesty. Ensler’s message is clear: We can face the worst life has in store for us and create, even in the face of terror, a life of meaning and joy.”—The New York Times Book Review “Moving...What Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions did for anxious new mothers, Ensler’s memoir does for women who are fighting cancer or may fight it one day.”—Entertainment Weekly “An intense, riveting memoir...not an easy book to read, but a necessary book to read for its fierce, passionate commitment to making the world a safe place for women.”—The Boston Globe

EVE ENSLER is an internationally bestselling author and an awardwinning playwright whose works include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, since adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She is the founder of VDay, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised more than ninety million dollars for local activists and inspired the global action One Billion Rising. Ensler lives in Paris and New York.

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The Fun Parts Stories

Sam Lipsyte

A WISE, BOLD, AND HILARIOUS NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ASK—AND “THE GREATEST SATIRIST OF HIS GENERATION” (NEW YORK MAGAZINE).

“Sublime mayhem...Lipsyte expertly works the line between hilarity and pathos.”—Ben Fountain, The New York Times Book Review A boy eats his way to selfdiscovery, while another must battle the realitybrandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Elsewhere, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the characters you’ll encounter in Sam Lipsyte’s richly imagined world. Populated by a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler who must face the multiuniversal truth of “the realass jumbo,” and a tawdry glimpse of a high school at a shotputting circuit in northern New Jersey, circa 1986, Lipsyte’s tales combine the tragicomic brilliance of his beloved novels with the compressed vitality of Venus Drive. The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his very best—an exploration of new voices and vistas from “the most consistently funny fiction writer working today” (Time). • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • For readers of George Saunders, Rick Moody, and Wells Tower

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“Lipsyte can’t be matched...A literary rock star.”—The New York Times “[Fuses] angst and slapstick in a way unseen since Nathanael West walked the earth. Lipsyte’s like a darker, funnier George Saunders, but not without that same core of warmth or kindness.”—Esquire “Sharp and black and witty...Lipsyte is a brilliant wordsmith, and evidence of his skill is plentiful in this book, even more, arguably, than in his earlier works....Exquisite.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Like a cross between Mary Gaitskill and David Foster Wallace...Modern scribes of satire: Meet your Bucky Schmidt.”—Slate

SAM LIPSYTE is the New York Times bestselling author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask. He won the first annual Believer Book Award and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He teaches writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts.


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FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 2/25/2014 9781250043603 | $16.00 Paperback / softback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.210 in T

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Jacob's Folly A Novel

Rebecca Miller

FUNNY AND MOVING IN EQUAL MEASURE—THAT SHINES WITH THIS HIGHPROFILE AUTHOR’S UNIQUE TALENTS

In eighteenthcentury Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a peddler of knives, saltcellars, and snuffboxes. Despite a disastrous teenage marriage, he is determined to raise himself up by whatever means he can—and ultimately finds himself reincarnated as a fly in the Long Island suburbs of twentyfirstcentury America, his new life twisted in ways he could never have imagined. But even the tiniest of insects can influence the turning of the world, and thanks to his arrival, the lives of a volunteer fireman and a young Orthodox Jewish woman with a secret ambition will never be the same. Through the unique lens of Jacob’s consciousness, Rebecca Miller explores the hold of the past on the present, the power of private hopes and dreams, the collision of fate and free will, and change in all of its various guises. Transfiguring her world with a clear gaze and sharp, surprising wit, she brings Jacob’s Folly vividly to life—and we recognize its landscape as our own. • For readers of Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss, and Issac Bashevis Singer

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“This is an imaginative leap in a new direction, yolking historical fiction to a contemporary drama with a device that, were it written less skillfully, would simply be preposterous....Delightful.”—Los Angeles Times “Miller creates memorable characters with dark wit, lyrical prose and a propulsive storytelling rhythm...Jacob’s Folly is an ingenious, meticulously observed, profoundly absorbing and deeply satisfying read.”—USA Today “Miller’s writing is sensuous, and her individual stories expand, opulently in scope and emotional impact.”—NPR

REBECCA MILLER is the author of the short story collection Personal Velocity, her featurefilm adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which she also adapted for the screen. Her other films include Angela and The Ballad of Jack and Rose. She lives in New York and Ireland with her family.


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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Picador | 2/25/2014 9781250044396 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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Her A Memoir

Christa Parravani

A BLAZINGLY PASSIONATE MEMOIR OF IDENTITY AND LOVE: WHEN A CHARASMATIC AND TROUBLED YOUNG WOMAN DIES TRAGICALLY, HER IDENTICAL TWIN MUST STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE.

Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, the gifted and beautiful twins shielded each other from family violence and loss with playfulness and creativity then earned scholarships at a prestigious college and began careers as artists (a photographer and a writer, respectively). But when Cara fell victim to a shocking act of brutality, she became unable to keep her demons at bay; she veered off the path to robust work and life and into depression, drugs and a shocking early death. Studies of twins have shown that when an identical twin dies, regardless of the cause, the surviving twin’s life is immediately at risk. First, Christa fought to keep her sister alive; then she struggled to keep from drowning in her loss. Beautifully written, mesmerizingly rich and true, Christa Parravani's account of being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate, ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative, heartwrenching and unforgettably beautiful. • For readers of Jeannette Walls and Mary Karr

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“Christa Parravani’s lyrical, nononsense Her ranks with the best American memoirs of the decade.”—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Machine Dreams “Parravani has the ability to make life, even at its worst, feel magictinged and vital and lived all the way down to the bone.”—Heidi Julavits, Bookforum “That [Parravani] comes out the other side is never predictable—merely miraculous.”—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

CHRISTA PARRAVANI is a writer and photographer. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are represented by the Michael Foley Gallery in New York City. She has taught photography at Dartmouth College, Columbia University, and UMass, Amherst. She earned her MFA in visual art from Columbia and her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Anthony Swofford (Jarhead), and their daughter.


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RELIGION / HISTORY Picador | 3/4/2014 9781250044075 | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes one 8page blackandwhite photograph section plus 5 maps

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And Man Created God A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

Selina O'Grady

A GROUNDBREAKING HISTORY OF THE AGE WHEN EMPIRES USED RELIGIONS TO BECOME POWERFUL AND RELIGIONS USED EMPIRES TO SPREAD THEIR MESSAGE

At the end of the first century BC, the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. In Syria, ecstatic devotees castrated themselves in the streets so as to become priests of Atargatis. In Galilee, holy men turned oil into wine and claimed to be the Messiah. Kings, queens, and emperors were riding on the backs of these religions to increase their power. And Man Created God considers how and why religious belief has had such an immense impact on human history by identifying the roots of belief within societies. O’Grady looks at the whole world during one short period and asks a specific question: Why did Christianity grow so quickly and become the predominant world religion? The beliefs held by a tiny Jewish sect in an obscure corner of the then mighty Roman Empire would have seemed doomed to disappear within a few generations. Instead, they became the official religion of the Empire. What was it about Christian ideas that appealed to people in so many different cultures at that time? Beginning in Rome, expanding her review out to Gaul, Germania, North Africa, the Near East, Persia, and beyond to China, the author sifts through the economic, political, and sociocultural facts to understand why some ideas die and others thrive in a thrilling new work of history. • For readers of Jack Miles, Elaine Pagels, and Karen Armstrong

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“O’Grady has written a powerful book on an immense subject. She writes with clarity and distinction and is a pleasure to read.”—Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times, A History of Christianity, and A History of the American People “This vividly compelling account of how Christianity rose triumphant from the religious and civil tumults of its earliest days is a must read.”—A. C. Grayling, author of The Good Book

SELINA O’GRADY is a regular reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Review, and Tablet, as well as specializes in works of popular history. She is the coeditor of two books: Great Spirits: The FiftyTwo Christians Who Most Influenced Their Millennium (ranging from Bach to Martin Luther King) and A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, an anthology from AngloSaxon to modern times of the experience of belief and disbelief. She lives in London.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Picador | 2/25/2014 9781250044068 | $17.00 / $19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes one 16page blackandwhite photogragh section

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780805095111 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780805098686 Ebook ISBN: 9780805098334

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The Secretary A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power

Kim Ghattas

THE FIRST INSIDER ACCOUNT TO BE PUBLISHED ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S TIME AS SECRETARY OF STATE

The Secretary is the first book of its kind: A foreign correspondent and author with both an insider and a global perspective, Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage for four years. She draws on extensive interviews with Clinton, administration officials, and other players around Washington and overseas to paint an intimate portrait of one of the most powerful global politicians in the world. The Secretary tells the story of Hillary Clinton as America’s envoy to the world in compelling detail: from the first days of the Obama administration, to the drama of WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring uprisings. Viewed through Ghattas’s vantage point as a halfDutch, halfLebanese citizen who grew up in the crossfire of the Lebanon civil war, the book offers a closeup of diplomacy at the highest level. • With a new afterword

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“A terrific book—not just our first intimate portrait of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but also a riveting personal story. Compelling...a pageturner.”—Joe Klein “Poignant and gripping...A powerful journey of discovery and selfdiscovery.”—Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran “An unusually intimate look at a historic secretary of state...an unexpected pageturner.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

KIM GHATTAS has been the BBC’s State Department Radio and TV correspondent since 2008, and travels regularly with the Secretary of State. She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. Ghattas was part of an Emmy Award–winning BBC team covering the LebanonIsrael conflict of 2006. Her work has also appeared in TIME magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and on NPR radio. She lives in Washington, D.C.


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POLITICAL SCIENCE / GOVERNMENT Picador | 3/4/2014 9781250043627 | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 in T Includes 5 blackandwhite illustrations throughout

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The Rule of the Clan What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom

Mark S. Weiner

A REVEALING LOOK AT THE ROLE KINBASED SOCIETIES HAVE PLAYED THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND AROUND THE WORLD

A lively, wideranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and cultural institutions of kinbased societies, from medieval Iceland to modern Pakistan. Mark S. Weiner, an expert in constitutional law and legal history, shows us that true individual freedom depends on the existence of a robust state dedicated to the public interest. In the absence of a healthy state, he explains, humans naturally tend to create legal structures centered not on individuals but rather on extended family groups. The modern liberal state makes individualism possible by keeping this powerful drive in check—and we ignore the continuing threat to liberal values and institutions at our peril. At the same time, for modern individualism to survive, liberals must also acknowledge the profound social and psychological benefits the rule of the clan provides and recognize the loss humanity sustains in its transition to modernity. Masterfully argued and filled with rich historical detail, Weiner’s investigation speaks both to modern liberal societies and to developing nations riven by “clannism,” including Muslim societies in the wake of the Arab Spring.

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“An accessible, mesmerizing, and compelling argument...An important book...Highly recommended.”—New York Journal of Books “A fascinating glimpse into a world that few Westerners today understand.”—Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University, and author of Why the West Rules—For Now “The Rule of the Clan confronts an uncomfortable but important reality.”—Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion

MARK S. WEINER teaches constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste, which received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship, which received the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He lives with his wife in Connecticut.

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FICTION / GENERAL Picador | 4/8/2014 9781250041548 | $25.00 / $29.00 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 24 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

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Mimi Malloy At Last A Novel

Julia MacDonnell

A FUNNY, DEEPLY MOVING STORY OF SECOND CHANCES AND LATELIFE ROMANCES, TOLD BY THE MOST STRAIGHTTALKING WOMAN YOU’LL EVER MEET.

Forced into an early retirement, Mimi Malloy enjoys the simple things in life: True Blue cigarettes, her apartment in the heart of Quincy, and an evening with Frank Sinatra on the stereo with a Manhattan in her hand. Born into an Irish Catholic brood of seven, with six beautiful daughters of her own, she knows that life isn’t just a bowl of cherries—that, sometimes, it’s the pits. And when an MRI reveals that Mimi’s brain is filled with black spots—areas of atrophy, her doctor says—the prospect living out her days in an “Old Timer’s facility” starts to look like more than just an idea at the top of her eldest daughter’s todo list. Yet as Mimi prepares to take a stand, she stumbles upon an old pendant, and her memory starts to return—specifically, recollections of a shockingly painful childhood, her longlost sister Fagan, and the wicked stepmother she swore to forget. By turns funny, wise, and whimsical, and always deeply moving, Mimi Malloy At Last is an unforgettable story of second chances and the family bonds that break us and remake us. Above all, it’s a poignant reminder that it’s never too late to fall in love—and that one can always come of age a second time. • For readers of Elizabeth Strout, Sue Monk Kidd, and Jojo Moyes

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“Julia MacDonnell writes with a psychological savvy and family wisdom few others have. Her words vibrate to the thought waves between sisters, mothers and daughters, parents and children, wives and husbands. Her stories tug at a single thread until a whole fabric unravels, and then they work the miracle of reweaving.”—Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden

JULIA MACDONNELL’s fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, and her story “Soy Paco” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has been featured in The Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. A tenured professor at Rowan University, she is the nonfiction editor of Philadelphia Stories. This is her first novel in twenty years.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Picador | 4/8/2014 9781250043658 | $17.00 Paperback / softback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes 3 maps

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A Fort of Nine Towers An Afghan Family Story

Qais Akbar Omar

A RARE AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING MEMOIR OF AFGHANISTAN—“A TALE THAT DESERVES TO RANK WITH THE KITE RUNNER” (RONALD E. NEUMANN, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN).

Twentythree years ago, Kabul was a garden where sevenyearold Qais Akbar Omar flew kites from the roof of his grandfather’s house. But then came the hollow sounds of rocket fire as the Mujahedin, selfproclaimed holy warriors, took over Afghanistan. Civil war erupted, and Omar’s family fled to an old fort, leaving everything behind. Soon, after narrowly escaping death, his father decided that the family must leave the country. But the journey proved more difficult than anticipated, and the Taliban’s victory over the Mujahedin made little difference to the Afghan people. In this stunning comingofage memoir, Omar offers a moving recollection of these events—a story of daily hardships, relieved by moments of joy and immense beauty. Inflected with folktales and steeped in poetry, A Fort of Nine Towers is a universal tale of human resilience and a lifeaffirming triumph. • “Perfect for readers of books like Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran” (Library Journal)

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“If you read only one book this summer, make it this one...Astonishing.”—Jeanette Winterson, O, The Oprah Magazine “Mindboggling yet matteroffact...A riveting story of war as seen through a child’s eyes and summoned from an adult’s memory...Omar’s retelling startlingly transforms each horror into a reminder of what lies beneath the rubble: an openhearted, hospitable community of generous, gregarious people.”—The New York Times Book Review “A classic autobiography of universal resonance...Tender and hopeful against all odds.”—Newsweek

QAIS AKBAR OMAR is a carpet designer and the manager of a fourthgeneration carpet business in Kabul. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado and is currently a student in the MBA program at Brandeis University. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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FICTION / LITERARY Picador | 4/1/2014 9781250043641 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.110 in T

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Odds Against Tomorrow A Novel

Nathaniel Rich

A “SCARILY PRESCIENT AND WHOLLY ORIGINAL” (VANITY FAIR) NOVEL ABOUT FEAR OF THE FUTURE—AND THE FUTURE OF FEAR

“Prescient...A charming, terrifying, comic novel of apocalyptic manners...Rich’s descriptions of the vagaries of both nature and human nature are stark, fresh, and convincing, full of surprise and recognition.”—Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A gifted mathematician, he spends his days in Manhattan calculating worstcase scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe, he exchanges letters with Elsa Bruner—a college crush with an apocalyptic secret of her own—and becomes obsessed by a culture’s fears. When his predictions culminate in a nightmarish crescendo, Mitchell realizes he is uniquely prepared to profit from the disaster. But at what cost? Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow is an alltooplausible pageturner that asks the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization—and proves that the future is not quite what it used to be. • For readers of T.C. Boyle and William Gibson

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“An irresistible literary thriller...Rich mines the terror of our times.”—Rolling Stone “May be the first great climatechange novel.”(Rolling Stone)“As terrifically described as any of the best science fiction we have...A knockout of a book.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered “Any sentence from Rich is worth reading, any thought worth pondering….An ambitious novel of ideas about the way we die now.”—The New York Times Book Review “Nathaniel Rich has turned disaster porn into high art.”—Slate Born in New York City, NATHANIEL RICH now lives in New Orleans. He is the author of The Mayor’s Tongue. His short fiction has appeared in Vice, McSweeney’s, and the American Scholar; his essays in the New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications.

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NATURE / INSECTS & SPIDERS Picador | 4/1/2014 9781250045058 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes 15 blackandwhite photographs, 21 blackandwhite illustrations and 20 charts and graphs throughout

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Bug Music How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise

David Rothenberg

BUG MUSIC EXPLORES THE MUSICALLITY OF INSECTS AND THEIR ROLE IN TEACHING HUMANITY TO FOLLOW THE BEAT.

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen year cycle—the longest gestation period of any animal. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion that we humans got our idea of rhythm, synchronization, and dance from the world of insect sounds that surrounded our species over the millions of years over which we evolved. Completing the trilogy he began with Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song, David Rothenberg explores a unique part of our relationship with nature and sound—the music of insects that has provided a soundtrack for humanity throughout the history of our species. • Bug Music has received widespread news coverage for its hardcover, from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal, and from WNYC’s Radiolab to PBS’s NewsHour.

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“Bug Music is engaging, wideranging, and profound.”—John Marzluff, author of Gifts of the Crow “I loved this book. It’s inspiring, fascinating, and funny. Bug Music is a foray into another world.”—Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven “A wonderful amalgam of what we appreciate about insects.”—The Wall Street Journal

Philosopher and jazz musician DAVID ROTHENBERG is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of Survival of the Beautiful, Why Birds Sing, and Thousand Mile Song. He lives in Cold Spring, New York, with his family.

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Hour of the Red God A Detective Mollel Novel

Richard Crompton

“IT’S AN UNUSUAL FEELING FOR A MYSTERY FAN TO GET IN ON A NEW SERIES THIS GOOD....THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS THE WAIT FOR THE SECOND” (THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER).

“From the moment we meet Mollel...we enter an entirely fresh world....This is a smashing debut, as fleetfooted as the warrior himself. It will make you long for the next installment.”—Financial Times (London) Nairobi, 2007. In Africa’s sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over an impoverished, restless majority. With Kenya’s presidential elections looming on the horizon, tensions in the city have reached an alltime high. So when the body of a prostitute is discovered inside Uhuru Park, the police are too preoccupied to care. But Detective Mollel does, deeply. He is a former Maasai warrior, and the dead girl was Maasai too. As he ventures from slums to skyscrapers, from suburbs to sewers in search of the killer, Mollel is confronted with his turbulent past—and the realization that this homicide is anything but typical. Richard Crompton’s Hour of the Red God is a dark, thrilling, and vividly imagined mystery, with a hero as complex as the city itself. • For fans of HBO’s The Wire • Nairobi is a fresh setting for international crime readers • Published to coincide with the FSG hardcover publication of the next Detective Mollel novel

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“An impressive novel...full of the indigenous sights and sounds we crave in such a work.”—The Wall Street Journal “An absorbing and vivid debut...Mollel is a fullbodied character, a flawed but sympathetic father and widower—and as fearless a cop as in his former life as a Maasai warrior.”—The Seattle Times “Dazzlingly good...[with] one of the most interesting detectives to appear in mystery fiction in years...an utterly masterful debut.”—Open Letters Monthly

RICHARD CROMPTON lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and their three young children. A former BBC journalist, Crompton left London several years ago when his wife, a human rights lawyer, was offered a job in Rwanda helping to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide.

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FICTION / GENERAL Picador | 4/8/2014 9781250045096 | $16.00 / $18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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The Abundance A Novel

Amit Majmudar

A LUMINOUS, BITTERSWEET NOVEL OF INDIA AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR FIRSTGENERATION CHILDREN, AND THE POWER OF COOKING TO BRIDGE THE GULFS BETWEEN THEM

When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the Midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents—a diaspora of prosperous doctors and engineers who have successfully managed to keep faith with the old world while claiming the prizes of the new. More successfully than their children, who are equally ill at ease with Holi and Christmas, bhaji and barbecue, and a mystery to their parents and themselves. In the short time between diagnosis and deterioration, Mala sets about learning everything she can about her mother's art of Indian cooking. Perfecting the naan and the raita, the two confront their deepest divisions and failures and learn to speak as well as cook. But when Ronak hits upon the idea of selling their experience as a book and a TV documentary, India and America, immigrant and nativeborn are torn as never before. With grace, acuity, and wry compassion, Amit Majmudar has written anew the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. • For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri, Dinaw Mengestu, and Changrae Lee

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“A superb fiction debut...particularly welcome. This novel will make you angry and sad, as it should; it will also leave you with a heightened sense of sympathy and hope for all people on both sides of an arbitrary border.”—The Wall Street Journal “This firsttime novelist has helped us to travel that brief but crucial distance, from words on the page to dreams in our minds and hearts, and made this bitter, brutal time somehow reachable.”—NPR’s All Things Considered

AMIT MAJMUDAR is the author of Partitions, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best debut novels of 2011 and by Booklist as one of the year’s ten best works of historical fiction. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Best American Poetry 2011. A radiologist, he lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Abundance, The: A Novel; Amit Majmudar 36. . . . . . . . . . . . .Afrika, Tatamkhulu; Bitter Eden: A Novel 23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; CarlRollyson 20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Timeof Jesus; Selina O'Grady 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Autobiography of Us: A Novel; Aria Beth Sloss 16. . . . . . . . .Bitter Eden: A Novel; Tatamkhulu Afrika 23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Book of Men, The: Eighty Writers on How to Be a Man 3. . .Book of My Lives, The; Aleksandar Hemon 17. . . . . . . . . . . . .Bouton, Katherine; Shouting Won't Help: Why I---and 50 MillionOther Americans---Can't Hear You 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise; DavidRothenberg 34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Crompton, Richard; Hour of the Red God: A Detective MollelNovel 35. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .de Waal, Elisabeth; The Exiles Return: A Novel 4. . . . . . . . . . . .Ensler, Eve; In the Body of the World: A Memoir 24. . . . . . . . . .Exiles Return, The: A Novel; Elisabeth de Waal 4. . . . . . . . . .Faithful Executioner, The: Life and Death, Honor andShame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century; Joel F.Harrington 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Force of Things, The: A Marriage in War and Peace;Alexander Stille 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fort of Nine Towers, A: An Afghan Family Story; QaisAkbar Omar 32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franzen, Jonathan; The Twenty-Seventh City (25thAnniversary Edition): A Novel 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fun Parts, The: Stories; Sam Lipsyte 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ghattas, Kim; The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clintonfrom Beirut to the Heart of American Power 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked; JamesLasdun 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the IslamicRepublic of Iran; Flynt Leverett 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grave Talent, A: A Novel; Laurie R. King 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hamilton, Ian; The Red Pole of Macau: An Ava Lee Novel . . .

8, 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hannah, Sophie; The Orphan Choir 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Harrington, Joel F.; The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death,Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century 22. . . . . .Hemon, Aleksandar; The Book of My Lives 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Her: A Memoir; Christa Parravani 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hour of the Red God: A Detective Mollel Novel; RichardCrompton 35. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In the Body of the World: A Memoir; Eve Ensler 24. . . . . . . . .Jacob's Folly: A Novel; Rebecca Miller 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War inVietnam; Nick Turse 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .King, Laurie R.; A Grave Talent: A Novel 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .King, Laurie R.; To Play the Fool: A Novel 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .King, Laurie R.; With Child: A Novel 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Laing, Olivia; The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lasdun, James; Give Me Everything You Have: On BeingStalked 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leverett, Flynt; Going to Tehran: Why America Must Acceptthe Islamic Republic of Iran 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lipsyte, Sam; The Fun Parts: Stories 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Love Is a Canoe: A Novel; Ben Schrank 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MacDonnell, Julia; Mimi Malloy At Last: A Novel 31. . . . . . . . . .Majmudar, Amit; The Abundance: A Novel 36. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Miller, Rebecca; Jacob's Folly: A Novel 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mimi Malloy At Last: A Novel; Julia MacDonnell 31. . . . . . . . .

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life; Adam Phillips . .14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel; Nathaniel Rich 33. . . . . . .O'Grady, Selina; And Man Created God: A History of the Worldat the Time of Jesus 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Omar, Qais Akbar; A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan FamilyStory 32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Orphan Choir, The; Sophie Hannah 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parravani, Christa; Her: A Memoir 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Phillips, Adam; Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life 14. . .Red Pole of Macau, The: An Ava Lee Novel; Ian Hamilton . .

8, 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rich, Nathaniel; Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel 33. . . . . . . .Rollyson, Carl; American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath .

20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rothenberg, David; Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythmand Noise 34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rule of the Clan, The: What an Ancient Form of SocialOrganization Reveals About the Future of IndividualFreedom; Mark S. Weiner 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schrank, Ben; Love Is a Canoe: A Novel 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Secretary, The: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirutto the Heart of American Power; Kim Ghattas 29. . . . . . . . . . .Shouting Won't Help: Why I---and 50 Million OtherAmericans---Can't Hear You; Katherine Bouton 19. . . . . . . . . .Sloss, Aria Beth; Autobiography of Us: A Novel 16. . . . . . . . . . .Stille, Alexander; The Force of Things: A Marriage in War andPeace 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .To Play the Fool: A Novel; Laurie R. King 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Trip to Echo Spring, The: On Writers and Drinking; OliviaLaing 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Turse, Nick; Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American Warin Vietnam 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Twenty-Seventh City (25th Anniversary Edition), The: ANovel; Jonathan Franzen 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Weiner, Mark S.; The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Formof Social Organization Reveals About the Future of IndividualFreedom 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .With Child: A Novel; Laurie R. King 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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