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Doubleday and Nan A. Talese .............................................................3

Alfred A. Knopf................................................................................43

Pantheon and Schocken ..................................................................107

Everyman’s Library........................................................................133

Vintage and Anchor........................................................................141

Group Author Index .......................................................................265

Group Title Index ...........................................................................270

Foreign Rights Representatives ........................................................275

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Ackroyd, Peter, THE CASEBOOKOF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Atwood, Margaret, THE YEAR OFTHE FLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Byrne, Trevor, GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING . . . . . .29

Caldwell, Christopher, REFLECTIONS ONTHE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Carhart, Thad,ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Conroy, Pat, SOUTH OF BROAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Durham, David Anthony,THE OTHER LANDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Gibson, Bob, SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES . . . . . . . . .15

Gibson, Graeme, THE BEDSIDEBOOK OF BEASTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Hazleton, Lesley, AFTER THE PROPHET . . . . . . . .14

Heller, Anne C., AYN RAND ANDTHEWORLD SHEMADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Hoffman, David E., THE DEAD HAND . . . . . . . . . .22

Jackson, Reggie, SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES . . . . . .15

Kindred, Dave, MORNINGMIRACLE . . . . . . . . . . .18

Krakauer, Jon, WHEREMENWIN GLORY . . . . . . .11

Lamster, Mark, MASTER OF SHADOWS . . . . . . . . .36

Lethem, Jonathan, CHRONIC CITY . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Martin, Valerie, THE CONFESSIONSOF EDWARD DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Mezrich, Ben, THE ACCIDENTALBILLIONAIRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Othmer, James P., ADLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Page, Tim, PARALLEL PLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Papp, Joseph, FREE FOR ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Podhoretz, Norman, WHY AREJEWS LIBERALS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Pogrebin, Abigail, ONE AND THE SAME . . . . . . . .27

Ritz, David, WE’LL BE HERE FORTHE REST OF OUR LIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Rutherfurd, Edward, NEW YORK:THE NOVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Shaffer, Paul, WE’LL BE HERE FORTHE REST OF OUR LIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Smith, Lee, THE STRONG HORSE . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Trofimuk, Thomas, WAITING FORCOLUMBUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Turan, Kenneth, FREE FOR ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Twelve Hawks, John, THE GOLDEN CITY . . . . . . .21

Vaccaro, Mike, THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC . . . . . .24

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ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER,Thad Carhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES,Ben Mezrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

ADLAND, James P. Othmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

AFTER THE PROPHET, Lesley Hazleton . . . . . . . . .14

AYN RAND AND THEWORLD SHEMADE,Anne C. Heller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS,Graeme Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

THE CASEBOOK OFVICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, Peter Ackroyd . . . . . . . .35

CHRONIC CITY, Jonathan Lethem . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY,Valerie Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

THE DEAD HAND, David E. Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . .22

THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC, Mike Vaccaro . . . . . . .24

FREE FOR ALL,Joseph Papp and Kenneth Turan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING, Trevor Byrne . . . . . . .29

THE GOLDEN CITY, John Twelve Hawks . . . . . . . .21

MASTER OF SHADOWS, Mark Lamster . . . . . . . . .36

MORNINGMIRACLE, Dave Kindred . . . . . . . . . . .18

NEW YORK: THE NOVEL,Edward Rutherfurd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

ONE AND THE SAME, Abigail Pogrebin . . . . . . . . .27

THE OTHER LANDS,David Anthony Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

PARALLEL PLAY, Tim Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION INEUROPE, Christopher Caldwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES,Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

SOUTH OF BROAD, Pat Conroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

THE STRONG HORSE, Lee Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

WAITING FOR COLUMBUS,Thomas Trofimuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

WE’LL BE HERE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES,Paul Shaffer and David Ritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

WHEREMENWIN GLORY, Jon Krakauer . . . . . . .11

WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS?,Norman Podhoretz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD,Margaret Atwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

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CHR I S TOPHER CALDWELL

R E F L E C T I O N S O NT H E R E V O L U T I O NI N E U R O P EImmigration, Islam, and the West

A thoughtful and provocative journalist takes anunflinching look at Europe, caught in a demographicrevolution it never expected, and at the increasinglyassertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’sfuture.

Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighbor-hoods have forced Europeans to confront the limits of

their long-held liberal values. Europe’s half century of massimmigration has failed to produce anything resembling theAmerican melting pot. Having overestimated its need forimmigrant labor and underestimated the culture-shapinginfluence of religion, Europe is now faced with a serious prob-lem for which there is no easy solution.

Christopher Caldwell has been reporting on the politicsand culture of Islam in Europe for more than a decade. InReflections on the Revolution in Europe, he reveals the anger ofnatives and newcomers alike. He describes modest guest-worker programs that grew into wholesale population transfers,and asylum policies that have served illegal immigrants betterthan refugees. He exposes the strange interaction of welfarestates and Third World traditions, the anti-Americanism thatbrings natives and newcomers together, and the argumentsover women and sex that drive them apart. And he examinesthe dangerous tendency of politicians to defuse tensions sur-rounding Islam by curtailing the rights of all.

Based on extensive reporting and offering trenchant analysis,Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to becomethe classic work on how Muslim immigration permanentlyreshaped the West.

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL is a columnist for theFinancial Times, a contributing writer for the New YorkTimes Magazine, and a senior editor at the WeeklyStandard.

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T H E A C C I D E N TA LB I L L I O N A I R E SThe Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money,Genius, and Betrayal

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House pensthe incredible true story of the accidental creation ofFacebook, and the even more amazing tale of whatfollowed.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvardundergraduates and best friends—outsiders at a school

filled with polished prep-school grads and longtime legacies.They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geekyawkwardness with the opposite sex. The two figured their ticketto social acceptance—and sexual success—was getting invitedto join one of Harvard’s elite final clubs. But on their road togetting punched into the famous Phoenix Club, they found aneven more valuable ticket to social stardom. One lonely nightMark Zuckerberg hacked into the university’s computer sys-tem, creating a ratable database of all the female students oncampus, subsequently crashing the university’s servers, andnearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, inhis spartan Harvard dorm room, the barebones framework forFacebook was born.

What followed—a real-life adventure filled with unimaginablewealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympicrowers, and betrayal—makes for one of the most entertainingand compelling books of the year. The great irony is thatFacebook succeeded by bringing people together—while atthe same time, it tore two best friends apart.

BEN MEZRICH is the author of eleven books, includingthe international bestseller Bringing Down the House,which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Timesbestseller list and was made into the movie 21, star-ring Kevin Spacey. Mezrich lives in Boston with hiswife, Tonya.

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THOMAS TROF IMUK

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A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporarySpain claiming to be the legendary explorerChristopher Columbus. Who he really is, and theevents that led him to break with reality, lie at thecenter of this captivating, romantic, and stunninglywritten novel.

Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, the mysteri-ous man who calls himself Columbus appears to be just

another delirious mental patient, until he begins to tell the“true” story of how he famously obtained three ships fromSpanish royalty.

It’s Nurse Consuela who listens to these fantastical tales ofadventure and romance, and tries desperately to make sense ofwhy this seemingly intelligent man has been locked up, andwhy no one has come to visit. As splintered fragments of theman beneath the façade reveal a charming yet guarded individ-ual, Nurse Consuela can’t avoid the inappropriate longings shebegins to feel. Something terrible caused his break with realityand she can only listen and wait as Columbus spins his tale tothe very end.

In the tradition of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and The Dogs ofBabel, this unforgettable novel mines the darkest recesses ofloss and the extraordinary capacity of the human spirit. It is animmensely satisfying novel that will introduce ThomasTrofimuk to readers who will want to hear his voice again andagain.

THOMAS TROFIMUK is a writer, editor, and communi-cations consultant. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, withhis wife and daughter.

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The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air,and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning,eloquent account of a remarkable young man’shaunting journey.

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told inhis previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible

individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walkedaway from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in theUnited States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and hefelt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaedaand the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillsidein southeastern Afghanistan.

Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scenethat a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots,the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this informationfrom Tillman’s wife, other family members, and the Americanpublic for five weeks following his death. Long after Tillman’snationally televised memorial service, the Army grudginglynotified his closest relatives that he had “probably” been killedby friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about thedetails of his death and who was responsible.

InWhere Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s jour-nals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversa-tions with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensiveresearch on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricatemosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compellingfigure as well as the definitive account of the events and actionsthat led to his death. Infused with the power and authenticityreaders have come to expect from Krakauer’s storytelling,WhereMen Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.

JON KRAKAUER is the author of Eiger Dreams, Intothe Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heavenand is the editor of the Modern Library Explorationseries.

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From the acclaimed bestselling author of The PianoShop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and hisintriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris.

Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of the expedition’s

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During their travels throughout Europe, Baptiste is introducedto a world he never imagined. Gradually, he senses the limita-tions of life as an outsider. His passionate affair with the duke’solder cousin helps him understand the richness of his heritageand the need to fashion his own future. But it is the beautifuland independent daughter of a French-Irish wine merchantBaptiste meets in Paris who most influences his ultimate deci-sion to return to the frontier.

Rich in the details of life in both frontier America and theEuropean court, Across the Endless River is a captivating novelabout a man at the intersection of cultures, languages, andcustoms.

PRAISE FOR THE PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK

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A dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, THADCARHART lives in Paris with his wife, the photographerSimo Neri, and their two children.

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J ONATHAN LETHEM

C H R O N I C C I TYA Novel

The acclaimed author ofMotherless Brooklyn and TheFortress of Solitude returns with a roar with thisgorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrappedup in their own delusions, desires, and lies.

Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture onManhattan’s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a

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Into Chase’s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyedfree-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs arefueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, anda desperate ache for meaning. Perkus’s countercultural savvyand voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan,where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is com-plicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo,a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of theTompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the bil-lionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth theanswers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of arti-facts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth.

Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem’s masterpiece is beau-tiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, astand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.

JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of seven novels. Arecipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem hasalso published his stories and essays in The NewYorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the NewYork Times, among others.

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A F T E R T H E P R O P H E TThe Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

Narrative history at its most compelling, After theProphet relates the dramatic story at the heart of theongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam.

Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successorhad begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the con-

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Hazleton’s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insightinto the origins of the world’s most volatile blend of politics andreligion. Balancing past and present, she shows how theseseventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern heartsand minds today as though they had just happened, shapingmodern headlines from Iran’s Islamic Revolution to the civilwar in Iraq.

After the Prophet is narrative nonfiction at its finest and anemotional and political revelation for Western readers.

British-born LESLEY HAZLETON is a veteran MiddleEast journalist whose work has appeared in the NewYork Times, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and otherpublications. The author of several books on MiddleEast politics, religion, and history, she now lives inSeattle, Washington.

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Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced eachother on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these twolegends open up in fascinating detail about the game they loveand how it was, is, and should be played. Their one-of-a-kindinsider stories recall a who’s who of baseball nobility, includingWillie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, BillyMartin, and Joe Torre. This is an unforgettable baseball historyby two of its most influential superstars.

BOB GIBSON, a two-time Cy Young Award winner andeight-time All Star, won 251 games and achieved alifetime ERA of 2.91 during his seventeen years withthe St. Louis Cardinals. He is a special adviser to theCardinals. REGGIE JACKSON hit 563 home runs anddrove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career; he played three World Series–winningseasons with the Oakland Athletics, and two with theNew York Yankees. He is a special adviser to theYankees. LONNIE WHEELER collaborated with BobGibson and Hank Aaron on their autobiographies andis the author of two other books about baseball.

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T H E O T H E R L A N D SA Novel

The thrilling new installment in the ambitious Acaciatrilogy, praised by theWashington Post as “grippingand sophisticated.”

Afew years have passed since the conquering of the Mein,and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known

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W H Y A R E J E W SL I B E R A L S ?From the bestselling author ofWorld War IV, a brilliantand provocative examination of a central question inAmerican politics and culture that is sure to generatetremendous controversy.

Norman Podhoretz says he has never in his entire life beenasked any question on any subject as often as “Why are so

many Jews liberals?”—or in its more specifically political form,“Why do most Jews always vote for the Democrats?” Podhoretzproposes to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinatingaccount of anti-Semitism in the West to show why, for most ofthat time, Jews quite sensibly concluded that they had muchmore to fear from the Right than the Left. But since the SixDay War of 1967, he argues, this position has no longer madesense, and yet most Jews go on supporting the DemocraticParty and the liberal agenda. Reviewing the history of Jewishpolitical attitudes and thoroughly examining the available evi-dence, he then demonstrates that all the usual explanations—such as a passion for justice allegedly deriving from theprophets of the Hebrew Bible—are either inadequate or flat-out false. Finally he proposes his own answer to the great puz-zle of why most Jews remain as committed to liberalism as ever.

There is no more vigorous thinker or skilled polemicist inAmerican intellectual life than Norman Podhoretz. In WhyAre Jews Liberals? he sums up his thinking on the politicalinclinations of his fellow Jews—in the process confoundingconventional wisdom and changing the way we view Americanpolitics.

NORMAN PODHORETZ, who was the editor in chief ofCommentary for thirty-five years, is now an adjunctfellow of the Hudson Institute and the author ofnumerous bestselling books, including Making It,Breaking Ranks, Ex-Friends, My Love Affair withAmerica, The Prophets, andWorld War IV. He holds thePresidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highestcivilian honor. 978-0-385-52919-8

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M O R N I N G M I R A C L EInside the Washington Post: The Fight to Keep a GreatNewspaper Alive

An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Postveteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers thequestion “Do newspapers still matter?” with aresounding yes.

What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New YorkTimes, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington

Post. A reporter for more than forty years, Dave Kindred takesyou inside the heart of the legendary newspaper and offers aunique opportunity to see what it really takes to produce world-class journalism every day.

Granted unprecedented access to every nook and cranny of thepaper, including candid exchanges with its most celebratedjournalists, such as Bob Woodward, Sally Quinn, DavidBroder, and former executive editor Ben Bradlee (who gave thebook its title), Kindred provides a no-holds-barred look at thetwenty-first-century newsroom. As it becomes more difficult tomaintain journalistic integrity, stay relevant in the age of blogs,and meet Wall Street’s demands for profits, the newspaper—more than any other medium—also shoulders the tremendousresponsibility of acting as a watchdog for democracy.

Perhaps no one sums up the overwhelming challenges thatface the Post and its power to endure better than the authorhimself: “It is still a miracle that you can put 700 over-caffeinated misfits in a newsroom, on deadline, adrenalinerunning, secrets to spill, and before midnight a messengerdelivers a smoking-hot city edition to Don Graham’s manse inGeorgetown.”

DAVE KINDRED has reported and written for newspa-pers and magazines for forty-five years. He has been aWashington correspondent, sports columnist, andgeneral-interest columnist. His work has won the RedSmith Award, sports journalism’s highest honor, aswell as a National Headliner award for general-interestcolumns. Kindred’s stories have been anthologized inthe Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He is the author ofeight books, including, most recently, Sound and Fury,the dual biography of Muhammad Ali and HowardCosell.

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J AMES P. OTHMER

A D L A N DSearching for the Meaning of Life on a BrandedPlanet

Liar’s Pokermeets The Tipping PointmeetsMad Men—ahilarious, personal, and sneakily profound chronicle ofthe past, present, and future of the advertisingbusiness.

A dland is a book about advertising. Which is to say, it’s abook about every issue and aspect of life on our morally

conflicted, culturally challenged, ubiquitously branded planet.

On one level it’s the wickedly funny, compelling personalchronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man; a rivetinginsider’s look at the astonishing transformation taking place inadvertising’s hottest idea factories; and an introduction to thepeople whose job is to know what makes us tick, what makes uslean in, what we think we need and don’t know that we want.

But take a step back from the tales of lavish shoots, agencies onthe brink, and pampered mega-brands and Adland becomesmuch more: a snapshot of how we live our lives on this earth atthis particular moment . . . thirty seconds at a time.

Funny, profound, deeply thoughtful, and utterly unique, thisbook is both a wildly amusing, brilliantly recounted ride inAdland, and an exploration of the value of life in the informa-tion age.

—Jamie Barrett, Creative Director/Partner,

Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco

JAMES P. OTHMER was an award-winning creative director and copy-writer for more than twenty years at advertising giants including Young& Rubicam and N.W. Ayer. An excerpt from his acclaimed first novel TheFuturist was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. 978-0-385-52496-4

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T IM PAGE

PA R A L L E L P L AYLife as an Outsider

In this captivating memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winner TimPage writes about growing up gifted and unknowinglysuffering from Asperger’s syndrome, expanding on atremendously popular essay he wrote for The NewYorker.

In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism forhis work as the chief classical music critic of theWashington

Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminat-ing.” Three years later, at the age of forty-five, he was diagnosedwith Asperger’s syndrome—an autistic disorder characterizedby often superior intellectual abilities but also by obsessivebehavior, ineffective communication, and social awkwardness.

Now, in a personal chronicle that is both hilarious and heart-breaking, Page tells his early story through the prism of new-found clarity. Here is the tale of a boy who was writing anddirecting his own silent films at the age of twelve, yet lacked thecoordination to participate in the simplest childhood games. Itis the story of a child who was regularly described as a genius,but was unable to pass elementary school math and science.And it is the triumphant account of a disadvantaged boy whogrew into a high-functioning, highly successful adult—perhapsnot despite his Asperger’s but because of it, as Tim believes.

A poignant portrait of a lifelong search for understanding,Parallel Play provides a unique perspective on Asperger’s andthe well of creativity that can spring forth as a result of the con-dition.

TIM PAGE is a professor of journalism andmusic at theUniversity of Southern California. He has been a musiccritic at the New York Times, Newsday, and theWashington Post. He lives in Baltimore and LosAngeles.

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J OHN TWELVE HAWKS

T H E G O L D E N C I TYA Novel

A world that exists in the shadow of our own. . . . Thethrilling conclusion to John Twelve Hawks’s FourthRealm trilogy, The Golden City is packed with the knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plottwists that made The Traveler and The Dark Riverinternational hits.

John Twelve Hawks’s previous novels about the mysticalTravelers and the Brethren, their ruthless enemies, gener-ated an extraordinary following around the world. TheWashington Post wrote that The Traveler “portrays a Big Brotherwith powers far beyond anything Orwell could imagine” andPublishers Weekly hailed the series as “a saga that’s part AWrinkle in Time, part The Matrix and part Kurosawa epic.”Internet chat rooms and blogs have overflowed with specula-tion about the final destiny of the richly imagined charactersfighting an epic battle beneath the surface of our modernworld.

In The Golden City, Twelve Hawks delivers the climax to hisspellbinding epic. On the verge of finding his long-lost Travelerfather, Gabriel faces an unimaginable new threat. His brotherMichael, now firmly allied with the enemy, pursues his relent-less ambition to wrest power from the calculating leaders of theBrethren. And Maya, the Harlequin warrior pledged to protectGabriel at all costs, is forced into a situation that will changeher life forever.

A riveting blend of high-tech thriller and fast-paced adventure,The Golden City will delight Twelve Hawks’s many fans andattract a new audience to the entire trilogy.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS is the author of the New York Times bestsellersThe Traveler and The Dark River.

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DAV ID E . HOFFMAN

T H E D E A D H A N DThe Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and ItsDangerous Legacy

This riveting narrative history of the end of the armsrace sheds new light on the frightening last chapters ofthe Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical,and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

During the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nucleararsenals containing the explosive power of one million

Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the“Dead Hand,” a system designed to launch an automatic retal-iatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fear-some biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan,hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for thecreation of space-based missile defenses.

In the first full account of how the arms race finally ended, TheDead Hand provides an unprecedented look at the innermotives and secret decisions of each side. Drawing on top-secret documents from deep inside the Kremlin, memoirs, andinterviews in both Russia and the United States, DavidHoffman introduces the scientists, soldiers, diplomats, andspies who saw the world sliding toward disaster and tells thegripping story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and others struggledto bring the madness to an end. Moreover, he shows that whenthe Soviet Union dissolved, the danger continued, and theUnited States began a race against time to keep nuclear andbiological weapons out of the hands of terrorists and roguestates.

DAVID E. HOFFMAN is assistant managing editor forforeign news at the Washington Post and author of TheOligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. He livesin Maryland.

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E DWARD RUTHERFURD

N E W Y O R K : T H E N O V E LThe bestselling master of historical fiction weaves agrand, sweeping drama of New York from the city’sfounding to the present day.

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in arich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary

ability to combine impeccable historical research and story-telling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminatescultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of aremarkably diverse set of families.

As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich andpoor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurdbrings to life the momentous events that shaped New York andAmerica: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as agreat trading and financial center, the excesses of the GildedAge, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the’90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkledthroughout are captivating cameo appearances by historicalfigures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincolnto Babe Ruth.

New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd’s Americanfans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war,family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures thesearch for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation’shistory.

—Booklist

EDWARD RUTHERFURD is the author of many books,including London, The Princes of Ireland, and TheRebels of Ireland.

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T H E F I R S T FA L LC L A S S I CAcclaimed sportswriter and author Mike Vaccaropresents a riveting, narrative account of what remains,nearly a century later, the greatest World Series everplayed.

In October of 1912, seven years before gambling nearlydestroyed the sport, the world of baseball got lucky. It wouldget two teams—the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants,winners of a combined 208 games during the regular season—who may well have been the two finest ball clubs ever assem-bled to that point. Most important, during the course of eight(yes, eight) games spanning nine days in that marvelous base-ball autumn, they would elevate the World Series from aregional October novelty to a national obsession. The gameswould fight for space on the front pages of the nation’s newspa-pers, battling both an assassin’s bullet and the most sensationaltrial of the young century, with the Series often carrying theday and earning the “wood.”

In The First Fall Classic, veteran sports journalist and authorMike Vaccaro brings to life a bygone era in cinematic and inti-mate detail, featuring such memorable characters as “SmokyJoe” Wood, Christy “Christian Gentleman”Mathewson, BostonMayor “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, and the Bull Moose candidatefor president, Teddy Roosevelt. Vaccaro gives fans a wonderfulpage-turner that re-creates the magic and suspense of the world’sfirst great series.

MIKE VACCARO is the lead sports columnist for theNew York Post and the author of 1941: The Greatest Yearin Sports and Emperors and Idiots. He has won morethan fifty major journalism awards since 1989 and hasbeen cited for distinguished writing by the AssociatedPress Sports Editors, the New York State PublishersAssociation, and the Poynter Institute. A graduate of St.Bonaventure University, he lives in New Jersey.

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PAU L SHAFFER with DAV ID R I T Z

W E ’ L L B E H E R E F O RT H E R E S T O F O U RL I V E SA Swingin’ Show-Biz Saga

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, andlongtime leader of David Letterman’s band, comes acandid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoirof a life in—and love of—show business.

Howdoes a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tipof Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a

gig leading the band on Letterman? This book is Paul Shaffer’sanswer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints inToronto, to his first legitimate job out of college—which foundhim working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner,Martin Short, and Eugene Levy—to being first musical direc-tor of the nascent Saturday Night Live and helping to form theBlues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave andplaying with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer haslived the ultimate showbiz life. Now, in this hilarious, enter-taining, and candid memoir—in which he dishes on everyonefrom John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and BritneySpears—Shaffer gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of hislife, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age oftwelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater.

PAUL SHAFFER has been David Letterman’s musical director for thepast twenty-seven years. He also co-composed “It’s Raining Men.”DAVID RITZ has cowritten memoirs with, among others, Ray Charlesand Don Rickles. He also co-wrote “Sexual Healing.”

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L E E SM I TH

T H E S T R O N G H O R S EPower, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

In a provocative, timely book, a noted journalist andexpert on Arab–American affairs overturns long-heldWestern myths about the Arab world, and offers adoctrine to help the United States correct itsassumptions concerning the region.

Wanting to know why September 11 happened, journalistLee Smith moved to Cairo. There, he discovered that

the standard explanation—a clash of East and West led to theattacks—was simply not the case. As Smith outlines in TheStrong Horse, the problems of the Middle East have little to dowith Israel, the United States, or the West in general. The strifeexists within the Arab world itself.

Through clear-eyed analysis, Smith explodes the many mythspermeating Americans’ understanding of the Arab world: colo-nialism spurred the region’s ongoing turmoil; Arab liberals arewaiting for U.S. intervention; technology and democracy canbe transforming. In response to these untruths, Smith offerswhat he terms the “Strong Horse Doctrine”—that Arabs wantto align themselves with strength, power, and violence. GivenAmerica’s ongoing interest in the Middle East, Smith saysAmerica needs to be the strong horse in order to reclaim its rolethere, and that only by understanding the nature of the region’sancient conflict can we succeed.

LEE SMITH is a Middle East correspondent for TheWeekly Standard. He has written for Slate, the New YorkTimes, the Boston Globe, and a variety of Arab mediaoutlets. He is also a visiting fellow of the HudsonInstitute. A native of New York, he lives in Beirut.

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OCTOBER

A B I GA I L POGREB IN

O N E A N D T H E S A M EMy Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve LearnedAbout Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular

The author of Stars of David and a twinherself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignantand personal look at what it’s really like to live withyour mirror image and tells the story of many twinswho struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.

Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin ismany things, but the one that has defined her most pro-

foundly is “identical twin.” Pogrebin’s relationship with her sis-ter, both as children, when they were inseparable, and today,when she longs for that uncomplicated intimacy, inspired herto examine the phenomenon of twinship—to learn how otheridentical pairs regard their doubleness and what experts arelearning about how DNA impacts our sense of identity andshapes our lives.

In One and the Same, Pogrebin presents a tapestry of twin-ship, weaving science reporting and personal memoir with therevelatory stories of other twins, such as the football stars Tikiand Ronde Barber, who admit their twinship comes beforetheir marriages; two sisters who stopped speaking for threeyears; a pair of bawdy, self-proclaimed “twin ambassadors”who have created a media empire around their twinness; andbrothers whose shared genetic anomaly wrought unspeakabletragedy. In this stirring account, Pogrebin shows how livingidentical illuminates the struggle for singularity that definesus all.

ABIGAIL POGREBIN is the author of Stars of David:Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. A Yale gradu-ate, she has written for many national publicationsand has produced for 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose, BillMoyers, and Fred Friendly. She lives with her husbandand two children in Manhattan—amile from her iden-tical twin sister, New York Times reporter RobinPogrebin.

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KENNETH TURAN and JOSEPH PAPP

F R E E F O R A L LTales from the New York Shakespeare Festival

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan takes youbehind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells theamazing story of how Joe Papp made Americantheatrical and cultural history.

Free for All is the irresistible oral history of the New YorkShakespeare Festival and the Public Theater—two insti-

tutions that under the inspired leadership of Joseph Papphave been a premier source of revolutionary and enduringAmerican theater. To tell this fascinating story, Kenneth Turaninterviewed some 160 luminaries—including George C. Scott,Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones,David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and WallaceShawn—and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyinglyrich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement. And at thecenter of this incredibly engrossing account of artistic daringand excellence the larger-than-life figure of Joseph Papp reignssupreme.

KENNETH TURAN (right) has been a film critic forthe Los Angeles Times since 1991 and the director ofthe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes since 1993. Heteaches nonfiction writing and film criticism at theUniversity of Southern California and provides regularreviews for Morning Edition on National Public Radio.JOSEPH PAPP (1921–1991) was an American theatri-cal producer and director. Papp founded the New YorkShakespeare Festival in 1954 with the aim of makingShakespeare’s works accessible to the public.

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T R EVOR BYRNE

G H O S T S A N DL I G H T N I N GA Novel

An outstanding debut novel from a young Irish novelistthat echoes the poignant, comical, and gritty voices ofRoddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, and Irvine Welsh.

Set in contemporary Dublin and the surrounding country-side, Ghosts and Lightning is a picaresque account of

Denny Cullen’s life after he is called back home to attend hismother’s funeral. Denny—a sweet-natured but disillusionedyoung man who feels powerless in the face of death, dope, andthe dole queue—is the steadiest in a cast of unstable charac-ters. Denny and his lads fill their empty days with hooliganism,raucous parties, violence, and even an exorcism, but their fear-lessness and humor make them as irresistible as an expertlypulled pint of Guinness.

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—Irish Independent

TREVOR BYRNE was born in 1981 and brought up inClondalkin in south Dublin. He attended TrinityCollege and the University of Glamorgan. He is cur-rently a tutor of creative writing at GlamorganUniversity.

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T H E C O N F E S S I O N S O FE D WA R D D AYA Novel

Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a darkcomedy about love, sex, an actor’s ambition, and theperils of playing a role too well.

In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-createsthe seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rentswere cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage was the latestcraze. Edward Day, a talented and ambitious young actor,finds his life forever altered during a weekend on the JerseyShore, where he seduces the delicious Madeleine Delavergneand is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, aman who bears an eerie resemblance to Edward. Forever after,Edward is torn between his desire forMadeleine and his indebt-edness to Guy, his rival in love and in art, on stage and off.

In The Confessions of Edward Day, Martin deftly explores theartificial and rarified atmosphere of the theater as well as theartist’s relentless search for emotional truth. The result is anovel that dances between the darkness of a gothic horror taleand the klieg light glare of the late twentieth century.

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—Ben Gazzara

VALERIE MARTIN is the author of eight novels, including Trespass, ItalianFever, The Great Divorce, Mary Reilly, and the 2003 Orange Prize–winningProperty, and three collections of short fiction.

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PAT CONROY

S O U T H O F B R O A DA Novel

The publishing event of the season: The one and onlyPat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that isat once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelongfriendship.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, SouthCarolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners

and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of anamiable, loving father who teaches science at the local highschool. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal anda well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo’s older brother commitssuicide at the age of ten, the family struggles with theshattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated,searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he findshis answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group ofhigh school seniors that includes friends Sheba and TrevorPoe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles andStarla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend,Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whoseliaisons will ripple across two decades—from 1960s counter-culture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

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American Icon, Teri Thompson,Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, andChristian Red 46

Angel Time, Anne Rice 79

The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser 94

The Bauhaus Group, Nicholas Fox Weber 78

Blood’s A Rover, James Ellroy 63

The Case for God, Karen Armstrong 57

The Children’s Book, A. S. Byatt 69

Civil War Wives, Carol Berkin 64

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer,Johnny Mercer 80

Conquering Fear, Harold S. Kushner 81

Conversations with Woody Allen, Eric Lax 52

Crossers, Philip Caputo 76

Crude World, Peter Maass 58

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and OtherStories, Leo Tolstoy 98

Defend the Realm, Christopher Andrew 77

Easy, Marie Ponsot 84

Eating, Jason Epstein 82

The Education of a British-Protected Child,Chinua Achebe* 72

Endpoint and Other Poems, John Updike 45

A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore 59

The Godfather of Kathmandu,John Burdett 75

Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof andSheryl WuDunn 60

Hearts of the City, Herbert Muschamp 100

The Immortals, Amit Chaudhuri 50

In the Falling Snow, Caryl Phillips 56

The Jazz Loft Project, Sam Stephenson 88

Jericho’s Fall, Stephen L. Carter 47

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy,Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and TanyaBastianich Manuali 87

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Lincoln, Life-Size, Philip B. Kunhardt III,Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W.Kunhardt, Jr. 89

The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 83

The National Parks, Dayton Duncan andKen Burns 55

News of the World, Philip Levine 74

Noah’s Compass, Anne Tyler 61

Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro 53

Nothing Was the Same, Kay RedfieldJamison 65

On Thin Ice, Richard Ellis* 92

The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov 97

Painting Below Zero, James Rosenquist 86

A Phone Call to the Future, Mary JoSalter 54

The Pleasures of Cooking for One,Judith Jones 62

The Queen Mother, William Shawcross 93

Redeeming Features, Nicholas Haslam 96

Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff 73

Robert Redford, Michael Feeney Callan 95

Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara 54

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life andBehavior, David Allen Sibley 48

The Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon 51

Sweet Thunder, Wil Haygood* 68

That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo 91

Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso 70

Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro 101

The Truth About Love, Josephine Hart 49

The Vintage Caper, Peter Mayle 71

Wheeling Motel, Franz Wright 66

Who Shot Rock & Roll, Gail Buckland 67

Woodrow Wilson, John Milton Cooper, Jr. 90

The World in Vogue, Hamish Bowles 99

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Andrew, Christopher, Defend the Realm 77

Armstrong, Karen, The Case for God 57

Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and TanyaBastianich Manuali, Lidia Cooks fromthe Heart of Italy 87

Berkin, Carol, Civil War Wives 64

Bowles, Hamish, The World in Vogue 99

Buckland, Gail, Who Shot Rock & Roll 67

Burdett, John, The Godfather ofKathmandu 75

Byatt, A. S., The Children’s Book 69

Calasso, Roberto, Tiepolo Pink 70

Callan, Michael Feeney, Robert Redford 95

Caputo, Philip, Crossers 76

Carter, Stephen L., Jericho’s Fall 47

Chaudhuri, Amit, The Immortals 50

Cooper, Jr., John Milton, Woodrow Wilson 90

Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns,The National Parks 55

Ellis, Richard, On Thin Ice 92

Ellroy, James, Blood’s A Rover 63

Epstein, Jason, Eating 82

Gideon, Melanie, The Slippery Year 51

Hart, Josephine, The Truth About Love 49

Haslam, Nicholas, Redeeming Features 96

Haygood, Wil, Sweet Thunder 68

Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes 53

Jamison, Kay Redfield, Nothing Wasthe Same 65

Jones, Judith, The Pleasures of Cookingfor One 62

Keegan, John, The American Civil War 85

Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn,Half the Sky 60

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Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W.Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.,Lincoln, Life-Size 89

Kushner, Harold S., Conquering Fear 81

Lax, Eric, Conversations withWoody Allen 52

Leithauser, Brad, The Art Student’s War 94

Levine, Philip, News of the World 74

Maass, Peter, Crude World 58

Mayle, Peter, The Vintage Caper 71

Mercer, Johnny, The Complete Lyrics ofJohnny Mercer 80

Moore, Lorrie, A Gate at the Stairs 59

Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness 101

Muschamp, Herbert, Hearts of the City 100

Nabokov, Vladimir, The Original of Laura 97

O’Hara, Frank, Selected Poems 54

Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence 83

Phillips, Caryl, In the Falling Snow 56

Ponsot, Marie, Easy 84

Rice, Anne, Angel Time 79

Rosenquist, James, Painting Below Zero 86

Russo, Richard, That Old Cape Magic 91

Salter, Mary Jo, A Phone Call to the Future 54

Shawcross, William, The Queen Mother 93

Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide toBird Life and Behavior 48

Stephenson, Sam, The Jazz Loft Project 88

Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton,Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red,American Icon 46

Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyichand Other Stories 98

Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass 61

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TheTruthAbout LoveA novel

Josephine Hart is the best-selling author of Damage, Sin, Obliv-ion, The Stillest Day, and The Reconstructionist. Her work hasbeen translated into twenty-seven languages. She lives in Londonwith her husband, Maurice Saatchi, and their two sons.

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Amit Chaudhuri is the author of several award-winning novels,as well as being an internationally acclaimed musician and essay-ist. Freedom Song: Three Novels received the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize for Fiction. He is a contributor to London Review ofBooks, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is cur-rently professor of contemporary literature at the University ofEast Anglia.

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One of the most celebrated writers of our timegives us his first cycle of short fiction: five bril-

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Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six previous novels, includingNever Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, which won theBooker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film.Ishiguro’swork has been translated into forty languages. In 1995,he received an Order of the British Empire for service to litera-ture, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts etdes Lettres by the French government. He lives in London withhis wife and daughter.

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Asearing new novel from one of our most ad-mired writers: the story of a man at a turning

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Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought upin England. He is the author of three books of nonfiction andnine novels. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PENBeyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore,won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awardsinclude theMartin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Award, a Guggen-heim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He isa Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives inNew York.

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Half the SkyTurning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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From Anne Tyler, awise, gently humor-

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Baltimore. All he knowswhen he wakes up a daylater in the hospital is thathis head is sore and ban-daged.His effort to recover

the moments of his lifethat have been stolenfrom him leads him on anunexpected detour. Whathe needs is someone whocan do the rememberingfor him. What he getsis—well, something quitedifferent.We all know a Liam. In

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Noah’s CompassA novel

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 andgrew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her eighteenth novel.Her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prizein 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Instituteof Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.


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From the legendary ed-itor of some of the

world’s greatest cooks—including Julia Child andJames Beard—a delight-ful book about the joys ofcooking for one.In a book as passion-

ate as it is practical, Ju-dith Jones demonstratesthat cooking for onepresents unparalleled pos-sibilities for both pleas-ure and experimentation:we can cook with what-ever ingredients appealto us, using farmers’ mar-kets and specialty shopsto enrich our palates andimprove our health; wecan feel free to fail, sincethe meal doesn’t have to be perfect (we haveonly ourselves to impress); and we can use

leftovers to innovate—the remains of beef bour-guignon are transformedinto a ragu, pork tender-loin becomes a stir-fry,red snapper is reinventedas a summery salad.Jones is both an in-

structor and a mentor,suggesting basic recipesfor items—such as mari-nara sauce or home-made stock—that allcooks should have onhand, teaching us howto improvise through in-genious weekly menus,and supplying us with alifetime’s worth of tipsand strategies.

The Pleasures of Cook-ing for One is a vibrant, wise celebration offood and our own company.

Judith Jones

The Pleasures ofCooking for OneWith more than 150 recipes

Judith Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A.Knopf. She is the author ofThe Tenth Muse: My Life in Food andthe coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of three books:The Book of Bread; Knead It, Punch It, Bake It!; and The Bookof New New England Cookery. She also collaborated withAngus Cameron on The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook,and has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines.In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation LifetimeAchievement Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.


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Political noir as onlyJames Ellroy canwrite

it. The incendiary stand-alone sequel to AmericanTabloid and The Cold SixThousand—amassive taleof corruption and retri-bution, conspiracy andcover-up.It is summer, 1968. The

country is exploding. Weare running point withthree men: a Klan-raised,Yale-educated FBI agentinfiltrating black-militantgroups at J. Edgar Hoo-ver’s racist behest andobsessed with a leftistshadow figure namedJoan Rosen Klein. An ex-cop and heroin runner

paving the way for themob’s casinos in the Do-minican Republic. Ayoung L.A. “wheelman”for divorce lawyerswithintantalizing reach of themen who killed theKennedys and MartinLuther King and took usto the threshold ofWater-gate. Their lives collide inpursuit of the “Red God-dess Joan”—and theywill all pay “a dear andsavage price to live His-tory.”Once again James Ell-

roy razes and reconstructsour recent past.Blood’s ARover is his largest andgreatest work of fiction.

James Ellroy

Blood’s ARoverA novel

James Ellroy’s previous novels American Tabloid and TheCold Six Thousand began the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy.His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The BigNowhere, L.A. Confidential, andWhite Jazz—were inter-national best sellers. American Tabloid was Time maga-

zine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; My Dark Places, amemoir, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a NewYork Times Notable Book for 1996; The Cold Six Thou-sandwas aLos Angeles TimesBest Book and aNew YorkTimesNotable Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in LosAngeles.


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In the life stories of three “accidental heroes”—womenwhosemarriages provided themwith posi-

tion and perspective they would not otherwise havehad—Carol Berkin, one of the nation’s premier his-torians, offers a unique understanding of the tumul-tuous social and political landscape of their time.Drawing on private and public records, Berkin

shows us how Angelina Grimké Weld bravely re-nounced her Southern family’s values, embracing theanti-slaverymovement, only to find her voice silencedby marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. InVarina Howell Davis, we see an independent mindand spirit that incurred the disapproval of her hus-band, Jefferson Davis, and made her ill-suited for herrole as First Lady of the Confederacy, but served herwell when she was lobbying for her husband’s releasefrom prison. The wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Julia DentGrant, was a model of genteel domesticity, contentwith the restrictions of motherhood and with the al-ternating fame and disgrace, wealth and poverty, thather marriage entailed, until late in life when sheglimpsed the price of dependency.Bringing these three remarkable women vividly

alive, Berkin captures the tensions and animosities ofthe prewar era and the disruptions and anxieties gen-erated by the war and its aftermath, and connects usto our national past with rare immediacy and verve.

Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and herM.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is currentlyBaruch College Presidential Professor of History and also teachesat the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is theauthor of Revolutionary Mothers, A Brilliant Solution, JonathanSewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, and First Generations:Women in Colonial America. She lives in New York City andGuilford, Connecticut.

Carol Berkin

CivilWarWivesThe Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld,Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant


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Available from Vintage paperback:Exuberance$14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70148-1Night Falls Fast$14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70147-4An Unquiet Mind$14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-679-76330-7 Psychology • 47⁄8 x 83⁄8 • 224 pages

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From the internation-ally acclaimed author

of An Unquiet Mind, ahaunting meditation onmortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one butKay

Jamison—who combinesthe acute perceptions of apsychologist with writerlyelegance and passion—could bring such adelicatetouch to the subject of los-ing a spouse to cancer. Inspare and at times strik-ingly lyrical prose, Jami-son looks back at herrelationship with her hus-band, Richard Wyatt, arenowned scientist whobattled severe dyslexia to become one of theforemost experts on schizophrenia. And withcharacteristic honesty, she describes his slowsurrender to cancer, her own struggle with

overpowering grief, andher efforts to distinguishgrief from depression.But she also recalls the

joy that Richard broughther during the nearlytwenty years they hadtogether. Wryly humor-ous anecdotes minglewith bittersweet memo-ries of a relationshipthat was passionate andloving—if troubled onoccasion by her manicdepression—as Jamisonreveals the ways inwhich Richard taughther to live fully throughhis courage and grace.

A penetrating study of grief viewed fromdeep inside the experience itself, Nothing Wasthe Same is also a deeply moving memoir by asuperb writer.

Kay Redfield Jamison

NothingWas the SameAmemoir

Kay Redfield Jamison is professor of psychiatry at the JohnsHopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of theJohns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is the author of thenational best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast; co-author of the standardmedical text onmanic-depressive (bipolar)illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundredscientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psycho-pharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national andinternational scientific awards and a John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Fellowship.



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Franz Wright’s most recent works includeWalking to Martha’s Vineyard (which won thePulitzer Prize for poetry), God’s Silence, andEarlier Poems. He has been the recipient of twoNational Endowment for the Arts grants, aGuggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship,and the PEN/Voelcker Award, among otherhonors. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts,with his wife, the translator andwriter ElizabethOehlkers Wright.

Available in Knopf paperback:The Beforelife$15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-70943-2Earlier Poems$18.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71146-6God’s Silence$16.00 (Can. $19.00) • 978-0-375-71081-0Walking to Martha’s Vineyard$15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71001-8

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From the indomitable Franz Wright, a luminousbook of reconciliation with the past and accep-

tance of what may come in the future.From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had

“the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / ac-companied / by a rage to prove them wrong . . . that Itoowasworthyof love.”This rage comes coupledwiththe poet’s own brand of love, what he calls “one /strange alone / heart’s wish / to help all / hearts.” Po-etry is indeed Wright’s help, and he delivers it to uswith a wry sense of the daily in America: in his won-derfully local relationship to God (whom he encoun-ters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows ofWalden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of thetitle poem, on the banks of the Ohio River, whereTammyWynette’s on themarquee and he is visited bythe figure of Walt Whitman, “examining the tear ona dead face.”In Wheeling Motel, Wright’s poetry continues to

surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, withhis combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.

At 54An instant of lucidity, an houroutside of time,a life—I glance at the left handunclenched in the sunlightshining on my deskand think of my friend’srecent cremation—that takes a while. And I can’t waitto return to this chairin which I am sitting, thisworld, the one whereeach object standsfor nothing at all butits own inexplicable existence.

Franz Wright

WheelingMotelPoems



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The first book toexplore the extra-

ordinary work of thephotographers whowith their spectacularimages captured the en-ergy, intoxication, re-bellion, and magic ofrock and roll.

Who Shot Rock &Roll brings togethertwo hundred photo-graphs, including manyrare and never-before-seen images: searing,sensual, luminous,and often iconic por-traits; album covers; behind-the-scenes andlive concert shots. Here is Elvis in 1956—not yet mythic but already beautiful, ten-der, and sexy—photographed by Alfred

Wertheimer . . . BobDylan and girlfriendon a snowy Green-wich Village street,by Don Hunstein . . .John Lennon insleeveless New YorkCity T-shirt, by BobGruen . . . Jimi Hen-drix, by Gered Mank-owitz, a photographmade into a poster thathung on the walls ofmillions of bedroomsand college dorms . . .With text and cap-

tions by Gail Buckland,who writes about the photographs and themen and women who took them; about howthey saw what they saw and captured whatthey did: the spirit and essence of rock.

Gail Buckland

Who ShotRock&Roll

A Photographic History, 1950–Present

Gail Buckland has written and collaborated on eleven books ofphotographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention ofPhotography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), and TheAmerican Century (with Harold Evans). She is former curator ofthe Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, professor of thehistory of photography at The Cooper Union, and guest curatorat many American museums. She lives in Warwick, New York,and New York City.


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With 18 photographs in textBiography/Sports • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 384 pages$27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4497-9

From the author of the critically acclaimed SammyDavis, Jr., biography In Black and White, a

sweeping biography–cum–cultural history centeredaround one of the most iconic figures of boxing.Wil Haygood grounds the story of Sugar Ray

Robinson’s spectacular rise to greatness firmly withinthe historical context of his lifetime: born in 1921,Robinson came of agewhen the country seethedwithvirulent racism. Georgia was his birthplace, but fromthe time he was young, Harlem was his home. It wasthere that he began boxing, at thirteen, and, in the1940s and 1950s, became a staple figure, glamorousand electrifying, emerging as a powerful symbol ofBlack America.Among the great strengths of the book are the vivid

descriptions of Sugar Ray’s unique blend of grace andferocity in the ring. But with equal vividness, the au-thor describes Robinson’s life outside the ring, weav-ing in portraits of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne,and Miles Davis—whose lives not only intersectedwith Sugar Ray’s but also contribute to the illumina-tion of his moment in our cultural and political his-tory.From scrappy street kid to cultural icon to the rel-

ative obscurity of his last years, Sugar Ray comeshauntingly and powerfully to life against the vividbackdrop of the world he captivated.

Wil Haygood, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a staff writerfor the Style section of The Washington Post. In Black andWhite: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. received the Zora NealeHurston/RichardWright Legacy Award, the ASCAPDeems Tay-lor Outstanding Musical Biography Award, and the NonfictionBook of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the AmericanLibrary Association, and it was named one of the top ten booksof the year by the Chicago Tribune.

Wil Haygood

Sweet ThunderThe Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson


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From the Booker Prize–winning author of Posses-sion, a dazzling new novel that spans the years

from theVictorian era throughWorldWar I and cen-ters around a famous children’s book author and thepassions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart thepeople she loves.WhenOliveWellwood’s oldest son discovers a run-

away named Philip sketching in the basement of theVictoria and Albert Museum—a boy who could be acharacter out of one of Olive’s magical tales—shetakes him into the storybook world of her family andfriends.But the midsummer bacchanals the Wellwoods

host at their rambling country house—and the privatebooks that Olive writes for each of her seven chil-dren—conceal more treachery and darkness thanPhilip has ever imagined. As these lives—of adultsand children alike—unfold, lies are revealed, heartsare broken, and the damaging truth about the Well-woods is slowly uncovered. Yet a far larger dangerawaits: the Great War lies ahead, and it will leave noone unscathed.Suspenseful, seductive, at once sweeping and inti-

mate, The Children’s Book is a masterly literaryachievement by one of our most essential writers.

A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including AWhistling Woman, The Biographer’s Tale, Babel Tower, and Pos-session, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also writ-ten two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects; fivecollections of shorter works, including Little Black Book of Sto-ries; and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic aswell as a novelist, she lives in London.


A. S. Byatt

The Children’s BookA novel


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Available in Vintage paperback:K.$15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7612-3Ka$16.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-679-77547-8Literature and the Gods$13.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-375-72543-2The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony$15.95 • 978-0-679-73348-5

Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwenWith 81 full-color illustrations in textArt • 55⁄8 x 83⁄8 • 320 pages$40.00 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26766-5

Theeighteenth-century Venetian painter GiovanniBattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commis-

sions in churches, palaces, and villas, often coveringvast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz inGermany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with fres-coes that are among the glories of Western art. Thelife of an epoch swirled around him—but though hiscontemporaries appreciated and admired him, theyfailed to understand him.Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo’s series

of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, theCapricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises tothe challenge, interpreting these etchings as chaptersin a dark narrative that contains the secret ofTiepolo’s art.Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a

dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather,he represented a particular way of meeting the chal-lenge of form: endowedwith a fluid, seemingly effort-less style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of thatpeculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura, the art of not seem-ing artful.

Roberto Calasso is the author of, among other works, The Ruinof Kasch; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which wonthe Prix Veillon and the Prix duMeilleur Livre Étranger; Ka; andK. Together with Tiepolo Pink, these books form a work inprogress, all of whose parts deal with highly diverse yet closely in-terconnected materials. Born in Florence, Calasso now lives inMilan.

Roberto Calasso

Tiepolo Pink




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Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel ofFrance, filled with mouthwatering food, sumptu-

ous wines, colorful characters, and lots of fun.The story begins in Hollywood, at the expensive

home—and impressivewine cellar—of lawyerDannyRoth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los AngelesTimes to write an extensive piece on the treasuresof his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of aworld-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, formercorporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and experton cultivated crime. Called in by Roth’s insurancecompany—now saddled with a multimillion-dollarclaim—Sam follows his leads, first to Bordeaux andthe magnificent vineyards where so much wine isaged into delectable existence and then to Provenceand the collectors who he rightly assumes might haveenvied Roth’s collection. Along the way, bien sûr, he’sjoined by a beautiful and intelligent French colleague.The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded

through with Mayle’s seductive rendering of France’ssensory delights—from a fine Pinchon-Lalande andLéoville Barton to the bouillabaisse of Marseille andyoung lamb inBordeaux. Even themost sophisticatedof oenophiles will learn a thing or two in this vintagework from a beloved author.

Peter Mayle is the author of eleven previous books, five of themnovels. He has received the Légion d’Honneur from the Frenchgovernment for his cultural contributions. He has been living inProvence with his wife, Jennie, for almost twenty-five years.


Peter Mayle

The Vintage CaperA novel

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Essays • 55⁄8 x 83⁄8 • 208 pages$24.95 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27255-3Doubleday Canada: $29.95 • 978-0-385-66784-5

Anew collection ofautobiographical es-

says from the celebratedauthor of Things FallApart—his first new bookinmore than twenty years.Chinua Achebe’s char-

acteristicallymeasured andnuanced voice is every-where present in these sev-enteen beautifully writtenpieces. In “The Educationof a British-ProtectedChild,” Achebe gives us avivid portrait of growingup in colonial Nigeria andinhabiting its “middleground,” recalling both hishappy memories of read-ing novels in secondaryschool and the harshertruths of colonial rule. In “African-American

Visitations,” we witnessthe terrifying nature of theAfricandiaspora andwhatit means not to know“from whence he came.”Politics and history figurein “What Is Nigeria toMe?,” “Africa’s TarnishedName,” and “Politics ofthe Politicians of Lan-guage.” And Achebe’s ex-traordinary family comesinto view in “MyDad andMe” and “My Daugh-ters.”Charmingly personal,

intellectually disciplined,and steadfastly wise, TheEducation of a British-Protected Child is an in-dispensable addition to

the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.

Chinua Achebe

The Education of aBritish-ProtectedChild

Essays

Chinua Achebe lives in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Hewas awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

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With 119 photographs in textFilm/Biography • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 592 pages$35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26768-9

Robert Altman—visionary director, risk-takingproducer; eccentric family man, Hollywood

icon—comes brilliantly to life in this rollicking oralbiography.Altman burst onto the scene as a major film direc-

tor in 1970 with M*A*S*H. His groundbreakingstyle helped usher in a new era of American filmmak-ing, and his most famous films—Nashville, ShortCuts, and The Player, among them—manipulatedgenre and form in ways that had never been done be-fore nor replicated since.Here, in a chorus of voices that can only be called

Altmanesque, the director’s life and career are re-counted by those who knew him best: his sisters,wives, children, and old girlfriends; agents, producers,writers, fellow directors, and studio executives. Wehear fromMeryl Streep,WarrenBeatty, TimRobbins,Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, ElliottGould, Robin Williams, and many others. We evenhear from Altman himself.Mitchell Zuckoff, who was working with Altman

on his memoirs before he died, weaves the interviewstogether into a seamless, riveting tale of an extraordi-nary life. From revelations about the director’s wom-anizing and his brief career as a dog tattooentrepreneur to the heart transplant he tried to keepsecret and his notorious tempestuous nature, here isRobert Altman as we’ve never seen him.

Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston Univer-sity. He is the author of three previous books, most recentlyPonzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. As a re-porter with The Boston Globe, he was a finalist for a PulitzerPrize and the recipient of numerous national writing awards. Helives near Boston with his wife and daughters.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Robert AltmanThe Oral Biography


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Available in Knopf paperback:Breath$15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71078-0The Mercy$16.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70135-1New Selected Poems$20.00 (Can. $27.95) • 978-0-679-74056-8The Simple Truth$16.00 (Can. $24.00) • 978-0-679-76584-4What Work Is$15.00 (Can. $22.50) • 978-0-679-74058-2

Poetry • 6 x 9 • 80 pages$25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27223-2

Anew collection from “a great American poet . . .still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The

New York Times Book Review).In both lively prose poems and more formal verse

Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: fromDetroit, where exhaustedworkers try to find a decentbreakfast after the late shift, and Henry Ford,“supremely bored” in his mansion, clocks in at theplant . . . from Spain, where a woman sings a songthat rises at dawn through an open window like thedust of ages . . . fromAndorra, where an old commu-nist can now supply you with anything you want—aFrench radio, a Cadillac, or, if you have a week, anAmerican film star.There are poems about a haunting past—an immi-

grant working in a loud automotive shop yearns forthe silence of his native Siberia—and about a hauntedpresent: in “Our Valley,” the presence of the ocean,“something massive, irrational, powerful” on theother side of mountains that “maintain that huge si-lence we think of as divine.”You have to remember this isn’t your land.It belongs to no one, like the sea you once lived besideand thought was yours. Remember the small boatsthat bobbed out as the waves rode in, and the menwho carved a living from it only to find themselvescarved down to nothing. Now you say this is home,so go ahead, worship the mountains as they dissolve in dust,wait on the wind, catch a scent of salt, call it our life.

A rich, deeply felt collection from one of our mas-ter poets.

Philip Levine was born and grew up in Detroit. He has receivednumerous awards for his poetry, including the National BookAward in 1991 for What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995for The Simple Truth. He divides his time between Fresno, Cali-fornia, and Brooklyn, New York.

Philip Levine

News of theWorldPoems



Available in Vintage paperback:Bangkok 8$13.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978–1-4000–3290–7Bangkok Haunts$13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978–1-4000–9706–7Bangkok Tattoo$13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978–1-4000–3291–4

Fiction • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 320 pages$24.95 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978–0-307–26319–3

Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s in-

imitable Thai policedetective—is summonedto the most shocking andintriguing crime scene ofhis career. Solving themurder could mean apromotion, but Sonchai,reeling from a personaltragedy, is more inter-ested in Tietsin, an exiledTibetan lama based inKathmandu who has be-come his guru.There are, however, ob-

stacles in Sonchai’s pathto nirvana. Police ColonelVikorn has just namedSonchai his consigliere(he’s been studying TheGodfather onDVD) in his ongoing battle withArmy General Zinna for control of Bangkok’snetwork of illegal enterprises. And though

Tietsin is enlightened and(eerily) charismatic, healso has forty million dol-lars of heroin for sale. IfSonchai truly wants to bean initiate into Tietsin’s“apocalyptic Buddhism,”he has to pull off a dealthat will bring Vikornand Zinna to the sameside of the table. The chal-lenge is further compli-cated when he meetsTara, a Tantric practi-tionerwho captivates himwith her otherworldlytechniques.Here is Sonchai put to

the extreme test—as acop, as a Buddhist, as animpossibly earthbound

man—in John Burdett’s most wildly inven-tive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertainingnovel yet.

John Burdett

TheGodfatherof Kathmandu

A novel

John Burdett is the author of A Personal History of Thirst, TheLast Six Million Seconds, Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, andBangkok Haunts. He lives in Bangkok.



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From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith (“Amiracle . . . You can hardly conceive of amore af-

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Philip Caputoworked for nine years for theChicago Tribune andshared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraudin Chicago. He is the author of seven other works of fiction andtwo memoirs, including A Rumor of War, about his service inVietnam, and four works of nonfiction. He divides his time be-tween Connecticut and Arizona.

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CrossersA novel


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With 32 pages of photographsPolitical Science/History • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 704 pages$40.00 (NCR) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26363-6

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark thecentenary of its foundation, the British Security

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Christopher Andrew is Britain’s leading historian of intelligence,professor of modern and contemporary history and chair of thefaculty of history at Cambridge University. He is also chair of theBritish Intelligence Study Group, coeditor of Intelligence and Na-tional Security, former visiting professor at Harvard, Toronto,and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter ofBBC Radio and TV documentaries. His thirteen previous booksinclude The Mitrokhin Archive, volumes 1 and 2, and a numberof groundbreaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelli-gence in modern history.

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Defend the RealmA Centenary History of MI5

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With 100 photographs in text and 16 pages of colorArt History • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 544 pages$35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26836-5

The acclaimed biographer of Le Corbusier,Balthus, and Sterling and Stephen Clark now

gives us a vibrant, intimate portrait of six of the ex-traordinary artists and architects at the Bauhaus, thepioneering German art school that, during its four-teen years of existence, from 1919 to 1933, madepossible many of the twentieth century’s greatestpaintings, changed the look of buildings, objects, andgraphic design throughout the world, and pro-foundly altered our way of seeing.Nicholas Fox Weber, for more than three decades

as director of the Albers Foundation, was a longtimefriend of Josef and Anni Albers, the only husband-and-wife pair at the Bauhaus (he was a painter, she atextile designer andweaver) andwas told their storiesabout life at the Bauhaus. Now Weber renders thatplace and time with unprecedented richness, focusingon the Alberses and on their fellow artists and teach-ers Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies vander Rohe, andWalter Gropius. Weber brilliantly cap-tures what is missing from all other Bauhaus books—a feeling for their exuberant embrace of life, the spiritand flarewithwhich they lived andworked, and theirall-consuming goal of making art and architecturenew.A group portrait infusedwith the powerful force of

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Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Connecticut and graduatedfrom Columbia College and Yale University. He is the director ofthe Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteenprevious books, among them Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Coop-erstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, Leland Bell, and The Art ofBabar. He and his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, live inBethany, Connecticut, and in Paris.

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Anne Rice returns tothe mesmerizing sto-

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The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically ac-claimed Complete Lyrics series, published

in JohnnyMercer’s centennial year, contains thetexts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hun-dred of them published here for the first time.Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples

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During a career of more than four decades,Mercer was nominated for the AcademyAward for Best Song an astonishing 18 times,and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchi-son, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music byWarren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of theEvening” (music by Carmichael), and “MoonRiver” and “Days ofWine and Roses” (musicfor both by Henry Mancini).You’ve probably fallen in love with more

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BarryDay has written books onNoëlCoward, Dorothy Parker, OscarWilde, and P. G.Wodehouse. He livesin New York, London, and PalmBeach.

Miles Kreuger, the president of the In-stitute of the AmericanMusical, is theauthor of Show Boat: The Story of aClassic American Musical. He lives inLos Angeles.


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The author of When Bad Things Happen toGood People now gives us an illuminating book

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unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty;fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncer-tain times, coping with these fears can be especiallychallenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book,RabbiHarold S.Kushner teaches us to confront,mas-ter, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life.Combining his own thoughts with the teachings of

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Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick,Massachusetts, where he lives. His classic work, When BadThings Happen to Good People, was an international best seller.He was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organ-ization, as one of the fifty people who havemade theworld a bet-ter place in the last half century, and as clergyman of the year bythe national organization Religion in American Life.


Harold S. Kushner

Conquering FearLiving Boldly in an Uncertain World


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Biography • 5 x 71⁄2 • 192 pages$25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4296-8

Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisherof Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore

Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other dis-tinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefsand bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, andMaida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour throughhis eventful life, from his childhood summers inMaine, where his decision to improve upon hisgrandmother’s chicken pot pie led to a lifetime at thestove, to the great restaurants of postwar Paris andthe narrow streets of New York’s Chinatown today;from a New Year’s dinner aboard the old Île deFrance with Buster Keaton to an evening at NewYork’s glamorous “21” restaurant with the dreadedRoy Cohn; fromChinese omelets with the great JaneJacobs at the edge of the Arctic Ocean to a lobsterdinner with the Mailers on Cape Cod, and a warn-ing to examine the chair before you sit down to din-ner with W. H. Auden.The author agreeswith theGreek philosopherHer-

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Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the Na-tional BookAward forDistinguished Service toAmerican Letters.For many years he was editorial director of Random House. Heis the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Fu-ture.

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EatingA Memoir


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A selection of titles available in Vintagepaperback:My Name Is Red$14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-70685-1Snow$14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-70686-8

Translated from the Turkish by Maureen FreelyFiction • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 512 pages$26.95 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26676-7Knopf Canada: $34.95 • 978-0-676-97968-8

From the universally acclaimed author of Snowand My Name Is Red, his first novel since win-

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class family, is engaged to a girl of like backgroundwhen by chance he encounters a long-lost relation:Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty whostirs all the passion denied him in a society where sexoutside marriage is taboo. Their incandescent liaisonwill flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal’s en-gagement. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks upwith his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her toanother man.For nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun’s

impoverished, conservative marital household, play-ing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. ButFüsun’s heart is hardened. From his visits Kemalwill take away nothing but odd personal effects,possessions he will collect and cherish, in the pri-vate religion his adoration becomes. His hoard willmake him famous—and a laughingstock—in Istan-bul society. And when a final chance at happiness isripped away, all that remains to him is his museum,this map of a society’s rituals and mores, and of oneman’s broken heart.A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic at-

tachment and the strange allure of collecting, this isOrhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Hisnovel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin LiteraryAward. His work has been translated into more than fifty lan-guages. He lives in Istanbul.


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TheMuseum of InnocenceA novel



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Marie Ponsot’s most recent books include TheBird Catcher,winner of the National Book Crit-ics Circle Award for poetry, in 1998, and Spring-ing: New and Selected Poems. Professor emeritaof English at Queens College, CUNY, she nowteaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the92nd Street Y and at theNew School University.Her awards include the Phi Beta Kappa Medal,the Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern LanguageAssociation, and the Poetry Society of America’sFrost Medal for lifetime achievement. She livesin New York City.

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Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in herlate eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful.

As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear,“Between silence and sound / we are balancing dark-ness, / making light of it.” Ponsot so beautifullymakes light of all she touches; after more than a halfcentury at her craft, she is accepting ofwhat has come,whether it’s a joyous memory of her second-gradeteacher in New York public school or the feeling ofbeing “OrphanedOld,” less lucky in life since her par-ents died. She holds herself to the highest standard: tosee clearly, to think, to deal openhandedly with theworld, to “Go to awedding / as to a funeral: / bury theloss” and also to “Go to a funeral / as to a wedding: /marry the loss.” This beloved poet, who confides thatshe meets works of great art “expectant and thirsty,”inspires the same spirit in her readers.

Glad tired gaudywe are more than we thought& as ready as we’ll ever be.. . . . . . . . . . . .

On dancing daywe’ll belt out tunes we’ll step totogethertill it’s time for us to saythere’s nothing more to say

nothing to pay no waypay no mind pay no heedpay as we go.

from “Dancing Day II”

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EasyPoems



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With 12 maps and 16 pages of photographsHistory • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 416 pages$35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26343-8

For the past half century, John Keegan, the great-est military historian of our time, has been re-

turning to the scenes of America’s most bloody andwrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums:the continuation of fighting for four years betweensuch vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persis-tence of such ill-trained, ill-equipped, and oftenstarving combatants; the effective absence of deci-sive battles among some 260 fought. Now Keeganexamines these and other puzzles with a peerless un-derstanding of warfare, uncovering dimensions ofthe conflict that have eluded earlier historiography.While offering original and perceptive insights

into psychology, ideology, demographics, and eco-nomics, Keegan reveals the war’s hidden shape—aconsequence of leadership, the evolution of strate-gic logic, and, above all, geography. The Americantopography, Keegan argues, presented a battlespace of complexity and challenges unmatched be-fore or since. Out of a succession of mythic butchaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistiblenarrative illuminated with comparisons to theNapoleonic Wars, the First World War, and otherconflicts.

The American Civil War is sure to be hailed a de-finitive account of its eternally fascinating subject.

John Keegan’s books include The Iraq War, Intelligence in War,The First World War, The Battle for History, Fields of Battle, andA History of Warfare. He lives in Wiltshire, England.


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The American CivilWarA Military History



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With more than 135 illustrations in text, 24 pages ofcolor, and a full-color gatefoldBiography • 71⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 400 pages$50.00 (Can. $62.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26342-1

Alively, candid memoir from one of our greatestliving artists—part of the 1960s Pop Art move-

ment along with Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg,and Roy Lichtenstein—whose vast canvases filledwith dramatic, surreally juxtaposed images revolu-tionized twentieth-century painting.James Rosenquist writes about his childhood in

North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s andearly 1940s, and about arriving in New York City in1955, penniless but with a scholarship to the Art Stu-dents League. He describes meeting fellow paintersJasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg,Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, nights at thecelebrated Cedar Tavern, and days suspended onscaffolding high over Broadway painting movie ortheater billboards, a craft that would directly influ-ence his art. Hewrites openly about the art world, hisdealers, and his clients. And he explains how he cameto make such major works as Zone, F-111, and StarThief, among others.Wonderfully anecdotal, captivating, and unex-

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James Rosenquist has had more than fifteen retrospectives, withtwo at the Whitney Museum of American Art and four at theGuggenheim Museum. He also has had one in Moscow, two inSpain, and one at the Smithsonian in Washington, in addition tomany gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United Statesand abroad. He divides his time between Florida and New York,where he lives with his wife and daughter.

David Dalton is the author of some fifteen books, includingJames Dean and a novel, Been Here and Gone. He lives in up-state New York with his wife and son.

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In this warmly writ-ten, lushly illus-

trated new cookbook,Lidia delves into the re-gional cooking ofmanylesser known parts ofItaly—Molise, Liguria,Umbria, Abruzzo, Cal-abria, Valle d’Aosta, LeMarche, Trentino AltoAdige, Basilicata, andSardinia—and exploreshidden treasures inthe well-known gas-tronomic domains ofLombardy and EmiliaRomagna.From the north, she

brings us a wealth of rice recipes, includingRisotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saf-fron; from sheep country, a Braised Leg ofLamb plus Lamb Chops with Olives; fromfarmlands, Rabbit with Onions and Stuffed

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where she is, Lidiareaches the local peoplewho make great oliveoils, or harvest tinylentils, or produceartisan cheeses and re-gional wines. The au-thentic and delectablerecipes she brings home

to us are born out of these intimate connectionsand, as always, out of her passion for the de-lightfully varied foods of her native Italy. In ad-dition, her daughter, Tanya, takes us on sidetrips to share her love of the country and its art.

Lidia Matticchio Bastianichand Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Lidia Cooks from theHeart of ItalyA Feast of 175 Regional Recipes

LidiaMatticchio Bastianich is the author of five previousbooks, four of which have been accompanied by nation-ally syndicated public television series. She is the owner ofthe hugely successful New York City restaurant Felidia,among others, and she lectures on Italian cuisine through-out the country. She lives on Long Island, New York.

Tanya Bastianich Manuali received her Ph.D. in Renais-sance art history fromOxford University. Since 1996 shehas led food/wine/art tours to Italy. She lives in NewYork City.


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With 232 duotones in textPhotography • 91⁄2 x 101⁄4 • 256 pages$40.00 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26709-2

Alegendary underground jazz and photographyhappening becomes a book.

From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith—one of themasters of twentieth-century photography—lived in aloft building inNewYorkCity’s wholesale flower dis-trict that was the site of famous after-hours jazz jamsessions. During his eight years there he took fortythousand pictures (the largest body of work in his ca-reer), photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as wellas life on SixthAvenue outside hiswindow.Now, twohundred of these extraordinary, never-before-seenphotographs have been gathered together.Here are Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelo-

nious Monk, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, RolandKirk, Zoot Sims, and Chick Corea, to name a few.And the pimps, prostitutes, cops, dealers, and drugaddicts who dropped by, alongwith the likes of DorisDuke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, and SalvadorDalí.Sam Stephenson, the foremost authority on

Smith, has edited the photographs and written thetext, which includes excerpts from the four thou-sand hours of audio recordings Smith made at thetime, as well as firsthand accounts of those whowere there and lived to tell the tale(s).An extraordinary portrait of the underground

world of jazz in 1960s New York and the extraordi-nary photographer who captured it all.

Sam Stephenson is a writer and lecturer at the Center for Docu-mentary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of DreamStreet: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and W. EugeneSmith 55. He lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.

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The Jazz Loft ProjectThe Photographs of W. Eugene Smith

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An essential col-lection of photo-

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With 16 pages of photographsBiography • 61⁄4 x 91⁄4 • 704 pages$35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26541-8

The first major biography of WoodrowWilson innearly twenty years, fromAmerica’s leadingWil-

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personal and political worlds, bringing the man andhis times to life. We see how Wilson cut his politicalteeth as president of Princeton and how he came vir-tually out of nowhere in 1912 to lead the Democratsto victory, applying his careful study of politics to hisnew office. We see him develop his vision for govern-ment and articulate it in tours around the country,speaking directly to the American people, which hebelieved was the best way to engender their most sus-tained, and sustaining, support.A long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our

most transformative presidents.

John Milton Cooper, Jr. is professor of history at the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison, where he lives. He is the author ofBreaking the Heart of the World: Wilson and the Fight for theLeague of Nations and The Warrior and the Priest: WoodrowWilson and Theodore Roosevelt, among other books. Hewas re-cently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center forScholars.

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seller hailedbyThe BostonGlobe as “an astoundingachievement . . . a master-piece”—Richard Russonow tells the story of amarriage, and all the otherties that bind, fromparentsand in-laws to childrenand the promises of youth.Thirty years ago, on

their Cape Cod honey-moon, Jack and Joy Grif-fin made a plan for theirfuture that has largelybeen fulfilled. He left LosAngeles behind for thesort of New England col-lege his parents had as-pired to, and now the twoof themarebackon theCape—wherehe’d alsospent his childhood vacations—to celebrate the

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Richard Russo is the author of six previous novels and TheWhore’s Child, a collection of stories. He was awarded the 2002Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls. He lives with his wife in Camden,Maine, and in Boston.

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Richard Ellis is the author of more than twenty books, includingTuna: A Love Story; The Book of Whales; Dolphins and Por-poises; The Book of Sharks; Men & Whales; Monsters of the Sea;Great White Shark (with John McCosker); Deep Atlantic; Imag-ining Atlantis; and The Search for the Giant Squid. He is also acelebrated marine artist whose paintings have been exhibited inmuseums and galleries around the world. He has written and il-lustrated articles for numerous magazines, including Audubon,National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American. He livesin New York City.

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ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—wasborn on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one couldhave imagined that her long life (she died in 2002)would come to reflect a changing nation over thecourseof an entire century.Now,WilliamShawcross—given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother’s per-sonal papers, letters, and diaries—gives us a portrait ofunprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girlwho helped convalescing soldiers during the FirstWorldWar . . . the youngDuchess of York helping herreluctant husband assume the thronewhen his brotherabdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge fromthe bombing of London, risking her own life to instillcourage and hope in others who were living throughthe Blitz . . . the dowager Queen—the last Edwardian,the charming survivor of a long-lost era—representingher nationat homeandabroad . . . thematriarchof theRoyal Family and “the nation’s best-loved grand-mother.”A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a sin-

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The place is Detroit, the year is 1943. A prettyyoung woman climbs aboard a streetcar in the

crowded wartime city. She is heading home, whereanother war—a domestic war—is about to erupt.Our heroine, Bianca Paradiso (Bea to her friends

and family), is eighteen and an ambitious art student.She is determined to observe everything, and there ismuch to see in a thriving, sleepless city where auto-mobile production has been halted in favor of fighterplanes and tanks, and where wounded soldiers havebegun to appear with disturbing frequency.The glorious pursuit of art and the harrowing pur-

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Robert RedfordThe Biography

Michael Feeney Callan is the author of short stories, for which hewon theHennessy Literary Award; two novels; and several plays,as well as biographies of AnthonyHopkins, RichardHarris, JulieChristie, and Sean Connery. He has worked for the BBC, ITV,Ireland’s Ardmore Studios, and PBS as a writer, producer, and di-rector of television dramas and documentaries. He lives inDublin, Ireland.


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interesting circles wherever he is—at parties, openingnights, royal weddings. In London in the late ’50s hecrossed paths—and more—with Cecil Beaton, Fran-cis Bacon, DianaCooper, Lucian Freud, DavidHock-ney, and Noël Coward. In the ’60s, in New York, heencountered Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, AndyWarhol, Jack Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe whileworking at Vogue and Show magazines, before de-camping to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabianhorses, when he wasn’t commuting to Los Angeles todecorate for the stars. Back in England in the early’80s, he attended the wedding of his cousin DianaSpencer and designed for everyone from the financierJames Goldsmith to rocker Bryan Ferry.Haslam is a gifted and exuberant storyteller with

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Redeeming FeaturesA Memoir


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At last: Vladimir Na-bokov’s final and

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1977, he left instructionsfor his heirs to burn the138 handwritten indexcards that made upthe rough draft of TheOriginal of Laura. ButNabokov’s wife, Vera,couldn’t bear to destroyher husband’s last work,and when she died, thefate of the manuscript fellto her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-four—the Russian novelist’s only survivingheir, and translator of many of his books—hasstruggled for decades with the decision of

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Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia.His acclaimed works of fiction include Lolita, Pnin, and PaleFire, among others. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.

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Trendsetters and news-makers—actors ,

artists, models, firstladies, social figures—asthey appeared in thepages of Vogue from the1960s to 2009, capturedby such photographers asCecil Beaton, Horst P.Horst, Edward Steichen,Irving Penn, RichardAvedon, Helmut New-ton, Toni Frissell, BruceWeber, Herb Ritts, andAnnie Leibovitz.Here are the über-

glamorous weddings ofPlum Sykes in Yorkshire,Lauren Davis in Carta-gena, and Minnie Cush-ing to photographer PeterBeard in Newport; Truman Capote writingabout cruising the Dalmatian Coast with LeeRadziwill and the Agnellis; Gloria Steinemreporting on the masked partygoers at theBlack and White Ball for Katharine Graham

in the Plaza Hotel; gar-dens around the worlddesigned by MirandaBrooks; Valentino’s coun-try estate outside Paris;the designers and moviestars at the annual Cos-tume Institute party at theMetropolitan Museum;Mick Jagger and familyin Mustique; JacquelineKennedy and MichelleObama; Kate Moss, An-gelina Jolie, Marlene Die-trich, Anjelica Huston,Nicole Kidman, Imanand David Bowie, Char-lotte Rampling, andmany more.Richly illustrated with

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The World in VoguePeople, Parties, Places

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Title Index

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld* . . 112

Cancer Vixen, Marisa Acocella Marchetto . . . . . 114

Devil’s Dream, Madison Smartt Bell. . . . . . . . . . 120

The Fractalist, Benoit Mandelbrot . . . . . . . . . . . 119

The Girls of Room 28, Hannelore Brenner* . . . 127

A Good Fall, Ha Jin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Haiku, Andrew Vachss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Jacques Cousteau, Brad Matsen* . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

La’s Orchestra Saves the World, Alexander

McCall Smith* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, Robert B.Strassler, editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

The Lost Art of Gratitude, Alexander McCallSmith* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Louis D. Brandeis, Melvin I. Urofsky. . . . . . . . . 113

Rashi, Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Reading Jesus, Mary Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Revolution 1989, Victor Sebestyen . . . . . . . . . . . 116

The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens . . . . . 111

The Wicked Son, David Mamet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

World War II Behind Closed Doors,Laurence Rees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Yours Ever, Thomas Mallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Author Index

Bell, Madison Smartt, Devil’s Dream . . . . . . . . . 120

Brenner, Hannelore, The Girls of Room 28* . . . 127

Gordon, Mary, Reading Jesus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Jin, Ha, A Good Fall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Mallon, Thomas, Yours Ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Mamet, David, The Wicked Son. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Mandelbrot, Benoit, The Fractalist. . . . . . . . . . . 119

Marchetto, Marisa Acocella, Cancer Vixen . . . . 114

Matsen, Brad, Jacques Cousteau* . . . . . . . . . . . 117

McCall Smith, Alexander, La’s Orchestra Savesthe World* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

McCall Smith, Alexander, The Lost Artof Gratitude* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Rees, Laurence, World War II Behind ClosedDoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Rubens, Michael, The Sheriff of Yrnameer. . . . . 111

Sebestyen, Victor, Revolution 1989 . . . . . . . . . . 116

Strassler, Robert B., editor, The LandmarkXenophon’s Hellenika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Urofsky, Melvin I., Louis D. Brandeis . . . . . . . . 113

Vachss, Andrew, Haiku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Wiesel, Elie, Rashi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Wyld, Evie, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice*. . 112

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L A U R E N C E R E E S

World War II BehindClosed DoorsSTALIN, THE NAZIS AND THE WEST

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Drawing on material from recently opened EasternEuropean archives, Laurence Rees lays bare oftenshocking new information about the actions taken byChurchill, Roosevelt, and, most particularly, by Stalinduring the war. The enthralling narrative is a blend ofhigh-level politics and the experiences of those on theground who bore the consequences of their leaders’decisions. At the heart of the book is illuminatingnew testimony obtained from nearly one hundredparticipants in the conflict.

With clarity and authority, Rees elucidates thetrue nature of the dealings between Churchill andRoosevelt, and of the Allies’ meetings at Tehran,Yalta, and Potsdam. But perhaps most important, hesheds stunning new light on Stalin’s early amicablerelationship with the Nazis and on how the Sovietleader was able to shape the course of the war, lead-ing to a military victory for the Allies and to muchmore insidious and lasting victories for himself. Thisis a stunning work of history that is certain to changethe way we think about both the waging and the out-come of World War II.

“Rees is vastly well informed about the second world war.There are many surprises here, and much good detail . . .The relationship between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchillmakes an ugly story, and Rees tells it extraordinarily well.”

—Sir Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

LAURENCE REE S is the writer and producer of theBBC/PBS television series World War II Behind ClosedDoors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West. His previous workincludes the acclaimed television series and books TheNazis: A Warning from History, War of the Century, Hor-ror in the East, and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the “FinalSolution,” for which he received the British Book Awardfor History Book of the Year. He lives in England.

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The Sheriff of YrnameerA NOVEL


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Hailed by Stephen Colbert as “a science fiction book yourgrandmother will love—if she’s a lustful, violent lady,” thismordant, fast-paced, witty tour of a delightfully improba-ble science fiction world combines The Hitchhiker’s Guideto the Galaxy with The Magnificent Seven.

Our hero, Cole, is having a bad day. His sidekick hasrun off with his girlfriend. His ride has been disinte-grated by an officious traffic robot. And the space-ship he’s stolen to escape from a tentacled alienbounty hunter turns out to be filled with freeze-driedorphans. Reluctantly compelled to deliver the de-fenseless, fluid-less children to safety, Cole recruits asupport team of humans, aliens, and one friendly—ifcognitively challenged—computer. Their destination:the mysterious Yrnameer, thought to be the last un-trammeled planet in the galaxy. Imagine their con-sternation, then, when they arrive to find itthreatened by Cole’s archenemy, the most infamousoutlaw in the cosmos.

Will Cole and his band of men and assorted oth-ers be able to defeat the vicious Runk? Will Yr-nameer remain unspoiled and unsponsored (andunpronounceable)? Will the orphans be rehydrated?Get all the answers right here, in a rollicking first out-ing from a new comedic talent.

MICHAEL RUBENS is a television writer and producerwhose credits include work for Oxygen, the Travel Chan-nel, CNN, and Comedy Central’s Emmy and Peabodyaward-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart. This is hisfirst novel. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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After the Fire, a StillSmall VoiceA NOVEL

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From one of Granta ’s New Voices of 2008: a stunninglyaccomplished debut novel, set in Australia, about the inef-fable ties between fathers and sons—about the wars theyfight between themselves and with others, and about thethings they choose not to know about one another orabout themselves.

Frank has driven furiously out of Canberra to ashack by the ocean that he last visited as a teenager.He’s desperate to put certain painful memories be-hind him—including the turbulent departure of thewoman he loves—and to be alone. But solitude isn’teasy to come by in a small town, and the past refusesto lie quiet.

Forty years earlier, Leon returns to Australiafrom fighting in Vietnam, a broken man no longerable to live with his wife and child, tragically carryingon a family tradition: his father had been similarlytorn apart—their home life destroyed—by his experi-ences in the Korean War.

As the novel unfurls, as these two narrativesweave around each other, we learn how Frank andLeon are both connected and perhaps destined to re-main separate. Evie Wyld—writing in a voice asfierce as it is fresh—folds their stories into a lushlydescribed background, a landscape both comfortingand unforgiving. After the Fire, a Still Small Voice isthe work of a thrilling new talent.

EVIE WYLD grew up in Australia and London, whereshe currently lives. She received an MA in Creative and LifeWriting at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was fea-tured as one of Granta’s New Voices in May 2008.


M E LV I N I . U R O F S K Y

Louis D. BrandeisA LIFE



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The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one ofthe most important and distinguished justices to sit onthe Supreme Court—a book that reveals not only Louis D.Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, but also Bran-deis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

During Louis Brandeis’s twenty-three years as aSupreme Court justice (from 1916 to 1939), he devel-oped the modern jurisprudence of free speech; laidthe basis for a constitutionally protected right to pri-vacy; and developed the doctrine of incorporation, bywhich the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states.

As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, Brandeis pioneered modern lawpractice and almost single-handedly developed theidea of pro bono legal work. He helped draft the Fed-eral Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and thelaw establishing the Federal Trade Commission. Asan economist and moralist, Brandeis argued not onlythat banking and stock broking had to be separatebut also that both needed stringent federal regulation.As a Zionist he helped transform the movement intoa powerful force in American Jewish affairs.

Drawing on family papers and materials neverbefore available, Melvin Urofsky gives us the remark-able story of Brandeis’s effect on American societyand jurisprudence, and the electrifying story of histime.

MELVIN I . UROFSKY is Professor of Law & PublicPolicy and Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Com-monwealth University and was the chair of its History de-partment. He is the editor (with David W. Levy) of theseven-volume collection of Brandeis’s letters, as well as theauthor of American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaustand Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition. Helives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.


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Cancer VixenA TRUE STORY

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“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed,wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulouslife finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the questionthat sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphicmemoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchettotells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately tri-umphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis tocure, and every challenging step in between.

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“Funny, eye-opening, moving.” —Time

MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO is a cartoonistfor The New Yorker and Glamour. Her work has also ap-peared in The New York Times and Modern Bride, amongother publications. She is the founder and chair of the Can-cer Vixen Fund at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City,where she lives.

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The Lost Art of GratitudeAN ISABEL DALHOUSIE NOVEL


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The sensational sixth installment in the best-sellingchronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie.

Isabel’s son, Charlie, is now of an age—eighteenmonths—to have a social life, and so off they go to abirthday party, where, much to Isabel’s surprise, shefinds Minty Auchterlonie, the high-flying financier shefirst encountered in The Sunday Philosophy Club.Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless am-bition, but the question of her integrity had nevertruly been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabelinto her confidence about the complicated troubles atthe investment bank she heads, Isabel finds herselfgoing another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is shethe perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud?

Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel:she also crosses swords again with her nemesis Pro-fessor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Herniece, Cat, of course, has a new, problematic man (astunt man!) in her life. And Jamie—doting father ofCharlie—is still pressing Isabel to solve his dilemma:getting her to marry him.

As always, there is no end to the delight in ac-companying Isabel as she makes her way toward theheart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing,and downright snooping, in her inimitable—andinimitably charming—fashion.

AL E X A N D E R MCCA L L SM I T H is the author of theinternational phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ DetectiveAgency series. Born in what is now known as Zimbabwe,he was a law professor at the University of Botswana andthe University of Edinburgh. He lives in Scotland.

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A revelatory account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’sEuropean empire during several months of astonishingrevolution that profoundly changed the world.

At the start of 1989, ten European nations were So-viet vassal states. By year’s end, they had all declarednational independence, embarking on the road todemocracy. How did it happen so quickly? Why didthe USSR capitulate so readily? Victor Sebestyendraws on his firsthand knowledge as a reporter of theevents of 1989, on scores of interviews with otherwitnesses and participants, and on newly uncoveredarchival material to answer these questions in un-precedented depth.

Sebestyen tells the story through the eyes of ordi-nary men and women, some of whom found them-selves almost miraculously transformed: the furnacestoker who became the Czech foreign minister; theRomanian poet who, just freed from jail, was madevice president of the newly liberated nation. We seepower wielded or ceded by Mikhail Gorbachev,George H. W. Bush, Lech Walesa, Václav Havel, andMargaret Thatcher, among others. We learn how theKBG helped bring down former allied regimes, howthe United States tried to slow the process, and whythe collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst forthe fall of the entire Soviet empire.

Authoritative, riveting in both its broad politi-cal sweep and its abundance of personal detail, thisis an essential addition to the annals of contempo-rary history.

VICTOR SEBESTYEN is the author of Twelve Days:The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He has writ-ten for many British newspapers, and was an editor at theLondon Evening Standard. Born in Budapest, he lives inEngland.

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B R A D M AT S E N

Jacques CousteauTHE SEA KING


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The only complete biography of the man who explored andexplained the magnificent world of the oceans as no oneelse before or since.

With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’scollaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen givesus the first full picture of this remarkable life. Here isCousteau working for the French resistance duringWorld War II (for which he received France’s Croix deGuerre); developing—and risking his life testing—theregulator that made scuba diving possible; runningthe world’s largest scuba equipment manufacturingfirm; becoming a legendary catalyst of the worldwideenvironmental movement; starring in “The UnderseaWorld of Jacques Cousteau” and in hundreds of doc-umentaries; and publishing more than fifty books.And here is the widowed Cousteau marrying hislongtime mistress—forty years his junior and themother of two of his children—kindling a bitter fam-ily feud that continues to this day.

Vividly conveying the people, the adventure, thescience, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau’slife, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man whoprofoundly changed the way we view, and treat, ourplanet.

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Reading JesusA WRITER’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE GOSPELS


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One of our most admired writers takes us on a fresh andpersonal journey through the Gospels, exploring the mys-teries surrounding Jesus.

During the past few years, Mary Gordon, a Christianall her life, found herself at odds with many otherswho identify themselves as Christians. In an effort tounderstand whether or not she had “invented a Jesusto fulfill my own wishes,” she decided to read theGospels as narrative and to study Jesus as a character.In this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordontakes us through all the fundamental stories—theProdigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the para-ble of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden—ponderingthe intense strangeness of a deity in human form andthe problem posed to her as an enlightened reader bythe miracle of resurrection. What she rediscovers—and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelli-gence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store ofoverlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feelboth familiar and tantalizingly elusive.

It is the mysterious figure of Jesus and his actualwords that rest at the heart of the book and withwhich Gordon keeps us in thrall on every page.

MARY GORDON is the author of six novels; the mem-oirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and a col-lection of short stories. She is the recipient of a LilaWallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a GuggenheimFellowship, the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story, andthe 2007 Story Prize. Currently New York’s official StateAuthor, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in NewYork City.

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The FractalistMEMOIR OF A GEOMETER


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A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visualgeometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changedhow we look at both the natural world and the financialworld.

Benoit Mandelbrot might well be our most importantliving scientist. The creator of fractal geometry, hehas significantly improved our understanding of,among other things, financial variability and biologi-cal rhythms. His work reveals hidden order in whatwas once perceived as rough, unpredictable, orchaotic. In The Fractalist, Mandelbrot recounts highpoints of his life with exuberance and an eloquentfluency, deepening our understanding of the evolu-tion of his extraordinary mind.

We follow his early years: born in Warsaw in1924 to a Lithuanian Jewish family, he was mentoredby an eminent mathematician uncle in Paris. As hestayed barely one step ahead of the Nazis untilFrance was liberated, he studied geometry on his ownand dreamed of using it to solve fresh problems ofthe real world. We observe his unusually broad edu-cation in Europe, and at Cal Tech, Princeton, andMIT. We learn about his fifty-year affiliation with theIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and his as-sociation with Harvard and Yale. An outsider tomainstream scientific research, he managed to dowhat others had thought impossible: develop a newgeometry that combines revelatory beauty and a radi-cal way of unfolding formerly hidden laws governingutter roughness, turbulence, and chaos.

Here is a remarkable life story of both the manand his unparalleled contributions to science, mathe-matics, and the arts.

BE N O I T MA N D E L B R O T is Sterling Professor Emeri-tus of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBMFellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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Devil’s DreamA NOVEL ABOUT NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST


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From the author of All Souls’ Rising (“A serious historicalnovel that reads like a dream.”—The Washington PostBook World )—a powerful new novel about Nathan Bed-ford Forrest, the most reviled and celebrated, loathed andlegendary, of Civil War generals.

With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and graspof history that marked his acclaimed trilogy of novelsabout Toussaint Louverture, Madison Smartt Bellgives us a wholly new vantage point from which toview a complicated American icon.

We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the morehidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooingthe woman who would become his wife; battling anaddiction to gambling; overcoming his abhorrence ofthe bureaucracy of the army to rise to its highestranks. We see him taking part in the business of slavetrading, but treating his own slaves humanely. We seehim with his slave mistress, with whom he fatheredseveral children, and we see him reveal his gift for in-spiring courage but not change.

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From the editor of the widely praised Landmark Thucydidesand Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of the Hel-lenika, the major primary source for the events of the finalseven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.

Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362B.C.E., a particularly dramatic period during whichthe alliances among Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Per-sia were in constant flux. And along with the vol-umes of Herodotus and Thucydides, it completes anancient narrative of the military and political historyof classical Greece.

Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, thisedition gives us a new, authoritative, and accessibletranslation by John Marincola, an introduction byDavid Thomas, and fourteen appendices written bysome of the premiere classics scholars at work today.And unlike any other edition of the Hellenika, it alsoincludes the relevant texts of Diodorus Siculus andthe Oxyrhynchus historian, which constitute the onlycontemporaneous works that can be used to assessXenophon’s reliability and quality as a historian.

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ROBERT B. STRAS SLER is an unaffiliated scholarwho holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Let-ters from Bard College and is chairman of the AstonMagna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He livesin Brookline, Massachusetts.

JOHN MARINCOLA is the Leon Golden Professor ofClassics at Florida State University. He is the author, coau-thor, or coeditor of many books about Greek and Romanhistoriography, and has translated a number of classicaltexts. He lives in Florida.

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Yours EverPEOPLE AND THEIR LETTERS

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A delightful and wide-ranging chronicle of the art of letterwriting that explores the offhand masterpieces dis-patched through the ages by messenger or postal serviceor BlackBerry.

Thomas Mallon weaves a unique assortment of epis-tolary jewels into his own insightful and eloquentcommentary on the circumstances and characters ofthe world’s most intriguing letter writers. Here areMadame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reportsfrom the court of Louis XIV; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tor-mented advice to his young daughter; the besottedmidlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenatedWoodrow Wilson; the casually brilliant spiritual mus-ings of Flannery O’Connor; the lustful boastings ofLord Byron; the cries from prison of Sacco andVanzetti. Also included are travel bulletins, suicidenotes, and hate mail—forms as varied as are thehuman experiences behind them.

Yours Ever is a welcome reintroduction to a vast,rich, and entertaining literature—a book that willhelp to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.

THOMAS MALLON is the author of seven novels, in-cluding Dewey Defeats Truman and Bandbox, as well as ABook of One’s Own, an exploration of diary writing. He isa frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New YorkTimes Book Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. He lives inWashington, D.C.

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Ho is an ancient sensei who began training as a child,until war changed him forever. When his dismissivearrogance causes the death of a student he called“daughter,” Ho renounces not only his possessionsbut also his role as master, roaming the streets of analways-cold city in search of a way to atone. As ifmagnetized, a group slowly forms around him:Michael, an addicted gambler who finally lost him-self; Ranger, a psychotic Vietnam veteran for whomreality is an ever-revolving door; Lamont, once a fear-less street-gang warlord who degenerated into hope-less alcoholism when the literati who discovered hispoetry discarded him; Target, a relentless “clanger”who speaks only by echoing speech sounds; andBrewster, an obsessive collector of 1950s “hard-boiled” paperbacks whose stash is housed in anabandoned building even vermin avoid.

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In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was pub-lished in 2000 (“Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cutlike a stone.”—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into theexperience of Chinese immigrants in America.

With the same profound attention to detail that is ahallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction,Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrantlife and the daily struggles—some minute, somegrand—faced by these men, women, and children.

A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs ofhis girlfriend’s parakeet; a group of young childrendeclare their wish to change their names so that theymight sound more “American,” unaware of howdeeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chineseprofessor of English attempts to defect with the helpof a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jin’s charac-ters struggle in situations that stir within them a de-sire to remain attached to their native land andtraditions, as they also explore and take advantage ofthe newfound freedom, both social and economic,that life in a new country offers.

In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, andoften strikingly humorous stories we are remindedagain of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.

HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend BrandeisUniversity. He is the author of five novels, three story col-lections, and three books of poetry. He has received theNational Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award,and the Flannery O’Connor Award. He lives in the Bostonarea and is a professor of English at Boston University.

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The first stand-alone novel to be published by Pantheonfrom the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies’ DetectiveAgency series: a delightful and moving story that cele-brates the healing powers of friendship and music.

It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides toflee London, not only to avoid German bombs butalso to escape the memories of her shattered mar-riage. The peace and solitude of the small town shesettles in are therapeutic . . . at least at first. As thewar drags on, in need of some diversion and to boostthe town’s morale, La organizes an amateur orches-tra, drawing musicians from the village and the localRAF base. Among the strays she corrals is Felix, ashy, proper Polish refugee who becomes her prizedrecruit—and the object of feelings she thought she’dput away forever.

Does La’s orchestra save the world? The peoplewho come to hear it think so. But what will becomeof it after the war is over? And what will become ofLa herself? And of La’s heart?

With his all-embracing empathy and his gentlesense of humor, Alexander McCall Smith makes ofLa’s life—and love—a tale to enjoy and cherish.

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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH is also the author ofthe Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbsseries, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professoremeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh andhas served on many national and international bodies con-cerned with bioethics. He lives in Scotland.


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From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passedthrough the Theresienstadt internment camp on their wayto Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived thewar. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tellus how they did it.

The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countriesall over Europe were aware of the fate that awaitedthem, and they decided that it was the young peoplewho had the best chance to survive. Keeping theseadolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind,and spirit, became the priority. They were housedseparately, in dormitory-like barracks, where theyhad a greater chance of staying healthy and better ac-cess to food, and where counselors (young men andwomen who had been teachers and youth workers)created a disciplined environment despite the sur-rounding horrors. The counselors also made avail-able to the young people the talents of an amazingarray of world-class artists, musicians, and play-wrights—European Jews who were also on their wayto Auschwitz. Under their instruction, the childrenproduced art, poetry, and music, and they performedin theatrical productions, most notably Brundibar,the legendary “children’s opera” that celebrates thetriumph of good over evil.

In the mid-1990s, German journalist HanneloreBrenner met ten of these child survivors—women intheir late-seventies today, who reunite every year at aresort in the Czech Republic. Weaving her interviewswith the women together with excerpts from diariesthat were kept secretly during the war and samples ofthe art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt,Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of dailylife there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice,and indomitable will that combined—in the girls andin their caretakers—to make survival possible.

HANNELORE BRENNER is a print and broadcastjournalist based in Berlin.



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The Girls of Room 28FRIENDSHIP, HOPE, AND SURVIVAL IN THERESIENSTADT

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Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance thatis the hallmark of David Mamet’s work, The Wicked Son isa scathing look at one of the most destructive and tena-cious forces in contemporary life, a powerfully thought-provoking and important book that encompasses as wellthe ways in which many Jews have themselves internal-ized this hatred.

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From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comesa magical book that introduces us to the wisdom of Rashi,the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the MiddleAges.

This deeply personal book looks at the life and workof Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the oral law has been in-cluded in every printing of the Talmud since thefifteenth century. Both beginners and advanced stu-dents of the Bible rely on Rashi’s groundbreakingcommentary for simple text explanations andmidrashic interpretations. His perspective, encom-passing both the mundane and the profound, is time-less, and Wiesel, a descendant of Rashi, proves anincomparable guide who enables us to appreciateboth the lucidity of Rashi’s writings and the milieu inwhich they were formed.

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Annals and Histories, Tacitus 136

A Christmas Carol and Other ChristmasBooks, Charles Dickens 139

Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio 134

Detective Stories, edited by PeterWashington 135

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The Physiology of Taste, Jean AnthelmeBrillat-Savarin 137

The Skeptical Romancer,W. SomersetMaugham 138

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Boccaccio, Giovanni, Decameron 134

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme,The Physiology of Taste 137

Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Caroland Other Christmas Books 139

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Maugham, W. Somerset, The SkepticalRomancer 138

Tacitus, Annals and Histories 136

Washington, Peter, ed., Detective Stories 135

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Abrilliant new translation of the work that Her-man Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of

European storytelling.”In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging

Florence, ten young men and women take refuge inthe countryside, where they entertain themselveswith tales of love, death, and corruption, featuringa host of characters, from lascivious clergymen andmad kings to devious lovers and falsemiracle-makers.Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’sbook of stories draws on ancient mythology, contem-porary history, and everyday life, and has influencedthe work of myriad writers who came after him.

J. G.Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the orig-inal but rendered in eminently readable modern En-glish, captures the timeless humor of one of the greatclassics of European literature.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet, wasborn in 1313 and died in 1375.

Born in Liverpool, England, J. G. Nichols is a poet,literary critic, and translator. He was awarded theJohn Florio Prize for his translation of the poems ofGuido Gozzano. His translation of Petrarch’s Can-zoniere won the Premio Internazionale Diego Valeri in2000.

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D E C AM E RO NTranslated and

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Ghost Stories$15.00 (Can. $17.00) • 978-0-307-26924-9

Love Stories$15.00 (Can. $17.00) • 978-0-307-27087-0

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Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Clas-sics format, an anthology of beloved, classic de-

tective stories—riveting and irresistibly addictivetales of crimes and those who unravel them.

Beginning with modern masters such as SaraParetsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collec-tionworks its way back through the golden age of the1920s and ’30s to the genre’s source in Edgar AllanPoe and Arthur Conan Doyle. The famous detectiveswho stalk these pages range from the brilliant and ec-centric (Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Poe’sC. AugusteDupin) to the deceptively unlikely (G.K.Chesterton’s humble priest, Father Brown; andAgathaChristie’s tweedy spinster,MissMarple); fromthe tough-guy private eyes created by DashiellHammett and Raymond Chandler to accidental by-standers, such as the perceptive neighbors in SusanGlaspell’s haunting “A Jury of Her Peers.”

From classic whodunits featuring Erle StanleyGardner’s Perry Mason and Georges Simenon’s In-spector Maigret to Jorge Luis Borges’s postmoderntribute to Poe in “Death and the Compass,” the sto-ries in this volume will tantalize, perplex, and amaze.

Peter Washington is the editor of the Everyman’sPocket Classics Ghost Stories and many of the Every-man’s Library Pocket Poets.

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The complete historical works of the greatestchronicler of the Roman Empire in a wholly re-

vised and updated translation.A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus

served as administrator and senator, a career that gavehim an intimate view of the empire at its highest lev-els, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloodyevents of the first century. In the Annals, he writesabout Augustus Caesar’s death and observes the innerworkings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius andNero. In the Histories, he describes an empire in tu-mult, four emperors reigning in one year, each over-thrown by the next. The Agricola, a biography ofTacitus’s father-in-law, Julius Agricola—the mostcelebrated governor of Roman Britain—is the firstdetailed account of the island that would eventuallyrule over a quarter of the earth. And in the Germania,the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germanycome richly to life.

Translated by A. J. Church and W. J. BrodribbRevised and Updated by Dr. Eleanor Cowan

Cornelius Tacitus was born c. 55 A.D. and died in117 A.D.

Eleanor Cowan is Lecturer in Ancient History atLeicester University.

Robin Lane Fox is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient His-tory at New College, Oxford.

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E V E R Y M A N ’ S L I B R A R Y C L A S S I C SCooking • 47⁄8 x 81⁄8 • 504 pages • ribbon marker$25.00 (Can. $28.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26972-0On sale: October 6, 2009

Aculinary classic on the joys of the table—writtenby the gourmand who so famously stated, “Tell

me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are”—in a handsome new edition ofM. F. K. Fisher’s distin-guished translation and with a new introduction byBill Buford.

First published in France in 1825 and continuouslyin print ever since, The Physiology of Taste is a histori-cal, philosophical, and ultimately Epicurean collec-tion of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes oneverything and anything gastronomical. Brillat-Savarin, who spent his days eating through the famedfood capital of Dijon, lent a shrewd, exuberant, andcomically witty voice to culinary matters that stillresonate today: the rise of the destination restaurant,diet and weight, digestion, and taste and sensibility.

“Still the most civilized cookbook ever written.”—The New Yorker

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France in1755 and died in 1826.

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, author of The Art ofEating, was born in 1908 and died in 1992.

Bill Buford, author of Heat, lives in New York City.

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“Some fortunate persons find freedom in theirown minds; I, with less spiritual power thanthey, find it in travel.” —W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminalwriters of the twentieth century, and his travel

writing has long been considered among his finestwork. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer mapsout a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative piecesthat are collected here for the first time.

Maughamworked as a secret agent in Russia, pub-lished novels in London, staged plays in New York,and traveled throughout Europe, Asia, India, and theUnited States, chronicling his travels, wherever hewent, with exceptional insight. Beginning with “Inthe Land of the Blessed Virgin” and culminating in“A Partial View,” Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham’srazor-sharp prose that track his transformation from aboyish traveler in Spain to a worldly man of letters.

This is Maugham at his most keenly observant, di-rect, and powerful.

W. Somerset Maugham, author of such novels asCakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, was born in1874 and died in 1965. His books have sold nearly40 million copies.

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tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering andmild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit, of Bob’s kind-hearted lame son, Tiny Tim, and of the Ghosts ofChristmas Past, Present, and Future.First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol was

republished in 1852 in a new edition with fourother Christmas stories—The Chimes, The Cricket onthe Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.These beloved tales revived the notion of the Christ-mas “spirit”—and have kept it alive ever since.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth,England, and died in 1870.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto.

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Ackroyd, Peter, Thames 249

Alexander, Patrick, Marcel Proust’sSearch for Lost Time 163

Aslam, Nadeem, The Wasted Vigil 162

Bach, David, Lucha por tu dinero 224

Bamford, James, The Shadow Factory 242

Barnes, Julian, Nothing to BeFrightened Of 180–181

Barnes, Kim, A Country Called Home 245

Bass, Gary J., Freedom’s Battle 193

Bernhard, Thomas, Wittgenstein’sNephew 186

Brands, H.W., Traitor to His Class 236–237

Brockman, Max, editor, What’s Next 154

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code(premium mass market) 239

Burnett, Allison, Undiscovered Gyrl 153

Child, Julia with Alex Prud’homme,My Life in France (Movie Tie-in) 213

Choate, Pat, Saving Capitalism 155

Clark, Robert, Dark Water 246

Darnton, John, Black and White andDead All Over 233

Dary, David, Frontier Medicine 184

Davidson, Andrew, The Gargoyle 230–231

de Bernières, Louis, A Partisan’sDaughter 183

de Robertis, Carolina, La montañainvisible* 223

Delinsky, Barbara, While MySister Sleeps 240–241

Everett, Daniel L., Don’t Sleep,There Are Snakes 202

Fairstein, Linda, Lethal Legacy 250–251

Falcones, Ildefonso, La catedral del mar 218

Filkins, Dexter, The Forever War 150–151

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side ofParadise and Flappers andPhilosophers 172–173

Fortey, Richard, Dry Storeroom No. 1* 164

French, Patrick, The World Is WhatIt Is 198–199

Garber, Marjorie, Shakespeare andModern Culture 253

García Márquez, Gabriel, Cien añosde soledad 217

Geniesse, Jane, American Priestess 238

Gilder, Louisa, The Age of Entanglement 196

Glass, Julia, I See You Everywhere 234–235

Goldwag, Arthur, Cults, Conspiracies,and Secret Societies 169

Greenberg, Michael, Hurry DownSunshine* 156–157

Grisham, John, El asociado 219

Harkaway, Nick, The Gone-Away World* 159

James, P.D., The Private Patient 194–195

Jones, Jacqueline, Saving Savannah 203

Kanfer, Stefan, Somebody 197

Kehlmann, Daniel, Me and Kaminski 187


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Kritzler, Edward, Jewish Pirates of theCaribbean 248

Lansdale, Joe R., Leather Maiden,Rumble Tumble and CaptainsOutrageous 168, 200–201

Lindsay, Jeff, Darkly Dreaming Dexter 152

Lukas, Christopher, Blue Genes 244

Mahfouz, Naguib, Cairo Modern 254

Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begsto Differ 232

Márai, Sándor, Esther’s Inheritance 185

Maugham, W. Somerset, A Writer’sNotebook and The Narrow Corner 210–211

Mirabal, Dedé, Vivas en su jardin 222

Mishima, Yukio, Five Modern NoPlays and The Sound of Waves 208–209

Mochizuki, Aska, Spinning Tropics 207

Morrison, Toni, A Mercy* 148–149

Mortenson, Greg, Tres tazas de té 221

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 226

Obama, Barack, Los sueños de mi padre* 227

O’Neil, Brian, Acting as a Business 182

Orman, Suze, Plan de acción 2009 227

Peace, David, Nineteen Eighty 170

Peacock, Justin, A Cure for Night 192

Penzler, Otto, editor, The VampireArchives* 179

Perl, Jed, Antoine’s Alphabet 205

Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Talesand Poems* 171

Richardson, Mark, Zen and Now 158

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino Elegies &The Sonnets to Orpheus 175

Roizen, Michael F., and Mehmet Oz,Tú a dieta 220

Roth, Philip, Indignation 176–177

Ryback, Timothy W., Hitler’s PrivateLibrary 204

Sapphire, Push (stickered cover) 212

Schulze, Ingo, New Lives 190

Shelley, Mary, The Original Frankenstein 174

Shlaim, Avi, Lion of Jordan 191

Shorto, Russell, Descartes’ Bones 166–167

Sjöwall, Maj, and Per Wahlöö,The Abominable Man andThe Locked Room 188–189

Straub, Peter, editor, Poe’s Children 243

Tanizaki, Junichiro, The Makioka Sisters 206

Thompson, Jason, A History of Egypt 255

Vachss, Andrew, Another Life 165

Valladolid, Marcela,México fresco 225

Walker, Kathryn, A Stopover in Venice 247

Williams, Terry Tempest, Finding Beautyin a Broken World 178

Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat 254

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Acting as a Business, by Brian O’Neil 182

Age of Entanglement, The, by LouisaGilder 196

American Priestess, by Jane Geniesse 238

Another Life, by Andew Vachss 165

Antoine’s Alphabet, by Jed Perl 205

Ayatollah Begs to Differ, The, by HoomanMajd 232

Black and White and Dead All Over, byJohn Darnton 233

Blue Genes, by Christopher Lukas 244

Cairo Modern, by Naguib Mahfouz 254

Captains Outrageous, by Joe R. Lansdale 201

Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez 217

Country Called Home, A, by Kim Barnes 245

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies,by Arthur Goldwag 169

Cure for Night, A, by Justin Peacock 192

Da Vinci Code, The (premiummass market), by Dan Brown 239

Dark Water, by Robert Clark 246

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay 152

Descartes’ Bones, by Russell Shorto 166–167

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, by Daniel L.Everett 202

Dry Storeroom No. 1,* by Richard Fortey 164

Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus,by Rainer Maria Rilke 175

El asociado, by John Grisham 219

Esther’s Inheritance, by Sándor Márai 185

Finding Beauty in a Broken World,by Terry Tempest Williams 178

Five Modern No Plays, by Yukio Mishima 208

Flappers and Philosophers, by F. ScottFitzgerald 173

Forever War, The, by Dexter Filkins 150–151

Freedom’s Battle, by Gary J. Bass 193

Frontier Medicine, by David Dary 184

Gargoyle, The, by Andrew Davidson 230–231

Gone-Away World, The,* by NickHarkaway 159

Great Tales and Poems,* by EdgarAllan Poe 171

History of Egypt, A, by Jason Thompson 255

Hitler’s Private Library, by Timothy W.Ryback 204

Hurry Down Sunshine,* by MichaelGreenberg 156–157

I See You Everywhere, by Julia Glass 234–235

Indignation, by Philip Roth 176–177

Istanbul: The Collected Traveler,edited by Barrie Kerper 160–161

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, by EdwardKritzler 248

La catedral del mar, by IldefonsoFalcones 218

La montaña invisible,* by Carolina deRobertis 223

Leather Maiden, by Joe R. Lansdale 168

Lethal Legacy, by Linda Fairstein 250–251

Lion of Jordan, by Avi Shlaim 191


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Locked Room, The, by Maj Sjöwall andPer Wahlöö 189

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov 226

Los sueños de mi padre,* by BarackObama 227

Lucha por tu dinero, by David Bach 224

Makioka Sisters, The, by JunichiroTanizaki 206

Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time,by Patrick Alexander 163

Me and Kaminski, by Daniel Kehlmann 187

Mercy, A,* by Toni Morrison 148–149

México fresco, by Marcela Valladolid 225

My Life in France (Movie Tie-in), by JuliaChild with Alex Prud’homme 213

Narrow Corner, The, by W. SomersetMaugham 211

New Lives, by Ingo Schulze 190

Nineteen Eighty, by David Peace 170

Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by JulianBarnes 180–181

Original Frankenstein, The, by MaryShelley 174

Partisan’s Daughter, A, by Louis deBernières 183

Plan de acción 2009, by Suze Orman 227

Poe’s Children, edited by Peter Straub 243

Private Patient, The, by P.D. James 194–195

Push (stickered cover), by Sapphire 212

Rumble Tumble, by Joe R. Lansdale 200

Saving Capitalism, by Pat Choate 155

Saving Savannah, by Jacqueline Jones 203

Shadow Factory, The, by James Bamford 242

Shakespeare and Modern Culture,by Marjorie Garber 253

Somebody, by Stefan Kanfer 197

Sound of Waves, The, by Yukio Mishima 209

Spinning Tropics, by Aska Mochizuki 207

Stopover in Venice, A, by Kathryn Walker 247

Thames, by Peter Ackroyd 249

This Side of Paradise, by F. ScottFitzgerald 172

Traitor to His Class, by H. W. Brands 236–237

Tres tazas de té, by Greg Mortenson 221

Tú a dieta, by Michael F. Roizen andMehmet Oz 220

Undiscovered Gyrl, by Allison Burnett 153

Vampire Archives, The,* edited byOtto Penzler 179

Vivas en su jardin, by Dedé Mirabal 222

Wasted Vigil, The, by Nadeem Aslam 162

What’s Next, edited by Max Brockman 154

While My Sister Sleeps, by BarbaraDelinsky 240–241

White Heat, by Brenda Wineapple 254

Wittgenstein’s Nephew, by ThomasBernhard 186

World Is What It Is, The, by PatrickFrench 198–199

Writer’s Notebook, A, by W. SomersetMaugham 210

Zen and Now, by Mark Richardson 158

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A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the sur-face of slavery. But at its heart, likeBeloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing

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In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is stillin its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutchtrader and adventurer, with a small holding inthe harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealingin “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part pay-ment for a bad debt from a plantation owner inCatholic Maryland. Her slave mother has urgedhim to take her. This is Florens, who can read andwrite and might be useful on his farm. Rejectedby her mother, Florens looks for love, first fromLina, an older servant woman at her newmaster’shouse, but later from the handsome blacksmith,an African, never enslaved, who comes ridinginto their lives.

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Through Filkins’ eyes, we witness the rise of theTaliban in the 1990s, the aftermathof the Septem-ber 11th attacks in New York City, and frontlinesof battle in the American wars in Afghanistan andIraq. Filkins, a foreign correspondent forThe NewYork Times, is the only American reporter to havewitnessed all of this firsthand, and from his expe-riences he has composed a riveting narrative thatmoves across vast and various landscapes filledwith amazing characters and astonishing scenes.

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Dexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for TheNew York Times and has covered the wars inAfghanistan and Iraq since 2001. He has beena finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has receiveda George Polk Award and two Overseas Pressawards. He lives in New York City.

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Mesmerizing, sexually frank, often heart-breaking, and bursting with devilishhumor, Undiscovered Gyrl is a standout

novel about a young woman trying to find herselfin an ever-changing world.

Beautiful, outspoken, funny, and wild, KatieKampenfelt is as reckless as she is intelligent. Tak-ing a year off before college, Katie intends to domore than just smoke weed with her boyfriend,Rory, and work at the local bookstore. She plansto discover her passion, and to seduce Dan, thethirty-two-year-old professor she watches movieswith.

When she has time, online Katie confesses thedetails of her life. Changing the names and thecharacteristics that would allow people to findher, Katie shares her story with the world. As peo-ple reach out to her, she responds to their ques-tions, she bristles at their insults, she’s comfortedby their presence, andmade even lonelier by thefact that the only people she can really talk tohave no idea who she is. But when Dan stops tak-ing her calls, when her alcoholic father suffers aterrible fall, and when she finds herself drawninto a dangerous new relationship, Katie’s fear-less bravado begins to crack, and dark pieces ofher past emerge.

Allison Burnett lives in Los Angeles.

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“A preview of the ideas you’re going to bereading about in ten years.”

—Steven Pinker

I n eighteen never-before-published essays,our top scientific young minds address theurgent questions currently being posed in

their fields of study. Covering subjects as diverse asastrophysics, paleoanthropology, climatology, andneuroscience, What’s Next? gives readers an excel-lent introduction to the scientific discoveries anddebates that await us in the future.

Some of the issues raised inWhat’s Next? include:Will climate change in the twenty-first centuryforce a massive human migration to the North-ern Rim? What are the ethical implications ofgenetic engineering and can we devise a frame-work to govern its use? How does our sense ofmorality arise from the structure of the brain?What does the latest research in language acqui-sition tell us about the role culture plays in theway individuals think?

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In this urgent dissection of the U.S. financialsystem, well-known economist and bestsellingwriter Pat Choate demonstrates the true grav-

ity of our current crisis and forcefully argues forbold action to repair a capitalist system in desper-ate need of reform.

A long-time critic of the free-market absolutismthat brought about the current financial crisis,Choate puts forward new solutions designed notonly help the United States recover as quickly aspossible, but also to strengthen the country—andour capitalist system—for decades to come. Heidentifies necessary reforms to our financial reg-ulations, describes why the U.S. needs to make acomprehensive overhaul of its tax system (fromdirect tax to a simplified value-added tax), advo-cates changes to global trade rules and practicesthat have unfairly affected American workers andcommunities, and calls for a vigorous reinvest-ment in the “human capital” of America throughportable pensions, more affordable health care,and better education.

Pat Choate is a political economist, policy analyst,and the author of the books Agents of Influence,Preparing for War (forthcoming from Knopf),and, with Ross Perot, Save Your Job, Save Our Coun-try. In 1996, he was Ross Perot’s ReformParty vicepresidential running mate. He lives with his wifeoutside Washington, D.C.

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A Time Best Book of the Year

“Lucid, realistic, compassionate, andilluminating.... In its detail, depth,richness and sheer intelligence,HurryDown Sunshine will be recognized as aclassic of its kind.” —Oliver Sacks,


Relating the extraordinary story of a familyin crisis,Hurry Down Sunshine is amemoirof exceptional power. Unsentimental,

nuanced, and deeply humane, it will becomeessential reading in the literature of afflictionalongside classics such as Girl, Interrupted and AnUnquiet Mind.

With remarkable candor and in vivid detail,Michael Greenberg recounts the summer whenhis fifteen-year-old daughter experiences a psy-chotic break and “was struck mad.” Beginningwith Sally’s sudden, visionary crack-up on thestreets of Greenwich Village, and continuing,among other places, in the out-of-time world of aManhattan psychiatric ward during the city’smost swelteringmonths, this is the tale of a familybroken open, then painstakingly, movinglystitched together again.

“Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and ten-derness, feeling helpless but being present,about cracking up, then finding the wherewithalto glue the jagged pieces of your mind backtogether again. But mostly it’s about love.”

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“This memoir of a family crisis captures the griefthat transformed their lives.... Readers comeaway with a sense of the intractable nature of psy-chosis and the courage it requires for patientslike Sally, whose struggles continue, merely tolive.” —People

“Touching, warmly intimate, and unsparing....Like the best fiction, this memoir has tran-scended the merely particular and eccentric toconstitute a kind of hard-won art.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement

Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the TimesLiterary Supplement. He lives in New York. His newbook, Black Suit, Worn Once (978-1-59051-341-5)will be published by TheOther Press in Fall 2009.

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“Assured and poetic.”—Los Angeles Times

Part travelogue, part meditation on anauthor and his work, Zen and Now is a trib-ute to a beloved American book and the

landscape that inspired it.

Since it was first published in 1974, RobertPirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenancehas become a modern classic, a beautifully con-structed blend of travel narrative and philosophi-cal inquiry that hasmoved generations of readers.Oneof those readers was journalistMarkRichard-son, who after rediscovering the book at middleage, decided to retrace Pirsig’s journey. From theback of his own motorcycle, Richardson investi-gates what happened to the reclusive Pirsig, hisfamily, and the people described in the book inthe years after its surprising success.

“A harrowing account of the toll that the makingof one man’s masterpiece exacted not only onhimself but on those around him.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Most notably for fans of the original, Zen andNow pushes the story forward, through Richard-son’s correspondence with the interview-aversePirsig, his editor, his ex-wife, and a second son,Ted.” —The Boston Globe

Mark Richardson is a motorcycle and auto editorandwriter for theToronto Star. He lives inToronto.

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“A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Readslike a surrealist smashup of Pynchon andPratchett, Vonnegut andHeller.”

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Ahilarious, action-packed look at the apoc-alypse that combines a touching tale offriendship, a thrilling war story, and an

all out kung-fu infusedmission to save the world.

Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have beeninseparable since birth. They grew up together,they studiedmartial arts together, they rebelled incollege together, and they fought in the Go-AwayWar together. Now, with the world in shamblesand dark nightmarish clouds billowing over thewastelands, they have been tapped for an incredi-bly perilous mission. But they quickly realize thatthis assignment is not all it seems, and before it isover they will have encountered everything frommimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinistermastermind, whose only goal is world domina-tion. Unlike anything else, The Gone-Away World isa remarkable literary debut that will be remem-bered and rediscovered for years to come.

“Harkaway delivers plenty of action and sur-prises.... Likely to be this season’s majorconversation-starter.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A gripping, satirical, postapocalyptic war epicpopulated with mimes, ninjas, bureaucrats, chi-mera, and gun-toting nerds.”

—New YorkMagazine

Nick Harkaway lives in London.

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A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Atruly unique guide to one of today’s hot-test tourist destinations, combining fasci-nating articles and interviews by a wide

variety of writers with the editor’s own indispens-able tips and observations.

Consulting Istanbul: The Collected Traveler whileyou’re planning your trip or bringing it along islike having your own savvy personal tour guidewho knows the place intimately. The seductive,colorful, and in-depth pieces collected here illu-minate the delights of Turkish cuisine, the daz-zling treasures and monuments of Istanbul, therich pageant of history that has left its mark onthe city, and the people and personalities thatdefine it today. This edition features:

• Enticing recommendations for related reading,including novels, histories, memoirs, and themost useful guidebooks.

• An A–Z miscellany of concise and entertaininginformation—from Alexander the Great andAtaturk toWhirlingDervishes andTurkishWines.

• Interviews, Q & As, and commentary from visi-tors and residents such as Nobel Prize–winnerOrhan Pamuk.

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Abundantly sprinkled with brief quotes fromfamous visitors to Istanbul and supplementedwith practical advice, The Collected Traveler pre-pares you for an unparalleled experience of thisextraordinary place.

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Istanbul: The Collected TravelerAn Inspired Companion Guide

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The Wasted Vigil, cloth edition: 978-0-307-26842-6

“Harrowing yet beautiful.... Withastonishing lyricism and compassionAslam creates unforgettable characters.”

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In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, theaward-winning author of Maps for LostLovers, brilliantly knits together five seem-

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There’s Marcus, an English expat who was mar-ried to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, aformer American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg,looking for traces of her brother, a Russiansoldier who disappeared years before; Casa, ayoung Afghani whose hatred of the Americanshas plunged him into the blinding depths ofzealotry; and James, an American Special Forcessoldier. Aslam reveals the intertwining paths thatthese characters have traveled, constructing atimely and intimate portrait of the complex tiesthat bind us and the wars that continue to tear usapart.

“Extraordinary.... Aslam’s determination to gazeresolutely at the darkest side of our many coldand hot wars is what gives The Wasted Vigil itsdepth and power.”—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books

“The power of Aslam’s novel lives in the explo-sive adjacency of brutality and love, the poisonof fanaticism diluted by the perfume of Persianlilacs.” —O, Oprah Magazine

Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and nowlives in England.

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At seven volumes, three thousand pages, andmore than four hundred characters, as well as atowering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’snovel can seem daunting. It is in fact, after acentury, as enjoyable and relevant to our timesas ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate aboutProust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work“outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—andin his guide he makes it more accessible to thegeneral reader through detailed plot summaries,historical and cultural background, a guide tothe fifty most important characters, maps, illus-trations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essen-tial for readers and book groups currentlyreading Proust and who want help keeping trackof the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’sGuide is also a wonderful introduction for stu-dents and new readers and a memory-refresherfor long-time fans.

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“A fascinating tour.” —The Seattle Times

Aremarkable behind-the-scenes look atthe extraordinary people, meticulousresearch, and driving passions that make

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In an elegant and illuminating narrative, RichardFortey takes his readers to a place where only afew privileged scientists, curators, and researchspecialists have been—the hallowed halls thathold the permanent collection of the NaturalHistory Museum. Replete with fossils, jewels, rareplants, and exotic species, Fortey’s walkthroughoffers an intimate view of many of the premierescientific accomplishments of the nineteenth,twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Like look-ing into the mind of mankind and all the fasci-nating discoveries, ideas, and accomplishmentsthat reside there, Fortey’s tour is utterly enter-taining from first to last.

“Lifts the veil on the inner penetralia of theworld’s premiere natural history museum.”

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Richard Fortey lives in London.

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“There’s no way to put a Vachss bookdown once you’ve begun.”

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In this blistering conclusion to the nationallybestselling series, Burke is forced into a jour-ney that will change the lives of the urban sur-

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The only person Burke has ever called father,known throughout the underground as “TheProf,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life in an off-the-books hospital. So when Pryce, a slipperyman with government connections, offers thebest medical services for the Prof and a cleanslate for all concerned, Burke takes the contractwithout reading it. The two-year-old son of aSaudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly pro-fessional snatch; no mistakes, no clues, and noransom note. Burke’s job: get the kid back, what-ever it takes. To do so, the ultimate man-for-hiremust return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was writ-ten on his birth certificate, and write, in theblood of his enemies, the final act of this story.

“Vachss’s prose is as taut and street-wise as ever.”—Associated Press

“Burke is the hardest, most twisted man in crimeand thriller fiction.” —Contra Costa Times

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The bestselling author of The Island at theCenter of the World presents a historicaldetective story about the creation of the

modernmind, with twists and turns leading up tothe present day.

In 1650 René Descartes, the most influential andcontroversial thinker of his time, was buried farfrom home, in Stockholm. Sixteen years later, aFrench ambassador secretly unearthedDescartes’bones and transported them back to France.There began a 350-year journey during whichDescartes’ bones would intersect with some of themostmomentous events in thehistory of thought:from the birth of science and the rise of democ-racy, to the earliest conflicts between scientificreason and faith.

“A kind of intellectual adventure story.... Fancifuland beguiling.... Shorto writes with wit, verve andstyle.On every page, he offers up somenewbaffle-ment, curiosity or delight.” —Los Angeles Times

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“Shorto is a skilled raconteur. He distills cen-turies of scientific and religious debate whilekeeping his story brisk and engaging.”

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Russell Shorto lives in Amsterdam.

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After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, CasonStatler returns home to the small East Texas townof Camp Rapture, where he drinks too much,stalks his ex-wife, and takes a job at the localpaper, only to uncover notes on a cold case mur-der. With nothing left to live for and his ownbrother connected to the victim, he makes it hismission to solve the crime. Soon he is drawn intoa murderous web of blackmail and deceit. Tomakematters worse, his deranged buddy Boogercomes to town to lend a helping hand.

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Joe Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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Organized into three sections, alphabeticallyarranged, and cross-referenced,Cults, Conspiracies,and Secret Societies includes hundreds of entries,some brief and to the point, others extendedessays. Each section has its own introductionexplaining why certain individuals, events, places,and organizations have forever come to be asso-ciated with the dark, forbidden, and secretiveside of life. All the greats are here: JFK assassina-tion conspiracy theorists, the Pythagoreans, theBilderberg Group, the Hermetic Order of theGolden Dawn, Area 51, and Heaven’s Gate, aswell as some surprises, likeOulipo, a select groupof writers, mathematicians, and scientists (ItaloCalvino was a member) who preached structureover content, and the Chauffeurs, a society ofFrench criminals, who got their name from theirtactic of applying fire to their victims’ feet. Infor-mative and entertaining—with just the rightamount of skepticism—Cults, Conspiracies, andSecret Societieshelps set the record straight on hun-dreds of mysterious meetings, savory secrets,intriguing individuals, and fascinating facts.

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“Another winner fromDavid Peace.... Amust-read thriller of originality and stylethat confirms him to be one of the bestcrime writers anywhere.”

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Continuing the narrative begun with Nine-teen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven,this electrifying third installment of David

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While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, thecorrupt police continue to prosper. To give thecase some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” copfrom nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer afresh perspective. As he goes about setting up anew case under the radar, he suffers the same fateas those who previously attempted to get in theway of the Ripper: his house is burned down, hiswife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as hecomes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunterstruggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity,and his life.

“Set in a world in which black comes in manyshades, this powerful, stark and strangely poeticseries is turning into a considerable achieve-ment.” —The Guardian (UK)

“Brilliant, not for the squeamish.”—The Times (UK)

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A new selection for the NEA’s BigRead program

Acompact selection of Poe’s greatest sto-ries and poems, chosen by the NationalEndowment for the Arts for their Big

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This selection of eleven stories and seven poemscontains such famously chilling masterpieces ofthe storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “TheFall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amon-tillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” andsuch unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “TheBells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely creditedwith pioneering the detective story, representedhere by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery ofMarie Roget,” and “The Murders in the RueMorgue.”

Also included is his essay “The Philosophy ofComposition,” in which he lays out his theory ofhow good writers write, describing how he con-structed “The Raven” as an example.

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 anddied under mysterious circumstances in Balti-more in 1849.

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This Side ofParadise“As nearly perfect as such a work couldbe.... The glorious spirit of aboundingyouth glows throughout this fascinatingtale.” —The New York Times

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Published in 1920, when the author was justtwenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts theeducation of a youth, and to this universal storyFitzgerald brings the promise of everything thatwas new in the vigorous, restless America of theyears following World War I. Amory Blaine—egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative—inhabits a narrative interwovenwith songs, poems,dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. Hisgrowth from self-absorption to sexual awarenessand personhood is described with continuousimprovisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald’s for-mal inventiveness and verve heighten our sensethat the world being described is our own, mod-ern world.


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“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was madeby the dust on a butterfly’s wings.”

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Flappers and Philosophers was first published in1920, on the heels of the young author’s smashhit novel This Side of Paradise. The collection con-tains some of his most famous early stories,including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The IcePalace,” “Head and Shoulders,” and “The Off-shore Pirate.” In these pages we meet many ofFitzgerald’s trademark character types: the beau-tiful and headstrong young women and the dis-solute young men of what came to be called theLost Generation. With their bobbed hair anddangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisti-cated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiledheiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellec-tual student whose life is turned upside-downby a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whoseweapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors.

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“The novel the Shelleys wrote togetherrepresents a remarkable act of literaryhomage and collaboration and Charles E.Robinson’s revealing new edition allowsmodern readers to be there at itscreation.” —The Independent (London)

Working from the earliest surviving draftof Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinsonpresents two versions of the classic

novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and asubsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shel-ley’s amendments and contributions.

For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice,which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds moremodern to a contemporary reader. We can alsosee for the first time the extent of Percy Shelley’scontribution—some 5,000 words out of 72,000—and his stylistic and thematic changes. His occas-sionally florid prose is in marked contrast to thedirectness of Mary’s writing. Interesting, too, arePercy’s suggestions, which humanize the mon-ster, thus shaping many of the major themes ofthe novel as we read it today. In these two versionsof Frankenstein we have an exciting new view ofone of literature’s greatest works.

Charles E. Robinson is a professor of English atthe University of Delaware and previously editedThe Frankenstein Notebooks.

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An impassioned and moving plea for abetter relationship between the naturalworld and humankind, from one of our

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Constructing a narrative of hopeful acts,Williamstravels the world to see how broken pieces of his-tory and earth can create something new andwhole. She learns about the art of mosaic inRavenna, Italy. She studies the prairie dogs onthe brink of extinction in the American South-west. And she travels to a small village in Rwandawhere she joins survivors of the genocide to builda memorial from the rubble of war. Sparkingsocial change and healing, Williams’s journeyforms a singular meditation on how the naturaland human worlds both collide and connect inviolence and beauty, and in tumult and peace.

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A meditation on mortality as only Julian Barnescould write it: one that touches on faith and sci-ence and family as well as a rich array of exemplaryfigures who over the centuries have confrontedthe same questions he now poses about the mostbasic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. An athe-ist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks intothe various arguments for and against and withGod, and at his own bloodline, which hasbecome, following his parents’ death, anotherrealm ofmystery.Nothing to Be Frightened Of revealshow we all might go about living with theinevitable.

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England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris istrapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, inher twenties, the daughter of one of Tito’s parti-sans, has only recently moved to London fromYugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for aprostitute and propositions her. Instead of beingoffended, she gets into his car. Over the nextmonths Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She’s afast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her ownlife as she retells it—andChris is rapt. This deeplymoving novel of their unlikely love is also a bril-liantly subtle commentary on the seductivepower of storytelling.

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“Sturdy popular history.... Dary knowsthis material cold, and his narrativeaccumulates authority and dignity as itrolls along.... The results are both a horrorshow and undeniably engrossing.”


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DavidDary is the author of ten previous books onthe West, and headed the School of Journalismat the University of Oklahoma, from which herecently retired. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Anewly translated novel from the greatrediscovered Hungarian writer: a tautlysuspenseful story of unrequited love and

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What is it to be in love with a pathological liar andfantasist? Esther is, and has been for the morethan two decades since Lajos disappeared fromher life. Now all these years later, Lajos is return-ing, and the news brings both panic and excite-ment. While no longer young and thoroughlyskeptical about Lajos, Esther still remembers howincredibly alive she felt when he was around. Hispresence bewitches everyone, and the greatestpart of his charm—and his danger—lies in thedeftness with which he wields that delicate power.Friends rally round protectively, but Lajos’sarrival begins a day of high theater that will leaveEsther’s life dramatically changed again.

“Spellbinding.... A passionate tale.... Deliciouslyportentous: the deceptions woven around thesecharacters introduce a sharp sliver of danger.”

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Translated by George Szirtes.

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“A writer of great originality andfascination.”


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of Paul Wittgenstein—the great philosopher’snephew.

It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separatewards, two men lie bedridden: the narrator liesstricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul is suf-fering fromone of his periodic bouts ofmadness.Bernhard traces the growth of an intense friend-ship between two eccentric, obsessive men whoshare a passion for music, a strange sense ofhumor, brutal honesty, and disgust for the bour-geois of Vienna. Bernhard’s evocation of the fearand longing for intimacy he and his truest friendshare in the face of death chronicles both thespiritual symmetry that bonds them for twelveyears and the emotional betrayal that elicits Bern-hard’s eulogy.

“Oddly moving and funny.... A meditative fuguefor mad, brilliant voices on the themes of death,death-in-life and the artist’s and thinker’s role insociety.” —Chicago Tribune

“Amemento mori that approaches genius.”—The Wall Street Journal

Translated from theGerman byDavidMcLintock.

Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.

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Me and Kaminski, cloth edition: 978-0-307-37744-9

“A piercing look into the art world....Kehlmann’s critique of celebrity, of fameand of the ugliness of self-promotionholds strong.”—San Francisco Chronicle

With edgy wit and intelligence, DanielKehlmann dives into the problems ofwhat is “truth” in our celebrity-crazed

times and embraces the energy and humanitythat lie beneath the pretensions of the art andjournalistic worlds. A firecracker of a novel.

Sebastian Zollner’s failure as a journalist ismatched only by his personal failures. Searchingfor the break that will redeem him in the eyes ofhis peers, he sets out to write the essential biogra-phy on the eccentric painter Manuel Kaminski.All he needs to do is ingratiate himself withKaminski’s family, wait for the great man to kickthe bucket, and then reap the awards. But Kamin-ski has an agenda of his own—one that will takethem both on a hilarious wild goose-chase.

“Zollner is, in spite of everything, an endearingcharacter who is both comic and sympathetic....Can be absorbed and thoroughly enjoyed in onesitting.” —Rocky Mountain News

“Sebastian Zollner and Manuel Kaminski arequite a pair.... Laugh-out-loud funny.”

—Las Vegas Review-Journal

Daniel Kehlmann lives in Vienna. Pre-productionof the film adaptation of Me and Kamkinski is setto start in Fall 2009, with shooting in Germany,France and Belgium.

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188 The Abominable Man, previous paperback: 978-0-394-74273-1

The AbominableManIntroduction by Jens Lapidus“A taut, gripping narrative.... A book youwon’t—easily—put down.”

—Chicago Tribune

The bloody murder of a police captain inhis hospital roomexposes the particularlyunsavory history of aman who spent forty

years practicing a horrible blend of strong-armpolice work and sheer brutality. Nonetheless, Mar-tin Beck and his colleagues scour Stockholm forthe murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman.As the tension builds and a feeling of impendingdanger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evi-dence of police corruption. That’s when an evenstronger sense of responsibility and somethinglike shame urge him into taking a series of drasticsteps, which lead to a shocking disaster.

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Maj Sjöwall and Per WahlööTwo breathtakingly suspenseful installments in the classicMartin Beck Mysteries

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189The Locked Room, previous paperback: 978-0-679-74222-7

“One of themost authentic, gripping and profound collections of policeprocedurals ever accomplished.”—Michael Connelly

The Locked RoomIntroduction by Michael Connelly“The best yet in a superb series ofmysteries.” —Minneapolis Tribune

Ayoung blonde in sunglasses robs a bankand kills a hapless citizen. Across town,a corpse with a bullet shot through its

heart is found in a locked room—with no gun atthe scene. The crimes seem disparate, but toMartin Beck they are two pieces of the same puz-zle, and solving it becomes the one way he canescape the pains of his failed marriage and thelingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound.Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intel-lect, luck and accident, this tour de force ofdetection bears the unmistakable substance andgravity of real life.

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“Ingo Schulze is an epic storyteller.”—Günter Grass

In his long-awaited new novel, renowned Ger-man author Ingo Schulze provides a rich andnuanced panorama of a world in transition.

East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer—man of the theater, aspiring novelist—has turnedhis back on the art world and joined a startupnewspaper. Before long, the former aesthete andrebel becomes obsessed with personal gain, andin a series of letters to his loved ones, Enricovividly muses on his capitalist ventures and latentworldly ambitions. As Schulze peels away the lay-ers of Enrico’s previous existence, his antihero’sreinvention comes to embody all the question-able aspects not only of life in the old Germany,but of life in the Germany just taking form.

“Witty and elaborate.” —The New Yorker

“May well be Germany’s best reunification novelto date.... Exhilarating and perceptive.”

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Translated from the German by John E. Woods.

Ingo Schulze has won the prestigious AlfredDoblin Prize and the Ernst Willner Prize for Lit-erature. He lives in Berlin.


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“Nuanced and human.... KingHussein’swhole life was spent in foreign affairs, andhis story becomes the story of theMiddleEast over half a century.”


The first major account of the life of anextraordinary soldier and statesman, KingHussein of Jordan.

Throughout his long reign (1953–1999), Hus-sein remained a dominant figure in Middle East-ern politics and a consistent proponent of peacewith Israel. For over forty years he walked atightrope between Palestinians and Arab radicalson the one hand and Israel on the other. AviShlaim reveals that Hussein initiated a secret dia-logue with Israel in 1963 and spent over a thou-sand hours in talks with countless Israeli officials.Shlaim expertly reconstructs this dialogue frompreviously untapped records and first-handaccounts, significantly rewriting the history of theMiddle East over the past fifty years and sheddinglight on the far-reaching impact of Hussein’sleadership.

“Excellent.... A particularly valuable account ofHussein’s relations with Israel and the Palestini-ans.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Absorbing.... Shlaim’s authority, and tenacity,are undeniable.... His narrative is gripping.”

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Avi Shlaim is a professor of international rela-tions at Oxford University.

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“Terrific.... Chilling.... When the prizesare awarded for this year’s best first novel,A Cure for Night will be competing for thegold.” —The Washington Post

Agripping debut featuring a young publicdefender in Brooklyn, A Cure for Nightintroduces a powerful new voice to the

world of legal thrillers.

Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a Manhattanwhite-shoe law firm. But when he’s caught in adrug-related scandal, he is forced to resign andtake a job with the Brooklyn Public Defender’soffice. He arrives just in time for a high profilemurder case, where he’s assigned to work withthe tough and savvy Myra Goldstein. The defen-dant is a black pot dealer from the projectscharged with the murder of a white college stu-dent. In this twisty journey through Brooklyn,Justin Peacock paints a strikingly real portrait ofthe law as a form of urban combat.

“Peacock blends taut courtroom drama with TheWire’s gritty urban realism in this razor-sharpdebut.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A lively, dialogue-driven story of life on thestreets and in the courtroom, and in both arenas,anything goes.” —USA Today

Justin Peacock received his law degree from Yale.He lives in Brooklyn.

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193Freedom’s Battle, cloth edition: 978-0-307-26648-4

“Lively, subtle, and comprehensive....Sheds a penetrating light on currentpolicy debates.” —Robert D. Kaplan,

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Whydo we let evil happen? Why do wesometimes rally to stop it? Whose livesmatter to us? These are the key ques-

tions posed by Gary Bass in this provocative lookat the forgotten world of the first human rightsactivists.

Bass, a rising scholar at Princeton, illuminatesthe cultural and political landscapes of thenineteenth-century “atrocitarians,” as these activ-ists were known, and shows us how a newly emer-gent free press exposed British, French, andAmerican citizens to atrocities taking placebeyond their shores, and galvanized them toaction. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educatedand full of bizarre enthusiasms, they were alsomorally serious people on the vanguard of a newpolitical consciousness. Their legacy has much toteach us about our world’s current human rightscrises.

“Fascinating and well told.... Bass writes with ajaunty flair and an eye for eccentric characters.”


“Full and fair-minded.... Bass relates these epi-sodes masterfully, providing a wealth of detail influid prose.” —The Wall Street Journal

Gary J. Bass is an associate professor at PrincetonUniversity. He lives in Princeton and New YorkCity.

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“For first-time readers and longstandingadmirers alike, The Private Patient offersa clear view of the virtues that havedistinguished James’s crime fiction sinceher first novel.” —The Washington Post

Awonderful new novel by bestsellingauthor P. D. James, featuring the inim-itable AdamDalgliesh and set in a beau-

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When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwynarrives at the Cheverell Manor to have a facialscar removed, she has every expectation of asmooth operation and a comfortable week recu-perating. Two days later, however, she is strangledto death in her bed. To Commander Adam Dal-gliesh, who is called in to investigate, it doesn’tmake sense. Yet as he digs deeper into the vic-tim’s history, the suspects rapidly multiply, and itappears that the murder could have connectionsto a horrific crime that took place almost 350years ago. When another body shows up, Dal-gliesh finds himself confronted by a disturbingnew twist, which makes the question of guilt orinnocence almost beyond the point.

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“A jewel in the crown of the woman consideredbymany the queen of crime fiction. P. D. James isat the top of her form.”

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P. D. James lives in London andOxford.

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“Captivating.... Amovingly human andsurprisingly accessible picture of theunveiling of the quantum universe....Admirably lucid.” —Chicago Tribune

Abrilliant debut focusing ononeof the piv-otal debates in quantum physics, when anew generation of scientists challenged

the thinking of Einstein.

In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed thatthere is a seemingly telepathic communicationbetween two separatedparticles, whichhedubbed“spooky action at a distance.” In that same year,Erwin Schrödinger christened this correlation“entanglement.” Yet its existence wasn’t firmlyestablished until 1964, in a groundbreakingpaper by the Irish physicist JohnBell. Drawing onthe papers, letters, and memoirs of the twentiethcentury’s greatest physicists, Louisa Gilder bothhumanizes anddramatizes the story by employingtheir own words in imagined face-to-face dia-logues.

“Gilder displays an ability to capture a personalityin a few words.” —The Washington Post

“A marvelous guide to the endlessly fascinat-ing mystery of quantum mechanics—and tothe equally fascinating way some of the world’ssmartest scientists have wrestled with understand-ing it.” —Charles C. Mann, author of 1491

Louisa Gilder graduated from Dartmouth Col-lege in 2000. This is her first book. She lives inBodega Bay, California.

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The Age of EntanglementWhen Quantum Physics Was Reborn

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“Well-researched and beautifully written,the book is as fascinating...as the subjecthimself.” —Los Angeles Times

Stefan Kanfer gives us the definitive life ofMarlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining theman and the work in a stunning and illumi-

nating appraisal.

Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood,Kanfer follows him to New York where he madehis star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowal-ski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three.Brando then decamped forHollywood, and Kan-fer looks at each of Brando’s films over theyears—from The Men in 1950 to The Score in2001—offering deft and insightful analysis of hissometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling perfor-mances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focusBrando’s self-destructiveness, ambivalence towardhis craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his lastyears.

“A vivid chronicle.... The Marlon Brando story isa fascinating and tragic one, and Kanfer gives itthe size and understanding necessary to providean enthralling read.” —Peter Bogdanovich

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Stefan Kanfer is the author of the bestseller Ballof Fire, a biography of Lucile Ball, and Groucho,a biography of Groucho Marx, and numerousother books. He lives in New York.

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A New York Times Best Book ofthe YearA National Book Critics CircleAward Finalist

“Extraordinary.... Thrilling.... Masterly....Full of intimate andmoving revelations.”

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The first major biography of one of ourgreatest writers—a fascinating, highlyacclaimed account researched with the

full cooperation of its Nobel Prize winning sub-ject.

Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where V.S.Naipaul was born into an immigrant Indian fam-ily, Patrick French examines Naipaul’s life withina displaced community and his fierce ambitionat school. He describes how, on scholarship atOxford, homesickness anddepression struckwithgreat force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wifehelped him to cope and their otherwise fraughtmarriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughoutsubsequent uncertainties in England, including atwenty-five-year-long affair. Naipaul’s extraordi-nary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces ofboth fiction and nonfiction—is most of all bornof a forceful, visionary impulse, whose rootsFrench traces with a sympathetic brilliance anddevastating insight.

“Vivid.... One of the sprightliest, most gripping,most intellectually curious, and, well, funniestbiographies of a living writer...to come along inyears.” —The New York Times

The World Is What It IsThe Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

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“A distinguished biography, one that aims tounderstand rather than simplistically condone orchastise.... A superb, clear-eyed study, always sym-pathetic, balanced and thoughtful.”


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“Fully worthy of its subject, with all the dramaticpacing, the insight and the pathos of a first-ratenovel. It is a magnificent tribute to Naipaul’spainful and unlikely struggle.... Impossible to putdown.” —George Packer,

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“Excellent.... The great merit of a superb biogra-phy, such as this one, is that it can deepen ourunderstanding of the literary character by tellingus more about its creator.... French gets it right.”


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“A prodigious achievement, a wonderful biogra-phy, a justification for the art of biography itself.”

—The Times Literary Supplement

Patrick French has received the SomersetMaugham Award and the Heinemann Prize. Helives in London.

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Rumble Tumble“Lansdale has a zest for storytelling and agimlet eye for detail.”


Even though a midlife crisis just hit HapCollins like a runaway pickup truck, he’sstill got his job as a bouncer at a local club,

he knowshis best friend, LeonardPine, will alwaysbe there for him, and of course he’s got his mainsqueeze, ex-Sweet Potato Queen Brett Sawyer.Things godownhill, however, whenBrett’s daugh-ter, Tillie, who has been walking on the wrongside of the law—doing drugs and turning tricks—suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It won’t beeasy—it never is—but nothing is going to stopHap and Leonard as they hit the road destinedfor Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma to shake things up.And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel thispromises to be a wild ride.

“Funny, compulsive...enjoyably raffish.”—Esquire

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“Lansdale gets better with each book.”—Rocky Mountain News

CaptainsOutrageous“Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texastradition of outrageousness...but ampedup to about 100,000 watts.”

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When Hap Collins saves the life of hisemployer’s daughter, he is rewardedwith a Caribbean Cruise, and he con-

vinces his best friend Leonard Pine to comealong. However, when the cruise sails on withoutthem, stranding them in Playa del Carmen withnothing but their misfortune and Leonard’sridiculous new hat, the two quickly find them-selves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence.When they return to East Texas, they find thattrouble has beaten them back, and when trou-ble’s around it doesn’t take long for Hap andLeonard to find it.

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“Immensely interesting and deeplymoving.... Everett provides unique insightsinto Pirahã culture as well as examiningtheir language in depth.”—New Scientist

Ariveting account of the astonishing expe-riences and discoveries made by linguistDaniel Everett while he lived with the

Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians incentral Brazil.

Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with hiswife and three young children hoping to convertthe tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly becameobsessed with their language and its cultural andlinguistic implications. The Pirahã have nocounting system, no fixed terms for color, noconcept of war, and no personal property. Everettwas so impressed with their peaceful way of lifethat he eventually lost faith in the God he’dhoped to introduce to them, and instead devotedhis life to the science of linguistics. Part passion-ate memoir, part scientific exploration, Everett’slife-changing tale is riveting look into the natureof language, thought, and life itself.

“A story of language and faith along the sweepingbanks of the Maici River.” —Time

“Destined to become a classic of popularenthnography.” —The Independent, London

Daniel Everett is Chair of Languages, Literatures,and Cultures at Illinois State University. He livesin Floyd Knobs, Indiana.

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Don’t Sleep, There Are SnakesLife and Language in the Amazon

by Daniel L. Everett

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Saving Savannah, cloth edition: 978-1-4000-4293-7

“Ameticulous re-creation of the Civil Warin Georgia’s rice kingdom.... Jones tracesthis tragic story with thoroughness andsophistication.”


Deeply researched and vividly written, Sav-ing Savannah is a panoramic portrait of acity, and an invaluable contribution to

our understanding of the Civil War years.

Jacqueline Jones has written a brilliant evocationof time and place that transports the reader tothe balmy, raucous streets of the fabled port cityeven as it chronicles the violent changes takinghold throughout the South and dividing thenation. This is not a book about military battles,but about the everyday lives of blacks and whites,rich and poor, men and women—plantationowners, field hands, impoverishedwhites, and so-called “free people of color”—supporting, fight-ing, or succumbing to slavery’s long reach, andconfronting the transformations that would altertheir city forever.

“A history rich in social detail and written withdeep insight.” —The Boston Globe

“A compelling portrait of antebellum, wartime,and postwar Savannah.”

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Jacqueline Jones is the Harry S. Truman Profes-sor of American History at Brandeis University.She lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Hitler’s Private Library offers a remarkableview of Hitler’s intellectual evolution. Italso demonstrates the ability of books

not only to convey their contents but also to pre-serve in very real ways the life of the collector.

DuringHitler’s military service inWorldWar I hebegan to amass a private library that he trea-sured, volumes of which accompanied him to thefront during World War II and to the bunkerwhere he committed suicide. Most of the booksthat comprised this library have disappeared, butsome were found by Americans soldiers, andmade their way to the Library of Congress, wherethey remained unexamined for several decadesuntil Timothy Ryback came upon them.

“Ryback neatly weaves together Hitler’s politicalcareer with his book-collecting habits.... Rybackhas done a good job maintaining a balancebetween dispassionate inquiry and moral revul-sion.” —The Economist

“Intriguing.... Ryback is the perfect guide, intelli-gent, well-informed, and careful.”

—The Seattle Times

TimothyW. Ryback’s writing has appeared inTheAtlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.He lives in Paris.

$16.00 (Can. $19.95) Trade/304 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-45526-0History47 illustrationsOn Sale: November 3, 2009

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Antoine’s Alphabet, cloth edition, 978-0-307-26662-0

“A perfect match between writer andsubject. This refined yet ebullient bookoffers an invaluable key to a great artist.”

—Chicago Tribune

Fromone of our foremost art critics comes aunique assessment of Antoine Watteauthat reaffirms the contemporary relevance

of the greatest of all painters of young love andimperishable dreams.

In this delightful investigation of the tangledrelationship between art and life, Jed Perl recon-structs the amazing story of AntoineWatteau, thepioneering bohemian artist who, despite his earlydeath, has influenced innumerable painters andwriters. Organized alphabetically, this brilliantbook combines Watteau’s life and vision with theglamour and intrigue of eighteenth-century Paris,the riotous history of Harlequin and Pierrot, andthe work of such modern giants as Cézanne,Picasso, and Samuel Beckett.

“Elegant.... Perl aptly sums up this haunting qual-ity at the heart of Watteau’s work.”


“As suggestive, high-spirited and accomplished asone of Watteau’s own compositions.”

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Jed Perl lives in New York City.

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“Amasterpiece of great beauty andquality.” —Chicago Tribune

Oneof the great classics of Japanese litera-ture, a poignant yet unsparing portrait ofa family—and an entire society—sliding

into the abyss of modernity.

In Osaka during the years immediately beforeWorld War II, four aristocratic women try to pre-serve a vanishing way of life. Tsuruko, the eldestsister, clings obstinately to the prestige of herfamily name even as her husband prepares tomove their household to Tokyo, where that namemeans nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantlyto secure the future of her younger sisters. Theunmarried Yukiko is hostage to her family’sexacting standards, while the spirited Taekorebels by flinging herself into scandalous roman-tic alliances. Filled with vignettes of upper-classJapanese life and capturing both the decorumand the heartache of its protagonist, The MakiokaSisters is a stunning work of fiction.

“Skillfully and subtly, Tanizaki brushes in a deli-cate picture of a gentle world that no longerexists.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Sei-densticker.

Junichiro Tanizaki was awarded Japan’s ImperialPrize in Literature in 1949. He died in 1965.

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A VINTAGE ORIGINALFirst Recipient of the Knopf/Kodansha Prize

Alush and evocative story of expatriate lifeabroad and an intoxicating love affair—a sexy, smart novel about the life and

loves of a young Japanese woman living andworking in Vietnam.

Hiro, a young Japanese woman, is teachinglanguage courses in Vietnam. There she meetsDung, a young Vietnamese woman studyingJapanese. They are instantly drawn to each otherand fall in love. For both of them, it is their firsttime being in love with another woman. ButwhenHiromeets Konno, an older Japanese busi-nessman, her friendship with himbegins tomakeDung wildly jealous. What unfolds is a compli-cated, ultimately devastating love triangle. Setagainst the backdrop of a Vietnam on the eco-nomic rise, Mochizuki brings to life the buzz ofmotorcycles and the tastes of Vietnamese coffeeand spicy papaya salads; the confines of the Viet-namese family; the lingering effects of long wars;the rich who ride the economic wave and thepoor who are left behind.

Translated from the Japanese by Wayne P. Lam-mers.

Aska Mochizuki was born in Tokyo in 1973. Spin-ning Tropics, her first book, won the Kodansha/Knopf prize in 2007.

$14.00 (Can. $16.99) Trade/160 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47369-1FictionA VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINALOn Sale: December 1, 2009

Established in 2007, the Knopf/Kodansha Prizecelebrates the work of a previously unpublishedJapanese author. The prize includes publication inEnglish as a Vintage paperback original.


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Five ModernNo PlaysTranslated and with anIntroduction by Donald Keene“Mishima’s is a wonderful, astonishingand frightening creative energy.”

—The New York Times Magazine

The classic Japanese No drama is one ofthe great art forms that has fascinated peo-ple throughout the world. YukioMishima

infused new life into the form by adopting it forplays that preserve the style and inner spirit of Noand are at the same time so modern, so direct,and intelligible that they could, as he suggested,be played on a bench in Central Park. Here arefive of his No plays, stunning in their contempo-rary nature and relevance—and finally madeavailable again for readers to enjoy.

“Historically, Keene’s translation of Mishima’sFive Modern No Plays is one of the most importantJapanese literary events sinceWorldWar II.... Fordramatic power and beauty the plays are secondonly to the films of Akira Kurosawa.”

—The Saturday Review

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“Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychologicalanalyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly

destructive personalities.”—The Christian Science Monitor

The Soundof WavesTranslated by Meredith Weatherby“A story that is both happy and a work ofart.... Altogether a joyous and lovelything.” —The New York Times

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, TheSound ofWaves is a timeless story of first love.It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman, and

Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiestman in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sightof Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon herreturn from another island, where she had beentraining to be a pearl diver. They fall in love, butmust then endure the calumny and gossip of thevillagers.

“Of such classic design its actionmight take placeat any point across a thousand years.”


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A Writer’sNotebook“Maugham is a great artist.... A genius.”

—Theodore Dreiser

A Writer’s Notebook is a unique and exhila-rating look into a great writer’s workingmind. For nearly five decades, Somerset

Maugham kept an intimate journal. In it we aregiven access to the origins of his incomparablevision and the sensibilities that would bring himto the forefront of literature. Covering the yearsfrom his time as a medical student in Londonthrough his travels around the world as a greatman, it is by turns playful, sharp-witted, and pro-foundly revealing.

“From the beginning to end it manifests a livelyand sympathetic intelligence, and the practicedhand of a master-craftsman.”

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W. Somerset MaughamTwo classics from the beloved master of twentieth-century literature


211The Narrow Corner, previous paperback: 978-0-099-28688-2

“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman....His prose is so compact, so economical, so closely motivated,

so skillfully written that it rivets from first to last.”—Saturday Review of Literature

The Narrow Corner“An expert craftsman.... His style is sharp,quick, subdued, casual.”


The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the seaby one of the twentieth-century’s finestwriters. Island hopping across the South

Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered pas-sage by Captain Nichols and his companion FredBlake, two men who appear unsavory, yet anymeans of transportation is hard to resist. The tripturns turbulent, however, when a vicious stormforces them to seek shelter on the remote islandof Kanda. There these three men fall under thespell of the sultry and stunningly beautiful Louise,and their tale spirals into a wicked story of love,murder, jealousy, and suicide.

“Maugham’s excessively rare gift of story-telling...is almost the equal of imagination itself.”

—The Sunday Times (London)

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Winner of the Grand Jury Awardand Audience Award at theSundance Festival

Now amajormotion picture from LeeDaniels Entertainment starringMo’Nique,Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton and Gabourey“Gabbie” Sidibe, directed by Lee Daniels,produced by GaryMagness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Lisa Cortes and TomHelle(“Monster’s Ball”).

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old,has up until now been invisible: invisible tothe father who rapes her and the mother

who batters her and to the authorities who dis-miss her as just one more of Harlem’s casualties.But when Precious, pregnant with a second childby her father,meets a determined andhighly rad-ical teacher, we follow her on a journey of educa-tion and enlightenment as Precious learns notonly how to write about her life, but how tomakeit her own for the first time.

“A horrific, hope-filled story that is brilliant,blunt, merciless.” —Newsday

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An official tie-in and one of theinspirations for Julia Child’s life in themajor motion picture Julie & Julia fromColumbia Pictures, which follows JuliaChild’s (Meryl Streep) life in France andJulie Powell’s (Amy Adams) life inQueens; starringMeryl Streep, AmyAdams and Stanley Tucci; directed byNora Ephron from her screenplay.

Julia Child almost single-handedly created anew approach to American cuisine with hercookbookMastering the Art of French Cookingand her television show The French Chef, but

as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she wasnot always a master chef. Indeed, when she firstarrived in France in 1948 with her husband,Paul, who was to work for theUSIS, she spoke noFrench and knew nothing about the countryitself. But as she dove into French culture, buy-ing food at local markets and taking classes atthe Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever withher newfound passion for cooking and teaching.Julia’s unforgettable story unfolds with the spiritso key to her success as a chef and a writer, bril-liantly capturing one of the most endearingAmerican personalities of the last fifty years.

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Vintage Españolannounces an exciting new

joint venture withRandom House Mondadori

to bring the best of Spanish-languageliterature and works in translation

together under one roof.

Our Fall 2009 launch will includeGabriel García Márquez’s perennial classic

as well as commercial bestsellers byJohn Grisham and Ildefonso Falcones.

Beginning in 2010, Vintage Español andRandom House Mondadori together will

publish 15 titles per season for Spanish-languagereaders in the U.S., including works

by Dale Carnegie, Federico García Lorca,Ken Follett, Cormac McCarthy, andMary Higgins Clark, among others.


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“The first piece of literature since theBook of Genesis that should be requiredreading for the entire human race.”


Gabriel GarcíaMárquez’smasterpiece, thefinest example of magical realism, and,as the book that sparked the Latin Amer-

ican Boom, one of most influential novels of thetwentieth century.

From its original publication in 1967,Cien años desoledad has enjoyed incredible critical and com-mercial success and has gone on to become atwentieth century classic as well as one of themoststudied and admired works of literature of alltime. Mixing narrative techniques and elementsof both reality and fantasy with masterly ease,the novel tells the story of various generations ofthe Buendía family and of the rise and fall of thevillage of Macondo. A story about the circles andcycles of history, of love, life, time and theinevitability of death, through which we see all ofLatin America, and, perhaps, all of humanity.

“More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than isexpected from 100 years of novelists, let aloneoneman.”—The Washington Post Book World

Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the NobelPrize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/512 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47472-8FictionOn sale: October 6, 2009

Cien años de soledad(One Hundred Years of Solitude)

by Gabriel García Márquez

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La catedral del mar(Cathedral of the Sea)

by Ildefonso Falcones

V I N T A G E E S P A Ñ O L A N D R A N D O M

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Believable and enthralling.... Sobeautifully structured that the last sixtypages detonate like a string offirecrackers.” —The Washington Post

La catedral del mar has been published inthirty-two countries and has sold over twomillion copies, winning the Euskadi de

Plata Prize for the best novel in Spanish, the QuéLeer Prize for the best book, and the prestigiousItalianGiovanni Boccaccio award for the best for-eign author.

After his father abandons their land and flees thebrutal feudal system, Arnau Estanyol arrives inBarcelona to find a city of light and darkness,dominated by the construction of the city’s greatpride—the cathedral of Santa María del Mar—and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. Startingas a simple porter, his prosperity, friendship withthe Jewish population and secret love with a for-bidden woman will thrust him into the hands ofthe Inquisition, where his own brother willdecide whether he’ll live or die. In the spirit ofKen Follett’s classic bestseller, The Pillars of theEarth,La catedral del mar is an unforgettable frescoof a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona,a story of friendship and revenge, plague andhope, love and war.

“With La catedral del mar, Ildefonso Falconesdethrones Eduardo Mendoza and Arturo Pérez-Reverte...and has become Spain’s new DanBrown.” —El Mundo

Ildefonso Falcones lives with his wife and fourchildren inBarcelona, where heworks as a lawyer.

$17.00 (Can. $21.00) Trade/672 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47473-5FictionOn sale: October 6, 2009


El asociado(The Associate—Spanish-language edition)

by John Grisham

H O U S E M O N D A D O R I F A L L T I T L E S

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Available in Spanish for the first time, Elasociado features all the elements, twistsand turns that have made John Grisham

themost popular storyteller in the world.

Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-townlaw office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled incollege, was elected editor-in-chief of The YaleLaw Journal, and his future has limitless potential.But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode fromcollege that he has tried to forget. The secret,though, falls into the hands of the wrong people,and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can onlydream about. Three months after leaving Yale,Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firmin the world, where, in addition to practicing law,he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in ascheme that could send him to prison, if not gethim killed.

With an unforgettable cast of characters and vil-lains, El asociado is vintage Grisham.

“Grisham has a field day.... Grabs the readerquickly and becomes impossible to put down.”


John Grisham lives in Virginia andMississippi.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/ 416 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47475-9FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOLORIGINALOn sale: November 3, 2009

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Tú a dietaEl manual de instrucciones para reducir tu cintura(You on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management—Spanish-language edition)

by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

V I N T A G E E S P A Ñ O L


Themultimillion copy bestseller, now avail-able in Spanish, is muchmore than a sim-ple diet book. Tú a dieta is a complete

manual for waist management. It will change for-ever the way you think about yourself and food.

Recent biological and medical discoveries areoutdatingmost diet books. Only recently have webegun to understand why so many of us struggleto lose weight and keep yo-yoing, why some peo-ple gain weight more easily than others, and thatbeing healthy resides not in how much youweigh, but in your waist size.

Now, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, authorsof themultimillion bestselling YOU series, give usthis new information in a user-friendly form. InTú a dieta you will learn how your body reallyworks and reacts to food, and you will learn theplan and formulas that will put you on your wayto achieving andmaintaining your ideal size.

Michael F. Roizen,M.D., is a professor of anesthe-siology and internal medicine at Case WesternReserveMedical School and chair of the Divisionof Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, andComprehensive Pain Management at the Cleve-land Clinic.

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is professor and vice chair-man of surgery, New York Presbyterian-ColumbiaUniversity, medical director of the IntegratedMedical Center and director of the Heart Insti-tute, New York Presbyterian/Columbia MedicalCenter. He appears regularly on the Oprah Win-frey show.

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Tres tazas de téLa lucha de un hombre por promover la paz...escuela a escuela(Three Cups of Tea—Spanish-language edition)

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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The nationally bestselling account of oneman’s campaign to build schools inthe most dangerous, remote, and anti-

American reaches of Asia.

In 1993, Greg Mortenson was the exhausted sur-vivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an Ameri-can climbing bum wandering emaciated and lostthrough Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. Afterhe was taken in and nursed back to health by thepeople of an impoverished Pakistani village,Mortensonpromised to return one day and buildthem a school. From that rash, earnest promisegrew one of the most incredible humanitariancampaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism by build-ing schools, especially for girls, throughout thebreeding ground of the Taliban.

Tres tazas de té is at once an unforgettable adven-ture and the inspiring true story of how onemanis changing the world—one school at a time.

Greg Mortenson is the director of the CentralAsia Institute. A former mountaineer and mili-tary veteran, he spends several months each yearbuilding schools in Pakistan andAfghanistan. Helives in Montana.

David Oliver Relin has won more than fortynational awards for his writing and editing. Helives in Portland, Oregon.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/400 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47488-9Current EventsOn sale: June 30, 2009


Vivas en su jardín(Alive in Their Garden)

by Dedé MirabalWith an Introduction by Julia Alvarez

The International Day for theElimination of Violence againstWomen is celebrated onNovember 25in honor of theMirabal sisters.

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The spellbinding, first person account ofthe struggle of four young women torestore freedom and democracy to their

country.

In Vivas en su jardín, Dedé Mirabal tells the storyof her own family, the true story on which JuliaAlvarez based her novel In the Time of the Butterflies,later made into a movie starring Salma Hayek,Edward James Olmos, andMarc Anthony.

Born into a wealthy family who lost everythingduring Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, the fourMirabal sisters, known as “las mariposas” (the but-terflies), founded the opposition group Move-ment of the Fourteenth of June. The deaths ofthree of the sisters at the hands of Trujillo’s tor-turers shocked the island and sparked a chain ofevents that led to the assassination of the dictatorand the overthrow of his brutal regime. Dedé sur-vived so that, in her own words, she “would beable to tell you this story.” Dedé’s personal storygives readers unparalleled insight into the livesof these modern heroines and the events thatshaped a nation.

Dedé, the only surviving Mirabal sister, lives inSalcedo, Dominican Republic, where she directsthe Museo Hermanas Mirabal, dedicated to pre-serving the memory of her sisters.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/304pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47453-7MemoirOn sale: August 25, 2009


La montaña invisibleUna novela(The Invisible Mountain—Spanish-language edition)

by Carolina de Robertis


“Lyrical and haunting—an evocativetribute to the endurance of women andthe spirit of poetry.” —Diana Gabaldón

From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to therustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from thehaven of a corner butchershop to U.S.

embassy halls, one family traverses a changingSouth America and the uncharted terrain oftheir relationships with one another.

On the first day of the millennium, a small towngathers to witness a miracle and unravel its por-tents for the century: the mysterious reappear-ance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a youngwoman in the capital city—Montevideo, brim-ming with growth and promise—Pajarita beginsa lineage of fiercely independent women. Herdaughter, Eva, survives a brutal childhood topursue her dreams as a rebellious poet andalong the hazardous precipices of erotic love.Eva’s daughter, Salomé, driven by an unrelent-ing idealism, commits clandestine acts that willend in tragedy as unrest sweeps Uruguay. Butwhat saves them all is the fierce fortifying con-nection between mother and daughter that willbring them together to face the future.

Carolina de Robertis was raised in England,Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan par-ents. She lives in Oakland, California.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/408 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47235-9FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOLORIGINALOn sale: September 8, 2009

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Lucha por tu dineroEvita que te estafen y ahorra una fortuna(Fight for Your Money: How to Stop Getting Ripped Offand Save a Fortune—Spanish-language edition)

by David Bach


#1 New York Times bestselling author DavidBach shows how to protect your moneyand put thousands of dollars back in your

pocket every year by taking on the “corporatemachines” that are taking you to the cleaners.

In Lucha por tu dinero, Bach, America’s favoritefinancial guru and consumer advocate, has writ-ten theultimate guide tomaking smarter financialdecisions and protecting yourself from companiesthat want to separate you from your hard-earnedpaycheck. Corporate America earns billions annu-ally from our financial ignorance. The time hascome to fight back! Starting with an A-to-Z list ofitems for which you are paying too much—yourcell phone, cable bill, cars, credit cards, insur-ance, health care, 401(k), airfare, hotels, andmuch more—Bach shows how you are beingtaken. Then, his “Fight for Your Money Toolkit”shows you how to fight back, with sample letters,call scripts, and real-life stories of ordinary peo-ple who have fought back and won.

David Bach is the author of eight consecutivenational bestsellers, including the #1 New YorkTimes bestsellers The Automatic Millionaire (El Mil-lonario Automático) and Start Late, Finish Rich, andmost recently Go Green, Live Rich. He lives in NewYork City.

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México fresco100 recetas sencillas con auténtico sabor mexicano(Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor—Spanish-language edition)

by Marcela Valladolid

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With more than 100 delicious rec-ipes, and beautiful color photographythroughout,México fresco introduces a

new generation of Americans to the easy, excitingcuisine of modernMexico.

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Dedicated to traditional foods, Marcela alsounderstands the difficulties of feeding a familyon a weeknight. Her recipes are quick to pulltogether, using easy-to-find ingredients and sim-ple cooking techniques. You’ll find dishes suchas Cream of Avocado Soup with Lobster andMango,Oaxaca-Style Short Ribs, andFreshGuavaLayer Cake—all revelatory in their depth offlavor.

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“The only convincing love story of ourcentury.” —Vanity Fair

The brilliant twentieth-century classicSpanish-language translation.

First published in 1955 by the Olympia Press inParis, Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most famousand controversial novel. It tells the story of theaging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring,and doomed passion for the nymphet DoloresHaze. Lolita is also the story of a hyper-civilizedEuropean colliding with the cheerful barbarismof postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditationon love—love as outrage and hallucination, mad-ness and transformation.

“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should bewritten, that is, ecstatically.” —JohnUpdike

Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg,Russia, in 1899. He studied at Trinity College,Cambridge, and launched his literary career inBerlin and Paris. In 1940 hemoved to theUnitedStates, where he achieved renown as a novelist,poet, critic, and translator. Nabokov died inMon-treux, Switzerland, in 1977.

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Los sueños demi padre(Dreams fromMy Father: A Storyof Race and Inheritance—Spanish-language edition)

by Barack Obama“Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obamaguides us straight to the intersection of themost serious questions of identity, class,and race.”—Washington Post Book World

Available in Spanish for the first time inthe U.S., Los sueños de mi padre might bethe most revealing portrait we have of a

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“Spellbinding.... A page-turning adventurethat will keep you reading well pastbedtime.” —The Boston Globe

An international sensation published intwenty-seven languages, The Gargoyle isthe mesmerizing story of one man’s

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On a dark road in the middle of the night, a carplunges into a ravine. The driver survives thecrash, but he is confined to the burn ward suffer-ing horrible injuries. There, he does nothingmore than plot the suicide he will commit whenreleased. Everything changes when MarianneEngel, a possibly schizophrenic sculptress ofgrotesques, enters his life. She insists they werelovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mer-cenary and she was a scribe in the monastery ofEngelthal. As she spins the story of their past livestogether, the man’s disbelief falters; soon, eventhe impossible can no longer be dismissed.

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“Perhaps the best book yet written on thecontradictions of contemporary Iran.... Itcaptures like no book in recent memorythe ethos of the country, in elegant andprecise prose.” —Los Angeles Times

Thegrandson of an eminent ayatollah andthe son of an Iranian diplomat, journalistHooman Majd is uniquely qualified to

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In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Majd offers aninsightful tour of Iranian culture, introducing fas-cinating characters from all walks of life, includ-ing zealous government officials, tough femalecab drivers, and open-minded, reformist ayatol-lahs. These deftly described encounters providean intimate look at a paradoxical country thatis both deeply religious and highly cosmopoli-tan, authoritarian yet informed by a history ofdemocratic and reformist traditions. It’s an Iranthat will surprise readers and challenge Westernstereotypes.

“Illuminating.... Captivating.... A discerningguide to a complex country.”

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“Essential reading for anyone wanting to under-stand the paradox that is Iran (as well as Amer-ica) in the post-Bush world.” —GQ

HoomanMajd was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1957,and educated in the West. Now an American citi-zen, he lives in New York City.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/304 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-2801-4Current Affairs16 pages of photographsOn Sale: September 8, 2009

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“Addictively enjoyable.... An AgathaChristie whodunit as written by CarlHiaasen.”


Apowerful editor is found in the news-room, stabbed to death with the veryspike he would use to “kill” stories—in

this mordantly funny, keenly suspenseful mysteryeveryone is a suspect.

Priscilla Bollingsworth is the ambitious youngNYPDdetective assigned to the case. JudeHurley,a clever, rebellious reporter, is taxed with writingabout the murder for the paper. Together theymust navigate the ink-infested waters of the NewYork Globe, a place whose denizens include thepaper’s resentful old guard, scheming careerists,a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor,and a rival newspaper tycoon named LesterMoloch. With colleagues like these, who canname just one suspect? Armed with forty years offirsthand knowledge in journalism, John Darn-ton gives us a pitch-perfect mystery that enter-tains all over.

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“An entertaining evocation of life—and death—in a contemporary newsroom.... Fast-paced, well-written, and often very funny.”

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John Darnton lives in New York.

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“Rich, intricate and alive with emotion....An honest portrait of sister-love and sister-hate—interlocking, brave and forgiving—made whole through art.”


Julia Glass, the bestselling, National BookAward–winning author of Three Junes,returns with a tender, riveting book of twosisters and their complicated relationship.

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientiousstudent, precise and careful: the one who yearnsfor a good marriage, an artistic career, a family.Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: com-mitted to her work saving animals, but not to themen who fall for her. In this vivid, heartrendingstory of what we can and cannot do for those welove, the sisters grow closer as they move furtherapart. All told with sensual detail and deft charac-terization, I See You Everywhere is a candid story oflife and death, companionship and sorrow, andthe nature of sisterhood itself.

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“One doesn’t read so much as sink into a JuliaGlass novel.... A haunting dissection of humanfragility.” —People

“Glass is Edith Wharton for the twenty-first cen-tury.... Wharton wrote more than forty-eightbooks in her lifetime. American literature coulduse a fewmore fromGlass.”


“Sheer pleasure for readers who love storiesabout complicated family relationships.”


Julia Glass lives in Massachusetts.

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“Wonderful.... This may well be the bestgeneral biography of Franklin Rooseveltwe will see for many years to come.”

—The Christian Science Monitor

Abrilliant evocation of the qualities thatmade FDR one of the most beloved andgreatest of American presidents.

Drawing on archival material, public speeches,correspondence and accounts by those closestto Roosevelt early in his career and during hispresidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelttransformed American government during theDepression with his New Deal legislation, andcarefully managed the country’s prelude to war.Brands shows how Roosevelt’s friendship andregard for Winston Churchill helped to forgeone of the greatest alliances in history, as Roose-velt, Churchill, and Stalin maneuvered to defeatGermany and prepare for post-war Europe.

“Excellent.... A sweeping account that adores itssubject.... If you want to understand how a greatpresident should act, Traitor to His Class is mustreading.” —The New York Observer

Traitor to His ClassThe Privileged Life and Radical Presidencyof Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by H. W. Brands


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“Roosevelt was an extraordinarily complicatedman and the author copes skillfully with his com-plexity.” —The Economist

“Fresh, approachable, even-handed.... H. W.Brands, the gifted University of Texas historian,has produced...an exhaustive but not exhaustingbiography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”

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“Brilliantly executed.... Lean, with no fattypadding or sermonizing. Brands is resolutelyevenhanded in his treatment of FDR, and hemakes no attempt to persuade his readers ofFDR’s virtues or lack thereof.”

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“If you haven’t readmuch about FDR’s life, this isa good place to start. If you have, this is a goodplace to get reacquainted. As events continue toswirl around us, you will sometimes feel eerily athome.” —Providence Journal

“Well-researched and exquisitely detailed, Brands’effort does not ignore Roosevelt’s foibles and fail-ures, personal and public.”


H.W. Brands is the bestselling author of The FirstAmerican, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He isthe Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of Historyat the University of Texas at Austin.

$19.00 (Can. $23.00) 61⁄8"x 91⁄4"/912 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27794-7Biography16 pages of photographsOn Sale: September 8, 2009

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“Lively.... Anna Spafford was, as the titlehas it, extraordinary.”


For generations, the American ColonyHotel in Jerusalem has been a retreat forforeign correspondents, diplomats, pil-

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Carried by a wave of Protestant evangelism, Hor-atio Spafford, his wife, Anna, and their followersarrived in Jerusalem in 1881hoping towitness theSecondComing. Branded heretics by establishedChristian missionaries, they nevertheless wonover Muslims and Jews with their philanthropy.When Horatio died, Anna assumed leadership,shocking even her adherents by abolishing mar-riage and establishing an uneasy dictatorship.With a controversial heroine at its core, AmericanPriestess provides a fascinating exploration of theseductive power of evangelicalism.

“The story of an indomitable woman who,through endurance, will, and personal magnet-ism, became a leader, unmanning all rivals andcreating a fiefdom for her family.... A triumph.”

—The Boston Globe

“A vivid picture of a dedicated cult’s search foranswers in the Holy Land and of the tense rela-tionships of religious groups in Jerusalem.”

—Janet Wallach, author of Desert Queen

Jane Fletcher Geniesse lives in Florida andWash-ington, D.C.

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Dan Brown is the bestselling author of DigitalFortress, Angels & Demons, and Deception Point. Helives in New England.

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“Delinsky is a first-rate storyteller whocreates believable, sympathetic characterswho seem as familiar as your neighbors.”

—The Boston Globe

Once again New York Times bestsellingauthor Barbara Delinsky brings us amas-terful family portrait, filled with thought-

provoking insights into how emotions affect thedecisions we make and how letting go can be thehardest thing to do and the greatest expressionof love all at the same time.

Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime oflife. So when Molly receives the news that Robinhas suffered a massive heart attack, the newscouldn’t be more shocking. At the hospital, theSnow family receives a grim prognosis: Robinmay never regain consciousness. Feelings of guiltand jealousy flare up as Robin’s family strugglesto cope. It’s up to Molly to make the tough deci-sions, and she soonmakes discoveries that shattersome of her most cherished beliefs about the sis-ter she thought she knew.

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“Important and disturbing.... Thisrevealing and provocative book isnecessary reading.”


James Bamford has been the preeminentexpert on theNational Security Agency sincehis reporting revealed the agency’s existencein the 1980s. Now, Bamford describes the

transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as theagency increasingly turns its high-tech gaze withinAmerica’s borders.

The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSAmissed a chance to thwart two of the 9/11 hijack-ers and details how this mistake has led to aheightening of surveillance to insure that it neverhappens again. In disturbing detail, Bamforddescribes exactly how every American’s data isbeing mined and by whom, and what is beingdone with it. Any reader who thinks America’sliberties are being protected by Congress will beshocked and appalled at what is revealed here.

“There have been glimpses inside theNSAbefore,but until now no one has published a compre-hensive and detailed report on the agency.”


“Fascinating.... Bamford has distilled a troublingchapter in American history.”—Bloomberg News

James Bamford lives in Washington, D.C.

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AWashington Post Best Bookof the Year

“Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent,frequently unsettling book.”


Crossing boundaries and packed withimaginative chills, Poe’s Children bears allthe telltale signs of fearless, addictive fic-

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Horror writing is usually associated with formu-laic gore, but New Wave horror writers havemore in commonwith thewildly inventive, evoca-tive spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with thesometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers.Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, Poe’s Childrenbrings the best of the genre’s stories to a wideraudience. Each story has been selected by NewYork Times bestselling author Peter Straub to rep-resent what he thinks is the most interestingdevelopment in our literature during the lasttwo decades.

Contributors include Dan Chaon, ElizabethHand, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Evenson, KellyLink, Jonathan Carroll, Glen Hirshberg, Ben-jamin Percy, Bradford Morrow, Peter Straub,Stephen King, JoeHill, Ellen Klages, Tia V. Travis,Neil Gaiman, and John Crowley.

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“A book that makes you feel you shouldcall the author and ask him to reassureyou that he is OK.... Lukas has held on tolife and to the story of a lifetime.”


Acourageous, shattering, and utterly en-grossingmemoir of twobrothers hauntedby a family history ofmental illness.

Christopher (Kit) Lukas’smother committed sui-cide when he was a boy. No one spoke of the fam-ily’s history of depression and bipolar disorder.The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable suc-cess; Tony as a gifted journalist (and author ofthe classic Common Ground), Kit as an accom-plished television producer and director. Aftersuffering bouts of depression, Kit was able to con-front his family’s troubled past, but Tony neverseemed to find the contentment Kit had—hekilled himself in 1997. With heartrending can-dor, Blue Genes captures the devastation of thisfamily legacy and details the strength and hopethat can provide a way of escaping its grasp.

“Poignant.” —The New York Observer

“A compassionate but clear-eyed view of his fam-ily history.” —The Washington Post

Christopher Lukas lives near New York City.

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“Gorgeously written.... Lush andmemorable.... A Country Called Homecontains whispers of its literary ancestorsbut issues its own rich-throated cry intothe wilderness.” —The Kansas City Star

Apowerful novel of young love and ruralisolation from the acclaimed author ofIn the Wilderness.

Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school,and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their wholefuture mapped out for them in upper-crust Con-necticut. But they are dreamers, and they set outto create their own farm in rural Idaho instead.The fields are in ruins when they arrive, so theyhire a farmhand named Manny to help rebuild.But the sudden, frightening birth of their daugh-ter, Elise, tests the young couple, and Manny iscalled upon to mend this fractured family. Anextraordinary story of hope and idealism, ACountry Called Home is a testament to the power offamily—the family we are born to and the familywe create.

“In the tradition of the greatWestern writerWillaCather, Kim Barnes has written a novel as deeplyrooted in the soil of her native Idaho.”

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“Casts light on the yearning, restless humanheart.... Powerful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Kim Barnes is the author of the novel FindingCaruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Com-ing of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World.She teaches writing at the University of Idahoand lives on MoscowMountain.


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“Gripping.... Clark’s stories of the floodare the stuff of thrilling documentaries.”


Adramatic account of the 1966 flood thatravaged Florence, Italy, Dark Water re-creates the disaster and its aftermath

through the voices of witnesses, past and present.

Two young American artists wade heedlesslythrough the inundated city to see its devastatedbeauty; a Lifemagazine photographer stows awayon an army helicopter to capture a drama that“could only be told by Dante”; a British student,one of thousands of “mud angels” who rushedtoFlorence to save its art, spends amonth scrapingmold from Cimabue’s ravaged Crucifixion amidstinfighting between international art experts; andthe author asks himself why art matters so verymuch to us, even in the face of overwhelmingdisaster.

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Robert Clark lives in Seattle.

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“A romance with heft and heart....Walker writes feelingly of the slow burnexperienced by those who get too close toa star.” —The Boston Globe

Afairy tale for women who don’t believein fairy tales, A Stopover in Venice is anenchanting debut novel.

A young American woman is in Italy with herfamous musician husband when, in a moment offury, she grabs her luggage and steps off the trainin Venice. Stranded and alone for the first timein eight years, she gets a room at the Hotel GrittiPalace. As she explores the city, she comes acrossa group of boys tormenting a small dog. She res-cues the dog, and this impulsive act of defianceopens out into an adventure—and a mystery—that summons up centuries of the Venetian past,the discovery of a lost masterpiece, and the hero-ine’s reclamation of herself.

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Alively work of history about an unlikelygroup of swashbuckling Jews who ran-sacked the high seas in the aftermath of

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At the end of the fifteenth century, the SpanishInquisition forced many Jews to flee the country.The most adventurous among them took to theseas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearingnames such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther,and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plun-dered the Spanish fleet while forming allianceswith other European powers to ensure the safetyof Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-seaadventures—including encounters with CaptainMorgan and other legendary pirates—JewishPirates of the Caribbean reveals a hidden chapter inJewish history and the cruelty, terror, and greedthat flourished during the Age of Discovery.

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Jason Thompson is a professor ofMiddle Easternstudies at Colby College.

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Peter AckroydThe Casebook of Victor Frankenstein978-0-385-53084-2 (Nan A. Talese, October)Albion, 978-0-385-49773-2The Clerkenwell Tales, 978-1-4000-7595-9The Fall of Troy, 978-0-307-38649-6The Lambs of London, 978-1-4000-7958-2The Life of Thomas Moore, 978-0-385-49693-3London, 978-0-385-49771-8The Plato Papers, 978-0-385-49769-5Shakespeare, 978-1-4000-7598-0Thames (November 2009), 978-0-307-38984-8

Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood978-0-385-52877-1 (Nan A. Talese, September)Alias Grace, 978-0-385-49044-3The Blind Assassin, 978-0-385-72095-3Bluebeard’s Egg, 978-0-385-49104-4Bodily Harm, 978-0-385-49107-5Cat’s Eye, 978-0-385-49102-0Dancing Girls, 978-0-385-49109-9The Edible Woman, 978-0-385-49106-8The Handmaid’s Tale, 978-0-385-49081-8Lady Oracle, 978-0-385-49108-2Life Before Man, 978-0-385-49110-5Moral Disorder and Other Stories, 978-0-385-72164-6Negotiating With the Dead, 978-1-4000-3260-0Oryx and Crake, 978-0-385-72167-7The Robber Bride, 978-0-385-49103-7Surfacing, 978-0-385-49105-1The Tent, 978-1-4000-9701-2Wilderness Tips, 978-0-385-49111-2

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Philip CaputoCrossers978-0-375-41167-0 (Knopf, October)Acts of Faith, 978-0-375-72597-5DelCorso’s Gallery, 978-0-375-72509-8Exiles, 978-0-679-76838-8Horn of Africa, 978-0-375-72511-1Indian Country, 978-0-375-72510-4The Voyage, 978-0-679-76839-5

Amit ChaudhuriThe Immortals978-0-307-27022-1 (Knopf, August)Freedom Song, 978-0-375-70400-0A New World, 978-0-375-72480-0The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature,978-0-375-71300-2

David Anthony DurhamThe Other Lands978-0-385-52332-5 (Doubleday, September)Gabriel’s Story, 978-0-385-72033-5Pride of Carthage, 978-0-385-72249-0A Walk Through Darkness, 978-0-385-72036-6

Richard EllisOn Thin Ice978-0-307-27059-7 (Knopf, November)Book of Whales, 978-0-394-73371-5Imagining Atlantis, 978-0-375-70582-3Tuna: A Love Story, 978-0-307-38710-3

James EllroyBlood’s A Rover978-0-679-40393-7 (Knopf, September)American Tabloid, 978-0-375-72737-5Because the Night, 978-1-4000-9529-2Blood on the Moon, 978-1-4000-9528-5The Cold Six Thousand, 978-0-375-72740-5Crime Wave, 978-0-375-70471-0Destination: Morgue!, 978-1-4000-3287-7Hollywood Nocturnes, 978-0-307-27879-1My Dark Places, 978-0-679-76205-8Suicide Hall, 978-1-4000-9530-8White Jazz, 978-0-375-72736-8

Mary GordonReading Jesus978-0-375-42457-1 (Pantheon, October)Circling My Mother, 978-0-375-72601-9Pearl, 978-1-4000-7807-3The Stories of Mary Gordon, 978-1-4000-7808-0

John Twelve HawksThe Golden City978-0-385-51430-9 (Doubleday, September)The Dark River, 978-1-4000-7930-8The Traveler, 978-1-4000-7929-2

Kazuo IshiguroNocturnes978-0-307-27102-0 (Knopf, September)An Artist of the Floating World, 978-0-679-72266-3Never Let Me Go, 978-1-4000-7877-6A Pale View of Hills, 978-0-67-972267-0The Remains of the Day, 978-0-679-73172-6The Unconsoled, 978-0-679-73587-8When We Were Orphans, 978-0-375-72440-4

Kay Redfield JamisonNothing Was the Same978-0-307-26537-1 (Knopf, September)Exuberance, 978-0-375-70148-1Night Falls Fast, 978-0-375-70147-4An Unquiet Mind, 978-0-679-76330-7

Ha JinA Good Fall978-0-307-37868-2 (Pantheon, November)The Bridegroom, 978-0-375-72493-0The Crazed, 978-0-375-71411-5A Free Life, 978-0-307-27860-9In the Pond, 978-0-375-70911-1Ocean of Words, 978-0-375-70206-8Waiting, 978-0-375-70641-7War Trash, 978-1-4000-7579-9

Judith JonesThe Pleasures of Cooking for One978-0-307-27072-6 (Knopf, September)The Tenth Muse, 978-0-307-27744-2

John KeeganThe American Civil War978-0-307-26343-8 (Knopf, October)The Battle for History, 978-0-679-76743-5Fields of Battle, 978-0-679-74664-5The First World War, 978-0-375-70045-3A History of Warfare, 978-0-679-73082-8Intelligence in War, 978-0-375-70046-0The Iraq War, 978-1-4000-7920-9War and Our World, 978-0-375-70520-5


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Harold S. KushnerConquering Fear978-0-307-26664-4 (Knopf, October)Cuando a la Gente Buena le Pasan Cosas Malas,978-0-307-27529-5

Living a Life that Matters, 978-0-385-72094-6The Lord is My Shepherd, 978-1-4000-3335-5Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, 978-1-4000-3336-2When Bad Things Happen to Good People,978-1-4000-3472-7

When Children Ask About God, 978-0-805-21033-0

Brad LeithauserThe Art Student’s War978-0-307-27111-2 (Knopf, November)Curves and Angles, 978-0-375-71142-8A Few Corrections, 978-0-375-72558-6The Friends of Freeland, 978-0-679-77270-5

Jonathan LethemChronic City978-0-385-51863-5 (Doubleday, September)As She Climbed Across the Table, 978-0-375-70012-5The Disappointment Artist, 978-1-4000-7681-9The Fortress of Solitude, 978-0-375-72488-6Girl in Landscape, 978-0-375-70391-1Men and Cartoons, 978-1-4000-7680-2Motherless Brooklyn, 978-0-375-72483-1The Vintage Book of Amnesia, 978-0-375-70661-5You Don’t Love Me Yet, 978-1-4000-7682-6

Peter MaassCrude World978-1-4000-4169-5 (Knopf, September)Love Thy Neighbor, 978-0-679-76389-5

Thomas MallonYours Ever978-0-679-44426-8 (Pantheon, November)Fellow Travelers, 978-0-307-38890-2

Alexander McCall SmithLa’s Orchestra Saves the World978-0-307-37838-5 (Pantheon, December)44 Scotland Street, 978-1-4000-7944-5At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, 978-1-4000-9509-4Blue Shoes and Happiness, 978-1-4000-7571-3Careful Use of Compliments, 978-1-4000-7712-0Comforts of a Muddy Saturday, 978-0-307-38707-3Espresso Tales, 978-0-307-27597-4The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, 978-1-4000-9508-7Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, 978-1-4000-7710-6The Full Cupboard of Life, 978-1-4000-3181-8The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, 978-1-4000-7524-9In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, 978-1-4000-7570-6The Kalahari Typing School for Men, 978-1-4000-3180-1Love Over Scotland, 978-0-307-27598-1Miracle at Speedy Motors, 978-0-307-27746-6Morality for Beautiful Girls, 978-1-4000-3136-8Portuguese Irregular Verbs, 978-1-4000-7708-3The Right Attitude to Rain, 978-1-4000-7711-3The Sunday Philosophy Club, 978-1-4000-7709-0Tears of the Giraffe, 978-1-4000-3135-1The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, 978-0-307-45470-6The World According to Bertie, 978-0-307-38706-6

Lorrie MooreA Gate at the Stairs978-0-375-40928-8 (Knopf, September)Anagrams, 978-0-307-27728-2Like Life, 978-0-375-71916-5Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, 978-1-4000-3382-9

Alice MunroTooMuch Happiness978-0-307-26976-8 (Knopf, November)The Beggar Maid, 978-0-679-73271-6Dance of the Happy Shades, 978-0-679-78151-6Friend of My Youth, 978-0-679-78151-6Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,978-0-375-72743-6

Lives of Girls and Women, 978-0-375-70749-0The Love of a Good Woman, 978-0-375-70363-8The Moons of Jupiter, 978-0-679-73270-9Open Secrets, 978-0-679-75562-3The Progress of Love, 978-0-375-72470-1Runaway, 978-1-4000-7791-5Selected Stories, 978-0-679-76674-2Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, 978-0-375-70748-3The View From Castle Rock, 978-1-4000-7792-2Vintage Munro, 978-1-4000-3395-9


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Index of Authors

Achebe, Chinua,The Education of a British-Protected Child* . . 72

Ackroyd, Peter,The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein . . . . 35

Ackroyd, Peter,Thames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Alexander, Patrick,Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time . . . 163

Andrew, Christopher,Defend the Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Armstrong, Karen,The Case for God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Aslam, Nadeem,The Wasted Vigil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Atwood, Margaret,The Year of the Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Bach, David,Lucha por tu dinero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Bamford, James,The Shadow Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Barnes, Julian,Nothing to Be Frightened Of . . . . . 180–181

Barnes, Kim,A Country Called Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Bass, Gary J.,Freedom’s Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and TanyaBastianich Manuali,Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy . . . . . 87

Bell, Madison Smartt,Devil’s Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Berkin, Carol,Civil War Wives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Bernhard, Thomas,Wittgenstein’s Nephew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Boccaccio, Giovanni,Decameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Bowles, Hamish,The World in Vogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Brands, H.W.,Traitor to His Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236–237

Brenner, Hannelore,The Girls of Room 28* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme,The Physiology of Taste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Brockman, Max, editor,What’s Next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Brown, Dan,The Da Vinci Code (premium massmarket) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Buckland, Gail,Who Shot Rock & Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Burdett, John,The Godfather of Kathmandu . . . . . . . . . . 75

Burnett, Allison,Undiscovered Gyrl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Byatt, A. S.,The Children’s Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Byrne, Trevor,Ghosts and Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Calasso, Roberto,Tiepolo Pink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Caldwell, Christopher,Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. . . 8

Callan, Michael Feeney,Robert Redford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Caputo, Philip,Crossers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Carhart, Thad,Across the Endless River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Carter, Stephen L.,Jericho’s Fall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chaudhuri, Amit,The Immortals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Child, Julia with Alex Prud’homme,My Life in France (Movie Tie-in) . . . . . . 213

Choate, Pat,Saving Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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Clark, Robert,Dark Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Conroy, Pat,South of Broad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Cooper, Jr., John Milton,Woodrow Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Darnton, John,Black and White and Dead All Over . . . 233

Dary, David,Frontier Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Davidson, Andrew,The Gargoyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230–231

de Bernières, Louis,A Partisan’s Daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

de Robertis, Carolina,La montaña invisible* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Delinsky, Barbara,While My Sister Sleeps. . . . . . . . . . . 240–241

Dickens, Charles,A Christmas Carol and Other ChristmasBooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns,The National Parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Durham, David Anthony,The Other Lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Ellis, Richard,On Thin Ice* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Ellroy, James,Blood’s A Rover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Epstein, Jason,Eating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Everett, Daniel L.,Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes . . . . . . . . 202

Fairstein, Linda,Lethal Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250–251

Falcones, Ildefonso,La catedral del mar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Filkins, Dexter,The Forever War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150–151

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,This Side of Paradise and Flappersand Philosophers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172–173

Fortey, Richard,Dry Storeroom No. 1* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

French, Patrick,The World Is What It Is . . . . . . . . . 198–199

Garber, Marjorie,Shakespeare and Modern Culture . . . . . . 253

García Márquez, Gabriel,Cien años de soledad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Geniesse, Jane,American Priestess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Gibson, Bob,Sixty Feet, Six Inches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Gibson, Graeme,The Bedside Book of Beasts . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Gideon, Melanie,The Slippery Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Gilder, Louisa,The Age of Entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Glass, Julia,I See You Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . 234–235

Goldwag, Arthur,Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies . . 169

Gordon, Mary,Reading Jesus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Greenberg, Michael,Hurry Down Sunshine*. . . . . . . . . . 156–157

Grisham, John,El asociado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Harkaway, Nick,The Gone-Away World* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Hart, Josephine,The Truth About Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Haslam, Nicholas,Redeeming Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Haygood, Wil,Sweet Thunder* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Hazleton, Lesley,After the Prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Heller, Anne C.,Ayn Rand and the World She Made . . . . . 38

Hoffman, David E.,The Dead Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22



Ishiguro, Kazuo,Nocturnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Jackson, Reggie,Sixty Feet, Six Inches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

James, P.D.,The Private Patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194–195

Jamison, Kay Redfield,Nothing Was the Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Jin, Ha,A Good Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Jones, Jacqueline,Saving Savannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Jones, Judith,The Pleasures of Cooking for One . . . . . . 62

Kanfer, Stefan,Somebody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Keegan, John,The American Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Kehlmann, Daniel,Me and Kaminski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Kerper, Barrie, editor,Istanbul: The Collected Traveler . . . 160–161

Kindred, Dave,Morning Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Krakauer, Jon,Where Men Win Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn,Half the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Kritzler, Edward,Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. . . . . . . . 248

Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. Kunhardt,and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.,Lincoln, Life-Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Kushner, Harold S.,Conquering Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Lamster, Mark,Master of Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lansdale, Joe R.,Leather Maiden, Rumble Tumble andCaptains Outrageous. . . . . . . . 168, 200–201

Lax, Eric,Conversations with Woody Allen . . . . . . . 52

Leithauser, Brad,The Art Student’s War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Lethem, Jonathan,Chronic City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Levine, Philip,News of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Lindsay, Jeff,Darkly Dreaming Dexter. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Lukas, Christopher,Blue Genes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Maass, Peter,Crude World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Mahfouz, Naguib,Cairo Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Majd, Hooman,The Ayatollah Begs to Differ . . . . . . . . . . 232

Mallon, Thomas,Yours Ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Mamet, David,The Wicked Son. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Mandelbrot, Benoit,The Fractalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Márai, Sándor,Esther’s Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Marchetto, Marisa Acocella,Cancer Vixen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Martin, Valerie,The Confessions of Edward Day. . . . . . . . 32

Matsen, Brad,Jacques Cousteau*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Maugham, W. Somerset,A Writer’s Notebook andThe Narrow Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . 210–211

Maugham, W. Somerset,The Skeptical Romancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Mayle, Peter,The Vintage Caper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

McCall Smith, Alexander,La’s Orchestra Saves the World. . . . . . . . 125

McCall Smith, Alexander,The Lost Art of Gratitude . . . . . . . . . . . . 115



Mercer, Johnny,The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer. . . 80

Mezrich, Ben,The Accidental Billionaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Mirabal, Dedé,Vivas en su jardin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Mishima, Yukio,Five Modern No Plays andThe Sound of Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . 208–209

Mochizuki, Aska,Spinning Tropics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Moore, Lorrie,A Gate at the Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Morrison, Toni,A Mercy* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148–149

Mortenson, Greg,Tres tazas de té . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Munro, Alice,Too Much Happiness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Muschamp, Herbert,Hearts of the City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Nabokov, Vladimir,Lolita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Nabokov, Vladimir,The Original of Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

O’Hara, Frank,Selected Poems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

O’Neil, Brian,Acting as a Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Obama, Barack,Los sueños de mi padre* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Orman, Suze,Plan de acción 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Othmer, James P.,Adland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Page, Tim,Parallel Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Pamuk, Orhan,The Museum of Innocence . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Papp, Joseph,Free for All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Peace, David,Nineteen Eighty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Peacock, Justin,A Cure for Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Penzler, Otto, editor,The Vampire Archives* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Perl, Jed,Antoine’s Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Phillips, Caryl,In the Falling Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Podhoretz, Norman,Why Are Jews Liberals?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Poe, Edgar Allan,Great Tales and Poems* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Pogrebin, Abigail,One and the Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Ponsot, Marie,Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Rees, Laurence,World War II Behind Closed Doors . . . . 110

Rice, Anne,Angel Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Richardson, Mark,Zen and Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Rilke, Rainer Maria,Duino Elegies & The Sonnets toOrpheus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Ritz, David,We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives . . 25

Roizen, Michael F., and Mehmet Oz,Tú a dieta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Rosenquist, James,Painting Below Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Roth, Philip,Indignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176–177

Rubens, Michael,The Sheriff of Yrnameer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Russo, Richard,That Old Cape Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Rutherfurd, Edward,New York: The Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Ryback, Timothy W.,Hitler’s Private Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Salter, Mary Jo,A Phone Call to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Sapphire,Push (stickered cover) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Schulze, Ingo,New Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Sebestyen, Victor,Revolution 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Shaffer, Paul,We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives . . 25

Shawcross, William,The Queen Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Shelley, Mary,The Original Frankenstein. . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Shlaim, Avi,Lion of Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Shorto, Russell,Descartes’ Bones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166–167

Sibley, David Allen,The Sibley Guide to Bird Life andBehavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Sjöwall, Maj, and Per Wahlöö,The Abominable Man andThe Locked Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188–189

Smith, Lee,The Strong Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Stephenson, Sam,The Jazz Loft Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Strassler, Robert B., editor,The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika . . 121

Straub, Peter,Poe’s Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Tacitus,Annals and Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Tanizaki, Junichiro,The Makioka Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Thompson, Jason,A History of Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton, MichaelO’Keeffe, and Christian Red,American Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Tolstoy, Leo,The Death of Ivan Ilyich andOther Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Trofimuk, Thomas,Waiting for Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Turan, Kenneth,Free for All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Twelve Hawks, John,The Golden City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Tyler, Anne,Noah’s Compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Updike, John,Endpoint and Other Poems. . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Urofsky, Melvin I.,Louis D. Brandeis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Vaccaro, Mike,The First Fall Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Vachss, Andrew,Another Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Vachss, Andrew,Haiku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Valladolid, Marcela,México fresco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Walker, Kathryn,A Stopover in Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Washington, Peter, ed.,Detective Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Weber, Nicholas Fox,The Bauhaus Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Wiesel, Elie,Rashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Williams, Terry Tempest,Finding Beauty in a Broken World . . . . . 178

Wineapple, Brenda,White Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Wright, Franz,Wheeling Motel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Wyld, Evie,After the Fire, a Still Small Voice*. . . . . . 112

Zuckoff, Mitchell,Robert Altman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73



Index of Titles

A Christmas Carol and Other ChristmasBooks,Charles Dickens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

A Gate at the Stairs,Lorrie Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

A Good Fall,Ha Jin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

A Phone Call to the Future,Mary Jo Salter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Abominable Man and The Locked Room,Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. . . . . . . . . . 188

The Accidental Billionaires,Ben Mezrich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Across the Endless River,Thad Carhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Acting as a Business,Brian O’Neil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Adland,James P. Othmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice,Evie Wyld*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

After the Prophet,Lesley Hazleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Age of Entanglement,Louisa Gilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

The American Civil War,John Keegan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

American Icon,Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, MichaelO’Keeffe, and Christian Red . . . . . . . . . . . 46

American Priestess,Jane Geniesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Angel Time,Anne Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Annals and Histories,Tacitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Another Life,Andew Vachss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Antoine’s Alphabet,Jed Perl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

The Art Student’s War,Brad Leithauser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ,Hooman Majd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Ayn Rand and the World She Made,Anne C. Heller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Bauhaus Group,Nicholas Fox Weber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

The Bedside Book of Beasts,Graeme Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Black and White and Dead All Over,John Darnton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Blood’s A Rover,James Ellroy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Blue Genes,Christopher Lukas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Cairo Modern,Naguib Mahfouz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Cancer Vixen,Marisa Acocella Marchetto . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Captains Outrageous,Joe R. Lansdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

The Case for God,Karen Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein,Peter Ackroyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Children’s Book,A. S. Byatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Chronic City,Jonathan Lethem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Cien años de soledad,Gabriel García Márquez . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Civil War Wives,Carol Berkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer,Johnny Mercer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80



The Confessions of Edward Day,Valerie Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Conquering Fear,Harold S. Kushner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Conversations with Woody Allen,Eric Lax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

A Country Called Home,Kim Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Crossers,Philip Caputo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Crude World,Peter Maass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies,Arthur Goldwag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

A Cure for Night,Justin Peacock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

The Da Vinci Code, (premium mass market),Dan Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Dark Water,Robert Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Darkly Dreaming Dexter,Jeff Lindsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

The Dead Hand,David E. Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories,Leo Tolstoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Decameron,Giovanni Boccaccio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Defend the Realm,Christopher Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Descartes’ Bones,Russell Shorto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166–167

Detective Stories,edited by Peter Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Devil’s Dream,Madison Smartt Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes,Daniel L. Everett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Dry Storeroom No. 1,Richard Fortey*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus,Rainer Maria Rilke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Easy,Marie Ponsot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Eating,Jason Epstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

The Education of a British-Protected Child,Chinua Achebe* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

El asociado,John Grisham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Endpoint and Other Poems,John Updike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Esther’s Inheritance,Sándor Márai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Finding Beauty in a Broken World,Terry Tempest Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

The First Fall Classic,Mike Vaccaro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Five Modern No Plays,Yukio Mishima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Flappers and Philosophers,F. Scott Fitzgerald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

The Forever War,Dexter Filkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150–151

The Fractalist,Benoit Mandelbrot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Free for All,Joseph Papp and Kenneth Turan . . . . . . . . 28

Freedom’s Battle,Gary J. Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Frontier Medicine,David Dary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

The Gargoyle,Andrew Davidson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230–231

Ghosts and Lightning,Trevor Byrne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The Girls of Room 28,Hannelore Brenner*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

The Godfather of Kathmandu,John Burdett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Golden City,John Twelve Hawks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Gone-Away World,Nick Harkaway* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159



Great Tales and Poems,Edgar Allan Poe*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Haiku,Andrew Vachss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Half the Sky,Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. . . 60

Hearts of the City,Herbert Muschamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

A History of Egypt,Jason Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Hitler’s Private Library,Timothy W. Ryback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Hurry Down Sunshine,Michael Greenberg* . . . . . . . . . . . . 156–157

I See You Everywhere,Julia Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234–235

The Immortals,Amit Chaudhuri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

In the Falling Snow,Caryl Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Indignation,Philip Roth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176–177

Istanbul: The Collected Traveler,edited by Barrie Kerper . . . . . . . . . . 160–161

Jacques Cousteau,Brad Matsen* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The Jazz Loft Project,Sam Stephenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Jericho’s Fall,Stephen L. Carter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean,Edward Kritzler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

La catedral del mar,Ildefonso Falcones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

La montaña invisible,Carolina de Robertis* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

La’s Orchestra Saves the World,Alexander McCall Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika,Robert B. Strassler, editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Leather Maiden,Joe R. Lansdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Lethal Legacy,Linda Fairstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250–251

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy,Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and TanyaBastianich Manuali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Lincoln, Life-Size,Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt,and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Lion of Jordan,Avi Shlaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

The Locked Room,Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. . . . . . . . . . 189

Lolita,Vladimir Nabokov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Los sueños de mi padre,Barack Obama*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

The Lost Art of Gratitude,Alexander McCall Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Louis D. Brandeis,Melvin I. Urofsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Lucha por tu dinero,David Bach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

The Makioka Sisters,Junichiro Tanizaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time,Patrick Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Master of Shadows,Mark Lamster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Me and Kaminski,Daniel Kehlmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

A Mercy,Toni Morrison* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148–149

México fresco,Marcela Valladolid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Morning Miracle,Dave Kindred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The Museum of Innocence,Orhan Pamuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

My Life in France (Movie Tie-in),Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme . . . . . 213

The Narrow Corner,W. Somerset Maugham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211



The National Parks,Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. . . . . . . . . 55

New Lives,Ingo Schulze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

New York: The Novel,Edward Rutherfurd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

News of the World,Philip Levine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Nineteen Eighty,David Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Noah’s Compass,Anne Tyler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Nocturnes,Kazuo Ishiguro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Nothing to Be Frightened Of,Julian Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180–181

Nothing Was the Same,Kay Redfield Jamison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

On Thin Ice,Richard Ellis* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

One and the Same,Abigail Pogrebin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Original Frankenstein,Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

The Original of Laura,Vladimir Nabokov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The Other Lands,David Anthony Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Painting Below Zero,James Rosenquist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Parallel Play,Tim Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

A Partisan’s Daughter,Louis de Bernières . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

The Physiology of Taste,Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin . . . . . . . . . 137

Plan de acción 2009,Suze Orman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

The Pleasures of Cooking for One,Judith Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Poe’s Children,Peter Straub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

The Private Patient,P.D. James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194–195

Push (stickered cover),Sapphire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

The Queen Mother,William Shawcross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Rashi,Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Reading Jesus,Mary Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Redeeming Features,Nicholas Haslam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe,Christopher Caldwell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Revolution 1989,Victor Sebestyen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Robert Altman,Mitchell Zuckoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Robert Redford,Michael Feeney Callan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Rumble Tumble,Joe R. Lansdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Saving Capitalism,Pat Choate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Saving Savannah,Jacqueline Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Selected Poems,Frank O’Hara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Shadow Factory,James Bamford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Shakespeare and Modern Culture,Marjorie Garber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The Sheriff of Yrnameer,Michael Rubens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior,David Allen Sibley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Sixty Feet, Six Inches,Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson . . . . . . . . 15

The Skeptical Romancer,W. Somerset Maugham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

The Slippery Year,Melanie Gideon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51



Somebody,Stefan Kanfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

The Sound of Waves,Yukio Mishima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

South of Broad,Pat Conroy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Spinning Tropics,Aska Mochizuki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

A Stopover in Venice,Kathryn Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

The Strong Horse,Lee Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sweet Thunder,Wil Haygood* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Thames,Peter Ackroyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

That Old Cape Magic,Richard Russo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

This Side of Paradise,F. Scott Fitzgerald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Tiepolo Pink,Roberto Calasso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Too Much Happiness,Alice Munro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Traitor to His Class,H. W. Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236–237

Tres tazas de té,Greg Mortenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

The Truth About Love,Josephine Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Tú a dieta,Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz . . . . . 220

Undiscovered Gyrl,Allison Burnett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

The Vampire Archives,edited by Otto Penzler* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

The Vintage Caper,Peter Mayle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Vivas en su jardin,Dedé Mirabal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Waiting for Columbus,Thomas Trofimuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Wasted Vigil,Nadeem Aslam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives,Paul Shaffer and David Ritz . . . . . . . . . . . 25

What’s Next,edited by Max Brockman . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Wheeling Motel,Franz Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Where Men Win Glory,Jon Krakauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

While My Sister Sleeps,Barbara Delinsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240–241

White Heat,Brenda Wineapple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Who Shot Rock & Roll,Gail Buckland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Why Are Jews Liberals?,Norman Podhoretz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Wicked Son,David Mamet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Wittgenstein’s Nephew,Thomas Bernhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Woodrow Wilson,John Milton Cooper, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

The World in Vogue,Hamish Bowles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

The World Is What It Is,Patrick French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198–199

World War II Behind Closed Doors,Laurence Rees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

A Writer’s Notebook,W. Somerset Maugham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Year of the Flood,Margaret Atwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Yours Ever,Thomas Mallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Zen and Now,Mark Richardson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158


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