Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Catalog Fall 09

Contents • Fall 2009 • September – March
Recent Highlights .......................................................................................... 4
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books................................................................ 8
Mariner Books .............................................................................................. 58
Backlist ........................................................................................................ 124
Index of New Titles.................................................................................... 132
Bookstore Sales Representatives .......................................................... 136
Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information ...................... 137
International Information ......................................................................... 138
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Recent Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award: Finalist Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Parenting Books/Pregnancy and Childbirth
Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting
National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award, by Lucy Puryear
Biography/Memoir: Finalist
Why I Came West by Rick Bass Silver Mom’s Choice Award, Family and Parenting
Books/Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Safety
2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Weight Loss Confidential by Anne M. Fletcher
Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Gourmand World Cookbook Awards,
Special Award of the Jury
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Finalist by Jacques Pépin
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards,
The Strand Critics Award: Shortlisted USA Winner, Best Health and Nutrition Book
Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight
Cold in Hand by John Harvey and Eating Great by Pam Anderson
National Award for Arts Writing: Finalist Gourmand World Cookbook Awards,
The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez USA Winner, Best Fish and Seafood Book
Fish Without a Doubt
Edgar Awards, Best Fact Crime: Nominee by Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore
The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards,
WILLA Literary Awards: Finalist USA Winner, Best Culinary History Book
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss A Short History of the American Stomach
by Frederick Kaufman
Neustadt International Prize
for Literature: Nominee Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Long-listed
Friendly Fire by A. B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire by A. B. Yehoshua
American Library Association’s Alex Award (American Library Association): Winner

Reading List, Mystery: Shortlisted Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
International Association of Culinary
Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and Professionals Awards: Finalists
Parenting Books/Contemporary Families Olives and Oranges by Sara Jenkins and Mindy Fox
Choosing Single Motherhood by Mikki Morrissette (International category)
The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great
Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and
by Pam Anderson (Health and Special Diet category)
Parenting Books/Special and Exceptional Needs
What Your Explosive Child Is Trying to Tell You American Horticultural Society Book Award
by Douglas A. Riley Native Ferns, Moss, and Grasses by William Cullina

Just Published
J.R.R. Tolkien
edited by Christopher Tolkien
The Legend of
Sigurd and Gudrún
The first publication of Tolkien’s retelling of the epic
tale of the Norse hero Sigurd the dragon slayer
and the terrible revenge of his wife Gudrún upon
those who wronged her
M any years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own

version, now published for the first time, of the great
legend of northern antiquity, in two closely related poems
to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and
The New Lay of Gudrún.
The Lay of the Völsungs tells of the ancestry of the great
hero Sigurd, the slayer of the dragon Fáfnir, whose treasure
Sigurd took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie
ISBN 978-0-547-27342-6 • $26.00
Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and their
MAY • Fiction • 384 pages • 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4
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betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes
HarperCollins UK the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood
brotherhood. In that court was great love but also great hate,
Deluxe Slipcased Edition
brought about by the power of the Niflungs’ mother, an
ISBN 978-0-547-29628-9 • $75.00 • 6 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄4
enchantress skilled in the arts of magic. In dramatic scenes
• National announcement ads, of confused identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter
including the New York Times strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild mounts to its end:
• National TV ad campaign Sigurd’s murder at the hands of his blood brothers and
including the Sci-Fi channel
Brynhild’s suicide.
• Interactive online campaign with fan, social
networking, fantasy, and education sites, The Lay of Gudrún tells of the fate of Gudrún, sister
including blogs, webcasts, podcasts, discussion of the Niflung lords, after Sigurd’s death: her forced marriage
forums, e-mail newsletters, digital to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history),
postcards, web advertising, search engine
marketing (GoogleAdWords, Yahoo), and more his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.
• National review coverage
J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth
• Expect feature coverage and fan media,
including online and educational/institutional and the author of such classic and extraordinary works of
fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion,
• Updated full-color brochure
with Tolkien backlist and The Children of Húrin.

Ongoing promotion
f o r t h e N e w Yo r k T i m e s B e s t s e l l e r !
From the expert who

forever changed how
we think about animals,
a groundbreaking look
at how animals feel
“Packed with fascinating insights,

unexpected observations, and a wealth of how-to tips,
Grandin’s peppy work ably challenges assumptions
about what makes animals happy.”
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“Species by species, insight by insight, it

builds into something kind of momentous: Fall Promotion
the realization or confirmation (depending on your
perspective) that animals possess very complex minds • Feature in full-color, full-page holiday
book ad, New York Times, December 10
and that science is just beginning to provide tiny
• Coming from HBO: The Temple
glimpses of this uncharted territory.”
Grandin Story, starring Claire Danes
—Boston Globe • Lecture tour: Little Rock, April 30;
Sioux Falls, June 12; Omaha, July 29;
Fresno, September 1; Philadelphia,
“Animals Make Us Human is sure to become September 16; Phoenix, September 18;
Washington, D.C., November 7;
a classic in the field of human/animal relationships. Springfield, Illinois, November 17;
Temple’s focus on emotions as the key to welfare and Corpus Christi, December 3
well-being is a gift to animals everywhere, including • Fall tour: Philadelphia; Phoenix;
us—the animals lucky enough to be able to read it.” Madison, Wisconsin; Skokie, Illinois;
Washington, D.C.; Corpus Christi
—Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.,
author of For the Love of a Dog: Understanding
Emotions in You and Your Best Friend
For author video, tour information, and more, visit www.hmhbooks.com/TempleGrandin

Recent Highlights
A Fair Maiden
by Joyce Carol Oates
NOW An Otto Penzler Book
January
In this chilling novel from “one of the great artistic forces
2010
of our time” (The Nation), an elderly aristocrat develops an
obsession with a sixteen-year-old working-class girl and
leaves readers asking who’s innocent and who’s the villain.
978-0-15-101516-0 • $22.00 • JANUARY
Practicing Catholic
by James Carroll
“His book is actually a loving critique of a very human institu-
tion that is both in need of salvation and simultaneously
an agent of grace. Brilliant prose, historically insightful,
and sincere passion remain hallmarks of the author’s work.”
—Library Journal
978-0-618-67018-5 • $28.00 • APRIL
Hungry Monkey
A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
by Matthew Amster-Burton
The delightful tale of a restaurant critic, his daughter, and
the joys of rediscovering food through a child’s eyes—with
recipes. “This charming, funny book is full of great ideas for
family meals. In a world of culinary pandering to kids, where
vegetables in disguise pass for cuisine, Amster-Burton gets
the recipe right” (Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad).
978-0-15-10132-4 • $23.00 • MAY
Stepmonster
A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers
Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
by Wednesday Martin, Ph.D.
What woman with stepchildren has not, in order to diffuse
the often overwhelming emotions and challenges of the role,
referred to herself as a “stepmonster”? Wednesday Martin’s
empowering and original book shines a light on what’s
unhelpful to women in the usual take on stepmothering—
namely, the focus on stepchildren and the emphasis on
how to be a substitute parent. Instead, Stepmonster
unlocks the mysteries of why stepmothers think, feel,
and act the way they do.
978-0-618-75819-7 • $25.00 • MAY

Recent Highlights
Strokes of Genius
Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played
by L. Jon Wertheim
From a unique inside vantage point comes a riveting and
intellectually provocative account of the greatest tennis
match ever played, the 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, written
by the preeminent tennis writer in America in the tradition
of John McPhee’s classic Levels of the Game.
978-0-547-23280-5 • $24.00 • JUNE
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

by Brigid Pasulka
This exciting debut novel, set in Poland on the eve of World
War II, evokes a magical realism that will appeal to fans of
Jonathan Safran Foer. Based on the author’s grandparents’
story, the novel tells of a young man nicknamed the Pigeon,
his courtship of the beautiful Anielica Hetmańska, and the
war that delays their marriage for six long years. Nearly
fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, leaves her
village for Krakow, the place where her grandparents
lived as newlyweds after the war and the setting of her
grandmother’s most magical stories.
978-0-547-05507-7 • $25.00 • AUGUST
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris

Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum 2009
Award for First Fiction, Finalist Alex
Award
A riveting debut set in Saudi Arabia and featuring compelling
characters, Finding Nouf “reads like a breeze . . . Ferraris
offers a fascinating glimpse inside domestic Saudi Arabia.
Even better, she has written a fascinating thriller, not only
an academic treatment. Finding Nouf turns out to be a great
beach read” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
978-0-547-23778-7 • $13.95 • PA • MAY
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles

“A flinty, funny, irreverent, and heartbreaking first novel.
The writing reminded me of brilliant, early-days Martin
Amis—except with redemption and hope. It’s not easy to
write a book this good, but Jonathan Miles makes it seem
effortless.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
978-0-547-23790-9 • $13.95 • PA • JUNE

Thirty years ago, two players entered the NBA
Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson
with Jackie MacMullan
When the Game Was Ours
In this remarkable collaboration, two NBA legends

open up as never before to give the definitive account
of their decades-long rivalry cum friendship
F rom the moment these two players took the court on

opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and
psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive rela-
tionship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry
in the NBA. Each pushed the other to greatness—together
Bird and Johnson collected eight NBA championships and
six MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at a
critical time. When the relationship started they were rivals,
but along the way they became lifelong friends.
With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, When the Game
Was Ours transports readers to an electric era of basketball
ISBN 978-0-547-22547-0 • $26.00 and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two play-
When the Game Was Ours ers dead set on besting each other. From the heady days
NOVEMBER • Sports/Memoir • 352 pages • 6 x 9 of trading championships to the darker days of injury and
Two 8-page 4-color inserts • CTN 12 • Terr: illness, we come to understand Larry’s obsessive devotion
World • Rights: P/M/A: William Morris Agency to winning and how his demons drove him on the court.
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We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic
ISBN 978-0-547-30501-1 • $312.00
pain and its exacting toll. In Magic we see a young, invincible
• National media with Larry Bird and star struggle with the sting of defeat, not just as a player but
Magic Johnson as a team leader. When he learns he has contracted HIV we
• Press conference at publication hear in his own words how that devastating news affected his
• National TV and Radio Satellite Tour relationships in basketball and beyond. But always, in both
cases, we see these men prevail.
• Live online events
A compelling, up-close-and-personal portrait of basket-
• Tie-in with HBO documentary
ball’s most inimitable duo, When the Game Was Ours is
• Cross-promotion with the NBA and NCAA a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint. It is also a
• 12-copy floor display rollicking ride through professional basketball’s best times.
• Jacket blowups available
• Advance reading copies
8 NOVEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com 7

together and made history. Here’s their story.
H and cranked up the

E C O U L D H AV E S H U T T E R E D T H E C U R TA I N S
volume of the television. Instead, Magic Johnson acted on his perverse urge
to witness the celebration that was unfolding around him, staring blankly out the
window of his Boston hotel, fixated on the sea of green below.
Thousands of fans clogged the streets, many wearing shamrock-

June 12, 1984 colored T-shirts, creating a gleeful gridlock of traffic in an already
B O S T O N, historically congested city. Cars honked, fireworks crackled, and
MASSACHUSETTS
grown men danced an Irish jig in celebration of the Celtics’ Game 7
victory over the Lakers to win the 1984 NBA Championship.
“It was bedlam,’’ Magic said. “I made myself watch. It made me feel worse,
but I deserved to be miserable. We should have won that series. I’ve always prided
myself on getting it done in crunch time. What happened?”
He already knew the answer. L A R RY BIRD HAPPENED. ■
Author Profile s
LARRY BIRD played thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics

and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1998. He was head coach
© MARC SEROTA RRA MEDIA
of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000 and currently serves as

their president of basketball operations.
EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON JR. played thirteen seasons with

the Los Angeles Lakers and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2002.
Currently he is the chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enter-
prises and vice president and part owner of the Los Angeles Lakers.
JACKIE MACMULLAN is a nationally recognized sports columnist who spent three decades at the
Boston Globe. She is a frequent correspondent for ESPN and a regular contestant on ESPN’s
Around the Horn.
© MAUREEN FLETCHER
AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES -
Bird: Indianapolis / Johnson: Los Angeles / MacMullan: Westford, Massachusetts
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Kent Meyers
Twisted Tree
A Novel
From the acclaimed author of The Work of Wolves

comes a new tale of one town in South Dakota and
how one person’s life is echoed in the lives of others.
H ayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people

of small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with
this terrible event—their loss, their place in it, and the secrets
they all carry.
In this brilliantly written novel, one girl’s story unfolds
through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a
supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly
thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo
and seeing her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother
ISBN 978-0-15-101389-0 • $24.00 the priest once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the
Twisted Tree running they did, how it fed her friend’s addiction, and how
SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 304 pages • 6 x 9 there were so many secrets she didn’t see. And so, Hayley
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her death rooting itself into the community in astonishingly
violent and tender ways.
ALSO AVAILABLE Solidly in the company of Aryn Kyle, Kent Haruf, and
The Work of Wolves Peter Matthiessen, Kent Meyers is one of the best contempo-
978-0-15-603142-4 • $15.00 PA rary writers on the American West. Here he also takes us into
The River Warren the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and
978-0-15-601062-7 • $13.00 PA offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person’s life can
have on everyone she knew.
• Regional author appearances,

including a keynote spot at the Western KENT MEYERS is the author of The Work of Wolves, Light in
Literature Association’s annual meeting the Crossing, The River Warren, and The Witness of Combines.
• Reading group promotion He is a recipient of an ALA Alex Award, two Minnesota Book
• Jacket blowups available Awards, and a Mountains and Plains Book-
sellers Association Award. His work has been
included in the New York Times list of notable
books and published in a wide array of presti-
© ZINDIE MEYERS
gious magazines.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE -
Spearfish, South Dakota
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“ Wandering through the
supermarket one day,
I tossed a few things into my cart
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jasmine rice, free-range chicken.
Then it hit me: we couldn’t have
easily gotten many of these things
five years ago. The more I thought
about it, the more I realized that
we need a book
for the way
we cook now.”
— RUTH REICHL
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • SEPTEMBER 11

A new culinary world calls for a
TODAY
More than 1,000 All-New Recipes
for the Contemporary Kitchen
Edited by RUTH REICHL
H OW WE COOK HAS CHANGED MORE IN

the past ten years than in the entire history of
American food. We shop in farmers’ markets, and we
think more about where our food comes from. We’re
America’s most respected eating more fish and more
cooking expert focuses on vegetables and grains.

International ingredients
the present chapter in the
are available now in every
American food revolution
supermarket. We want
memorable dishes we can cook at home, we want them
to be healthier, we want them on the table faster than
ever, and we want impeccable results the first time.
With hundreds of recipes for every budget and
occasion, Gourmet Today speaks to our needs. It’s filled
with stunning globe-trotting meals, simple ways to pre-
pare all the common vegetables, fast suppers, cocktails
and appetizers, and over 300 desserts.
The celebrated food authority and best-selling author
Ruth Reichl personally selected each of the recipes. Every
one was tested and retested by the Gourmet test kitchen,
ensuring that even beginners get perfect results.

BOLD NEW COOKBOOK
Inside GOURMET TODAY

• More than 650 recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less
• Hundreds of recipes for satisfying vegetarian main dishes
• Nearly 100 recipes for sustainable fish and shellfish, with

suggested substitutes for each recipe to ensure the freshest results
• A chapter of nearly 100 cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks
• Scores of sensational grilled dishes, from Brown Sugar Barbecued

Chicken to Grilled Corn with Chipotle Mayonnaise
• 100-plus vegetable side dishes, from artichokes and broccoflower

to zucchini and yucca, plus suggestions for preparing every common
vegetable in the simplest possible way
• Recipes for economical, highly flavorful cuts of meat
• Hundreds of illustrations of ingredients and techniques
• Durable sewn binding with two bound-in ribbons
RUTH REICHL, Gourmet’s editor in chief, is the author of the

best-selling memoirs Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples,
Garlic and Sapphires, and the forthcoming Not Becoming My
Mother. She is the executive producer of the two-time James
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JOHN WILLOUGHBY, Gourmet’s executive editor, who
collaborated on shaping and editing the book, is avail-
able for recipe demonstrations and other publicity. He
is the coauthor of nine cookbooks, including the best-
selling Thrill of the Grill. He has appeared many times
on television and radio.
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$750,000 national marketing campaign
250,000 first printing
• National on-sale date: September 22, 2009
• National media tour with Gourmet editor in chief Ruth Reichl, including
New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Milwaukee, and Kansas City
• TV satellite tour with executive editor John Willoughby
• Free subscription to Gourmet with purchase of book
• National drive-time radio tour
• National advertising, including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker,

the New York Times, and National Public Radio
• Holiday catalog advertising, including NCIBA and NEIBA
• Eye-catching 10-copy floor display
• Trade advertising in Gourmet Retailer
• Full-page color advertisements in the August, September, November, and

December 2009 issues of Gourmet, and the May and November 2010 issues
• Website promotion and advertising on gourmet.com,

including recipe demonstration videos
• E-marketing campaign, including outreach to bloggers and food sites,

online chats with Ruth Reichl, and widgetsfor family and “Mom” sites
• E-mail blasts to Gourmet subscribers (900,000 circulation)

ISBN 978-0-618-61018-1
• Promotional video available for accounts, including Q&A with
$40.00
Ruth Reichl and recipe demonstrations by the Gourmet team Gourmet Today
• Dedicated website: www.gourmettodaycookbook.com SEPTEMBER • Cooking • 1,152 pages
8 x 10 • More than 300 b/w line drawings
• Ongoing advertising and publicity campaigns throughout 2010, throughout • CTN 5 • Terr: US, C, O
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Margaret Drabble
The Pattern in the Carpet
A Personal History with Jigsaws
An innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw history,

and the strange delights of puzzling
T he Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with

Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret
Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in
particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others
“a soothing relief ” from melancholy and depression. We
learn that jigsaws began as dissected maps used as a teaching
tool in the late eighteenth century; that the first board game,
the Royal Game of the Goose, dates from the Renaissance
and is attributed to Francesco de Medici; that in America,
following the stock market crash of October 1929, there was
a boom in puzzle manufacturing. Drabble introduces us to ISBN 978-0-547-24144-9 • $25.00
her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to The Pattern in the Carpet
the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, SEPTEMBER • Memoir • 368 pages • 6 x 9
their first trip to London together, the books they read, the CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B: Atlantic
jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of Books T/A/P/M/S: Sterling Lord Literistic
her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her
thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and
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writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her
The Sea Lady
customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir
978-0-15-603426-5 • $14.00 PA
like no other. The Needle’s Eye
978-0-15-602935-3 • $14.00 PA
• Select interviews and profiles

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, • National print and online advertising
The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle’s Eye, • Postcard mailings
among other novels. She has written biogra-
phies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson,
and she is the editor of the fifth and sixth
editions of The Oxford Companion to English
Literature. For her contributions to contempo-
© RUTH CORNEY
rary English literature, she was made a Dame

of the British Empire in 2008.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - London

From the best-selling author of
Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Pink Brain, Blue Brain

How Small Differences Grow Into
Troublesome Gaps—And What We
Can Do About It
A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender

differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls
are largely shaped by how they spend their time.
I n the past decade we’ve heard a lot about the innate differ-
ences between males and females, so we’ve come to accept
that boys can’t focus in a classroom and girls are obsessed
with relationships: “That’s just the way they’re built.” In
Pink Brain, Blue Brain, neuroscientist Lise Eliot turns that
thinking on its head. Calling on years of exhaustive research
and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot argues
ISBN 978-0-618-39311-4 • $24.00 that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at
Pink Brain, Blue Brain birth become amplified over time, as parents and teachers—
SEPTEMBER • Parenting/Psychology • 384 pages and the culture at large—unwittingly reinforce gender stereo-
6 x 9 • 20 b/w line drawings • CTN 12 types. Children themselves exacerbate the differences by
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playing to their modest strengths. They constantly exercise
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those “ball-throwing” or “doll-cuddling” circuits, rarely
straying from their comfort zones.
But this, says Eliot, is just what they need to do. And
• National author tour, including New York,
Chicago, San Francisco she offers parents and teachers concrete ways to help. Pre-
senting the latest science regarding development from birth
to puberty, she zeroes in on the precise differences between
• Promotional book video
boys and girls, erasing harmful stereotypes. Boys are not, in
• Online promotion, including
parenting sites and blogs
fact, “better at math,” but at certain kinds of spatial reason-
ing. Girls are not naturally more empathetic; they’re allowed
• Postcard mailings to ob/gyn
and pediatricians’ offices to express their feelings. By appreciating how sex differences
• Academic marketing
emerge, rather than assuming that they are fixed biological
facts, we can help all children reach their fullest potential,
close the troubling gaps between boys and girls, and
ultimately end the gender wars that currently divide us.

What’s Going On in There?
From PINK BRAIN, BLUE BRAIN
I F YOU’VE READ ANY THING ABOUT BOY-GIRL

differences, you probably think that scientists have
discovered all kinds of disparities in brain structure,
and girls is the idea that sex differences in the brain
are necessarily “innate.” Ignoring the fundamental
plasticity that enables the brain to learn or know
function, and neurochemistry. These claims have anything, several popular authors confound “brain”
been spreading like wildfire, but there are problems with “nature,” promoting a view of sex differences as
with every one. Some are blatantly false, plucked fixed, hard-wired, and predetermined biological facts.
out of thin air because they sound about right; others But—and this is the point lost on most popular
are cherry-picked from single studies or extrapolated interpretations of neuroscience—nearly all the evi-
from rodent research, without any effort to evaluate all dence for sex differences in the brain comes from
the data critically. Yet they are nearly always presented studies of adult men and women. Who’s to say that
to parents as proven and dramatic “facts” about boys’ such differences are caused by “nature” and not by
and girls’ brains, with seemingly dire implications. learning—by the thirty or so years of experience as a
One particularly insidious way in which neuro- male or female that any research subject invariably
science has been misused to make claims about boys carries into the MRI scanner? ■
Author Profile
LISE ELIOT, a graduate of Harvard, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She
is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind
Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The mother of two sons and a daughter,
she is also the author of What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the
First Five Years of Life.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Lake Bluff, Illinois

© BILL FROST

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince Pop-Up
Saint-Exupéry’s worldwide classic, now in a stunning

pop-up format
“ What appears to be a fairy tale for children opens like

the petals of the Little Prince’s flower into a fantasy that
has lessons for all of us.”—School Library Journal
A fter being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot

comes in contact with a captivating little prince who
recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search
for what is most important in life.
For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
classic The Little Prince has captured readers’ hearts. The
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
whimsical story with a fairy-tale feel has sold over 3 million
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copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900–1944) was born in

Lyon, France. Best known as the author and illustrator of The
Little Prince, he also wrote several other books that became
classics. A year after The Little Prince was published his plane
disappeared over the Mediterranean while he was serving with
a French air squadron on a reconnaissance mission.
18 OCTOBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com

John Eisenberg
That First Season

How Vince Lombardi Took the
Worst Team in the NFL and Set
It on the Path to Glory
On the fiftieth anniversary of Vince Lombardi’s

first season in Green Bay, an irresistible and
little-known comeback story for fans of
The Junction Boys and The Boys of Winter
I n the late 1950s, the once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were

a laughingstock. They hadn’t fielded a winning team in
more than a decade and were in jeopardy of losing their fran-
chise to another city. The ultimate low came in 1958, when,
with seven future Hall of Famers on the team, they went a
lousy 1-10-1. They were desperately in need of a savior, and
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he arrived in the dead of winter from New York City.
That First Season
That First Season chronicles Vince Lombardi’s remark-
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Washington, D.C.
ensemble tale of a team, a town, and a leader.
• Author events in Milwaukee, Madison,
Green Bay
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Edgar Prado, and The Great Match Race. He has

written for Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, and
Details, among other publications.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Baltimore, Maryland
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • OCTOBER 19

Drawn from a wealth of detailed scholarship and
Günter Grass
Winner of the Nobel Prize
The Tin Drum

A Novel
The new translation of the classic novel, to celebrate the

fiftieth anniversary of its original publication
T he Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth

century, was published in Ralph Manheim’s outstand-
ing translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and
catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publica-
tion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass’s pub-
lishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation
of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and
scholar, has drawn from many sources: a wealth of detailed
scholarship, a wide range of newly available reference works,
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The Tin Drum and the author himself. The result is a translation that is
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his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski,
his presumptive fathers; Oskar’s midget friends Bebra,
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the great circus master, and Roswitha Raguna, the famous
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somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha; the
New York Times Book Review and regional
holiday catalogs Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers,
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Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews—
and blogs waiting to be discovered and rediscovered.
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programming and postcard mailings

the deep involvement of the author himself
“At the ages of fourteen and fifteen, I had read Great Expectations twice—
Dickens made me want to be a writer—but it was reading The Tin Drum at nineteen and twenty
that showed me how. It was Günter Grass who demonstrated that it was possible to be a living
writer who wrote with Dickens’s full range of emotion and relentless outpouring of language.
Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos—all with an unforgiving conscience.”
—John Irving, New York Times Book Review
“This is what Grass’s great novel said to me in its drumbeats: Go for broke.
Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin
talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget
that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things—childhood,
certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves—that go on slipping, like sand,
through our fingers. I have tried to learn the lessons of the midget drummer.”
—Salman Rushdie
GÜNTER GRASS was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927 and is the widely acclaimed
author of numerous novels, plays, poems, and essays. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1999.
BREON MITCHELL is a professor of Germanic studies and comparative literature

and the director of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. He was awarded the Kurt
© HANS GRUNERT
and Helen Wolff Prize for his translation of Uwe Timm’s Morenga in 2004.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Lübeck, Germany

TRANSLATOR’S RESIDENCE - Bloomington, Indiana

William Mann, the best-selling author of Kate,
William J. Mann
How to Be a Movie Star

Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
Mann pulls back the curtain on an unseen Elizabeth

Taylor, revealing a genius at big-time stardom and
a heroine whose rebellion changed Hollywood.
I n the 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor’s affair with the married

Richard Burton knocked John Glenn’s orbit of Earth off
front pages nationwide. Yet despite all the years of gossip,
the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very
human woman has never been captured. William Mann,
praised for Kate, uses untapped sources to show how Taylor
ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen pas-
sions, helped kick down the studio system, and practically
invented the big business of celebrity star-making. With
un-put-downable storytelling, he reveals the full truth with-
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out losing Taylor’s magic, daring, or wit.
How to Be a Movie Star
Readers will feel they are sitting next to Taylor as she
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and her country’s conservative values. But it is the private
Elizabeth who will surprise—a woman of heart and loyalty
• National online and print advertising who defends the underdogs, a savvy professional whose
• National media from New York and Los Angeles anger at her treatment by the studio led her to fight to control
• Promotional book video her career. All the Elizabeths are here, finally reconciled and
• Online promotion, including celebrity/gossip seen against the exciting years of her greatest spirit, beauty,
blogs and literary sites and influence. Swathed in mink, staring us down with her
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• Jacket blowups available own terms, playing the game of stardom at which she remains,
• Advance reading copies to this day, unmatched.

“set new standards in movie biography.” *
from
HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR
K EVIN MCCARTHY BLURTED OUT THAT CLIFT HAD
had a serious car accident. Elizabeth came up
behind, asking what was wrong; when Wilding tried
heedless of broken glass. “Adrenaline does something
to you,” she remembered. “Where I got the strength,
I don’t know.” She hauled herself over the bloody
to shield her from the news, she exploded. “Is it front seat. “All my revulsion about blood absolutely
Monty? What’s wrong with Monty?” McCarthy told left me.” She reached down and lifted Monty’s body
her that Clift’s car had struck a utility pole as he’d from beneath the steering wheel. He was “literally
taken one of the hairpin turns on the dark, foggy under the dashboard,” she said, and what was worse,
street. Elizabeth shrieked, demanding that McCarthy she could barely make out his face. “It was like pulp,”
take her to the scene of the crash. she said. At first he didn’t move, but after a few
Monty’s car was demolished, an “accordion- moments Monty began to react to the sound of
pleated mess,” Elizabeth said. A 4,800-volt trans- Elizabeth’s voice. He indicated that he was choking.
former, knocked off the pole by the impact, had Several of his teeth had been broken and were now
narrowly missed hitting the car. McCarthy thought lodged in the back of his throat. Elizabeth pulled
his friend was dead. “The doors were so jammed that the teeth out, one by one. “I firmly believe, and the
we couldn’t get to him,” he said. Without any hesita- doctors agreed, that Elizabeth saved Monty’s life that
tion, Elizabeth climbed in through a back window, night,” said Jack Larson. ■
Praise for Kate

“A shrewd biography.”—Washington Post
“This is a book that sets new standards in movie biography.”—David Thomson, New York Observer*
“A page-turner and a revelation.”—USA Today
Author Profile
WILLIAM J. MANN is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, which was
praised by the finest biographers and Hollywood historians (Gore Vidal, Patricia Bosworth,
and Gerald Clarke) and named a New York Times Notable Book. For How to Be a Movie
Star, he spoke to previously reticent sources (including Mike Nichols, the “kitchen cabinet”
© MICHAEL CHILDERS
of publicists and professionals who engineered Taylor’s fame, close friends who grew up
with her at MGM) and gained access to the private papers of George Stevens, George
Cukor, Vincente Minnelli, Ernest Lehman, and Hedda Hopper.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCES - Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Palm Springs, California

By the author of the National Book
Timothy Egan
The Big Burn

Teddy Roosevelt and the
Fire That Saved America
A dramatic account of the worst wildfire in

American history—and how it saved our forests
I n The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environ-

mental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich
history, told through characters he brought to indelible life.
Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the
largest-ever forest fire in America, a tragedy that cemented
Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram
of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests
of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping hundreds of
small blazes into a roaring inferno that destroyed towns and
timber in an eye-blink. Forest rangers assembled nearly ten
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thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from
The Big Burn
mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had
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Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers
with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the
ALSO AVAILABLE larger story he tells of President Teddy Roosevelt and his
The Worst Hard Time chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of
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create the idea of national forests as our national treasure,
owned by and preserved for every citizen. The robber
• National author tour, including New York, barons fought them, but the fire saved the forests even as it
Washington, D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, destroyed them: the heroism shown by the rangers turned
Missoula, Denver, Seattle, Portland, public opinion permanently in favor of the forests even as it
San Francisco, Los Angeles
changed the mission of the Forest Service, with consequences
• National print and online advertising
felt in the fires of today.
• Exclusive online interviews and Q&As
The Big Burn tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait
• Advance reading copies of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale
for our time.
Award–winning The Worst Hard Time
From The
H ere now came the fire down from the Bitterroot

Mountains and showered embers and forest
shrapnel onto the town that was supposed to be
chased by a crown fire, flames leaping from treetop
to treetop, pushed by gusts now approaching eighty
miles an hour. His horses stumbled, whinnied in
protected by all those men with faraway accents and agony, panic evident in their movement; they might
empty stomachs. For days people had watched it from roast before his eyes. Back in town, a telegraph
their gabled houses. But now it was on them, an ele- operator at the Northern Pacific office sent a message:
ment transformed from Out There to Here, and just “Every hill around town is a mass of flames and the
as suddenly in their hair, on front lawns, snuffing out whole place looks like a death trap. No connections
the life of a drunk on a hotel mattress, torching a can be had with outside towns. Men, women and
veranda. The most experienced ranger in the district children are hysterical in streets and leave by every
was racing through another part of the mountains, possible conveyance and route.” ■
Praise for The Worst Hard Time

“A classic disaster tale.”—New York Times
“Searing history.”—Washington Post Book World
“This is can’t-put-it-down history.”—Walter Cronkite
“A vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history from the darkest days of the Depression.
It’s a great read about a horrible time, filled with lessons still worth learning.”—USA Today
TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of five books, most
recently The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was
named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington
© SOPHIE EGAN
State Book Award winner, and a Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book. Egan writes
a weekly column, “Outposts,” for the New York Times.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Seattle

“The result of an epic journey, akin
David Sax
Save the Deli

In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye,
and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
A lively tale of one man’s quest for the past,

the future, and the best in delicatessen
“ A Bromo-fueled cri de coeur on behalf of the uniquely

Ashkenazic food that keeps its devotees, whether
Jewish or not, from going goyish into that good night.”
—Michael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch
A s a journalist and lifelong deli obsessive, David Sax

was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish
delicatessen. A cuisine that had once been at the very center
of Jewish life had become endangered by assimilation,
homogenization, and health-food trends. He watched one
beloved purveyor of deli after another shut down, only to
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Save the Deli to the very culture it had just paved over.
OCTOBER • Food/Jewish Culture • 336 pages And so David set out on a journey across the United
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Join David as he investigates everything deli—its
history, its diaspora, its next generation. He tells us about
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the food itself—how it’s made, who makes it best, and
Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, where to go for particular dishes. And ultimately there is
Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles hope—David finds deli newly and lovingly made in places
• Prepub event for media like Boulder, traditions maintained in Montreal, and iconic
• E-card available for delis in the book institutions like the Second Avenue Deli resurrected in
as well as community groups New York. So grab a pastrami on rye and sit down for a
• Promotion to cooking websites great read. Save the Deli is an energetic cultural history
• Active author website: savethedeli.com of Jewish food, a vibrant travelogue, and a rallying cry
for a new generation of food lovers.
* Roger Bennett, author of Bar Mitzvah Disco and Camp Camp

to The Odyssey but with Rolaids.” *
A new deli had just opened in Boulder, and supposedly they were making everything from
scratch. This place had the improbably long name of Jimmy and Drew’s 28th Street Deli, which
to me reeked of wannabe New Yorkism and, well, goyishness. My spirits picked up a bit as I read the
notices for Torah study classes and other Jewish community flyers tacked up by the deli’s door alongside
fly-fishing photos and ads for used Subarus. “Hey man, you must be David,” Jarrett
From
“Jimmy” Eggers said, coming toward me with latex gloves on . . . “C’mon back
to the smokehouse,” he said, “I’ve got some salmon that’s just about ready
to come out.”
Salmon smoking in-house? Seriously? ■
T
“ his is schmaltz,” he said, letting me lick the knife. “We make
this from the fat skimmed off the chicken soup, which is basically forty
chickens boiled in a pot.” Homemade schmaltz! I couldn’t believe what I was tasting. Here I was in the
mountains of Colorado, at a brand-spanking-new deli, and a tall blond fly-fisherman was offering me a taste
of the substance at the very core of Yiddish cooking. Imagine the creamiest, richest butter you’ve ever had
imported from France, then multiply it by two and impart the mellow aftertaste of crackling chicken skin . . .
That’s what fresh schmaltz tastes like. ■
“A voluptuous mitzvah for schmaltzophiles, it also is a singularly practical

guide to the best delis from coast to coast and around the world.”
—Jane and Michael Stern, authors of 500 Things to Eat Before It’s Too Late
Author Profile
DAVID SAX fell in love with deli as a child and first began researching its history as a
college student. In the past two years he has established himself as the world’s foremost
expert on delicatessen; he and his website have been mentioned by the New York Times,
the Washington Post, gourmet.com, Serious Eats, and others. He has been to hundreds
of delis, knows the best place to eat every Jewish delicacy, and has created an avid,
dedicated network of deli lovers through his blog, www.savethedeli.com. In addition to
© CHRISTOPHER FARBER
a one-night gig at Katz’s, he has worked as a journalist with credits in such publications
as New York, GQ, vanityfair.com, Rolling Stone, Wine Spectator, and the New Republic. He
has written on everything from food, travel, and drink, to culture and politics. Sax has
lived in Toronto, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Brooklyn, New York

Allan Guthrie
Slammer
A rookie prison guard is caught between his sadistic

colleagues and the drug-running inmates threatening
his family in this bloody psychological thriller.
N ewly minted prison officer Nicholas Glass has fallen

in with the wrong crowd at “The Hilton,” a Scottish
prison for violent offenders. The problem is, there’s no
right crowd. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues
alike, Glass finds that each day is getting longer than the one
before. When a group of cons uses outside help to threaten
his wife and daughter, he agrees to do them a favor. But as
their threats escalate and one favor leads to another, he
grows ever closer to the breaking point. And when Glass
breaks, he shatters.
Slammer is a mile-a-minute thriller shot through with
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Slammer
Guthrie’s unique dark humor and ultraviolent mayhem.
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ALLAN GUTHRIE is the author of Two-Way Split, which was

nominated for the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut
Dagger and received the Theakston’s Old
Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; Kiss
Her Goodbye, which was nominated for the
Edgar, Anthony, and Gumshoe Awards; Hard
Man, winner of the inaugural Spinetingler
© MARY REAGAN
Magazine Award; and Savage Night.
Edinburgh, Scotland
28 NOVEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com

Masha Gessen
Perfect Rigor
A Genius and the Mathematical
Breakthrough of the Century
The true story of a mathematical mystery, a million-

dollar prize, and the fate of genius in today’s world
I n 2006 an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori

Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, an extremely
complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds
for over a century. In 1998 the Clay Institute in Boston
named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems
and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a
solution. Perelman will probably be awarded the prize this
fall, and he will probably decline it. Masha Gessen was deter-
mined to find out why.
ISBN 978-0-15-101406-4 • $26.00
Drawing on interviews with Perelman’s teachers, class-
Perfect Rigor
mates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the
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unrivaled computational power, one that enabled Perelman
to pursue mathematical concepts to their logical end. But she
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draw—first from the world of mathematics and then, increas-
ingly, from the world in general. In telling his story, Gessen
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has constructed a gripping tale that sheds rare light on the
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unique burden of genius. New York Times Book Review
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MASHA GESSEN has written for Slate, the available
New Republic, Vanity Fair, the New York Times,
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and other publications. She is also the author
of three previous books.
Brookline, Massachusetts

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ACTOR
Philip Roth
The Humbling
A Novel
Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings

in Everyman and Exit Ghost and the bitterly ironic
retrospective on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth
has written another in his haunting group of late fictions.
E verything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of

Philip Roth’s startling new book. One of the leading
American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties,
he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His
Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are
melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels
like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his
powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at
him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. “Some-
ISBN 978-0-547-23969-9 • $22.00 thing fundamental has vanished.” His wife has gone, his
The Humbling
audience has left him, his agent can’t persuade him to make
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a comeback.
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Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrify-
ing self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic
desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant
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that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a
yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day’s journey
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including the New York Times into night, told with Roth’s inimitable urgency, bravura, and
gravity, all the ways in which we convince ourselves of our
solidity, all our life’s performances—talent, love, sex, hope,
energy, reputation—are stripped off.
The Humbling is Roth’s thirtieth book.

IS DESERTED BY HIS TALENT?
FROM THE HUMBLING

H e’d lost his magic. The impulse was spent. He’d
never failed in the theater, everything he had done
had been strong and successful, and then the terrible
American stage actors—none of it worked for any
role now. All that had worked to make him himself
now worked to make him look like a lunatic on
thing happened: he couldn’t act. Going the stage. He was conscious of every moment he
onstage became agony. Instead of the was on the stage in the worst possible
certainty that he was going to be won- way. In the past when he was acting
HE’D LOST HIS
derful, he knew he was going to fail. he wasn’t thinking about anything.
It happened three times in a row, and What he did well he did out of
by the last time nobody was interested, MAGIC. THE IMPULSE instinct. Now he was thinking about
nobody came. He couldn’t get over to everything, and everything sponta-
the audience. His talent was dead. WAS SPENT. neous and vital was killed—he tried
Of course, if you’ve had it, you to control it with thinking and instead
always have something unlike anyone else’s. I’ll he destroyed it. All right, Axler told himself, he
always be unlike anyone else, Axler told himself, had hit a bad period. Though he was already in
because I am who I am. I carry that with me—that his sixties, maybe it would pass while he was still
people will always remember. But the aura he’d had, recognizably himself. He wouldn’t be the first
all his mannerisms and eccentricities and personal experienced actor to go through it. A lot of people
peculiarities, what had worked for Falstaff and Peer did. I’ve done this before, he thought, so I’ll find
Gynt and Vanya—what had gained Simon Axler some way. I don’t know how I’m going to get it this
his reputation as the last of the best of the classical time, but I’ll find it, I’ll find it—this will pass. ■
In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received
the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to
John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won
the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the
PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society
© NANCY CRAMPTON
of American Historians’ prize. Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes:
in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achieve-
ment in American Fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work
published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of
eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.

“Distinctive, poignant, genuine,
Jeffrey Koterba
Inklings
A Memoir
An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his

success back to his chaotic boyhood home
and his complicated father, who, like Koterba,
suffers from Tourette’s syndrome.
W hen Jeffrey Koterba was six, he started drawing

his first cartoons, painstakingly copying from the
Sunday Omaha World Herald’s funny papers and making
up his own characters. With a pen and a sheet of white
paper, he was able to escape into a world that was clean,
expansive, and comfortable—a refuge from the pandemo-
nium surrounding him. The tiny house Koterba grew up
in was full to bursting with garage-sale treasures and televi-
sions that his father, Art, repaired and sold for extra money.
A hard-drinking one-time jazz drummer whose big
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dreams never seemed to come true, Art was subject to violent
Inklings
facial and vocal tics—symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome, a
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electronics, lightning strikes, screaming matches, and dis-
couragements great and small emerged a young man deter-
• National media mined to follow his creative spirit to grand heights. And
• Author events in Omaha, Iowa City, and Seattle much to his surprise, Jeffrey found himself on a journey
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An exuberant, heartfelt memoir that calls to mind The
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and e-cards/widgets to social networks irresistible optimism all its own.

innocent,and absolutely captivating.” *
“This is the opposite of a sentimental survivor memoir.”
—Richard Dooling, author of White Man’s Grave*
I’M ON DEADLINE. I should be working on tomorrow’s cartoon,
but my mind drifts. I’m sketching a man. He’s the man I always
sketch when I can’t think of anything else
to draw. He’s not me, but he is me. He is
smiling, calm. In the next frame, one of
his eyes is squeezed tight, his mouth
stretched grotesquely to one side.
The third frame: he is again smiling.
This is how I draw the
man with Tourette’s. ■
Author Profile
JEFFREY KOTERBA is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. He was born in

Omaha, Nebraska, and during the summer of 1978 was struck by lightning and lived
to tell about it. Since joining the Omaha World–Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for
Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonist’s Society and has placed
second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features
Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the
© JEFF BEIERMANN
New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Diego Union–Tribune, the Atlanta Journal–
Constitution, the Washington Post, CNN, and USA Today, among others. He is lead singer,
guitarist, and songwriter for the Prairie Cats, a swing and jump-blues band he formed in
1998. The Prairie Cats have performed at the South by Southwest Music Festival and at the
Derby Lounge in Hollywood. He now avoids thunderstorms whenever possible. Inklings is
his first book.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Omaha, Nebraska

Margaret Visser
The Gift of Thanks

The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude
From the acclaimed author of The Rituals of Dinner

comes an illuminating exploration of the hidden history
and meaning of gratitude.
K nown as an “anthropologist of everyday life,” Margaret

Visser has, in five award-winning books, uncovered
and illuminated the intriguing and unexpected meanings
of ordinary objects and habits. Now she turns her keen eye
to another custom so frequently encountered that it often
escapes notice: saying “Thank you.” What do we really
mean by these two simple words?
This fascinating inquiry into all aspects of gratitude
ranges from the unusual determination with which parents
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The Gift of Thanks speaking the words and feeling them, to the ways in which
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gift-giving and commodity exchange, and the similarities
between gratitude and its opposite, vengefulness, as well as
the cultural history and modern social science of thankfulness.
• Author website: www.margaretvisser.com
With her engaging combination of curiosity and erudition,
Visser once again reveals the extraordinary in the everyday.
MARGARET VISSER is an award-winning author and essayist.

Much Depends on Dinner was named one of the best books of
the year by the New York Times. The Rituals of Dinner won the
IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award
and was named a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year. Visser’s most recent book,
The Geometry of Love, was a finalist for the
Charles Taylor Prize. Margaret Visser taught
classics at York University for eighteen years and
© XAVIER GARCIA
now devotes her time to research and writing.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCES -
Toronto, Paris, and the south of France

Editors of the
American Heritage® Dictionaries
100 Words for Foodies
An Original Paperback
A feast of 100 delectable food terms
A mericans love talking about food almost as much as

they love eating it, and to describe it, the English lan-
guage serves up an impressive spread of fascinating words.
100 Words for Foodies presents a delectable sampler of these
words—words that grace the tables of restaurants and are
bandied about the kitchen at home.
The terms selected for this book cover the whole gamut
of foodie terminology. There are words for implements and
vessels, like mezzaluna and tagine, along with the names of
techniques, like macerate, and methods, like deglaze. There
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The eagerly anticipated first cookbook from
Barbara Lynch
with Joanne Smart
Stir
Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition
A James Beard Award–winning chef “with the soul

of an Italian grandmother” (New York Times) shows
how to make the robustly flavored dishes that have
earned her national acclaim.
A lthough Barbara Lynch was born and raised in South

Boston, not Tuscany, many critics believe her food
rivals the best of Italy. It has been praised by Bon Appétit,
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Stir Lynch’s cuisine is all the more remarkable because it
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created her own distinctive style of cooking, mining Italian
and French classics for ideas and seasoning them with
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• National media from New York and Boston
The 150 recipes in Stir combine sophistication with
practicality: appetizers such as baked tomatoes and cheese
and crisp, buttery brioche pizzas; dozens of the artful pastas
Lynch is famous for, such as little lasagnas with chicken
meatballs and potato gnocchi with peas and mushrooms;
lobster rolls with aïoli; chicken wrapped in prosciutto and
stuffed with melting Italian cheese; creamy vanilla bread
pudding with caramel sauce. Lynch’s forthright opinions,
her tips on achieving flavor and saving time, and the stun-
ning photos make this cookbook a standout.

award–winning chef Barbara Lynch
“The core of Stir is the story

of a woman who saved herself
from a dead-end life with the power
of cooking. Any chef who goes from
stealing buses to creating some of the
best food on the eastern seaboard is
someone I always want to hear from.
Distinctive dishes, generous spirit,
and a genuine cook are all bound up
in this wonderful book.”
—Michael Ruhlman, The Soul of a Chef
PHOTOS © DEBORAH JONES

Author Profile
An embodiment of the American dream, BARBARA LYNCH, who once could only
fantasize about escaping from the projects of South Boston, is the James Beard
Award–winning chef-owner of a $10 million aggregate of restaurants and food busi-
nesses in Boston called Barbara Lynch Gruppo. It includes No. 9 Park, B & G Oysters,
The Butcher Shop, Plum Produce, Stir, Drink, and Sportello. A hometown heroine
known for her generous giving back to the disadvantaged and the Southie community,
she has become a national star featured in the pages of Gourmet, Food & Wine, the
New York Times, Inc, and more. She is the recipient of the 2009 Amelia Earhart
© JUSTIN IDE
Award, which has honored Julia Child, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Suze Orman.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Winchester, Massachusetts

A heartfelt, revealing, and very, very funny portrait
Hank Stuever
Tinsel
A Search for America’s Christmas Present
A journey into the excess and beauty of Christmas in

an American suburb, from a writer who is “wildly funny,
caustic, and subversive” (Augusten Burroughs)
I n Tinsel, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the

idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb
at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story
of the nation’s most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.
Stuever starts the narrative as so many start the Christ-
mas season: standing in line with the people waiting to
purchase flat-screen TVs on Black Friday. From there he
follows three of Frisco’s true holiday believers as they navi-
gate through the Nativity and all its attendant crises. Tammie
Parnell, an eternally optimistic suburban mom, is the propri-
ISBN 978-0-547-13465-9 • $24.00 etor of Two Elves with a Twist, a company that decorates
Tinsel
other people’s big houses for Christmas. Jeff and Bridgette
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And single mother Caroll Cavazos just hopes that the life-
affirming moments of Christmas might overcome the strug-
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gles of the rest of the year. Stuever’s portraits of this happy,
Washington, D.C., Houston, Dallas, Austin megachurchy, shoparific community are at once humane,
• Promotional book video heartfelt, revealing—and very funny.
• Online promotion including interviews
Tinsel is a compelling tale of our half-trillion-dollar
of ‘characters’ and holiday eCards holiday, measuring what we’ve become against the ancient
• Author website: www.hankstuever.com rituals of what we’ve always been.
• Holiday display kit
• Jacket blowups

of the most over-the-top celebration in our nation
From
B EFORE THE BLACK FRIDAY DAWN,

the sky is still a mix of dark blue and the sick
sodium-vapor saffron of the suburban night. I park
by the Beijing Chinese Super Buffet and walk
across the lot to Best Buy, where hundreds of
people—some in their twelfth or thirteenth hour
of standing in line—await the day-after-Thanks-
giving door-buster sale. The shoppers are
wrapped in their fleecies, hoodies, and wubbies.
They have their grande lattes and their Krispy
Kremes. Some came more prepared, pitched their
tents, and planted their butts on portable reclining
chairs, which were purchased for the specific act of
waiting around, waiting all over America, waiting as they
do for new Harry Potter books or new video game systems or
reality TV show auditions. The line wraps down the storefront,
stretching even into the barren concrete zone behind the big box. A
news helicopter flies overhead to show the world to itself. Everyone looks
up at the sky. Christmas is at our throats again. ■
Author Profile
HANK STUEVER is an award-winning pop culture writer for the Washington Post’s Style
section. In 2006, he relocated to suburban Dallas to immerse himself in the lives of three
families and their Christmas dramas, and then returned to Texas to be with them in the
© MICHAEL WICHITA
holiday season of 2007 and the economically downbeat denouement of 2008. Stuever is the
author of Off Ramp, an essay collection, and has appeared on Today, The View, The Early
Show, and National Public Radio. Visit his website at hankstuever.com.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Washington, D.C.

“Pops is the book we have
Terry Teachout
Pops
A Life of Louis Armstrong
“ Pops is the book we have been waiting for: essential

reading for anyone curious about music, American
culture, and one man’s ability to inspire the world.”
—Michael Cogswell, director, Louis Armstrong House
Museum*
L ouis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the

twentieth century and a giant of modern American
culture. He knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts,
wrote the finest of all jazz autobiographies—without a collab-
orator—and created collages that have been compared to the
art of Romare Bearden. The ranks of his admirers included
Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock, and Orson Welles. Offstage
he was witty, introspective, and unexpectedly complex, a
beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-
ISBN 978-0-15-101089-9 • $30.00 than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged
Pops than his worshiping fans ever knew.
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private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations
that Armstrong made throughout the second half of his life,
• Author tour, including New York, Chicago, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering
St. Louis, New Orleans figure. For the first time, the book offers full, accurate ver-
• National and online advertising sions of such storied events as Armstrong’s decision to break
• Promotional author video up his big band and his quarrel with President Eisenhower.
• Author website: www.terryteachout.com
Certain to be the definitive word on Armstrong for our gen-
eration, Pops paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world,
• Author blog: daily arts blog, About Last Night,
on www.artsjournal.com and his music that will stand alongside Gary Giddins’s Bing
• Online promotion, including jazz and
Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Peter Guralnick’s Last
Louis Armstrong sites and blogs Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley as a classic
• Advance reading copies biography of a major American musician.
40 DECEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com

been waiting for.” *
From POPS
T H E T WO M E N M ET FO R T H E F I R ST T I M E
at rehearsal. A photographer snapped a picture of the shirt-
sleeved Leonard Bernstein shaking hands with Armstrong.
Both are smiling broadly, as are all the orchestra players
visible in the photo, possibly because they had just heard
the trumpeter greet the conductor with a genial “Yeah,
daddy.” Then they got down to business. Though
Armstrong had never worked with so large an ensemble,
he was, as always, unfazed. Indeed he was cooler than
UM
SE MUSE
Bernstein, who may not have known that his soloist, far
from being an unlettered primitive who played only by
NG HOU
ear, was a fluent sight reader who liked to warm up by

RMSTRO
blowing a tune from one of his favorite Italian operas:

LOUIS A
He say, “Now, when you get to this cadenza and you

CTION,
get a little nervous or something, you know, well,

Y COLLE
just kind of shorten it or whatever it is.” I said,

“Okay, daddy.” Well, you know, I warm up at home.
BRADLE
I hit the stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or

© JACK
anything. See? From the first rehearsal on down,

we wailed. Well, from then on, he got confidence.
It don’t take long for a person to relax once they hear me go
down with the arrangement. After that, he got himself straightened. ■
Author Profile
TERRY TEACHOUT is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the chief culture critic
of Commentary. He played jazz professionally before becoming a full-time writer. His books
© MARGO MCLEAN
include All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine, The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, [AUTHOR
and A Terry Teachout Reader. He blogs about the arts at www.terryteachout.com.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - New York City

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • DECEMBER 41
Elly Griffiths
The Crossing Places

A Ruth Galloway Mystery
“ Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth—

an inspired creation.”—Louise Penny, winner of
the Anthony and Agatha awards
W hen she’s not digging up bones or other ancient

objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth
Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area of England
called the Saltmarsh, land that was sacred to its Iron Age
inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. When a child’s
bones are found on a desolate beach nearby, Detective Chief
Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for help. Nelson
thinks he has found the remains of Lucy Downey, a little
girl who went missing ten years ago. Since her disappearance
he has been receiving bizarre letters about her, letters with
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another child goes missing, and the hunt is on to find her.
As the letter-writer moves closer and the windswept Norfolk
• Mystery sampler
landscape exerts its power, Ruth finds herself in completely
new territory—and in serious danger.
The Crossing Places marks the beginning of an exciting
new crime series featuring an irresistible heroine.
ELLY GRIFFITHS’s Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspi-

ration Elly’s husband, who gave up a city job to train as an
archaeologist, and her aunt, who lives on the
Norfolk coast and who filled Elly’s head with
the myths and legends of that area. Elly has
two children and lives near Brighton. Though
not her first novel, The Crossing Places is her
© JERRY BAUER
first crime novel.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Brighton, England
42 JANUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com

Robert Stone
Fun with Problems

Stories
From “an iconic talent” ( Washington Post) comes

a beautiful and unsettling new collection of stories.
I n Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once

again that he is “one of our greatest living writers” (Los
Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume share the
signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex, and
drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of
the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable
precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a
decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent
into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored
husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that
his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon ISBN 978-0-618-38625-3 • $24.00
Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion Fun with Problems
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coercive and quietly seductive—that cause us to conceal,
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to top literary and music sites
Prime Green, was published in 2006.
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Michele Scicolone
The Italian Slow Cooker
Plug it in and come home to authentic Italian: our favorite

cuisine meets America’s most popular cooking appliance.
F inally, a book that combines the fresh, exuberant flavors

of great Italian food with the ease and comfort of a
slow cooker. Michele Scicolone, a best-selling author and
an authority on Italian cooking, shows how good ingredients
and simple techniques can lift the usual crockpot fare into
the dimension of fine food. Pasta with Meat and Mushroom
Ragu, Osso Buco with Red Wine, Chicken with Peppers and
Mushrooms: these are dishes that even the most discriminat-
ing cook can proudly serve to company, yet all are so carefree
that anyone with just five or ten minutes of prep time can
make them on a weekday and come home to perfection.
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Simmered in the slow cooker, soups, stews, beans,
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MICHELE SCICOLONE is the author of four-

teen cookbooks, including the best-selling
Sopranos Family Cookbook and Entertaining
with the Sopranos. A sought-after spokes-
© NICK GRANITO
person and cooking teacher, she has appeared

many times on national television.

44 JANUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com
Paul Theroux
A Dead Hand
A Crime in Calcutta
A Novel
“No one writes with Theroux’s head-on intensity and

raptness” (Pico Iyer), and nowhere is this more true than
in this riveting tale of obsession and foul play in Calcutta.
J erry Delfont, a travel journalist, leads an aimless life,

struggling in vain against his writer’s block, or “dead
hand,” and flitting around the edges of a halfhearted romance.
Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for his help. The
story it tells is disturbing: a dead boy found on the floor of a
cheap hotel; a seemingly innocent man in flight and fearing
for his reputation as well as his life.
Before long Delfont finds himself lured into the company
of the letter’s author, the wealthy and charming Merrill Unger, ISBN 978-0-54726-024-2 • $26.00
A Dead Hand
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The Great Railway Bazaar. He lives in Hawaii
and on Cape Cod.
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A timely message of giving that’s igniting
Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
The Power of Half

One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking
and Start Giving Back
At a moment when Americans are reevaluating what

really matters, the remarkable story of a family who
set out to make a small difference in the world and
ended up transforming themselves
I t all started when fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen had

a eureka moment. Seeing a homeless man in her neighbor-
hood alongside a glistening Mercedes coupe, she said, “You
know, Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there
could have a meal.”
Until that day, the Salwens had been caught up like so
many of us in the classic American dream—providing a good
life for their children, accumulating more and more stuff,
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doing their part but not really feeling it. So when Hannah
The Power of Half
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house half its size, and give half of their profit to a worthy
charity. At first it was an outlandish scheme. “What, are you
• National author tour including New York,
crazy?” Then it was a challenge: “We are totally doing this.”
Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago,
San Francisco, Los Angeles Their plan eventually transported them across the globe and
• National advertising, including USA Today
well out of their comfort zone. In the end they learned that
they had the power to change a little corner of the world.
• National online promotion with audio/video,
including like-minded web sites for parents, And they found themselves changing, too.
youth groups and communities As Kevin Salwen says, “No one else is nuts enough
• Promotion at NCTE, IRA and ALA to sell their house,” but what his family discovered along
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g a movement, one family at a time
From THE POWER OF HALF
F
OR OVER AN HOUR WE DEBATED THE RELATIVE MERITS
of helping the neediest cases instead of those that need a boost from the
second rung (in other words, emergency nutrition packets versus
a new library). Joan worried aloud whether working with
the neediest might be too disheartening and something
we could never finish. Hannah pushed back that the
“the neediest people are the people who need our help
the most. They have the least chance of succeeding.” I
© found myself marveling at our kids’ capacity to debate issues.
AL
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They cared about the world—yes, even Joseph, the skeptic. They
R EF
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thought more deeply than we had given them credit for. To hell with the
house and the business; I liked where this was headed. I wouldn’t give this up
for anything. ■
Author Pro f i le
KEVIN SALWEN was a reporter and editor at the Wall

Street Journal for more than eighteen years. After his
tenure there, he started a magazine, Motto. He serves
on the board of Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta and
works with the U.S. Olympic Committee.
HANNAH SALWEN will be a junior at the Atlanta Girls’

School, where she plays for the varsity volleyball team,
and is her grade’s representative to the student council.
© ALLISON SHIRREFS
She has been volunteering consistently since the fifth

grade at the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Cafe
458, among others.

Gina Ochsner
The Russian Dreambook

of Color and Flight
A Novel
Compared to Jhumpa Lahiri, Flannery O’Connor, Isabel

Allende, and Gabriel García Márquez, Gina Ochsner
“manages . . . to capture our sundry human moments
and make raw and unforgettable music of them”
(Colum McCann).
Long-listed for the Orange Prize
I n a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia,

there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet.
Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried,
so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade;
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Olga, a translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight army veteran who always wears an aviator’s helmet; and Tanya.
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Associates director hears of a mysterious American group seeking to
fund art in Russia, he charges Tanya with luring them to the
museum—which holds a fantastic and terrible collection of
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chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. But while
Tanya scrambles to save her dreams and her neighbors, she
might also be getting closer to finding love right in her own
• Author appearances courtyard.
• IndieBound advance access
• Advance reading copies GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short
stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace
to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book
Award. Her work has appeared in The New
Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Read-
ing, Glimmer Train, and others. She is a recipi-
© ROBBIE MCCLARAN
ent of the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Ruth

Hindman Foundation Prize, Guggenheim and
NEA grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Keizer, Oregon

Dana Hand
Deep Creek
A Novel
A world-weary ex-marshal, a mysterious and alluring

métis tracker, and a young Chinese mining company
agent set out to solve a hideous crime on the banks
of the Snake River.
I daho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his

young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another
body surfaces, then another. The final toll: more than forty
Chinese gold miners, brutally murdered. Their San Francisco
employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case.
Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an
ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown,
a métis mountain guide with too many secrets. As they track
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canyons and city streets, each must put aside lies and old Deep Creek
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remote and beautiful Hells Canyon, the middle-aged judge

who went after their slayers, and the sham race-murder trial
• Regional author appearances
that followed. This American tragedy was long suppressed
and the victims were nearly forgotten. Deep Creek teams • Online outreach to mystery sites,
including eCard
history and imagination to illuminate how and why, in a
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seamless, fast-moving tale of courage and redemption, loss
and love. It is a dazzling new novel for fans of Leif Enger, • Advance reading copies
Lisa See, and Ivan Doig. • Author website: www.dana-hand.com
DANA HAND is the pen name of Will Howarth and Anne

Matthews. Under their own names, they have published
eighteen nonfiction books on American history, literature,
and public issues. Deep Creek is their first novel.
AUTHORS’ RESIDENCE - Princeton, New Jersey

Beautifully written historical fiction by the masterly Clare Clark,
Clare Clark
Savage Lands
A Novel
A gripping story of love and betrayal from the novelist

whose “rich Dickensian detail” ( Washington Post
Book World) and compelling characters have made
her beloved by readers and critics alike
I t is 1704, and while the Sun King, Louis XIV, rules France
from the splendor of Versailles, fewer than two hundred
souls live in Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his
honor. When the struggling settlers send a request that wives
be dispatched from France, Elisabeth is among the twenty-
three girls who set sail, to be married to men they know
absolutely nothing about. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth
has little hope for happiness in her new life. Thus she is
astonished when she, alone among the brides, finds herself
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Savage Lands
a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier.
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adjust to a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a
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betrays them both, they find themselves bound together
in ways they never anticipated.
• National print advertising, including With the same compelling prose and vividly realized
the New York Times Book Review characters that won her widespread acclaim for The Great
• Reading group promotion Stink and The Nature of Monsters, Clare Clark takes us deep
• Advance reading copies into the heart of colonial French Louisiana.
* New York Times

whose “larger gift lies in the originality of her imagination” *
From
li s a b e t h s q u i r m e d d o w n t h e b e d , struggle to recall the girl she was before him,

E pulling the quilt over her head, burying
herself beneath its comforting weight. Of all
when her self was all in her head, and her body
was only trunk and arms and legs, its passing
the things she had brought with appetites satisfied by a warm cloak
her to Louisiana he loved the or an apricot tart. With him, in this
sea-green quilt the best. He liked
He had strange land, where the swamp whis-
to tease her that he would have breat hed his pered and the vast fruits swelled and
married her for the quilt alone wa rm life rotted, she was flesh, all flesh. The
and, when he took it in his arms weight of her, once densely crammed
and danced with it about the
in t o he r. into her head, now tangled itself luxuri-
cabin, twirling its skirts in sea- ously about her ribs and tingled in her
green swoops, she laughed, swallowing the limbs. Her skin eased and opened. Her muscles
prickle of disquiet that caught in her throat. melted. Even her bones softened, so that she
The quilt smelled of him. She inhaled and moved with the indolence of a sun-drunk cat.
again her body stirred. These days she had to He had breathed his warm life into her. ■
CLARE CLARK is the author of The Great Stink, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year,
and The Nature of Monsters. She discovered the story of Louisiana and the first French
settlers in America when working on The Nature of Monsters, which is set in London in the
same period, and did much of the research for Savage Lands in the Historic Collection in
New Orleans. The story of Elisabeth Savaret is based on the true story of the women who
© MARC SCHLOSSMAN
became known as the casket girls, young girls of marriageable age who were sent from
France to Louisiana as wives for the colonists. Many residents of New Orleans still claim
to be descended from these original casket girls.

Marion Meade
Lonelyhearts
The Screwball World of Nathanael West
and Eileen McKenney
“ The brief lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

make a great story, and Marion Meade tells it with flair,
erudition, and consummate wit. A literary page-turner.”
—Diane Jacobs, author of Christmas in July:
The Life and Art of Preston Sturges
N athanael West—novelist, screenwriter, playwright,

devoted outdoorsman—was one of the most gifted and
original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight
into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is
famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and
The Day of the Locust (1939), renowned as the most pene-
trating novel ever written about Hollywood.
ISBN 978-0-15-101149-0 • $28.00
Eileen McKenney—accidental muse, literary heroine—
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restores West and McKenney to their rightful places in the
• National media from New York rich cultural tapestry of interwar America.
• Postcard mailing for bookstores
MARION MEADE is the author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub
Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties and Dorothy Parker:
What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written
biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton,
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and
Victoria Woodhull and edited The Portable
Dorothy Parker. Her two novels are Stealing
Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard
© JERRY BAUER
and Sybille.

52 MARCH • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com
Melissa Milgrom
Still Life
Adventures in Taxidermy
An intimate journey through the world of taxidermy

by a New York Times contributor who recently stuffed
her first squirrel
I t’s easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid side-

line, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachro-
nistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet it is a world full
of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted
museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of
creating the illusion of life.
Into this subculture of insanely passionate animal lovers
ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose journey stretches
from the family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the
American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an ISBN 978-0-618-40547-3 • $25.00
English sculptor preserves the animals for Damien Hirst’s Still Life
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• Online outreach to taxidermy websites,
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formed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, of Natural History
Milgrom takes us deep into the world of taxidermy and • Presence at the World Taxidermy
reveals its uncanny appeal. Championship
• Author website: www.melissamilgrom.com
MELISSA MILGROM has written for the

New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and
© ULALUME PHOTOGRAPHY
Travel & Leisure, among other publications;

she has also produced radio segments for
National Public Radio. She has a master’s
degree in American studies from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Brooklyn, New York

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • MARCH 53
Exciting new editions of two flagship titles
Roger Tory Peterson
Peterson Field Guide®
to Birds of Eastern and
Central North America,
Sixth Edition
Peterson Field Guide®

to Birds of Western North
America, Fourth Edition
W ITH ALL-NEW RANGE MAP S,

updated text, and 40 new paintings, the
completely revised editions of two classic Peterson
Field Guides are sure to be valuable additions to any
birder’s pocket or daypack. At a trim size of 5 x 8,
they are portable but also beautifully illustrated.
Photographs, while modern-looking and colorful,
capture just one moment in time. The paintings in
these guides, however, show all of a bird’s key field
THE BEST-SELLING FIELD GUIDE since
marks and use the Peterson Identification System
1934, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern
to make bird identification easier for beginning
and Central North America is now in its sixth edition.
and intermediate bird watchers.
With clear, succinct accounts of more than 500 species,
A team of professional birders has updated
accurate and beautiful paintings on 159 color plates,
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and 512 maps annotated with extensive range infor-
Expert birders also created 33 entertaining and
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ROGER TORY PETERSON (1908–1996),
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received every major award for ornithology,
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as numerous honorary degrees, medals,
and citations, including the Presidential
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tion System has been called the greatest
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LAST UPDATED IN 1990, the Peterson Field These editions include updated material
Guide to Western Birds covers nearly 600 species by Michael O’Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill
on 176 color plates, with 588 comprehensive range Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry
maps, now included with the illustrations. Every Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.
bird watcher in western North America will want
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Ray Banks
No More Heroes
A Cal Innes Novel
The explosive third novel in the “audacious and volatile”

(Boston Globe) Cal Innes series
I t’s the hottest summer on record in Manchester, England,

and down-at-heel private eye Cal Innes is struggling to keep
cool. He has taken a job evicting families on behalf of local
slumlord Donald Plummer, while the English National
Socialists bring racial tensions to the boiling point. A fire-
bomb attack on a Plummer property thrusts Innes into the
spotlight when he rescues a child from the burning building.
But when Plummer hires him to track down the arsonists,
Innes finds himself dealing with more than neo-Nazis and his
rapidly worsening addiction to painkillers. Time is running
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RAY BANKS has been a double-glazing sales-

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degrees of disgruntled temp. The author of
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The Big Blind, Saturday’s Child, and Sucker

Punch, he was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
North Tyneside, England

Anil Ananthaswamy
The Edge of Physics

A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to
Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
An intrepid journalist takes us from desolate

deserts to derelict mines to answer some of
the most burning questions in physics today.
P hysics is in crisis. For more than two centuries, our

understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly.
But in the past few decades we’ve made astonishingly little
progress. What will finally break the impasse and get physics
back on track?
In this timely and original book, science writer Anil
Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the world’s most auda-
cious physics experiments: the telescopes and detectors that
promise to shed new light on things like dark matter, dark ISBN 978-0-618-88468-1 • $25.00
The Edge of Physics
energy, and the phenomenon of quantum gravity (which
MARCH • Physics/Astronomy • 288 pages
string theory tries to explain). He soon finds himself at the
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a human process and in a very real sense brings cosmology—
with all its rarefied concepts—back down to earth.
ANIL ANANTHASWAMY is a consulting editor for New

Scientist in London, where he has also worked as a deputy
news editor. He also contributes to National Geographic News.

Author of the national bestseller
Temple Grandin
and Catherine Johnson
Animals Make Us Human

Creating the Best Life for Animals
“For pet owners, Temple Grandin’s perspective

is invaluable.”—Entertainment Weekly
H ow can we give animals the best life—for them?

What does an animal need to be happy?
In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in
Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience
with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal
scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals
think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show
us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on
their terms, not ours.
Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually
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easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder.
Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin
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• National author tour, including Chicago, pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in
Los Angeles, Tempe, Tucson, Miami, the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us
St. Louis, Atlanta to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment
• Major print and online advertising, including and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.
the New York Times and People magazine
Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost
• Pitch to national morning shows thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience.
• Online promotion to animal and autism groups, This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever owned,
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cared for, or simply cared about an animal.
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ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION
Praise for Animals Make Us Human

“Ms. Grandin loves solid, declarative sentences: ‘Cattle hate being yelled at’;
‘Pigs are obsessed with straw’; ‘Cows like to learn new things.’ So I’ll add one of my own:
We’re lucky to have Temple Grandin.”—New York Times
“A practical, species-by-species guide to making animals happier.”—Time

“[Grandin’s] extraordinary new book . . . makes a connection between the
humane treatment of farm animals and the physically and emotionally healthy life
that household pets deserve.”—Bookpage
Praise for ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION

“Neurology has Oliver Sacks, nature has Annie Dillard, and the lucky animal
world has Grandin, a master intermediary between humans and our fellow
beasts . . . At once hilarious, fascinating, and just plain weird, Animals is one
of those rare books that elicits a ‘wow’ on almost every page. A.”
—Entertainment Weekly
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TEMPLE GRANDIN earned her Ph.D. in animal science from the

University of Illinois and went on to become a professor at Colorado
State University. She is the author of four previous books, including
the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation.
She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
© JOEL BENJAMIN
CATHERINE JOHNSON, Ph.D. is a writer specializing in neuropsychia-

try and the brain. She cowrote Animals in Translation and has served as a
trustee of the National Alliance for Autism Research. She lives in New
York City.
paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • JANUARY7 61

Jonathan Lopez
The Man Who

Made Vermeers
Unvarnishing the Legend of
Master Forger Han van Meegeren
“Profoundly researched, focused, absorbing . . .

The Man Who Made Vermeers brings hard light to
van Meegeren’s machinations and (very bad) character.”
—The New Yorker
Edgar Award nominee for Best Fact Crime
I t’s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren

famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World
War II: a lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge
Vermeer paintings, one of which he sold to Hermann
Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it’s a story that’s
ISBN 978-0-547-24784-7 • $14.95 been believed ever since. Too bad it isn’t true.
The Man Who Made Vermeers Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen docu-
AUGUST • History • 352 pages • 5 5⁄16 x 8
ments from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new
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in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers
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JONATHAN LOPEZ is a columnist for Art & Antiques.
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José Saramago
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Death with Interruptions

A Novel
“Wonderfully absurd and meditative . . . an endearing

love story that could make anyone sympathize with
death herself.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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“A highly readable and fascinating account of
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The Numerati
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E very day we produce loads of data about ourselves

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The Eleventh Man

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IVAN DOIG was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the
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Donald Hall
Unpacking the Boxes

A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
Poet Laureate of the United States, 2006–2007
“Hall’s direct tone softens the extraordinariness of his

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Paul Tough
Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change
Harlem and America
With a new foreword
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achievement gap. His reporting on Geoffrey
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originally appeared as a Times Magazine
cover story. He lives in New York City.

“Sweet humor and compelling writing make this
Nicholas Drayson
A Guide to the Birds

of East Africa
A Novel
“This book is a sheer delight for birders and

nonbirders alike.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“A quiet, gently humorous tale.”

—National Geographic Traveler
“Will appeal to Alexander McCall Smith fans, but

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F or the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in
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bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological
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From A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

“YOU MEAN NEITHER OF THEM SHOULD ASK HER ?” billiards, arm-wrestling?”
“Not at all, A. B., not at all. One, but not both. “Counting hadadas?” said Patel, failing to stifle
As I see it—and I’m sure our friends would agree a giggle.
with me here—it is our duty as gentlemen to protect As a drowning man is said to clutch at a straw,
such a paragon of femininity from such a trial. And, from his maelstrom of embarrassment and confusion
dare I say it, our duty as members of the Asadi Mr. Malik clutched at that word.
Club?” “Yes, that’s it,” he said.
“Exactly what are you suggesting, Tiger?” “What’s it?” said Mr. Gopez. “A bit of augury
“I am suggesting, A. B., that there must be a you want, is it, a bit of divination? Spread out the
fair way of deciding who should have the honour entrails and see what they say?”
of first invitation.” “No, a contest, a competition. Counting birds.
“Right on.” Harry Khan was grinning from Who can identify the most species of birds in . . .
ear to ear. “So what’s it going to be—poker, in a week, say.” ■
“As bright and perky as a purple-backed sunbird.”

NICHOLAS DRAYSON has written extensively about wildlife and natural history; he
is also the author of Confessing a Murder, which was hailed by Booklist for its “view of
Darwin never before seen.” An Englishman by birth, Drayson lived in Nairobi for two
years. He now lives in Australia.
© DAVID PATERSON

Emma Donoghue
The Sealed Letter

A Novel
“All in all, a deliciously wicked little romp, complete

with a clever twist at the end.”—Seattle Times
“Good lines there are in abundance. And in the end,

The Sealed Letter provides both the titillating
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Ms. Hempel Chronicles
“When I opened this utterly charming novel, I fell

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M s. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—

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“The Toss of a Lemon joins the
Padma Viswanathan
The Toss of a Lemon

A Novel
“The Toss of a Lemon is a captivating novel that

in relating the story of one Indian woman and her
family tells the story of a changing society. I challenge
any reader to start reading this book and give up on it.”
—Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi*
S ivakami is married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left

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caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow’s whites.
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“A brilliant tour de force.”

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She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Lydia Millet
How the Dead Dream

A Novel
“Millet . . . has pulled off her funniest, most shrewdly

thoughtful and touching novel. If Kurt Vonnegut
were still alive, he would be extremely jealous.”
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2008

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John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Crash, 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith’s classic, with a new introduction
by his son, James K. Galbraith
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Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He holds the Lloyd
M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government and Business Relations
at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the
University of Texas, Austin.

“[Lehrer is] expert at both storytelling and hard
Jonah Lehrer
How We Decide
A New York Times Bestseller
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to the practical lessons from the new neuroscience.”
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Alice Sebold, editor Alice
Heidi Pitlor, series editor Sebold
editor
The Best American
Short Stories® 2009
“A short fiction juggernaut.”—Wall Street Journal
E dited by the critically acclaimed, best-selling author

Alice Sebold, the stories in this year’s collection serve
as a provocative literary “antenna for what is going on in
the world” (Chicago Tribune). The volume boasts great vari-
ety, from “famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines
and little reviews, grand and little worlds” (St. Louis Post-
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 of the oldest and most popular Best American. Contributors
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• Academic promotion HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin.

Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the
author of the novel The Birthdays.
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Mary Oliver, editor • Robert Atwan, series editor
Mary
The Best American Essays® 2009 Oliver
editor
“If there’s a better reading companion for a long flight or a
short vacation, I can’t think what it might be.”—Buffalo News
C ontributors include Patricia Hampl, Michael Lewis, Jill McCorkle,

Cynthia Ozick, John Updike, and others.
MARY OLIVER is the author of twenty books, including The Leaf and the
Cloud and What Do We Know. Her many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Award.
ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays ISBN 978-0-618-98272-1 • $14.00
since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies The Best American Essays 2009
and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. OCTOBER • Essays • 320 pages
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Dave Eggers, editor • Marjane Satrapi, introducer

Dave
The Best American Nonrequired Eggers
editor
Reading™ 2009
“A bouillabaisse of nonrequired reading that should be required.”
—Publishers Weekly
T his “great volume” highlights the “very best of this year’s fiction,
nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and more” (OK! ).
DAVE EGGERS is the editor of McSweeney’s and a cofounder of 826
National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for youth
located in seven cities across the United States. He is the author of four
books, including What Is the What and How We Are Hungry. ISBN 978-0-547-24160-9 • $14.00
The Best American
MARJANE SATRAPI is the author of the internationally best-selling and
Nonrequired Reading 2009
award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and
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Persepolis 2. Her other books include Embroideries and Chicken with
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Plums, and she is a regular contributor to many publications, including
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The New Yorker and the New York Times.
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Jeffrey Deaver, editor • Otto Penzler, series editor
The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009
Jeffrey
“Top-notch . . . offers superb writing from authors
Deaver
both well and little known.”—Publishers Weekly editor
T he best-selling novelist Jeffrey Deaver edits this latest collection

of the genre’s finest from the past year. Contributors include Tom
Bissell, Michael Connelly, Stephen King, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol
Oates, and others.
JEFFERY DEAVER is the best-selling author of The Bodies Left Behind,
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 The Empty Chair, The Devil’s Teardrop, and fifteen other suspense novels.
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OTTO PENZLER is the founder of the Mysterious Bookshop and the
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Mysterious Press and is an Edgar Award winner.
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Deaver: North Carolina / Penzler: New York City
Elizabeth Kolbert, editor • Tim Folger, series editor

Elizabeth
The Best American Science Kolbert
and Nature Writing™ 2009 editor
“A wonderful series . . . where students find plenty of inspiration.”

—New Scientist
E lizabeth Kolbert, one of today’s leading environmental journalists,

edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.
Contributors include Sue Halpern, Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks,
Nicholas Carr, and others.
ELIZABETH KOLBERT was a political reporter for the New York Times for
fourteen years before joining The New Yorker in 1999. Her series on global
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The Best American Science for the Advancement of Science’s magazine writing award. Her stories
and Nature Writing 2009 have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother
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Kolbert: Williamstown, Massachusetts / Folger: Gallup, New Mexico

Simon Winchester, editor • Jason Wilson, series editor
The Best American Travel Writing™ 2009 Simon
Winchester
“The writing in this volume is so vibrantly good, you’ll feel like editor
you’ve armchair-traveled around the world.”—Chicago Sun Times
A cclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye

to this year’s volume of the finest travel writing from the past year.
Contributors include André Aciman, Lynne Cox, Kiran Desai, Chuck
Klosterman, Calvin Trillin, and others.
SIMON WINCHESTER’s many books include The Professor and the Mad-
man, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge ISBN 978-0-618-85866-8 • $14.00
of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and has The Best American Travel Writing 2009
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JASON WILSON is a columnist for the Washington Post‘s food section,
as well as the editor of the online magazine The Smart Set.
Winchester: Massachusetts and New York City
Wilson: Haddonfield, New Jersey
Leigh Montville, editor • Glenn Stout, series editor Leigh

Montville
The Best American Sports editor
Writing™ 2009
“Memorable reading . . . a must for all sports collections.”—Booklist
W ell established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American

Sports Writing brings together the year’s finest writing on sports.
Contributors include Michael Lewis, Amby Burfoot, Lisa Taddeo, Paul
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GLENN STOUT is the author of Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The
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Dodgers, and The Cubs. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports
Writing since its inception.
Montville: Winthrop, Massachusetts / Stout: Alburg, Vermont

Charles Burns, editor Charles
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, series editors Burns
editor
The Best American
Comics™ 2009
Cover art by Michael Kupperman
“It’s hard to flip through this book without finding a lot

worth reading (and rereading).”—The Onion, AV Club
N ow in its fourth year, The Best American Comics show-

cases the work of both established and up-and-coming
contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator,
and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best
stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,
magazines, mini-comics, and the web to create this excep-
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Chris Ware, KAZ, and Robert Crumb, this volume is
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“a genuine salute to comics” (Houston Chronicle).
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CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work

rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in the
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regional holiday catalogs of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to ads
• Promotion at MoCCA (Museum of for Altoids. Burns has illustrated covers for Time, The New
Comic and Cartoon Art) Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped
as the official cover artist for the Believer at its inception in
2003. His eagerly awaited graphic novel Black Hole, published
in 2005, received over a dozen Harvey Awards. Along with
several other prominent graphic artists, Burns collaborated
on Fear(s) of the Dark, an animated French horror film now
touring the United States.
JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida

as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her
series Artbabe. MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author
of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together, they are
the authors of Drawing Words and Writing Pictures.
EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Burns: Philadelphia

Abel and Madden: Brooklyn, New York
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John Harwood
The Séance
“Harwood’s spellbinding second novel . . . pays homage
to such nineteenth-century suspense masters as Wilkie
Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu . . . Harwood invokes the
hoariest clichés of supernatural suspense, from stormy
nights to haunted houses, and effortlessly makes them
his own.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
W raxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English

countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family
disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inher-
ited this dark place as well as the mysteries surrounding it.
Having grown up in a house marked by the death of her
sister, Constance is no stranger to mystery, secrets, and the
dark magic around us. Her father was distant. Her mother
was in perpetual mourning for her lost child. In a desperate
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the central presence in The Ghost Writer.
Harwood lives in Victor Harbor, South Australia.

Christopher Hibbert
The Borgias and Their

Enemies: 1431–1519
“A heavily researched and generally engrossing account

of a famous dynasty.”—Publishers Weekly
“A straightforward, carefully researched narrative . . .

Hibbert’s unsensationalized account of sensational
material makes a fascinating read.”—Library Journal
T he first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years,

Christopher Hibbert’s latest history brings the family
and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian
Renaissance—to life.
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption,
nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The
ISBN 978-0-547-24781-6 • $15.95 powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history
The Borgias and Their Enemies as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty.
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marriage, and murder. The story of the family’s dramatic
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society is an absorbing tale.
CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT (1924–2008) wrote

more than fifty acclaimed books, including
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici
and Rome: The Biography of a City. A leading
popular historian whose works reflected
meticulous scholarship, he was a fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature.

Betty Fussell
Raising Steaks
The Life and Times of American Beef
James Beard Award nominee
“Fussell approaches her subject with an uncommon

capacity to suspend judgment, the better to collect
as much information as possible . . . You can’t help
admiring Fussell’s tireless willingness to crawl through
thornbrush, ride in a parade dressed up as a cowgirl,
sit through industry conferences, and suit up in near-
biohazard gear to learn butchering.”—New York Times
“[Fussell’s] adventurous spirit is contagious, as is her

unabashed pleasure in details.”—Saveur
W hen we bite into a steak’s charred crust and pink

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ethical and environmental implications of modern meat . . .
yet leaves us with a powerful hankering for a thick T-bone
grilled rare” (Michael Pollan).
BETTY FUSSELL is the author of ten previ-

ous books, including The Story of Corn and
My Kitchen Wars. A contributor to the New York
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Times, The New Yorker, Saveur, Food & Wine,

Gastronomica, and other publications, she has
also lectured widely on food history. Western
born, she lives in New York City.

“These books reaffirm the author’s status as one
George Orwell
Compiled and with an introduction
by George Packer
Facing Unpleasant Facts

Narrative Essays
“These books reaffirm the author’s status as one of the

definitive essayists in English literature . . . Throughout
these essays, we are confronted with his humanism,
which, as much as his intellect, motivates his work.”
—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times*
G eorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, produc-

ing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short
nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times
in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write something,”
comments George Packer in his foreword, “it was as natural
for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—
in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens
to invent.”
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Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell’s development
Facing Unpleasant Facts
as a master of the narrative essay and unites such classics as
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& Company Limited bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish
Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the
political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken
and brilliantly complex.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950) served with

the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the
Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and
was a member of the Home Guard and a writer
for the BBC during World War II. He is the
author of many works of nonfiction and fiction.
GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the
author of The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq and other works.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

of the definitive essayists in English literature.” *
George Orwell
Compiled by George Packer
Introduction by Keith Gessen
All Art Is Propaganda

Critical Essays
“We know Orwell for his novels, but it’s the way he
saw the politics of language that makes him relevant.”
—Newsweek
A s a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at

home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin,
he moved back and forth across the porous borders between
essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commen-
tator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his
career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the
1940s, when his most important experiences were behind
him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is
Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after
piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise
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He is a founding editor of n+1 and has written about literature
and culture for Dissent, The Nation, The New Yorker, and the
New York Review of Books. He is the author of the novel All the
Sad Young Literary Men.

“It’s all here—high society, big money, blue
Meryl Gordon
Mrs. Astor Regrets

The Hidden Betrayals of a
Family Beyond Reproach
New York Times bestseller
“An even-handed and fascinating portrait of a

wealthy family torn apart by money, jealousy,
and emotional distance.”—USA Today
“A riveting cautionary tale of privilege, family

resentment, and greed, Mrs. Astor Regrets
reads like good fiction.”—National Public Radio
Updated with a new afterword
T he fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist

with the storied name, has generated worldwide head-
lines since her grandson Philip sued his father, Anthony
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Marshall, in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. Shortly
Mrs. Astor Regrets
after her death in 2007, Anthony was indicted on charges
OCTOBER • Current Affairs • 352 pages
of looting her estate.
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Hochman large staff who cared for her during her declining years.
The result is the behind-the-headlines story of the Astor
empire’s unraveling, filled with never-before-reported scenes.
• National print and online advertising, including This powerful, poignant saga takes the reader inside the
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filled with secrets of the sort that have engaged Americans
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from the era of Edith Wharton to the more recent days of
Truman Capote. Even in this territory of privilege, no riches
can put things right once they’ve been torn asunder. Mrs.
Astor Regrets is an American epic about the bonds of money,
morality, and social position.
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blood, family feuds, and criminal charges.” *
Praise for Mrs. Astor Regrets

“One riveting read.”—People
“I admit I picked up [Mrs. Astor Regrets] thinking I didn’t want to read one more word about
whether Brooke was exploited, extorted, or left to languish. It seemed too painful. But on the other
hand, it was news bound up in the essence of an Edith Wharton novel. And, incredibly, it is fair,
unbiased reporting. The story is simply riveting and so well told.”
—Liz Smith, New York Post
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Author Profile
MERYL GORDON is a full-time magazine journalist who has written for New York, the
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such influential figures as Kofi Annan, Mike Bloomberg, and John Kerry, and such stars
as Nicole Kidman, Susan Sarandon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is a graduate
of the University of Michigan. Gordon is currently the director of magazine writing at
NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and is covering Anthony Marshall’s trial
for Vanity Fair.
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Dani Shapiro, editor
John Kulka and Natalie Danford, series editors
Best New American

Voices 2010
Praise for the Best New American Voices series
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“Jane Whitefield is one of the most original and
An Otto Penzler Book
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“ here are some things you should know before “You’re . . . retired?”
we go any further. This isn’t as simple as it “It was never a job, never a business. I simply
was ten years ago when Sharon came to me. It’s stopped doing it about five years ago. The last
not as safe. I made a lot of people disappear before person I took out of the world was me.”
I met her, and a lot after her. For every runner there Christine said, “Are you saying that you’re
are chasers, and some of them have seen my face. not going to be able to help me?”
There are people looking for me—people who “No. I just need you to know what comes
would do anything to get me in a small room some- with my help. It isn’t all good.”
place where they can ask me questions. It’s possi- She looked at her reflection in the mirror
ble that the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done in her borrowed clothes, shrugged, and turned
is come here to see me.” She paused. “That’s one to Jane. “Then what’s next?”
of the reasons why I stopped doing this.” “Now we run.” ■
THOMAS PERRY is the author of the Jane Whitefield series as well as the best-selling
novels Nightlife, Death Benefits, and Pursuit, the first recipient of the Gumshoe Award
for Best Novel. He won the Edgar Award for The Butcher’s Boy, and Metzger’s Dog was
a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Perry lives in southern California.
© JO PERRY
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Richard Brautigan
Introduction by Billy Collins
Trout Fishing in America
A single-volume edition of Richard Brautigan’s

counterculture masterpiece, to be published
on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth
R ichard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and

1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision
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everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury
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The next thrilling installment in
Matt Beynon Rees
The Samaritan’s Secret

An Omar Yussef mystery
“Provocative . . . In a culture that thinks of terrorist

bombers as martyrs, Rees’s modest protagonist, an
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this decent man proved his courage by daring to keep
an open mind in a closed society.”
“Absorbing . . . Rees vividly illustrates daily Palestinian

life, where violence is a constant threat and religious
attitudes permeate each decision.”
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O mar Yussef journeys to Nablus with his family for the
wedding of his policeman friend Sami Jaffari. Omar
had met Sami and his fiancée on a previous trip to Gaza.
The Samaritan’s Secret
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the Omar Yussef mystery series
from The Samaritan’s Secret
T he priest went out onto the wide top step at the

entrance to the synagogue. As Omar Yussef and
Sami followed him to the door, they heard footsteps
chest heaved with the effort of running down the
street. He flinched when he saw Sami’s uniform.
“Who’s dead?” Sami spoke sharply.
hurrying outside. Ben-Tabia froze, The young man glanced at
his eyes wide. the priest, but Sami descended a
A breathless voice called to
“Your Honor,
few steps and leaned toward him.
the priest from the steps: “Long life “Come on, what’s happened?”
we have to call
to you.” Ben-Tabia looked quickly The breathless man looked
at Sami, then dropped his eyes over Sami’s shoulder and called to
the police.”
to the floor. Omar Yussef took a the priest. “It’s Ishaq, Your Honor.
short breath and felt the muscles Ishaq is up on top of Mount Jerizim
in his back tighten. The traditional greeting meant at the temple.”
someone else’s life had ended. The voice came again: “Why shouldn’t he be?” The priest spoke
“Your Honor, we have to call the police.” slowly, as though his tongue were prodding through
Sami stepped through the door. Omar Yussef a minefield.
followed. A tall young man with a thick mustache The young man coughed hard. “Your Honor,
stood at the foot of the last flight of steps. His thin Ishaq has been murdered.” ■
MATT BEYNON REES is the former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time. His Omar Yussef
mysteries include The Collaborator of Bethlehem, which won the Crime Writers’ Associa-
tion New Blood Dagger Award, and A Grave in Gaza. He is also the author of the nonfiction
work Cain’s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East. Born in Wales, he lives
in Jerusalem.
© DAVID BLUMENFELD

Jan Wong
A Comrade Lost and Found

A Beijing Story
“Essential and compulsively readable. Wong asks

the Cultural Revolution’s underlying human question
—how could so many betray others, and live with it
now?—and answers it with a great story: her own.”
—Nicole Mones, author of The Last Chinese Chef
“The drama of the search for her lost comrade

gives the book the fast pace of a thriller and
the razor-blade focus of a heartfelt memoir.”
—Oliver August, author of Inside the Red Mansion
I n the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution,

Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners permitted
to study at Beijing University. One day a fellow student, Yin
Luoyi, asked for help getting to the United States. Wong,
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Phone numbers, addresses, and even names change with
startling frequency. In a society determined to bury the past,
Yin Luoyi will be hard to find.
As Wong traces her way from one former comrade to the
next, she unearths not only the fate of the woman she betrayed
but a web that mirrors the strange and dramatic journey of
contemporary China and rekindles all of her love for—and
disillusionment with—her ancestral land.
JAN WONG was the Beijing correspondent for

the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1988 to 1994
and received a George Polk Award and other
© GEORGE WHITESIDE
honors for her reporting. She has written

for the New York Times and the Wall Street
Journal, among other publications, and is the
author of three books, including Red China
Blues. She lives in North York, Ontario.

Philip Dray
Capitol Men
The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through
the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
“Casts fresh light on the positive aspects of

Reconstruction and powerfully dramatizes its
negative side . . . Exhilarating and disturbing.”
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Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize. Dray lives in Brooklyn,
New York.

“This tale stands out as one of courage,
Debra Gwartney
Live Through This

A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway
Daughters and Reclaimed Love
“A heartbreaking memoir . . . This tale stands out as one

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Her ability to follow the wildness in her own story
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I SPOONED PURPLISH DOUGH INTO RATTLING

paper cups, relaxed for the first time that
day. Even the girls’ bickering proved we
I focused only on the way steam rose when I
broke one in half, and the way the soft insides
soaked up a dab of butter until every crumb
were doing it: faking a normal life. Getting was yellow and glistening. The softness in
through whatever this was with Amanda and my mouth and in my daughters’ mouths.
Stephanie, this inexplicable thing they’d The sweet softness.
entered that had left Mary and Mollie raw and What I didn’t think about was how
fearful and me wondering if the muscles in my to live with the fact that other daughters
neck would ever again unclench. Tonight a were gone. Or how to get past my fortress
few items in my kitchen had come together in of defensiveness over their leaving. How to
a sweet, warm whole, soothing the helpless- live with being a failure. How to live with
ness I felt most of the time and muting the the whiffs of relief that would sometimes
remorse that lived in the shallow caves under come upon me about their absence. Or
my shoulder blades. For a few minutes any- how I missed them with a ferocity that
way. When the muffins were out of the oven, was turning me inside out. ■
DEBRA GWARTNEY is a former reporter for the Oregonian newspaper and worked
as a correspondent for Newsweek for ten years. She teaches writing at Portland State
University. She is the mother of four daughters and is married to the writer Barry Lopez.
She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
© STEVE BLOCH

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Reference
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The American Heritage® Roget’s II: The American Heritage® The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the The New Thesaurus, Science Dictionary Dictionary of
English Language Third Edition 978-0-618-88274-8 Business Terms
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978-0-618-94725-6
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Chambers/Larousse
Lost Crafts: The Chambers Foyle’s Philavery: Larousse Unabridged

Rediscovering Dictionary, A Treasury of Dictionary:
Traditional Skills Eleventh Edition Unusual Words Spanish-English/
by Una McGovern 978-0-550-10289-8 Collected by English-Spanish
978-0-550-10426-7 $50.00 Christopher Foyle 978-2-03-540221-9
$24.95 978-0-550-10329-1 $64.50
$15.95
Larousse Advanced Larousse Chinese Guía para mamás

Dictionary: Phrasebook primerizas
French-English/ 978-2-03-542155-1 (Guide for New Mothers)
English-French $5.95 978-970-22-1314-7
978-2-03-542132-6 $7.95
$45.00

Field Guides/Gardening
A selection of new and best-selling titles
Peterson Field Guide® to Birdsong by the Seasons Understanding

Birds of North America by Donald Kroodsma Perennials
by Roger Tory Peterson 978-0-618-75336-9 by William Cullina
978-0-618-966614-1 $28.00 978-0-618-88346-2
$26.00 $40.00
Falconer on the Edge The Frogs and Toads of North America

by Rachel Dickinson by Lang Elliott, Carl Gerhardt,
978-0-618-80623-2 and Carlos Davidson
$24.00 978-0-618-66399-6
$19.95

The Young Birder’s Guide Peterson Field Guide® Peterson First Guide® to Kaufman Field Guide to
to Birds of Eastern to Stars and Planets Birds of North America Birds of North America
North America by Jay M. Pasachoff by Roger Tory Peterson by Kenn Kaufman
by Bill Thompson III 978-0-395-93431-9 978-0-395-90666-8 978-0-618-57423-0
978-0-547-11934-2 $19.00 $19.00 $18.95
$14.95
Kaufman Field Guide Letters from Eden The Shorebird Guide

to Butterflies of by Julie Zickefoose by Michael O’Brien,
North America 978-0-618-57308-0 Richard Crossley,
by Jim P. Brock and $26.00 and Kevin Karlson
Kenn Kaufman 978-0-618-43294-3
978-0-618-76826-4 $24.95
$19.95
Index
All Art Is Propaganda George Orwell......................................89 Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien Ms. Hempel Chronicles ......................73
The American Heritage® College Dictionary, Fourth Edition ...108 Capitol Men Philip Dray.......................................................103
The American Heritage® High School Dictionary, Chambers Chambers Concise Dictionary ...............................111
Fourth Edition.....................................................................109
Chambers The Chambers Thesaurus .....................................111
Ananthaswamy, Anil The Edge of Physics .................................57
Chambers Concise Dictionary Chambers ...............................111
The Chambers Thesaurus Chambers .....................................111
Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson .................................60
Baker, Stephen The Numerati.................................................64 Choron, Sandra and Harry Planet Wedding.............................99
Banks, Ray No More Heroes ....................................................56 Clark, Clare Savage Lands......................................................50
The Best American Comics™ 2009 Charles Burns, ed...............84 A Comrade Lost and Found Jan Wong....................................102
The Best American Essays® 2009 Mary Oliver, ed. ....................81 The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths............................................42
The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009 Jeffrey Deaver, ed....82 A Dead Hand Paul Theroux...................................................45
The Best American Nonrequired Reading™ 2009 Death with Interruptions José Saramago .................................63
Dave Eggers, ed.....................................................................81 Deaver, Jeffrey, ed. The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009...82
The Best American Science and Nature Writing™ 2009 Deep Creek Dana Hand ..........................................................49
Elizabeth Kolbert, ed. ............................................................82
Doig, Ivan The Eleventh Man .................................................66
The Best American Short Stories® 2009 Alice Sebold, ed. .........80
Donoghue, Emma The Sealed Letter .......................................72
The Best American Sports Writing™ 2009
Leigh Montville, ed................................................................83 Drabble, Margaret The Pattern in the Carpet ...........................15
The Best American Travel Writing™ 2009 Dray, Philip Capitol Men ......................................................103
Simon Winchester, ed. ...........................................................83
Drayson, Nicholas A Guide to the Birds of East Africa ..............70
Best New American Voices 2010 Dani Shapiro, ed.....................92
The Edge of Physics Anil Ananthaswamy..................................57
The Big Burn Timothy Egan ..................................................24
Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries
Bird, Larry, and Earvin Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullan 100 Words for Foodies ............................................................35
When the Game Was Ours ........................................................8
Egan, Timothy The Big Burn .................................................24
Blood in the Cage L. Jon Wertheim ..........................................95
Eggers, Dave, ed. The Best American Nonrequired™
Blood Matters Masha Gessen ..................................................93 Reading 2009........................................................................81
Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta Larousse Mexico .....................119 Eisenberg, John That First Season..........................................19
La boda perfecta Larousse Mexico ........................................120 The Eleventh Man Ivan Doig ..................................................66
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519 Eliot, Lise Pink Brain, Blue Brain ..........................................16
Christopher Hibbert..............................................................86
Eliot, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats ......................122
Brautigan, Richard Trout Fishing in America...........................98
Enciclopedia quod 2010 Larousse Mexico .............................118
Burns, Charles, ed. The Best American Comics™ 2009 .............84
Facing Unpleasant Facts George Orwell..................................88
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Index
Friendly Fire A. B. Yehoshua ..................................................94 Inglés método inicial Larousse Mexico ..................................116
Fun with Problems Robert Stone ............................................43 Inglés método integral nivel 1 Larousse Mexico......................117
Fussell, Betty Raising Steaks...................................................87 Inglés método integral nivel 2 Larousse Mexico......................117
Galbraith, John Kenneth The Great Crash, 1929 .....................77 Inklings Jeffrey Koterba..........................................................32
Gessen, Masha Blood Matters .................................................93 The Italian Slow Cooker Michele Scicolone .............................44
Gessen, Masha Perfect Rigor...................................................29 Jiménez, Francisco Más allá de mí ........................................123
Giblin, James Cross The Rise and Fall of Senator Jiménez, Francisco Reaching Out..........................................123
Joe McCarthy ......................................................................122
Johnson, Catherine, and Temple Grandin Animals Make Us
The Gift of Thanks Margaret Visser ........................................34 Human.................................................................................60
Gordon, Meryl Mrs. Astor Regrets ...........................................90 Johnson, Earvin Magic, and Larry Bird with Jackie MacMullan
When the Game Was Ours ........................................................8
Gourmet Today Ruth Reichl, ed. .............................................12
Kolbert, Elizabeth, ed. The Best American Science and Nature
Gramática inglesa Larousse Mexico .....................................116
Writing™ 2009 .....................................................................82
Grandin, Temple, and Catherine Johnson Animals Make Us
Koterba, Jeffrey Inklings.........................................................32
Human.................................................................................60
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: French-English/
Grass, Günter The Tin Drum.................................................20
English-French ....................................................................112
The Great Crash,1929 John Kenneth Galbraith .......................77
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: German-English/
Griffiths, Elly The Crossing Places...........................................42 English-German ..................................................................112
Guardarropa ideal Larousse Mexico.....................................120 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Italian-English/
English-Italian ....................................................................112
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Nicholas Drayson ...............70
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Portuguese-English/
Guthrie, Allan Slammer .........................................................28 English-Portuguese...............................................................112
Gwartney, Debra Live Through This .....................................104 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Spanish-English/
English-Spanish...................................................................112
Hablar inglés Larousse Mexico ............................................116
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: French-English/
Hall, Donald Unpacking the Boxes ..........................................68
English-French ....................................................................114
Hand, Dana Deep Creek..........................................................49
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: German-English/
Harwood, John The Séance ....................................................85 English-German ..................................................................115
Hibbert, Christopher The Borgias and Their Enemies: Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Italian-English/
1431–1519 ...........................................................................86 English-Italian ....................................................................115
How the Dead Dream Lydia Millet..........................................76 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Portuguese-English/
English-Portuguese ...............................................................115
How to Be a Movie Star William J. Mann .................................22
Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Spanish-English/
How We Decide Jonah Lehrer .................................................78 English-Spanish...................................................................114
The Humbling Philip Roth.....................................................30 Larousse Bilingual/Spanish Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-
English/ English-Spanish......................................................113
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Index
Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/ Lehrer, Jonah How We Decide.................................................78

English-Spanish Larousse Bilingual ......................................113
The Little Prince Pop-Up Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ................18
Larousse Mexico Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta .....................119
Live Through This Debra Gwartney......................................104
Larousse Mexico La boda perfecta ........................................120
Lonelyhearts Marion Meade ...................................................52
Larousse Mexico Enciclopedia quod 2010 .............................118
Lopez, Jonathan The Man Who Made Vermeers........................62
Larousse Mexico Gramática inglesa .....................................116
Lost Lore Una McGovern .....................................................110
Larousse Mexico Guardarropa ideal.....................................120
Lynch, Barbara, with Joanne Smart Stir ..................................36
Larousse Mexico Hablar inglés ............................................116
Mann, William J. How to Be a Movie Star ................................22
Larousse Mexico Inglés método inicial ..................................116
The Man Who Made Vermeers Jonathan Lopez.........................62
Larousse Mexico Inglés método integral nivel 1......................117
Más allá de mí Francisco Jiménez .........................................123
Larousse Mexico Inglés método integral nivel 2......................117
McGovern, Una Lost Lore ....................................................110
Larousse Mexico El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010 ............118
Meade, Marion Lonelyhearts ..................................................52
Larousse Mexico Salsas mexicanas .......................................119
Meyers, Kent Twisted Tree ......................................................10
Larousse Mexico Sobreviviendo al divorcio............................120
Milgrom, Melissa Still Life .....................................................53
Larousse Mini Dictionary: French-English/ English-French
Larousse Bilingual ...............................................................112 Millet, Lydia How the Dead Dream .........................................76
Larousse Mini Dictionary: German-English/ English-German Montville, Leigh, ed. The Best American Sports Writing™ 2009
Larousse Bilingual ...............................................................112 .............................................................................................83
Larousse Mini Dictionary: Italian-English/ English-Italian Mrs. Astor Regrets Meryl Gordon............................................90
Larousse Bilingual ...............................................................112 Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.......................73
Larousse Mini Dictionary: Portuguese-English/ English-Portuguese No More Heroes Ray Banks .....................................................56
Larousse Bilingual ...............................................................112
The Numerati Stephen Baker .................................................64
Larousse Mini Dictionary: Spanish-English/ English-Spanish
Larousse Bilingual ...............................................................112 Ochsner, Gina The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight ......48
Larousse Pocket Dictionary: French-English/ English-French Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot .......................122
Oliver, Mary, ed. The Best American Essays® 2009....................81
Larousse Pocket Dictionary: German-English/ English-German
100 Words for Foodies
Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries .......................35
Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Italian-English/ English-Italian
Orwell, George All Art Is Propaganda .....................................89
Orwell, George Facing Unpleasant Facts.................................88
Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Portuguese-English/
English-Portuguese Larousse Bilingual ..................................115 The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble............................15
Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Spanish-English/ English-Spanish El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010 Larousse Mexico ............118
Perfect Rigor Masha Gessen....................................................29
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Index
Perry, Thomas Runner...........................................................96 The Séance John Harwood .....................................................85
Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Eastern and Central North Sebold, Alice, ed. The Best American Short Stories® 2009.........80
America, Sixth Edition Roger Tory Peterson ...........................54
Shapiro, Dani, ed. Best New American Voices 2010 ...................92
Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Western North America,
Slammer Allan Guthrie ..........................................................28
Fourth Edition Roger Tory Peterson .......................................55
Sobreviviendo al divorcio Larousse Mexico............................120
Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Eastern
and Central North America, Sixth Edition...............................54 Still Life Melissa Milgrom ......................................................53
®
Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Stir Barbara Lynch with Joanne Smart....................................36
Western North America, Fourth Edition...................................55
Stone, Robert Fun with Problems ...........................................43
Pink Brain, Blue Brain Lise Eliot ...........................................16
Stuever, Hank Tinsel..............................................................38
Planet Wedding Sandra and Harry Choron .............................99
Teachout, Terry Pops .............................................................40
Pops Terry Teachout ..............................................................40
That First Season John Eisenberg...........................................19
The Power of Half Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen ..............46
Theroux, Paul A Dead Hand ..................................................45
Raising Steaks Betty Fussell ...................................................87
The Tin Drum Günter Grass..................................................20
Reaching Out Francisco Jiménez ..........................................123
Tinsel Hank Stuever ..............................................................38
Rees, Matt Beynon The Samaritan’s Secret ...........................100
The Toss of a Lemon Padma Viswanathan ................................74
Reichl, Ruth, ed. Gourmet Today ............................................12
Tough, Paul Whatever It Takes ...............................................69
The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy James Cross
Giblin .................................................................................122 Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan ...........................98
Roth, Philip The Humbling....................................................30 Twisted Tree Kent Meyers.......................................................10
Runner Thomas Perry ...........................................................96 Unpacking the Boxes Donald Hall ...........................................68
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight Gina Ochsner.......48 Visser, Margaret The Gift of Thanks........................................34
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de The Little Prince Pop-Up................18 Viswanathan, Padma The Toss of a Lemon ...............................74
Salsas mexicanas Larousse Mexico .......................................119 Wertheim, L. Jon Blood in the Cage .........................................95
Salwen, Kevin, and Hannah Salwen The Power of Half.............46 Whatever It Takes Paul Tough ................................................69
The Samaritan’s Secret Matt Beynon Rees ............................100 When the Game Was Ours Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson
with Jackie MacMullan ............................................................8
Saramago, José Death with Interruptions ................................63
Winchester, Simon, ed. The Best American Travel
Savage Lands Clare Clark ......................................................50 Writing™ 2009 .....................................................................83
Save the Deli David Sax .........................................................26 Wong, Jan A Comrade Lost and Found ..................................102
Sax, David Save the Deli.........................................................26 Yehoshua, A. B. Friendly Fire .................................................94
Scicolone, Michele The Italian Slow Cooker ............................44
The Sealed Letter Emma Donoghue ........................................72
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Contents • Fall 2009 • September – March

Recent Highlights .......................................................................................... 4

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books................................................................ 8

Mariner Books .............................................................................................. 58

Backlist ........................................................................................................ 124

Index of New Titles.................................................................................... 132

Bookstore Sales Representatives .......................................................... 136

Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information ...................... 137

International Information ......................................................................... 138

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American Library Association’s Alex Award (American Library Association): Winner

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M any years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own

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From the expert who

“Packed with fascinating insights,

“Species by species, insight by insight, it

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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles

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When the Game Was Ours

In this remarkable collaboration, two NBA legends

F rom the moment these two players took the court on

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H and cranked up the

Thousands of fans clogged the streets, many wearing shamrock-

He already knew the answer. L A R RY BIRD HAPPENED. ■

LARRY BIRD played thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics

of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000 and currently serves as

EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON JR. played thirteen seasons with

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From the acclaimed author of The Work of Wolves

H ayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people

• Regional author appearances,

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Then it hit me: we couldn’t have

easily gotten many of these things

five years ago. The more I thought

about it, the more I realized that

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Edited by RUTH REICHL

H OW WE COOK HAS CHANGED MORE IN

cooking expert focuses on vegetables and grains.

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Inside GOURMET TODAY

• Hundreds of recipes for satisfying vegetarian main dishes

• Nearly 100 recipes for sustainable fish and shellfish, with

• A chapter of nearly 100 cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks

• Scores of sensational grilled dishes, from Brown Sugar Barbecued

• 100-plus vegetable side dishes, from artichokes and broccoflower

• Recipes for economical, highly flavorful cuts of meat

• Hundreds of illustrations of ingredients and techniques

• Durable sewn binding with two bound-in ribbons

RUTH REICHL, Gourmet’s editor in chief, is the author of the

EDITORS’ RESIDENCE - New York City UL

www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • SEPTEMBER 13

• TV satellite tour with executive editor John Willoughby

• Free subscription to Gourmet with purchase of book

• National drive-time radio tour