February 2011 HMH Adult Trade New Releases

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YOUR BABY IS SPEAA Visual Guide to the Amazing Be

Kevin NugentPhotographs by Abelardo Morell

ISBN: 9780547242958 Hardcover, $20.00

Rights: US, C, O

From an international expert on i

Speaking To You is destined to be

intimate access to babies and theiacclaimed photographer Abelardo

communications strategies babies

born.

Your Baby Is Speaking to You illusleeping, listening to your voice asubtle and fleeting behaviors not

babies do that concern and deligh

- the language of yawning- the rich range of cries, and ho

- baby's earliest "sleep smiles"

Your Baby Is Speaking To You del

parents the confidence they needastonishing days and the months

THE JANUS STONE

Elly Griffiths

ISBN: 9780547237442

Hardcover, $25.00Rights: US, O

It’s been only a few months sinceentangled in a missing persons ca

construction workers demolishing

bones of a child beneath a doorwcalled upon to investigate. Is it acloser at hand?

Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson

they realize the house was once a

Catholic priest who served as its

two children did go missing fromgirl. They were never found. Whe

bones predate the home and rela

deeply into the case. But as sprinput her off the trail by frightening

ING TO YOU aviors of Your Newborn and Growing Bab

fant-parent communication, Your Baby Iscome a parenting classic. Through

r families, Dr. Kevin Nugent andMorell capture the amazingly precocious

demonstrate from the moment they are

trates the full range of behaviors--early snd recognizing your face. The newest reseeen or explained in any other book--illumi

t new parents:

w to understand their meanings

nd sleep states, and what they signify

ivers the information parents crave in gent

to respond to their own baby's way of combeyond.

archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself se, barely escaping with her life. But when

a large old house in Norwich uncover the

y—minus its skull—Ruth is once againRoman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer

ould like to find out—and fast. When

children’s home, they track down the

perator. Father Hennessey reports that

he home forty years before—a boy and acarbon dating proves that the child’s

e to a time when the house was privately

turns into summer it becomes clear thather, and her unborn child, half to death.

iling to startling, feeding torch--including information onnates the meaning of the things

le, accessible style while giving

municating during the very first

wned, Ruth is drawn ever more

someone is trying very hard to



THE 4% UNIVERSE Dark Matter, Dark energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of

Reality

Richard Panek

ISBN: 9780618982448

Hardcover, $26.00Rights: World

In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a

disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter

that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. Therest—96 percent of the universe—is completely unknown.

Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scientists reached thiscosmos-shattering conclusion, and what they’re doing to find this "dark"

matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. This isperhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a NobelPrize. Based on in-depth, on-site reporting and hundreds of interviews–with everyone from Berkeley’s feisty

Saul Perlmutter and Johns Hopkins’s meticulous Adam Riess to the quietly revolutionary Vera Rubin–the boooffers an intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blindalleys, that have fueled their search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Our view of the cosmos is profoundly wrong, and Copernicus was only the

beginning: not just Earth, but all common matter is a marginal part of existence. Panek’s fast-pacednarrative, filled with behind-the-scenes details, brings this epic story to life for the very first time.

HOT Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Mark Hertsgaard

ISBN: 9780618826124

Hardcover, $24.00Rights: US, C, O

For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for

publications including The NewYorker, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Nation.But the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon after,

learned that climate change had already arrived—a century earlier thanforecast—with impacts bound to worsen for decades to come.

Now, Hertsgaard has written a book about how all of us—as individuals,communities, companies, and countries—can navigate this new era. TakingBill McKibben’s Eaarth to the next essential step, Hot offers examples of

how we might live through the next fifty years.The result is an informed

message of hope that will enable parents, young people, and all readers to make the best choices in thedecades ahead. Combining reporting from around the world with reflections on his daughter’s future,

Hertsgaard provides “pictures” of what we can expect: Chicago’s climate transformed to resemble

Houston’s; dwindling water supplies and crop yields at home and abroad; the redesign of New York and othe

cities against mega-storms and sea-level rise. Above all, he shows who is taking wise, creative precautions.For in the end, Hot is a book about how we’ll survive.



THE GREAT WHITE BEAR A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear

Kieran Mulvaney

ISBN: 9780547152424Hardcover, $26.00Rights: US, C, O

Polar bears are creatures of paradox. They are white bears whose skin isblack; massive predators that can walk almost silently; Arctic residents

whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown

they can measure 10 feet and weigh close to 2,000 pounds, but at birththey are just 20 ounces. Creatures that may wander thousands of milesover the course of a year, they begin life in a snowdrift.

Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks onhumans; but human hunting of polar bears has exacted a far larger toll,

obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species . . .

before it’s too late.

Now, however, another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily removing sea iceand the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the

story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, both natural and human, through myth and reality

and observations both personal and scientific, Kieran Mulvaney masterfully provides a context for readers toconsider the polar bear, its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.

GIVE ME YOUR HEART Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN: 9780547385464Hardcover, $25.00

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The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to

forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a newcollection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates.

In the suspenseful “Strip Poker,” a reckless adolescent girl must find a way

of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men—can she “outplay” them? In the award-winning “Smother!” a young woman’s

nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor mother—

which of them will “win”? In “Split/ Brain,” a woman who has blundered intoa lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself—will she take it?

In “The First Husband,” a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, an

exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond theirparents’ control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pastsintrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.

In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadlymysteries often begin at home.



THE DIVINER’S TALE

Bradford Morrow

ISBN: 9780547382630Hardcover, $26.00

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Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning in upstate New York,

having been hired by a developer to dowse the land, Cassandra Brooks

comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When

she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving inquestion Cassandra’s credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, on a return

visit with the sheriff to have another look, a dazed, mute missing girl

emerges from the woods, alive and the very picture of Cassandra’s hangedgirl.

What follows is a narrative of ever-deepening and increasingly bizarre

divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, the struggling singlemother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she’d long since thought was behind her. The Diviner’s Tale is at

once a journey of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a tale of the fantastic and a family

chronicle told by an otherwise ordinary woman.

When Cassandra’s dark forebodings take on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a reallife killer who has haunted her since befor

she can remember.

WE, THE DROWNEDCarsten Jensen

Translated from Danish by Charlotte Barslund with Emma Ryder

ISBN: 9780151013777 Hardcover, $28.00Rights: US, C, O

Carsten Jensen’s debut novel has taken the world by storm. Already hailedin Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port

town of Marstal, whose inhabitants have sailed the world’s oceans aboard

freight ships for centuries. Spanning over a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the SecondWorld War, from the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations

of Samoa, and from the roughest bars in Tasmania to the frozen coast of

northern Russia, We, the Drowned spins a magnificent tale of love, war, andadventure, a tale of the men who go to sea and the women they leave

behind.

Ships are wrecked at sea and blown up during wars, they are places of terror and violence, yet they continueto lure each generation of Marstal men—fathers and sons—away. Strong, resilient women raise families alonand sometimes take history into their own hands. There are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic

dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, devastating tragedies, and miraculous survivals—everything

that a town like Marstal has actually experienced, and that makes We, the Drowned an unforgettable novel,destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature.



THE RISE & FALL OF THE BIBLE An Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Timothy Beal

ISBN: 9780151013586

Hardcover, $25.00Rights: US, C, O

In this revelatory exploration, Timothy Beal takes us back to early

Christianity to ask how a box of hand-written scrolls became the Bible, andforward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought usBiblezines and manga Bibles is selling down the Bible’s sacred capital.

Showing us how a single official text was created from an array of different

scripts, Beal traces its path as it became embraced as the word of God.Among his surprising insights:

• Early Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible—there was no

official canon of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all.

• There is no “original” Bible behind the thousands of different Bibles on the

market today. The farther back we go in the Bible’s history, the more versions we find.

• The idea of the Bible as the literal word of God is only about a century old.

In calling for a fresh understanding of the ways scriptures were used in the past, Beal offers a chance to

rediscover a Bible, and a faith, that is truer to its own history—not a book of answers but a library of questions.

SPLIT SECOND PERSUASION The Ancient Art& New Science of Changing Minds

Kevin Dutton

ISBN: 9780151012794

Hardcover, $26.00Rights: US, O, (-EU)

How many times a day do you think someone tries to persuade you?

Twenty? Thirty? Actually it’s more like four hundred. When you imagine asociety based on coercion you start to see how important persuasion is; it

literally keeps us alive.

Psychologist Kevin Dutton has identified a powerful strain of instinctual

persuasion, an elixir of influence that can quickly help you disarm skeptics,win arguments, close the deal. Mapping the cutting-edge psychology and

neuroscience of this incisive new influence, he introduces us to the natural

super-persuaders in our midst—Buddhist monks, magicians, advertisers,con men, hostage negotiators, even psychopaths. He shows us which simple triggers can makesomeone tru

you immediately; what hidden pathways in the brain lead us to believe something even when we know it’s n

true; how group dynamics can make us more tolerant or deepen our extremism; and what we can learn from

newborns about winning arguments. Dutton’s fascinating and provocative book will help anyone tap into thepower of split-second persuasion.



SOLO

Rana Dasgupta

ISBN: 9780547397085

Hardcover, $25.00Rights: US, O

With an imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance that puts him in the

company of David Mitchell and Alexander Hemon, Rana Dasgupta paints a

portrait of a century though the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarianman in a first novel that announces the arrival of an exhilarating new voicein fiction.

In the first movement of Solo we meet Ulrich, the son of a railroad engineer,who has two great passions: the violin and chemistry. Denied the first by his

father, he leaves for the Berlin of Einstein and Fritz Haber to study the latter.

His studies are cut short when his father’s fortune evaporates, and he must

return to Sofia to look after his parents. He never leaves Bulgaria again.Except in his daydreams—and it is those dreams we enter in the volatile second half of the book. In a radical

leap from past to present, from life lived to life imagined, Dasgupta follows Ulrich’s fantasy children,born of communism but making their way into a postcommunist world of celebrity and violence.

Intertwining science and heartbreak, the old world and the new, the real and the imagined, Solo is a virtuoso

work.

THE RUSSIAN DREAMBOOK OF COLOR AND FLIGHT

Gina Ochsner ISBN: 9780547394558Trade Paperback, $14.95Rights: US, C, O

In 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; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censorfor a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears anaviator's helmet; and Tanya, a student of hope, words, and color.

Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place that holds a fantasticand terrible collection of art knockoffs created with the materials at hand, from foam to chewing gum,

Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. When the museum's director hears of an American group seeking to fund art

in Russia, it looks as if Tanya might get her chance at a better life, if she can only convince them of thecollection's worth. Enlisting the help of her neighbors, Tanya scrambles to save her dreams, and along the

way discovers that love may have been waiting in her own courtyard all along.



THE SPICE NECKLACE

My Adventures in Caribbean cooking, Eating and Island LifeAnn Vanderhoof ISBN: 9780547423166Trade Paperback, $14.95

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While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve

track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills of the Dominican

Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing-hotpepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate-tasting test atthe University of the West Indies, and sip moonshine straight out of hidden

back-country stills.

Along the way, they are befriended by a collection of unforgettable island

characters: Dwight, the skin-diving fisherman who always brings them

something from his catch and critiques her efforts to cook it; Greta, whoharvests seamoss on St. Lucia and turns it into potent Island-Viagra; sweet-hand Pat, who dispenses hugs

and impromptu dance lessons along with cooking tips in her Port of Spain kitchen.

Back in her galley, Ann practices making curry like a Trini, dog sauce like a Martiniquais, and coo-coo like a

Carriacouan. And for those who want to take these adventures into their own kitchens, she pulls 71 deliciousrecipes from the stories she tells, which she places at the end of the relevant chapters.

The Spice Necklace is a wonderful escape into a life filled with sunshine (and hurricanes), delicious food,

irreplaceable company, and island traditions.

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