June 2011 HMH Adult Trade New Releases

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CLAIRE De WITT AND

Sara Gran

ISBN: 9780547428499

Hardcover, $24.00Rights: US, C, O

A new series from Sara Gran, “a l featuring the world’s best—an

Claire DeWitt is not your average

deductive skills and is an ace at d

uses her dreams, omens, and mimysteries, and relies on Détectiolate, great, and mysterious Frenc

The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire

Orleans, the city she’s avoided siConstance Darling, was murdereddisappearance of Vic Willing, a pr

a homicide- plagued city. Has anto disappear? Claire follows the clAndray Fairview, a young gang m

Littered with memories of Claire’s

the Dead is a knockout start to a

MY AMERICAN UNHA

Dean Bakopoulos

ISBN: 9780151013449

Hardcover, $24.00

Rights: World

Introducing Zeke, one of the witt deluded narrator

“Why are you so unhappy?” That’ three-year-old scholar, asks almoobsessive project, “The Inventory

he receives—a mix of true sadnesof woe. Zeke, meanwhile, remainharsh realities that threaten his d

energy on finding the perfect matorphaned nieces. Following stepsever-optimistic Zeke identifies so

neighbor, a coffeehouse barista,

A clairvoyant when it comes to th

federal bureaucracy, and a devotirreverent voice that is a marvel o

paranoia and made more urgent

life.

THE CITY OF THE DEAD

atter-day Raymond Chandler” (Glamour) ,most eccentric—private investigator.

private investigator. She has brilliant

iscovering evidence. But Claire also

d-expanding herbs to help her solve— the only book published by the

detective Jacques Silette.

has just arrived in post-Katrina New

ce her mentor, Silette’s studentthere. Claire is investigating thesecutor known for winning convictions in

ngry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Orues, finding old friends and making new enember who just might hold the key to the

years as a girl detective in 1980s Brookly

bracingly original new series.

PINESS

iest, most unpredictable, and charmingly to come along in years.

the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-st everybody he meets as part of anof American Unhappiness.” The answers

s and absurd complaint—create a collagedelightfully oblivious to the increasinglyily routine, opting instead to focus his

e so that he can gain custody of hisoutlined in a women’s magazine, thee “prospects”: a newly divorced

is administrative assistant, and Sofia Copp

Starbucks orders of strangers, a quixotic

d believer in the afternoon cocktail and thf lacerating wit and heart-on-sleeve emoti

y the hope that if he can only find a wife,

did he use the storm as a meanemies — foremost among themystery.

, Claire DeWitt and the City of

ola (“Why not aim high?”).

renegade when it comes to the

evening binge, Zeke has ann, underscored by a creeping

he might have a second chance



THE BIG ROADS The Untold Story of the Engineers, visionaries and Trailblazers Who Created the AmericanSuperhighways

Earl Swift

ISBN: 9780618812417


A road trip through the revelatory history of American interstatehighways

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a

bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S.interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roadscharts the creation of these essential American highways. From the

turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred the citizen-led “Good Roads” movement, to the handful of driven engineers who

conceived of the interstates and how they would work—years beforePresident Eisenhower knew the plans existed—to the protests that

erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and foundpeople unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress, Swift follows a

winding, fascinating route through twentieth-century American life.

How did we get from dirt tracks to expressways, from main streets to off-ramps, from mud to concrete and

steel, in less than a century? Through decades of politics, activism, and marvels of engineering, we recognizein our highways the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship and progress that define

America.

TIGER TRAP America’s Secret Spy War with china

David Wise

ISBN: 9780547553108

Hardcover, $28.00Rights: World

Honey traps, double agents, nuclear secrets, and a future president’sfemale friend: a revelatory history of Chinese espionage in America

For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietlypenetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time,based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA aswell as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells

the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its American spywars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named parlor maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after shebecame a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both

of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named tiger trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others,

involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, and

sophisticated cyberspying. The story takes us up to the present, with a West Coast spy ring whose members

were sentenced in 2010—but it surely will continue for years to come, as China faces off against America.David Wise’s history of China’s spy wars in America is packed with eye-popping revelations.



I’M FEELING LUCKY The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

Douglas Edwards

ISBN: 9780547416991


One of Google’s early employees takes us on a trip inside thehyperenergized company that broke the rules and rocked the world.

Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket toan Edsel. No academic analysis or bystander’s account can capture it.Now Doug Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view

of Google, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mixof camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards,Google’s first director of marketing and brand management, describes

it as it happened. We see the first, pioneering steps of Larry Page andSergey Brin, the company’s young, idiosyncratic partners; the evolutionof the company’s famously nonhierarchical structure (where every employee finds a problem to tackle or afeature to create and works independently); the development of brand identity; the races to develop and

implement each new feature; and the many ideas that never came to pass. Above all, Edwards—a former journalist who knows how to write— captures the “Google Experience,” the rollercoaster ride of being part of company creating itself in a whole new universe.

I’m Feeling Lucky captures for the first time the unique, self-invented, yet profoundly important culture of thworld’s most transformative corporation.

ON THE ROAD TO BABADAG Travels in the Other Europe

Bharati Mukherjee

ISBN: 9780151012718Hardcover, $23.00Rights: US, C, O

A Beat-style collection of travel narratives from central and easternEurope

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeystake him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,

Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. Tosmall towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely

evocative names. “The heart of my Europe,” Stasiuk tells us, “beats inSokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna.”

Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is

being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi—loose wires

hanging from the dashboard—by a driver in shorts and bare feet, across swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open

coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the

deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque-Byzantine-Tatar-Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the wayto Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, “simple andsevere, a pencil pointed at the sky.”

A brilliant tour of Europe’s dark underside—travel writing at its very best.



LOST RIGHTS The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic

David Howard

ISBN: 9780547520216

Paperback, $15.95

Rights: US, C, O

April 1865. Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Lincoln is

assassinated, and Sherman’s army marches into Raleigh. Sometimeamid that tumultuous stretch of days, an unknown infantryman rifles

through the North Carolina statehouse hunting for Confederate

mementos—but what he finds is no ordinary souvenir. He returns

home with a touchstone of our Republic: one of the fourteen originalcopies of the Bill of Rights.

Lost Rights follows that document’s epic passage over the course of 138 years, from the Indiana businessman who purchases the looted

parchment for five dollars to the antique-furniture dealer who tries topeddle it more than a century later for $5 million. The parchment drifts

from the living room wall of a midwestern family into the corruptible world of high-end antiquities before its journey ends with a dramatic FBI sting on the thirty-second floor of a Philadelphia office tower.

THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS

Bruce Machart

ISBN: 9780547521947Paperback, $14.95

Rights: US, C, O

A Barnes and Noble Discover Selection and An Indie Next List Pick

Bruce Machart tells an epic story of a Texas family at the turn of thetwentieth century: a family of men led by a father, emotionally

crippled following the death of his wife while in childbirth with their

fourth boy, Karel. From an early age, Karel proves so talented on

horseback that his father enlists him to ride in acreage-staked

horseraces against his neighbors, culminating in the ultimate high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring

daughters. Hanging in the balance are his father’s fortune, hisbrothers’ futures, and his own fate. Fourteen years later, with the

stake of the race still driven hard between him and his brothers, Karel

is finally forced to dress the wounds of his past and salvage thetattered fabric of his family.

With rich descriptive language and a cadence as deliberate and determined as the people and horses of the

story, The Wake of Forgiveness compels us to consider the inescapable connections between sons and their

mothers, between landscape and family, and between remembrance and redemption.



THE LOST CYCLIST The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Appearance

David V. Herlihy

ISBN: 9780547521985

Paperback, $14.95Rights: US, C, O

In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel

racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world.

He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the

downsized “safetybicycle” with inflatable tires, the forerunner of themodern road bike that was about to become wildly popular. In the

spring of 1892 he quit his accounting job and gamely set out west to

cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondentfor Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless

near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he approached Europe forthe final leg.

He never made it. His mysterious disappearance in eastern Turkey

sparked an international outcry and compelled Outing to send William

Sachtleben, another larger-than-life cyclist, on Lenz’s trail. Bringing to

light a wealth of information, Herlihy’s gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers

accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles.

THE TAKEN

A Hazel Micallef Mystery

Inger Ash Wolfe

ISBN: 9780547521732

Paperback, $13.95

Rights: US, O

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After majorback surgery, she moves into her ex-husband’s home to be cared forby his new wife. As if that weren’t enough to cope with, her

octogenarian mother is insisting that Hazel end her dependence on

painkillers—an insistence that takes the form of secretly flushingHazel’s stash down the toilet.

It’s almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body found in one of

the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of

her neck is that the local paper has just published the first installment

of a serialized story featuring such a scenario. Even before they headout to the lake, she and Detective Constable James Wingate knowthey are being played. But who is pulling their strings and why are

not clear, nor is what they find at the lake at all what they expected.This is no simple drowning accident or even a straightforward murder.It’s Micallef herself who is snared, caught up in a cryptic game being

played by a maven of the art of deception.



REVOLUTIONARIES A New History of the Invention of America

Jack Rakove

ISBN: 9780547521879


In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet,provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted

primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth andhappiness. None set out to become “revolutionary” by ambition, butwhen events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into

a crisis that moved quickly from protest to war. In Revolutionaries,Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men weresuddenly transformed into public careers—how Washington became

a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a

sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliantpolicymaker.

From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from

Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution tothe disputes that led to our two-party system, Rakove explores the competing views of politics, war,

diplomacy, and society that shaped our nation. We see the founders before they were fully formed leaders,

ordinary men who became extraordinary, altered by history.

THE LOVE SONG OF A. JEROME MINKOFF And Other Stories

Joseph Epstein

ISBN: 9780547520223Paperback, $13.95

Rights: US, C, O

“Joseph Epstein is perhaps the smartest American alive who alsowrites well. That he has done so quietly, with impeccable modesty, is

a mark of what might be called wisdom.”— Forward

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph

Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect:stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life,told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the

title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world—Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago—in rich, revealing detaileven as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and

unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments.

Epstein, who “happens to possess a standup comic’s gift for punchlines” (New York Times Book Review ), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff is a marvelous collectio

from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.



THE LAST TALK WITH LOLA FAYE An Otto Penzler Book

Thomas H. Cook

ISBN: 9780547520292


Middling historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a sparselyattended reading—nothing out of the ordinary. Except among theyawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the

“other woman” he has for decades blamed for his father’s murder.

Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye at a hotel bar. As one drink turns intoseveral, these two battered souls relive, from their different

perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly butsurely, they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this

defining moment—a violent crime of passion—is turned in the light

once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there ismuch Luke doesn’t know. And what he doesn’t know can hurt him.Trapped in an increasingly intense emotional exchange, and with noplace to go save back into his own dark past, Luke struggles to gain control of an ever more threatening

conversation, to discover what Lola Faye is after—before it is too late.

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June 2011 HMH Adult Trade New Releases