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PENGUIN GROUP (USA)

new books for literature course use & adoptionfall 2012

PENGUIN GROUP (USA)

for course use & adoption

PENGUIN GROUP (USA)

new booksfall 2012

PENGUIN ClASSICS

Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; Hamlet; Antonio’s Revenge; The Tragedy of Hoffman; The Revenger’s TragedyVarious (William Shakespeare,Thomas Middleton, John Marston, Thomas Kyd, and Henry Chettle) • Edited with an Introduction & Notes by Emma Smith • 978-0-14-119227-7 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A new authoritative edition of five classic revenge plays.

The Discovery of America by the TurksJorge Amado • Translated by Gregory Rabassa • Foreword by José Saramago • 978-0-14-310698-2 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 • Published for the first time in English for the centennial of Amado’s birth • “Amado’s irresistable human palette, like Brazil itself contains every color, race and ethnicity, from ultra-rich plantation owners to the wretches who labor in the fields....There’s more packed into this slender book than many a novel five times its length, delivered with zest and spice and unashamed love of physical pleasure.” —Nick DiMartino

The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray Jorge Armado • Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa • Introduction by Rivka Galchen • 978-0-14-310636-4 • $14.00 • Sep 2012 • Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century.

On Living and Dying WellMarcus Tullius Cicero • Newly translated with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Habinek • 978-0-14-045556-4 • $16.00 • Dec 2102 • Philosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator in a vital new translation.

Something to Remember Me By: Three TalesSaul Bellow • Introduction by Nicole Krauss • 978-0-14-242218-2 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 • Trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and “greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century” (James Wood, The New Republic) • “Bellow’s body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else’s.”—Salman Rushdie

Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad • Introduction by Adam Hochschild • Enriched Features by Timothy S. Hayes • Cover design by Mike Mignola • 978-0-14-310658-6 • $13.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Collected Poetry: John Donne John Donne • Edited by Christopher Ricks • Introduction and Notes by Ilona Bell • 978-0-14-119157-7 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • A new collection of Donne’s verse, from the witty conceit of “The Flea” to the intense spirituality of his Divine Poems.

Tottel’s Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and OthersEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul • 978-0-14-119204-8 • $20.00 • Dec 2012 • First time as a Pengiun Classic • A seminal collection of poetry from the Tudor period.

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal LegendThomas Malory • Retold by Peter Ackroyd • Cover design by Stuart Kolakovic • 978-0-14-310695-1 • $17.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • “Elegant, economical, and mordantly witty.”—The Boston Globe • “Ackroyd preserves, and even accelerates, the headlong pace of these tales, where action is everything.”—The New York Times

The Portable Malcolm X ReaderEdited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber • 978-0-14-310694-4 • $22.00 • Jan 2013 • A new look at Malcolm X’s life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable.

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a HomosexualMerle Miller • With a New Foreword by Dan Savage • Afterword by Charles Kaiser • 978-0-14-310696-8 • $13.00 • Oct 2012 • The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America • “Forty years later, the story Miller tells remains important and necessary to read, not only for both gay and straight readers to understand ‘the way it used to be,’ but because the issues Miller raised are still being discussed and argued about.”—Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition

Tomorrow Is NowEleanor Roosevelt • With a New Introduction by Allida Black • With a New Foreword by Bill Clinton • 978-0-14-310699-9 • $15.00 • Nov 2012 • Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt’s most important book—a battle cry for civil rights.

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The Purple CloudM. P. Shiel • With a New Introduction and Notes by John Sutherland • 978-0-14-119642-8 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • A landmark work that heralded the genre of apocalyptic fiction • “A remarkable piece of work... head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty.”—H. P. Lovecraft

Portable SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck • Edited by Pascal Covici, Jr. • Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw • 978-0-14-310697-5 • $22.00 • Oct 2012 • Includes the complete novels Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony, with self-contained excerpts from several longer novels (Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden) and the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

The PropheciesNostradmus • Newly translated with Notes by Richard Sieburth • Introduction by Richard Sieburth and Stephane Gerson • 978-0-14-310675-3 • $28.00 • Aug 2012 • Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text • The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus’s Prophecies • “Is Nostradamus a poet? The form in which he wrote—dark astrological visions of world events—is not one of poetry’s frequent modes, though he anticipates the resounding malarkey of Yeats. But it takes a poet to create such haunting, resonant, and mysterious quatrains.”—Richard Wilbur, former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award • “Everybody knows about Nostradamus, but few have read him. Richard Sieburth’s glittering translation rescues one of the world’s most arcane texts from the realm of hearsay, and renders its strange poetry palpable and moving.”—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

Travels with Charley in Search of AmericaJohn Steinbeck • Introduction by Jay Parini • 978-0-14-018741-0 • $21.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize • An intimate look at one of America’s most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography • “Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reason why giant sequoias arouse such awe.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Tale of the HeikeTranslated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-670-02513-8 • $50.00 • Oct 2012 • A foundation stone of Japanese culture and a major masterpiece of world literature • Includes illustrations, maps, character guides, and genealogies

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The Bible’s Greatest StoriesTranslated and with an Introduction by Paul Roche • New Afterword by Bruce Chilton • 978-0-451-53192-6 • $7.99 • Aug 2012 • A comprehensive collection of the greatest biblical stories, conveyed in a modern English translation

Little MenLouisa May Alcott • 978-0-451-53223-7 • $5.95 • Oct 2012 • Includes an Afterword by J.T. Barbarese, poet and distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers, as well as a New Introduction.

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad • 978-0-451-53103-2 • $4.95 • Oct 2012 • Includes an Introduction by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates and an Afterword by acclaimed writer Vince Passaro • In this pair of literary voyages into the self, Conrad has written two of the most disturbing and noteworthy pieces of twentieth century fiction.

On Shattered Ground: A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865 Edited by Eileen and Roger Panetta • 978-0-451-53219-0 • $7.95 • Nov 2012 • New title for Signet Classics—an anthology of primary documents tracing the evolution of the Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended. It includes newspaper accounts, broadsheets, poetry, songs, photography, maps, and folk tales.

A Just and Lasting Peace: A Doumentary History of ReconstructionEdited by John David Smith • 978-0-451-53226-8 • $4.95 • Dec 2012 • New title for Signet Classics. It is a comprehensive and accessible antholgy of primary documents tracing the evolution of Reconstruction. It contains a detailed Introduction by the editor making it a perfect resource for those studying The Civil War and its aftermath.

An African Quilt Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 • Dec 2012 • This new title celebrates the incredibly rich and diverse literary tradition of Africa with stories spanning the continent from Nigeria to South Africa by such authors as Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aido, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Charles Mungoshi, Es’kia Mphahlele, and Grac Ogot. Includes short biographical notes on each contributor.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson • 978-0-451-53225-1 • $3.95 • Sept 2012 • Introductory essays by Vladimir Nabokov • New Afterword by National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon • More than a hundred years later, Stevenson’s enduring classic remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesLeo Tolstoy • Translated by Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff • With a New Introduction by Regina Maler • Afterword by Hugh McLean • 978-0-451-53217-6 • $6.95 • Aug 2012 • Also includes Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Master and Man.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other StoriesMark Twain • 978-0-451-53220-6 • Oct 2012 • With a new Introduction and an Afterword by Howard Mittelmark, author of How Not to Write a Novel • This collection unites Mark Twain’s most accomplished short works, including The Mysterious Stranger and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

The Best of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde • 978-0-451-53222-0 • $5.95 • Nov 2012 • With an Introduction by Sylvia Barnet, general editor of the Signet Classics Shake-speare, and a new Afterword by Marylu Hill, Director of the Center for Liberal Education at Villanova University • Includes Wilde’s five major plays: Salomé, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Importance of Being Earnest • Interviews from the peak of his career, bril-liant examples of his literary criticism, and an appendix that restores valuable lines from the original text of his most famous play.

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Madame XWilliam Logan • 978-0-14-312238-8 • $18.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A new collection by one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry.

A Thousand MorningsMary Oliver • 978-1-59420-477-7 • $24.95 • Oct 2012 • Mornings with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet • “Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.”—The New York Times Book Review

Rime of the Modern MarinerNick Hayes • 978-0-670-02580-0 • $32.00 • Oct 2012 • Viking • Written in 1797, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the original eco-fable; drawn in 2010, The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a graphic novel, now set in the North Atlantic Garbage Patch—thus adding a timely and resonant message about the destruction of our seas. Hayes’s visually striking debut is drawn with complex, iconic images reminiscent of old woodcuts. Emerging from every page are the poem’s enduring themes: compassion for nature, a sense of connection among all living things, and rightful outrage at man’s thoughtless destruction of the environment.

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Rav Hisda’s Daughter, Book I: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and SorceryMaggie Anton • 978-0-452-29809-5 • $16.00 • Aug 2012 • Plume • The acclaimed author of epic historical fiction follows her Rashi’s Daughters trilogy with a mesmerizing novel of love and faith in third-century Babylonia.

San MiguelT.C. Boyle • 978-0-670-02624-1 • $27.95 • Sep 2012 • Viking • On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom from the acclaimed author of most recently Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010) and When the Killing’s Done (2011). “In this absorbing work, Boyle does an excellent job of describing the desperation and desolation of life on the island. Readers can almost feel the cold and damp seeping into their bones.—Library Journal

Those Across the River Christopher Buehlman • 978-0-425-25651-0 • $15.00 • Sep 2012 • Ace • Bequeathed a house from an estranged aunt, a man moves in—even though the same aunt wrote a letter warning him against it. • “What a treat. Terrible and beautiful. As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz. A graceful, horrific read.”—Patricia Briggs, New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson Series

The Grief of OthersLeah Hager Cohen • Riverhead • 978-1-594448-612-8 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • A novel of a family’s guilt, grief, and deception • “Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection.”—The New York Times Book Review • “With gorgeous prose, Cohen skillfully takes us from past to present and back again as she explores the ramifications of family loss, grief and longing.”—Kirkus

Flimsy Little Plastic MiraclesRon Currie, Jr. • 978-0-670-02534-3 • $26.95 • Feb 2013 • Viking • From winner of the 2009 Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the New York Public Library Young Lion’s Award for his acclaimed debut, God Is Dead.• In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. The Book of Jonas Steven Dau • 978-0-452-29897-2 • $16.00 • Mar 2013 • Plume • A landmark work about the true cost of war. • “Rich with symbolism, marvelously descriptive in language... Dau’s novel offers deeply resonating truths about war and culture, about family and loss that only art can reveal. A literary tour de force.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) • “The toll that war exacts has seldom been demonstrated more vividly in fiction.”—Booklist (starred review)

The Bartender’s Tale Ivan Doig • 978-1-59448-735-4 • $27.95 • Aug 2012 • Riverhead • From a great American storyteller and author of Work Song, comes a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. • “After living half his life in Phoenix, Ariz., with his aunt, 12-year-old Russell “Rusty” Harry comes back to the tiny town of Gros Ventre to live with his father, Tom, the owner of a popular saloon….Filtering the world through Rusty’s eyes, Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “The new Wallace Stegner”—The Daily Beast

The Age of DesireJennie Fields • 978-0-670-02368-4 • $27.95 • Aug 2012 • Viking • A glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship • “In the vein of Loving Frank or The Paris Wife, Jennie Fields has created a page-turning period piece. Fields portrays a woman whose life was hardly innocence and mirth, but passionate, complex and more mysterious than one might ever imagine.”—Mary Morris, author of Nothing to Declare and Revenge

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant Alex Gilvarry • 978-0-14-312306-4 • $16.00 • Jan 2013 • Penguin • The story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York glamour junkie, Guantánamo detainee. • “Delicious... A left-handed love-letter to America.”—The New York Times Book Review • “ It’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny and humane.”—Gary Shteyngart

May We Be Forgiven A.M. Homes • 978-0-670-02548-0 • $27.95 • Sep 2012 • Viking • An unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together from the author of The Mistress’ Daughter and The Safety of Objects. • “This novel starts at maximum force—and then it really gets going. I can’t remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing.” —Salman Rushdie

A Working Theory of LoveScott Hutchins • 978-159420-505-7 • $25.95 • Oct 2012 • Penguin Press • An inventive literary debut about a disaffected man who learns—with the help of a sentient computer that speaks in his deceased father’s voice—to make peace not just with his past but with his future • “A brainy, bright, laughter-through-tears, can’t-stop-reading-until-it’s-over kind of novel. Fatherless daughters, mother-smothered sons, appealing ex-wives, mouthy high school drop-outs—damn, this book’s got something for everyone!”—Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Ball and Absurdistan

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Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone ShoesWilliam Kennedy • 978-0-14-312204-3 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • A “well-nigh perfect” (The Boston Globe) novel of love and revolution—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed • “A polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion.”—John Sayles, The New York Times Book Review • “Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called [Kennedy’s] best.” —The Wall Street Journal

White Dog Fell From the SkyEleanor Morse • 978-0-670-02640-1 • $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Viking • Set in Botswana, this is a novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat. • “A book of genuine intellect and inspiration, superbly written, fascinating.” —Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife

Rage is BackAdam Mansbach • 978-0-670-02612-8 • $25.95 • Jan 2013 • Viking • A fearless novel about the price of revenge from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep. Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains. Moving through the city’s unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, Rage Is Back is many things: a dramatic, hilarious thrill ride; a love letter to NYC that introduces the most powerful urban underdog narrator this side of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a literary tour de force from a writer on the brink of real stardom. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Dina Nayeri • 978-1-59448-704-0 • $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. • “A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is pure magic: lyrical, captivating, funny, and heartbreaking. Entering the world of the intriguing Saba Hafezi and her friends in a seaside village in northern Iran, I lost my heart. Powerful storytelling kept me riveted from the first page, but this is also a keenly intelligent investigation into the nature of narrative, the kaleidoscope of stories, dreams, and memories that define us, and how we create our own pasts and futures.”—Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation

CascadeMaryanne O’Hara • 978-0-670-02602-9 • $25.95 • Aug 2012 • Viking • “A woman torn between competing loyalties: her marriage and her freedom, her sense of responsibility and her desire to live an artist’s fiercely disciplined and passionate life. Past and place come alive in this book; these characters are richly drawn and complexly human.”—Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter • “Maryanne O’Hara’s debut novel of a married woman suffocated by small-town America brings to mind Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street. O’Hara’s story is engrossing and her prose luminous as she tells of a talented artist torn between ambition and conformity.”—Sandra Dallas, author of True Sisters

The Odds: A Love StoryStewart O’Nan • 978-0-14-312227-2 • $14.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A bittersweet novel of enduring love—from the bestselling author of Last Night at the Lobster and Emily Alone • “A few hours with this witty, sad, surprisingly romantic novel might be a better investment for troubled couples than a month of marriage counseling.”—The Washington Post • “A gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation, and a hope-filled Valentine about what is won in love... and how truly, it is always, always worth the cost.”—The Boston Globe

A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki • 978-0-670-02663-0 • $27.95 • Mar 2013 • Viking • From the author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation • Deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

StorytellerLeslie Marmon Silko • 978-0-14-312128-2 • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • Now back in print—a classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony • This edition includes a new introduction by Silko and previously unpublished photographs • “A rich, many-faceted book... [Silko] has a sharp sense of the way in which the profound and the mundane often run together.”—N. Scott Momaday, The New York Times Book Review

Laura Lamont’s Life in PicturesEmma Straub • 978-1-59448-845-0 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Riverhead • The story of a Midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age • “Straub’s beautifully observed first novel explores the fraught trajectory of what has become a staple of the American dream: the hunger for stardom and fame. This book affords an intimate, epic view of how that dream ricochets through one American life.”—Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad

One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper • 978-0-525-95236-7 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Dutton • Following his breakthrough success with the New York Times bestseller This Is Where I Leave You, Tropper’s latest novel is a look at one family’s attempts to conquer life’s surprises

Dead StarsBruce Wagner • 978-0-399-15935-0 • $35.00 • Aug 2012 • Blue Rider Press • From the author of I’m Losing you, critic favorite and American master—Wagner has been hailed by John Updike as “a wizard” and by Michiko Kakutani as “dazzling.” • “[Dead Stars is] not just the best novel about Americans and fame of the past dozen years but the best since Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust….We regard Dickens not just as a social novelist but as a visionary who turned to burlesque and exaggeration to give his work a broader, more enduring moral relevance. Dead Stars has something of this moralizing intensity. We all know the problems that Mr. Wagner is criticizing....Sociologists give us statistics, and pundits write jeremiads. It takes an artist to make us feel the full horror and humanity of the situation.”—Wall Street Journal

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The Wandering FalconJamil Ahmad • 978-1-59448-616-6 • $15.00 • Oct 2012 • Riverhead • A startling debut novel that explores the forbidding tribal world of Pakistan • “Superb. The work of a gifted storyteller who has lived in the world of his fiction, and who offers his readers rare insight, wisdom and—above all—pleasure.”—Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist • “Ahmad’s deep understanding of his characters shows what a powerful truth teller fiction can be.”—The New York Times

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On Canaan’s Side Sebastian Barry • 978-0-14-312218-0 • $15.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture • “The play of history as it most intimately affects individual human lives... is on exquisitely touching display.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer • “On Canaan’s Side is written with vast sympathy and tenderness.... It is also fully alert to the power and irony of history.”—Colm Tóibín

Lazarus is DeadRichard Beard • 978-1-60945-080-9 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Europa • “Beard can stir emotion…his essayistic digressions temper the mythic luminosity of his subject, contributing to the poignancy of his imagined ‘biography.’”—The Times Literary Supplement • “In this alternative theological novel Jesus does more than weep and Lazarus does more than die....The mythic power of the story remains constant, so Lazarus does in fact die, and Jesus does resurrect him, but the Romans, immediately begin to persecute Lazarus, feeling his resurrection has reinforced the extraordinary political power of Jesus. Throughout the narrative, Beard schools the reader in literary and artistic treatments of Lazarus to give the story a cultural and intellectual framework. Beard’s take on Lazarus is nothing less than astonishing—and he respects the reader by taking religion and religious questions seriously.”—Kirkus Review (starred)

Beggar’s FeastRandy Boyagoda • 978-0-670-06658-2 • $16.00 • 2012 • Viking • “A post-colonial Gatsby....A rags to riches picaresque about the clash of worlds and the revenge of empires, about fate and history and harbors and brithright and brothels, and moneylnders and metal-benders....Boyagoda, a sharp and subtle writers, slips easily into many different characters’ heads and their internal rhythms, and lyrical lines abound....A satirical feat.” —The Globe and Mail

70% Acrylic 30% WoolViola Di Grado • Translated by Michael Reynolds • 978-1-60945-077-9 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 Europa • A love story as unpredictable as the human heart • “With language that is poetic and searing, Di Grado has given us a stunning debut.”—Flair • “Di Grado plays with language like a mad but incredibly talented juggler.”—Elle (Italy)

CrossbonesNuruddin Farah • 978-0-14-312253-1 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • Completing the trilogy that began with Knots and Links, Crossbones portrays individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, piracy, and political conflict • “Politically courageous and often gripping... Crossbones provides a sophisticated introduction to present day Somalia.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Reads like a taut, tense thriller... a thought-provoking read as well as an absorbing look into a culture and a people.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer • “Mesmerizing... A searing look at individuals caught in the chaos of anarchy.”—The Daily Beast

My Brilliant FriendElena Ferrante • Translated by Ann Goldstein • 978-1-60945-078-6 • $17.00 • Oct 2012 • Europa • A portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a meditation on the nature of friendship. • “I’ve just grazed the surface of Ferrante’s dense plotting which shows how this whole community works. There’s a useful index of characters in the galley. I wish more writers would employ this device. There are nine families enumerated, each with four or five members and a list of the teachers who play such an important role in this story. There’s not one name that’s superfluous.... It seems that I’ve been reviewing more Europa Editions books than any other publisher over the past several months. Europa Editions is the small press with the big books.”—Dennis Haritou Online Review

The Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next NovelJasper Fforde • 978-0-670-02502-2 • $26.95 • Oct 2012 • Viking • The seventh book in Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series.

Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century TrilogyKen Follett • 978-0-525-95292-3 • $36.00 • Sep 2012 • Dutton • Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with an epic about the heroism and honor of World War II and the dawn of the atomic age.

The ConfidantHélène Grémillon • Translated by Alison Anderson • 978-0-14-312156-5 • $15.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • Part historical drama, part suspense novel, The Confidant is a debut novel that will captivate readers of Sarah’s Key, Suite Française, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society • “Undeclared love, hidden hatred, and revenge with terrible consequences.... [A] book which truly touches our hearts.”—Elle (France) • “Hélène Grémillon’s talent bursts forth in this first novel.”—Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris)

Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All GoneStefan Kiesbye • 978-0-14-312146-6 • $15.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • “A very elegant nightmare, so appalling and so beautiful.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry • “A brilliant amalgam of Faulkner, the Brothers Grimm, and Günter Grass as if condensed for intensity.”—Josip Novakovich, author of Fiction Writing Workshop • “A fresh sparkling collection of the finest stories from the Brothers Grimm, hand-picked by an author perfectly suited to the tast. This volume is a must-have for any lover of fairy tales.”—Library Journal (starred review)

Daughters Who Walk This PathYejide Kilanko • 978-0-14-318643-4 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • Pintail • An authentic, wrenching novel chronicling a young girl’s coming of age in turbulent, bustling, contemporary Nigeria. • “Yejide Kilanko’s courageous characters reveal how young women bear their coming-of-age, and then they learn to tell.”—Kim Echlin, author of Giller Prize–nominated The Disappeared.

The FacilitySimon Lelic • 978-0-14-312068-1 • $15.00 • Aug 2012 • Penguin • A riveting dystopian thriller about a police state run amok—from the critically acclaimed author of A Thousand Cuts. • “With his fragile, sympathetic characters, Lelic has the same ability to make us look at the society we’re creating as John le Carré.”—Independent (UK) • “Timely topics relayed in the crispest of prose…he dissects with chilling precision the consequences of unchecked governmental authority....Lelic makes numerous salient points about the suspension of civil liberties by an all-powerful entity even as he depicts the nightmare of an innocent man and his evolution from outright terror to dignified resistance.”—Booklist

How It All BeganPenelope Lively • 978-0-14-312264-7 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • The author of The Photograph explores the powerful role of chance in human affairs and illustrates how our paths can be altered irrevocably by someone we will never even meet • “An elegant, witty work of fiction, deceptively simple, emotionally and intellectually penetrating.”—The New York Times Book Review

A Man of PartsDavid Lodge • 978-0-14-312209-8 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • A novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells • “Terrifically enjoyable.”—The Washington Post • “As scintillating, engaging, and multi-dimensional as the man whose life and character it faithfully animates.”—The Atlantic

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The Watcher Charles MacLean • 978-0-14-312251-7 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Originally published in 1981 to rave reviews and impressive sales, The Watcher disappeared from shelves, leaving horror fans mystifyingly deprived of a novel considered to be the scariest of all time. Penguin is bringing this cult classic back. • “A lost horror classic back in print at last, so “if you are easily upset...stop right here.”—The New York Times

Tiger Hills Sarita Mandanna • 978-0-670-06693-3 • $16.00 • Aug 2012 • Pintail • A sweeping romantic novel set on a coffee plantation in southern India at the turn of the twentieth century that will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy. • “More than a love story....Tiger Hills explores the hazardous side of passion and the shackling grip of memory once love has been thwarted....An illuminating portrait of place through six decades of social change.”—The New York Times • “An extraordinarily imaginative novel with prose that catches in the heart like poetry.”—Leila Meacham, author of Roses

A Winter’s NightValerio Massimo Manfredi • Translated by Christine Feddersen • 978-1-60945-076-2 • $17.00 • Sep 2012 • Europa • Tells the story of two worlds converging during a time of rapid change. A family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain open their barn as a refuge for those who need a warm, dry, safe place to sleep and eat during the 1920s and 1930s. Told in the tradition of country folktales, the story is framed by devastating years of strife—two world wars and the rise and fall of fascism.

Mr. FoxHelen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59448-618-0 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • An inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. The celebrated writer Mr. Fox can’t stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It’s not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently. • “Oyeyemi’s writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh.”—New York Times Book Review • “Cheeky and imaginative.” —The New Yorker

The Street SweeperElliot Perlman • 978-1-59448-619-7 • $17.00 • Dec 2012 • Riverhead • Two very different paths—one of an ex-con who befriends a Holocaust survivor and one of a college professor who finds a promising new research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran—lead to one greater story which, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz. • “Wonderfully rich, engaging and multilayered.”—The Washington Post

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English VersionPhilip Pullman • 978-0-670-02497-1 • $27.95 • Nov 2012 • Viking • “Once in a lifetime a children’s author emerges who is so extraordinary that the imagination of a generation is altered. Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit, C. S. Lewis, and Tolkien were all of this cast. So, too, is Philip Pullman.”—The New Statesman • “In this pitch-perfect retelling of the Grimms’ fairy tales, Philip Pullman reminds us that the stories have lost none of their relevance or racing energy, even two hundred years after they were written down. As storyteller and sage, he preserves the flavors and aromas of fine old wines from times past and delivers them to us in sparkling new bottles.”—Maria Tatar, Harvard, author of The Classic Fairy Tales • “A fresh, sparkling collection of the finest stories hand-picked by an author perfectly suited to the task. This volume is a must-have.”—Library Journal (starred review)

NWZadie Smith • 978-1-59420-397-8 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Penguin Press • Smith, award-winning author of White Teeth, Changing My Mind, and On Beauty depicts the modern urban zone—familiar to city dwellers everywhere—in a tragicomic novel. • “In NW, Smith offers a robust novel bursting with life: a timely exploration of money, morals, class and authenticity that asks if we are ever truly the sole authors of our own fate.”—BookPage • “A marvelously accomplished work, perhaps her most polished yet.”—Salon.com

Freud’s SisterGoce Smilevski • Translated by Christina E. Kramer • 978-0-14-312145-9 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature • “A young heir to Günter Grass and José Saramago, Smilevski might be the newest of a rare thing—a living European novelist with a message for the future of his continent.”—The Jewish Daily Forward • “Superb....Provocative and poignant....A sensitive portrayal and well-crafted novel that offers keen insight into the Freud family dyanics.”—Kirkus Reviews

Syndrome EFranck Thilliez • Translated by Mark Polizzotti • 978-0-670-02578-7 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Viking • The classic procedural meets cutting edge science in this international bestseller • “Thilliez leads his story like a beating drum, multiplying the reverberations without ever losing track of the psychological development of his characters... a reflection on the origins of violence that is as playful as it is erudite.” —Metro (Paris)

Daniel Stein, InterpreterLudmila Ulitskaya • Translated by Arch Tait • 978-1-4683-0066-6 • $16.95 • Nov 2012 • Overlook • The award-winning literary tour de force by “one of the most important living Russian writers” (Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook) • Ulitskaya tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who narrowly survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. After the war, he converts to Catholicism, becomes a priest, and finally emigrates to Israel.

Earthly PowersAnthony Burgess • 978-1-609-45084-7 • $16.95 • Nov 2012 • Europa • Burgess explores the very essence of power in a narrative that spans from Hollywood to Dublin, Nairobi, Paris and beyond • “Sums up the literary, social and moral history of the century with comic richeness as well as encyclopedic knowingness.”—Malcolm Bradbury • “One of the most underrated English novels of the past century.”—Christopher Hitches, The Atlantic

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Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee • 978-0-670-02666-1 • $27.95 • Mar 2013 • Viking • Correspondence between author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. • “Many, this reviewer among them, would consider [Coetzee] the greatest living novelist in English.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Auster is one of those sages with confounding talent....He belongs among Vonnegut, Roth, DeLillo.”—The Daily Beast American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to EmancipationEdited by James G. Basker • 978-1-59853-196-1 • $40.00 • Nov 2012 • Library of America • On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this groundbreaking anthology rediscovers and redefines our greatest tradition of social protest.

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This Is How You Lose HerJunot Díaz • 978-1-59448-736-1 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Riverhead • From The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao • “One of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible voices.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • “Díaz continues to keep company with his alter ego, Yunior, a Dominican turned New Jerseyan, in his second short story collection….Díaz’s standout fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, gutsy, and imaginative....[his] gripping stories unveil lives shadowed by prejudice and poverty and bereft of reliable love and trust.”—Booklist (starred review) • “Díaz brings life to the short story with a voice that demands attention....Díaz’s searing, sometimes hilarious, and always disarming language holds everything together....Drown inspired an entire generation of imitators and with this collection, readers will remember why everyone wants to write like Díaz.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

One for the BooksJoe Queenan • 978-0-670-02582-4 • $24.95 • Oct 212 • Viking • One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books.

The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories Hampton Fancher • 978-0-399-15823-0 • $25.95 • Sep 2012 • Blue Rider Press • Debut collection from the original screenwriter and producer of Blade Runner • “Fancher has worlds falling out of his sleeves. His fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem • “Inhabitants of Francher’s world are both scheming strivers and wide-eyed dupes, shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves, who in all their strangeness churn up a wealth of tender feelings from the depths.—Jessica Kerwin, author of The Encyclopedia of the Exquisite

Distrust That Particular FlavorWilliam Gibson • 978-0-425-25299-4 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Berkley • Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now. Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Times, and the Observer, these articles and essays cover thirty years of thoughtful, observant life, and are reported in the wry, humane voice that lovers of Gibson have come to crave.. “Gibson pulls off a dazzling trick. Instead of predicting the future, he finds the future all around him, mashed up with the past and reveals our own domain to us.”—The New York Times Book Review”

The Miniature WifeManuel Gonzales • 978-1-59448-604-3 • $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. “Wrought with forceful clarity, Borgesian inventiveness, and enchanting, devious wit—an unforgettable debut from a uniquely gifted writer.” —Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned • “ A book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror, and grace all rolled into one.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air Better Living Through Plastic Explosives Zsuzsi Gartner • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Viking • No one is safe from Zsuzsi Gartner’s wickedly perceptive eye as she uncovers our darkest fears and infinite desires, while making us snort with laughter at the wild, hilarious, and grotesque world we live in. • “A superb new story collection. [Gartner] is the anti-Munro....The emotional weight of Gartner’s stories comes from the contrast between the persistence of uncontrollable biological urges and an artificial universe.” —National Post (Canada)

At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing Edited by George Kimball and John Schulian • Foreword by Colum McCann • With a new preface by John Schulian • 978-1-59853-205-0 • $19.95 • An anthology of the best writing about boxing from the Library of America.

Drifting HouseKrys Lee • 978-0-14-312293-7 • $15.00 • Jan 2013 • Penguin • Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era to contemporary times, Lee’s fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. • “Lee conveys the feeling that something urgent and profound is at stake beyond the lives of these striving, damaged, and unforgettable characters.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “Lee is well on her way to a promising literary career.”—NPR

Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories John Mortimer • Introduction by Ann Mallalieu • 978-0-14-312214-2 • $18.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • The final Rumpole omnibus • “Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “For things most truly themselves, there should be a special place of honor... for Rumpole.” —The Washington Post

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged HimselfLudmilla Petrushevskaya • Selected and Translated by Anna Summers • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00 • Feb 2013 • Penguin • Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer’s New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales.

ArtfulAli Smith • 978-1-59420-486-9 • $25.95 • Jan 2013 • Penguin Press • Author of nine works of fiction, including The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. • Here she melds the tale and the essay into a magical hypbrid form. “The truth is that Ali Smith can’t be captured easily. Her ambition is to shatter the way we usually see things. She doesn’t want the obvious frame, the arranged picture. Her work is not a pose.”—Jeanette Winterson • “She’s a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense.”—Alain de Botton

BattlebornClaire Vaye Watkins • 978-1-59448-825-2 • $25.95 • Aug 2012 • Riverhead • A debut set against the stark, tawdry, and hauntingly beautiful landscapes of the West • “A fresh, fierce, fabulous collection. Watkins writes like the divine Didion—cool and clean with not a word wasted.”—Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead • “The book feels like a portrait of the human heart, famished for beauty and love, but finally and almost always wrecked by its own hungers.”—Paul Harding, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers

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The Office of MercyAriel Djanikian • 978-0-670-02586-2 • $26.95 • Dec 2012 • Viking • A thrilling debut of a post-apocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger Games. • “If you think a future world without suffering would be a good thing, Djanikian will convince you to reconsider....Gripping, well plotted, and boasting a fascinating setting...this engrossing tale is thoughtful and surprising.” —Deborah Harkness, author of Shadow of Night • “The Office of Mercy confronts us with a portrait of a smoothly heartless world that’s viscerally imagined, increasingly harrowing, and beautifully moving.”—Jim Shepard, author of Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Slow ApocalypseJohn Varley • 978-0-441-01757-7 • $25.95 • Sep 2012 • Ace • John Varley is the author of the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, and Mammoth. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his work. ”One of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The Washington Post

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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of LibertyJohn M. Barry • 978-0-14-312288-3 • $18.00 • Jan 2013 • Penguin • A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza. • “Barry keeps up a lively pace with jaunty prose recounting one man’s rocky sojourn among learned, prickly characters and worldly powers. Yet this book is not so much a biography as a tightly arranged discourse on the clash among ideas as they played out during a period when the American ‘soul,’ as he puts it, was being formed.” —The Washington Post

Life After DeathDamien Echols • 978-0-399-16020-2 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Blue Rider Press • “Wrongfully imprisoned by willfully ignorant cops, prosecutors and judge, Damien Echols draws on all his wits and his unique view of humanity to survive eighteen years on death row. My admiration for him, and the strength of his spirit, increases with every page.”—Peter Jackson, Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter • “Echols is at heart a poet and mystic, and he has written not just a quickie one-off book to capitalize on a lurid news story, but rather a work of art that occasionally bears a resemblance to the work of Jean Genet. A voracious reader all his life, Echols vividly tells his story, from his impoverished childhood in a series of shacks and mobile homes to his emergence after half a lifetime behind bars as a psychically scarred man rediscovering freedom in New York City.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) • “[T]his is an eloquent, even bitterly lyrical, portrayal of how an innocent man can slip through the cracks of the legal system and struggle to survive. Compelling and deeply moving, in the tradition of Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, this memoir will appeal to a wide audience.” —Library Jounral (starred review)

Coco Chanel: An Intimate LifeLisa Chaney • 978-0-14-312212-8 • $17.00 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • Drawing on a range of never-before-seen documents—including letters from the love of her life and the man behind her early business success—Chaney disentangles the truth from Chanel’s own carefully cultivated myths • “The most thoroughly fleshed out of the new books about Chanel.”—The Wall Street Journal

Manuscripts Don’t Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in LettersJ.A.E. Curtis • 978-1-4683-0070-3 • $18.95 • Sep 2012 • Overlook • The documentary bi-ography of Bulgakov’s life based on letters and other rare sources, including a diary ironically preserved by the KGB • “Superb... marvelously uncensored.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Bulgakov’s magic never fails the reader... some of the documents included are indeed astonishing... Bulgakov’s life is as fantas-tic and tortured as the plot of The Master and Margarita.”—The Washington Post Book Worl Fiction Ruined My Family Jeanne Darst • 978-1-59448-617-3 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • A “winning” (The New York Times) memoir of writing, alcohol-ism, and family • “The wisecracking, ultrahip but ultimately tragic voice in Fiction Ruined My Family—part stand-up comedy, part Lie Down in Darkness—is fetching and fast and fun, and it’s only after you fully understand the trauma at the heart of her family, the neglect that bor-dered on child abuse, that the sadness kicks in.”—The Chicago Tribune

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic MemoirEllen Forney • 978-1-592-40732-3 • $20.00 • Nov 2012 • Gotham • Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose. • “Not only does her conversational intimacy draw readers in, but her drawings perfectly capture the exhilarating frenzy of mania and the dark void of depression....Forney’s story should resonate with those grappling with similar issues, while her artistry should appeal to a wide readership.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Man-Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood Carlos Andrés Gómez • 978-159-24077-8 • $26.00 • Sep 2012 • Gotham • Inspired by the award-winning poet and actor’s acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that redefines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male. • “Carlos Andrés Gómez delivers a powerful message....An important read that will create a much needed dialogue.” —Russell Simmons • “Carlos Andrés Gómez does not claim to have all the answers, but that’s what’s great about this book. He addresses the preconceived notions of manhood and masculinity that most people go their entire lives never questioning. Man Up is the result of a thoughtfully examined life; a book that will make us all more enlightened.”—Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Brother

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American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950sEdited by Gary K. Wolfe • 978-1-59853-157-2 • $70.00 • Oct 2012 • A leading sci fi expert collects nine mind-bending classics from the golden age of the sci-fi novel • Includes works from masters like Robert Heinlein, Richard Matheson, James Blish, and Alfred Bester.

American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 53-56978-1-59853-158-9 • $35.00 • Oct 2012 • Includes The Space Merchants, More Than Human, The Long Tomorrow, and The Shrinking Man.

American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 56-58978-1-59853-159-6 • $35.00 • Oct 2012 • Includes Double Star, The Stars My Destination, A Case of Conscience, Who?, and The Big Time

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Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World Doc Hendley • 978-1-58333-507-9 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Avery • Captivating story about a small-town bartender who learned about the world’s water crisis, and decided to help. Alternatively begging international orga-nizations for funding and dodging trigger-hap-py Janjaweed, Doc began drilling and repairing wells, bringing water to those who desperately needed it. Wine to Water is an inspirational tale of how one ordinary person can make a differ-ence • “A hero who had the courage to meet a challange and believe that one person can really change this world.”—Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Holy Ghost Girl Donna M. Johnson • 978-1-59240-735-4 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Gotham • A memoir of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the evangelical sawdust trail • “Holy Ghost Girl takes you inside a world where God and sin and miracles and deceit and love are so jumbled together you can’t tell them apart. Johnson sorts through her story with great insight, compassion, and humor.”—Jeannette Walls, bestselling author of The Glass Castle • “Turns, as good books must, from a promising read to a sure bet.”—The New York Times

The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack KerouacJoyce Johnson • 978-0-670-02510-7 • $32.95 • Sep 2012 • Viking • A portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters • “Johnson deftly bridges the cultural and psychological elements of [Kerouac’s] formative years to the haunting themes and preoccupations of his novels...There is an intimacy of knowledge which renders previous...treatises of Kerouac’s life null and void.”—Howard Norman, author of What Is Left the Daughter • “An exemplary biography of the Beat icon and his development as a writer. With unprecedented access...Johnson tells the story of the rise of the reluctant ‘king of the Beats’ through the unfamiliar lens of his notebooks, manuscripts and correspondence with family, friends, lovers, editors and writers. Johnson uses her opportunity as a pioneer in this new era of Kerouac scholarship to turn a laser-sharp focus on Kerouac’s evolving ideas about language, fiction vs. truth and the role of the writer in his time....’To me,’ she writes, ‘what is important is Jack’s triumph in arriving at the voice that matched his vision.’ Of perhaps most interest was her discovery of just how important his French-Canadian heritage was to Kerouac’s sense of identity....Johnson is a sensitive but admirably objective biographer. A triumph of scholarship.—Kirkus (starred review)

Socrates: A Man for Our TimesPaul Johnson • 978-0-14-312221-0 • $15.00 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • A portrait of the thinker who believed questioning and education were the keys to a virtuous life • “Johnson... brings to his prose a wealth of anecdote and asides unknown to most academics. His Socrates comes alive.” —The Washington Times

Pauline Kael: A Life in the DarkBrian Kellow • 978-0-14-312220-3 • $18.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century • “[A] smart and incisive biography.... [Moviegoers] are in for a colossal eye-opening.”—The New York Times • “For a biography to do justice to a complex personality and a great mind such as Kael’s, extensive research must be matched by acute perception. That requirement is fully, even joyously met here…. Kellow fleshes out these major stages as well as formative minor ones in a greatly revelatory portrait that will stand as the definitive one.”—Booklist (starred review)

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster WallaceD.T. Max • 978-0-670-02592-3 • $27.95 • Sep 2012 • Viking • “This book is vey well-researched, deeply sympathetic, and incredibly painful to read. We should feel grateful that this story was told by someone as talented and responsible as D.T. Max.”—Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King • “A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times—the niceties of which... Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit.”—Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life • “D.T. Max gives us a sympathetic appraisal of Wallace’s lif enad work, tracing connections between the two....What Max’s book does—and does powerfully—is provide an emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Larceny in My Blood: A Graphic Novel Matthew Parker • 978-1-592-40662-3 • $20.00 • Aug 2012 • Gotham • “Larceny in my Blood, looks—and reads—like no memoir I have come across before. A beautifully balanced mixture of honesty, artistry, and insurgent humor, this book should be required reading for anyone who has ever struggled with a dangerous habit and found redemption in unbridled creativity.”—Dan White, author of The Cactus Eaters • “An honest look at addiction, recovery, relapse, relapse, and relapse. Parker explores his bloodline of crime and love with an unwavering and unsentimental eye.” —Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever

Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a ChampionAnthony Robles with Austin Murphy • Foreword by Jay Leno • 978-1-592-40777-4 • $26.00 • Oct 2012 • Gotham • The inspiring story of an all-American athlete born without his right leg. • “Unstoppable is an inspirational narrative that captures the essence of conquering fears, breaking down barriers, and never letting one’s dreams be shattered. This is truly the American spirit.”—Condoleezza Rice

Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein Julie Salamon • 978-0-14-312139-8 • $17.00 • Aug 2012 • Penguin • In this intimate portrait of a complicated woman, Salamon reveals Wasserstein’s most expertly crafted character: herself • “Perceptive and empathetic, but also gently unsparing—a superbly nuanced portrait.”—Kirkus Reviews • “Reads more like a novel than a biography.”—The New York Times

Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a TimeEd Stafford • 978-0-452-29826-2 • $16.00 • Nov 2012 • Plume • On his grueling 860-day, 4,000-plus mile journey, Stafford witnessed the devastating effects of deforestation, from disappearing tribes to loss of habitats • “Stands elbow-to-elbow with adventure classics from Thesiger to Krakauer.”—Mark Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu • “One of the boldest adventures ever taken.”—Bear Grylls

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth CenturyMargaret Talbot • 978-1-594-48706-4 • $28.95 • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • “What a wonderful, loving, beautifully researched and touching story this is! Lyle Talbot lived a charmed life—a player’s life—from the final days of vaudeville to the golden years of American television….His daughter’s tender yet clear-headed remembrance of him is a gift and a treasure—and a top-notch documentation of Hollywood history, besides.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love

Charles Dickens: A LifeClaire Tomalin • 978-0-14-312205-0 • $18.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • This definitive biography “brings Dickens to life in all his maddening contradictions” (The Washington Post) • “Vivid and moving... If you plan to read only one biography of the most popular Victorian writer, it should be this one.” —The Washington Post • “Clear-eyed, sympathetic, and scholarly....Wonderfully done.”—The Economist

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Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They DoEdited by Meredith Maran • 978-0-452-29815-6 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • Plume • For aspiring authors, a rich collection of some of America’s most important literary voices, each answering the question: Why do writers write? • Features Isabel Allende, David Baldacci, Jennifer Egan, James Frey, Sue Graf-ton, Sara Gruen, Kathryn Harrison, Gish Jen, Sebastian Junger, Mary Karr, Michael Lewis, Armistead Maupin, Terry McMillan, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Susan Orlean, Ann Patchett, Jodi Picoult, Jane Smiley, and Meg Wolitzer.

How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid ThemBen Yagoda • 978-1-59448-848-1 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • Riverhead • From an acclaimed cultural and literary critic and word master, a lesson in how not to write bad (or badly) for students and language lovers.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the WorldNataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche • 978-0-399-53797-4 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Two veteran translators shine a spotlight on how translation spreads culture and fuels the global economy • “A meditation, an exposé, and prac-tical guidebook to humanity’s continued, painstaking ascent of our monumental tower of Babel. Without language diversity, we would be intellectually impoverished, and with it we are enriched. But without translators to inter-pret and bridge that diversity, we would remain ignorant and isolated, locked each of us in our own native tongue’s limited worldview.” —K. David Harrison, Ph.D., Swarthmore College and National Geographic Society

Waging Heavy PeaceNeil Young • 978-0-399-15946-3 • $30.00 • Nov 2012 • Blue Rider Press • Young presents a kaleidoscopic view of personal life and musical creativity.

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Just My Type: A Book About FontsSimon Garfield • 978-1-59240-746-0 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • Gotham • An exploration of the rich history and subtle powers of type • “This smart, funny, accessible book does for typography what Lynne Truss’s bestselling Eats, Shoots & Leaves did for punctuation: made it noticeable for people who had no idea they were interested in such things.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times • “Funny and fascinating, irreverent and playful yet endlessly illuminating.”—The Atlantic

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