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Animal Spirit Stories Francesca MarcianoFrom the author of the acclaimed story collection The Other Language comes afresh collection of six colorful, richly realized stories told with inimitable humor,exactitude, and heart. Centering us in Rome, but transporting us seamlessly into worlds as variedand exotic as they are emotionally real, these stories paint landscapes that arepopulated--vividly, hauntingly--by animals: from squawking, violent seagulls, tomagical snakes, to a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road, to starlingscircling the evening sky in exhilarating formation. In the foreground, inunforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives ofwomen: an affair ends painfully at a dinner table; an actress's past comescrashing down on her during an audition; an unhappy wife seeks but can't quitefind respite in a historic palazzo sublet; two couples imagine parenthood in thehome of a woman named for the Greek goddess Hera; a young girl returns fromdrug rehab and sets out anew, with a traveling circus; a man in crisis draws hisex-girlfriend deep into the New Mexico desert. Each story tells of deeply humanmoments of realization and recognition, instants of irrevocable change, and,for the fortunate, of unexpected clarity.

ACCLAIMED FICTION CAREER: Here is a second collection by a writer perhaps mostbeloved in the story format: Her previous collection, The Other Language, wasreceived exuberantly--beyond the rave New York Times review, there was mediacoverage in The New York Times Book Review; San Francisco Chronicle; Vogue; O, TheOprah Magazine , and elsewhere; and high praise from other writers, including JhumpaLahiri, Julia Glass, Sheila Heti, and Gary Shteyngart. This new collection showcasesFrancesca Marciano's abilities at their finest yet, with rich, relatable characters and hersignature high-energy prose style. AUTHOR: Marciano's multifaceted career and unique biography are valuable in ourbook promotion: she is an utterly charming presence, an Oscar-nominatedscreenwriter, an Italian native who writes fiction in English, and a world traveler who'slived in Africa, India, Europe, and America. WOMEN'S LIVES AND RELATIONSHIPS: At the heart of these stories are women attimes of change in their lives: moments of yearning and fulfillment, with family andalone, in times of infidelity and devotion. Marciano enters the minds and hearts of hercharacters fully and with emotional precision.SETTINGS: As ever in Marciano's work, this book takes us with spellbinding clarity andevocation into the streets of Rome, a Greek island, the outskirts of Naples, the NorthAmerican desert--backdrops that are wholly alive and linger in the mind long after youturn the last page.

Praise for Francesca Marciano:"Marciano [has a] sympathetic but wryly unsentimental ability--not unlike AliceMunro's--to capture the entire arc of a character's life in a handful of pages." --MichikoKakutani, The New York Times

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Rome, ItalyFRANCESCA MARCIANO is the author of the novels Rules of the Wild, Casa Rossa, and The End of Manners, and the story collection The Other Language. She lives in Rome.

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The Geometry of Holding Hands An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (13) Series/Series #: ISABEL DALHOUSIESERIES, #13Alexander McCall SmithOne of the author's most beloved characters is back--and once again she will haveto call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel anew philosophical mystery. In Edinburgh, rumors and gossip abound. But Isabel well knows that suchthings can't be taken at face value. Still, the latest whispers hint at mysteriousgoings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? Atthe same time, she must deal with the demands of her two small children, herhusband, and her rather tempestuous niece, Cat, whose latest romanticentanglement comes--to no one's surprise--with complications. Still, even withso much going on, Isabel, through the application of good sense, logic, andethics, will, as ever, triumph.

SERIES: The Isabel Dalhousie series is a favorite with fans and critics alike. It isbeloved for its charming plots and for Isabel's astute and intellectually rigorousobservations about the pleasures and perils of modern life. The series holds specialappeal for McCall Smith's well-educated female fan base.SALES: Eleven of the previous Isabel Dalhousie novels have been national bestsellers,which testifies to thecontinued robust popularity of the series. The series overall hasmore than 1.3 million books in print for the Knopf Doubleday Group.AUTHOR PLATFORM: McCall Smith has 70,000 Facebook fans and 17,500 Twitterfollowers so far. He is an avid social media user and interacts with fans regularly. Hisnew global website features an updated look, geo-targeted buy links, andstandardized descriptive copy.

Praise for the Isabel Dalhousie Series:"Isabel is a force to be reckoned with." --USA Today"McCall Smith's heroes are among the most enduring in contemporary fiction . . .because they're so humble in their quest for goodness." --Richmond Times-Dispatch"Readers get to soak up the cozy atmosphere of this Scottish university town andMcCall Smith's gentle goodwill." --The Boston Globe"[Isabel] is by turns fearless, vulnerable, headstrong, and insecure, but alwaysdelightful." --Chicago Tribune

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Edinburgh, Scotland Author Hometown: Bulawayo, ZimbabweALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novelsand of a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translatedinto more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He livesin Scotland.

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The Brother Years A Novel Shannon BurkeFrom the acclaimed author of Black Flies and Into the Savage Country, a powerfulnew novel of class striving and the precarious dynamics of brotherhood in theChicago suburbs of the late 1970s. "In our family, there was none of this crap about everyone being a winner,"says Willie, the narrator, who looks back on his teen years--and his nearlymortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle. In the Brennan housefour kids sleep in a single room, and are indoctrinated into "The Methods," asystem of achievement and relentless striving, laced with a potent, sometimesviolent version of sibling rivalry. The family is overseen by a raging bull of afather, a South Side tough guy who knocks them sideways when they don'tperform well or follow his dictates. Rivals, enemies, and allies, the siblingscontend with one another and their wealthy self-satisfied peers at New Trier,the famous upscale high school where the family has struggled to send them.Evoking their crucible of class struggle and peer pressures, Burke balancescomedy, tragedy, and a fascinating cast of characters, delivering a book thatreads like an instant classic--an unforgettable story of the intertwining of loveand family violence, and of triumphant teen survival that echoes down throughthe years.

SUBJECT MATTER/YA CROSSOVER: In the tradition of works like A Separate Peace,The House on Mango Street, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this is a classiccoming-of-age story; it is told in retrospect, with adult wisdom for the adult reader, butcould also appeal strongly to college and twentysomething readers.TIMELY CONVERSATION: This book is about the honest sacrifices a family makes forthe education of their children at a time when university admission is a big topicnationally, and many "game the system" rather than doing the hard work that is theholy grail of these characters. AUTHOR: Burke is co-creator of the Netflix series Outer Banks, to air in spring 2020.STRONG REVIEWS for Burke's previous fiction:

~"Al though Black Flies is a novel, it contains more reflections of lived experience thansome memoirs . . . Reading this arresting, confrontational book is like reading Dispatches,Michael Herr's indelible account of his years as a reporter in Vietnam." --Liesl Schillinger,The New York Times Book Review~"Burke is a poet of trauma, and his expert, macabre portrayal takes its toll on thereader." --Publishers Weekly (starred review for Black Flies)~"[A] glorious American frontier novel . . . A grand immersion into the past." --KirkusReivews (starred review for Into the Savage Country)

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Knoxville, TNSHANNON BURKE is the author of the novels Safelight, Into the Savage Country, and Black Flies, a New York Times Notable Book. He has also worked on several film projects,including Syriana, and is the co-creator of the upcoming Netflix show Outer Banks. Helives in Knoxville, Tennessee.


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Summer A Novel Series/Series #: SEASONAL QUARTETAli SmithFrom the Man Booker short-listed author of Autumn, Winter, and Spring comes Summer, the highly anticipated fourth novel in her acclaimed Seasonal Quartet. Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet,a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasonsare), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.

ACCLAIMED, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Ali Smith has been called "Scotland'sNobel laureate-in-waiting." Her books have won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction,the Costa Novel Award, and have four times been short-listed for the Man BookerPrize. She has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for herservice to literature.CRITICAL DARLING: Smith's reviews are always prodigious and major. RebeccaMakkai, in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, called Spring "brill ianceitself" and drew a comparison to Ulysses. RAVE REVIEWS AND ACCOLADES FOR THE QUARTET: The first volumes in theseries were widely reviewed and universally embraced by critics, who called Autumn"a wonder" (The Washington Post) and "transcendent" (The New York Times BookReview ); Winter "brilliant" (NPR) and "moving" (The New Yorker); and Spring" important" (The New York Times Book Review) and "splendid" (The Boston Globe). Autumn was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.LITERARY TREASURE HUNT: As the volumes have published, critics and readershave been delighting in finding the subtle, hidden connections among the books,building anticipation even higher for the next installment.SALES TRACK AT ANCHOR: Autumn continues to backlist strongly at Anchor, withthe trade paperback edition in its 12th printing, with 56k copies now in print, and Winter is now in its second printing. Summer, as the finale to Smith's brilliant four-partcomposition, should draw particular interest to the whole series.

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Cambridge, UK Author Hometown: Inverness, ScotlandALI SMITH is the author of many works of fiction, including, most recently, Spring,Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, and How to be both, which won theBaileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the YearAward. Her work has four times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Born inInverness, Scotland, she lives in Cambridge, England.

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Aria A Novel Nazanine HozarAn extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution--a "Doctor Zhivagoof Iran"*--that follows an orphan girl coming of age at a time of dramatic upheaval.

"Here comes a sweeping saga about the Iranian revolution as itexplodes--told from the ground level and the centre of chaos. A DoctorZhivago of Iran." --Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)"Aria is a feminist odyssey, about a girl in a time of intolerance as therevolution in Iran is breaking out. A poised and dramatic historical novel withcontemporary relevance." --John Irving

Iran in the 1950s is wealthy in oil but riven by divisions of class, ethnicity, andreligion, and its corrupt government is under foreign influence. At this volatilemoment, an illiterate driver rescues a redheaded, blue-eyed baby girl who hasbeen abandoned in a Tehran alley and names her Aria. When he can no longercare for her, he finds her a new home, setting her on an unlikely path fromextreme deprivation to a life of privilege. Along the way, Aria acquires threemother figures with secrets of their own: one who abuses her, one who adoptsher, and one whose role in her life is initially mysterious. At university, Aria isdrawn ever further from her poverty-stricken past, until the 1979 revolutionbrings her various worlds violently together again. She and her friends areswept up in the excitement and danger as the shah is overthrown, but the finalstage of the revolution will bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to power at the headof a brutal theocracy--just as Aria has become a mother herself. Nazanine Hozar's stunning debut gives us an unusually intimate view of amomentous time, through the eyes of a young woman coming to terms withthe mysteries of her own past and future.

CANADIAN BESTSELLER: Aria debuted at #9 on the Toronto Globe and Mail best-seller list.AUTHOR'S PERSONAL STORY: Hozar was a baby when the revolution erupted andwas brought to Canada at age seven when her family fled Iran. She grew up hearingstories from relatives and friends who had experienced the trauma of the revolutionfirsthand.VOICING THE VOICELESS: As Hozar says, "I want to tell a good story while givingvoice to those who cannot speak for themselves." She reveals an ethnic and religiousdiversity in Iran that most Americans are unaware of, and shows the start of therevolution as a moment of optimism and unity that became a tragic disappointment tomany involved.INSIDE VIEW OF IRAN: Iran has a history of 7,000 years of civilization, yet it remainslargely a mystery to the West. Hozar wrote this novel to demystify this secretive landby showing the everyday experiences of its people during a time of radical change.CINEMATIC STORY: Long a film fan, Hozar began writing this story as a screenplay,before turning it into a novel. It is a dramatic, epic, visually powerful story of an entirecountry's ordeal, with a poignant personal story as its beating heart.

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Vancouver, BritishColumbia

Author Hometown: Tehran, Iran

NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Herfiction and nonfiction have been published in the Vancouver Observer and Prairie Firemagazine. Aria is her first novel.

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Category: Science; GeologyBISAC 1: Science - Earth Sciences - GeologyBISAC 2: Social Science - Anthropology - GeneralBISAC 3: History - Historical GeographyPage Count: 400 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4Spine/Depth: 44/32 Carton Count: 12Illustrations: B&W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT


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The Book of Unconformities Speculations on Lost Time Hugh RafflesFrom the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia comes a powerful exploration ofhistory, loss, and the absences that permeate the present When his two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, HughRaffles reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchorsin a world unmoored, ways to make sense of these events through stories farlarger than his own. Drawing on history, anthropology, geology, and ten years of field research,this moving and profound meditation is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithicstone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrifiedwhale blubber from Svalbard, marble prized by Manhattan's indigenousLenape, and the Greenlandic meteorites that arrived in an exuberant New YorkCity in 1897 accompanied by six adventurous Inughuit travelers. Stone, it turns out, is not only the most philosophical of substances--thematerial that forces a reckoning with time--it is also deeply human in itsentanglements. As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing heevents they have engendered, he finds them losing their solidity, becoming aswillful, capricious, and indifferent as fate itself.

AUTHOR: Hugh Raffles is an anthropologist by training, but instead of writing aboutindigenous societies, his subject is between humans and the nonhuman--first insectsand now stones, elemental objects that precede, coexist, and remain after we aregone--and which shape us in ways of which we often are not aware.MEDITATION: This is not merely a treatise on stone, but an exploration of time itself,and Raffles draws a unique portrait of it--not as a progression of tenses, but as aprocess by which distinct moments from different eras can sit adjacent to one another.AUDIENCE: Readers of Barry Lopez's Horizon, Robert MacFarlane's Underland, CraigChild's Atlas of a Lost World

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: New York, NYIllustrator Residence: New York CityHUGH RAFFLES is the author of Insectopedia (a New York Times Notable Book andwinner of the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for SocialStudies of Science) and In Amazonia (winner of the Victor Turner Prize in EthnographicWriting). In 2009, he received the Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction. A professor ofanthropology at The New School, he lives in New York City.

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Category: ScienceBISAC 1: Science - Life Sciences - NeuroscienceBISAC 2: Science - Philosophy & Social AspectsBISAC 3: Psychology - NeuropsychologyPage Count: 336 Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4Carton Count: 12Illustrations: B&W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT


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Livewired The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain David EaglemanFrom the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait ofthe human brain, based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how itcontinually adapts, recreates, and formulates new ways of understanding the worldwe live in. The magic of the brain is not found in its parts, but in the way those partsconstantly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. To help usunderstand the nature and changing texture of that fabric, there is no moreaccomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist DavidEagleman. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm, Eagleman reveals themyriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying,organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorptionof external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, facilities, and practicesthat make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into thefunctioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his ownresearch: about synesthesia, dreaming, and wearable devices that arerevolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. Brilliantly engaging, Livewired is as deeply informative as it is accessible.

STAND-ALONE: This is Eagleman's first stand-alone book (excluding the TV tie-in TheBrain) in a decade.UNUSUAL REACH: Eagleman straddles the science and tech worlds--he's known toboth scientists and entrepreneurs, and his ability to communicate ideas is first-rate.His work has had a remarkably wide-ranging impact. All his previous books continue tosell strongly, and with this new book we have an opportunity to highlight his uniqueposition within the world of neuroscience.NEW MATERIAL: David Eagleman draws on his own original research in order to writeabout the brain's living fabric, and his portrait of this ever-responding process tointernal stimulus (of which we are fundamentally unaware) and externalsensation/experience (much of which is left unfiltered by our conscious processes) willbe new information for his readers.AUDIENCE: Readers of Yuval Harari, Steven Pinker, and Timothy Ferris.

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Palo Alto, CADAVID EAGLEMAN, PhD, teaches brain plasticity at Stanford University, was the writerand host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain, and is the CEO ofNeoSensory, a company that builds brain/machine interfaces. He is the author of sevenprevious books, including the international best sellers Incognito and Sum. He lives inPalo Alto, California.

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Category: Biography; ScienceBISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Science &TechnologyBISAC 2: Science - Physics - Quantum TheoryBISAC 3: Science - Physics - AstrophysicsPage Count: 240 Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4Spine/Depth: 31/32 Carton Count: 12


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Stephen Hawking A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Leonard MlodinowAn intimate and inspirational exploration of Stephen Hawking--the man, the friend,and the physicist. Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous and influential physicists inthe world. He left a mark in our culture that touched the lives of millions. Hisbooks have inspired countless scientists-to-be, and his research on the laws ofblack holes and the origin of the universe charted new territory. Recalling his nearly two-decades as a friend and collaborator with StephenHawking, Leonard Mlodinow brings a complex man into focus like no one hasbefore. He introduces us to Hawking the colleague, for whom no detail is toominor to get right, a challenge for a man who could only type one word perminute. We meet Hawking the friend, who creates such strong connections withthose around him that he can communicate powerfully with just the raise of aneyebrow. We witness Hawking the genius, who, against all odds, flourishesafter he is diagnosed with ALS and pours his mind into uncovering themysteries of the universe. Brilliant, impish, and kind, Hawking endearedhimself to almost everyone he came into contact with. This beautiful portrait isinspirational and is sure to stick with you long after you've read it.

STEPHEN HAWKING: Hawking was an iconic figure both in physics and in popculture. His books have sold more than five million copies in the U.S. The Theory ofEverything , a Hawking biopic, grossed more than $120 million. AN INTIMATE LOOK AT HAWKING: Stephen comes to life in this pages--the friend,the physicist, the romantic, the prankster. Because of his close working relationshipover many years, Len is able to show how much Stephen meant to those he loved andhow he lived life to the full. INSPIRATIONAL STORY: When he was first diagnosed with ALS, Stephen thought hewas only going to live for a few more years. It was essentially a death sentence, but forStephen, it gave him the opportunity to focus on what was important in his life andspurred him on to tackle some of the biggest questions in physics. PHYSICS: Not only does Len bring Stephen to life on the page, but he also places hiswork in context of the physicists of his generation and shows in an accessible way howbrilliant and influential Stephen was in the world of academic science.SALES: The books Leonard Mlodinow co-authored with Stephen Hawking have soldnearly one million copies.

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: South Pasadena, CALEONARD MLODINOW received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute,and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. His previous booksinclude the best sellers The Grand Design and A Briefer History of Time (both withStephen Hawking), Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science WritingAward), The Drunkard's Walk (a New York Times Notable Book), and War of theWorldviews (with Deepak Chopra) as well as Elastic, The Upright Thinkers, Feynman'sRainbow, and Euclid's Window. He also wrote for the television series MacGyver and StarTrek: The Next Generation.


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Conditional Citizens On Belonging in America Laila LalamiThe acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and TheOther Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that isconcerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating andimpassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikelyjourney from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point forher exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionallyassociated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, andliterature, she elucidates how accidents of birth--such as national origin, race,or gender--that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still casttheir shadows today. Throughout the book, she poignantly illustrates how whitesupremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that acaste system is maintained, keeping the modern equivalent of white malelandowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues,are all the people whom America embraces with one arm, and pushes awaywith the other.

Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves togetherthe author's own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites inthe broader American culture.

PRAISE FOR THE OTHER AMERICANS:"This deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences shows up, in its quietway, the pressures under which ordinary Americans of Muslim background havelabored since the events of 9/11." --J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize inLiterature"A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight." --Viet Thanh Nguyen,author of The New York Times best-seller The SympathizerSUBJECT: The divisiveness of white nationalism in America is an intensifying scandal.

About the Author/ I l lustratorAuthor Residence: Los Angeles, CA Author Hometown: Rabat, MoroccoLAILA LALAMI was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and theUnited States. She the author of four novels, including The Moor's Account, which wonthe American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/WrightLegacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent work, The OtherAmericans, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper's, The Guardian, and TheNew York Times. Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California atRiverside. She lives in Los Angeles.


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