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Brandon Jonesall Woman and springtimea novel

“ One of the most absorbing, chilling, beautifully written, and important novels I’ve read in many years.” —alice Walker

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Before she met il-sun in an orphanage, gi was a hol-low husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of north korea’s forced-labor camps. a mathematical

genius, she has learned to cope with pain by retreating into a realm of numbers and calculations, an escape from both the past and present. gi becomes enamored of the brash and ra-diant il-sun, a friend she describes as “all woman and spring-time.” But il-sun’s pursuit of a better life imperils both girls when her suitor spirits them across the demilitarized Zone and sells them as sex workers, first in south korea and then in the United states.

this spellbinding debut, reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, depicts—with chilling accuracy—life behind north korea’s iron curtain. But for gi and il-sun, forced into the underworld of human trafficking, their captivity outside north korea is far crueler than the tight control of their “dear leader.” tenderhearted gi, just on the verge of wom-anhood, is consigned to a fate that threatens not only her body but her mind. How she and il-sun endure, how they find a path to healing, is what drives this absorbing and exquisite novel—from an exciting young algonquin discovery—to its perfectly imagined conclusion.

“ All Woman and Springtime is a lovely novel brimming with heartache and hope in equal measure. Jones has a gift for empathy as well as a keen sense of justice. This book will open your eyes, break your heart, and then mend it again.” —tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow

Br a n d On JOn E S lives in Hawaii.

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“ When you’re young, and you head out to wonderful, before you get to wonderful you’re going

to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look,

because that may be as far as you’re ever going to go.”

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a reliaBle WifeisBn 978-1-56512-977-1no. 72977

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RobeRt GoolRick

The author of the acclaimed national bestseller A Reliable Wife returns with a new novel about the dark side of passion set in midcentury America in a small Virginia town. Goolrick looks deep into the culture of that world—the people, their beliefs, their needs, their desires— and brings to life a story that is unremittingly suspenseful and irresistibly compelling.

in Heading Out to Wonderful, an attractive and enigmatic stranger—charlie Beale, a loner, recently home from the war in europe—wanders into the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy vil-lage of only a few hundred people nestled in the valley of virginia. He brings with him two

suitcases: one contains all his worldly possessions, including a set of butcher’s knives; the other is full of money.

charlie quickly finds a job at the local butcher shop and through his work there meets all the townspeople, most notably sam Haislett, the five-year-old son of the shop’s owner, and sylvan glass, the beautiful, eccentric teenage bride of the town’s richest man. What no one anticipates is how the interaction of these three people will alter the town forever, and how the passion that flares between charlie and sylvan will mark young sam for life.

told through the eyes of sam, now an older man looking back on that time, this much- anticipated follow-up to A Reliable Wife is an exciting, erotically charged, and altogether unforget-table story of love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen.

accLaIM FOr A ReliABle Wife:

“A killer debut novel . . . Suspenseful and erotic.” —USA Today

“beautifully written, beautifully dark . . . Mesmerizing.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“deliciously wicked and tense . . . intoxicating.” —The Washington Post

“A thrilling, juicy read . . . captivating.” —John searles, Today show

“Suspenseful . . . delicious, up until the last page.” —The Miami Herald

“A beautiful and haunting read.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“engrossing and addictive . . . Will leave you both chilled and satisfied.” —npr’s Morning Edition

in addition to A Reliable Wife, rOBE rt g O OL r Ic k is the author of the acclaimed memoir The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in a small virginia town.

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BoB tartekitty corneredHoW frannie and five otHer incorrigiBle cats seiZed control of oUr HoUse and made it tHeir Home

In the feline follow-up to enslaved by Ducks (100,000 copies in print), bird-loving Bob tarte tells the calamitous story of surviving a household run by six cats.

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Bob tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from fluffy. But as he says, “i lis-

tened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” in this tell-all of how the tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to- manage stray named frannie—tarte confesses to allowing these interlop-ers to shape his and his wife’s life, from their dining habits to their sleeping arrangements to the placement and fur-riness of their furniture. But more than that, Bob begins seeing frannie and the other cats as unlikely instructors in the art of achieving contentment, even in the face of ill-ness and injury. Bewitched by the unknowable nature of domesticated cats, he realizes that sometimes wildness and mystery are exactly what he needs.

With the winning humor and uncanny ability to capture the soul of the animal world that made Enslaved by Ducks a success, tarte shows us that life with animals gives us a way out of our narrow human perspective to glimpse something larger, more enduring, and more grounded in the simplici-ties of love—and catnip.

PraISE FOr eNslAveD BY Ducks:

“ Hilarious . . . After reading this delightfully punchy account, you may never look at fido the same way again.” —Entertainment Weekly

“ Part Gerald durrell and part bill bryson.” —Booklist

“ for anyone who has ever opened heart and home to an animal.” —The Dallas Morning News

B OB ta rt E wrote for The Beat magazine for twenty years. He has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Miami New Times, the Whole Earth Review, and other pub-lications. He hosts the What Were You Thinking? podcast for petliferadio.com. He and his wife linda live in lowell, michigan, and currently serve the whims of parrots, ducks, geese, parakeets, a rabbit, doves, hens, one turkey, and way too many cats.

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kris d’agostinotHe sleepy HolloW family almanaca novel

In the spirit of novels by nick Hornby and tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.

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calvin moretti can’t believe how much his life sucks. He’s a twenty-four-year-old film school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant

teacher at a preschool for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother is also living at home, as is his kid sister, who’s still in high school and has just confided to cal that she’s pregnant. What’s more, calvin’s father, a career pilot, is temporarily grounded and obsessed with his own mortal-ity. and his ever-stalwart mother is now crumbling under the pressure of mounting bills and the imminent loss of their sleepy Hollow, new york, home: the only thing keep-ing the morettis moored. can things get worse? oh, yes, they can.

Which makes it all the more amazing that The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac is not only buoyantly fun but often very, very funny. in this debut novel, kris d’agostino has crafted an engrossing contemporary tale of a loopy but lov-ing family, and in calvin moretti, he’s created an oddball antihero who really wants to do the right thing—if he can just figure out what it is.

“ in his hilarious and heartbreaking novel, d’Agostino has given us a sharp and poignant sketch of a generation search-ing for self-definition in a new century.” —david gates, author of Jernigan and Preston Falls

“ A singularly funny, bitter, bold book about what it’s like to resemble people you want badly to be better than. This is a remarkable book about a remarkable family with disturbingly familiar problems.” —Brock clarke, author of Exley and An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England

k r IS d ’ag O S t I nO lives in Brooklyn, new york, and works in a preschool. This is his first novel.

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In her most intimate book to date, Julia alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love in a memoir that travels across time, beyond borders, and between families.

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in tHe time of tHe BUtterfliesisBn 978-1-56512-976-4no. 72976

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Julia alvarez has been called “a one-woman cultural collision” by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young

Haitian boy known as piti. a teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, piti illegally crossed the border into the dominican republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When piti calls in 2009, Julia’s promise is tested.

to alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native dominican culture, “Haiti is like a sister i’ve never gotten to know.” and so we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the french colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss—first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find piti’s loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake. as in all of alvarez’s books, a strong mes-sage is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.

advancE PraISE:

“ She is the ideal travel companion—witty and observant and, as in all of Julia Alvarez’s writing, compassionate and full of heart. A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.” —mark kurlansky

J u L I a a Lva r E z is the author of nineteen books, including the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. a writer-in-residence at middlebury college, she and her husband, Bill eichner, established and oversee alta gracia, an organic coffee farm–literacy arts center, in her homeland, the dominican republic.

“ Haiti is not erased . . . Haiti is what cannot be erased in a human being, not with slavery, not with centuries of exploitation and bad management, invasions, earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera. It embodies those undervalued but increasingly valuable skills we need to survive on this slowly depleting planet: endurance, how to live with less, how to save by sharing, how to make a pact with hope when you find yourself in hell.” —from A Wedding in Haiti

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ted Hellerpocket kingsa novel

In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.

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When frank dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dab-ble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack

for winning. in this newfound realm, populated by alluring characters—each of them elusive, mysterious, and glamor-ous—he becomes a smash success: popular, rich, and loved. going by the name chip Zero, he sees his fortunes and ro-mantic liaisons thrive in cyberspace while he remains blind to the fact that his real life is sinking. His online success, however, does not come without complications, as he comes to realize that his “virtual” friends and lovers are, in fact, very real, and one rival player is not at all happy that mr. Zero has taken all his money.

Heller’s cautionary tale is continually surprising and startlingly real, a tour de force of satirical storytelling in the vein of Jonathan tropper and sam lipsyte.

PraISE FOr slAB RAT :

“ Heller shows himself a brilliant social satirist . . . A delight-ful, smart, twisted commentary on ambition, careerism, love, and modern life by the most likely newcomer since nick Hornby to make you laugh out loud on a bus.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

t E d H E L L E r is the author of two novels, Slab Rat and Funny men. He lives in new york.



roBert olmsteadtHe coldest nigHta novel

award-winning novelist robert Olmstead, author of the bestselling coal Black Horse, pens a fast-moving tale of a love affair—as destructive as it is irresistible—that sets a boy’s course toward an epic and life-changing battle.

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Henry childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young mercy’s disapproving father threatens

Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can—to the other side of the world.

The time is 1950, and the korean War hangs in the bal-ance. descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the chosin reservoir—the turning point of the war—completely unprepared for the forbidding korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.

robert olmstead’s riveting new novel is not only a pas-sionate story of love and war, it is a timeless story of soldiers coming home to a country with little regard for, and even less knowledge of, what they’ve confronted. Through his hero, olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: that for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, elec-tric, and extraordinary experience of their lives.

PraISE FOr rOBErt OLMStEad:

“ Violent and meditative, hopeless and elegiac, ribald and somber, Mr. olmstead’s voice draws its energy from contradiction and daring juxtapositions of language and event . . . He writes heartbreaking, accurate, moving prose.” —The New York Times Book Review

rOBE rt OL M S t E a d is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland prize for fiction and the ohioana award, and was a #1 Book sense pick and a Border’s discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of america spur award. He is the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship and an nea grant, and is a professor at ohio Wesleyan University.

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matti friedman tHe aleppo codeX a trUe story of oBsession, faitH, and tHe pUrsUit of an ancient Book

“ The Aleppo codex could be read as a thriller. It could also be read as a history of the Jewish people, or as a meditation on history and myth. This great book comes closer to containing everything than any book I’ve read in a long, long time.” —Jonathan safran foer

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in an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything.

This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text—the tenth-century annotated bible known as the aleppo codex—from its hiding place in a syrian syna-gogue to the newly founded state of israel. Based on matti friedman’s independent research, documents kept secret for fifty years, and personal interviews with key players, the book proposes a new theory of what happened when the codex left aleppo, syria, in the late 1940s and eventually surfaced in Jerusalem, mysteriously incomplete.

The closest thing Jews have to the Word of god, the codex provides vital keys to reading biblical texts. By recounting its history, friedman explores the once vibrant Jewish commu-nities in islamic lands and follows the thread into the pres-ent, uncovering difficult truths about how the manuscript was taken to israel and how its most important pages went missing. along the way, he raises critical questions about who owns historical treasures and the role of myth and legend in the creation of a nation.

“ Matti friedman is a stunningly talented writer, a once-in-a-generation discovery. The Aleppo codex has enough betrayals, conspiracies, surprise plot twists, sacred flimflam men, and well-dressed contraband dealers for the best of thrillers— but every bit of it is meticulously researched fact.” —gershom gorenberg, senior correspondent for the American Prospect and author of The Accidental Empire

“ A beautifully woven tale of epic proportions about a sacred book and its all-too-human custodians . . . Absolutely riveting!” —oren Harman, author of The Price of Altruism

M at t I F r I E dM a n , a correspondent for the associated press, grew up in toronto and now lives in Jerusalem. He has covered two conflicts in israel and one in the caucasus and has also reported from lebanon, morocco, moscow, cairo, and Washington, d.c.avaILaBLE On

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micHael parkertHe Watery part of tHe Worlda novel

“ Parker slices open each isolated life with humor and gentleness, and the familiar battles with loss and loneliness he chronicles make even this remotest of locations feel close to home.” —People, 4-star review

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michael parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, mad-ness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island

battered by storms and cut off from the world. inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to new york by ship to meet her father, aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of north carolina. it ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants of a remote island—two elderly white women and the black man who takes care of them—are forced to leave their beloved spot of land. parker tells an enduring story about what we’ll sacrifice for love, and what we won’t.

“ i found The Watery Part of the World all but impossible to put down . . . This elegantly written tale reflects on the nature of race, love, regret, dependence, fear, sorrow, honor and envy—the eternal challenges of being human. The characters, even the minor ones, are fully formed, the setting is so vividly described that you feel you know it intimately, and Parker’s writing is purely wonderful.” —nancy pearl, npr.org

“ A lush feat of historical speculation . . . disparate parts— pirates and aristocrats in one century; elderly ladies and their handyman in another . . . but Parker has managed to stir them together in a vivid tale about the tenacity of habit and the odd relationships that form in very small, difficult places.” —The Washington Post

“ A remarkable story . . . The entire novel has a blue-green, underwater feel, a timeless forgetfulness.” —Los Angeles Times

M Ic H a E L Pa r k E r, author of six previous books of fiction, winner of the Hobson prize for distinguished achievement in arts and letters, the north carolina award for literature, and an nea fellowship, is a professor in the mfa writing program at the University of north carolina at greensboro.

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tHe nAtuRe PRinciPlereconnecting WitH life in a virtUal age

aPrILnaturE/HEaLtH, BOdy, MInd

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RicHARd louV

“ [Louv’s] onto something important here, something lasting, and by the time you turn the final page, you’ll not only understand why you should make or deepen your own connections to nature, you’ll know how. . . His book is a stirring argument for not waiting a moment longer.”—San Diego Union Tribune

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RicHARd louV

for many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of cormac mccarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. richard louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting

that if we reconceive environmentalism and sustainability, they will evolve into a larger movement that will touch every part of society.

This new nature movement taps into the restorative powers of the natural world to boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness; build smarter and more sustainable businesses, communities, and economies; and ultimately strengthen human bonds. supported by groundbreak-ing research, anecdotal evidence, and compelling personal stories, louv offers renewed optimism while challenging us to rethink the way we live.

Features an update from the author on the New Nature Movement with suggestions for applying the concepts of The Nature Principle to our lives, our communities, and our businesses as we seek to reshape the future.

“ The Nature Principle tackles the ambitious task of mapping our way to a more connected future . . . Page after page we learn that in working to heal the world through restoration, we end up healing ourselves.” —Orion magazine

“ The Nature Principle manages to both teach and delight. Think of it as a refreshing hike for the mind and soul.” —oprah.com

“ louv’s vital, inclusive, and inspiriting call to better our lives by celebrating and protecting the living world marks the way to profound personal and cultural transformation.” —Booklist, starred review

“ This book provides a way back to where we belong, a world full of reverence, joy, and discovery.” —david Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance

r Ic H a r d L Ou v is a journalist and the author of nine books about the connections between family, na-ture, and community. His previous work, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, has been published in fourteen countries. louv is chairman and cofounder of the children and nature network (www.childrenandnature.org) and was awarded the 2008 audubon medal, presented by the national audubon society.

“ There is a great urgency to this work . . . This book makes utter sense and Louv is gentle with his simple agenda: more green in schools, more access to nature in communities, the importance of giving people the tools and the health they need to create a better world.” —Los Angeles Times


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manUel mUñoZWHat yoU see in tHe darka novel

“ ‘ I want to remind readers that books are better at haunting us than movies are,’ Muñoz has said of his ambitions for What You see in the Dark. ‘Haunting’ is only the beginning of what his fine debut novel accomplishes. [It] strikes emotional chords so deep and with such precision, it almost makes you believe you’ve discovered a new art form.” —The Austin Chronicle

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the long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, california,

circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout loca-tions for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the same way that Hitchcock made Psycho—frame by frame, in pans, zooms, and close-ups—muñoz’s re-creation of a vanished era takes the reader into places no camera can go, venturing into the characters’ private thoughts, petty jealousies, and unreal-ized dreams. The result is a work of stunning originality.

“ The making of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho would seem out of place in a serious literary novel about small-town california . . . [but] Manuel Muñoz pulls off this strange juxtaposition with stunning success . . . An audacious debut novel.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“ eerily cinematic.” —O: The Oprah Magazine

“ one of the cleverest suspense conceits i’ve encountered in a long time: two young lovers become entwined in a doomed affair, while, at the same time, Hitchcock and his minions begin setting up their equipment in sleepy bakersfield . . . This atmospheric tale of twisted minds and small-town murder would’ve put a demented gleam in The Master’s eye.” —maureen corrigan, npr.org

“ [A] stellar first novel . . . with a subtlety worthy of Hitchcock himself.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

M a n u E L M u ñ O z ’s short story collection, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, was a finalist for the frank o’connor international short story award. He is the recipient of a national endowment for the arts literature fellowship and the prestigious Whiting award, and is currently teaching creative writing at the University of arizona in tucson.

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Janet grotHtHe receptionistan edUcation at THE NEW YORKER

If mad men were set at the offices of a legendary magazine and told from the point of view of the receptionist, it would mirror Janet groth’s seductive and entertaining look back at her twenty-one years (1957 – 1978) at The New Yorker.

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thanks to a successful interview with a painfully shy e. B. White, a beautiful nineteen-year-old hazel-eyed midwesterner landed a job as receptionist at The New

Yorker. There she stayed for two decades, becoming the gen-eral office factotum—watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, fail-ures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the eighteenth floor. in addition to taking their messages, groth watered their plants, walked their dogs, boarded their cats, and sat their children (and houses) when they traveled. and although she dreamed of becoming a writer herself, she never advanced at the magazine.

This memoir of a particular time and place is as much about why that was so as it is about groth’s fascinating re-lationships with poet John Berryman (who proposed mar-riage), essayist Joseph mitchell (who took her to lunch every friday), and playwright muriel spark (who invited her to christmas dinner in tuscany), as well as e. J. kahn, calvin trillin, renata adler, peter devries, charles addams, and many other New Yorker contributors and bohemian denizens of greenwich village in its heyday.

during those single-in-the-city years, groth tried on many identities—nice girl, sex pot, dumb Blonde, World traveler, doctoral candidate—but eventually she would have to leave The New Yorker to find her true self.

Ja n E t g rO t H , emeritus professor of english at the state University of new york at plattsburgh, has also taught at vassar, Brooklyn college, the University of cincinnati, and columbia. she was a fulbright lecturer in norway and a visiting fellow at yale and is the author of Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (for which she won the nemla Book award) and coauthor of Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson. she lives in new york city.



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“ charting a vast emotional unknown is tayari Jones’s compelling third novel, silver sparrow, in which a teenage girl’s coming of age in 1990s atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a corrosive secret — her father’s second family.” —Vogue

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With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “my father, James Witherspoon, is a biga-mist,” author tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.

set in a middle-class neighborhood in atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. it is a relationship destined to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed “one of the most important writers of her generation” (the Atlanta Journal Constitution).

“ An amazing, amazing read.” —Jennifer Weiner on nBc’s Today show

“ tayari Jones’s immensely pleasurable new novel pulls off a minor miracle . . . Jones crafts an affect-ing tale about things, big and small, we forfeit to forge a family . . . There are no winners in this em-pathetic and provocative story, just survivors.” —More

“ A love story . . . full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.” —O: The Oprah Magazine

“ That Jones offers no pat answers is the secret sauce spicing Silver Sparrow. The prose goes down so compulsively that it might be easy to miss the heart of the story. She shines a light on a particular disenfranchised group, the children who grow up in second families.” —The Denver Post

“ Populating this absorbing novel is a vivid cast of characters . . . Jones writes dialogue that is realistic and sparkling, with an intuitive sense of how much to reveal and when . . . one of literature’s most intriguing extended families.” —The Washington Post

“ Jones gives us permission to love all of the novel’s women, though they are flawed and often refuse to love each other. That’s a recipe for great book club discussions.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

taya r I JOn E S has written for McSweeney’s, the New York Times, and the Believer. Her previous novels are Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, winner of the lillian c. smith award. Jones holds degrees from spelman college, arizona state University, and the University of iowa. she serves on the mfa fac-ulty at rutgers–newark and blogs on writing at www.tayarijones.com.

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“ tayari Jones has taken atlanta for her literary terroir, and like many of our finest novelists, she gives readers a sense of place in a deeply observed way. But more than that, Jones has created in her main characters tour guides of that region: honest, hurt, observant and compelling young women whose voices cannot be ignored . . . Impossible to put down until you find out how these sisters will discover their own versions of family.” —Los Angeles Times

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amy steWarttHe eartH movedon tHe remarkaBle acHievements of eartHWorms

“ Stewart’s fascination with her subject is infectious, her writing as simple and sleek as the earthworm itself.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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in the sharp-witted, offbeat, and investigative style that made amy stewart’s Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs New York Times bestsellers, The Earth Moved takes us

on a subterranean adventure to uncover our planet’s most important gatekeeper: the humble earthworm. though small, spineless, and blind, the earthworm’s effect on the ecosystem is profound. With charles darwin as her inspi-ration, stewart probes the earthworm’s astonishing realm, talks to oligochaetologists who have devoted their lives to unearthing the complex web of life beneath our feet, ob-serves the thousands of worms in her own garden, and of-fers practical advice and unbridled enthusiasm about home composting.

“ Read her book and you’ll start to see how the rhododendron bed in front of your house is a kind of Mars for frontier science.” —The Boston Globe

“combin(es) the intellectual curiosity of a scholar with the insights of a hands-in-the-dirt gardener . . . Her ease in gliding from worms to plants to humans will remind readers of John McPhee’s essays on canoes, oranges, the geology of America.” —The Providence Journal

a M y St E Wa rt is the bestselling author of five books on the pleasures and perils of the natural world. she has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, and her essays and commentaries have appeared on npr, in the New York Times, and in Fine Gardening. she is the recipient of a national endowment of the arts fellow-ship and the american Horticultural society’s 2010 Book award. she lives in eureka, california, where she and her husband own an antiquarian bookstore.

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daniel WallaceBig fisHa novel of mytHic proportions

Welcome home, Big fish! First published by algonquin in hardcover in 1998, daniel Wallace’s debut novel has been a bestselling paperback (from Penguin) and an award-winning major motion picture (starring Ewan Mcgregor, albert Finney, and Jessica Lange) and is soon to be a Broadway musical (directed and choreographed by tony award winner Susan Stroman of The Producers). now, at last, it’s an algonquin Paperback.

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in his prime, edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. animals loved

him, people loved him, women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. at least that’s what he told his son, William. But now edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth about his elusive father —this indefatigable teller of tall tales—before it’s too late. so, using the few facts he knows, William re-creates edward’s life in a series of legends and myths—hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous—through which he begins to understand his father’s great feats, and his great failings.

“ A charming whopper of a tale.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune

“ both comic and poignant.” —The New York Times

“ Refreshing, original . . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“ A comic novel about death, about the mysteries of parents and the redemptive power of storytelling.” —USA Today

“ An audacious, highly original debut novel . . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son’s love for a charming, unknow-able father.” —Kirkus Reviews

da n I E L Wa L L ac E is the author of four novels. His first novel, Big Fish, has been translated into eighteen languages and was adapted for film by tim Burton and John august. His essays and stories have been widely published and anthologized. His il-lustrated work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times. He lives in chapel Hill, north carolina, with his wife and son.

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