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BIO GRAPHY & AUTOBIO GRAPHY/ PERSO NAL M E M OIRSHenry Holt and Co. | 5/2/20179781627796316 | $27.00 / $38.00 Can.Hardcover | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 248.3 in H | 5.5 in W

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H ENRY HO LT AND CO . MAY 2017

My Life with BobFlawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

Pamela Paul

Imagine keeping track of every book you've read. What wouldthose titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editorof The New York Times Book Review shares the stories thatshaped her life...

For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records thebooks she reads, rather than the life she leads. Or does it? Over time, it’sbecome clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a biggerstory. For Paul, as for many readers, books reflect her inner life – herfantasies and hopes, her dreams and ideas. And her life, in turn, influences thebooks she chooses, whether for solace or escape, diversion or self-reflection,information or entertainment. My Life with Bob isn’t about what’s in thosebooks; it’s about the relationship between books and readers.Bob was with her when she struggled through the Norton Anthology of EnglishLiterature in college and when she read Anna Karenina while living abroadalone. He was there when she fell in love and much needed when she soughtsolace in self-help and memoirs like Autobiography of a Face. Throughmarriage and divorce, remarriage (The Master and Margarita) and parenthood(The Hunger Games), professional setbacks and successes, Bob recorded whatshe read while all that happened. The diary—now coffee-stained andfrayed—is the record of a lifelong love affair with books and has come tomean more to her than any other material possession.My Life with Bob is a testament to the power of books to provide theperspective, courage, companionship, and ultimately self-knowledge to forgeour own path.

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Praise for By the Book:“A very fun read.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune (Best Nonfiction Holiday Books)Praise for Parenting, Inc.“Like Judith Warner’s Perfect Madness, this sine qua non for new parents ishighly recommended.” – Library JournalPraise for Pornified:“Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time.”– The San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year)Praise for The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony:“Compellingly articulates the dreams and visions of a generation.”– The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)“[Paul’s] observations evoke a winnin...

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of By the Book;Parenting, Inc.; Pornified; and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Prior tojoining the Times, she was a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and her work

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My Mother's KitchenFood, Family, and the Meaning of Life

Peter Gethers

A funny and tender memoir about the meaning of food, familyand life

Peter Gethers has loved food and wine all his life, and now he wants to givehis 93-year-old mother a final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all herfavorite dishes. Problem is, he doesn’t know how cook most of them, so heembarks upon a culinary journey that will ultimately allow him to bring hismother’s friends and loved ones to the table one last time.

The daughter of a restaurateur, Judy Gethers discovered a passion for cookingin her 50s. In time, she became a mentor and friend to several of the mostfamous chefs in America, including Wolfgang Puck and Jonathan Waxman. Inher 80s, she was robbed of her ability to cook by a debilitating stroke. Butillness has brought her closer than ever to her son: at least twice a week, Petervisits her so he can make her dinner, ask questions about her colorful past,and learn her kitchen secrets. Gradually his ambition becomes manifest: hedecides to learn how to cook his mother the meal of her dreams and therebytell the story of her life to all those who have loved her.

With his trademark wit and knowing eye, Peter Gethers has written anunforgettable memoir about how food and family can do much more than feedus—they can nourish our souls.

Peter Gethers is an author, screenwriter, playwright, book publisher, and film and televisionproducer. His previous books include The Cat Who Went to Paris, the first book in abestselling trilogy about his extraordinary cat Norton. He is also the co-creator andco-producer of the hit off-Broadway play, Old Jews Telling Jokes. He lives in New York Cityand Sag Harbor, New York.

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LITERARY CRITICIS M /EUROPEAN / EN GLISH , IRISH ,SCOTTISH , WELSHHenry Holt and Co. | 5/2/20179780805094022 | $30.00 / $42.00 Can.Hardcover | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 lb Wt8-pg b&w photo insert

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The World Broke in TwoVirginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster andthe Year that Changed Literature

Bill Goldstein

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works ofrevered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H.Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual andpersonal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M.Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertaincreative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, asUlysses is published in February and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time begins tobe published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemedin January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forsterhas, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel thatwill become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustlyneglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished—andpublished to acclaim—“The Waste Land."

As Willa Cather put it, “The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,” andwhat these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention ofmodernism. Based on original research, The World Broke in Two captures boththe literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these belovedwriters as they strive for greatness.

Bill Goldstein, the founding editor of the books site of The New York Times on the Web,reviews books and interviews authors for NBC's "Weekend Today in New York." He is alsocurator of public programs at Roosevelt House, the public policy institute of New York'sHunter College. He received a PH.D in English from City University of New York GraduateCenter in 2010, and is the recipient of writing fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross andelsewhere.

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FICTIO N / LITERARYHenry Holt and Co. | 5/9/20179781627794749 | $28.00 / $39.00 Can.Hardcover | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.3 in W

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Some Rise by SinA Novel

Philip Caputo

New York Times bestselling author Philip Caputo tells the storyof a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path throughthe shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican village.

The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish,and notoriously brutal drug cartel. As the townspeople try to defendthemselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police havetheir own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good andevil steps Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decidewhether to betray his vows to help the people he has pledged to protect.

Riordan’s close friend and fellow expatriate Lisette Moreno serves the regionin a different way, as a doctor who makes “house calls” to impoverishedsettlements, advocating modern medicine to a traditional society wary ofoutsiders. To gain acceptance, she must hide her rocky love affair with atroubled artist who is also a woman.

Together, Lisette and Riordan tend to their community. But when Riordanoversteps the bounds of his position, his personal crisis echoes the impossiblechoices facing a nation beset by instability and bloodshed.

Based on actual events, propelled by moral conflict, and animated by a keenand discerning sensibility, Some Rise by Sin demonstrates yet again PhilipCaputo’s generous and insightful gifts as a storyteller.

PRAISE

“A new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Caputo . . . is always an event.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Rather than merely depicting the glorious violence of wars . . . Caputo has chosento plumb his conscience and examine the conflicts within.”—The New York Times

“Caputo's troubled, searching meditations . . . are among the most eloquent I haveread in modern literature.”—William Styron, The New York Review of Books

Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist—the cowinner of a Pulitzer Prize—and theauthor of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Rumor of War, one of the mosthighly praised books of the twentieth century. His novels include Acts of Faith, The Voyage,Horn of Africa, and Crossers. His previous book, The Longest Road, was a New York Timesbestseller. He and his wife, Leslie Ware, divide their time between Norwalk, Connecticut, andPatagonia, Arizona.

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HISTORY / EXPEDITIO NS &DISCOVERIESHenry Holt and Co. | 5/16/20179781627798327 | $30.00 / $42.00 Can.Hardcover | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W1 16-pg. color insert

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Apollo 8The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

Jeffrey Kluger

The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closedout one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginabletriumph

In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the UnitedStates would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the yearbefore, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and sincethen the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile,the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter bythe month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon bythe end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, JimLovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of thedangerous mission, they instantly signed on.

Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labsto the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for anunprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon.Then, on Christmas Day, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year ofassassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio ofastronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first viewof the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry throughthe earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossibledream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach.

The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—JimL...

Jeffrey Kluger is the author of nine books, including Apollo 13 (originally published as LostMoon) and The Sibling Effect. As a science editor and senior writer for Time for more than twodecades, he has written more than forty cover stories for the magazine. He lives in New YorkCity.

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HISTORY / U NITED STATES /CIVIL WAR PERIODHenry Holt and Co. | 5/23/20179781250109842 | $35.00 / $49.00 Can.Hardcover | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 169.3 in H | 6.1 in WIllustrations t/o

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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies:The Civil WarDavid Fisher

The newest installment in the #1 bestselling companion seriesto Fox's historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies, apulse-quickening account of the Civil War

From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s firstconvention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation,the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, BillO’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and oftenlittle known stories behind the battle lines of America’s bloodiest war anddebunks the myths that surround its greatest figures, including HarrietTubman, Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass,Stonewall Jackson, John Singleton Mosby, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis,John Wilkes Booth, William Tecumseh Sherman, and more. An epic strugglebetween the past and future, the Civil War sought to fulfill the promise that“all men are created equal.” It freed an enslaved race, decimated a generationof young men, ushered in a new era of brutality in war, and created modernAmerica. Featuring archival images, eyewitness accounts, and beautifulartwork that further brings the history to life, The Civil War is the action-packed and ultimate follow-up to the #1 bestsellers The Patriots and The RealWest.

Bill O'Reilly is the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in thecountry. He is the author of many number-one bestselling books, including Killing Lincoln,Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan.

David Fisher is the author of twenty-three New York Times bestsellers. His work has alsoappeared in most major magazines and many newspapers. He lives in New York with his wifeand two sons.

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FICTIO N / MYSTERY &DETECTIVE / HISTORICALHenry Holt and Co. | 6/6/20179781627795173 | $28.00 / $39.00 Can.Hardcover | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W

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H ENRY HO LT AND CO . JUNE 2017

Wolf on a StringA Novel

Benjamin Black

Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenthcentury Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art ofwielding extraordinary power

Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Praguein the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of theHoly Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunkand lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane,an alley hard by Rudolf’s great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing alarge gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born—or was,for her throat has been slashed.

A lesser man would smell danger, but Christian is determined to follow hisfortunes wherever they may lead. He quickly finds himself entangled in themachinations of several ruthless courtiers, and before long he comes to theattention of the Emperor himself. Rudolf, deciding that Christian is that rarething—a person he can trust—sets him the task of solving the mystery of thewoman’s murder. But Christian soon realizes that he has blundered into themidst of a power struggle that threatens to subvert the throne itself. And ashe gets ever nearer to the truth of what happened that night in Golden Lane,he finally sees that his own life is in grave danger.

From the spectacularly inventive Benjamin Black, here is a historical crimenovel that delivers both a mesmerizing portrait of a lost world and a rivetingtale of intrigue and suspense.

Benjamin Black is the pen name of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville.The author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed series of Quirke novels—as well as TheBlack-Eyed Blonde, a Philip Marlowe novel—he lives in Dublin.

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BIO GRAPHY & AUTOBIO GRAPHY/ PERSO NAL M E M OIRSHenry Holt and Co. | 6/13/20179781627798976 | $28.00 / $39.00 Can.Hardcover | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W15 b&w half tone photos t/o

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I Was Told to Come AloneMy Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

Souad Mekhennet

The journalist who broke the “Jihadi John” story draws on herpersonal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslimworld and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism.

Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of aTurkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated inGermany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11attacks she has reported stories among the most dangerous members of herreligion; when she is told to come alone to an interview, she never knowswhat awaits at her destination.

In this compelling and evocative book, Mekhennet seeks to answer thequestion, “What is in the minds of these young jihadists, and how can weunderstand and defuse it?” She has unique and exclusive access into the worldof jihad and sometimes her reporting has put her life in danger. Weaccompany her from Germany to the heart of the Muslim world -- from theMiddle East to North Africa, from Sunni Pakistan to Shia Iran, and theTurkish/ Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. She then returnsto Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notoriousISIS executioner “Jihadi John,” and then in Paris and Brussels, where terrorhas come to the heart of Western civilization.

Too often we find ourselves unable to see the human stories behind theheadlines, and so Mekhennet – with a foot in many different camps – is theideal guide to take us where no Western reporter can go. Her story is ajourney that changes her life and will have a deep impact on us as well.

Souad Mekhennet is a national security correspondent for The Washington Post, and she hasreported on terrorism for The New York Times and other news organizations. She is thecoauthor of three previous books and was named a Young Global Leader by the WorldEconomic Forum. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has also heldfellowships at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the GenevaCenter for Security Policy.

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FICTIO N / SAGASHenry Holt and Co. | 6/20/20179781250107947 | $28.00 / $39.00 Can.Hardcover | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W

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The Supremes Sing the HappyHeartache BluesA Novel

Edward Kelsey Moore

From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl’sAll-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel ofpassions, family, and forgiveness.

When a late-in-life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the ownerof the Pink Slipper Gentleman’s Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous forstationing herself outside the club and yelling warnings of eternal damnationat the departing patrons, their wedding brings a legend to town. Mr. ElWalker, the great guitar bluesman, gives a command performance inPlainview, Indiana, a place he’d sworn—for good reason—he’d never set footin again.

But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. A wildlyphilandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to his wife. Ayoung transwoman lights out for Chicago to escape her father’s wrath andlive an authentic life. And then there are the lifelong friends, known locallyas “The Supremes,” who show up every Sunday after church for lunch atEarl’s All-You-Can-Eat—Clarice, facing down her longed-for chance at agreat career; Barbara Jean, grappling at last with the loss of a mother whoselife humiliated both of them, and Odette, reaching for her husband through ananger of his that she does not understand.

Ed Moore’s lively cast of characters, each of whom has already surmountedtrouble and come into love, learns, this time out, not how to survive but how,fully, to live.

PRAISE

Praise for Edward Kelsey Moore

“[This] author’s love for his characters . . . shines from every page.” —ShelfAwareness

“Uses warmhearted humor and salty language to bring to life a tight-knit African-American community. . . readers will laugh and cry over.” —Library Journal

“You’ll be casting the movie by the second chapter.” —Entertainment Weekly

Edward Kelsey Moore is the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. His short fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, African American Review, andInkwell, among others. His short story “Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix” was selectedas an audience favorite on National Public Radio’s Stories on Stage series. A professionalcellist, he lives in Chicago.

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The Outer CapeA Novel

Patrick Dacey

A piercing and compassionate debut novel about the twistingways in which the young atone for the sins of the old in smalltown America.

Robert Kelly and his wife Irene were a golden couple of the late ‘70s – she anartist, he a businessman, each possessed by a dynamism that seemed topromise them a place in a new and vibrant age. But with two young boys tocare for, Irene finds herself confined by the very things she’d dreamed ofhaving, and her painting ambitions atrophy as she struggles to invest meaninginto her role as wife and mother. And Robert, pressured by Irene’s demandsand haunted by the failure he sees looming, risks the family name and businessto pursue a “can’t-miss” real estate scheme.

Twenty years later, their now-grown sons, Nathan and Andrew, return to theCape of their childhood: Robert is recently out of jail for white-collar crimes,and Irene has received a fateful diagnosis. Drawn back home for what mightbe a final time, the Kelly sons must lay the ghosts of their family’s past torest.

In THE OUTER CAPE we revisit the fictional town of Wequaquet, thesetting of his debut collection, and see Patrick Dacey’s talent stretch and soar.He delivers a story of four people grappling with the ghost of infinitepossibility, a book in which chasing the American dream and struggling tosurvive are one and the same.

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praise for WE'VE ALREADY GONE THIS FAR:

“Excellent. . . ambitious and heartfelt . . .an impressive debut.” —MichaelSchaub, NPR

“Patrick Dacey is one of my favorite young American writers. . . .fast, poetic, edgy,full of tremendous affection for the things of the world.” —George Saunders

“[A] remarkable first short-story collection. . ."—Style Weekly

Patrick Dacey holds an MFA from Syracuse University. He has taught English at severaluniversities in the U.S., and has worked as a reporter, landscaper, door-to- door salesman, andon the overnight staff at a homeless shelter and detox center. His stories have been featured inThe Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, Guernica, Bomb magazine, and Salt Hill among otherpublications.

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H ENRY HO LT AND CO . JULY 2017

Goodbye, VitaminA Novel

Rachel Khong

A young woman returns home to care for her failing father inthis fine, funny, and inescapably touching debut, from anaffecting and wonderfully original new literary voice.

“Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you— just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love.”—Miranda July

A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man'spants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominenthistory professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Howard’s wife,Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiancé andstill broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way sheplanned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find herparents’ situation worse than she'd realized. Her father is erratically lucid andher mother, a devoted and creative cook, sees the sources of memory loss inevery pot and pan. But as Howard’s condition intensifies, the comedy inRuth’s situation takes hold, gently transforming her grief. She throws herselfinto caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals (a feast of jellyfish!),researching supplements, anything to reignite her father’s once-notablememory. And when the university finally lets Howard go, Ruth and one of herfather’s handsome former students take their efforts to help Howard one steptoo far.

Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor,and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love,and absurdity of finding a one’s footing in this life.

PRAISE

“Half stand-up comic, half a seismographer of the human heart, Khong writeswith vulnerability and penetrating insight, and with a gentle humor that movesyou not only to care for her characters, but also to care more fervently for thepeople in your life.”—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A BodyLike Mine

“Equal parts clever and tender, Khong's [Goodbye,] Vitamin is a movingmeditation on what it means to patient, forgiving, and human.” —KarolinaWaclawiak, author of The Invaders and How to Get into the Twin Palms

Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California, and holds degrees from Yale University and theUniversity of Florida. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editorof Lucky Peach magazine. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Joyland, AmericanShort Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday. She livesin San Francisco.

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H U M OR / TOPIC / MARRIAGE &FAMILYHenry Holt and Co. | 7/18/20179781627797931 | $25.00 / $35.00 Can.Hardcover | 208 pages7.1 in H | 5 in W

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Nuclear FamilyA Tragicomic Novel in Letters

Susanna Fogel

From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorkercontributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of anunconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic toheartfelt

Julie is a young writer trying to get her career off the ground while evaluatingsome not-so-promising romantic relationships – and the urgent opinionsabout her life choices of everyone from her six-year-old half-brother to herneedy, over-bearing mother to the married rabbi who may or may not behitting on her mother. Inspired by the new normal, in which families ofteninvolve multiple marriages, same-sex couples, half siblings, and surrogatemothers, this debut novel is comprised of satirical – yet incredibly honest –letters, emails, and even Facebook messages from Julie’s wide-rangingrelatives (biology aside) to her.

Susanna Fogel knows firsthand that communication between family memberscan be “a kabuki of hilarious misfires,” and each letter in Nuclear Family issmarter, funnier, and more nuanced than the last. And with each letter,though we never hear from her directly, we learn a bit more about Julie andher complex relationships with her family members, who, as in all families,are doing their best to show they care and entirely ruining each other’s lives.

Susanna Fogel is a Rhode Island native and apologist. She writes and directs films andtelevision, including the comedy feature Life Partners and the ABC television series ChasingLife. She is an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Columbia University. Herwriting has appeared in The New Yorker and Time Magazine. She lives in New York and LosAngeles. And she has bangs, obviously.

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TRAVEL / ESSAYS &TRAVELO G UESHenry Holt and Co. | 7/18/20179781627798822 | $26.00 / $37.00 Can.Hardcover | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 249.3 in H | 6.1 in W12 b&w photos t/o

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I Was Told There'd Be SexbotsTravels through the Future

J. Maarten Troost

In a rapidly changing world where humanity’s collapse feels likea news cycle away, many communities are creating the future.Visit them in this bold and hilarious travelogue from thebestselling...

One day, J. Maarten Troost looked up from the book he was reading, a novelabout civilization’s collapse. Here’s what he saw: his wife composing a reporton the dire future of global fish stocks, his youngest child building a battlerobot (“Terminator”), and his oldest watching a movie about children in apost-apocalyptic world. He took this moment in (really, imagine it, acharming family, dad-wife-two-kids, and they’re all thinking about thedisastrous future), and he wondered: when did our conceptions of thefuture—in pop culture, in science, in business—become so bleak? Even more,are our fears founded?

A lifelong traveler and notorious madman, he headed off to several ends ofthe earth to investigate how different societies today might reveal the futureto us. In South Korea, he interacted with smart cities and artificialintelligence. In South Africa, he witnessed creative modes of conservationdespite systemic hindrances. In Japan, he marveled at youth in an agingpopulation. And in Denmark, he tasted the future of food . . . cockroach,meet skillet.

With his characteristic wit and charming irreverence, Troost brilliantlyreimagines the travel narrative in this game-changing book—traveling notjust to an existing place at a particular moment, but to the unforeseeablefuture, and inviting us all to travel with him. Pack light. Be prepared.

PRAISE

“Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts [him] in the company ofsome of today’s best travel writers.”—Elle

“Irreverently funny.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“A new generation’s answer to Bill Bryson.”—BookPage

J. Maarten Troost is a traveler and bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, GettingStoned with Savages, Lost on Planet China, and Headhunters on my Doorstep. Born in theNetherlands, he has lived in seven countries and traveled extensively throughout Europe,Asia, and the South Pacific. He currently lives with his wife and two sons in the WashingtonD.C. area.

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DefianceA Thriller

J. S. Law

A teenage sailor disappears on HMS Defiance, an infamousclosed case reopens, and Lt. Danielle Lewis fights for truth andsurvival in this high-octane military thriller.

After events on board the submarine HMS Tenacity, Lieutenant "Dan" Lewisof the Royal Navy's Kill Team was warned not to pursue those responsible.She should walk away, stop investigating, but her thirst for justice means shecan't let it go.

But even as Dan defies the order, continuing to track a sailor on the run, herinvestigative skills are needed on a new case. A young naval Wren has gonemissing from the warship HMS Defiance. Last seen going on board, but neverseen leaving. There is no trace of the girl and Dan must work her way througha web of witness accounts to uncover what might motivate her to run, or whatmight motivate a predator to take her.

Following in the wake of the missing girl, Dan soon closes in on her quarry,but is forced to question whether she is the one who was being hunted allalong.

PRAISE

“J. S. Law is a powerful new voice, and his heroine . . . is fearless and doesn'tquit in the face of all odds. . . . Addictively readable.” —#1 New York Timesbestselling author Patricia Cornwell

“Law ups the tension significantly as he brilliantly re-creates the claustrophobicfeel of living on a submarine. . . . This fast-paced nail-biter [stars] a flawed butdynamic character. A very promising series.”—Booklist

“If you . . . fell in love with Lisbeth Salander, you will adore Tenacity’sprotagonist, Danielle “Dan” Lewis. . . .Tenacity consorts with the best of the bestcrime novels to date.”—The Review Broads

J. S. Law served in the Royal Navy Submarine Service, rising through the ranks to become asenior nuclear engineer. Tenacity is his first novel. He lives in Portsmouth, England.

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OolaA Novel

Brittany Newell

A provocative and impressive debut delivered with a uniquelysinister lyricism by a brilliant 21-year-old; a story about sex,privilege, desire, and creativity in the post-college years

The first thing Leif notices about Oola is the sharp curve of her delicateshoulders, tensed as if for flight. Even from that first encounter at a party ina flat outside of London, there’s something electric about the way Oola, amusic school dropout, connects with the cossetted, listless narrator we find intwenty-five-year-old Leif. Infatuated, the two hit the road across Europe,housesitting for Leif’s parents’ wealthy friends, and finally settling for thesummer in Big Sur.Leif makes Oola his subject: he will attempt an infinitesimal cartography ofher every thought and gesture, her every dimple, every snag, every swell ofmemory and hollow. And yet in this atmosphere of stifling and paranoidisolation, the world around Leif and Oola begins to warp--the tap water turnssalty, plants die, and Oola falls dangerously ill. Finally, it becomes clear thatthe currents surging just below the surface of Leif’s story are infinitelystranger than they first appear.

Oola is a mind-bendingly original novel about the way that--particularly inthe changeable, unsteady just-post-college years--sex, privilege, desire, andcreativity can bend, blur, and break. In a novel that reads like the wicked lovechild of American Psycho and Lolita, Brittany Newell bursts into the literaryworld with a narrative as twisted and fresh as it is addicting.

Brittany Newell, who often writes and performs under the nom de plume Ratty St. John, willgraduate from Stanford University in 2016. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and isthe winner of the Norman Mailer Award for Fiction. This is her first book.

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Living the DreamA Novel

Lauren Berry

A cheeky, charming debut about twentysomething best friendsin London struggling to set up their their post-collegiate adultlives, with lots of pints along the way.

Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," butwould have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She poursmost of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friendsagree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massivelytalented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancygraduate degree in film. But until she convinces an agent to take on hermasterpiece script, she's stuck hostessing at the bar she frequented as anundergrad, and the only calls she's getting are about bills past due andoverdrawn bank accounts. In their ironclad friendship both girls find a reliablebreak from the post-collegiate absurdities and indignities that seem to aboundin life right at the moment they feel they should finally be getting it alltogether. With a rotating cast of lovably insufferable friends, from Emma'sfabulous DJ and ladies’ man roommate to Clem's painfully ordinary andpredictable childhood chum, the girls wind their way through the twists andturns of aging parents and terrible bosses and regrettable one night stands,unforeseen setbacks and blessings that present as anything but, and remindeach other that while their ships might not have come in yet, the after workdrinks are cold and the company can’t be beat.

Lauren Berry is the founding editor of satirical feminist ‘zine KnockBack and has been writingfor and about women since 2005. Her work has been featured in Easy Living, Guardian,Observer and Independent. She was born, raised and works in North London. Living theDream is her first novel.

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FICTIO N / LITERARYMetropolitan Books | 5/9/20179781250129253 | $26.00Hardcover | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 248.3 in H | 5.5 in W

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How to Be HumanA Novel

Paula Cocozza

From Guardian writer Paula Cocozza, a debut novel of thebreakdown of a marriage, suburbian claustrophobia, and awoman's unseemly passion for a fox

One summer’s night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find ababy lying on her back door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door?Has the baby’s mother, Mary's neighbor, left her there in her acute state ofpost-natal depression? Or was the baby brought to Mary as a gift by the foxwho is increasingly coming to dominate her life?

So opens How to Be Human, a novel set in a London suburb beset by urbanfoxes. On leave from work, unsettled by the proximity of her ex, andstruggling with her hostile neighbors, Mary has become increasinglycaptivated by a magnificent fox who is always in her garden. First she seeshim wink at her, then he brings her presents, and finally she invites him intoher house. As the boundaries between the domestic and the wild blur, and theneighbors set out to exterminate the fox, it is unclear if Mary will save thefox, or the fox save Mary.

In this masterful debut, Paula Cocozza weaves together a penetrating portraitof marital breakdown, a social novel of wit and nuance, and an obsessive lovestory that crosses new boundaries.

Paula Cocozza is a staff feature writer at The Guardian and has covered everything from soccerto fashion to fourth-wave feminism. Her writing, which has also appeared in Vogue, theTelegraph, the Independent, and the TLS, received the 2013 David Higham Award. Paula livesin London with her husband, two children, and a garden full of foxes. How to Be Human is herfirst novel.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / WORLD /MIDDLE EASTERNMetropolitan Books | 5/30/20179781250122704 | $30.00 / $42.00 Can.Hardcover | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 209.3 in H | 6.1 in W

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The Wall and the GateIsrael, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights

Michael Sfard

From renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, anunprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights inIsrael's courts

A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olivegroves by the construction of Israel’s controversial separation wall, askedIsraeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow agate to be built in the wall. While the gate would provide immediate relief forthe farmer, would it not also confer legitimacy on the wall and on the courtthat deems it legal? The defense of human rights is often marked by suchethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have fordecades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country’sHigh Court—that is, in the court of the abuser.

In The Wall and the Gate, Michael Sfard chronicles this struggle—a story thathas never before been fully told— and in the process engages the coreprinciples of human rights legal ethics. Sfard recounts the unfolding of keycases and issues, ranging from confiscation of land, deportations, the creationof settlements, punitive home demolitions, torture, and targeted killings—allactions considered violations of international law. In the process, he lays barethe reality of the occupation and the lives of the people who must contendwith that reality. He also exposes the surreal legal structures that have beenerected to put a stamp of lawfulness on an extensive program ofdispossession. Finally, he weighs the success of the legal effort, reachingconclusions that are no less parad...

Michael Sfard, Israel’s leading human rights lawyer, was educated at the Hebrew University inJerusalem and University College, London. A former conscientious objector, he received theEmil Grunzweig Human Rights Award and an Open Society Fellowship. Sfard has also taughthuman rights law and his writing on the subject has appeared in the New York Times, Haaretz,The Independent, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Tel Aviv.

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FreudFrom Scientist to Wizard

Frederick Crews

From the master of Freud debunkers, the biography that finallyand definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis andits creator

Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in anaccelerating tailspin. Nonetheless, the idea persists that some of Freud’scontributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. In Freud: TheMaking of a Wizard, Frederick Crews investigates these discoveries and revealsfindings that will revolutionize our conception of the therapist, the theorist,and the human being.With unusual access to archives not yet publically available, Crews sheds newlight on Freud’s character, values, and conduct. He gives the full account ofFreud’s fifteen-year involvement with cocaine; he explores Freud’s earlystruggles as a physician; his relations with eminent mentors; his casehistories—some of which involved “patients” who didn’t exist; the misogynythat haunted his private and professional life; and the role of his sister-in-law,Minna Bernays, who served as his secretary, muse, and concubine.In the process, Crews shows us a surprising new Freud: a man who blunderedtragicomically in his dealings with patients, who misunderstood thepsychological controversies of the era, who tried to appropriate the findingsof others, and who advanced his career through falsifying his record andbetraying the colleagues who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted,Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective ofthe psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsificationcond...

PRAISE

Praise for Frederick Crews’ The Memory Wars:“Crews is a formidable stylist—lucid, elegant and wielding an acid and damningwit. Freudians, not known for such strengths, tend to fulminate impotently inresponse to his assaults. He has also done what, in online parlance, is referred toas ‘the heavy lifting’—extensive and meticulous research—and when he describesFreud as behaving like ‘a petty generalissimo’ or psychoanalysis as ‘a conceptualmystery house,’ he can back it up with empirical ammo.”—Laura Miller, SalonPraise for Follies of the Wise:“Crews has a keen mind, whetted by decades of arguing about the meaning ofAmerican literature . ...

Frederick Crews is the author of many books, including the bestselling satire The PoohPerplex, Postmodern Pooh, and most recently, Follies of the Wise, which was a finalist for aNational Book Critics Circle award. A professor emeritus of English at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, he iswidely regarded as the leading critic of Freud and psychoanalysis.

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