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Recommended fiction titles for this semester include Blonde Roots (page 5) and Everything Matters (page 3). These two witty, moving and relevant books

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians/Prometheus Bound/Seven Against Thebes/The SuppliantsAeschylus • Newly Translated with an Intro and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein • 978-0-14-044999-0 • $14.00 • Mar 2010.

AnonymousAll volumes translated by Malcom Lyons and Ursula Lyons with Intros by Robert Irwin The Arabian Nights (Volume 1)978-0-14-044938-9The Arabian Nights (Volume 2)978-0-14-044939-6The Arabian Nights (Volume 3)978-0-14-044940-2 • $20.00 • May 2010.

The VictimSaul Bellow • Intro by Norman Rush • 978-0-14-310610-4 • $15.00 • May 2010. Jorge Luis BorgesPreviously unpublished writings • General Editor, Suzanne Jill Levine • $15.00 each • All Available June 2010.On ArgentinaEdited with an Intro by Alfred MacAdam • 978-0-14-310573-2On MysticismEdited with an Intro by Maria Kodama • 978-0-14-310569-5On WritingEdited with an Intro by Suzanne Jill Levine • 978-0-14-310572-5

Jorge Luis BorgesPoems of the Night: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text Edited with an Intro by Efrain Kristal • General Editor, Suzanne Jill Levine • 978-0-14-310600-5 • $17.00 • Apr 2010 • Exclusive to Penguin Classics.The Sonnets: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text Edited with an Intro by Stephen Kessler • General Editor, Suzanne Jill Levine • 978-0-14-310601-2 • $18.00 • Apr 2010 • Exclusive to Penguin Classics.

London Journal 1762-1763James Boswell • Intro and Notes by Gordon Turnbull • 978-0-14-043650-1 • $17.00 • June 2010.

The Penguin Book of Japanese VerseEdited and Translated with an Intro by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite • 978-0-14-119094-5 • $17.00 • Jan 2010 • 352 pp • Includes a chronology, appendices, and notes.

The Brontë Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes GreyEmily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, and Anne Brontë • 978-0-14-310583-1 • $22.00 • Jan 2010 • 1,088 pp • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

Paths of Glory Humphrey Cobb • Intro by James H. Meredith • Foreword by David Simon • 978-0-14-310611-1 • $16.00 • June 2010 • An anti-war novel which was adapted into one of the most popular WWI films.

Backlands: The Canudos Campaign Euclides da Cunha • Translated by Elizabeth Lowe • Intro and Notes by Ilan Stavans • 978-0-14-310607-4 • $18.00 • May 2010 • A non-fiction account of the War of Canudos in Brazil during the 1890s.

White NoiseDon De Lillo • New Intro by Richard Powers • 978-0-14-310598-5 • $16.00 • Mar 2010 • Cover art designed by Michael Cho • 25th anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Graphic Edition.

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich Engels • Intro by Tristram Hunt • 978-0-14-119111-9 • $15.00 • July 2010.

The Leavenworth CaseAnna Katharine Green • Intro by Michael Sims • 978-0-14-310612-8 • $16.00 • May 2010 • Hailed as the first bestselling detective novel by an American author.

Keith Haring JournalsKeith Haring • 978-0-14-310597-8 • $20.00 • Feb 2010 • 368 pp • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

Iola Leroy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper • Intro by Hollis Robbins • General Editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • 978-0-14-310604-3 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • New to Penguin Classics • “Probably the best-selling novel by an African-American before the 20th century.” —The New York Times.

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A Shropshire Lad and Other PoemsA. E. Housman • Intro by Nick Laird • Notes by Archie Burnett and an Afterword by John Sparrow • 978-0-14-042474-4 • $16.00 • June 2010.

Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to RumiSelected with an Intro and Notes by Mahmood Jamal • 978-0-14-042473-7 • $17.00 • Feb 2010 • New to Penguin Classics. • Includes Ibn Arabi, Ibn Farid, Abul Ala Al Maari, Aynul quddat Hamddhani of Persia, Yunus Emre of Turkey, etc., culminating in the early twentieth century. • Includes an introduction, chronology, glossary, notes, suggestions for further reading.

What Maisie KnewHenry James • Edited with an Intro by Daniel Ladinsky • 978-0-14-144137-5 • $14.00 • Aug 2010.

Arthur Miller An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik IbsenIntro by John Guare • 978-0-14-310558-9 • $12.00 • July 2010 • “Ibsen had a savage case against society, and he stated it furiously...by dispensing with the previous English transla-tion, Mr. Miller has released the anger and scorn of the father of realism.”—The New York Times.A View from the Bridge Foreword by Philip Seymour Hoffman • 978-0-14-310557-2 • $12.00 • July 2010 • “A vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale.”—The New York Times.

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Edited with an Intro and Notes by Michael Newton • 978-0-14-144236-5 • $15.00 • May 2010.

Complete Poems Dorothy Parker • New Intro by Marion Meade • 978-0-14-310608-1 • $18.00 • Apr 2010.

CelestinaFernando de Rojas • Newly translated with an Afterword by Peter Bush • Intro by Juan Goytisolo • 978-0-14-310609-8 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • New to Penguin Classics • “Without Celestina, the great tradition of the novel in Spanish would not exist: the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Juan Goytisolo all descend from Mother Celestina. In his brilliant translation, Peter Bush makes this classic of potions and passions into a delightfully intoxicating, uniquely Spanish treat.”— Julio Ortega, Brown University.

The Theory of Moral SentimentsAlan Smith • Edited and with Notes by Ryan Patrick Hanley • New Intro by Amartya Sen • 978-0-14-310592-3 • $17.00 • Feb 2010.

Natsume Soseki Kokoro• Translated with an Intro by Meredith McKinney • 978-0-14-310603-6 • $15.00 • Mar 2010 • First new translation in more than 50 years.• New to Penguin Classics.Sanshiro• Translated by Jay Rubin • Intro by Haruki Murakami • 978-0-14-045562-5 • $16.00 • Mar 2010 • New to Penguin Classics.

Wallace Stegner The Big Rock Candy MountainIntro by Robert Stone • 978-0-14-310578-7 • $17.00 • Aug 2010 • “Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, or drought, flood, and blizzard….A harrowing saga.”—The New York Times. The Spectator BirdIntro by Jane Smiley • 978-0-14-310579-4 • $15.00 • Aug 2010 • “Elegant and entertain-ing….Every scene [is] adroitly staged and each effect precisely accomplished.”—The Atlantic.

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is DownJohn Steinbeck • Foreword by James Earl Jones • 978-0-14-310613-5 • $16.00 • May 2010.

A Modest Proposal and Other WritingsJonathan Swift • Edited with an Intro and Notes by Carole Fabricant • 978-0-14-043642-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, notes, and a biographical dictionary.

Agricola and GermaniaTacitus • Translated by Harold Mattingly • Revised with an Intro and Notes by James B. Rives • 978-0-14-045540-3 • $15.00 • Apr 2010 • Features a new introduction, new notes, a chronology, a select bibliography, maps of Roman Britain and Germany, and suggestions for further reading.

Childhood, Boyhood, YouthLeo Tolstoy • Newly Translated with an Intro and Notes by Judson Rosengrant • 978-0-14-044992-1 • $16.00 • Aug 2010.

On ArchitectureVitruvius • Newly Translated by Richard Schofield with an Intro by Robert Tavernor • 978-0-14-144168-9 • $18.00 • Jan 2010 • Illustrated edition with black & white photos.

Lives of Roman Christian WomenTranslated and Edited with an Intro by Carolinne White • 978-0-14-144193-1 • $16.00 • Apr 2010 • Uses letters from 203 to 420 AD and Greek and Latin autobiographical and bio-graphical accounts.

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu XunLu Xun • Translated with an Intro by Julia Lovell • Afterword by Yiyun Li • 978-0-14-045548-9 • $17.00 • Feb 2010 • New to Penguin Classics • Powerfully unsettling portrait of the supersti-tion, poverty, and complacency in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the dynasty in 1911.

SIGNEt CLASSICS

The Arabian Nights: Volume IIAnonymous • Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Adapted by Jack Zipes • Intro by John Barth • 978-0-451-53148-3 • $7.95 • Feb 2010.

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Translated by Henry and Olga Carlisle • 978-0-451-53152-0 • $6.95 • Apr 2010 • Includes an Afterword by Gary Rosenshield.

The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo • Translated by Walter J. Cobb • Intro by Bradley Stephens • 978-0-451-53151-3 • $5.95 • Mar 2010.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs writing as Linda Brent • Intro by Myrlie Evers-Williams • 978-0-451-53146-9 • $5.95 • Jan 2010 • Includes a new Afterword.

Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Carolina Maria de Jesus • 978-0-451-52910-7 • $6.95 Jan 2010 • 50th anniversary edition.

Why We Can’t WaitMartin Luther King, Jr. • 978-0-451-52753-0 • $9.99 • Jan 2010 • Includes an Afterword by Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.

Just So StoriesRudyard Kipling • Intro by Avi • 978-0-451-53150-6 • $4.95 • March 2010 • Includes a new Afterword by Shashi Deshpande.

Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round TableSir Thomas Malory • Intro by Robert Graves • 978-0-451-53149-0 • $7.95 • Feb 2010 • Includes a new Afterword.

Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington • Intro by Ishmael Reed • 978-0-451-53147-6 • $4.95 • Jan 2010 • Includes a new Afterword.


POEtRY

Burn LakeCarrie Fountain • 978-0-14-311771-1 • $18.00 • June 2010 • Winner of 2009 National Poetry Series Award.

Hafiz • Translated by Daniel LadinskyThe Subject Tonight Is Love• 978-0-14-311775-9 • $16.00 • May 2010 • Divine songs of love and ecstasy by the most treasured poet of Persia from the acclaimed translator of The Gift. A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations• 978-0-14-311754-4 • $17.00 • May 2010 • Ladinsky’s translations, presented in 365 poignant poems, brilliantly capture the compelling wisdom of one of Islam’s most revered artistic and religious voices.

Lighthead Terrance Hayes • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00 • Apr 2010 • From the author of Wind in a Box, Muscular Music, and Hip Logic, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge.

RaptusJoanna Klink • 978-0-14-311772-8 • $18.00 • June 2010 • Twenty-six new poems from the author of Circadian and They Are Sleeping.

The Last Skin Barbara Ras • 978-0-14-311697-4 • $18.00 • Apr 2010 • From the author of Bite Every Snow and One Hidden Stuff • Poignant personal lyrics of precise description that investigate beauty, grief, death, fragility, time, and loss.

It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of BreakupEdited with an Intro by Jerry Williams • 978-1-59020-282-1 • $14.95 • Jan 2010 • A touching, angry, and hilarious anthology of the many facets of ruptured romance.

AmERICAN FICtION

You Lost Me There Rosecrans Baldwin • 978-1-59448-763-7 • $25.95 • Aug 2010 • A debut that is at once a lightly erudite novel of ideas and a darkly charming love story from a fresh new voice.

The Manual of Detection: A Novel Jedediah Berry • 978-0-14-311651-6 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • “Surreal, absurd, and cerebral, full of sly humor and winks, this novel is meticulously written and plotted. Fans of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Jasper Fforde, take notice.”—The Boston Globe.

The House Of TomorrowPeter Bognanni • 978-0-399-15609-0 • $24.95 • Mar 2010 • “As its title and premise promise, [the novel] marries the visionary with the everyday, the whizbang with the domestic, and does it with beauty, humor, and love for each one of its flawed characters....Hilarious, heartbreaking.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.

The WomenT.C. Boyle • 978-0-14-311647-9 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • “Riveting….Despite dozens of writers’ attempts to capture Wright’s story, it seems safe to say that none has rendered it with more crackling life than Mr. Boyle.” —The New York Times Book Review.

The SignalRon Carlson • 978-0-14-311755-1 • $14.00 • June 2010 • “Carlson never drops an extra word or a false phrase, even as The Signal accelerates like an avalanche, suspicion rolling into fear and then roaring down with a conclusion that shakes the ground. If men can’t be brought back to fiction by books as fine as this one, it’s their own damn fault.”—The Washington Post.

Remarkable CreaturesTracy Chevalier • 978-0-525-95145-2 • $26.95 • Jan 2010 • A novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and social prejudice and leads to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.

The Outside Boy Jeanine Cummins • 978-0-451-21053-1 • $15.00 • June 2010 • A poignant novel of an Irish gypsy’s childhood in the 1950s by the author of A Rip in Heaven. Everything Matters!Ron Currie, Jr. • 978-0-14-311751-3 • $15.00 • August 2010 • “Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions. His thoughts on cosmic doom somehow take the form of a joyride....Gleefully free-spirited right from the start....It’s essential message—that life must be treasured even in the face of certain destruction and that, as the title cries out, everything matters—is always there.”—The New York Times Book Review • Also coming in Paperback • 978-0-14-311751-3 • $15.00 • Aug 2010.

The PrisonerThomas M. Disch • 978-0-14-311722-3 • $15.00 • Nov 2009 • Movie tie-in edition • First published in 1967, by an author widely regarded to be a master of the science fiction genre, The Prisoner will appeal to longtime fans of the 1960s television show as well as those who are discovering it for the first time.

Work SongIvan Doig • 978-1-59448-762-0 • $25.95 • July 2010 • “Courageous...Charming...You can see the evidence of [Doig’s] experience in his new novel: its gentle pace, its persistant warmth, its complete freedom from cynicism— and the confidence to take those risks without winking or apologizing. When a voice as pleasurable as his evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn’t seem so lost after all.”—Washington Post Book World.

The Butterflies of Grand CanyonMargaret Erhart • 978-0-452-29549-0 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • “The desire for transformation and the search for freedom beleaguer this novel’s impressively rendered characters. Much like butterflies…the novel’s wonderful characters flutter around one another: some are caught, some are pinned down, some fly free.” —Publishers Weekly.

A Thread of Sky Deanna Fei • 978-1-59420-249-0 • $24.95 • Apr 2010 • “Fei is an accomplished writer with keen insight into cross-cultural Chinese American rootlessness and the ties that bind women of several generations.”—Anita Shreve, author of A Change in Altitude.

The MagiciansLev Grossman • 978-0-452-29629-9 • $16.00 • May 2010 • “Stirring....Lev Grossman delivers a superb coming of age fantasy.”—Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.


The HeightsPeter Hedges • 978-0-525-95113-1 • $25.95 • Mar 2010 • From the Oscar-nominated author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape • Poor parents, rich parents, private schools, real estate, adultery, and marriage, in Brooklyn’s wealthiest enclave.

The World in HalfChristina Henríquez • 978-1-59448-439-1 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • “Gracefully written...Mira’s relationship with her mother is particularly well wrought. Henríquez’s writing is elegant.” —The Boston Globe.

Saving Ceecee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman • 978-0-670-02139-0 • $25.95 • Jan 2010 • “The story of the summer that transforms [the protagonist’s] life is rich with hard truths and charm. This book unfolds like a lush southern garden, blooming with vivid characters, beauty, and surprises.”—Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.

The Sisters from Hardscrabble BayBeverly Jensen • 978-0-670-02166-6 • $25.95 • July 2010 • The tale of two sisters over the course of seventy years in Maine.

Light Boxes: A NovelShane Jones • 978-0-14-311778-0 • $14.00 • June 2010 • A mysterious town that endures a long, deadly winter and the war the townspeople bring against February, an oddly real and powerful character.

Me and Orson WellesRobert Kaplow • 978-0-14-311712-4 • $14.00 • Nov 2009 • Movie tie-in edition • Story of a stagestruck boy coming of age in the golden era of Broadway—with some very famous support-ing characters.

Bill Warrington’s Last ChanceJames King • 978-0-670-02161-1 • $24.95 • Aug 2010 • A man in the early stages of dementia, the granddaughter he connects with, and their cross-country odyssey that sends his estranged children scrambling to their rescue—and to reconciliation.

Girl in TranslationJean Kwok • 978-1-59448-756-9 • $25.95 • May 2010 • An inspiring debut novel about a young Chinese immigrant in America living a double life between her school and her job in a sweatshop.

Imperfect BirdsAnne Lamott • 978-1-59448-751-4 • $25.95 • Apr 2010 • A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of Blue Shoe, and Grace (Eventually).

The Selected Works of T.S. SpivetReif Larsen • 978-0-14-311735-3 • $16.00 • May 2010 • “[A] beautiful book. Each page is literally a work of art.”—The Boston Globe.

The Piano TeacherJanice Y. K. Lee • 978-0-14-311653-0 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • “Evocative, poignant and skillfully crafted, The Piano Teacher is more than an epic tale of war and a tangled, tortured love story. It is the kind of novel one consumes in great, greedy gulps, pausing (grudgingly) only when absolutely necessary.”—Chicago Tribune.

Sometimes MineMartha Moody • 978-1-59448-468-1 • $14.00 • May 2010 • “Probes new layers of emotion and personal connection....Moody introduces readers to a woman who never stops learning about work, family, people and possibilities.”—Publishers Weekly.

Dear Strangers Meg Mullins • 978-0-670-02143-7 • $25.95 • Feb 2010 • “A powerful experience that does what all good literature should: it tells us a little more about what it means to be human.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Short GirlsBich Minh Nguyen • 978-0-14-311750-6 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “This absorbing novel about two sisters is like a prism reflecting essential questions in a variety of subtle, sharp, glistening ways: What makes a family? A home? An American? Without sentimentality, Nguyen takes on these questions...with graceful intelligence.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge and Abide with Me.

The Lost Summer of Louisa May AlcottKelly O’Connor McNees • 978-0-39-915652-6 • $24.95 • April 2010.

My Name Is Mary SutterRobin Oliveira • 978-0-670-02167-3 • $26.95 • May 2010 • The story of a nurse who serves in the Civil War, encountering prejudice, violence, and devastation, but unwavering in her determination to become one of the nation’s first female surgeons.

Inherent ViceThomas Pynchon • 978-0-14-311756-8 • $16.00 • Aug 2010 • Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Pynchon— private eye Doc Sportello comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. • “Blessed with a sympathetic hero, suspenseful momentum and an endlessly suggestive setting...[fans] will know it for the throwaway masterwork it is: playful as a dolphin, plaintive as whale song, unsoundly profound as the blue Pacific.” —Publishers Weekly.

Sylvan Street Deborah Schupack • 978-0-452-29628-2 • $15.00 • June 2010 • From the author of The Boy on the Bus, a story of contemporary suburban life.

The HelpKathryn Stockett • 978-0-425-23220-0 • $15.00 • June 2010 • “Strikes every note with authentic-ity. In a page turner that brings new resonance to the moral issue involved, [Stockett] spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.”—The Washington Post.

This Is Where I Leave YouJonathan Tropper • 978-0-452-29636-7 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “Few can rival Tropper’s poignant depictions of damaged men befuddled by the women they love.”—Kirkus Reviews.

CoNGRATuLATIoNS To THESE MAN BooKER PRIzE

NoMINEES

SummertimeJ.M. Coetzee • 978-0-670-02138-3 • $25.95 • Jan 2010

The Little StrangerSarah Waters • 978-1-59448-446-9 • $16.00 • May 2010

The Quickening MazeAdam Foulds • 978-0-14-311779-7 • $15.00 • July 2010


The Solitude of Prime NumbersPaolo Giordano • 978-0-670-02148-2 • $25.95 • Mar 2010 • “A delicately nuanced meditation on the nature of loneliness. In clear,...precise prose, the youngest ever winner of the presti-gious Premio Strega explores the way that trauma and guilt can capsize emtional stability and leave the vulnerable floundering in a wash of unease and loss...A stunning achievement.” —Daily Mail (U.K.).

Coco Chanel & Igor StravinskyChris Greenhalgh • 978-1-59448-455-1 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • “An intense look at love, passion and heartbreak....This finely wrought study in artistic and romantic passion is remarkable for its explicit depiction of the devastation left in the wake of selfishness.”—Publishers Weekly.

The Line Olga Grushin • 978-0-399-15616-8 • $25.95 • Apr 2010 • The Line is a transformative Russian novel that speaks to the endurance of the human spirit even as it explores the ways in which we love—and what we do for love.

The Possession of Mr. CaveMatt Haig • 978-0-14-311730-8 • $15.00 • June 2010 • “Haig effectively brings readers into Cave’s unstable interior world, asking them to inhabit this closed-off, deeply unreliable space along with their narrator... The interiority only serves to underscore Haig’s compelling, incessant exploration of a damaged mind slowly consuming itself and everything around it.”—Bookreporter.com.

Days of GraceCatherine Hall • 978-0-670-02176-5 • $24.95 • June 2010 • A tautly-plotted, suspenseful debut about an intense war-time friendship, sup-pressed passion, and a corrosive secret • “Sarah Waters meets Daphne du Maurier. Days of Grace does everything a good debut should: moves you, surprises you and restores your faith in the power of a novel. Hall writes beautifully about the exquisite pain of unrequited love.”—Harper’s Bazaar UK. The Secret KeeperPaul Harris • 978-0-452-29596-4 • $15.00 • Mar 2010 • “As if Graham Greene himself had returned to Africa.”—Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland.

Dog BoyEva Hornung • 978-0-670-02149-9 • $25.95 • Mar 2010 • “In exploring what it might be like to be a dog from a human perspective, Dog Boy sheds much light on what it is like to be human.”—Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi.

The Broom of the SystemDavid Foster Wallace • 978-0-14-311693-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • “Daring. Hilarious…a zany picaresque adventure of a contemporary America run amok.”—The New York Times.

WORLd FICtION

The House of BilqisAzhar Abidi • 978-0-14-311657-8 • $14.00 • Apr 2010 • A haunting novel about a mother and son and the emotional consequences of leaving home. • “A tiny gem of a novel...[Abidi] brings intimacy and insight to such abstract contempo-rary issues as multiculturalism and globalization.” —Vogue.

A Kind of IntimacyJenn Ashworth • 978-1-933372-86-0 • $15.00 • June 2010 • “[Ashworth] evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell.”—The Times (London).

EmmaJane Austen • 978-0-14-311780-3 • $14.00 • Jan 2010 • TV tie-in edition. • With its imperfect but charming heroine and witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.

E Squared: A Novel Matt Beaumont • 978-0-452-29597-1 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • “A brilliant update on the epistolary novel.”—Kirkus Reviews.

The Book of FiresJane Borodale • 978-0-670-02106-2 • $26.95 • Jan 2010 • “The menacing mood is Borodale’s greatest achievement: from the omnipresent hangings to the economic knife-edge upon which the working class lives, Borodale builds a dark but human world that makes Agnes’s plight deeply sympathetic.”—Publishers Weekly.

Through Black SpruceJoseph Boyden • 978-0-14-311650-9 • $15.00 • Mar 2010 • A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss—from the author of Three Day Road. • “A poignant look at the unbreakable, demanding bonds of family.”—The Seattle Times.

Broken Glass ParkAlina Bronsky • Translated by Tim Mohr • 978-1-933372-96-9 • $15.00 • Apr 2010 • “Youthful, fast-paced, at times sad, never sugar-coated...the story of a marvelous reawakening.”— Modern Zeiten.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll • Edited by Hugh Haughton • Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel • 978-0-14-311773-5 • $14.00 • Jan 2010 • Movie tie-in edition.

SummertimeJ.M. Coetzee • 978-0-670-02138-3 • $ 25.95 • Jan 2010 • From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace. • “Mordant, funny, and wise. Mr. Coetzee writes circles around any attempt to pin him down.” —The New York Times.

The Dead RepublicRoddy Doyle • 978-0-670-02177-2 • $26.95 • May 2010 • Conclusion of the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry, chronicling the second half of the life of the Irish rebel, Henry Smart.

Blonde RootsBernardine Evaristo • 978-1-59448-434-1 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • The Inaugural Orange Prize Youth Panel Winner • “Breathtaking....Ingenious....A riotous, bitter course in the arbitrary nature of our cultural values. What could we possibly learn from a new satire of slavery? Plenty.”—Washington Post Book World.

Shades of GreyJasper Fforde • 978-0-670-01963-2 • $25.95 • Jan 2010 • Part social satire, romance, and thriller, Fforde transports the reader into a dark, wild world where the black and white of moral certainty have been reduced to shades of grey.

The Quickening Maze: A Novel Adam Foulds • 978-0-14-311779-7 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “A novel about two famous poets [Clare and Tennyson] and a slightly less famous asylum. At bottom, though, it’s a story about identity, which is variously explored through Matthew Allen and his family, through the inmates of the asylum, through two great and greatly different writers and through the Gypsies who live in their hinterland. As Foulds asks us to contemplate their fates, he frames questions about selfhood, and how its discovery relies on facts as well as invention.” —The Guardian (U.K.).

EnglishWang Gang • 978-0-1-311654-7 • $15.00 • Apr 2010 • “This coming-of-age novel…paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the Cultural Revolution, with paranoia, suspicion, and distrust informing every relationship, even the closest ones.”—Booklist.

Nightingale WoodStella Gibbons • Intro by Sophie Dahl • 978-0-14-311757-5 • $16.00 • May 2010 • A modern, satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm.


The Book of Night WomenMarlon James • 978-1-59448-436-0 • $16.00 • Feb 2010 • “ Beautifully written and devastat-ing...Writing in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker but in a style of his own, James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable—even the unthinkable....An undeniabe success.”—The New York Times Book Review.

SwellIoanna Karystiani • Translation by Konstantine Matsoukas • 978-1-933372-98-3 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • “This book, which envelops the reader in an atmosphere that is profoundly Hellenic, was born from sea stories born on the island off Andros, Tinos, Cephalonia, and Corfu; Karystiani has re-elaborated them in a style that is limpid, lyrical, and richly suggestive.” —Il Sole 24 ore.

The Brightest Star in the SkyMarian Keyes • 978-0-670-02140-6 • $26.95 • Jan 2010 • “This multi-tiered saga of Dubliners searching for ‘the brightest star in the sky...the planet of love’ straddles slapstick and sophistica-tion in an engaging balancing act both giddy and grand.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Becoming Jane Eyre Sheila Kohler • 978-0-14-311597-7 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • “Sheila Kohler brings her courageous and resourceful heroine vividly to life in a stirring story of revolutionary times.”—J.M. Coetzee.

A Thousand CutsSimon Lelic • 978-0-67002-150-5 • $24.95 • Mar 2010 • A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting.

The Surrendered Chang-rae Lee • 978-1-59448-976-1 • $26.95 • Mar 2010 • “Completely engrossing story of great complexity and tragedy. Lee’s ability to describe his characters’ sufferings, both physical and mental, is extraordinarily vivid; one is left in awe of the human soul’s ability to survive the most horrific experiences.” —Library Journal.

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths Jenny March • 978-0-14-102077-8 • $17.00 • Nov 2009 • From renowned classics scholar comes an essential guide to the greatest legends.

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in ParisLeïla Marouane • Translated by Alison Anderson • 978-1-933372-85-3 • $15.00 • June 2010 • “Marouane does not hesitate to take pot shots at religious dogma. But in addition to these thornier issues, she scrutinizes —with a good dose of humor—the sometimes tumultuous relationship between a mother and her son.” —Metro (France).

The Discreet Pleasures of RejectionMartin Page • 978-0-14-311652-3 • $14.00 • Feb 2010 • Another mordantly hysterical tale from the author of the cult favorite How I Became Stupid.

The CompanionLorcan Roche • 978-1-933372-84-6 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “[The Companion is] brillianty achieved...Roche handles his materials well, never losing control over his narrative, keeping his reader’s attention throughout.”—The Irish Times.

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi Elif Shafak • 978-0-670-02145-1 • $25.95 • Feb 2010 • From the author of The Bastard of Istanbul. • “Beautifully imagined...it’s as much family history as national history that drives this vital and entertaining novel. And it’s the powerful and idiosyncratic characters who drive the family history.”—The Chicago Tribune.

2017Olga Slavnikova • Translated by Marian Schwartz • 978-1-59020-309-5 • $26.95 • Mar 2010 • Winner of the Russian Booker Prize • Novel of Russia set 100 years after the revolution.

The Slap: A NovelChristos Tsiolkas • 978-0-14-311714-8 • $15.00 • May 2010 • Winner of the 2009 Common-wealth Writers’ Prize • “Strikingly tender...it claws into you with its freshness and truth.” —Sydney Morning Herald (Australia).

The InformersJuan Gabriel Vasquez • 978-1-59448-467-4 • $16.00 • July 2010 • “Deals with big universal themes— betrayal, the war between fathers and sons, cowardice and valor — and big particular ones: the mix of peoples and histories that is Latin America, the painful political and social history under which Colombia suffers, the poison that Nazism spread throughout the world. It is the best work of literary fiction since 2005!”— The Washington Post.

TrustKate Veitch • 978-0-452-29635-0 • $15.00 • July 2010 • From the author of Without a Backward Glance—a story about the hidden life of a family.

The Little StrangerSarah Waters • 978-1-59448-446-9 • $16.00 • May 2010 • “The supernatural creaks and groans that reverberate through this tale are accompanied by malignant strains of class envy and sexual repression that infect every perfectly reasonable explanation we hear. The result is a ghost story as intelligent as it is stylish.”—The Washington Post.

The Marriage Bureau for Rich PeopleFarahad Zama • 978-0-425-23424-2 • $15.00 • June 2010 • “Captivates the reader as an entertaining chronicle of a contemporary Indian matchmaking service and as insightful commen-tary on the lingering dictates of religion and class in modern India....Zama sprinkles his lively narrative with morsels of everyday life and age-old traditions...all of which enrich and enliven his simple and engaging plot.”—Booklist.

ShORt StORIES / ESSAYS & SCIENCE FICtION

Wild Child: and other StoriesT.C. Boyle • 978-0-670-02142-0 • $25.95 • Jan 2010 • A superb new collection from “a writer who can take you anywhere.”—The New York Times.

How Did You Get This NumberSloane Crosley • 978-1-59448-759-0 • $24.95 • June 2010 • A new book of hilarious and insightful essays from the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake.

The Surf Guru: StoriesDoug Dorst • 978-1-59448-761-3 • $25.95 • July 2010 • A collection of adventure stories with a grit and punchy realism that recalls Thom Jones and T.C. Boyle.

Nebula Awards Showcase 2010Edited by Bill Fawcett • 978-0-451-46316-6 • $16.00 • Apr 2010 • Includes Ursula K. LeGuin, Catherine Asaro, John Kessel, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Harry Harrison • “Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.”—New York Review of Science Fiction.

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want ItMaile Meloy • 978-1-59448-465-0 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “These eleven stories are quick, powerful jabs, startling in their economy; you’re propelled toward each ending, certain she won’t be able to wrap it up in one more page, and you’re proved wrong every time.” —Time Magazine.


Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s FeudsLyndall Gordon • 978-0-670-02193-2 • $27.95 • June 2010 • A look into the life of Dickinson and her family—and the devastating feuds over her work that have lasted for nearly a century after her death.

Four Fish: An Investigation Into the Future of FishPaul Greenberg • 978-1-59420-256-8 • $25.95 • July 2010 • A deeply-reported exploration of the state of our ocean, examining the past, present and future of our reationship with the last truly wild food we consume.

Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the SeaLinda Greenlaw • 978-0-670-02192-5 • $25.95 • June 2010 • The long awaited sequel to The Hungry Ocean.

Dinner with Mugabe: The untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a TyrantHeidi Holland • 978-0-14-302618-1 • $16.00 • Feb 2010 • “ The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe’s clever yet brutal leader.”—The Economist. • “The best picture of the man that has ever been published....A brilliant achievement.”—The Mail and Guardian (South Africa).

The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman’s Fight to Save Two orphansHala Jaber • 978-1-59448-446-7 • $15.00 • July 2010 • “Heart-breaking portraits of children and families who have lost a great deal...during the Iraq war. Jaber takes us into the lives of fearless, selfless journalists, volunteer workers, and doctors, who try...to help these devastated people. Jaber’s own quest to adopt two orphan children weaves through the narrative with moving detail, providing an extra, personal dimension. She brings us close to deep desires, tragedies, as well as fulfillment.”—Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls.

It Is Well With My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 105-Year-old WomanElla Mae Cheeks Johnson and Pat Mulcahy • 978-0-14-311744-5 • $14.00 • May 2010.

The Price of Stones: Building a School For My VillageTwesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville • 978-0-670-02184-0 • $25.95 • June 2010 • Inspiring story of a man from rural Uganda who, after living in America, returns to build a tuition-free school for orphans in his hometown who in spite of having little money and working against great obstacles changes many lives, both in Uganda and among supporters from America.

mEmOIR / bIO / AUtObIOGRAPhY

Our Last Best Chance: An Intimate Account of the Pursuit of Peace in a Time of PerilKing Abdullah II of Jordan • 978-0-670-02171-0 • $27.95 • May 2010 • An urgent and intimate memoir by the King of Jordan, a warrior-prince who reveals his fears for the Middle East, and explains why he is convinced we have one last chance to get it right in the region.

Twain’s Feast: Searching For America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel ClemensAndrew Beahr • 978-1-59420-259-9 • $25.95 • June 2010 • Intertwining Twain’s famous works with Baehr’s own adventures, journeys to a time when fresh foods from the wild were at the heart of American cooking.

Big Sid’s Vincati Matthew Biberman • 978-0-452-29615-2 • $16.00 • May 2010 • “I don’t think you need to be a motorcycle enthusiast to lose yourself in this book. It is an open-handed classic about living and love, with a heart as big as a Vincent V-twin engine.”—Mark Knopfler.

Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars Josh Axelrad • 978-1-59420-247-6 • $25.95 • Mar 2010 • A deliciously wry, edge-of-the-seat memoir of making a fortune with card counters across a wide swath of blackjack in America.

Born Round: The Story of Family, Food, and a Ferocious AppetiteFrank Bruni • 978-0-14-311767-4 • $16.00 • July 2010 • “An intricate, honest and sometimes pain-ful examination of an extremely complex lifelong relationship with eating, and with overeating.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.

Escape from Bellevue: A Memoir of Rock ’n’ Roll, Recovery, and Redemption Christopher John Campion • 978-1-592-40530-5 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • “Check your straightjacket at the door and get ready to rock!”—The New York Times.

Farm City: The Education of an urban FarmerNovella Carpenter • 978-0-14-311728-5 • $15.00 • Jun 2010 • “Easily the funniest, weirdest, most perversely provocative gardening book I’ve ever read. I couldn’t put it down....Hilarious in describing the foibles of her friends and her ‘70s-era hippie parents....As she contemplates the place of her garden in the greater scheme of life, she shows what she’s capable of and the writing soars.”—The New York Times Book Review.

Winston Churchill: The Flawed Genius of World War IIChristopher Catherwood • 978-0-425-23244-6 • $16.00 • Mar 2010 • Examines the decisions and policies of Churchill between June 1940 and December 1941 that actually hindered the Allied cause, extended the conflict, and destabilized several regions that remain in chaos to this day. • “Catherwood’s speculations could instigate a lively seminar.”—Booklist.

What I Thought I KnewAlice Eve Cohen • 978-0-14-311765-0 • $15.00 • June 2010 • Elle’s Lettres 2009 Nonfiction Grand Prix Winner • A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible.

An Angel from Hell: Real Life on the Front LinesRyan A. Conklin • 978-0-425-23394-8 • $24.95 • Feb 2010 • A gritty, blunt, and laugh-out-loud funny war memoir from the grunt’s perspective. Conklin reveals what the Iraq war is really like.

A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton’s Extraordinary Life and his Quest for the America’s CupMichael D’Antonio • 978-1-59448-760-6 • $26.95 • July 2010 • In-depth biography of the founder of Lipton Tea.

Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot SpitzerPeter Elkind • 978-1-59184-307-8 • $26.95 • Apr 2010 • From the co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room.

Sonia Sotomayor: The True American DreamAntonia Felix • 978-0-425-23483-9 • $25.95 • May 2010 • An inspiring example of the quintessential American Dream made real. Includes interviews with figures from Sotomay-or’s personal and professional life as well as speeches and published papers.

High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund WarburgNiall Ferguson • 978-1-59420-246-9 • $29.95 • Mar 2010 • First book-length examination of a man whose life and work suggest an alternative to the troubled business principles of our current financial landscape.

City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul SuccessNelson George • 978-0-452-29604-6 • $14.00 • Apr 2010 • “A wry, sharp, unpretentious cultural analysis…a lively look back at historical changes in popular music, film, and writing.” —Booklist.


Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The LettersJack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg • Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford • 978-0-670-02194-9 • $35.00 • July 2010 • Letters exchanged between Ginsberg and Kerouac over forty years.

Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and TeachingsGary Lachman • 978-1-58542-792-5 • $24.95 • June 2010 • Tracking the arc of Jung’s life, struggles, and human relationships, this dramatic volume clearly and concisely examines the central role that mystical ideas, practices, and experiences played in the career of one of the greatest thinkers of the modern era.

To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of KoreaJid Lee • 978-1-59020-266-1 • $25.95 • Jan 2010 • A revelatory look at war and modernization, a story of personal growth, and a tribute to Korean culture.

Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country QueenJimmy McDonough • 978-0-670-02153-6 • $27.95 • Mar 2010 • The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music.

Between the Sheets: Nine 20th-Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary PartnershipsLesley McDowell • 978-1-59020-238-8 • $28.95 • Mar 2010 • Focusing on the diaries, letters, and journals of each woman, Between the Sheets explores nine famous literary liaisons of the twentieth century.

The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s EducationCraig Mullaney • 978-0-14-311687-5 • $17.00 • Mar 2010 • “Mullaney, a master storyteller, plunges the depths of self-doubt, endurance, and courage. The result: a riveting, suspenseful human story, beautifully told. This is a book written under fire—a lyrical, spellbounding tale of war, love, and courage.”—Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Descent into Chaos.

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life Kathleen Norris • 978-1-59448-438-4 • $16.00 • Mar 2010 • An examination of acedia in the light of theology, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris’s own experience.

Between a Church and a Hard Place: one Faith Free Dad’s Struggle to understand What it Means to be Religious (or Not)Andrew Park • 978-1-58333-371-6 • $26.95 • Feb 2010 • Stumped when his children start asking questions about God, a lifelong nonbe-liever takes a colorful and thought-provoking tour of religion in America.

Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the WorldMary Pipher, Ph.D. • 978-1-59448-440-7 • $16.00 • Apr 2010 • “An insightful and terribly personal memoir of an active and successful life, and how [Pipher’s] almost desperate need for inner peace...has dominated so many of her days.”—Lincoln Journal Star.

Mt. Pleasant: My Journey from Running a Billion Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High SchoolSteve Poizner • 978-1-591-84345-0 • $25.95 • April 2010 • A Silicon Valley entrepre-neur takes on the challenge of a lifetime: teaching in one of California’s toughest high schools.

Sergio: one Man’s Fight to Save the WorldSamantha Power • 978-0-143-11777-3 • $17.00 • Feb 2010 • Movie tie-in edition • Also available as Chasing the Flame (978-0-14-311485-7) • In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prize–winner Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of moral struggle on the global stage.

Closing TimeJoe Queenan • 978-0-14-311668-4 • $15.00 • Apr 2010 • “Unsentimental and brutally honest, Queenan’s memoir captures the pathos of growing up in a difficult family and somehow getting beyond it.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).

An American GospelErik Reece • 978-1-59448-445-2 • $15.00 • Feb 2010 • “It’s a very rare writer who can...mix a deep knowledge of scripture with a naturalist’s sense of nature’s textures and an activist’s righteous anger and produce...an intellectually serious and artfully rigorous book like An American Gospel.” —Harper’s Magazine.

For You, Mom. Finally.Ruth Reichl • 978-0-14-311734-6 • $13.00 • April 2010 • “A gemlike feminine manifesto: urging women not to let their looks define them, to insist upon a career outside the home and to let their children be who they are.”—The New York Observer.

Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of SurvivalHester Rumberg • 978-0-425-23210-1 • $15.00 • Jan 2010 • “Celebrates the love and spirit of adventure of the Sleavin family and tells in harrowing and gut-wrenching detail about the tragedy that claimed the lives of three of its members”—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle.

Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and SurvivalRobert Sabbag • 978-0-14-311760-5 • $15.00 • May 2010 • “A remarkable and powerful, human story not merely of a plane crash but of the impact that one brief moment can have on an entire life.”—Booklist (starred review).

The Farthest Home Is an Empire of Fire: A Tejano ElegyJohn Phillip Santos • 978-0-670-02156-7 • $25.95 • Apr 2010 • In Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, Santos told the story of one Mexican family—his father’s—set within the larger story of Mexico itself. In this beautifully written new book, he tells of his mother’s family and how they erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain.

Just Don’t Fall: How I Grew up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the MountainJosh Sundquist • 978-0-670-02146-8 • $25.95 • Feb 2010 • “I didn’t want to put this book down. It was more than the amazing story—it was the honesty of a voice that spoke, without a whiff of melodrama, about loss and worry and determination. Sundquist has presented us with his tale of remarkable grit, and we see what can (and cannot) be accomplished in the glow of a family’s poignant love.”—Elizabeth Strout, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony BinNorah Vincent • 978-0-14-311685-1 • $16.00 • Jan 2010 • From the author of Self-Made Man, a captivating exposé of depression and mental illness in America. • “A brave book, written by a brave woman, and it addresses issues that just might leave you questioning your own sanity.” —Miami Sun Post.

Losing My CoolThomas Chatterton Williams • 978-1-59420-2636 • $25.95 • July 2010 • Pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author, and how his father drew him out again—with love, perserverance, and 15,000 books.

Bonobo HandshakeVanessa Woods • 978-1-592-40546-6 • $26.00 • June 2010 • A young woman who follows her fiancé to war torn Congo to study Bonobo apes, discovers her own path along the way.


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