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FICTION / LITERARY Henry Holt and Co. | 2/4/2014 9780805097764 | $28.00 Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

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The Book of Jonah A Novel

Joshua Max Feldman

A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas

The modernday Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman’s brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He’s a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He’s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah’s life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who’s no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an ageold question: How do you know if you’re chosen?

PRAISE

"It is rare that a novel juxtaposes the contemporary world and the biblical one in such dramatic fashion. The Book of Jonah is a compelling read, a clever deconstruction of modern life as reflected in an ancient and timeless lens." —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

Joshua Max Feldman is a writer of fiction and plays. Born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, he graduated from Columbia University and currently lives in south Florida.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. FEBRUARY 2014

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SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Henry Holt and Co. | 3/4/2014 9780805092998 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 45 b&w illustrations t/o

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The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, twotime winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

PRAISE

Praise for Field Notes from a Catastrophe“A small miracle of concision . . . Offer(s) the clearest view yet of the biggest catastrophe we have ever faced.”—Los Angeles Times

“Sober, detailed, and alarming without being alarmist.”—Newsweek

“Gripping, wellwritten . . . Kolbert never editorializes, but her message comes through all the louder for her restraint.”—The Seattle Times

“Important . . . Precise and measured . . . Lets readers connect the dots to form a frightening (and still avoidable) vision of our future.”—Entertainment Weekly

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. MARCH 2014

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FICTION / THRILLERS Henry Holt and Co. | 2/18/2014 9780805098723 | $26.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

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The Innocent Sleep A Novel

Karen Perry

When a couple's lost child resurfaces they are forced to embark on a journey into their shared past—one rife with dark secrets and lies

Tangiers. Harry is preparing his wife's birthday dinner while she is still at work and their son, Dillon, is upstairs asleep in bed. Harry suddenly remembers that he's left Robin's gift at the café in town. It's only a five minute walk away and Dillon's so tricky to put down for the night, so Harry decides to run out on his own and fetch the present.

Disaster strikes. An earthquake hits, buildings crumble, people scream and run. Harry fights his way through the crowd to his house, only to find it razed to the ground. Dillon is presumed dead, though his body is never found.

Five years later, Harry and Robin have settled into a new kind of life after relocating to their native Dublin. Their grief will always be with them, but lately it feels as if they're ready for a new beginning. Harry's career as an artist is taking off and Robin has just realized that she's pregnant.

But when Harry gets a glimpse of Dillon on the crowded streets of Dublin, the past comes rushing back at both of them. Has Dillon been alive all these years? Or was what Harry saw just a figment of his guiltridden imagination? With razorsharp writing, Karen Perry's The Innocent Sleep delivers a fastpaced, ingeniously plotted thriller brimming with deception, doubt, and betrayal.

PRAISE

“Rises head and shoulders above most Irish novels of recent years.”—Irish Independent “Gillece writes vividly . . . Highly impressive and assured writing.”—Evening Herald

“Paul Perry is prodigiously gifted.”—Fred D'Aguiar

“[Perry] is an imagination without borders, a probing and unsettling intelligence lightly worn.”—Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post

Karen Perry is the pen name of Dublinbased authors Paul Perry and Karen Gillece. Paul Perry is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books. A winner of The Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award, he is a lecturer in creative writing at Kingston University, London, and course director in poetry at the Faber Academy in Dublin. Karen Gillece is the author of four critically acclaimed novels. In 2009 she won the European Union Prize for Literature (Ireland).


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FICTION / LITERARY Henry Holt and Co. | 1/14/2014 9780805095104 | $25.00 / $29.00 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 in T

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The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel A Novel

Magdalena Zyzak

A story of love and misadventure in an imaginary Slavic nation on the brink of historic change—the debut of a ribald and raucous new literary voice

Set in the quaint (though admittedly backward) fictional nation of Scalvusia in 1939, The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel follows the exploits of a young swineherd with romantic delusions of grandeur. Desperate to attract the voluptuous Roosha, the Gypsy concubine of the local bootandshoe magnate, Barnabas and his shortlegged steed Wilhelm get embroiled in a series of scandals and misadventures, as every attempt at wooing ends in catastrophe. After the mysterious death of an important figure in the community, a witchhunt ensues, and a stranger falls from the sky. Barnabas begins to see the terrible tide of history turning in his beloved hometown. The wonderfully eccentric supporting cast includes a priest driven mad by a fig tree, a gang of louts who taunt our reluctant hero at every turn, and a dimwitted vagabond with a goat for a wife. Even as her characters brush up against one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century, Magdalena Zyzak's humor and prose delight in the absurdities of the human animal.

PRAISE

“Make way for Magdalena Zyzak! She writes in a way uniquely her own and approaches the English language with the joy and reverence of her countryman Joseph Conrad. The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel is a heady drink.”—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Magdalena Zyzak was born in 1983 in Zabrze, Poland, and now lives in the United States. This is her first novel.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. JANUARY 2014

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GENERAL Henry Holt and Co. | 3/25/2014 9780805095906 | $32.50 / $37.50 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.000 in W | 10.000 in H 250 b&w halftones

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How About NeverIs Never Good for You? A Life in Cartoons

Bob Mankoff

Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker

People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a highschool basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the souptonuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout, we see his commitment to the motto “Anything worth saying is worth saying funny.”

Bob Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for the magazine for twenty years. He founded the online Cartoon Bank, which has every cartoon since the magazine's founding. He is the author of the book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity.


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FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Henry Holt and Co. | 3/4/2014 9780805098143 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

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Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel 8/2013 | 9781429943963 Electronic book text | $12.99 / $13.99 Can.

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Vengeance: A Novel 3/2013 | 9781250024183 Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $18.50 Can.

The BlackEyed Blonde A Philip Marlowe Novel

Benjamin Black

Raymond Chandler’s incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career

“It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it’s being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere.”

So begins The BlackEyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe—yes, that Philip Marlowe. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost immediately discovers that Peterson’s disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.

Only Benjamin Black, a modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today’s best crime fiction.

PRAISE

Praise for Benjamin Black's Novels:

“Alluring . . . The Black books have been lovely and luminous . . . [They] remain enticing, sultry pleasures.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Black’s drab Dublin streets are full of perplexing figures, archetypes, as if the characters were stalking through some Jungian map of the unconscious: weakened, dying fathers, good mothers, bad mothers, twins, ‘dark doubles,’ ghosts surging up from the past . . . His narratives are loaded with poetic devices.”—The New Yorker

Benjamin Black is the pen name of the Man Booker Prizewinning novelist John Banville. The author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed series of Quirke novels—including Christine Falls, Vengeance, and Holy Orders—he lives in Dublin.


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SOCIAL SCIENCE / GERONTOLOGY Henry Holt and Co. | 2/18/2014 9780805097207 | $25.00 Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H


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What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the NinetySomething Track Star Who Is Smashing Records and Outpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How to Live

Bruce Grierson

A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the process

In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninetythreeyearold track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninetythreeyearold. She not only looks and acts like a much younger woman, she holds over twentythree world records in track and field, seventeen in her current ninety to ninetyfive category. Convinced that this remarkable woman could help unlock many of the mysteries of aging, Grierson set out to uncover what it is that’s driving Olga. He considers every piece of the puzzle, from her diet and sleep habits to how she scores on various personality traits, from what she does in her spare time to her family history. Olga participates in tests administered by some of the world’s leading scientists and offers her DNA to groundbreaking research trials. What emerges is not only a tremendously uplifting personal story but a look at the extent to which our health and longevity are determined by the DNA we inherit at birth, and the extent to which we can shape that inheritance. It examines the sum of our genes, opportunities, and choices, and the factors that forge the course of any life, especially during our golden years.

Bruce Grierson is the author of the books Culture Jam and UTurn. He has been a freelance writer for twentyfive years. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Psychology Today, among other publications. He lives in North Vancouver, Canada.


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FICTION / GENERAL Henry Holt and Co. | 3/18/2014 9780805090703 | $27.00 / $31.00 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 1 map and 1 family tree

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The School of Night: A Novel 2/2012 | 9781250002303 Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $16.99 Can.

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Roosevelt's Beast A Novel

Louis Bayard

A reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt’s illfated 1914 Amazon expedition—a psychological twist on the smart historical thriller that first put Louis Bayard on the map

1914. Brazil’s Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the nowravaged RooseveltRondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle. When Kermit and Teddy are kidnapped by a neverbeforeseen Amazonian tribe, the great hunters are asked one thing in exchange for their freedom: find and kill a beast that leaves no tracks and that no member of the tribe has ever seen. But what are the origins of this beast, and how do they escape its brutal wrath?

Roosevelt's Beast is a story of the impossible things that become possible when civilization is miles away, when the mind plays tricks on itself, and when old family secrets refuse to stay buried. With his characteristically rich storytelling and a touch of oldfashioned horror, the bestselling and critically acclaimed Louis Bayard turns the story of the wellknown RooseveltRondon expedition on its head and dares to ask: Are the beasts among us more frightening than the beasts within?

PRAISE

Praise for Louis Bayard “A writer of remarkable gifts . . . a major talent.”—Joyce Carol Oates

“Bayard doesn’t revisit the past so much as reinvent it, historically and literarily, with a great deal of style, wit, and suspense.”—The Miami Herald

“In the world of historical fiction, Louis Bayard is a master at blending history into intelligent thrillers.”—USA Today

Praise for The School of Night “Exhilarating . . . Bayard adds twist after satisfying twist to these interlocked tales.”—The Washington Post

“Rich and rewarding . . . ”—The Wall Street Journal

Louis Bayard is the author of the critically acclaimed The School of Night and The Black Tower, the national bestseller The Pale Blue Eye, and Mr. Timothy, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C.


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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Henry Holt and Co. | 4/1/2014 9780805098167 | $25.00 / $29.00 Can. Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H line drawings?

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A Farm Dies Once a Year A Memoir

Arlo Crawford

An intimate, gorgeously observed memoir about family and farming that forms a powerful lesson in the hardearned risks that make life worth living

The summer he was thirtyone, Arlo Crawford returned home for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm—seventyfive acres tucked in a hollow in southcentral Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years.

Like many summers before, Arlo returned to the family farm's familiar rhythms—rise, eat, bend, pick, sort, sweat, sleep. But this time he was also there to change his direction, like his father years ago. In the 1970s, well before the explosion of the farmtotable and slow food movement, Arlo's father, Jim, left behind law school and Vietnam, and decided to give farming a try. Arlo's return also prompts a reexamination of a past tragedy: the murder of a neighboring farmer twenty years before. A chronicle of one full season on a farm, with all its small triumphs and inevitable setbacks, A Farm Dies Once a Year is a mediation on work—the true nature of it, and on taking pride in it—and a son's reckoning with a father's legacy. Above all, it is a striking portrait of how one man builds, sows, and harvests his way into a new understanding of the risks necessary to a life welllived.

Arlo Crawford grew up on New Morning Farm, his family's farm in rural Pennsylvania. He has written for The New York Times Magazine and Gastronomica and has worked as an assistant in book publishing, at an art museum, and as a vegetable seller. He lives in San Francisco.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. APRIL 2014

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF STATE Henry Holt and Co. | 4/8/2014 9780805088533 | $35.00 Hardback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 1 8pg. insert with 20 b&w illustrations

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Mao: A Life 12/2010 | 9781429900928 Electronic book text | $11.99

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare 4/2007 | 9781429900935 Electronic book text | $7.99

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare 1/2006 | 9780805080063 Paperback / softback | $25.00

A Taste for Intrigue The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand

Philip Short

The man who changed the course of modern France

In 1981, François Mitterrand became France’s first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led the country for 14 years, longer than any other French head of state in modern times. Mitterrand mirrored France in all its imperfections and tragedies, its cowardice and glory, its weakness and its strength.

In the wake of the Observatory affair (in which he orchestrated his own assassination attempt), his secretiveness and mistrust grew more pronounced, especially when details of a second family came to light; he was a mixture of “Machiavelli, Don Corleone, Casanova and the Little Prince,” said his doctor.

During the German occupation, Mitterrand hedged his bets by joining Petain’s Vichy government. Later in 1943, under the nom de guerre of Morland (and 30 other aliases), Mitterrand quit Vichy for the Resistance and a paramilitary organization.

He changed the ground rules of French social and political debate in ways more farreaching and fundamental than any other modern leader before him, helping set the agenda for France and Europe for generations to come. Philip Short’s A Taste for Intrigue will fill the gap and become the standard against which all other Mitterrand biographies are set.

PRAISE

Praise for Philip Short “The text sparkles . . . [Short] is excellent.”—New York Times Book Review (front page)

“A chillingly clear portrait of the man who became Pol Pot.”—The Economist

“Rich . . . Nowhere has the story of [Mao] been told with greater authority.”—The Washington Post

Philip Short is the author of several books, among them the definitive biographies Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Times (London), The Economist, and the BBC in Uganda, Moscow, China, and Washington, D.C.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. APRIL 2014

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HISTORY / GENERAL Henry Holt and Co. | 10/22/2013 9780805094206 | $32.00 / $37.00 Can. Hardback | 576 pages | Carton Qty: 12 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H


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Untitled Nonfiction on the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon

Groundbreaking new history of the Kennedy assassination

Investigative reporter and bestselling author Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character driven, dialogue rich, with facts and incidents that will stun and surprise.

Philip Shenon, the bestselling author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, was a reporter for The New York Times for more than twentyfive years. As a Washington correspondent for The Times, he covered the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the State Department. He lives and writes in Washington, DC.

HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2013

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HISTORY / AMERICAS (NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH WEST INDIES) Metropolitan Books | 1/14/2014 9780805094534 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. Hardback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.250 in T 30 blackandwhite photos in 2 8page inserts and 1 map

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 4/2010 | 9781429938013 Electronic book text | $9.99 / $10.99 Can.

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The Empire of Necessity Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

Greg Grandin

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America’s struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond

One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren’t. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, antislavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence.

Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event—an event that already inspired Herman Melville’s masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.

PRAISE

Praise for Fordlandia “A haunting story . . . Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness resonates through every page of this book.”—Ben MacIntyre, The New York Times Book Review

“Riveting.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A fascinating historical narrative recounted with a novelist’s sense of pace and an eye for character.”—Los Angeles Times

Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as Empire’s Workshop and The Blood of Guatemala. A professor of history at New York University and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, Grandin has served on the UN Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Statesman, and The New York Times.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / MEDIA STUDIES Metropolitan Books | 1/14/2014 9780805093568 | $27.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

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The People's Platform And Other Digital Delusions

Astra Taylor

From a cuttingedge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age

The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of technoutopian visions, The People’s Platform argues that for all that we “tweet” and “like” and “share,” the Internet in fact reflects and amplifies realworld inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as offline, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both.

What we have seen so far, Astra Taylor says, has been not a revolution but a rearrangement. Although Silicon Valley tycoons have eclipsed Hollywood moguls, a handful of giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook remain the gatekeepers. And the worst habits of the old media model—the pressure to seek easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all—have proliferated online, where “aggregating” the work of others is the surest way to attract eyeballs and ad revenue. When culture is “free,” creative work has diminishing value and advertising fuels the system. The new order looks suspiciously like the old one.

We can do better, Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports diverse voices and work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people’s platform, we will have to make it so.

PRAISE

Praise for Examined Life “Unfailingly erudite, charismatic and surprisingly funny.”—Publishers Weekly “Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence onscreen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays.”—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice “A playful riposte to the notion that movies are for turning one’s mind off . . . Stimulating.”—Variety

Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, which was broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, Monthly Review, The Baffler, and other publications. She lives in New York City.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / GOVERNMENT Metropolitan Books | 3/11/2014 9780805097627 | $28.00 / $32.00 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 1 map

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There Was and There Was Not Meline Toumani

Beguiling and provocative, a young Armenian American goes deep into enemy territory to confront a past of history and hatred

Meline Toumani, an ethnic Armenian, grew up in New Jersey surrounded by unabashed hatred for Turks and Turkey, which was fostered at Armenian school, church, and summer camp. As she came of age, she began to feel constricted by the dogma—at Armenian gatherings, the genocide of 1915 and Turkey’s denial of it was all anyone talked about. Driven by intense curiosity about this “other,” whose certainty of the past clashed so profoundly with her own, Toumani sets out to encounter the people she was raised to despise.

Toumani’s journey takes her from one universe of obsession to another, to Turkey. Settling in Istanbul, she builds a complicated life of fraught friendships. In Turkish classes and homes, at the remains of Armenian villages, among dissidents, scholars, journalists, and bureaucrats, she attempts to connect, to talk, and to listen, exploring how ethnic hatred can travel across time and space, growing stronger with each new generation.

There Was and There Was Not—a phrase that throughout the Middle East signals the start of a fable—is a story about the conflicting narratives left to us by history. With eloquence and power, Toumani probes questions that are at the heart of such conflicts the world over: how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, how to honor one’s past without being imprisoned by it, and how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the hatred that gave rise to it in the first place.

Meline Toumani has written extensively for The New York Times on Turkey and Armenia as well as on music, dance, and film. Her work has also appeared in n+1, The Nation, Salon, and The Boston Globe. A journalism fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, she was also the coordinator of the RussianAmerican Journalism Institute in RostovonDon, Russia. Born in Iran and ethnically Armenian, she grew up in New Jersey and California and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Revolutionary Russia, 18911991 A History

Orlando Figes

From the author of A People’s Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundredyear cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams

In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focused their examinations on the cataclysmic years immediately before and after 1917, Figes shows how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, nevertheless retained the same idealistic goals throughout, from its origins in the famine crisis of 1891 until its end with the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991.

Figes traces three generational phases: Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who set the pattern of destruction and renewal until their demise in the terror of the 1930s; the Stalinist generation, promoted from the lower classes, who created the lasting structures of the Soviet regime and consolidated its legitimacy through victory in war; and the generation of 1956, shaped by the revelations of Stalin’s crimes and committed to “making the Revolution work” to remedy economic decline and mass disaffection. Until the very end of the Soviet system, its leaders believed they were carrying out the revolution Lenin had begun.

With the authority and distinctive style that have marked his magisterial histories, Figes delivers an accessible and paradigmshifting reconsideration of one of the defining events of the twentieth century.

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Praise for A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924 “A marvelous account of one of history’s greatest tragedies.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A brilliant retelling of the Russian Revolution.”—Time

“Few historians have the courage to attack great subjects; fewer have the grasp to succeed. . . [This] will do more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know.”—Eric Hobsbawn, London Review of Books

Orlando Figes is the author of eight books on Russia that have been translated into twentyseven languages; they include The Whisperers, A People’s Tragedy, Natasha’s Dance, and Just Send Me Word. A professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Figes is the recipient of the Wolfon History Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others.

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The Gods of Olympus A History

Barbara Graziosi

An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present day

The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic rituals of drink and sex. Under Christianity and Islam they survived as demons, allegories, and planets; and in the Renaissance, they triumphantly emerged as ambassadors of a new, secular belief in humanity. Their geographic range, too, has been little short of astounding: in their exile, the gods of Olympus have traveled east to the walls of cave temples in China and west to colonize the Americas. They snuck into Italian cathedrals, haunted Nietzsche, and visited Borges in his restless dreams.

In a lively, original history, Barbara Graziosi offers the first account to trace the wanderings of these protean deities through the millennia. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological sources, The Gods of Olympus opens a new window on the ancient world and its lasting influence.

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“The finest thing about Homer yet written in the 21st century for a popular audience.” —Open Letters Monthly on Graziosi’s introduction to the Oxford World’s Classics Iliad

“Specialists in Homeric poems will find much to benefit from, and the rest of us are indebted to Graziosi for her scrupulous presentation of the material and her intriguing analysis.”—Classical Bulletin on Inventing Homer

Barbara Graziosi is the author of Inventing Homer and Homer in the Twentieth Century, among other works. In 2011, she provided the introduction and notes for a new translation of the Iliad for Oxford World’s Classics. A professor of classics at Durham University, Graziosi is also a contributor to The Times Higher Education Supplement, the London Review of Books, and BBC radio programs on the arts. The Gods of Olympus is her first trade book. She lives in the U.K.


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Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

Götz Aly

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums

Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Götz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis’ assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German antiSemitism was—to a previously overlooked extent—driven in large part by material concerns, not racist ideology or religious animosity. As Germany made its way through the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the difficulties of the lethargic, economically backward German majority stood in marked contrast to the social and economic success of the agile Jewish minority. This success aroused envy and fear among the Gentile population, creating fertile ground for murderous Nazi politics.

Surprisingly, and controversially, Aly shows that the roots of the Holocaust are deeply intertwined with German efforts to create greater social equality. Redistributing wealth from the welloff to the less fortunate was in many respects a laudable goal, particularly at a time when many lived in poverty. But as the notion of material equality took over the public imagination, the skilled, welleducated Jewish population came to be seen as having more than its fair share. Aly’s account of this fatal social dynamic opens up a new vantage point on the greatest crime in history and is sure to prompt heated debate for years to come.

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“The most important contribution to the massive literature on the subject. Aly’s analysis of a deeply rooted social malady has made the incomprehensible comprehensible.” —Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Museum, Berlin “I was truly convinced I understood something about German antiSemitism, but you’ve shown me that I know very little indeed.”—Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem “Brilliant, passionate, provocative.”—Micha Brumlik, Die Zeit

Götz Aly is the author of Hitler’s Beneficiaries and Into the Tunnel, among other books. One of the most respected historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, he has received the National Jewish Book Award, Germany’s prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize, and numerous other honors. He is currently the Sir Peter Ustinov guest professor at the University of Vienna.

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The Future We Want Radical Ideas for the New Century

Edited by Sarah Leonard and Bhaskar Sunkara

A stirring blueprint for American equality, from the “breakout stars” (The New York Times) of the young new left

The Occupy movement gave us energy and language, but its critics were quick to ask “What are the ideas?” The Future We Want is the answer. In a sharp, rousing collective manifesto, nineteen cultural and political critics under the age of thirty dismantle the usual liberal solutions to America’s ills and propose something else.

What would finance look like without Wall Street? Or the workplace with responsibility shared by all the workforce? From a campaign to limit work hours, to a program for full employment, to proposals for a new feminism, The Future We Want has the courage to think of alternatives that are both utopian and possible.

Brilliantly clear and provocative, The Future We Want—edited by Jacobin magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara and The New Inquiry’s Sarah Leonard, both in their twenties—harnesses the energy and creativity of an angry generation and announces the arrival of a new political left that not only protests but plans.

PRAISE

“The New Inquiry is forcing new thinking into the public debate. It is not print’s replacement, but very possibly its salvation.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed “Young visionary Bhaskar Sunkara is an intellectual and political impressario I describe as the Philip Rahv of our age.”—Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind “The New Inquiry is a precursor, native to the Internet, native to the city dweller. The writers are not trapped within an old paradigm but making it their own.”—Jonathan Lethem

Sarah Leonard is the youngest editor to work at Dissent. She is also the editor of the online journal The New Inquiry and of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. Leonard, who lives in New York, has written for n+1, Bookforum, and Dissent. Bhaskar Sunkara is a staff writer at In These Times and the founder of Jacobin, a political quarterly. Sunkara and Jacobin have been featured on MSNBC and in Rolling Stone, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Slate. He lives in New York.


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Untitled Edward Snowden and the NSA Glenn Greenwald

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story

Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an indepth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the farreaching consequences of the government’s surveillance program, both domestically and abroad.

Glenn Greenwald is the acclaimed author of With Liberty and Justice for Some and two other books. Praised as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, Greenwald is a columnist for The Guardian, a frequent guest on MSNBC, and a constitutional law and civil rights attorney. He is the recipient of a 2009 I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism and has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other publications.


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Quick and Nimble Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Adam Bryant

More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results

In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whateverittakes collective spark of a startup, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared in his regular “Corner Office” feature in The New York Times, Bryant has identified the biggest drivers of corporate culture, bringing them to life with realworld examples that reflect this hardearned wisdom.

These men and women—whose ranks include Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Angie Hicks of Angie’s List, Steve Case of Revolution (and formerly AOL), and Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania—offer useful insights and strategies for creating a corporate culture of innovation and building a highperforming organization that unleashes the passion and energy of its employees.

As the world shifts to more of a knowledge economy, the winners will be companies that can attract and retain the best and brightest employees by creating an environment where they can grow, contribute, and feel rewarded. Through the wisdom of these leading chief executives, Quick and Nimble offers a keen understanding of the forces that shape corporate culture and a clear road map to bring success and energy to any organization.

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Praise for The Corner Office

“Practical, wellwritten, chockfull of insight and wisdom.”—Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

“There is fascination in hearing CEOs talk about their jobs—a fascination that Adam Bryant captures neatly in The Corner Office.”—The Wall Street Journal

“You need to read it because of the success of the execs interviewed and the quality of their insights.”—Worth

Adam Bryant is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed. He writes the popular “Corner Office” feature in The New York Times’s business section and has served as the newspaper’s senior editor for features, deputy national editor, and deputy business editor. He was previously a senior writer and business editor at Newsweek. He and his family live in New York City.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS Times Books | 1/14/2014 9780805092806 | $35.00 / $40.00 Can. Hardback | 608 pages | Carton Qty: 16 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Includes 1520 blackandwhite photos in an 8page insert, and 1 illustration in text



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Wooden A Coach's Life

Seth Davis

A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America’s top college basketball writers

No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and ’70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eightyeightgame winning streak, records that stand to this day. Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his “Pyramid of Success.”

Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports has written the definitive biography of Wooden, an unflinching portrait that draws on archival research and more than two hundred interviews with players, opponents, coaches, and even Wooden himself. Davis shows how hard Wooden strove for success, from his AllAmerican playing days at Purdue through his early years as a high school and college coach to the glory days at UCLA, only to discover that reaching new heights brought new burdens and frustrations. Davis also reveals how at the pinnacle of his career Wooden found himself on questionable ground with alumni, referees, assistants, and even some of his players. His was a life not only of lessons taught, but also of lessons learned.

Woven into the story as well are the players who powered Wooden’s championship teams – Kareem AbdulJabbar, Bill Walton, Walt Hazzard, and others – many of whom speak frankly about their coach. The portrait that emerges from Davis’s remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today.

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Praise for When March Went Mad

“A mustread for anybody who considers themselves a basketball fan.”—Michael Wilbon, The Washington Post

“A vivid portrait of a time when we knew a lot less about the sport and, because of that, loved it in a different way.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Well written and engaging . . . Davis nicely captures the essence of the game, the players and the era.”—The Washington Times

Seth Davis is the author of the New York Times bestseller When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball and the memoir Equinunk, Tell Your Story: My Return to Summer Camp. In 1995, he joined the staff of Sports Illustrated, where he is currently a senior writer. He is also an onair studio analyst for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network during coverage of college basketball and the NCAA tournament. A graduate of Duke University, he lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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Mad As Hell The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

Dave Itzkoff

The behindthescenes story of the making of the iconic movie Network, which transformed the way we think about television and the way television thinks about us

“I’m mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!”

Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, “the mad prophet of the airwaves,” took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Academy Awards and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power.

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. Such a movie rarely gets made any more—one man’s vision of the world, independent of studio testing or market research. And that man was Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscarwinning screenwriter whose vision—outlandish for its time—is all too real today. Itzkoff uses interviews with the cast and crew, as well as Chayefsky’s notes, letters, and drafts to recreate the action in front of and behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and stillstartling film.

Itzkoff also speaks with today’s leading broadcasters and filmmakers to assess Network’s lasting impact on television and popular culture. They testify to the enduring genius of Paddy Chayefsky, who foresaw the future and whose life offers an unforgettable lesson about the true cost of selfexpression.

Dave Itzkoff is a culture reporter at The New York Times, where he writes regularly about film, television, theater, and popular culture and is a lead contributor to the newspaper’s ArtsBeat blog. He has previously worked at Spin, Maxim, and Details, and his work has appeared in GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, and other publications. He is the author of two previous books, Cocaine’s Son and Lads. He lives in New York City.

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untitled Chen Guangcheng Memoir Chen Guangcheng

An electrifying memoir by the blind Chinese activist who inspired millions with the story of his fight for justice and his belief in the cause of freedom

It was like a scene out of a thriller: One night in April 2012, China’s most famous political activist—a blind, selftaught lawyer—climbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. For days, his whereabouts remained unknown; after he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing, a furious round of highlevel negotiations finally led to his release and a new life in the United States.

Chen Guangcheng is a unique figure on the world stage, but his story is even more remarkable. The son of a poor farmer in rural China, blinded by illness when he was an infant, Chen was fortunate to survive a difficult childhood. But despite his disability, he was determined to educate himself and fight for the rights of his country’s poor, especially a legion of women who had endured forced sterilizations under the hated onechild policy. Repeatedly harassed, beaten, and imprisoned by Chinese authorities, Chen was ultimately placed under house arrest. After a year of fruitless protest and increasing danger, he evaded his captors and fled to freedom.

Both a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, this passionate book tells the story of a man who has never accepted limits and always believed in the power of the human spirit to overcome any obstacle.

Chen Guangcheng, known to many of his countrymen as “the barefoot lawyer,” was born in the village of Dongshigu in 1972. Blind since infancy, illiterate until his late teens, he ultimately taught himself law and became a fiery advocate for thousands of Chinese who had no voice. His escape from his jailers in China made international headlines, and he remains uncompromising in his commitment to human rights. He now lives with his wife and two young children in New York City.

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Index

Aly, Götz; Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, RaceHatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel, The: A Novel; MagdalenaZyzak 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bayard, Louis; Roosevelt's Beast: A Novel 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black, Benjamin; The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip MarloweNovel 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black-Eyed Blonde, The: A Philip Marlowe Novel; BenjaminBlack 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Book of Jonah, The: A Novel; Joshua Max Feldman 2. . . . . . .Bryant, Adam; Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOson How to Create a Culture of Innovation 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Crawford, Arlo; A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir 10. . . . . . .Davis, Seth; Wooden: A Coach's Life 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Empire of Necessity, The: Slavery, Freedom, andDeception in the New World; Greg Grandin 13. . . . . . . . . . . . .Farm Dies Once a Year, A: A Memoir; Arlo Crawford 10. . . . .Feldman, Joshua Max; The Book of Jonah: A Novel 2. . . . . . . .Figes, Orlando; Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History . .

16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Future We Want, The: Radical Ideas for the New Century;Sarah Leonard 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gillece, Karen; The Innocent Sleep: A Novel 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gods of Olympus, The: A History; Barbara Graziosi 17. . . . . .Grandin, Greg; The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom,and Deception in the New World 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Graziosi, Barbara; The Gods of Olympus: A History 17. . . . . . . .Greenwald, Glenn; Untitled Edward Snowden and the NSA . .

20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Grierson, Bruce; What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of theNinety-Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records andOutpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How toLive 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Guangcheng, Chen; untitled Chen Guangcheng Memoir 24. . . .How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: A Life inCartoons; Bob Mankoff 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Innocent Sleep, The: A Novel; Karen Gillece 4. . . . . . . . . . . . .Itzkoff, Dave; Mad As Hell: The Making of Network and theFateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies 23. . . . . . . . . . . . .Kolbert, Elizabeth; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History .

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leonard, Sarah; The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for theNew Century 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mad As Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Visionof the Angriest Man in Movies; Dave Itzkoff 23. . . . . . . . . . . .Mankoff, Bob; How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: ALife in Cartoons 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .People's Platform, The: And Other Digital Delusions; AstraTaylor 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How toCreate a Culture of Innovation; Adam Bryant 21. . . . . . . . . . .Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History; Orlando Figes

16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Roosevelt's Beast: A Novel; Louis Bayard 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shenon, Philip; Untitled Nonfiction on the KennedyAssassination 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Short, Philip; A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives ofFrançois Mitterrand 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sixth Extinction, The: An Unnatural History; ElizabethKolbert 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Taste for Intrigue, A: The Multiple Lives of FrançoisMitterrand; Philip Short 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Taylor, Astra; The People's Platform: And Other DigitalDelusions 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .There Was and There Was Not; Meline Toumani 15. . . . . . . . .Toumani, Meline; There Was and There Was Not 15. . . . . . . . .

untitled Chen Guangcheng Memoir; Chen Guangcheng . . .24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Untitled Edward Snowden and the NSA; Glenn Greenwald .20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Untitled Nonfiction on the Kennedy Assassination; PhilipShenon 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the Ninety-Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records andOutpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About Howto Live; Bruce Grierson 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred,and the Prehistory of the Holocaust; Götz Aly 18. . . . . . . . . .Wooden: A Coach's Life; Seth Davis 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zyzak, Magdalena; The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel: A Novel .

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