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SPRING 2016 LITERARY FICTION
AN UNRESTORED WOMAN: And Other Stories
Shobha Rao (Flatiron Books, March 2016)
“With a sophisticated sense of pacing and patience… characters are meticulously
developed within each story and the collection as a whole examines how little
power a person might have over his or her own destiny when confronted with war
and international disputes. Stunning and relentless.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Rao’s raw and breathtaking short story collection is set
against an epic canvas, yet her character studies are intimate.
Exquisite turns of phrase and editing with a fine-edged
scalpel only add to an outstanding and memorable debut.”
-- Booklist (starred)
“What an astonishing collection! Provoking, ferocious, moving, splendid, generous and
essential. I seemed to finish the book in a different world than the one in which I began
it.” – Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble
Debut author Shobha Rao moved to the U.S. from India at the age of seven. Her work has been published in numerous
literary journals, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short
Stories 2015.
BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS
Chitra Divakaruni (Simon & Schuster, April 2016)
“The always enchanting and enlightening Divakaruni spins another silken yet
tensile saga about the lives of women in India and as immigrants in America…
Divakaruni’s gracefully insightful, dazzlingly descriptive, and covertly stinging tale
illuminates the opposition women must confront, generation by generation, as
they seek both independence and connection.” — Booklist (starred)
“Three generations of Indian women struggle with the complicated relationships
between mothers and daughters. In a novel spanning India and the United States
over 60 years, richly drawn characters negotiate the desire
for education against family obligations and romantic
entanglements… Divakaruni's novel explores the moments that reverberate across
generations as well as the quiet erosions of culture that happen over time. [This is] a
novel of quiet but deeply affecting moments.” – Kirkus Reviews
Chitra Divakaruni is the bestselling and award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The
Mistress of Spices, among others. Her books have translated into 29 different languages, and
she has had works published in many literary magazines. She currently holds the Betty and
Gene McDavid chair at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program.
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SUMMER/FALL 2016 LITERARY FICTION
BRIGHTFELLOW: A Novel
Rikki Ducornet (Coffee House Press, July 2016)
“A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” —New York Times
“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.”
—The Nation
“Ducornet—surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most
accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with
emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. [Her style] is penetrating and
precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet
novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling
author of the Southern Reach Trilogy
A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade
jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets
Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous
novel of imposture, misplaced affection, and emotional deformity.
The author of nine previous novels as well as collections of short stories, essays and poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an
Academy Award in Literature. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
REMEMBERING 1942: and Other Chinese Stories
Liu Zhenyun (Arcade, November 2016)
Translated by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin
From one of China’s most prominent contemporary authors comes a new
collection of short stories featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling
against life’s obstacles—from bureaucratic to economic—against a background of
their own personal conflicts. The masterful title story explores the legacy of the
drought and famine that struck Henan Province in 1942 through the lens of one
man’s personal journey through war and revolution. Each story is rich in wit,
insight, and empathy-- together they bring into focus the realities of China’s past
and present, evoking clearly the often Kafkaesque circumstances of contemporary
life in the world’s most populous nation.
Liu Zhenyun is the author of six bestselling novels, including I Did Not Kill My Husband which sold 1.2 million copies in
China. His fiction has won numerous prizes in China and Hong Kong and has been translated into several languages.
Several films have been made based on his novels, including the blockbuster Cell Phone. He is a graduate of Peking
University's Chinese literature department.
Howard Goldblatt is a translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, including the works of Chinese
novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan. Sylvia Li-Chun Lin co-translated the 2010 Man Asian Literary
Prize-winning novel, Three Sisters, by Bi Feiyu. She has also been the winner of the Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation
Prize.
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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION
THE SLAVE’S CAUSE: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha (Yale University Press, February 2016)
“The Slave’s Cause captures the myriad aspects of this diverse and far-ranging
movement and will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial
works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”
–Wall Street Journal
“The movement gets the big, bold history it deserves--militant, interracial, and
nearly forgotten, the Anti-Man-Hunting League epitomizes The Slave’s Cause, a
stunning new history of abolitionism.”--The Atlantic
“It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive history of the abolitionist
movement. Sinha has given us a full history of the men and women who truly
made us free.”— Ira Berlin for New York Times Sunday Book Review
“With The Slave’s Cause, Manisha Sinha joins [the company of some of our most gifted and perceptive
historians.] The Slave’s Cause takes its place as a starting point for anyone interested in the history of
abolitionism.”— Chronicle of Higher Education
One of Eric Foner’s top students, Manisha Sinha is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the
recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities among several others. She is the author of The
Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (University of North Carolina 2000).
THE BRAZEN AGE: New York City and the American Empire—
Politics, Art, and Bohemia
David Reid (Pantheon, March 2016)
“Having read or seen nearly every artifact of this period, Reid delivers his opinion
in a score of unrelated but brilliant chapters on iconic New York individuals
(Berenice Abbott, Weegee), groups (returning soldiers, homosexuals), politics
(the 1948 elections, leftist magazines), and bohemia (Greenwich village again and
again). A historical tour de force.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred)
A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and
turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen
Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s
boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of
modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an unprecedented and
unique synthesis of genius, ambition, and the avant-garde. While concentrating on those five years, David Reid
also reaches back to the turn of the twentieth century to explore the city’s progressive politics, radical artistic
experimentation, and burgeoning bohemia.
David Reid is a co-editor of Sex, Death and God in L.A. and West of the West: Imagining California. His essays, articles,
reviews, and interviews have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times Book Review, and in various anthologies, including Pushcart Prize. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION
ADULTERY: Infidelity and the Law
Deborah L. Rhode (Harvard University Press, March 2016)
“Rhode succeeds in providing an unparalleled sociolegal take on the issues of
infidelity and adultery with a focus on how the continued patrolling and
protection of sexual relationships is not only no longer necessary, but also that it
holds inherent discrimination—and is thus archaic law.”—Library Journal
“A brilliant and beautifully-written jaunt through the history and present-day
landscape of adultery. A wonderful combination of fascinating storytelling about
human relationships and deep insight into the workings of the legal system.”
—Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
At a time when legal and social prohibitions on sexual relationships are declining,
Americans are still nearly unanimous in their condemnation of adultery. Over 90 percent disapprove of
cheating on a spouse. In this comprehensive account of the legal and social consequences of infidelity,
Deborah Rhode explores why, by exposing the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts, and makes a
compelling case for repealing adultery laws and prohibitions on polygamy.
Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at
Stanford University.
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A History of American Mountaineering
Maurice Isserman (W.W. Norton & Company, April 2016)
“Isserman brings his wide-ranging insight and engaging prose style to [Continental
Divide]. The result is an account both educational and, perhaps surprisingly, thrilling.”
–Booklist
“Isserman brings…diverse stories together in a cohesive narrative with a strong
combination of in-depth research and welcoming prose that even a novice can
understand. His passionate scholarship [produces] an easily accessible account of
the exploration, subjugation, conservation, and appreciation of the great peaks of
the U.S. and the world.”--Publishers Weekly
In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American
mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally seen
as obstacles to civilization; over time they came to be viewed as places of redemption and renewal. The White
Mountains stirred the transcendentalists; the Rockies and Sierras pulled explorers westward toward Manifest
Destiny; Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Isserman traces the evolving social,
cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. A magnificent, deeply researched history,
Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the
importance of mountains to American national identity.
Maurice Isserman is the coauthor of Fallen Giants, a prize-winning history of Himalayan mountaineering. He is a
professor of history at Hamilton College and lives in Clinton, New York.
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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION
ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME: Portraits of Individual Lives
Bernd Heinrich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2016)
“An eminent biologist shares the joys of bird-watching and how observing the
anomalous behaviors of individual birds has guided his research. An engaging
memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one’s own
backyard.” – Kirkus Reviews
In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day
observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich’s “passionate observations [that]
superbly mix memoir and science” (New York Times Book Review) lead to
fascinating questions — and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested
flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other
flycatcher nearby. Why? Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands-andknees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing”
(Boston Globe).
Bernd Heinrich is an acclaimed scientist and the author of award-winning books. He writes for Scientific American,
Outside, American Scientist, and Audubon, and has published book reviews and op-eds for the New York Times and the
Los Angeles Times.
YOU BELONG TO THE UNIVERSE: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
Jonathon Keats (Oxford University Press, April 2016)
"A wonderfully written and highly necessary book about one of the 20th century's
most enigmatic outliers." – Douglas Coupland, author and artist
A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations
bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic
dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing
nor sewage. Yet in spite of his brilliant mind and life-long devotion to serving
mankind, Fuller’s expansive ideas were often dismissed, and have faded from
public memory since his death. From transportation to climate change, urban
design to education, You Belong to the Universe demonstrates that Fuller’s holistic problem-solving techniques
may be the only means of addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues. Keats’s timely book challenges
each of us to become comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, providing the tools for continuing Fuller's
legacy of improving the world.
Jonathon Keats is a writer, artist and experimental philosopher. He is the author of the story collection The Book of the
Unknown (Random House), winner of the American Library Association's 2010 Sophie Brody Medal, as well as Virtual
Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology (2010) and Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
(2013), both published by Oxford University Press.
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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION
ALIBABA: The House That Jack Ma Built
Duncan Clark (Ecco, May 2016)
“Useful, business-minded reporting on an unconventional corporate magnate,
containing both corporate and human-interest perspectives.” – Kirkus Reviews
An engrossing, insider’s account of how a school teacher built one of the world’s
most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever reshaped the
global economy. In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings
who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the
world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions
of Chinese consumers depend. Duncan Clark tells Alibaba’s tale in the context of
China’s momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely
corporate titan as never before.
Duncan Clark first met Jack Ma in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba. Granted unprecedented
access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor
to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet’s impact on the country to create an authoritative,
compelling narrative account of Alibaba’s rise. A British citizen who grew up in the UK, US, and France, Duncan was
recently appointed OBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, for services to British commercial interests in China.
ANATOMY OF MALICE: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
Joel Dimsdale (Yale University Press, May 2016)
“A masterful and rigorous portrayal of the trial of the Nazi war criminals.
Superbly written and meticulously researched, this is a riveting narrative of the
trial, the Nazi criminals, and the psychologist who analyzed them.”
—Dr. Irvin Yalom, Stanford University
Once the ashes had settled after World War II, the Allies convened an
international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, inviting a psychiatrist, Douglas
Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, to explore the minds of the Nazi
leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorschach inkblot
tests. The findings were so disconcerting that portions of the data were hidden
away for decades and the research became a topic for vituperative disputes.
Gilbert thought the war criminals’ malice stemmed from depraved
psychopathology. Kelley viewed them as ordinary men who were creatures of their environment. Who was
right? Drawing on his decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry,
psychology, and neuroscience since Nuremberg, Joel E. Dimsdale looks anew at the findings and examines in
detail four of the war criminals, Robert Ley, Hermann Göring, Julius Streicher, and Rudolf Hess. Anatomy of
Malice takes us on a complex and troubling quest to make sense of the most extreme evil.
Joel Dimsdale is distinguished professor emeritus and research professor in the department of psychiatry at the
University of California, San Diego. He lives in La Jolla, California.
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POSSESSION: The Curious History of Private Collectors from
Antiquity to the Present
Erin Thompson (Yale University Press, May 2016)
“With elan and insight, Erin Thompson delves into the fascinating history of the
human obsession to personally own physical relics of the past. Possession
illuminates the complex psychological and social motives that drive individuals to
collect antiquities, from ancient Roman emperors and Renaissance popes to
modern connoisseurs and today's looters (and destroyers) of archaeological
treasures.” —Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons and The Poison King
Possession tells the story—fascinating and often bizarre—of the evolution of
private collecting of antiquities, from the time of the Romans up until the
present, when 20th century collectors have been arrested, fined, and had their
collections seized, even as they purchase glaring forgeries—all in the name of the love of the past.
Erin Thompson is America’s only full-time professor on art crime, and is an expert on the damage done to humanity’s
shared heritage through looting, theft, and the deliberate destruction of art. She has discussed topics including ISIS’
attacks on art, museum security, and art forgery on CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera America, and the Freakonomics podcast.
Thompson has written articles on the links between terrorism and antiquities in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
and Bloomberg View.
ENGINEERING EDEN: The True Story of a Violent Death,
A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature
Jordan Fisher-Smith (Random House, June 2016)
"This is a walk in the woods like Thoreau never imagined…this astonishing book,
with its brilliant interweaving of murder, irony and natural history, invents a new
genre.” – Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear
From the author of Nature Noir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005) comes the
fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to
control nature in the national parks. When young Harry Walker was killed by a
bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a
proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had
been boiling for a century. In this remarkable excavation of American
environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to
tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of
preserving it. Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by
one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it--leaving
us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are
acceptable in trying to preserve it.
Jordan Fisher-Smith worked for 21 years as a park ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. He has since
written for numerous publications including Men’s Journal and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He is the author of
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra.
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SUMMER 2016 NON-FICTION
THE EMANCIPATION OF CECILY MCMILLAN: An American Memoir
Cecily McMillan, with introduction by Pussy Riot’s
Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina (Nation, July 2016)
One of the most iconic images of the Occupy Wall Street protests is a nighttime
shot of a slightly disheveled young woman, dressed in bright yellow and green for
St. Patrick's Day, running, curly hair flying, mouth open mid-gasp as a grimacing cop
in uniform reaches out to grab her from behind. That woman was Cecily McMillan.
The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is the intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of
a remarkable young millennial, chronicling her journey from her trailer park home
in Southeast Texas, to that pivotal night in Zuccotti Park. Unwittingly thrust into the
limelight with her arrest, Cecily has proven herself to be a sophisticated political
thinker, a charismatic public figure, dedicated activist, and voice of her generation.
As she told Mother Jones upon her arrest: "to me [activism] isn't political so much
as personal. It's whatever I can do to make life better."
Cecily McMillan is an activist, union organizer and advocate for prison reform whose participation in and arrest during
the Occupy Wall Street movement, along with her trial and conviction, have been widely covered by the national media,
including the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among others. Her own writing has appeared in the New York Times
and Alternet.
THE FALL OF HEAVEN: The Pahlavis & the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper (Holt, August 2016)
Praise for Oil Kings (Simon & Schuster, 2011):
“[A] compelling chronicle of America's involvement with Middle East petroleum
states." –Los Angeles Times
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most
complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces
the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He
draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived
assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and
launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Cooper's
investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the
eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House
officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families
caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and
sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the
world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the
Middle East.
Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and is an adjunct assistant professor at
Columbia University. His research has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and other media
outlets. He holds a PhD in the history of US-Iran relations and masters' degrees in strategic studies and journalism.
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SUMMER 2016 NON-FICTION
TROUBLED REFUGE: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning (Knopf, August 2016)
Praise for What This Cruel War Was Over (Knopf, 2007)
“An engagingly written, convincingly argued social history with a point – that
those who did the fighting in the Union and Confederate armies ‘plainly
identified slavery as the root of the Civil War.’” – Publishers Weekly (starred)
By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind
Union lines, in crowded and dangerous places that became known as
contraband camps. Despite how dangerous these camps were, some 12-15
percent of the Confederacy’s slave population took almost unimaginable risks
to reach them. Contraband camps became the first places Northerners came to
know former slaves en masse. Ranging from stories of individuals to those of
armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and
how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped
to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of re-enslavement; however, it also raised
unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority, and reshaped the
meaning of American citizenship.
Award winning author Chandra Manning currently serves as a special adviser to the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University. She has written over a dozen articles published in both books and journals, such
as North and South, Civil War History, and the Journal of American History. She is the author of the What This Cruel War
Was Over (Knopf, 2007) which won the Avery O. Craven Award given by the Organization of American Historians.
HOPELESS BUT OPTIMISTIC:
Journeying through America's Endless War in Afghanistan
Douglas Wissing (University of Indiana Press, August 2016)
Award-winning journalist Douglas Wissing’s poignant and eye-opening journey
across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed,
dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage
and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans.
Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an
unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of
Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere
grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation
and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is
to kill.
Douglas A. Wissing is an award-winning journalist and author of eight books, including Funding the Enemy: How US
Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban and Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton. He has written for the New
York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times among other publications.
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SUMMER 2016 SPORTS
SPITTING IN THE SOUP: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports
Mark Johnson (Velo Press, July 2016)
Doping is a practice as old as sport. From baseball to track and field, cycling to
horse racing, doping to win has been a part of sports for over 150 years. Today, the
athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs are villainized as cheaters and
morally flawed people whose presence in sports is an affront to the athletes who
don’t take short cuts. But this tidy worldview cheats sports fans. Doping in sport is
certainly an individual decision, but to blame only the athletes ignores decades of
historical context and the cultural ecosystem in which teams, coaches, athletes,
sports federations, and even spectators play a role. The truth is messy—and more
shocking. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explores the dirty
game of doping, its underground methods, the deals made behind closed doors,
and the insidious cycle that keeps drugs in sports. Johnson unwinds the doping culture from the early days
when pills meant progress and uncovers the complex relationships underlying today’s sports culture.
Mark Johnson covers cycling as a writer and photographer. His work has been published in cycling titles including
VeloNews, Cycling Weekly, and Ride Cycling Review, as well as general-interest publications including The Wall Street
Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune. A category 2 road cyclist, Mark has bicycled across the United States twice and
completed an Ironman triathlon. He has a PhD in English literature from Boston University and lives in Del Mar,
California.
SUMMER 2016 COMMERCIAL FICTION
I LIKE YOU JUST FINE WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND
Ann Garvin (Adams Media, June 2016)
“It’s not enough that Ann Garvin is hilarious. Then she has to go ahead and be
compassionate and wise about the hopeful car-wreck that is most of
humanity…Garvin builds an unorthodox family that’s both tight knit and forever at
odds, and not one of those family members feels any less than rich, real, and
complex–just what a novel needs.”–Michelle Wildgen, author of You’re Not You
and Bread and Butter
Tig Monahan, radio therapist, finds out the hard way that nothing is fair in love and
war--or family. Everything is falling apart in psychologist, Tig Monahan’s life. Her
mother’s dementia is wearing her out, her boyfriend takes off for Hawaii without
her, and her sister inexplicably disappears leaving her newborn behind. When a
therapy session goes horribly wrong, Tig finds herself unemployed and part of the sandwich generation trying
to take care of everyone and failing miserably. Just when she thinks she can redefine herself on the radio, as
an arbiter of fairness, she discovers a family secret that nobody saw coming. It will take everything plus a
sense of humor to see her way clear to a better life, but none of that will happen if she can’t let go of her past.
Ann Garvin is the author of The Dog Year and On Maggie’s Watch. She lives in Stoughton, WI and is a professor of sports
psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and is on the faculty staff at Southern New Hampshire
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FALL 2016 COMMERCIAL FICTION
BERTRAND COURT
Michelle Brafman (Prospect Park, September 2016)
“Michelle Brafman eavesdrops on the human hart, and reports back to us in
Bertrand Court with honesty, compassion, and soul. This si gorgeous writing, in
stories lit with grace.” – Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People
Don’t Live Like This
Bertrand Court, the captivating new novel by Michelle Brafman, intertwines
seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers,
and housewives--all tied to a single cul-de-sac in suburban Washington, D.C.
Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, the cast of characters respond to
life’s bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and
forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences.
Michelle Brafman has received numerous awards for her fiction, which has appeared in the Pushcart Anthology, Lilith,
Fifth Wednesday Journal, the Minnesota Review, Blackbird, and others. Her nonfiction pieces have been published in
Slate, Tablet, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She was selected as a Visiting Scribe by the Jewish Book Council, and
currently teaches fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program, and also teaches at George
Washington University. She lives in Glen Echo, Maryland.
SPRING 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
THE WAGES OF SIN: An Ozarks Mystery (Book 3)
Nancy Allen (Witness Impulse, April 2016)
In rural McCown County, Missouri, a young pregnant woman is found beaten to
death in a trailer park. The only witness to the murder is Ivy, her six-year-old
daughter, who points to her mom’s boyfriend and father of the unborn child.
Prosecutor Madeleine Thompson promises the community justice, and in the
Ozarks, that can only mean one thing: a death sentence. When Madeleine’s first
choice for co-counsel declines to try a death penalty case, she is forced to turn to
assistant prosecutor Elsie Arnold. Elsie is reluctant to join forces with her frosty
boss, but the road to conviction seems smooth—until unexpected facts about the
victim arise, and the testimony of Ivy becomes increasingly crucial. Against Elsie’s
advice, Madeleine brings in the state attorney general’s office to assist them,
while cutthroat trial attorney Claire O’Hara joins the defense. Elsie will not let the
power of prosecution—of seeking justice—be wrested from her without a fight. She wants to win the case,
and to avenge the death of the mother and her unborn child. But as the trial nears, Elsie begins to harbor
doubts about the death penalty itself. Meanwhile, Ivy is in greater danger than anyone knows.
Nancy Allen practiced law for fifteen years as Assistant Missouri Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in her native
Ozarks. She's tried over thirty jury cases, including murder and sexual offenses, and is now a law instructor at Missouri
State University. The first of the Ozarks mysteries, The Code of the Hills, was published in 2014 by HarperCollins/Witness,
followed by A Killing at the Creek, published in 2015.
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SUMMER 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
TWO FOR THE SHOW
Jonathan Stone (Diversion, May 2016)
Chas is a detective who doesn’t stake out cheating husbands, track down missing
persons, or match wits with femmes fatales. Instead of pounding the pavement,
he taps a computer keyboard. He can get the goods on anyone, and it’s all to
make sure superstar Las Vegas mind reader Wallace the Amazing stays amazing.
Thanks to Chas’s steady stream of stealthy intel, Wallace’s mental “magic” packs
houses every night. But when someone threatens to call the psychic showman’s
bluff, the sweet gig takes a sour―and sinister―turn. Who’s the clean-cut couple
gunning for Wallace with an arsenal of dirty tricks? Why does Wallace keep
upping the ante instead of backing down? And just how much does Chas really
know about his mysterious boss’s life…or his own? The tangled truth―of
blackmail, kidnapping, and false identities―quickly becomes the biggest case of his strange, secret career.
Jonathan Stone is the author of the critically acclaimed Julian Palmer series, and is also the recipient of a Claymore
Award for best unpublished crime novel. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House in
fiction writing. His short story “Mailman,” which appeared in Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded was selected by Otto
Penzler and Elizabeth George for The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
HOT START: A Cordell Logan Mystery
David Freed (Permanent Press, August 2016)
A notorious, international big game hunter and his beautiful, former flight
attendant wife are gunned down at long range late one sweltering summer night
while swimming naked on their seaside estate in opulent Rancho Bonita, California.
Police investigators are convinced that the killer is a strident, outspoken animal
rights activist with both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence
against him would appear overwhelming--until rumors begin to surface that others
may have had their own reasons for committing murder. The last thing flight
instructor, aspiring Buddhist, and ex-government assassin Cordell Logan wants to
do is become involved in the investigation. He and the accused, however, have
mutual friends. Reluctant at first, Logan finds himself caught up in an increasingly
confounding enigma, one that swirls around a popular Congressman with close ties
to the White House, a European call girl ring, and a ruthless Czech crime boss who'll stop at nothing to protect
his interests. Pursuing the truth will take Logan to places few others would dare go, exposing him to dangers
that even he may not survive.
David Freed is a screenwriter, novelist and former award-winning investigative journalist for The Los Angeles Times,
where he was an individual finalist for the Pulitzer Prize's Gold Medal for Public Service, the highest award in American
journalism, and later shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper's coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots. His 8,600word exposé in The Atlantic, detailing how the FBI pursued the wrong suspect in a string of anthrax murders following
9/11, was short-listed as a 2011 finalist in Feature Writing by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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SUMMER 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
BRAIN STORM: An Angela Richman, Death Investigator Mystery
Elaine Viets (Thomas & Mercer, August 2016)
The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like
death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car
crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her
investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling
strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by
gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing
recovery. It’s a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has
been murdered…and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela
doesn’t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts
that she’ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she’s determined to save Dr.
Tritt from a death-row sentence—even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular
community poised to protect its own.
Award-winning author Elaine Viets has written twenty-nine mysteries in three series, including the bestselling Dead-End
Job series, featuring South Florida private detectives Helen Hawthorne and her husband, Phil Sagemont. She is a
director-at-large of the Mystery Writers of America and a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine as
well as anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block.
A TASTE OF BLOOD AND ASHES: A Jared McKean Mystery
Jaden Terrell (Permanent Press, September 2016)
When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a
suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful
shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But
the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's
distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the
chest down during an attack by a frenzied stallion. Jared believes someone else is
behind the arson. One thing is for certain, Alfie's killers are about to know what it
means to murder a friend of Sam, former corporate troubleshooter, former
professional boxer and all-around ornery bull dog, and Jackie, a defense lawyer
often described as an avenging angel. Knowing the arsonist is almost certainly
someone in community of those who breed and show Walking Horses, Jared and his
new assistant, his half-sister Khanh, attend a local horse show in hopes of flushing out the culprit. There are
suspects aplenty, including a groom on the run from a powerful cartel, a modern day robber baron, and a
beautiful gold-digger whose dreams are filled with fire. Secrets pile on top of secrets, and as Zane's memories
of the events leading to his accident begin to return, the situation becomes deadly. Jared and Khanh find
themselves in the crosshairs of a killer who will do anything to keep the past in the past.
Jaden Terrell is a Shamus Award finalist and the internationally published author of three Jared McKean mysteries.
Terrell is a contributor to Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for
writers of crime fiction and is a recipient of the 2009 Magnolia Award for service to the South-eastern Chapter of
Mystery Writers of America.
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FALL 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA
Alex Dolan (Diversion, September 2016)
“As a thriller writer, Alex Dolan is set to be one of the best.” -- Fresh Fiction
40 years ago, Gabriel Kasson was one of the wealthiest men in America, while an
artist known as Qi was heralded as the next Andy Warhol. Kasson planned on
commissioning a vast art museum in Manhattan, ostensibly to house the works of
Qi, but after an acrimonious falling out, Qi stopped painting, and Kasson boxed up
Qi’s inventory of work and expunged the artist from public memory. A Cold War
has existed between these two families ever since, and very few people
remember the artist at all. Today, Qi’s painting of a young Chinese empress
reappears in New York. A man stabs himself in the heart while staring empress
outside the Fern Gallery. The descendants of the Kasson and Qi families converge,
and their conflict escalates into a blood feud. Each family is willing to destroy the other, and once Paire, a
young art student fresh to the city, begins to covet the Empress painting, she is woven into this war.
Alex Dolan received his master’s degree from Columbia University, where he focused on writing and editorial craft. He
has also worked as a literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and contributed to several publications, including
Writer’s Digest.
CASTING BONES: A Quentin Archer Mystery
Don Bruns (Severn House, October 2016)
"Bruns is a crafty old pro, and every ounce of his skill and style is packed into
Casting Bones - charismatic characters, superb locations, and a great hard-edged
story. If you love the crime genre, this is not just highly recommended, but
mandatory." – Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
"This thriller immediately casts a spell on you and doesn't let you go until the very
last page! Utterly compelling, rich with atmosphere and characters you'll never
forget, Casting Bones finds author Bruns at the top of his game. And I can't think of
a better portrayal of the most exotic city in America: New Orleans."
--Jeffery Deaver, No. 1 international bestselling author
When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop
Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which
underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a
bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer uncovers several disturbing facts about
the late judge’s past. But it’s only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to
make headway in the investigation. Voodoo queen Solange Cordray volunteers at the dementia center where
her mother lives. When she starts reading the mind of one of her patients, she learns that a secretive
organization known as Krewe Charbonerrie may be behind the murder. And the second murder. And the third.
Don Bruns is an award-winning novelist, songwriter, musician and advertising executive who lives in South Florida. He is
the author of five novels in the Mick Sever Caribbean mystery series and seven Lesser and Moore mysteries.
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SPRING 2016 YOUNG ADULT
THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN
Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s Press, April 2016)
"A swoony romance, betrayal, and a journey to power and self-affirmation, with
[an] animal sidekick in the best tradition, work together to create a spell that
many readers will willingly succumb to. Richly imagined, deeply mythic, filled with
lovely language with violet overtones: this is an author to watch."
--Kirkus Reviews
Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction,
sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father's
kingdom. Her world is upheaved when her father arranges a wedding of political
convenience to quell outside rebellions. When her wedding takes a fatal turn,
Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. As Akaran's queen, she
finds her voice and power. As Amar's wife, she finds friendship and warmth. But Akaran has its own secrets thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Beneath Akaran's
magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger. When she ignores Amar's plea for patience, her discoveries
put more than new love at risk - it threatens the balance of all realms, human and Otherworldly. Now, Maya
must confront a secret that spans reincarnated lives and fight her way through the dangerous underbelly of
the Otherworld if she wants to protect the people she loves.
Roshani Chokshi is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in Loose Change, In The Fray, and The
Feminist Wire.
EVERLAND
Wendy Spinale (Scholastic, May 2016)
“In an exemplary debut, Spinale uses Gwen and Hook’s voices to offer glimpses
into the psyche of a man desperate to please his cruel mother and a girl intent on
saving the only family she has left. This is a magical, wondrous treat, with a
conclusion that’s nothing less than epic.”-- Publisher’s Weekly (starred)
London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. Children are the only
survivors, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, Joanna and Mikey. In order
to survive, they scavenge, while avoiding the ruthless Marauders ― the German
Army led by Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer. Unsure if the virus has spread
past England’s borders, Captain Hook hunts for a cure, which he thinks can be
found in one of the survivors. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching
children for experimentation, grabbing Joanna in the process. As Gwen sets out to save her, she meets a
mysterious boy named Pete, who offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter
Bella. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it will cost Gwen. And
are she, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart Captain Hook?
Wendy Spinale is a former character actor for the Disneyland Theme Park (so she’s very familiar with the world of make
believe). Everland is her debut novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family.
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SUMMER 2016 YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S
SONGBYRD
Anna Silver (JollyFish, June 2016)
Living on the road with her mother, all Innocence Byrd has ever really wanted is a
normal, stable life in one place. But Stonetop, a small town in the Texas Hill
Country, is not that place--until she meets Jace. Even as she begins to take
comfort in Jace's company, Innocence is plagued by nightmares of a terrible
event in her past, and the ever-growing fear that whatever she and her mother
have been running from will finally catch up. Suddenly, secrets are bubbling to
the surface, hers and her mother's, the secrets of their heritage. Women of the
Byrd family have unusual gifts. Inside each of them is a deadly seed. As
Innocence becomes increasingly aware of her family's mysterious and sometimes
frightening powers-and as her own powers begin to surface, Innocence has to
decide who she can really trust. Unable to elude their haunted past, three
generations of Byrd women must not only unite, but embrace their heritage as a gift-and their key to a future
of love and understanding. The real question becomes, can Jace trust her? Because, as it turns out, there is
nothing truly innocent about Innocence at all.
Anna Silver is an author and artist based in Houston. Her art has been featured in the Houston gallery Las
Manos Magicas. She studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's University. Otherborn, her first
published novel from Sapphire Star Publishing, has been featured on 2 of Amazon's "Bestsellers" lists. She also
has a sequel called Astral Tide.
MISUNDERSTOOD: Why the Humble Rat May be Your Best Pet Ever
Rachel Toor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, June 2016)
As personal as it is informational, Misunderstood is a unique nonfiction book
about pet rats in general, and a wonderful rat named Iris in particular. Brimming
with smarts and energy just like its furry subjects, Rachel Toor’s text blends
history and science with profiles of interesting people and autobiographical
anecdotes as it joyfully sets the record straight about why this reviled creature is
actually a most amazing species. Readers will come away with a deeper
understanding and appreciation of domestic rats—and may be convinced to
adopt one themselves.
Rachel Toor writes a monthly column in The Chronicle of Higher Education and a
bi-monthly one in Running Times magazine, where she is a senior writer. Her work has appeared in The New
York Times, The LA Times, Ploughshares, Glamour, Inside Higher Ed, Reader’s Digest, Runner’s
World, Ascent, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) and others. Rachel is currently
associate professor of Creative Writing at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers in Spokane, the graduate
writing program of Eastern Washington University.
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SPRING 2016 SCI-FI/FANTASY
NETTLE KING: A Night and Nothing Novel
Katherine Harbour (Harper Voyager, April 2016)
“Full of exciting moments.” – Publisher’s Weekly
The mesmerizing conclusion to the Night and Nothing series—part Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and part Alice in Wonderland—finds Finn fighting against the land
of the dead. When her beloved Jack disappears, Finn vows to find him—even if it
means a daring odyssey into the land of the dead. But saving Jack comes at a
terrible price: a dangerous fissure has opened, giving the dead access to the true
world. The lines between worlds are more blurred than ever. Finn’s sister, Lily,
recently returned from the Ghostlands, seems to bear no scars from her time there. But then their friend
Moth returns from Sombrus, the magical house once owned by Seth Lot, bearing shocking news. Something
evil—a fearsome creature bearing a striking resemblance to Jack—has escaped Sombrus and is now stalking
Fair Hollow, killing everyone it encounters, transforming them into terrifying Jacks and Jills and recruiting the
Unseelie.
It will not stop until it gets what it wants--Finn.
Katherine Harbour was born in Albany, New York and now lives in Sarasota, FL. She has had short stories published in
small press magazines.
THE DEVOURING GOD
James Kendley (Harper Voyager Impulse, May 2016)
Runaways in southern Japan are stripping the flesh from their victims, and only a
disgraced former detective can stop the spreading madness in this dark and
thrilling sequel to The Drowning God (Harper Voyager Impulse, 2015).
It’s been three years since security guard Tohru Takuda and his reluctant band of
monster-hunters defeated the Kappa of the Naga River. Now, a mysterious artifact
is driving innocents in Southern Japan to flay their friends alive, and the grisly
murders turn Takuda’s world upside down. Disheartened and impoverished, he
struggles to lead his rag-tag team to find the artifact before it poisons the entire
nation. Takuda is caught between the police, the bloodthirsty murderers, and
forces conspiring to harness the artifact’s horrible powers.
And all the while, he must watch his back, because the most dangerous killer may be lurking among his own
men.
James Kendley has written and edited professionally for more than 30 years, including eight years in Japan. He
is currently an educational software content wrangler living in Virginia.
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SPRING 2016 ROMANCE
UNTIL IT’S RIGHT
Jamie Howard (Swerve, March 2016)
Haley Mitchell is tired of moping. With her broken heart repaired with a thick layer
of duct tape, she's ready to put her ex behind her and move on. After a chance
encounter in a club, she's convinced she's met Mr. Perfect. But when he
accidentally gives her the wrong number, the stranger on the other end of her texts
becomes her confidant.
Kyle Lawson has always had more luck with computers than women. So when the
new temp, Haley, arrives, he has the misfortune of falling for her, only to land firmly
in the friend zone. But when he learns the mysterious woman he's been texting is
actually Haley, he keeps the entire thing a secret.
As things move straight from platonic to decidedly hot, Kyle must come clean about his secret texting identity
and risk losing the woman he's fallen in love with.
Jamie Howard is a legal and compliance specialist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art from Ramapo College. When
she’s not tapping away at the keyboard, you can find her devouring books and perfecting her gaming skills. She lives
with her husband, son, and three dogs in New Jersey, and is almost always awake early enough to see the sun rise, even
on the weekends.
WITHOUT BORDERS
Amanda Heger (Diversion, April 2016)
For Annie London, a month in a Central American rainforest means handing out
mosquito nets, giving medical aid, and teaching children about the birds and the
bees. With any luck, it will also land her application in the "accepted" pile at a top
tier medical school. But as soon as she steps off the plane, Annie realizes her bug
spray, feeble Spanish, and medical supplies won't help her deal with her new
feelings for Felipe--her best friend's older brother, who's much hotter than she
remembers, and who also happens to be the doctor in charge of the trip.
Gawking "volun-tourists" may keep his family's medical clinic afloat, but Dr. Felipe
Gutierrez doesn't have to like them. Or the way they make snap judgments about his practice and the people
he cares for. But when his old crush, Annie, shows up to volunteer, her killer curves and kind smile fan the
embers of a flame Felipe didn't realize he'd been carrying. A flame that makes him question all his
preconceived notions.
As ideas and cultures clash, Annie and Felipe must decide how far outside their comfort zones they are willing
to go--both for their work and for one another.
Amanda Heger is a writer and attorney based in the Midwest. Without Borders is her debut novel.
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2016 ROMANCE SERIES
New from Sophia Henry :
POWER PLAY (Book 2 in Pilots Hockey Series)
February 2016 (Random House Flirt)
Gabriella Bertucci has her reasons to be standoffish with guys, especially Landon Taylor, a star
defenseman on the minor-league Detroit Pilots and her serious crush. But when Landon comes
through for her in a moment of crisis, Gaby starts to wonder if there might be more to him that she
originally thought. Landon isn’t afraid of telling Gaby that he’s got it for her bad, but she seems
unwilling to believe it. Though Landon enjoys his reputation as a cool-headed athlete, he hates
losing—both on the rink and off. One minute Gaby’s tempted to give in; the next, she’s getting cold
feet. How can she trust a superstar hockeyplayer like Landon to stick around?
INTERFERENCE (Book 3 in the Pilots Hockey Series)
May 2016 (Random House Flirt)
When Linden Meadows’s little brother’s new--and hot--hockey coach benches him in the middle of
a game, Linden lets him have it. The coach, Jason Taylor, patrols the streets as a member of the
Bridgeland Police Department when he’s not being yelled at by hockey moms. After Jason pulls
Linden over for speeding, he begins to see that there’s more to her--their chemistry leads to good
company, intense conversation, and an intimacy that pushes beyond the boundaries of friendship.
Linden’s sure she’s found the man to round out their family. But when Holden’s deadbeat dad
forces his way back into the picture, Jason starts to back off. He needs time—to heal, to grow, and
to love with all his heart.
Sophia Henry is a graduate from Central Michigan University. She Lives in North Carolina with her husband and two
sons.
New from Tara Wyatt:
PRIMAL INSTINCT (Book 2 of the Bodyguard Series)
May 2016 (Forever Romance)
The first time he lays eyes on Taylor Ross in a bar, Colt Priestley approaches and shamelessly flirts
with the world-famous singer, and gives her a night in his bed that neither of them will soon forget.
When Taylor's record label hires a bodyguard to keep tabs on her, she's less than thrilled to find it's
her off-the-charts one-night stand who shows up for the job. She's terrified of letting herself fall for
the damaged ex-Army Ranger, and she's determined to push him away. Yet every moment they're
together simmers with tension. As the danger from an obsessed stalker mounts, Taylor and Colt are
tempted to cross that line again-- and there's no telling how hot this song will get.
CHAIN REACTION (Book 3 of the Bodyguard Series)
August 2016 (Forever Romance)
"If you love tough guys with a side of sweet, strong heroines with a hint of wild, and suspense with a
spark of humor, this is definitely the book for you. Tara Wyatt has created a swoonworthy bodyguard
series with primal passion, unexpected twists, and surprising laughs!"-Rebecca Zanetti, New York
Times bestselling author
Tara Wyatt is the recipient of the Unpublished Winter Rose Award, Linda Howard Award of
Excellence and the Heart of the West Award. Tara lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her family.
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2016 PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTS
GATEWAY TO FREEDOM: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company, January 2016)
New York Times bestseller
“Pulitzer Prize winning Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom is mandatory, and riveting, reading for anyone
who cares deeply about the city’s history or needs reminding that slavery legally ended in New York only in
1827.” – New York Times
WAKING FROM THE DREAM
David L. Chappell (Duke University Press, January 2016)
“Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, this
revisionist work has a double-edged title. It examines not only the Civil Rights struggle but the struggle of
many—activists, scholars, and more—to control King’s legacy and image.” —Library Journal
THE AMAZONS: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press, March 2016)
“National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the first comprehensive account of warrior
women in myth and history across the ancient world… likely to become a classic.” – Princeton Review
CREATURES OF A DAY: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin Yalom (Basic Books, March 2016)
“Yalom has genuinely inspiring insights to share about the value of therapy…The stories Yalom offers of his
patients’ failures and triumphs are frequently moving and will invoke the reader’s empathy.”
—Publishers Weekly
RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History
Cynthia Barnett (Broadway, April 2016)
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, and Kirkus Reviews
2 WEEKS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN
Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan (Humanix, April 2016)
“Dr. Small’s ability to translate scientific breakthroughs into practical strategies helps us all protect our
brain health. This book is a must-read for boosting memory and optimizing brain power.”
—P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD, Senior Fellow, Duke University Center for the Study of Aging
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2016 PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTS
BIG SCIENCE: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Changed the Course of History
Michael Hiltzik (Simon & Schuster, July 2016)
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews
“Lucidly written…Hiltzik’s tale is important for understanding how science and politics entwine in the
United States, and he moves it along efficiently, with striking details and revealing quotations.”
– New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)
I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND
Liu Zhenyun, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Arcade, August 2016)
“Liu has written a masterful tale that will make you laugh even as you despair [and] will linger in your
memory long after you have finished.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
THE GAY REVOLUTION: The Story of the Struggle
Lillian Faderman (Simon & Schuster, September 2016)
Winner, 81st Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by The Washington Post, New York Times, and Kirkus Reviews
“The Gay Revolution will equip readers with a greater knowledge of the movement’s history, and an
appreciation for the crucial role of individual acts of courage in winning and safeguarding equality. And it’s
a great read.” – American Prospect
THE MAKING OF ASIAN AMERICA: A History
Erika Lee (Simon & Schuster, September 2016)
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews
"Sweeping [and] fascinating… I suspect Erika Lee will soon join [the canon of key Asian-American
historians]." - Oliver Wang, New York Times Book Review
FISHBOWL
Bradley Somer (St. Martin’s Press, November 2016)
“An irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life.” – Tom Perrotta, author of Election
and Little Children
THE WAR ON ALCOHOL: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr (W.W. Norton & Company, November 2016)
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews
“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political
history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review
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