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“I have always taken for granted that this story, which is yours, and only yours,

would always be read as such.”

—Edwidge Danticat


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A U T H O R I N D E X

Abram, David, Becoming Animal 158

Ackroyd, Peter, Venice 235

Amado, Jorge, Tereza Batista cansada de guerra 253

Austen, Jane, The Annotated Emma* 238

Baldwin, James, The Cross of Redemption and The Devil Finds Work 156–157

Barry, Max, Machine Man* 143

Bateson, Mary Catherine, Composing a Further Life 175

Bernhard, Thomas, Gathering Evidence 198

Best, Casi, Joyce Green, and Foxfi re Students, editors, The Foxfi re 45th Anniversary Book* 218

Binchy, Maeve, Minding Frankie 237

Blair, Tony, A Journey 144

Bojowald, Martin, Once Before Time* 190

Brands, H. W., American Colossus 223

Breyer, Stephen, Making Our Democracy Work 148

Brillat- Savarin, Jean- Anthelme, The Physiology of Taste 194

Bryson, Bill, At Home 225

Burgess, Matt, Dogfi ght* 220

Cain, James M., Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie- In) 202

Carroll, Lewis, Alicia en el país de las maravillas* 248

Casey, John, Compass Rose* 168

Casey, Susan, The Wave* 208

Castañeda, Jorge G., ¿Hasta cuándo? 249

Child, Lincoln, Deep Storm 210

Coelho, Paulo, Aleph and Momentos 244–245

Coelho, Paulo, Moments 141

Collins, María Antonieta and Antonietta Collins, Para que el monstruo se vaya* 252

Damasio, Antonio, Self Comes to Mind 150

Danticat, Edwidge, Create Dangerously 146

Day, Barry, editor, The Noël Coward Reader 154

Dibdin, Michael, Cabal (TV Tie- In), Ratking (TV Tie- In), and Vendetta (TV Tie- In) 204

Dray, Philip, There Is Power in a Union 222

Eagleman, David, Sum (reissue) 140

Eco, Umberto, El cementerio de Praga 241

Ellis, Joseph J., First Family 169

Ellroy, James, The Hilliker Curse 152

Ephron, Nora, I Remember Nothing 184

Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Go Down, Moses, and Light in August (reissues) 138–139

Ferreras, Alberto, B de belleza* 254

Fleisher, Leon with Anne Midgette, My Nine Lives 234

Fraser, Antonia, Must You Go? 224

Ford, Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen 166

Glass, Julia, The Widower’s Tale 209

Goldberg, Myla, The False Friend* 214

Gordon, Jaimy, Bogeywoman and Lord of Misrule 132–133

Grossman, David, To the End of the Land 137

Guilfoile, Kevin, The Thousand 159

Hallowell, M.D., Edward M. and John J. Ratey, M.D., Driven to Distraction 221

Hill, Susan, The Woman in Black* (Movie Tie- in) 205

Hollinghurst, Alan, The Swimming- Pool Library (reissue) 161

Jen, Gish, World and Town 173

Kaplan, James, Frank 233

Kate, Lauren, Oscuros,* Pasión,* and Tormento* 242–243

Kehlmann, Daniel, Fame 193

King, Stephen, Carrie,* Night Shift, ‘Salem’s Lot, and The Stand 212–213

Kuhn, William, Reading Jackie 227


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Lebrecht, Norman, Why Mahler? 232

Lewis, Oscar, The Children of Sanchez 200

Lowell, Ivana, Why Not Say What Happened? 188

Luce, Edward, In Spite of the Gods (reissue) 228

Lyon, Annabel, The Golden Mean 160

Mahfouz, Naguib, Khan al- Khalili 217

Mankell, Henning, Daniel* 177

Mankell, Henning, The Fifth Woman 155

Mann, Charles C., 1491 (reissue)* 163

McCall Smith, Alexander, The Charming Quirks of Others 216

McCarthy, Tom, C 142

McGuane, Thomas, Driving on the Rim 170

McGuire, Danielle L., At the Dark End of the Street 176

Mlodinow, Leonard, Feynman’s Rainbow 179

Naipaul, V. S., The Masque of Africa 174

Némirovsky, Irène, All Our Worldly Goods 145

Nicholls, David, One Day (Movie Tie- In) 203

Noël, Alyson, Llama oscura* and Tinieblas* 246–247

Norris, Michele, The Grace of Silence* 149

Osorio, Diego, Carlos Slim 256

Pamuk, Orhan, The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist 189

Parini, Jay, The Passages of H.M.* 236

Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago 171

Penzler, Otto, editor, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!* 151

Philpott, William, Three Armies on the Somme 195

Powers, Thomas, The Killing of Crazy Horse 185

Pressler, Mirjam, Tesoros desde el ático* 240

Rakoff, David, Half Empty 219

Reich, Robert B., Aftershock 135

Rhodes, Richard, The Twilight of the Bombs 153

Rice, Anne, Angel Time 231

Riding, Alan, And the Show Went On 183

Riordan, Rick, Las crónicas de Kane* 258

Robinson, Eugene, Disintegration 229

Roth, Philip, Nemesis 167

Sacks, Oliver, The Mind’s Eye 165

Sandlin, Lee, Wicked River 181

Schlink, Bernhard, The Weekend 182

Sharma, Robin S., El líder que no tenía cargo 257

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein* 250

Secrest, Meryle, Stephen Sondheim 180

Sezat, María, 2012 255

Starr, Douglas, The Killer of Little Shepherds 187

Steinberg, Avi, Running the Books 230

Stoker, Bram, Drácula* 251

Stuart, Julia, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise* 215

Taylor, Alan, The Civil War of 1812 178

Tsu, Lao, Tao Te Ching 172

Unger, Lisa, Fragile 136

Wahlöö, Per, The Assignment, The Generals, and A Necessary Action 196–197

Wilentz, Sean, Bob Dylan in America 226

Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns* 164

Wilson, Harriet E., Our Nig 162

Wolff, Geoffrey, The Hard Way Around* 199

Woodworth, Steven E., Manifest Destinies 192

Wright, Lawrence, The Looming Tower (reissue) 147

Wu, Tim, The Master Switch 191

Vachss, Andrew, The Weight 186

Yu, Charles, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe* 134

*Books of special interest to young readers.


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T I T L E I N D E X

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King 213

1491 (reissue),* by Charles C. Mann 163

2012, by María Sezat 255

Absalom, Absalom! (reissue), by William Faulkner 139

Aftershock, by Robert B. Reich 135

Aleph, by Paulo Coelho 245

Alicia en el país de las maravillas,* by Lewis Carroll 248

All Our Worldly Goods, by Irène Némirovsky 145

American Colossus, by H. W. Brands 223

And the Show Went On, by Alan Riding 183

Angel Time, by Anne Rice 231

Annotated Emma, The,* by Jane Austen 237

As I Lay Dying (reissue), by William Faulkner 139

Assignment, The, by Per Wahlöö 196

At Home, by Bill Bryson 225

At the Dark End of the Street, by Danielle L. McGuire 176

B de belleza,* by Alberto Ferreras 254

Becoming Animal, by David Abram 158

Bob Dylan in America, by Sean Wilentz 226

Bogeywoman, by Jaimy Gordon 133

C, by Tom McCarthy 142

Cabal (TV Tie- In), by Michael Dibdin 204

Carlos Slim, by Diego Osorio 256

Carrie,* by Stephen King 213

Charming Quirks of Others, The, by Alexander McCall Smith 216

Children of Sanchez, The, by Oscar Lewis 200

Civil War of 1812, The, by Alan Taylor 178

Compass Rose,* by John Casey 168

Composing a Further Life, by Mary Catherine Bateson 175

Create Dangerously, by Edwidge Danticat 146

Cross of Redemption, The, by James Baldwin 157

Daniel,* by Henning Mankell 177

Deep Storm, by Lincoln Child 210

Devil Finds Work, The, by James Baldwin 156

Disintegration, by Eugene Robinson 229

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak 171

Dogfi ght,* by Matt Burgess 220

Drácula,* by Bram Stoker 251

Driven to Distraction, by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D. 221

Driving on the Rim, by Thomas McGuane 170

El cementerio de Praga, by Umberto Eco 241

El líder que no tenía cargo, by Robin S. Sharma 257

False Friend, The,* by Myla Goldberg 214

Fame, by Daniel Kehlmann 193

Feynman’s Rainbow, by Leonard Mlodinow 179

Fifth Queen, The, by Ford Madox Ford 166

Fifth Woman, The, by Henning Mankell 155

First Family, by Joseph J. Ellis 169

Foxfi re 45th Anniversary Book, The,* edited by Casi Best, Joyce Green, and Foxfi re Students 218

Fragile, by Lisa Unger 136

Frank, by James Kaplan 233

Frankenstein,* by Mary Shelley 250

Gathering Evidence, by Thomas Bernhard 198

Generals, The, by Per Wahlöö 197

Go Down, Moses (reissue), by William Faulkner 139

Golden Mean, The, by Annabel Lyon 160

Grace of Silence, The,* by Michele Norris 149

Half Empty, by David Rakoff 219

Hard Way Around, The,* by Geoffrey Wolff 199

¿Hasta cuando?, by Jorge G. Castañeda 249

Hilliker Curse, The, by James Ellroy 152

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,* by Charles Yu 134

I Remember Nothing, by Nora Ephron 184

In Spite of the Gods (reissue), by Edward Luce 228

Journey, A, by Tony Blair 144

Khan al- Khalili, by Naguib Mahfouz 217


129*Books of special interest to young readers.

Killer of Little Shepherds, The, by Douglas Starr 187

Killing of Crazy Horse, The, by Thomas Powers 185

Las crónicas de Kane,* by Rick Riordan 258

Light in August (reissue), by William Faulkner 138

Llama oscura,* by Alyson Noël 247

Looming Tower, The (reissue) by Lawrence Wright 147

Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon 132

Machine Man,* by Max Barry 143

Making Our Democracy Work, by Stephen Breyer 148

Manifest Destinies, by Steven E. Woodworth 192

Masque of Africa, The, by V. S. Naipaul 174

Master Switch, The, by Tim Wu 191

Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie- In), by James M. Cain 202

Mind’s Eye, The, by Oliver Sacks 165

Minding Frankie, by Maeve Binchy 237

Momentos, by Paulo Coelho 244

Moments, by Paulo Coelho 141

My Nine Lives, by Leon Fleisher with Anne Midgette 234

Must You Go?, by Antonia Fraser 224

Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist, The, by Orhan Pamuk 189

Necessary Action, A, by Per Wahlöö 196

Nemesis, by Philip Roth 167

Night Shift, by Stephen King 212

Noël Coward Reader, The, edited by Barry Day 154

Once Before Time,* by Martin Bojowald 190

One Day (Movie Tie- In), by David Nicholls 203

Oscuros,* by Lauren Kate 242

Our Nig, by Harriet E. Wilson 162

Para que el monstruo se vaya,* by María Antonieta Collins and Antonietta Collins 246

Pasión,* by Lauren Kate 243

Passages of H.M., The,* by Jay Parini 236

Physiology of Taste, The, by Jean- Anthelme Brillat- Savarin 194

Ratking (TV Tie- In), by Michael Dibdin 204

Reading Jackie, by William Kuhn 227

Running the Books, by Avi Steinberg 230

Self Comes to Mind, by Antonio Damasio 150

Stand, The, by Stephen King 212

Stephen Sondheim, by Meryle Secrest 180

Sum (reissue), by David Eagleman 140

Swimming- Pool Library, The, (reissue), by Alan Hollinghurst 161

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu 172

Tereza Batista cansada de Guerra,* by Jorge Amado 253

Tesoros desde el ático,* by Mirjam Pressler 238

There Is Power in a Union, by Philip Dray 222

Thousand, The, by Kevin Guilfoile 159

Three Armies of the Somme, by William Philpott 195

Tinieblas,* by Alyson Noël 246

To the End of the Land, by David Grossman 137

Tormento,* by Lauren Kate 243

Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, The,* by Julia Stuart 215

Twilight of the Bombs, The, by Richard Rhodes 153

Vendetta (TV Tie- In), by Michael Dibdin 204

Venice, by Peter Ackroyd 235

Warmth of Other Suns, The,* by Isabel Wilkerson 164

Wave, The,* by Susan Casey 208

Weekend, The, by Bernhard Schlink 182

Weight, The, by Andrew Vachss 186

Why Mahler?, by Norman Lebrecht 232

Why Not Say What Happened?, by Ivana Lowell 188

Wicked River, by Lee Sandlin 181

Widower’s Tale, The, by Julia Glass 209

Woman in Black, The,* (Movie Tie- In) by Susan Hill 205

World and Town, by Gish Jen 173

Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!,* edited by Otto Penzler 151




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A New York Times Extended List, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA Washington Post and Time Magazine Best Book of the Year

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Lord of MisruleWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Assured, exotic and uncategorizable.... An incontrovertible winner, a bona fi de bolt from the blue.” —The New York Times

A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small- time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys,

grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run- down West Virginia track.

Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse— or cash a bet— and run before anyone’s the wiser. At his side is Maggie Koderer, who fi nds herself powerfully drawn to the gorgeous, used up ani-mals of the cheap track. She also lands in the cross- hairs of leading trainer Joe Dale Bigg. But as news of Tommy’s plan spreads, from veteran groom Medicine Ed, to loan shark Two- Tie, to Kidstuff the blacksmith, it’s Maggie, not Tommy or the handlers of legendary stakes horse Lord of Misrule, who will fi nd what’s valu-able in a world where everything has a price.

“A beautifully written novel.... Gordon has com-pletely mastered the language of the racetrack.” —Jane Smiley, The Washington Post

“Lord of Misrule is fi lled with memorable char acters who exist on the fringe.... Gordon’s language is so textured that her pages seem three-dimensional.” —Los Angeles Times

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/304 ppISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94673-7FictionCurrently AvailableAvailable as an eBook: 978-0-307-94674-4

Lord of Misrule, cloth edition: 978-0-929-70183-7

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BogeywomanA novel“Wildly inventive…. Crackles with exuberance and wit and Gordon’s most jaw-dropping gift--language.” —Los Angeles Times

National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gor-don’s bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of

Catcher in the Rye with the humor and tragedy of Girl, Interrupted.

Ursie Koderer knows herself to be a monster— doomed to be different from other girls— very different. When she’s discovered cutting herself at camp, she goes AWOL, and lands in a Balti-more psychiatric hospital. Ursie, now known as the Bogeywoman, joins up with the other misfi t adolescents on the ward. They start a bughouse rock group, steal a nitrous oxide machine— as a mental patient Ursie is a success. Until, she’s implicated in the accidental burning of a friend. Locked away, the Bogeywoman meets the beauti-ful, mysterious Doctor Zuk, a woman psychiatrist from somewhere east of the Urals. Their affair is the main event in this gorgeous novel of love, crime, liberation, and fl ight to something like a new world.

“Words sizzle and crackle and burst into life on the page.” —Joanna Scott, author of Follow Me

“Funny, heartbreaking, perfectly described.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant’s House

Jaimy Gordon lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94689-8FictionOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universeby Charles Yu

The Vintage edition will feature a stepback cover.

An ABA IndieBound BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle and Time Best Book of the Year

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“Very funny...with glittering layers of gorgeous and playful meta- science- fi ction.... Like Douglas Adams, Yu is very funny.” —The New York Times Book Review

From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu: a razor- sharp, hilarious, and touching fi rst novel

of a son searching for his father...through quan-tum space- time.

Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Liter-ally. When he’s not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. He learns that the key to his father’s location may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life.

“Douglas Adams and Philip K. Dick are touch-stones, but Yu’s sense of humor and narrative splashes of color...set him apart.... A story that will be looped in your head for days.” —The Austin Chronicle

“Compulsively rereadable.... Hilarious.” —Los Angeles Times

Charles Yu lives in Los Angeles.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/256 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-73945-2FictionOn Sale: June 28, 2011


How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, cloth edition: 978-0-307-37920-7

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AftershockThe Next Economy and America’s Future

by Robert B. ReichUpdated

Also available:Supercapitalism : 978-0-307-27799-2

For additional titles available by Robert B. Reich, visit www.vintageanchor.com or ask your Random House Sales Representative

A New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Important and well executed.... Reich is fl uent, fearless, even amusing.” —The New York Times Book Review

Updated for the Vintage edition, After-shock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a

plan for dealing with its aftermath.

When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, he argues, lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the richest Americans, while stagnant wages and rising costs have forced the middle class to go deep into debt. Reich’s thoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over the next decades— and how we can fi x our economic system— is a practical, humane, and much- needed blueprint for restoring America’s economy and rebuilding our society.

“Reich provides a thoughtful dialogue about the structural problems that led to the recent recession.... His ideas are worth exploring.” —The Washington Post

“One of the clearest explanations to date of...how the United States went from...‘the Great Prosperity’ of 1947 to 1975 to the Great Reces-sion.” —Bob Herbert, The New York Times

Robert B. Reich teaches public policy at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, and is the author of twelve books.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/192 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47633-3Current AffairsOn Sale: April 5, 2011


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Fragileby Lisa Unger

Also available in Mass Market:Beautiful Lies : 978-0-307-38899-5Black Out : 978-0-307-47229-8Die For You : 978-0-307-47634-0

Co- promotion with the Crown hardcover publication of Darkness, My Old Friend

Includes an excerpt from Darkness, My Old Friend

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“A nail- biting, nuanced whodunit.” —People

Lisa Unger’s new novel is a breathtaking emotional thriller about the effect a small town’s secrets can have on a family.

Maggie and Jones and their teenage son, Rick, live in The Hollows— the kind of town where doors are left unlocked and high school cliques persist well after graduation. The cozy intimacy of the town is broken, however, when Rick’s girl-friend disappears. Jones, the lead detective on the case, is acting strangely, and Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more with-drawn. Maggie, a trained psychologist, fi nds herself drawn in. Pursuing her own leads, Mag-gie exposes a long- buried secret— one that could destroy everything she holds dear.

“Intriguing, downright frightening.... It will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last sentence.” —Las Vegas Review- Journal

“In the style of Jodi Picoult, Fragile tells its tale through the real- time action and freighted rec-ollections of a diverse cast of characters.” —The Boston Globe

Lisa Unger’s new novel, Darkness, My Old Friend (978-0-307-46499-6), will be published by Crown in August 2011. She lives in Florida.

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To the End of the Landby David Grossman

A New York Times Extended List, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller A Christian Science Monitor and New Yorker Best Book of the Year

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

“A masterpiece.... One of the few novels that feel as though they have made a difference.” —Colm Tóibín, The New York Times Book Review

Abrilliant novel of family life— the great-est human drama— and the cost of war, from one of our most acclaimed writers.

Ora, a middle- aged Israeli, is on the verge of cel-ebrating her son Ofer’s release from army ser-vice when he returns to the front. In a fi t of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee. Recently estranged from her husband, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, a brilliant artistic spirit turned hermit. As Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word.

“Powerful.... Foremost among Grossman’s achieve-ments is the creation of Ora, a modern- day Scheherazade and icon of the mourning mother.” —The Seattle Times

“A boundary- pushing novel.... Like all great lit-erature, it is an act of generosity, opening itself to every human possibility.” —The Washington Post

Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

David Grossman lives in Israel.

$15.95 Trade/592 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47640-1FictionOn Sale: August 9, 2011


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Rediscover all of the great American fi ction of

WILLIAM FAULKNERAvailable in uniform trade paperback editions,

with striking new covers and, for the fi rst time, as eBooks.

Beginning in summer 2011 and continuing into early 2012, Vintage Books will embark on an ambitious program of repackaging, reissuing,

and repromoting all of Faulkner’s work. Some titles will be available in trade paperback for the fi rst time, and all will make their fi rst appearance as eBooks.

JULY 12

As I Lay DyingISBN: 978-0-679-73225-9 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79216-7

Light in AugustISBN: 978-0-679-73226-6 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79217-4

The Sound and The FuryISBN: 978-0-679-73224-2 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79215-0

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Absalom, Absalom!ISBN: 978-0-679-73218-1 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-679-64143-8

Collected StoriesISBN: 978-0-679-76403-8 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79354-6

Go Down, MosesISBN: 978-0-679-73217-4 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79214-3

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The HamletISBN: 978-0-679-73653-0 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79220-4

The Mansion*ISBN: 978-0-307-94682-9eBook: 978-0-307-79199-3

Three Famous Short Novels*ISBN: 978-0-307-94675-1eBook: 978-0-307-79197-9

The Town*ISBN: 978-0-307-94681-2eBook: 978-0-307-79198-6

OCTOBER 4

A Fable*ISBN: 978-0-307-94677-5eBook: 978-0-307-79213-6

Pylon*ISBN: 978-0-307-94678-2eBook: 978-0-307-79178-8

The UnvanquishedISBN: 978-0-679-73652-3 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79219-8

NOVEMBER 1

Knight’s Gambit*ISBN: 978-0-307-94679-9eBook: 978-0-307-79243-3

Requiem for a Nun*ISBN: 978-0-307-94680-5eBook: 978-0-307-79244-0

SanctuaryISBN: 978-0-679-74814-4 (RI1 reissue)eBook: 978-0-307-79355-3

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“No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but

because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifi ce and endurance.” —William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize

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William Faulkner is universally regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century— recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1949 and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Set for the most part in Mississippi, Faulkner’s novels and stories are among the most important and evocative in our literature. These rewarding, psychologically astute, modern classics demand to be read again and again.


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SumForty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman

Newly Repackaged; Available April 2011

Co- promotion with the Pantheon hardcover publication of Incognito

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“Read Sum and be amazed.” —Time

A newly repackaged edition of this won-derfully imagined meditation on the af-terlife by an acclaimed neuroscientist.

With a probing imagination and deep under-standing of the human condition, David Eagle-man offers forty variations on the theme of God and the afterlife, illustrating the possible scenar-ios we might fi nd when we pass to the other side. With each scenario, Eagleman’s brilliant vision comes into sharper view, and the cumulative result is a breathtaking book that shines a bril-liant light on the here and now, by illuminating our mysterious existence in a thought- provoking mixture of hope and despair, love and apathy, desire and ennui.

“A disarming, splendid little book.... Intriguing and extraordinarily well- written.” —The Dallas Morning News

“Bracing, provocative, fun.... It challenges and teases as it spins out different parables of possi-bility.” —Houston Chronicle

David Eagleman’s next work, Incognito (978-0-307-37733-3), will be published by Pantheon in May 2011. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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World- renowned, bestselling author Paulo Coelho has inspired millions with contemporary bestselling clas-

sics like The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. Now, with this 2012 day planner, the same wisdom that draws readers to his books time and time again can serve as a source of daily inspiration year round. Available in English and Spanish, Moments (Instantes) will feature moving and revealing quotes by this interna tionally beloved author. Users can begin each day with a words of wisdom, receiving spiritual food- for- thought as they navigate through their everyday lives, with Coelho as their guide on their own personal journeys.

Paulo Coelho is the author of many inter national bestsellers, including The Alchemist, 11 Minutes, The Pilgrimage, The Fifth Mountain, and The Valkyries. His books have sold over 130 million copies in 160 countries and have been translated into 72 languages. His novel, Aleph, will be pub-lished in hardcover simultaneously in English by Knopf (978-0-307-70018-6) and in Spanish by Vintage Español (978-0-307-74458-6) in Septem-ber 2011.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/53⁄8" x 81⁄ 4"/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94655-3Inspiration/Reference4-color throughoutA VINTAGE ORIGINALOn Sale: July 26, 2011

Simultaneous Spanish- language Publication (see p. 244)

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A Los Angeles Times and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA Slate Best Book of the Year

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“A tour de force.... An intellectually provocative novel that unfurls like a brooding, phosphorescent dream.” —The New York Times Book Review

The spellbinding new novel from the acclaimed author of Remainder follows a peculiar boy who grows up among the

tumult of the twentieth century.

Opening in England at the turn of the twenti-eth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father experiments with wire-less communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and the silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relation-ship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. Serge’s life fol-lows the course of the century— as he ventures from a Bohemian spa to the war- torn skies of World War I and from a German prison camp to the tombs of Cairo. In Serge, Tom McCarthy has created a truly singular character in a one- of- a- kind novel that sparkles with effortless historical breadth, psychological insight, and postmodern originality.

“An avant- garde masterpiece.” —Los Angeles Times

“C is clever, confi dent, coy— and cryptic.” —The Wall Street Journal

Tom McCarthy lives in London.

$15.00 Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38821-6FictionVINTAGE CONTEMPORARIESOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

“Wickedly entertaining.... A brilliant book: caustically funny, and— by its closing chapter— surprisingly moving.” —Scott Smith, author of The Ruins

Max Barry’s follow- up to Jennifer Govern-ment and Company is a gruesomely funny adventure about one man’s

quest for self- improvement.

Charlie Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. He sees it as an opportunity. Charlie has always thought his body could be better. Stronger. With built- in wi- fi . The next leg to go is no accident. Neither is the hand. No one under-stands his love of upgrades, except for prosthet-ics expert Lola Shanks. She’s always admired a good artifi cial leg, and Charlie is on his way to being artifi cial everything. His employer, mili-tary contractor Better Future, sees potential in the bioaugmentations. Charlie, however, never wanted to be a weapon, so now he’s locked in a mind- bending battle for control of his artifi cial body. Machine Man is a daring experiment fi c-tion that is funny, tender, and always surprising.

“Don’t open this one unless you’re prepared to keep reading until the last page is done. Once again, Barry delivers.” —Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

“Fast- paced.... Barry is helping to reinvent pub-lishing.” —io9.com

Max Barry lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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A JourneyMy Political Life

by Tony Blair

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A deeply personal book, full of candid revelations.... Provides a priceless glimpse into the mind of the man who devoted himself to the transformation of the Labour party— and who stood by America in some of its darkest recent hours.” —The Wall Street Journal

I n this remarkably gripping memoir by the former prime minister of the United King-dom, one of the most dynamic and contro-

versial leaders of modern times gives us a fi rsthand account of his years in offi ce and beyond.

In A Journey Tony Blair details his reinvention of the Labour Party, his work in Northern Ireland, and his belief in ethical intervention, leading to his decision to go to war in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and, most controversially, Iraq. Filled with fascinating revelations about Blair’s close friendship with the Clintons, his admira-tion for George W. Bush, and his relationship with Barack Obama, A Journey is a must- read political memoir, providing an unprecedented glimpse into Tony Blair’s experiences as prime minister.

“Engrossing.... It is breezy, informal and candid enough to keep the reader thoroughly engaged.” —Fareed Zakaria, The New York Times Book Review

“Engaging and insightful.... A better than usual contribution to the literary genre of political memoir.” —The Boston Globe

$19.00 Trade/752 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39063-9Biography32 pages of photographsOn Sale: September 6, 2011



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Dimanche and Other Stories : 978-0-307-47636-4Fire in the Blood : 978-0-307-38800-1

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

“Extraordinary.” —A. S. Byatt

In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel pre-fi gures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Française.

Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and fi rst published in France in 1947, fi ve years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage pro-vokes a family feud that cascades down the gen-erations. This brilliant novel is full of drama, heartbreak, and the telling observations that have made Némirovsky’s work so beloved and admired.

“Poignant.... A delicate and subtle study of lives swept up by forces beyond their control or understanding.” —The Telegraph

“A slender, elegant book which displays an unbroken respect for the resilience of the human spirit.” —Daily Mail

Translated from the French by Sandra Smith.

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. She died at Auschwitz in 1942.

$14.95 Trade/224 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74329-9FictionA VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINALOn Sale: September 6, 2011

Available in Canada: Vintage Books, $19.95, 978-0-09-952044-3

All Our Worldly GoodsA Love Story Between the Wars

by Irène Némirovsky

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The Immigrant Artist at Work

by Edwidge Danticat

Also available:Breath, Eyes, Memory : 978-0-375-70504-5Brother, I’m Dying : 978-1-4000-3430-7The Dew Breaker : 978-1-4000-3429-1Krik? Krak! : 978-0-679-76657-5

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“The most powerful book I’ve read in years.... A call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and all those who choose to listen.” —Dave Eggers

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat refl ects on art and exile.

Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells sto-ries of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their home-lands. Combining memoir and essay, these mov-ing and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.

“A singular achievement.... A tender new book about loss and the unquenchable passion for homeland.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Danticat writes with a compassionate insight but without a trace of sentimentality. Her prose is energetic, her vision is clear, the tragedies seemingly speaking for themselves.” —The Miami Herald

Edwidge Danticat won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I’m Dying and is a two- time National Book Award fi nalist and a PEN/Faulkner Award fi nalist. She lives in Miami.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/208 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94643-0Essays/LiteratureVINTAGE CONTEMPORARIESOn Sale: September 20, 2011


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The Looming TowerAl Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence WrightWith a New Afterword

Newly Repackaged; RI1 reissue Available August 2011

www.lawrencewright.com

“At once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping in its historical perspective.... A narrative history that possesses all the immediacy and emotional power of a novel.” —The New York Times

Brilliantly written and informed by exhaus-tive research, Lawrence Wright’s history remains the defi nitive account of the

events leading up to the attacks on the United States in 2001.

Now updated with a new afterword, The Looming Tower describes the rise of Islamic fundamental-ism over fi ve decades, the origins of al- Qaeda, and the security failures that left America vulner-able. Wright’s extensive reporting brings to life Osama bin Laden and Ayman al- Zawahiri’s transformation from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. Finally, he reconstructs the efforts of counter- terrorism offi -cials like the FBI’s John O’Neill who uncovered the emerging danger from Islamic terrorists in the 1990s.

“Lawrence Wright’s book is my new touchstone. None of the previous books led me to say ‘Aha, now I think I understand’ as frequently.” —Steve Weinberg, The Boston Globe

“Deeply researched...immaculately crafted.” —The Wall Street Journal

Lawrence Wright is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in Austin Texas.

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A Judge’s View

by Stephen Breyer

Also available:Active Liberty : 978-0-307-27494-6

A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller


NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A brave book.... Deeply thoughtful.... An argument for the ages.... Breyer’s goal is for the system to work, to solve problems, to improve our national life.” —The New York Times Book Review

In this groundbreaking book, Justice Ste-phen Breyer offers an original approach to interpreting the Constitution that judges,

lawyers, and scholars will look to for many years to come.

Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the Supreme Court has the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular? What must the Court do to maintain the public’s faith? How can it help make our democracy work? Justice Breyer tack-les these questions and more in this tour de force of history and philosophy.

“A remarkable contribution to educating the public about our constitutional system.” —The New York Review of Books

“The most honest discussion of what a judge should do that you will ever fi nd, all the more remarkable because it is written by a sitting Supreme Court justice.” —The Washington Post

Stephen Breyer is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He lives in Cambridge, Massa-chusetts, and Washington, D.C.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/288 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39083-7Law13 photographs in textOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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The Grace of SilenceA Family Memoir

by Michele Norris

A Denver Post and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“Absorbing.... Powerful and heartbreaking.... Sparks a fascinating conversation— which, after reading it, you can and should continue.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

A profoundly moving and deeply per-sonal story of secrets, racial identity, and America’s past, in which Michele Norris,

co- host of NPR’s All Things Considered, explores the power of silence in the context of her own family’s history.

Having originally planned to write about the hidden conversation on race unfolding in the wake of President Obama’s election, Norris soon discovered painful secrets in her own back-ground. These revelations— from her father’s shooting by a Birmingham police offi cer to her maternal grandmother’s peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest— compelled Norris to take a profound and brac-ing journey into her family’s past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South.

“Exquisite.... In the annals of African American history, space ought to be made for The Grace of Silence and its authoritative grasp of memoir and history.” —The Seattle Times

“An insightful, elegant rendering of how the history of an American family illuminates the his-tory of our country.” —Toni Morrison

Michele Norris lives in Washington, D.C.

$14.96 (Can. $16.95) Trade/224 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47527-5Memoir/African-American StudiesOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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Constructing the Conscious Brain

by Antonio Damasio


“Remarkable.... Damasio has the rare talent of rendering science intelligible while also being gifted in philosophy, literature, and wit.” —Los Angeles Times

One of the most infl uential neurologists of our time takes us on a groundbreak-ing journey into our own neurobiologi-

cal foundations.

Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and revealing how the brain works. In his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long- standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and pres-ents compelling new scientifi c evidence that pos-its an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the con-scious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference, which helps open the way for the appearance of culture, per-haps one of our most defi ning characteristics as thinking and self- aware beings.

“Damasio is at the forefront of what neuro-scientists are calling an ‘affect revolution’ that is turning decades of scientifi c wisdom on its head.” —The New York Times

“Lucid and fascinating.... Damasio’s sensitivity...is exemplary.” —New Scientist

Antonio Damasio is an internationally recog-nized leader in neuroscience. He lives in Los Angeles.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/384 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47495-7PhilosophyOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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The Most Complete Collection of Zombie Stories Ever Published

Edited with an Introduction by Otto Penzler

Also available:Agents of Treachery : 978-0-307-47751-4The Black Lizard Book of Black Mask Stories : 978-0-307-45543-7The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps : 978-0-307-28048-0The Vampire Archives : 978-0-307-47389-9Bloodsuckers, mass market: 978-0-307-74184-4Coffi ns, mass market: 978-0-307-74223-0Fangs, mass market: 978-0-307-74185-1

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A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

The legendary editor of The Vampire Ar-chives now brings us Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, an unstoppable anthology of

the living dead. It’s so good, it’s a no- brainer.

There’s never a dull moment in the world of zombies. The superstars of horror are every-where, storming the world of print and visual media. Their endless march will never be stopped. It’s the Zombie Zeitgeist! Now, with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling, Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature. From world- renowned authors like Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Robert E. How-ard, and Richard Matheson to the writer who started it all, W. B. Seabrook, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the darkest, the living- deadliest, scari-est, and— dare we say— tasteful collection of the wandering zombie horde ever assembled. Its relentless pages will devour horror fans from coast to coast.

Also including classic stories by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Mort Castle, Theodore Sturgeon, and many, many more.

Otto Penzler lives in New York.

$25.00 (Can. $28.95) 7" x 91⁄ 8"/1,056 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74089-2FictionIllustrations throughoutA VINTAGE ORIGINALOn Sale: September 20, 2011

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My Pursuit of Women

by James Ellroy

For a complete listing of works by James Ellroy, visit www.vintageanchor.com, or ask your Random House Sales Representative

A Los Angeles Times and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“Forceful and unsparing in its revelations.... Marvelous fury, passion and energy.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Legendary crime writer James Ellroy, author of LA Confi dential and My Dark Places gives us a searing, candid memoir

about his obsession with women, his search for atonement, and his beginnings as a writer.

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old, and in a dark moment, he “summoned her dead.” Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James began his unending pursuit of women. Here, he unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a rela-tionship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long- sought Her. A startling revela-tion, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all a sincere and heart-felt confession, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul- baring revelation of self.

“A remarkable memoir.... Once again...Ellroy has come up with the goods.” —The Economist

“Ellroy pushes his readers’ limits by demanding that they enter a world created solely for the pur-pose of brutally truthful revelation.” —Chicago Sun- Times

James Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/224 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47739-2MemoirOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospect of a World Without Nuclear Weapons

by Richard Rhodes

Also available:Arsenals of Folly : 978-0-375-71394-1John James Audubon : 978-0-375-71393-4Masters of Death : 978-0-375-70822-0Why They Kill : 978-0-375-70248-8

A San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post Best Book of the Year

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“No one writes better about nuclear history than Rhodes does, ably combining a scholar’s attention to detail with a novelist’s devotion to character and pacing.” —The Washington Post

The third and fi nal volume in Richard Rhodes’s prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the fi rst comprehensive

narrative of the challenges faced in the post–Cold War world.

The past twenty years have drastically trans-formed our relationship with nuclear weapons. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the fi ve original nuclear powers— Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States— have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fi ght a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post- nuclear world might look like, as only he can.

“Rhodes explains both the science and the cul-ture of the nuclear age. He does so with the wis-dom of the historian and the morality of the ages.” —The Boston Globe

“Remarkable.... Subtle.... Brims with intriguing anecdotes.... Rhodes speaks...with great elo-quence.” —Los Angeles Times

Richard Rhodes lives in Northern California.

$17.00 (Can. $19.00) Trade/400 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38741-7Politics/Current Affairs8 pages of illustrationsOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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Edited and with Commentary by Barry DayForeword by Sir Cameron Mackintosh

Also available:The Letters of Noël Coward : 978-0-307-39100-1

“A compendium of the bon vivant’s best works— and the perfect reminder that great wit has no expiration date.” —Town and Country

The best of Noël Coward— the fi rst- ever, defi nitive collection of short stories, verse, songs, plays, novels, and screen-

plays by the prolifi c comic genius.

Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays and fi lm screenplays, from Blithe Spirit to Brief Encounter, alongside four of his best short stories and scenes from his only novel. Included as well is a generous selection of his verse, in which Coward reveals the “secret heart” behind the surface wit of his more formal work. Here, too, are the lyrics of his most sublime songs, includ-ing “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must- have for those who adore his work, and for those who are just discovering the delights of his writing.

“Thoroughly entertaining.... A treasured bed-side companion.... Splendid.” —The Washington Post

“Barry Day, with great skill and devotion, has viv-idly brought the ‘Master’ back to effervescent life, as fresh and witty as ever.” —Sir Christopher Plummer

Noël Coward was an English playwright, com-poser, and director. He died in 1973.

Barry Day, a Trustee of the Noël Coward Foun-dation, lives in New York, London, and Palm Beach.

$18.95 (Can. $21.50) Trade/624 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47487-2Belles LettresIllustratedOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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A Kurt Wallander Mystery

by Henning Mankell

Also available in Mass Market:

Faceless Killers978-0-307-74285-8

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FIRST TIME IN MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“You can’t put it down.” —Austin American Statesman

The internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a crime story that shocks and astonishes.

In Africa, four nuns and an unidentifi ed fi fth woman are brutally murdered— the death of the nameless woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffl ed when a retired car dealer is found impaled and the body of a missing fl orist is dis-covered strangled. With only a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men as clues, Wallander will need all of his strength and patience to uncover the reason behind these deaths and their elusive connection to the unsolved murder of the fi fth woman.

“Exquisite.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A scary and cunning tale.” —Rocky Mountain News

Henning Mankell is the author of the Kurt Wal-lander crime novels including the latest in the series, The Troubled Man (978-0-307-59349-8). His new novel, Daniel, will be published in trade paperback in October by Vintage (see p. 179). He lives in Sweden and Mozambique.

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James Baldwin

The Devil Finds Work“The best essayist in this country— a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country.” —The New York Times Book Review

James Baldwin’s personal refl ections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American

racial politics.

Offering an incisive look at movies and a vision of America’s self- delusions and deceptions, Bald-win challenges the underlying assumptions in such fi lms as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist. Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance refl ected by the fi lms that have enter-tained us and shaped our consciousness. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equal-ity, justice, and social change.

“It will be hard for the reader to see these fi lms in quite the same way again.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal, probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices.” —The Nation

$14.00 (Can. $16.00) Trade/144 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27595-0Film Criticism /African- American StudiesOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Cross of RedemptionUncollected WritingsEdited with an Introduction by Randall Kenan

“An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time— and of him.” —The New York Review of Books

A revelation of an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that

have never before appeared in book form.

James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary fi gures of the past century, renowned for his fi erce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption Baldwin discourses on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism; anti- Semitism; the blues and boxing; Russian literary masters; and the role of the writer in our society. Prophetic and bracing, The Cross of Redemption is an important addition to the works of a cosmo-politan and canonical American writer.

“The opportunity to further bask in Baldwin’s readably precise prose is a welcome gift.... The Cross of Redemption shows why Baldwin should never be allowed to go out of fashion.” —The Austin Chronicle

Randall Kenan teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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James Baldwin (1924–1987) was the author of more than twenty works of fi ction and nonfi ction, including Giovanni’s Room, Go Tell It on the Moun-tain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time.


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www.wildethics.org

“Abram’s prose is lighted from within, happy, solid and clear. Becoming Animal is fun to read and helps the reader remember his or her place in the larger, luminous world.” —Los Angeles Times

A decade ago, David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous was hailed as “revolution-ary” by the Los Angeles Times and has

become an ecological classic.

Now he returns with Becoming Animal, a deeply original investigation of our entanglement with nature, as well as an empowering manifesto advocating a break from technology and toward a greater connection with our own animal senses. From shape- shifting ravens to the erotic nature of gravity, Abrams shows that the awak-ened perspective of the human animal is not an exclusive possession of our species but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself— a quality in which we, along with all of nature, steadily participate.

“One of the most compelling and important ecology books in decades.... David Abram has given us another classic.” —Rex Wyler, Greenpeace.org

“Becoming Animal is transformative, animated by piercing observations and hallucinatory intensity.” —Bookforum

An ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures widely around the world, David Abram is co- founder and director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE). He lives in New Mexico.

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“Original and gripping.... The Thousand is jet- fueled by its author’s unerring sense of character and his nimble, fl eet- footed prose.” —The New York Times

In this ambitious novel that fuses historical fact with contemporary suspense, Kevin Guil-foile delivers a thriller that seamlessly tra-

verses the realms of mathematics, science, music, and philosophy.

In 530 B.C., a mysterious ship appears off the rainy shores of Italy. The man who disembarks calls himself Pythagoras. Exactly what he says is not recorded, but a thousand men and women abandon their lives and families to follow him. In the present- day, math whiz Canada Gold is putting her skills to questionable use in Las Vegas casinos and courthouses when she fi nds herself drawn to Chicago, where her father was murdered, and where she is pursued by a clan-destine group of powerful individuals. But as she struggles to understand her father’s unsolved murder, she’s caught between those who want to use her, those who want to kill her, and the one person who wants to save her.

“The Thousand is thrilling, intellectually stimulat-ing, and has some of the most vivid characters in contemporary literature.” —Chicago Tribune

“I thoroughly enjoyed this inventive thriller.... A fi rst- rate read.” —Carole E. Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal- Sentinel

Kevin Guilfoile lives in Chicago.



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by Annabel Lyon

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“This quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is one of the most convinc-ing historical novels I have ever read.” —Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize– winning author of Wolf Hall

Keenly intelligent and brilliantly ren-dered, The Golden Mean is a bold reimag-ining of one of history’s most intriguing

relationships, that between the legendary phi-losopher Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great.

Aristotle is initially reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor the rebellious son of Philip of Macedon. Still, the philosopher realizes that teaching this charming, surprising, and sometimes horrifying teenager is a necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of Philip’s court. But as Alexander matures into a man who will transform the world for better or for worse, Aristotle, like any teacher, ponders his own culpability.

“Lyon has shaped history into a narrative not only gripping, but also accessible and poignant, even tender.... A novel that is brave enough to raise the universal questions about how a man should live his life.” —The Boston Globe

“Sensational....The Golden Mean hooked me as a fi rst novel should, carried me along, and left me determined to read whatever the author writes next.” —Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast

Annabel Lyon lives in British Columbia.

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The Swimming- Pool Libraryby Alan Hollinghurst

Newly Repackaged; Available Now

Co-promotion with the Knopf hardcover publication of The Stranger’s Child, including National Print Advertising

“A buoyant, smart, irrepressibly sexy book...that has the heft and resonance of a classic modernist novel, the sprawl and surprise of an intimate memoir.” —Village Voice Literary Supplement

A beautifully repackaged edition of the Booker Prize winner Alan Holling-hurst’s fi rst novel: a paean to a lost time

which has become a classic of our day.

The Swimming- Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS— an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity. Gorgeously written, it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aris-tocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscu-ity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biogra-phy and inherit his traditions.

“I can think of no other book that is at once so literary and so highly sexed, with the exception of Lolita and Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers.” —Edmund White

“Absorbing and delightful.... Some of the bright-est, smartest writing to come along in a long time.” —Houston Post

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of The Line of Beauty, which won the Booker Prize. Knopf will publish his latest novel, The Stranger’s Child (978-0-307-27276-8), in October 2011. He lives in England.

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by Harriet E. WilsonEdited, with a New Introduction, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Richard J. Ellis

“I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous signifi cance of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.” —Alice Walker

Originally published in 1859, yet neglected for over a hundred years, Our Nig has proven to be an enduring contribution

to our understanding of free blacks in the nine-teenth century. The novel traces the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl who grows up as an indentured servant to a white Massachusetts family.

One hundred and fi fty years after its fi rst appear-ance, eminent scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Richard J. Ellis revisit this classic of African American literature, utilizing the latest research to shed light on the author’s life, in particular her participation in the Spiritualist movement as a “medium” and educator after the Civil War. With a new chronology, select bibliography, and additional background notes, this new edition further enhances our appreciation for Our Nig.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard Uni-versity, where he also serves as director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and Afri-can American Research. He lives in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts.

Richard J. Ellis is professor and chair of the American and Canadian Studies Department at the University of Birmingham. He lives in England.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47745-3Fiction/African-American StudiesOn Sale: May 3, 2010


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1491New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. MannRevised Edition

Revised and Updated; RI1 reissue Available July 2011Co- promotion with the Knopf hardcover publication of 1493, including National Print AdvertisingA New York Times, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“A journalistic masterpiece.” —The New York Review of Books

Revised and updated to refl ect the very latest research, Charles Mann’s ground-breaking work of science, history, and

archaeology continues to challenge our under-standing of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

Contrary to what most Americans are taught and believe, the pre- Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, huge numbers of Indians actively molded and shaped the land around them, often employing complicated technologies. For instance, the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan— larger than any contemporaneous European city— had running water and immaculately clean streets, and Mexicans cultured corn in a specialized breeding process that has been called man’s fi rst feat of genetic engineering. In this new edition, Mann provides the most up-to-date discoveries about this rich and intriguing world.

“Marvelous.... A sweeping portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Colum-bus.... A remarkably engaging writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Fascinating.... A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial America into the dustbin, one after the other.” —The Boston Globe

Charles C. Mann’s 1493 (978-0-307-26572-2) will be published by Knopf in August 2011. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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The Warmth of Other SunsThe Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

A New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Washington Post, and NPR On Point Best Book of the Year

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


“A brilliant and stirring epic, the fi rst book to cover the full half- century of the Great Migration.” —The Wall Street Journal

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wil-kerson chronicles one of the great untold

stories of American history: the decades- long migration of six million black citizens who fl ed the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. Wilkerson compares this momentous event to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and offi cial records, to write this defi nitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our coun-try, and ourselves.

“This is narrative nonfi ction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, fi nally, isn’t argument at all; it’s compassion. Hush, and listen.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

“An extraordinary and evocative work.” —The Washington Post

Isabel Wilkerson is professor of journalism and director of Narrative Nonfi ction at Boston Uni-versity. She lives in Atlanta.

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The Mind’s Eyeby Oliver Sacks

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“Remarkably graceful.... Sacks explores our shared condition through a series of vivid characters.” —The New York Times Book Review

From the bestselling author of Musicophilia, an exploration of perception and its myr-iad dimensions, and of the human poten-

tial for adaptability in the face of disability.

With his trademark erudition and compassion, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who have lost what we consider to be indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to read faces, the sense of three- dimensional space. Lilian, a concert pianist, loses the ability to read music and recognize everyday objects. Howard, a novelist, must fi nd a way to continue his writing life after a stroke destroys his ability to read. Dr. Sacks also tells of his own diagnosis with a malig-nant ocular tumor, and the disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side.

“Sacks has a seemingly inexhaustible talent for eloquently and humanely explaining our brains’ neurological dysfunctions.” —Time

“Sacks documents his changing perceptual real-ity, and this experience becomes remarkably real for the reader.” —Los Angeles Times

Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology and psychia-try at Columbia University Medical Center. He lives in New York City.

$15.00 Trade/288 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47302-8PsychologyOn Sale: October 4, 2011



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by Ford Madox FordIntroduction by A. S. Byatt

Also available:The Good Soldier : 978-0-679-72218-2

National Print and Online AdvertisingReading Group Promotion

“Amazing.... A noble conception.” —Joseph Conrad

Ford Madox Ford’s trilogy about Henry VIII’s fi fth queen, the doomed Katharine Howard, is a neglected masterpiece.

Kat Howard— intelligent, beautiful, naively out-spoken, passionately idealistic— catches the eye of Henry and improbably becomes his fi fth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheaval, as unscrupulous courtiers maneuver for power while religious fanatics— Protestant and Catholic alike— fi ght bitterly for their beliefs. As Katharine’s growing infl uence over the King begins to threaten too many powerful interests, she is drawn into a perilous showdown with Thomas Cromwell, the much- feared Lord Privy Seal. Originally published in three parts (The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal, and The Fifth Queen Crowned), Ford’s novel serves up both a breath-takingly visual evocation of the Tudor world and a timeless portrayal of the insidious operations of power and fear in any era.

“The best historical romance of this century.” —The Times Literary Supplement (London)

Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier and Parade’s End, died in 1939.

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Nemesisby Philip Roth

For a complete listing of works by Philip Roth, visit www.vintageanchor.com, or ask your Random House Sales Representative

A New York Times Extended List, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA New Yorker and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year


NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Elegant.... Roth is gorgeous in his palpable nostalgia, the descriptions of a lost boy world, where boys could play and loaf and learn of each other in simplicity and ease, unaware of the moral devastations to come.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Set in a Newark neighborhood during a ter-rifying polio outbreak in the summer of 1944, Nemesis is a wrenching examination

of the forces of circumstance on our lives.

Bucky Cantor, a twenty- three- year- old play-ground director, whose weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war, is disappointed with himself. As polio begins to ravage Bucky’s play-ground, we are led through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewil-derment, suffering, and pain. Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine Poconos summer camp, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a close- knit community.

“Suffused with precise and painful tenderness.... The architecture of Roth’s sentences is almost invisibly elegant.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An artfully constructed, suspenseful novel with a cunning twist toward the end.” —J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books

Philip Roth lives in New York and Connecticut.

$15.00 (NCR) Trade/304 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47500-8FictionVINTAGE INTERNATIONALOn Sale: October 4, 2011

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by John Casey

Also available:The Half- Life of Happiness : 978-0-375-70608-0Spartina : 978-0-375-70268-6Testimony and Demeanor : 978-0-375-71930-1

Co-promotion with the Knopf hardcover publication of Room for Improvement

An ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“Beautiful, elegiac.... Like the love affair that is the novel’s magnetic pole, Compass Rose gathers its quiet strength from a slow accretion of instants of intimacy.” —The New York Times Book Review

With Compass Rose, National Book Award winner John Casey returns to the marshes of Rhode Island and the

complex women that long ago captured readers’ hearts in his beloved earlier novel, Spartina.

Elsie is wary of the discomfort her presence poses to Dick’s wife, May, and the other inhabitants of their gossipy, insular community. Meanwhile, it is Rose who becomes the unoffi cially adopted daughter and little sister of half the town, and who mag netically steers everyone in her orbit toward unexpected—and unbreakable—relationships.

“Compass Rose is marvelous, returning us to South County, Pierce and Sawtooth Creeks, the intrica-cies of the Great Swamp, and Casey’s terrifi c characters.... This splendid novel lives and breathes with all its psychic powers and complex human spirit.” —The Providence Journal

“Casey is a brilliant observer...and his descrip-tions of nature are breathtaking.” —San Francisco Chronicle

John Casey’s new book, Room for Improvement (978-0-307-70002-5), will be published by Knopf in November 2011. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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First FamilyJohn and Abigail Adams

by Joseph J. Ellis

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Founding Brothers 978-0-375-70524-3

American Creation : 978-0-307-27645-2American Sphinx : 978-0-679-76441-0His Excellency : 978-1-4000-3253-2

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“John Adams could not have a better biographer.” —The Los Angeles Times

In this rich and engrossing account from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winner Joseph J. Ellis, John and Abigail

Adams come vividly to life against the backdrop of the Republic’s tenuous early years.

Drawing mostly on over 1,200 letters exchanged between the couple, Ellis tells a story both per-sonal and panoramic. We learn about the many years Abigail and John spent apart as John’s political career sent him fi rst to Philadelphia, then to Paris and Amsterdam; their relationship with their children; and Abigail’s role as John’s closest and most valued advisor. Exquisitely researched and beautifully written, First Family is both a revealing portrait of a marriage and a unique study of America’s early years.

“Ellis’s strength is his ability to portray historical icons as real human beings.... He has made him-self into a sort of bard of our early Republic, and First Family is a fi tting addition to his repertoire.” —The Miami Herald

“Richly detailed but blessedly concise, erudite as well as eloquent, First Family proves that bedfel-lows can make superior politics.” —Richmond Times Dispatch

Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College in Massa-chusetts, where he lives.

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Driving on the Rimby Thomas McGuane

For a complete listing of works by Thomas McGuane, visit www.vintageanchor.com or ask your Random House Sales Representative

An ABA IndieBound BestsellerA Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“McGuane has long been forming unforgettable people out of the dust and dirt of the country he knows best— characters that just get fuller and richer and less predictable.” —Los Angeles Times

This marvelous new novel of community and medicine— from one of America’s most acclaimed literary fi gures— takes

the pulse of our times.

Berl Pickett is a housepainter turned doctor liv-ing in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug- shampooers, Pickett has long suffered from social disgrace and “grue-some immaturity,” an affl iction that manifests in the occasional terrible decision. When Berl is accused of the negligent homicide of his former lover, he fi nds himself ostracized by his entire town. But fortunately for Berl, it doesn’t take a village. He’ll fi nd his deliverance in continuing to practice medicine one way or another. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager on a darkly comic journey to salvation.

“Literary canonization might be imminent.... McGuane’s novels are comic, complex and infused with...depth.” —St. Petersburg Times

“McGuane can still uncork sentences full of cow-boy poetry and beguiling rhythms.” —The Washington Post Book World

Thomas McGuane lives in Montana.



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Doctor Zhivagoby Boris PasternakA New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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“Exciting.... Finally gives Boris Pasternak his due in the English language.” —The Huffi ngton Post

From the award- winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a brilliant new version of Nobel Prize winner Boris

Pasternak’s masterpiece.

First published in Italy in 1957 amid interna-tional controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago fi nds himself embroiled instead in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pas-ternak’s original— his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.

“Brilliant.... By enabling us to see Doctor Zhivago as a living book...Pevear and Volokhonsky have performed an enormous service to all who value great literature.” —California Literary Review

Boris Pasternak was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1890 and died in 1960.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky live in Paris.

$16.95 (Can. $18.95) Trade/544 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39095-0VINTAGE CLASSICSOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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Tao Te Chingby Lao TsuTranslated by Gia- fu Feng and Jane English with Toinette Lippe; Introduction by Jacob Needleman; Photographs by Jane English

Also available in a text- only edition, with an introduction and notes by Jacob Needleman:$11.00 (Can. $14.00) Trade/144 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-679-72434-6On Sale: October 4, 2011 (RI1 reissue)

40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

“No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu’s simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended.” —Alan W. Watts

The esoteric but infi nitely practical Tao Te Ching has been translated more often than any work except the Bible. This ver-

sion of the Chinese classic, originally published some forty years ago, has sold more copies than any other.

The philosophy of Lao Tsu is simple: Accept what is in front of you without wanting the situa-tion to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it, not against it— for to try to change what is only sets up resistance. Nature provides without requiring payment or thanks, without discrimination— therefore let us present the same face to every-one and treat all as equals, however they may behave.

For this edition, the translation has been revised with an eye toward eliminating gender- specifi c language and other infelicities, accompanied by eighty new photographs.

Gia- fu Feng, who was a classically trained Chi-nese scholar, died in 1989. Jane English earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wis-consin. She lives in Vermont.

$20.00 (Can. $23.00) Trade/81⁄2" x 11"/176 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-679-77619-2Eastern Religion/PhilosophyPhotographs throughoutOn Sale: October 4, 2011 (RI1 reissue)

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by Gish Jen

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A Boston Globe Bestseller

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“What a pleasure to read this smart, warm novel from Gish Jen.... As this humane novel shows...only active compassion will build a better world and town.” —The Washington Post

Gish Jen, much- loved author of Who’s Irish? and The Love Wife, returns with a moving story of loss, friendship, and gen-

erosity among neighbors.

Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and the daughter of a descendant of Confucius, has lost both her husband and her best friend to cancer. Hoping to start over, Hattie moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake. But quietude proves diffi cult to fi nd: her relatives upbraid her via email, her great unrequited love resurfaces, and an immigrant Cambodian family moves onto the property next door. All of them, like Hattie, are looking for a new start in a town that might once have represented the American dream. Asking deep, absorbing questions about religion, home, community, and love, World and Town is a master-ful novel of American life.

“Lavish with acutely drawn incidents and characters.... An imaginatively questioning and shrewdly written novel of our times.” —The Boston Globe

“Remarkable.... World and Town practically sings.” —Entertainment Weekly

Gish Jen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



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Glimpses of African Belief

by V. S. Naipaul

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“Engaging.... Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best.” —Time

Nobel Prize Laureate V. S. Naipaul returns with a remarkable work of reportage that surveys belief and religion among

the disparate peoples of Africa.

Like all of Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indige-nous animisms, the foreign religions of Christi-anity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. It is a masterly achievement by one of the world’s keenest observers and one of its greatest writers.

“Beautiful and humane.... The idea that under-pins it is so basic that it achieves a kind of majesty.” —Harper’s Magazine

“Neither a romantic’s nor an anthropologist’s tale. It is a collection of voices that make sense only in relation to one another.... What’s impor-tant is what’s being said.... Naipaul’s is a brilliant and elastic mind.” —The New York Times Book Review

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He has published thirty books of fi ction and nonfi c-tion, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera-ture in 2001. He lives in England.

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Composing a Further LifeThe Age of Active Wisdom

by Mary Catherine Bateson

www.marycatherinebateson.com

“The kind of life- altering perspective we expect from Bateson.... She champions the virtues of discontinuity— the growth spurts, the sudden illuminations.” —Los Angeles Times

Two decades ago, Mary Catherine Bateson published her landmark book about per-sonal growth, Composing a Life, a best-

seller that has remained in print ever since. Now she has given us Composing a Further Life, in which she exuberantly redefi nes old age as an opportu-nity to reinvent oneself, pursue new interests, and contribute more to society.

Bateson tells the stories of a wide variety of men and women who are fl ourishing examples of “the age of active wisdom”—from Jane Fonda to a retired boatyard worker turned silversmith. The audience who fl ocked to Composing a Life twenty years ago is now reaching retirement age in massive numbers and retiring no longer means withdrawing from life, but engaging more passionately with it. Composing a Further Life points the way.

“Bateson has used her unique vision and insight to light up the many facets of the ‘Further Life,’ giving us a whole fresh way to look at this new frontier of longevity.” —Jane Fonda

Mary Catherine Bateson is Professor Emerita at George Mason University. She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27963-7Sociology/AnthropologyOn Sale: October 4, 2011

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Black Women, Rape, and Resistance— A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

by Danielle L. McGuire

www.atthedarkendofthestreet.com

“At the Dark End of the Street is an important step to fi nally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle L. McGuire uncovers a little-known but signifi cant episode in the origins of the

civil rights struggle and reveals the truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay behind the Montgomery bus boycott.

In 1944, twenty- four- year- old small-town Ala-bama mother and sharecropper Recy Taylor was abducted and raped by seven white men who left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch offi ce sent his best investigator and orga-nizer to investigate. Her name was Rosa Parks. And in taking on this case, Parks launched the real movement that ultimately changed the world.

“A vital retelling of the by- now familiar history of the civil rights movement.... Full of lively story-telling, and buttressed by excellent research, Danielle McGuire’s provocative narrative forces readers to rethink what they know about that pivotal movement in U.S. history: its time frame, its actors, its legacy.” —Ms.

Danielle L. McGuire is an assistant professor of history at Wayne State University. She lives in Detroit.

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by Henning Mankell

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“Historical touches mingle with elements of magic realism to convey themes dear to the author’s heart.” —Los Angeles Times

From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes a deeply sympathetic,

gripping tale of a young boy’s harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden.

In 1875 Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the expedition of a lifetime to the Kalahari Desert with which he hopes to advance his career. Instead, after his long and arduous journey through the sands, he fi nds a small boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Bengler adopts the boy and names him Daniel. When they arrive back in Sweden, however, he fi nds that raising a child across a great cultural divide is more diffi cult than he imagined. A tragedy of colonial arro-gance and psychological trauma, Daniel is a com-pelling novel for our newly globalized world.

“An engrossing story, with a real sense of pace and adventure, illuminated by empathy with the bewilderment and longing of a clever, lonely child.” —The Independent

“Mankell uses all his stories to address the most urgent problems of civilization.” —Newsday

Henning Mankell is the author of the Kurt Wal-lander crime novels including the latest in the series, The Troubled Man (978-0-307-59349-8). His bestseller, The Fifth Woman will be published in mass market in September by Vintage (see p. 149). He lives in Sweden and Mozambique.


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The Civil War of 1812American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

by Alan Taylor

Also available:The Divided Ground : 978-1-4000-7707-6William Cooper’s Town : 978-0-679-77300-9

“Remarkable and deeply researched.... Taylor masterfully captures the strangeness of this war.” —Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books

In this vivid narrative, Pulitzer Prize– winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefi ned North America.

In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the leg-acy of the American Revolution. In this second confrontation, soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians fought to determine the fate of a conti-nent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British contain, divide, and ruin the shaky republic? Moving beyond national histories to the agendas of the ethnic and political groups engaged in the confl ict, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

“Credit Taylor with blowing most of the dust off America’s most forgotten war.... History with a capital H.” —The Seattle Times

“Easily the most sophisticated book ever written about a confl ict that is often either neglected or seriously misunderstood.” —The Wall Street Journal

Alan Taylor teaches at the University of Califor-nia, Davis. He is the recipient of the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes, and serves as a contributing editor to The New Republic. He lives in Davis, California.

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Feynman’s RainbowA Search for Beauty in Physics and Life

by Leonard Mlodinow

Also available:The Drunkard’s Walk : 978-0-307-27517-2

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“An accessible portrait of a brilliant man.” —Stephen Hawking, author of The Brief History of Time

Leonard Mlodinow, bestselling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design, presents this touching mem-

oir about the guidance granted him by his mentor, the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman.

In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow came to the California Institute of Technology to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there in spite of his groundbreak-ing Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Rich-ard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Through a series of fascinat-ing exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delved into the nature of science, creativity, love, math-ematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures, and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feyn-man’s fi nal, creative years.

“An exhilarating book...one that refl ects the radiance of its subject and so warms as it instructs.” —David Berlinski, author of A Tour of Calculus

“I enjoyed every page.” —Fritjof Capra, author of the Tao of Physics

Leonard Mlodinow lives in South Pasadena, California.

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Stephen SondheimA Life

by Meryle SecrestWith a New Preface by the Author

“Intriguing.... An evenhanded portrait.... Secrest— with the help of Mr. Sondheim— tries to pierce the enigmatic exterior of this very private person.” —The New York Times

This fi rst full- scale biography, written with Stephen Sondheim’s complete coopera-tion, remains the defi nitive portrait of a

musical theater genius—featuring new material bringing Sondheim’s life story up to date.

Here is his childhood on New York’s Upper West Side; his parent’s divorce, which left him feeling lonely and abandoned as he was sent to military and private schools; the refuge provided by Dor-othy and Oscar Hammerstein, whose inspiration lead to Sondheim’s unparalleled career. Here are the fabled collaborations with Leonard Ber-nstein, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins on West Side Story, and with Laurents on Gypsy; his fi rst full score, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; the genre altering work with Hal Prince on Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, A Little Light Music; and the later artistic triumphs of Sunday in the Park with George and Passion.

“An indispensable book.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Even walking Sondheim encyclopedias will fi nd news here. Secrest spent hours interviewing Sond-heim, and he talks with unprecedented candor.” —Newsweek

Meryl Secrest has written biographies of Sal-vador Dali, Leonard Bernstein, and, most recently, Amedeo Modigliani. She lives in Washington, D.C.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/480 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94684-395 photographs throughoutBiographyOn sale: October 4, 2011


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The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

by Lee Sandlin

A St. Louis Post- Dispatch Best Book of the Year

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“In this lush, exuberant, action- packed and history- drenched book, Sandlin has brought the river back home again.” —Chicago Tribune

A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America’s historical landscape:

the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Missis-sippi River of the nineteenth century.

Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries shared passage with thieves. Here is a minute- by- minute account of Natchez being fl at-tened by a tornado; the St. Louis harbor being crushed by a massive ice fl oe; hidden, nefarious celebrations of Mardi Gras; and the sinking of the Sultana, the worst naval disaster in American history. Here, too, is the Mississippi itself: gorgeous, perilous, and unpredictable. Master-fully told, Wicked River is an exuberant work of Americana.

“Marvelously captured.... A superb book debut.... Fascinating.” —Chicago Sun- Times

“Gripping stuff.... Its many ghastly scenes, vividly rendered...started showing up in my dreams.... Confi dent and swift- moving.” —The Wall Street Journal

Lee Sandlin’s writing has appeared in The Chicago Reader and has been featured on This American Life. He lives in Chicago.

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The Weekendby Bernhard Schlink

Also available:Flights of Love : 978-0-375-72555-5The Gordian Knot : 978-0-375-72556-2Homecoming : 978-0-375-72557-9The Reader : 978-0-375-70797-1

Private Investigator Gerhard Self mysteries also available:Self’s Deception : 978-0-375-70908-1Self’s Murder : 978-0-375-70909-8Self’s Punishment : 978-0-375-70907-4

“The Weekend seems poised to be Bernhard Schlink’s most profound exploration yet.” —San Francisco Chronicle

In the latest novel from the bestselling author of The Reader, a recently freed terrorist expe-riences his fi rst weekend of freedom with the

group of friends he left behind.

Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. But this isn’t just any reunion: after twenty- four years, Jörg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, has been released from prison. The announcement of his pardon sends shock waves through the country, but before the announcement, his friends have been sum-moned to spend the weekend with him by Jörg’s devoted sister, Christiane. Her concern for her brother’s safety is matched only by the unrelent-ing zeal of Marko, a young man intent on having Jörg continue to fi ght for the cause. A complex and rewarding novel, The Weekend is Bernhard Schlink at his fi nest.

“An intelligent, stimulating novel.” —The Washington Post

“Bernhard Schlink has produced another terse and coolly voiced fi ctional examination of his country’s modern history.” —The Boston Globe

Bernhard Schlink lives in Berlin and New York.

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And the Show Went OnCultural Life in Nazi- Occupied Paris

by Alan Riding

Also available:Distant Neighbors : 978-0-679-72441-4

“Riding paints a riveting portrait of how Paris’s glittering, politically diverse cultural elite...worked and played during the dark days of the Nazis’ occupation.” —Vogue

This superb work of popular history chronicles cultural life during the Ger-man occupation of Paris during WWII.

On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a hum-bled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now fl ew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normality returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth- century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.

“Meticulously researched.... Riding’s book is an impressively comprehensive survey of the occu-pation years.” —The Economist

“Enthralling and disturbing.... We’ll always have Paris, but we may not feel quite the same about it after reading And the Show Went On.” —The New York Times Book Review

Alan Riding was a European cultural correspon-dent for The New York Times. He lives in Paris.

$16.95 (Can. $18.95) Trade/416 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38905-3History16 pages of photographsOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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I Remember NothingAnd Other Refl ections

by Nora Ephron

Also available:Heartburn : 978-0-679-76795-4I Feel Bad About My Neck : 978-0-307-27682-7Imaginary Friends : 978-1-4000-3422-2

A New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“Fabulous.... Masterly.... She’ll dazzle you with strings of perfect prose.” —The Washington Post Book World

With her fi rst book since the astound-ing success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron takes a cold, hard,

hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (“Journalism: A Love Story”) and about break-ing up even harder with the men in her life (“The D Word”); reveals the alarming evolution, a decade after she wrote and directed You’ve Got Mail, of her relationship with her in- box; and asks the age- old question, Which came fi rst, the chicken soup or the cold? Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true— and could have come only from Nora Ephron— I Remember Nothing is pure joy.

“Breathlessly funny.... Chatty, witty, self- effacing and candid.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“She can write an entertaining riff about practi-cally anything or anybody.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times Book Review

Nora Ephron lives in New York City.

$14.00 (Can. $16.00) Trade/160 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74280-3Humor/EssaysOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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RThe Killing of Crazy Horseby Thomas Powers



“Nothing short of a masterpiece. Complex and compelling, lurid and lyrical, tragic and transcendent from start to fi nish.” —The Christian Science Monitor

With the Great Sioux War as back-ground and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers

establishes what really happened in the dramatic fi nal months and days of Crazy Horse’s life.

He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nine-teenth century, whose victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat ever infl icted on the frontier army. But after surrendering to federal troops, Crazy Horse was killed in custody, a death which has remained a controversy for more than a cen-tury. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the story behind this offi cial killing.

“Chilling and unforgettable.... A portrait done in the blood of the heartland, a heart still beating after all these years.... A great book.” —The Washington Post

“Richly textured.... Carefully and elegantly wrought.... Powers tells us much that is revealing and moving about the Sioux in their last days as free warriors.” —The New York Times Book Review

Thomas Powers is a Pulitzer Prize–winning jour-nalist and writer. He lives in Vermont.

$17.00 (Can. $19.00) Trade/608 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-71430-6History8 pages of color and 8 pages of black and white illustrations; 4 mapsOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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R The Weightby Andrew Vachss

For a complete list of works by Andrew Vachss, visit www.vintageanchor.com or ask your Random House Sales Representative

www.vachss.com

“Vachss is red- hot and as serious as a punctured lung.” —Playboy

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmeriz-ing novel about a hard- core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter

his life forever.

Sugar’s tough and loyal— a pure professional, packing 255 pounds of muscle. Accused of a rape he couldn’t have committed because he was robbing a jewelry store at the time, the DA offers him two options: give up his partners in the heist and walk, or plead and head up river. For Sugar, there isn’t a choice: he takes the weight. When he gets out, his money is there, but so is another job. One of the heist crew has fallen off the radar, and the mastermind behind the jewelry job asks Sugar to fi nd him and make sure their secrets are safe. Sugar suspects that there’s more to this gig than what he is being told. But nothing he suspects can prepare him for what he fi nds.

“Vachss’s style is as inimitable and passionate as ever.” —Rocky Mountain News

“Andrew Vachss is a contemporary master.” —The Atlanta Journal- Constitution

Andrew Vachss’s new work, That’s How I Roll (978-0-307-37994-8), will be published by Pan-theon in April 2011. He lives in New York City and the Pacifi c Northwest.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74131-8FictionVINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARDOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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RThe Killer of Little ShepherdsA True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

by Douglas Starr

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EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE

“Gripping.... Like an episode of CSI: 19th- Century France: A–.” —Entertainment Weekly

A fascinating true-crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal inves-

tigation.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, elud-ing authorities for years and murdering twice as many victims as Jack the Ripper. With stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisits Vacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of the two men who stopped him— prosecutor Emile Four-quet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist who with his colleagues was developing forensic science as we know it. Building to a riveting courtroom denouement, The Killer of Little Shepherds is impressively researched and thrillingly told.

“Gripping.... Starr’s description of the legal, medical and even philosophical questions around Vacher’s responsibility are strikingly current.” —The Seattle Times

“Absorbing.... Starr’s thought- provoking jour-ney, through the strange underbelly of a vividly rendered France, lingers in the reader’s memory.” —The New York Times Book Review

Douglas Starr is co- director of the Science & Medical Journalism Program and a professor of journalism at Boston University. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/336 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27908-8History/True CrimeOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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Why Not Say What Happened?A Memoir

by Ivana Lowell

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“Lowell movingly shows how a child’s love can transcend a parent’s fl aws. Her empathy with her mother may be her greatest gift.” —The New York Times Book Review

Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo- Irish families, the Guinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells a stunning story of

coming to terms with her blue- blood heritage and her own childhood. It is also the story of her intense relationship with her formidably intelli-gent and complicated mother, the writer Caro-line Blackwood, and her stepfather, poet Robert Lowell.

With an incisive eye and wicked sense of humor, Ivana Lowell takes us from annual balls to sum-mers in Sardinia; through carelessly furnished country houses to working in Manhattan pub-lishing; and from her wedding at New York’s Rainbow Room to, fi nally, a life with her daugh-ter. But Ivana also has darker stories to tell including her own stints in rehab, and discover-ing, after her mother’s death, the secret Lady Caroline had successfully kept for Ivana’s entire life.

“A riveting history of a family that folds in on itself, consuming generation after generation with money, power, alcoholism, and profound selfi shness.” —Elle

“Lowell has executed an impeccable memoir.” —The Daily Beast

Ivana Lowell lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38740-0Biography/Memoir16 pages of photographsOn Sale: November 1, 2011

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RThe Naïve and the Sentimental NovelistUnderstanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

by Orhan Pamuk

Also available:The Black Book : 978-1-4000-7865-3Istanbul : 978-1-4000-3388-1The Museum of Innocence : 978-0-307-38624-3My Name Is Red : 978-0-375-70685-1The New Life : 978-0-375-70171-9Other Colors : 978-0-307-38623-6Snow : 978-0-375-70686-8The White Castle : 978-0-375-70161-0

A Huffi ngton Post Best Book of the Year

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“A full- fl edged theory of the novel.... His explorations of time and plot, words and objects, and the convolutions of the reader’s mind as he seeks the center of the novel are incomparable.” —The Huffi ngton Post

From the Nobel Prize– winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.

In this fascinating book, based on the Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard University, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provoca-tive theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers— those who write spontaneously and unselfconsciously— and “sentimental” writers— those who are refl ective and aware— Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey— the beloved novels of his youth and the work of such authors as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Proust, and Borges— to describe the singular experience of reading.

“A striking interpretation of what goes on in the novelist’s mind.” —The American Statesman

“Pamuk brings to the table fi rsthand knowledge regarding the centrality of character in the novel and how the novelist actually becomes the hero in the very act of writing.” —Publishers Weekly

Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/208 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74524-8Literary CriticismVINTAGE INTERNATIONALOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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R Once Before TimeA Whole Story of the Universe

by Martin Bojowald

“Readers will fi nd undoubted insights into one possible explanation of the universe at its most fundamental and will experience the work of top- level science.” —The Wall Street Journal

In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big

bounce theory, which views our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end.

In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty- seven- year- old postdoctoral student at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity— a cunning combi-nation of Einstein’s theory of gravity with quan-tum mechanics— to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology, or LQC, was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something even Einstein’s general theory of relativity had failed to do— illuminate the very birth of the universe.

“Once Before Time tells the story of Bojowald’s discovery and its implications in fascinating, elo-quent, even literary prose.” —New Scientist

“Bojowald’s explanations are thorough and logical, and his ideas and metaphors have panache.” —The Columbus Dispatch

Martin Bojowald is an associate professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University’s Insti-tute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. Born in Germany, he now lives in Pennsylvania.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47455-1Science37 illustrations in textOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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RThe Master SwitchThe Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

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“Thought- provoking.... An intellectually ambitious history of modern communications.” —The New York Times Book Review

In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: Could the Internet— the entire fl ow of American information— come to be ruled

by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”?

It is easy to forget that every American informa-tion industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now trav-eling a single network, the potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire, Wu identi-fi es a time- honored pattern in the maneuvers of today’s great information powers: Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T. A battle royale looms for the Internet’s future, and with almost every aspect of our lives now dependent on that network, this is one war we dare not tune out.

“My pick for economics book of the year.” —Ezra Klein, The Washington Post

“Entertaining.... There’s a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu’s mas-terful survey.” —The Boston Globe

Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and pro-fessor at Columbia University. He lives in New York.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/384 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39099-8BusinessOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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R Manifest DestiniesAmerica’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War

by Steven E. Woodworth

“This new, magnifi cent account...is full of wonder even for seasoned students of U.S. history.” —The Dallas Morning News

A sweeping history of the 1840s that cap-tures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and

shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring civil war in the near future.

The 1840s was a decade in which the nation sig-nifi cantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacifi c North-west; William Henry Harrison ran the fi rst mod-ern populist campaign; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s char-acter and destiny in which Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive.

“In this balanced political and military history, Woodworth tracks political tensions exacerbated by continental expansion.” —Booklist

Steven E. Woodworth is professor of history at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

$17.00 (Can. $19.00) Trade/432 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27770-1U.S. History/Civil War8 pages of illustrations; 19 mapsOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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by Daniel Kehlmann

Also available:Me and Kaminski : 978-0-307-38989-3Measuring the World : 978-0-307-27739-8

“Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny?... A real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane.” —Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom

Fame and facelessness, truth and decep-tion, spin their way through the nine inter-locking chapters of this captivating and

wickedly funny novel by the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World.

No one is more surprised than Ebling when his new cell phone begins receiving calls meant for famous actor Ralf Tanner. At fi rst he tries to set the callers right, but soon he is enjoying the drama and power that celebrity brings. Little does he know that his actions will cause a ripple effect that will leave very few lives untouched, from the movie star himself to those lingering at the edges of the limelight.

“A darkly comic masterpiece, a rare and thrilling example of a philosophical novel as pleasurable as it is thought- provoking.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Dazzling.... Has satirical bite and technical sparkle.” —The Wall Street Journal

Daniel Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/192 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47424-7FictionOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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R The Physiology of TasteOr Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

by Jean- Anthelme Brillat- SavarinTranslated by M. F. K. Fisher; Introduction by Bill Buford

“The Physiology of Taste is still the most civilized cookbook ever written.” —The New Yorker

The Physiology of Taste, perhaps the most famous book ever written about food, is a delightful, often hilarious, and always

spirited classic about the joys of the table.

First published in France in 1825 and in print continuously ever since, The Physiology of Taste is a histor ical, philosophical, and epicurean collec-tion of recipes, refl ections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical. The gourmand who famously stated “Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are” lends a shrewd, exuberant, and comically witty voice to culinary matters that still resonate today, from the rise of the destination restaurant to matters of diet and weight. In M. F. K. Fisher he has found a translator with a sensitivity and humor to match his own.

“It is about the pleasures of the table...but also about much, much more.... Brillat- Savarin phi-losophizes, gossips, and recalls past fl irtations.... High-spirited and irreverent, Fisher matches his philosophical meanderings.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Jean Anthelme Brillat- Savarin died in 1825.

M. F. K. Fisher wrote twenty- six books before her death in 1992.

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RThree Armies on the SommeThe First Battle of the Twentieth Century

by William Philpott

“Philpott displays a great mastery of detail.... He can certainly claim to have made a solid contribution to what has been an extraordinarily long- running debate.” —The Times (London)

An exciting, indispensable work of mili-tary history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme,

and about the very nature of war.

For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exem-plifi ed the horrors and futility of trench warfare. In Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott argues that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. Philpott shows that twentieth- century war as we know it simply didn’t exist before the battle: new technologies like the armored tank made their debut, while develop-ments in communications lagged behind com-manders’ needs. Attrition emerged as the only means of defeating industrialized belligerents that were mobilizing all their resources for war.

“A thoughtful and important book by a fi rst- rate historian.” —The Literary Review

“A knowledgeable, all- encompassing dissection of this supreme example of ‘the consummate killing power of the machine age.’” —Kirkus Reviews

William Philpott lectures in military history at King’s College, London, where he lives.

$19.00 (NCR) Trade/656 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27837-1History16 pages of photographs; 10 mapsOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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A Necessary Action

Willi Mohr— former German soldier, starving artist, enigmatic drifter— is arrested by the police and subjected

to a lengthy and perplexing interrogation. Unwillingly, he is drawn back to the previous year he spent in Spain, the mysterious death of a Norwegian couple he shared a house with, and his tireless attempts to discover how they died. As the interrogation intensifi es, Mohr realizes that his own secret activities have implicated him in a dangerous political situation. Exhausted, at the end of his money, worn down by the police, he takes decisive action that leads to a profound personal release.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/288 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74474-6MysteryVINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARDOn Sale: November 29, 2011


The Assignment

The leader of a desolate province in South America has been assassinated. When Manuel Ortega, a minor diplomat,

accepts the appointment as the dead man’s suc-cessor, it seems a foolhardy decision. From the day he assumes his post he is plunged into a vio-lent, corrupt world, where two extremist politi-cal factions are at odds. Ortega is caught in the middle, surrounded by people he’s not sure he can trust— his alluring secretary, the cynical chief of police, and the sullen bodyguards who try to keep the president alive. As the tension rises, Ortega’s actions surprise everyone.




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The Generals

Corporal Edwin Velder is on trial for his life— accused of acts against the military, government, and society. The trial is of

great political importance to the brutal regime of this unnamed country. As the proceedings unfold, we learn of the country’s descent into political tyranny and the civil war that brought the current generals to power. The military tri-bunal forces Velder to reconstruct the events, battles, and fi nal defeat of the island rebellion. As the inevitable verdict is pronounced, Velder’s testimony just might bring to bear yet another political revolution.



Per Wahlöö was the coauthor, with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the acclaimed Martin Beck police procedural series, all available from Vintage Crime/Black Lizard as well as a number of other mysteries and suspense novels. He died in 1975.

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by Thomas Bernhard

Also available:Concrete : 978-1-4000-7757-1Correction : 978-1-4000-7760-1Extinction : 978-1-4000-7761-8Frost : 978-1-4000-3351-5Gargoyles : 978-1-4000-7755-7The Lime Works : 978-1-4000-7758-8The Loser : 978-1-4000-7754-0Wittgenstein’s Nephew : 978-1-4000-7756-4Woodcutters : 978-1-4000-7759-5

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“A searing and utterly extraordinary memoir.... Unfl inching, resonant and simply important.... The book is magnifi cent in every sentence.” —Claire Messud, Newsday

Gathering Evidence, Thomas Bernhard’s powerful and compelling memoir of youth, is now available in a new edition,

supplemented with his viciously funny recollec-tions of his later literary life, My Prizes.

Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an aban-doned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fi fteen. At eighteen, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed protracted suffering and death with unfl inching acuity. From the age of twenty- one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man’s testament— and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.

“Breathless, relentlessly compulsive.... A remark-able literary contribution.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Vehement and fascinating.... Arguably his fi nest work.” —The Washington Post

Gathering Evidence is translated from the German by David McLintock. My Prizes is translated from the German by Carol Baron Janeway.

Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.

$16.95 (Can. $18.95) Trade/400 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-7762-5Memoir/LiteratureVINTAGE INTERNATIONALOn Sale: November 29, 2011

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by Geoffrey Wolff

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“Enthralling.... The best of books: a literary biography that also happens to be an adventure story.” —The New York Times Book Review

In this thrilling account, Geoffrey Wolff gives us the defi nitive portrait of an icon of adven-ture.

In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty- seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the fi rst man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his fi nances failing, he set off alone once more— and was never seen again. With authority and admiration, Wolff describes a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy— a life that would mark the end of the Golden Age of Sail.

“A fascinating true story.” —The Seattle Times

“A rich seafaring yarn.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Geoffrey Wolff is the author of fi ve works of non-fi ction and six novels. In 1994 he received the Award in Literature from the American Acad-emy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Bath, Maine.

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The Children of SanchezAutobiography of a Mexican Family

by Oscar Lewis

50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

“Brilliant and of singular signifi cance.” —The New York Times Book Review

A classic of cultural anthropology, Oscar Lewis’s The Children of Sanchez is a deep and intimate account of a family from the slums of Mexico City, now repackaged.

A pioneering work when it was fi rst published fi fty years ago, and newly relevant today, this fascinating look at “the culture of poverty”— Lewis’s original and controversial concept—is written in the voices of the Sanchez family: Jesús, the fi fty- year- old patriarch, and his four adult children. Alternating among points of view, Lewis creates a sympathetic and ultimately tragic portrait. At once harrowing and humane, The Children of Sanchez reads like the best of fi ction, with the added impact that it is all, remarkably, true, and that it documents a world rarely captured.

“Powerful and compelling in its vivid truth.... Reveals poverty as the reader could not know it unless he lived it.” —The Washington Post

“Extraordinary.... A work of art created by reality itself, an edited record of fact that comes closer than most contemporary fi ction to the force of literature.” —Time

Oscar Lewis, a National Book Award–winning writer, anthropologist, and professor, died in 1970.

$18.00 (Can. $20.00) Trade/540 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74453-1AnthropologyOn Sale: November 29, 2011

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Soon to be a fi ve- part HBO miniseries, produced in association with MGM. Starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Melissa Leo, Mare Winningham, and Hope Davis; directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Haynes and Jon Raymond.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weak-

nesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.

Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/Random House Films. Starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess; directed by Lone Scherfi g (An Education) from a screenplay by David Nicholls.

It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snap-shots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15—of each year. Dex

and Em face squabbles and fi ghts, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.

“An instant classic.... One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter.” —People

Available as an eBook: 978-0-307-73930-8eBook will be updated to include screenplay on May 24, 2011

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Cabal, Ratking, and Vendetta3 crime novels by Michael Dibdin featuring

Inspector Aurelio ZenSoon to be a three- part PBS® Masterpiece Mystery series titled Zen;

based on the books by Michael Dibdin; Starring Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale).

Cabal$13.95 Trade/256 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-70770-4Crime FictionVINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARDCurrently Available

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The classic ghost story about a menacing specter haunting a small English town.

Arthur Kipps is an up- and- coming solicitor who travels to a town in the wind-swept salt marshes north of London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client. The routine business trip quickly takes a bone- chilling turn when Kipps is haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images— a rocking chair in a deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and, most terrifying of all, a ghostly woman dressed all in black.

“An excellent ghost story...magnifi cently eerie...compulsive reading.” —Evening Standard

“A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine.” —The Guardian

Susan Hill is the author of numerous works for both adults and children. She received the Somerset Maugham Award for I’m the King of the Castle.

The Woman in Blackby Susan Hill

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The Waveby Susan Casey

A New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

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“Immensely powerful, beautiful, addictive and, yes, incredibly thrilling.... The reader simply won’t be able to get enough of it.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, brings us a riveting tour de force about the terrifying power of nature’s most

deadly phenomena— colossal waves.

Each week massive freighters vanish in the depths of the ocean without a trace. Scientists scramble to understand the phenomenon previ-ously dismissed as physically impossible. And yet, another breed of people views these waves as the ultimate challenge. From the crew of the RRS Discovery, a British research vessel trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves, to extreme surfers like Laird Hamilton who fl y around the world seeking the ultimate thrill, Susan Casey captures those confronting nature at its most ferocious.

“Casey makes a convincing, entertaining case...that there is a heretofore little- known monster in our midst.... A wonderfully vivid, kinetic narra-tive.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Casey’s descriptions...are as gripping in their own way as any mountaineering saga from the frozen peaks of Everest or K2.” —The Washington Post Book World

Susan Casey, formerly an editor at Outside, is edi-tor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in New York City.

$15.95 Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-2885-4Nature/Science16 pages of color; 4 mapsOn Sale: May 31, 2011

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The Widower’s Taleby Julia Glass

Also available:I See You Everywhere : 978-1-4000-7577-5Three Junes : 978-0-385-72142-4The Whole World Over : 978-1-4000-7576-8

A New York Times, Boston Globe, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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“Glass continues her streak of lovely and thought- provoking novels.... If there would be a nutshell in which to capture Glass’s gifts, it would be her ability to make the complex real and understandable.... Irresistible.” —The Denver Post

With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass— National Book Award– winning author of Three Junes— spins

a captivating tale about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family.

Seventy- year- old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is per-suaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge over-run by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his commu-nity, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious delight of falling in love.

“Glass approaches the ties of kinship with the same joyfully disruptive spirit that animated her previous books.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Like reading an involving letter from a long- lost friend.” —People

Julia Glass lives in Massachusetts.

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Deep Storm, paperback edition: 978-1-4000-9547-6

FIRST TIME IN TRADE PAPERBACK

“Fast paced.... Page- turning action.” —The Denver Post

In this explosive thriller, now in trade paper-back for the fi rst time, one of the most incredible and frightening discoveries man-

kind has ever faced is about to surface.

On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spread-ing through the crew. When expert naval doctor Peter Crane is fl own in, he fi nds his real destina-tion is not the platform itself but Deep Storm: a top secret aquatic science facility, two miles below on the ocean fl oor. And as Crane soon learns, the covert operation he fi nds there is concealing something far more sinister than a medical mystery— and much more deadly.

“Thrilling and tantalizing.... A fascinating rid-dle.... Exhilarating.” —Vince Flynn, bestselling author of Protect and Defend

“Lincoln Child has a well- earned reputation for writing solid thrillers.” —The Tampa Tribune

Lincoln Child is also the author of Death Match and Terminal Freeze, and the coauthor, with Doug-las Preston of other bestselling thrillers. He lives in Morristown, New Jersey.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94672-0Fiction/ThrillerOn Sale: July 19, 2011


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STEPHEN KING

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Stephen KingThe early triumphs that heralded the arrival of a literary master—the classics of horror that continue to terrify, mesmerize, and delight readers of all ages.

Night Shift, previous paperback: 978-0-451-17011-8 The Stand, previous paperback: 978-0-451-16953-2

The Stand“The Stand has everything. Adventure, romance, prophecy, allegory, satire, fantasy, realism, apocalypse. Great!” —The New York Times Book Review

When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect as he spreads a mutated strain of the fl u

that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abigail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who believes safety is in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefari-ous “Dark Man” whose intentions may not be pure. Often considered Stephen King’s most accomplished work, The Stand is about the battle between good and evil, and the effect it has on the future of humanity itself.

$8.99 (Can. $9.99) Mass Market/4 3⁄16" x 6 7⁄8"/1,456 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74368-8 FictionOn Sale: June 28, 2011


Night Shift“Eerie.... Ought to chill the cockles of many a heart.” —Chicago Tribune

Night Shift is Stephen King’s fi rst collection of short stories—an early showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination could plumb. In

these twenty tales, we see mutated rats gone bad (“Grave-yard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling chil-dren from the farmland (“Children of the Corn”); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.

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Salem’s Lot, previous paperback: 978-0-671-03974-5 Carrie, previous paperback: 978-0-671-03972-1

’Salem’s Lot“Spine- tingling fi ction at its best.” —Grand Rapids Press

Salem’s Lot— an unassuming small town with unassuming people. Ben Mears, a novelist, returns to town after many years away. He’s hoping that a mysterious mansion, long the subject of town lore, will provide inspiration for his new book. But soon, local events con-

spire to keep him from his work: he falls for the beguiling Susan Norton; two young boys venture into the woods and only one returns; and an enigmatic furniture dealer moves into the mansion, raising the eyebrows of everyone in town. Mears begins to realize that these events are more related than he’d like to admit and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.

“A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil.” —Chattanooga Times

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Carrie“Guaranteed to chill you!” —The New York Times

Carrie White may have been unfashionable, unpopular, and the brunt of teenaged cruel-ties, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. Small things would start dancing. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power,

her sin (so her absolutist mother said), and she tried to repress it as much as she could. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal teenager and go to her senior prom. But another act— of ferocious cruelty— turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.

“Gory and horrifying.... You can’t put it down.” —Chicago Tribune

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The False Friendby Myla Goldberg

Also available:Bee Season : 978-0-385-49880-7Wickett’s Remedy : 978-1-4000-7812-7

An ABA IndieBound BestsellerA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

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“Haunting.... A compelling exploration of the fallibility of memory, explored through richly drawn characters.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season, illuminates a woman’s desire to atone for her terrible actions as a

young girl, actions she believes caused her best friend’s disappearance.

Twenty years after Celia’s best friend, Djuna, goes missing, memories of that terrible day come rushing back— including what she now believes is a lie she told to conceal a misdeed. But when Celia returns to her hometown to confess the truth, her family and childhood friends don’t believe her. As she learns more about the events surrounding Djuna’s disappearance, Celia is no longer certain who to trust. A deeply resonant and emotionally charged story, The False Friend brilliantly explores the cruelty of children, the lies we tell, and the adults children become.

“Suspenseful and smart.... A timely take on the fraught emotional terrain of American school-girls.” —People

“Fascinating and fresh.... Written with psycho-logical shrewdness, generosity and a sure hand.” —The Washington Post

Myla Goldberg lives in Brooklyn, New York.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39070-7FictionOn Sale: August 23, 2011


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A New York Times Extended List, Denver Post, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerAn NPR Morning Edition Best Book of the Year

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“Hilarious.... Sprinkled with fascinating Tower lore, this book will steal your heart.” —People

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is wholly original, a magical novel whose irresist-ible characters will linger with you long

after the last page.

For the past eight years, Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his wife, Hebe, and his 120- year- old pet tortoise. It’s no easy job liv-ing and working in a major tourist attraction in present- day London, but when Balthazar is charged with setting up a menagerie of exotic animals (all gifts to the Queen), life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Still, that chaos is nothing compared to what happens after Hebe announces that she’s leav-ing. As poignant as it is funny, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is a delectable novel that you sim-ply won’t want to put down.

“Feather- light without being feather- brained. Julia Stuart has penned a work that is original and every- page amusing.” —The Denver Post

“History buffs, animal lovers, and simply the tenderhearted will swoon over this captivating story.... Sweet and enchanting.” —Entertainment Weekly

Julia Stuart lives in England.

$14.95 Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47691-3FictionOn Sale: August 9, 2011



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The Charming Quirks of OthersAn Isabel Dalhousie Novel

by Alexander McCall Smith

See pg. 262 for a complete listing of works by Alexander McCall Smith

A New York Times Extended List and ABA IndieBound BestsellerCo- promotion with the Pantheon hardcover publication of The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

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The Charming Quirks of Others, cloth edition: 978-0-307-37917-7

“A seriously charming mix of romance and revelation.” —Parade Magazine

In this seventh installment of the Isabel Dal-housie series, our endlessly inquisitive hero-ine comes to see that everyone has fl aws,

herself included.

Isabel has been asked to help in a rather tricky situation: a successor is being sought for the headmaster at a local boys’ school. The board has three fi nal candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Would Isa-bel discreetly look into it? Of course she can. What she discovers about all the candidates is surprising, but what she discovers about herself and about Jamie, the father of her young son, turns out to be equally revealing. Isabel’s investi-gation will have her exploring issues of ambi-tion, as well as of charity, forgiveness, and humility, as she moves nearer and nearer to some of the most hidden precincts of the heart.

“McCall Smith has created a world where humor is gentle, suffering is acknowledged but not fore-grounded.... It’s a wonderful place to visit.” —The Washington Post

“Even the quotidian becomes interesting in Smith’s deft hands.” —People

Alexander McCall Smith’s new Isabel Dalhousie novel, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth (978-0-307-37918-4), will be published in October 2011 by Pantheon. He lives in Scotland.

$14.00 Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-73939-1FictionOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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by Naguib MahfouzWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A selection of titles also available:

Khan al- Khalili, cloth edition: 978-977416191-9

“Mahfouz is a storyteller of the fi rst order in any idiom.” —Vanity Fair

Fans of Egyptian Nobel Laureat Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley and The Cairo Trilogy will not want to miss this engaging and sensitive portrayal of a family at the crossroads of the old world and the new. Only recently translated.

The time is 1942, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of the Akifs, a middle- class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al- Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will never bomb such a famously religious part of the city, they leave their more elegant neighborhood and seek safety among the crowded alleyways, busy cafes, and ancient mosques of the Khan. Through the eyes of Ahmad, the eldest Akif son, Mahfouz pres-ents a richly textured vision of the Khan, and of a crisis that pits history against modernity, and faith against secularism.

Translated by Roger Allen.

Naguib Mahfouz died in 2006.


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Edited by Casi Best, Joyce Green, and Foxfi re Students

For a complete listing of titles available in the Foxfi re series, visit www.vintageanchor.com or ask your Random House Sales Representative

Co-promotion with the Foxfi re Center’s year-long anniversary celebrationTargeted Print and Online Advertising

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AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL

For almost half a century, Foxfi re has brought the philosophy of simple living to hun-dreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self- suffi ciency, the art of natural rem-edies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and

practical, this classic series has become an American institution.

The Foxfi re 45th Anniversary Book continues the beloved tradition of celebrating Appalachian culture and a simpler life, this time with a focus on the region’s music, folk legends, and out-sized personalities. We hear the stories of banjo players, gospel singers, and bluegrass musi-cians who reminisce about their fi rst time playing at the Grand Ol’ Opry; we read the collected legends of a community, often born from the grisly crimes and oral traditions of the early twentieth century; we remember the Farm Family program that sustained Appalachian fami-lies for almost fi fty years, through the Depression and beyond; and we learn the time- honored skills of those who came before, from sled building to farming secrets to the craft of toolmaking.

The Foxfi re Center brings together students and teachers to preserve the folk wisdom and values of simple living that reach back across centuries of the Appalachian Mountain life of northeast Georgia.

$18.95 (Can. $21.50) Trade/608 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74259-9EducationIllustrations and photographs throughoutAN ANCHOR ORIGINALOn Sale: September 6, 2011



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Also available:Don’t Get Too Comfortable : 978-0-7679-1603-5Fraud : 978-0-7679-0631-9


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“Some people believe in the power of positive thinking. The rest of us believe in David Rakoff.... We’re just sorry to say that you won’t be disappointed.” —Daily Candy

In this deeply funny, smart, and poignant book, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable makes a case for

always assuming the worst— because then you’ll never be disappointed.

Half Empty ranges from the personal to the uni-versal, from childhood traumas to bigger themes of sex, fame, and religious devotion. But no mat-ter whether David Rakoff is taking on pop cul-ture or dealing with personal tragedy, his sharp observations and fl air for the absurd will have you positively reveling in the untapped power of negativity.

“Writing like this can only be a positive experi-ence for all concerned.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Rakoff writes beyond irony and ridicule to the solemnity of wisdom and meaning.... Funny, clever...and, yes, often wise.” —San Francisco Chronicle

David Rakoff is a writer at large for GQ magazine, and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Public Radio International’s This American Life. He lives in New York City.

$14.95 Trade/224 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-2905-9Humor/EssaysOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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A Love Story

by Matt Burgess

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Dogfi ght: A Love Story, cloth edition: 978-0-385-53298-3

“Arresting and vibrant.... Electrifying.” —Vanity Fair

What Jonathan Lethem has done for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for the borough of Queens in this exuberant

and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend.

Alfredo Batista is worried. His violent older brother is returning from a stretch in prison after a botched robbery, a job that Alfredo was too nervous to take part in. Now the whole neighborhood thinks Alfredo sold out his brother. To make matters worse, Alfredo is dat-ing his brother’s ex- girlfriend, who is eight months pregnant with Alfredo’s child. And if that isn’t bad enough, Alfredo also needs to steal a pit bull for the homecoming dogfi ght and has managed to really piss off some serious Russian mobsters. By turns hilarious and heartwarming, Dogfi ght is a brilliant novel about family, friend-ship, illicit activities, and the great, gritty urban reality of Queens.

“Reminiscent of Richard Price.... With an acute ear for dialogue and the poetry of the street.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A talent to watch.... Dogfi ght is tremendously fun to read.” —The Economist

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Recognizing and Coping with Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthoodby Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D.Revised and Updated and with a New Introduction

Also available:

Answers to Distraction978-0-307-45639-7

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A very readable, highly informative and helpful book.” —The New York Times Book Review

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has long been a life-line to the approximately 18 million

Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now this bestseller has been revised and updated with current medical information for a new genera-tion of readers searching for answers.

Through vivid stories and case histories of patients— both adults and children— Doctors Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ADHD takes, from hyperactivity to daydream-ing. They dispel common myths, offer helpful diagnostic tools, and give a thorough account-ing of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or fam-ily member. But most of all, they focus on the positives that can come with this “disorder”—including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm.

“Conversational in tone, encyclopedic in con-tent, and, best of all, utterly convincing because of its grounding in clinical experience, Driven to Distraction should make Attention Defi cit Hyper-activity Disorder comprehensible even to the most distractible reader.” —Peter D. Kramer, M.D., author of Listening to Prozac

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D., live in the Boston area.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/332 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74315-2Self- Help/Family and RelationshipsOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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The Epic Story of Labor in America

by Philip Dray

There Is Power in a Union, cloth edition: 978-0-385-52629-6

“Shines a bright light of compassion and understanding on ordinary workingmen, women and children.... If you love Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, you’ll love Dray’s history, too.” —San Francisco Chronicle

A stirring history of American labor between the dawn of the industrial age and the present day.

From the nineteenth- century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning infl u-ence today, the contest between labor and capi-tal for American bounty has shaped our national experience. Philip Dray shows us the vital accom-plishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character- driven narrative demonstrates the importance of the fi ght for fairness and economic democracy— a struggle that feels especially urgent today.

“Ambitious.... It’s a big colorful tale, and Dray has a gift for characterization as he tells the sto-ries of dramatic fi gures such as Mother Jones and Jimmy Hoffa.” —Chicago Tribune

“Insightful.... An exhaustive and surprisingly lively account of the integral role labor has played in American life.” —The Plain Dealer

Philip Dray’s At the Hands of Persons Unknown won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize fi nalist. He lives in Brooklyn.

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American ColossusThe Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900

by H. W. Brands

For a complete listing of works by H. W. Brands, visit www.vintageanchor.com, or ask your Random House Sales Representative

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American Colossus, cloth edition: 978-0-385-52333-2

“A fi rst- rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history.... Brands is a terrifi c writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache.” —The New York Times

In this grand- scale narrative history, two- time Pulitzer Prize fi nalist H. W. Brands masterfully portrays the emergence, in a

remarkably short time, of a recognizably mod-ern America.

American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth cen-tury, when a few breathtakingly wealthy business-men transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the fi rst Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chi-cago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimag-inable wealth, but not without cost to its tradi-tional democratic values.

“A superb new history.... A big, brash narrative.” —Bloomberg News

“An excellent book.... Brands is a smart, lively writer.... He demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue.” —The Dallas Morning News

H. W. Brands, a two- time Pulitzer Prize fi nalist and bestselling author of The First American, is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

$17.95 (Can. $20.50) Trade/624 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38677-9History8 pages of photographsOn Sale: October 4, 2011



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Must You Go?My Life with Harold Pinter

by Antonia Fraser

Also available:Faith and Treason : 978-0-385-47190-9Love and Louis XIV : 978-1-4000-3374-4Marie Antoinette : 978-0-385-48949-2Warrior Queens : 978-0-679-72816-0The Wives of Henry VIII : 978-0-679-73001-9

“Fond and affecting.... A book full of glowing fragments.... There’s hardly a dull page.” —The New York Times Book Review

A moving and exquisite memoir about one of the literary world’s most cele-brated marriages: between the greatest

playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the prizewinning biographer Antonia Fraser.

Must You Go? is the story of a thirty- year mar-riage, beginning with a scandalous affair while both Antonia and Harold were married to other people, and ending with Harold’s death on Christmas Eve in 2008 after a lengthy battle with cancer. In between, we hear fi rsthand the joy of their love and partnership, as well as the mutual devotion both felt towards their work and the creative process. Courageous and powerful, this is as much a nostalgic recounting of the past as it is a charming and unique testament to married love.

“An extremely interesting book.... With the pub-lication of this enchanting memoir, she has more than discharged her loving obligation to this distinguished man.” —The Washington Post

“Delicate and absorbing.... A stirring celebra-tion.” —The New Yorker

Antonia Fraser has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain’s Historical Association, and the Franco- British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize. She lives in London.

$16.95 Trade/336 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47557-2Memoir32 pages of photographsOn Sale: October 4, 2011



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At HomeA Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson

Also available:Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors : 978-0-7679-2270-8A Walk in the Woods : 978-0-307-27946-0 (mass market)

A New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and ABA IndieBound BestsellerA Christian Science Monitor and Washington Post Best Book of the Year

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“Delightful.... Bryson’s enthusiasm brightens any dull corner.... Hand over control and simply enjoy the ride.” —The New York Times Book Review

A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. From the author of A Walk in the Woods, and

one of the most beloved and successful writers of our time,

Bill Bryson takes us on a room- by- room journey through his own house, using each room as a jumping-off point into the vast history behind the domestic items we take for granted. The bath-room presents an opportunity to explore the his-tory of hygiene; the bedroom inspires a discussion of sex and anatomy; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade. Bryson demonstrates that what-ever happens in the world eventually ends up in the home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. His wit and sheer prose fl uency make At Home one of the most entertain-ing books ever written about private life.

“An entertaining, warm and witty writer.... He is like one of those wonderful teachers whose pas-sion for his subject transfers itself to the stu-dent.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“If this book doesn’t supply you with fi ve years’ worth of dinner conversation, you’re not paying attention.” —People

Bill Bryson lives in England.

$15.95 Trade/544 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-1939-5Reference35 illustrations in textOn Sale: October 4, 2011



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Bob Dylan in Americaby Sean Wilentz

A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

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Bob Dylan in America, cloth edition: 978-0-385-52988-4

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“An extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer.... Stands apart due to the lucidity of its prose, the rigor of its research and convincing originality.... A pleasure.” —Los Angeles Times

Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Vil-lage. Now, almost half a century later, he

revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan.

Beginning with Dylan’s explosion onto the scene in 1961, Wilentz follows the emerging artist as he develops a body of work unique in America’s cul-tural history. Using his unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, and rare photo-graphs, he places Dylan’s music in the context of its time and offers a stunning critical appre-ciation of Dylan both as a songwriter and performer.

“Not just another biography of the chameleon folkie- rock- star- poet- troubadour.... A book at once deeply felt and historically layered.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Among those who write about Dylan, Wilentz possesses the rare virtues of modesty, nuance and lucidity, and for that he should be cele-brated and treasured.” —The New York Times Book Review

Sean Wilentz is a professor at Princeton Univer-sity and the historian in residence for Bob Dylan’s offi cial website. He lives in New Jersey.

$16.95 (Can. $18.95) Trade/400 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-3179-3BiographyPhotographs throughoutOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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Her Autobiography in Books

by William Kuhn

www.williamkuhn.com

“A fascinating window into an aspect of Jackie Kennedy Onassis that few of us know.” —USA Today

Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischie-

vous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a mem-oir, but she told her life story and revealed her-self in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her offi ce fl oor laying out illustrations, or fl ying to California to per-suade Michael Jackson to write his autobiogra-phy. William Kuhn provides a behind- the- scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her.

“Sheds new light on the part of Jackie’s life that she most clearly chose for herself.... An essential chapter in a remarkable life.” —Los Angeles Times

“Absorbing.... A treat for bibliophiles and Jack-iephiles—and especially for those whom those interests overlap.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

William Kuhn is a biographer and historian and the author of three previous books. He lives in Chicago.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/368 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74465-4Biography40 photographs throughoutOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER

“Sophisticated and sympathetic.... Brings today’s India to life with insight and irreverence.” —The Washington Post

In this updated edition of his bestselling, prizewinning book on the spectacular rise of India, Edward Luce brings the story up

to date and shows how the trends he originally chronicled have only sped up in the wake of the recent fi nancial meltdown.

India has grown increasingly competitive, far beyond the call centers and information tech-nology industries for which it was once famed. The society is becoming more egalitarian, despite the lack of government reform. Corrup-tion endures, yet new public- private partner-ships are transforming India’s infrastructure. In the midst of all this, the growing assertiveness of neighboring China is driving India closer to the U.S. Many forecasters expect India to overtake China as the fastest growing economy as early as 2013.

“Superb.... The blend of anecdote, history, and economic analysis makes In Spite of the Gods an endlessly fascinating, highly pleasurable way to catch up on a very big story.” —The New York Times

Edward Luce is the Washington commentator for The Financial Times and was previously the paper’s South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/416 pp.ISBN/ EAN: 978-1-4000-7977-3Current AffairsNewly repackaged edition will ship in November 2011

In Spite of the GodsThe Rise of Modern India

by Edward Luce

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DisintegrationThe Splintering of Black America

by Eugene Robinson

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Disintegration, cloth edition: 978-0-385-52654-8

“A deftly written account of the fragmentation of America’s black population.” —Time

Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator and columnist Eugene Robinson’s latest book is a paradigm- shifting look at race in

America.

The African American population in the United States has traditionally been viewed as a single entity with unifi ed interests and needs. Robin-son argues that, through decades of desegrega-tion, affi rmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Now, instead of one, there are four distinct groups: a Mainstream middle- class majority with a solid stake in society; a large Abandoned minority with less hope than ever of escaping poverty; a small Transcendent elite, whose enormous wealth and power makes even whites genufl ect; and newly Emergent groups of mixed- race indi-viduals and recent black immigrants who ques-tion what “black” even means.

“Eugene Robinson neatly explodes decades’ worth of lazy generalizations about race in Amer-ica. He raises new questions about community, invisibility, and the virtues and drawbacks of assimilation. An important book.” —Gwen Ifi ll

“A bold call to action.” —Los Angeles Times

Eugene Robinson has served as London bureau chief, foreign editor, and, currently, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-2996-7Social Science /African- American StudiesOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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Running the BooksThe Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

by Avi Steinberg

www.avisteinberg.com

Running the Books, cloth edition: 978-0-385-52909-9

“Acidly funny.... Steinberg proves to be a keen observer, and a morally serious one. His memoir is wriggling and alive— as involving, and as layered, as a good coming- of- age novel.” —The New York Times

A piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to fi nd his place

in the world.

While Avi Steinberg’s friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, and his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seek-ing direction— and dental insurance— Steinberg takes a job at a Boston prison, where he’s in charge of the library counter. Encountering con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of out-casts that has formed among his bookshelves— a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor in this one- of- a- kind memoir.

“I haven’t laughed this hard since David Sedar-is’s Me Talk Pretty One Day.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

“A terrifi c book.... There’s plenty of humor here, for sure, but Steinberg, in tender, understated prose, also brings out the inmates’ irrepressible humanity.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Avi Steinberg lives in Philadelphia.

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Angel TimeThe Songs of the Seraphim, Book One

by Anne Rice

Also available:Angel Time : 978-1-4000-7895-0 (mass market)Called Out of Darkness : 978-0-307-38848-3Christ the Lord: The Road To Cana : 978-1-4000-7894-3 (mass market); 978-0-307-74119-6 (trade paperback)

A New York Times, USA Today, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller

www.annerice.com

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

FIRST TIME IN TRADE PAPERBACK

“Thrilling.... Readers will feel divinely entertained.” —People

Anne Rice’s mesmerizing novel about angels and assassins, the fi rst in the Songs of the Seraphim series, is now

available in trade paperback.

It’s the present day. Toby O’Dare— aka Lucky the Fox— is a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. He’s a soulless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmar-ish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted when a mysterious stranger, a seraph, offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O’Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and vio-lence, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth- century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual mur-der have been made against Jews, where chil-dren suddenly die or disappear. In this primitive setting, O’Dare begins his perilous quest for sal-vation, a journey of danger and fl ight, loyalty and betrayal, selfl essness and love.

“Veers delightfully into vintage Rice.” —Elle

“Intriguing.... A richly enveloping atmosphere.” —The Times-Picayune

Anne Rice lives in Rancho Mirage, California.

$15.00 Trade/336 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-7895-0FictionOn Sale: October 4, 2011

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How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

by Norman Lebrecht

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“Very enjoyable to read, gossipy as well as learned, and it makes the man come to life.” —The Economist

Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?

Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht con-structs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was— along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce— a maker of our mod-ern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.

“Brings Mahler scholarship into the present by including interviews with conductors, visits to sites with Mahler connections and an excellent annotated discography.” —Newark Star- Ledger

“Readers...will be grateful to Lebrecht for his enthusiasm and for his highly personal cultural history.” —The Wall Street Journal

Norman Lebrecht is the award- winning author of several acclaimed works of nonfi ction and two novels. He lives in London.

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by James Kaplan


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“A marvelously thoughtful, readable biography.... Frank brims with deftly sketched, novelistic portraits and a propulsive narrative that never fl ags.” —Los Angeles Times

A landmark biography that traces the dra-matic early years of Frank Sinatra, pro-viding the unvarnished truth about his

rise, fall, and rise again to become a titan of twentieth century culture.

Frank Sinatra was the best- known entertainer of the twentieth century— infi nitely charismatic, lionized, and notorious in equal measure. But, despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incompa-rable voice. We relive the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the fi rst time Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hobo-ken, his fall from grace, and his Oscar- winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last we see what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra.

“Monumental.... Kaplan illuminates the incredi-ble-but-true origins of a twentieth- century phe-nomenon.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Sinatra lovers will be enthralled by Kaplan’s generous approach.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

James Kaplan has coauthored bestselling mem-oirs with Jerry Lewis and John McEnroe and has written for Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and other magazines. He lives in Westchester, New York.

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by Leon Fleisher with Anne Midgette

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“Here’s the real story, terrifi cally and frankly told, along with an enjoyable sprinkling of gossip and just enough insights to justify Fleisher’s reputation as the Obi- Wan Kenobi of pianists.” —Los Angeles Times

M y Nine Lives is an inspiring tale of cour-age, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds by one of the great-

est pianists of our time.

At the peak of his career, Leon Fleisher inexpli-cably lost the use of two fi ngers on his right hand. He continued to play left- handed music, and became a teacher and conductor, but he never gave up hope that he might one day fi nd a cure. Miraculously, in 2003 he returned to Car-negie Hall to give his fi rst two- handed perfor-mance in over three decades. Fleisher reveals for the fi rst time the depression that threatened to engulf him, and the sheer love of music that sus-tained him.

“Leon Fleisher’s comeback has catapulted him up next to Lance Armstrong as a symbol of the indomitable human spirit.” —Holly Brubach, The New York Times

“Warm, witty, honest, and wise— and full of vivid portraits of the world of professional musicians.” —Oliver Sacks, M.D.

Leon Fleisher lives in New York City. Ann Midg-ette is the chief classical music critic for The Washington Post.

$16.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-7679-3137-3MemoirOn Sale: November 1, 2011


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by Peter Ackroyd

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“Magnifi cently crafted.... Fully explores one of the world’s most undeniably glorious cities.” —The Boston Globe

In this sumptuous portrait of Venice, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a magical journey through the canals, bridges, and sunlit

squares of this spectacular island city.

With the incomparable style that characterized his bestselling and acclaimed London: The Biogra-phy, Ackroyd leads us through the history of Ven-ice, from the arrival of the fi rst refugees in the fourth century to its rise as a great mercantile state and trading empire, the wars against Napo-leon, and the tourist invasions of today. In gorgeous, evocative prose, he illuminates the fas-cinating corners of the city’s history: the mer-chants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto, the glassblowers of Murano and the mosaics of St. Marks, the shadowy dead ends and the sad colonies of lepers.

“Ackroyd captures Venice’s bewitching effect on the artists, writers and musicians who fl ocked there over the centuries.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, Ackroyd is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life....A portrait so vivid it’s aromatic.... Intoxicating.” —Pittsburgh Post- Gazette

Peter Ackroyd’s new book, London Under (978-0-385-53150-4), will be published by Nan A. Talese in October 2011. He lives in London.

$21.00 Trade/432 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47379-0History16 pages of color and 16 pages of black and white photographsOn Sale: November 1, 2011

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by Jay Parini

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The Passages of H. M., cloth edition: 978-0-385-52277-9

“A thoughtful reimagining of the man who remains America’s Milton.” —The Washington Post

With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul

of another literary titan.

Through the eyes of his long- suffering wife Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his fl ourishing career as a writer of best-selling tales of seagoing adventures. His epic but ungainly Moby- Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and readers fl ed. He spends his days trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector and contem-plating his malign literary fate. But within him is stirring, perhaps, one great work yet.... In a narrative that shifts seamlessly between Lizzie’s personal account and evocative snapshots of Melville’s crowded life, Parini manages to humanize a giant of letters, while illuminating the source of his matchless creativity.

“Parini gives fl esh and soul to a great author who gained immortality by resolving never to be ordinary.” —The Seattle Times

“Deeply absorbing.... A literary novel in every sense of the word.... It adds strongly to Melville’s posthumous presence.” —Los Angeles Times

Jay Parini lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

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Maeve Binchy is back with this heart-warming tale of a motherless girl raised by a close- knit Dublin neighborhood.

When Noel, a former alcoholic with a big heart, learns that his terminally ill former fl ame is preg-nant with a child she claims is his, he reluctantly agrees to take care of the baby girl, even though he suspects he may not be her real father. Along with the help of his caring network of friends, family and neighbors— including Lisa, his broken- hearted classmate, and Emily, his Ameri-can cousin— Noel adapts to his new responsibili-ties beautifully. But when Marion, a nosy social worker, decides to get involved, she threatens to ruin the unconventional but special arrange-ment they’ve created. It will be up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in the town has something to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.

“Reading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend.” —Booklist

“Binchy makes you laugh, cry and care.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Maeve Binchy lives in Dalkey, Ireland.

$7.99 Mass Market/4 3⁄16" x 6 7⁄ 8"/448 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47549-7 FictionOn Sale: December 27, 2011


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Minding Frankieby Maeve Binchy

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The Annotated Emmaby Jane AustenAnnotated and Edited by David M. Shapard

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AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice— an edition of Jane Aus-ten’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of

an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying and fulfi lling read.

Juxtaposing the complete text of the novel with hundreds of annotations on facing pages, with maps, illustrations, a chronology, and an intro-duction, David M. Shapard’s delightfully enter-taining edition brings Austen’s world to life. Here you will fi nd historical and social context; defi nitions of archaic words; citations from Aus-ten’s life and letters; and all kinds of details that illuminate the plot. Reading The Annotated Emma is like having an incredibly knowledgeable per-son reading over your shoulder and discussing the book with you— it’s perfect for students, for reading groups, and, of course, for Janeites everywhere.

David M. Shapard received a Ph.D. in European history from U.C. Berkeley and lives in upstate New York.

$17.95 (Can. $19.95) Trade/704 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39077-6Fiction/LiteratureIllustrated throughoutAN ANCHOR ORIGINALOn Sale: November 29, 2011

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Tesoros desde el áticoLa extraordinaria historia de la familia de Ana Frank(Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank’s Family— Spanish- language edition)

by Mirjam Pressler

A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL

The story of Anne Frank’s family based on thousands of newly discovered letters and documents

Based on previously unpublished docu-ments, Tesoros desde el ático is an engross-ing and utterly endearing account of a

family whose strength and courage in the face of unspeakable horrors we will never forget.

An elderly antiques dealer dies in Switzerland. Her devoted daughter- in- law fi nally steels herself to head upstairs to the attic to sort through her effects. But this wasn’t just anyone, and this wasn’t just any house. Helene Elias was born Helene Frank, daughter of Alice Frank and sis-ter of Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father. When the rise of the Nazi party began to destroy their lives, Alice left Germany for Switzerland. Her four children scattered to other European capi-tals, but she remained the hub of their lives; they wrote and sent photos, and Alice kept everything she could. And now their lives are opened fur-ther to us with this book.

Mirjam Pressler is one of Germany’s most be-loved authors. She was the German translator of Anne Frank’s diary.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/412 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74346-6Biography/HistoryPhotographs throughoutA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: April 19, 2011

Simultaneous English publication from Doubleday:Treasures from the Attic$28.95 (Can. $33.00) Hardcover/55⁄8" x 81⁄4"/416 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-385-53339-3Biography/HistoryPhotographs throughoutOn Sale: April 19, 2011


El cementerio de Praga(The Prague Cemetery— Spanish- language edition)

by Umberto Eco


The much-anticipated return to fi ction by world-renowned, bestselling author Umberto Eco

Taking us through Italy, France, and other parts of Europe, featuring spies and revolutionaries, high- stakes politics and

forged identities, El cementerio de Praga is a spell-binding read fi lled with conspiracies, mysteries, and a sustained level of suspense that will keep readers hooked from start to fi nish.

Paris, 1897. Captain Simonini, sixty- seven years old, sits writing at his desk in an extravagantly decorated room. From an early age, Simonini dedicated himself to the noble profession of forging documents, but now, for reasons yet to be revealed, he has trouble remembering his own identity. Following the advice of a friend, he decides to write his life’s story. As seen through the lens of Simonini’s own unique experiences, the intrigue and social climate of nineteenth- century Europe parade past the pages of this captivating novel.

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He is the author of The Name of the Rose, among other books, as well as three collections of popular essays. He lives in Milan.

$17.95 (Can. $19.95) Trade/608 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74511-8FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: May 3, 2011

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Lauren KateThe bestselling young-adult series, now in Spanish in the U.S.

Oscuros(Fallen— Spanish- language edition)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

There’s something achingly familiar about the mysterious and aloof Daniel Grigori. He captures Luce Price’s attention from

the moment she sees him on her fi rst day at Sword & Cross boarding school in Savannah. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are screw- ups, and security cameras watch every move. Except Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce— he goes out of his way to make that very clear. But she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a fl ame, Luce has to fi nd out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret even if it kills her.

$9.95 (Can. $10.95) Trade/416 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74500-2FictionVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: May 3, 2011

Fallen, English- language hardcover edition: 978-0-385-73893-4; previous Spanish- language edition: 978-8-484-41599-2

Lauren Kate grew up in Dal-las, went to school in Atlanta, and started writing in New York. She is the author of the international bestsellers Fallen and Torment, and The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove. She lives in Los Angeles.


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Hell on earth. That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eter-

nity to fi nd one another, but now he has told her he must go hunt down the Outcasts— immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast whose unusually gifted students are offspring of fallen angels and humans: the Nephilim. At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything and that he’s hiding something— something dangerous.

$9.95 (Can. $10.95) Trade/432 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74512-5FictionVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: June 14, 2011

Pasión(Passion— Spanish- language edition)

Before Luce and Daniel met at Sword & Cross and fought immortals at Shoreline, they lived many lives. Pasión brings us back to the beginning— giving readers answers to pressing questions and providing long- awaited backstories for Daniel and Luce,

showing centuries worth of dangerous, doomed love.

$9.95 (Can. $10.95) Trade/464 pp.ISBN: 978-0-307-74523-1FictionVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: October 4, 2011


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Paulo CoelhoA 2012 day planner and a major new novel from the beloved #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist

MomentosAgenda 2012(Moments)A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL

A 2012 day planner based on the writings of Paulo Coelho

World- renowned author Paulo Coelho has inspired millions with bestselling classics like The Alchemist and The Pil-

grimage. Now, with this 2012 day planner, the same wisdom that draws readers to his books time and time again can serve as a source of daily inspiration year round. Available in English and Spanish, Momentos (Moments) will feature mov-ing and revealing quotes by this interna tionally beloved author. Users can begin each day with a word of wisdom, receive spiritual food- for- thought as they navigate through their everyday lives, and have Coelho be their guide as they plan and embark on their own travels and per-sonal journeys.

$14.95 (Can. $16.95) Trade/53⁄8" x 81⁄ 4"/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-94654-6Inspiration/ReferenceA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: July 26, 2011

Simultaneous English- language paperback publication from Vintage (see p. 141)

Paulo Coelho is the author of many inter national bestsell-ers, including The Alchemist, 11 Minutes, The Pilgrimage, The Fifth Mountain, and The Valkyries. His books have sold over 130 million copies in 160 countries and have been trans-lated into 72 languages. He lives in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

Also available:

Las valkirias : 978-0-307-74187-5

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A leph marks a return to Paulo Coelho’s beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world’s most

beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self- discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiri-tual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia he will again meet Hilal— the woman he loved 500 years before— an encounter that will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and pres-ent, in search of himself.

Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our sins; a search for love and forgiveness, and the cour-age to confront the inevitable challenges of life.

$24.95 (Can. $27.95) Hardcover/51⁄4" x 77⁄ 8"/304 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74458-6FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: September 27, 2011

Simultaneous English-language hardcover publication from Knopf:Aleph (see p. 49)

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Alyson NoëlBooks three and four of the New York Times–bestselling immortals series

Tinieblas(Shadowland— Spanish- language edition)A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL

She always believed he was her destiny— but what if fate has other plans? Ever and Damen have traveled through

countless past lives so they could be together for-ever. But just as their long- awaited destiny is fi nally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen— one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death, plunging Damen into a bleak afterlife in the Shadowland, an eternal abyss for lost souls. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses her-self in magick. Despite her fi erce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green- eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. As Ever’s connection with Jude grows stron-ger, her love for Damen is tested as never before.

$9.95 (Can. $10.95) Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74513-2FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: July 12, 2011

Shadowland, English- language paperback edition: 978-0-330-52051-5

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“Readers who enjoy the works of P. C. Cast and Stephenie Meyer will love this outstanding paranormal teen- lit thriller.”

—Midwest Book Review

Llama oscura(Dark Flame— Spanish- language edition)A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL

The fourth book of the bestselling Immor-tals series fi nds Ever struggling to help her best friend, Haven, transition into

life as an immortal— trying to keep her from doing anything that puts them at risk— while attempting to gain control over her enemy Roman, so she can fi nally obtain the antidote that will allow her and Damen to be together. But when the spell she casts backfi res, resulting in a strange, foreign pulse that binds her to Roman instead, Ever turns to Jude and dark magick, desperately attempting to break free of the curse, and ultimately risking everything she knows and loves, including her beloved Damen.

$9.95 (Can. $10.95) Trade/352 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74521-7FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: October 4, 2011

Dark Flame, English- language paperback edition: 978-0-330-52061-4

Alyson Noël is the author of many successful young adult books, including Cruel Summer and Saving Zoë. The fi rst vol-ume of the Immortals series spent over twenty- fi ve weeks on the New York Times children’s bestseller list. There will be a total of six installments to the series. She has lived in Greece and New York City, and now resides in Laguna Beach, California.

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Alicia en el país de las maravillas(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland— Spanish- language edition)

by Lewis Carroll

An enduring children’s classic

“Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down as a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh.” —Virginia Woolf

Enjoyed by generations of readers world-wide, this unforgettable children’s classic about a young girl whose curiosity leads

her down a rabbit hole and into an enchanted world needs no introduction in any language. It is a constantly adapted, endlessly referenced masterpiece that attracts readers of all ages. Also featuring the sequel, A través del espejo, and the poem La caza del Snark, as well as John Tenniel’s matchless original illustrations, this Spanish edi-tion is perfect for young readers, families, Span-ish teachers, and anyone who wants to submerge (or resubmerge) themselves in this timeless liter-ary classic.

“A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit.” —The Guardian

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lut-widge Dodgson, born in England in 1832. His famous works include Alice’s Adventures in Won-derland and Through the Looking- Glass, both inspired by Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Oxford. He died in 1898.

$13.95 (Can. $15.95) Trade/384 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74514-9FictionVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: July 12, 2011

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¿Hasta cuándo?México y los mexicanos(Mañana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans)

by Jorge G. Castañeda


From the renowned Mexican scholar and former foreign minister, a book that sheds new light on the puzzling paradoxes of his

native country.

Although its people traditionally avoid confl ict, Mexico is plagued by violence. It has an ambiva-lent and fraught relationship with the United States and yet is home to more American expa-triates than any other country in the world. Its people tend to reject foreigners, yet they have made their nation one of the world’s most popu-lar tourist destinations. And while Mexicans have historically preferred isolated living, as the country’s population swells past 100 million, a bourgeoning middle class is clamoring for affordable housing near major cities. It is these kinds of contradictory characteristics that Casta-ñeda considers in this shrewd and perceptive study, examining both the ways in which they helped forge the nation and the ways in which they may dramatically hinder its progress.

Jorge G. Castañeda was born and raised in Mex-ico City. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is the Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/384 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74509-5Current AffairsA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: August 23, 2011


Simultaneous English publication from Knopf:Mañana Forever? $26.95 (Can. $31.00) Hardcover/61⁄4" x 91⁄4"/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-40424-5Current AffairsOn Sale: August 23, 2011

Also available:Compañero : 978-0-679-78161-5 (Spanish- language); 978-0-679-75940-9 (English- language)

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Frankenstein(Frankenstein— Spanish- language edition)

by Mary Shelley

The literary classic

No one in the grip of this masterpiece of nineteenth- century gothic fi ction, with its highly sympathetic monster who

longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to rec-ognize the force of the original story.

Death and the terrors of childbirth, a burgeon-ing awareness of unconscious drives, contem-porary ideas of atheism, and the corrupting infl uence of society on human nature— all these issues and more combine to inform this story of a man (or monster) built by Dr. Frankenstein and brought to life by electricity. One of the fi n-est works of Romantic- era prose, Frankenstein raised a series of chilling questions that made it an immediate bestseller then, and continues to captivate readers today.

Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft God-win in 1797, the daughter of a radical philoso-pher and a renowned feminist author. She eloped to France with Percy Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his fi rst wife. She died in London in 1851.

$13.95 (Can. $15.95) Trade/336 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74516-3Fiction/LiteratureVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: September 6, 2011

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Drácula(Dracula— Spanish- language edition)

by Bram Stoker

The defi nitive vampire novel

Since its publication in 1897, Drácula has enthralled generation after generation of read-ers with the same spellbinding power with which the count enthralls his victims.

Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, and in fact based his count on extensive research in European folklore, his novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that fl ourishes to this day. But a century of imitations has done nothing to diminish the power of Stoker’s tale. As his chilling, suave monster stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to an insane asylum in England to the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama is infused with an exquisite measure of sensuality and suspense. Drácula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undy-ing wellspring of modern mythology, and irresistible entertainment.

Abraham “Bram” Stoker (1847–1912) was a theater critic in Dublin and then manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, as well as the author of many novels and short stories.


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Para que el monstruo se vayaConsejos para padres e hijos(So That the Monster Will Leave: Advice for Parents and Children)

by María Antonieta Collins and Antonietta Collins


How is your daughter doing, the one who was nearly killed by her fi rst boyfriend?” Such was the question—

frequently asked of María Antonieta Collins by well- meaning friends— that gave rise to this book, a guide that shepherds both parents and teens through some of the most trying moments of adolescence.

Both mother and daughter struggled to over-come the abuse that Antonietta suffered in that early relationship. Now, seven years after the publication of Cuando el monstruo despierta, Col-lins’s fi rst book centered on her daughter’s pain-ful experience, they have teamed up to offer advice from the perspective of both parent and child in a book that is not only helpful and com-passionate, but also the emotionally triumphant conclusion to their own personal ordeal.

María Antonieta Collins is a reporter who has worked for Univision and Telemundo, as well as various programs in her native Mexico. She is the author of several books, including Fidel y Raúl mis hermanos, which was a Spanish bestseller in 2009.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/320 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74344-2Parenting /Self- HelpA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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Tereza Batista cansada de guerra(Tereza Batista Tired of War— Spanish- language edition)

by Jorge Amado

“A twentieth-century Charles Dickens.... A master craftsman.” —The Nation

Set against the lush backdrop of northeastern Brazil, Tereza Batista cansada de guerra cen-ters on the adventures of its titular character, through whom Amado displays some of the fundamental traits— innocence coupled with complexity, the essence of beauty—

which have come to characterize his work.

Sold at thirteen to Justinian Duarte da Rosa, survivor of a smallpox epidemic, lover of Coro-nel Emiliano Guedes, cabaret star, Tereza is a fi gure brimming with life— rebellious, stub-born, kind, and ultimately redeemed by love. Combining tragedy and social criticism with a satisfying dose of humor, vivid anecdotes with colorful characters, this rich and engaging story stands as a vital contribution to the library of Brazilian fi ction.

Jorge Amado is quite possibly the best- known Brazilian author in the world. He published his fi rst novel, El país del carnaval, at eighteen. He died in 2001.


Also available:Gabriela, clavo y canela : 978-0-307-27956-9Doña Flor y sus dos maridos : 978-0-307-27955-2

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B de belleza(B as in Beauty— Spanish- language edition, translated by the author)

by Alberto Ferreras


“A winner. Hilarious, bizarre and poignant all in one wonderful read.... B as in Beauty is B as in Brilliant!” —CNN

For Beauty Marie Zavala (“B” to her friends) it feels as though everyone in the world is either prettier or thinner (or both) than

she is. And the only thing B resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra forty pounds she can’t seem to lose. She takes solace in her career—that is, until she over-hears her boss criticizing her weight and devis-ing a scheme to keep her from being promoted. Enter B’s new accountant, a modern- day match-maker determined to boost B’s fl agging self- esteem. Readers will fall in love with the smart and sassy beauty at the heart of B de belleza as she fi ghts to be accepted for who she is.

Alberto Ferreras is a New York City– based writer, fi lmmaker, and performance artist. He has directed and produced the critically acclaimed Habla series for HBO. B de belleza is his fi rst novel.

$14.00 (Can. $16.00) Trade/416 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74519-4FictionA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: September 6, 2011


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2012Profecías y predicciones sobre el fi n de nuestro tiempo(2012: Prophecies and Predictions About the End of Times)

by María Sezat


A chilling collection of 2012 prophecies, just in time for the new year

According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. For centuries, scholars have attempted to decipher the inscriptions and warnings left behind by this mysterious tribe. But unlike other books that center on one set of

prophecies, 2012: Profecías y predicciones sobre el fi n de nuestro tiempo tackles much more than just the Mayan calendar, featuring interpretations of Nostradamus, astrology, and modern science, among other subjects. Drawing as well upon sunspot cycles, hieroglyphics, and other mysteries related to this potentially fateful year, 2012 decodes these fearsome proph-ecies and discovers what they truly mean for the future of Earth.

María Sezat was born in Guatemala in 1980. She studied literature and history, and cur-rently divides her time between Guatemala and southeastern México.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/400 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74518-7OccultismA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: October 4, 2011

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Carlos SlimEl hombre más rico del mundo(Carlos Slim: The World’s Richest Man)

by Diego Osorio


A revealing biography of one of the world’s most prominent fi gures

With holdings in a variety of Mexican fi rms through his conglomerate Grupo Caso as well as a reach that spans various fi elds, including technology, retail, communications and media, and fi nance, business magnate and philanthropist

Carlos Slim Helú offi cially became the world’s richest man in 2010. This new biography provides fresh insight into the Mexican business world and sheds light on this powerful and sometimes controversial fi gure: his upbringing, his rise to wealth and prominence, his phi-lanthropy, and his extensive business ventures.

Diego Enrique Osorio was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, in 1980. He is a jour-nalist and writer, as well as the author of two collections of poetry. His books include Oaxaca sitiada, El cártel de Sinaloa, and Nosotros somos los culpables.

$15.95 (Can. $17.95) Trade/432 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74517-0BiographyA VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINALOn Sale: October 4, 2011

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El líder que no tenía cargoUna fábula moderna sobre el liderazgo en la empresa y en la vida(The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life— Spanish- language edition)

by Robin S. Sharma

Bestselling self- help author

For over fi fteen years, Robin Sharma has been sharing with Fortune 500 companies a success formula that has made him

one of the world’s most sought- after leadership advisers.

Now in El líder que no tenía cargo, Sharma makes his methods available so that anyone, regardless of position, can help their organizations break through to a new level of success. Sharma dem-onstrates how to infl uence people; recognize and seize opportunities in times of great change; harness the secrets of innovation; become strong enough to lead; and build an unbeatable mind- set. Wherever they may fi nd themselves, either professionally or personally, El líder que no tenía cargo will show its readers how to transform their lives and the world around them.

Robin S. Sharma is the CEO of the training and coaching services fi rm Sharma Leadership Inter-national. He is the author of several books, including fi ve number one bestsellers, that have been published in over forty countries.

$15.00 (Can. $17.00) Trade/272 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74499-9Self- Help/BusinessVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: November 1, 2011

The Leader Who Had No Title, English- language hardcover edition: 978-1-439-10912-0; previous Spanish-language edition: 978-8-425-34442-8

Also available:El monje que vendió su Ferrari : 978-0-307-47539-8

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Las crónicas de KaneLa pirámide roja(The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid— Spanish- language edition)

by Rick Riordan

Book one of the bestselling smash- hit series

Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the

siblings together for a “research experiment” in the hope of setting things right for his fam-ily. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to fl ee. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that other Egyptian gods are waking, and the most dangerous— Set— has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe— a quest that brings them closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Rick Riordan is the author of the number one New York Times–bestselling Percy Jackson series for children and the award- winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. He lives in San Antonio.

$13.95 (Can. $15.95) Trade/528 pp.ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-74522-4FictionVINTAGE ESPAÑOL/RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORIOn Sale: November 1, 2011

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Peter AckroydLondon Under978-0-385-53150-4 (Nan A. Talese, November)Albion, 978-0-385-49773-2The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, 978-0-385-53149-8The Clerkenwell Tales, 978-1-4000-7595-9The Fall of Troy, 978-0-307-38649-6The Lambs of London, 978-1-4000-7958-2The Life of Thomas More, 978-0-385-49693-3London: The Biography, 978-0-385-49771-8The Plato Papers, 978-0-385-49769-5Shakespeare, 978-1-4000-7598-0Thames, 978-0-307-38984-8Venice, 978-0-307-47379-0 (November 2011, p. 235)

Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds978-0-385-53396-6 (Nan A. Talese, October)Alias Grace, 978-0-385-49044-3The Blind Assassin, 978-0-385-72095-3Bluebeard’s Egg, 978-0-385-49104-4Bodily Harm, 978-0-385-49107-5Cat’s Eye, 978-0-385-49102-0Dancing Girls, 978-0-385-49109-9The Edible Woman, 978-0-385-49106-8The Handmaid’s Tale, 978-0-385-49081-8Lady Oracle, 978-0-385-49108-2Life Before Man, 978-0-385-49110-5Moral Disorder and Other Stories, 978-0-385-72164-6Negotiating with the Dead, 978-1-4000-3260-0Oryx and Crake, 978-0-385-72167-7The Robber Bride, 978-0-385-49103-7Surfacing, 978-0-385-49105-1The Tent, 978-1-4000-9701-2Wilderness Tips, 978-0-385-49111-2The Year of the Flood, 978-0-307-45547-5

John BergerBento’s Sketchbook978-0-307-37995-5 (Pantheon, November)About Looking, 978-0-679-73655-4And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, 978-0-679-73656-1Another Way of Telling, 978-0-679-73724-7Art and Revolution, 978-0-679-73727-8Corker’s Freedom, 978-0-679-75513-5A Fortunate Man, 978-0-679-73726-1G., 978-0-679-73654-7Here Is Where We Meet, 978-1-4000-7933-9Hold Everything Dear, 978-0-307-38673-1Keeping a Rendezvous, 978-0-679-73714-8King, 978-0-375-70534-2Lilac and Flag, 978-0-679-73719-3Once in Europa, 978-0-679-73716-2A Painter of Our Time, 978-0-679-73723-0Photocopies, 978-0-679-75517-3Pig Earth, 978-0-679-73715-5Selected Essays of John Berger, 978-0-375-71318-7The Shape of a Pocket, 978-0-375-71888-5The Success and Failure of Picasso, 978-0-679-73725-4To the Wedding, 978-0-679-76777-0

Chris BohjalianThe Night Strangers978-0-307-39499-6 (Crown, October)Before You Know Kindness, 978-1-4000-3165-8The Buffalo Soldier, 978-0-375-72546-3The Double Bind, 978-1-4000-3166-5The Law of Similars, 978-0-679-77147-0Midwives, 978-0-679-77146-3Trans- Sister Radio, 978-0-375-70517-5

Roberto CalassoTiepolo Pink978-0-375-71208-1 (Knopf, September, trade paperback)K., 978-1-4000-7612-3Ka, 978-0-679-77547-8Literature and the Gods, 978-0-375-72543-2The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, 978-0-679-73348-5

John CaseyRoom for Improvement978-0-307-70002-5 (Knopf, November)Compass Rose, 978-0-375-70913-5 (October 2011, p. 168)The Half- Life of Happiness, 978-0-375-70608-0Spartina, 978-0-375-70268-6Testimony and Demeanor, 978-0-375-71930-1


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Jorge G. CastañedaMañana Forever?978-0-375-40424-5 (Knopf, August)Compañero, 978-0-679-75940-9Compañero (Spanish Edition), 978-0-679-78161-5¿Hasta Cuando? (Mañana Forever?—Spanish Edition),

978-0-307-7459-5 (August 2011, p. 249)Utopia Unarmed, 978-0-679-75141-0

Lincoln ChildThe Third Gate978-0-385-53138-2 (Doubleday, December)Death Match, 978-0-307-27556-1Deep Storm, 978-1-4000-9547-6Terminal Freeze, 978-1-4000-9548-3

Joan DidionBlue Nights978-0-307-26767-2 (Knopf, November)After Henry, 978-0-679-74539-6A Book of Common Prayer, 978-0-679-75486-2Democracy, 978-0-679-75485-5The Last Thing He Wanted, 978-0-679-75285-1Miami, 978-0-679-78180-6Political Fictions, 978-0-375-71890-8Run River, 978-0-679-75250-9Salvador, 978-0-679-75183-0Vintage Didion, 978-1-4000-3393-5Where I Was From, 978-0-679-75286-8The Year of Magical Thinking, 978-0-307-27800-5The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play, 978-0-307-38641-0

David Anthony DurhamThe Sacred Band978-0-307-73968-1 (Doubleday, October)Acacia, 978-0-385-72252-0Gabriel’s Story, 978-0-385-72033-5The Other Lands, 978-0-307-38676-2Pride of Carthage, 978-0-385-72249-0Walk Through Darkness, 978-0-385-72036-6

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Looking at African- American History978-0-307-59342-9 (Knopf, November)Colored People, 978-0-679-73919-7The Future of the Race, 978-0-679-76378-9Our Nig (4th Edition), 978-0-307-47745-3 (editor; May

2011, p. 162)Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, 978-0-679-77666-6

Misha GlennyDark Market978-0-307-59293-4 (Knopf, October)McMafi a, 978-1-4000-9512-4

Adam GopnikThe Table Comes First978-0-307-59345-0 (Knopf, October)Angels and Ages, 978-0-307-45530-7Through the Children’s Gate, 978-1-4000-7575-1

Spalding GrayThe Journals of Spalding Gray978-0-307-27345-1 (Knopf, October)Gray’s Anatomy, 978-0-679-75178-6Monster in a Box, 978-0-679-73739-1Sex and Death to the Age 14, 978-0-394-74257-1

Winston GroomKearny’s March978-0-307-27096-2 (Knopf, November)Patriotic Fire, 978-1-4000-9566-7Vicksburg, 1863, 978-0-307-27677-3

David GutersonEd King978-0-307-27106-8 (Knopf, October)The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind,

978-0-679-76718-3East of the Mountains, 978-1-4000-3265-5The Other, 978-0-307-27481-6Our Lady of the Forest, 978-0-375-72657-6Snow Falling on Cedars, 978-0-679-76402-1

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Paul HendricksonHemingway’s Boat978-1-4000-4162-6 (Knopf, September)The Living and the Dead, 978-0-679-78117-2Sons of Mississippi, 978-0-375-70425-3

Alan HollinghurstThe Stranger’s Child978-0-307-27276-8 (Knopf, October)The Swimming- Pool Library, 978-0-679-72256-4 (p. 161)

Yu HuaChina in Ten Words978-0-307-37935-1 (Pantheon, November)Brothers, 978-0-307-38606-9Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, 978-1-4000-3185-6Cries in the Drizzle, 978-0-307-27999-6To Live, 978-1-4000-3186-3

Robert HughesRome978-0-307-26844-0 (Knopf, November)Barcelona, 978-0-679-74383-5The Fatal Shore, 978-0-394-75366-9Things I Didn’t Know, 978-0-307-38598-7

Stuart IsacoffA Natural History of the Piano978-0-307-26637-8 (Knopf, November)Temperament, 978-0-375-70330-0

Ha JinNanjing Requiem978-0-307-37976-4 (Pantheon, October)The Bridegroom, 978-0-375-72493-0The Crazed, 978-0-375-71411-5A Free Life, 978-0-307-27860-9A Good Fall, 978-0-307-47394-3In the Pond, 978-0-375-70911-1Ocean of Words, 978-0-375-70206-8Waiting, 978-0-375-70641-7War Trash, 978-1-4000-7579-9

Randall KennedyThe Persistence of the Colorline978-0-307-37789-0 (Pantheon, August)Interracial Intimacies, 978-0-375-70264-8Nigger, 978-0-375-71371-2Race, Crime, and the Law, 978-0-375-70184-9Sellout, 978-0-307-38842-1

Jonathan LethemThe Ecstasy of Infl uence978-0-385-53495-6 (Doubleday, November)As She Climbed Across the Table, 978-0-375-70012-5Chronic City, 978-0-307-27752-7The Disappointment Artist, 978-1-4000-7681-9Dissident Garden, 978-0-307-74449-4The Fortress of Solitude, 978-0-375-72488-6Girl in Landscape, 978-0-375-70391-1Men and Cartoons, 978-1-4000-7680-2Motherless Brooklyn, 978-0-375-72483-1You Don’t Love Me Yet, 978-1-4000-7682-6

Jeff LindsayDouble Dexter978-0-385-53237-2 (Doubleday, October)Darkly Dreaming Dexter, 978-0-307-27788-6 (trade);

978-0-307-47370-7 (mass market)Dearly Devoted Dexter, 978-1-4000-9592-6 (trade);

978-0-307-47371-4 (mass market)Dexter by Design, 978-0-307-27674-2Dexter in the Dark, 978-0-307-27673-5Dexter Is Delicious, 978-0-307-47492-6 (July 2011)

Brad MatsenOil and Death978-0-307-37881-1 (Pantheon, October)Descent, 978-1-4000-7501-0Jacques Cousteau, 978-0-307-27542-4


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Alexander McCall SmithThe Forgotten Affairs of Youth978-0-307-37918-4 (Pantheon, October)

The Isabel Dalhousie series available in volume order:The Sunday Philosophy Club, 978-1-4000-7709-0Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, 978-1-4000-7710-6The Right Attitude to Rain, 978-1-4000-7711-3The Careful Use of Compliments, 978-1-4000-7712-0The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday, 978-0-307-38707-3The Lost Art of Gratitude, 978-0-307-38708-0The Charming Quirks of Others, 978-0-307-73939-1

(September 2011, p. 216)

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series novels in volume order:

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, 978-1-4000-3134-4Tears of the Giraffe, 978-1-4000-3135-1Morality for Beautiful Girls, 978-1-4000-3136-8The Kalahari Typing School for Men, 978-1-4000-3180-1The Full Cupboard of Life, 978-1-4000-3181-8In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, 978-1-4000-7570-6Blue Shoes and Happiness, 978-1-4000-7571-3The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, 978-1-4000-7572-0The Miracle at Speedy Motors, 978-0-307-27746-6Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, 978-0-307-27747-3The Double Comfort Safari Club, 978-0-307-27748-0The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, 978-0-307-37839-2

(Pantheon, March)

The 44 Scotland Street series available in volume order:44 Scotland Street, 978-1-4000-7944-5Espresso Tales, 978-0-307-27597-4Love Over Scotland, 978-0-307-27598-1The World According to Bertie, 978-0-307-38706-6The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, 978-0-307-45470-6

The Portuguese Irregular Verbs series in volume order:Portuguese Irregular Verbs, 978-1-4000-7708-3The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, 978-1-4000-9508-7At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, 978-1-4000-9509-4

The Corduroy Mansions Series:The Dog Who Came in from the Cold, 978-0-307-37973-3

(Pantheon, June)Corduroy Mansions, 978-0-307-47650-0 (Anchor, May)

And:La’s Orchestra Saves the World, 978-0-307-47304-2

Steven MillhauserWe Others978-0-307-59590-4 (Knopf, August)Dangerous Laughter, 978-0-307-38747-9Edwin Mullhouse, 978-0-679-76652-0Enchanted Night, 978-0-375-70696-7The King in the Tree, 978-1-4000-3173-3The Knife Thrower, 978-0-679-78163-9Little Kingdoms, 978-0-375-70143-6Martin Dressler, 978-0-679-78127-1

Simon Sebag Montefi oreJerusalem978-0-307-26651-4 (Knopf, October)Potemkin, 978-1-4000-7717-5Stalin, 978-1-4000-7678-9Young Stalin, 978-1-4000-9613-8

Michael OndaatjeThe Cat’s Table978-0-307-70011-7 (Knopf, October)Anil’s Ghost, 978-0-375-72437-4The Cinnamon Peeler, 978-0-679-77913-1The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, 978-0-679-76786-2Coming Through Slaughter, 978-0-679-76785-5Divisadero, 978-0-307-27932-3The English Patient, 978-0-679-74520-4Handwriting, 978-0-375-70541-0In the Skin of a Lion, 978-0-679-77266-8Running in the Family, 978-0-679-74669-0Vintage Ondaatje, 978-1-4000-7744-1

Julie OtsukaThe Buddha in the Attic978-0-307-70000-1 (Knopf, August)When the Emperor Was Divine, 978-0-385-72181-3

Jonathan RabanDriving Home978-0-307-37991-7 (Pantheon, September)Bad Land, 978-0-679-75906-5Coasting, 978-0-375-72593-7Foreign Land, 978-0-375-72594-4Hunting Mister Heartbreak, 978-0-375-70101-6Old Glory, 978-0-375-70100-9Passage to Juneau, 978-0-679-77614-7Surveillance, 978-1-4000-3365-2Waxwings, 978-0-375-70905-0

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Richard RhodesHedy’s Folly978-0-385-53438-3 (Doubleday, November)Arsenals of Folly, 978-0-375-71394-1John James Audubon, 978-0-375-71393-4Masters of Death, 978-0-375-70822-0The Twilight of the Bombs, 978-0-307-38741-7 (September

2011)Why They Kill, 978-0-375-70248-8

Ingo SchulzeAdam and Evelyn978-0-307-27281-2 (Knopf, November)33 Moments of Happiness, 978-0-375-40029-2New Lives, 978-0-307-27798-5Simple Stories, 978-0-375-70512-0

John Burnham SchwartzNorthwest Corner978-1-4000-6845-6 (Random House, July)Bicycle Days, 978-0-375-70275-4Claire Marvel, 978-0-375-71915-8The Commoner, 978-1-4000-9605-3Reservation Road, 978-0-375-70273-0

Ali SmithThere but for the978-0-375-42409-0 (Pantheon, September)The Accidental, 978-1-4000-3218-1The Book Lover, 978-0-307-38608-3The First Person and Other Stories, 978-0-307-45485-0Hotel World, 978-0-385-72210-0The Whole Story and Other Stories, 978-1-4000-7567-6

Andrew VachssThat’s How I Roll978-0-307-37994-8 (Pantheon, April)Another Life, 978-0-307-39039-4Blossom, 978-0-679-77261-3Blue Bell, 978-0-679-76168-6Born Bad, 978-0-679-75336-0Choice of Evil, 978-0-375-70662-2Dead and Gone, 978-0-375-72526-5Down Here, 978-1-4000-7611-6Down in the Zero, 978-0-679-76066-5Everybody Pays, 978-0-375-70743-8False Allegations, 978-0-375-70176-4Flood, 978-0-679-78129-5Footsteps of the Hawk, 978-0-679-76663-6The Getaway Man, 978-1-4000-3119-1Haiku, 978-0-307-47528-2Hard Candy, 978-0-679-76169-3Mask Market, 978-0-307-45481-2Only Child, 978-1-4000-3098-9Pain Management, 978-0-375-72647-7Sacrifi ce, 978-0-679-76410-6Safe House, 978-0-375-70430-7Shella, 978-0-679-75681-1Strega, 978-0-679-76409-0Terminal, 978-0-307-38705-9Two Trains Running, 978-1-4000-7938-4The Weight, 978-0-307-74131-8 (November 2011, p. 188)

Martin WalkerThe Black Diamond978-0-307-70014-8 (Knopf, August)America Reborn, 978-0-375-70364-5Bruno, Chief of Police, 978-0-307-45469-0The Dark Vineyard, 978-0-307-45471-3 (August 2011)

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