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World Book Night

World Book Night U.S. has announced its new honorary national chairpeople — bestselling authors Ann Patchett and James Patterson — and the WBN 2013 U.S. book picks. In addition, World Book Night U.S. has opened the online application process for those wishing to become volunteer book givers next spring.

World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious global campaign to encourage reading. World Book Night U.K., where this program first began in 2010, also announced its book list and giver application process this week.
In the U.S., a half million free books will be handed out in towns and cities across America all on one day — April 23, 2013 — by enlisting 25,000 volunteer book lovers to help promote reading by going into their communities and personally handing out specially printed copies to light or non-readers and to those without the means or access to printed books.

James Patterson said: “In my experience, when people like what they are doing, they do more of it. This is the genius of World Book Night — it gets people reading by connecting them with amazing, enjoyable books. I’m honored to be a part of it.”
“I’m very proud to be a part of World Book Night,” Ann Patchett added. “As both a writer and a bookseller, I’m all in favor of getting books into the hands of people who might not otherwise have access to them.”
Carl Lennertz, World Book Night U.S. Executive Director, commented: “I am over the moon with happiness that Jim and Ann have agreed to join our wonderful cause! I know that booksellers, librarians, and our volunteer book givers will be thrilled to have these two beloved authors support our reading and literacy effort in the United States in our second year.”

The 30 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2013, chosen by an independent panel of booksellers and librarians, were also announced. Thousands of copies of each World Book Night title will be printed as special, not-for-resale paperbacks.
Lennertz added: “This isn’t a best-books-of-all-time list; these are contemporary or classic books that appeal to a wide range of new readers. We looked for diversity and variety in all things: subject matter, age level, gender, as well as ethnic and geographic considerations. Last year’s givers also got to nominate books. This is a beautiful mix with, I hope, some old friends and nice surprises! And we thank the authors, who have agreed to waive royalties on the World Book Night editions.”
The Ray Bradbury Estate told WBN organizers that: “Because Ray Bradbury always encouraged and promoted reading books, his family is honored that Fahrenheit 451 will be part of such a wonderful event as World Book Night.”

The 30 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2013, alphabetical by author, are:

• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (Anchor Books/Random House)
• City of Thieves, David Benioff (Plume/Penguin Book Group)
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks)
• My Antonia, Willa Cather (public domain; edition tbd)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Plume/Penguin Book Group)
• The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (Vintage/Random House) – also in Spanish
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (HarperOne/HarperCollins) – also in Spanish
• The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine Books/Random House)
• The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan (Mariner Books/HoughtonMifflinHarcourt)
• Bossypants, Tina Fey (Regan Arthur/Back Bay Books)
• Still Alice, Lisa Genova (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster)
• Looking for Alaska, John Green (Speak/Penguin Book Group)
• Playing for Pizza, John Grisham (Dell/Random House)
• Mudbound, Hillary Jordan (Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing)
• The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster (Yearling/Random House)
• Moneyball, Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton)
• The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
• Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster)
• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, James Patterson (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Population: 485, Michael Perry (HarperPerennial/HarperCollins)
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (HarperTorch/HarperCollins)
• The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (Disney)
• Montana Sky, Nora Roberts (Jove/Penguin Book Group)
• Look Again, Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin’s)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown)
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor Books/Random House)
• Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith (Tin House Books)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain (public domain; edition tbd)
• Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
• Favorite American Poems; Large Print edition, various authors (Dover)

Volunteer book givers may apply at World Book Night’s website now through January 23, 2013, by providing answers to several questions and picking a book title to give out from the World Book Night U.S. 2013 list.

U.S. Executive Director Lennertz said: “We believe that the wide range of books being offered will appeal to our volunteer book givers and, in turn, to a half million new readers.”

World Book Night in the U.S. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. World Book Night is also celebrated in the U.K., where it originated in 2010, and in Ireland and Germany. The campaign is supported by bookstores, libraries, authors, and publishers nationwide.

Zalmay Khalilzad

“Zal offers compelling insights into what it means to be of two places, and he has a fascinating and gritty story to share of the making of U.S. policy in one of the most complicated and challenging regions of the world.” —Madeleine Albright

“Zalmay Khalilzad is a special talent and colleague who not only thinks strategically, but deftly implements policies on the ground in the most challenging of circumstances. His finger-tip feel for the politics, culture, and personalities of the Middle East, combined with his understanding of the measured use of America’s capabilities, has made him one of the most effective diplomats in recent times. Zal has written a memoir that recounts events he saw firsthand with important insights for today’s challenges.” —Donald Rumsfeld

 Many Americans, including leading presidential candidates, say that the U.S. cannot — and thus should not — seek to shape events in the greater Middle East. Now, a native son of Afghanistan and American by choice, the highly respected former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations, and the most influential and highest-ranking official of Muslim descent to serve in the U.S. government,challenges this view.

In his new book The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World (St. Martin’s Press; March 22, 2016), Zalmay Khalilzad delivers an inspiring, perceptive, and timely examination of the political forces and cultural currents that have shaped the Middle East. Part memoir of a political insider, part historical record, and part incisive analysis of the current state of the Middle East, The Envoy arrives in time for foreign policy discussions leading up to the 2016 election.

Khalilzad traces his path from his traditional childhood in the ancient city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan, to his time as an exchange student in California, where he discovered a “land of opportunity” he had never known, to the halls of the White House where he served three U.S. presidents.

On 9/11, Khalilzad found he was uniquely placed to find common ground and peaceful accommodation between his two worlds and to help shape mutually beneficial relationships between the country of his birth and the country he came to love and call home. As U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and then Iraq, he helped craft two constitutions, forge governing coalitions, and played a central role in efforts to stabilize volatile societies – and to attempt damage control when policies went awry. As U.S. Ambassador to the UN, he used his distinct personal tact to advance U.S. interests and values. Seeing firsthand the limits of conventional diplomacy in a chaotic and multicultural world, he experimented with new approaches, and he shares lessons from both the successes and the failures of these ventures in front-line mediation. The Envoy takes us behind the scenes into the riveting and at times dismaying internal debates of the George W. Bush Administration, revealing how the leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq were selected, and the efforts to manage and subdue some of the world’s most dangerous insurgents and warlords.

The South Beach Diet Super Quick Cookbook

Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi is a renowned restaurateur and author of New York Times bestselling cookbooks Plenty, Jerusalem, and Ottolenghi, and the upcoming Sweet (Ten Speed Press, October 3 2017).

With Nopi, his most recent foray in cookbooks and “the meeting of two distinctive worldviews,” this culinary rock star makes accessible the complex and flavorful dishes available at his newest high-end restaurant.

While his five famed restaurant are popular London culinary destinations encompassing patisserie, deli, dining experience, and bakery, Yotam’s true passion and voice shine in his writing as an expert looking to share beautiful food with the world.

Yotam writes for The Guardian, and appears on BBC. He lives in London and owns five much-loved restaurants there: Nopi, as well as four eponymous spots around the city.

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WORLD WAR Z

The #1 New York Times Bestseller: Read the Book that Inspired the Major Motion Picture

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face to face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. WORLD WAR Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is necessary and rewarded because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”

Since its publication in September 2006, WORLD WAR Z has appeared on the hardcover, paperback, and mass market New York Times bestseller lists for a combined total of 115 weeks and counting, and has sold well over 1.5 million copies across formats. Now, published to coincide with Paramount’s major motion picture adaptation, this new trade paper edition (Broadway Books, May 14, 2013, $14.95) will offer a fresh crop of readers the chance to discover the definitive chronicle of “The Zombie Wars” and the book that inspired the film.

About Max Brooks

“The Studs Terkel of zombie journalism,” Max Brooks is also the author of the NewYork Times bestsellers The Zombie Survival Guide and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks.

The Soul Of All Living Creatures

“The Soul of All Living Creatures is an inspiring, joyful, uplifting account of the magical bond between humans and the earth’s creatures. This book conveys a profound message: we are part of a larger web of life which we must honor, or risk grave consequences.” — Larry Dossey, MD, author of Reinventing Medicine and One Mind

Just as Jane Goodall transformed our knowledge of wild chimpanzees, Dr. Vint Virga is revolutionizing our perception and understanding of all animals in his work as one of our most distinguished veterinarians and veterinary behaviorists.

Now, in his new book, The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human (Crown; July 2013), based on his 30-years experience, Dr. Vint Virga explores our remarkable connection to animals—from whales, wolves, and ocelots to mice, dogs, and cats—and shares his fascinating insights on how intricate this link is, and how vital to the lives of man and beast, alike.

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience. After exhausting his expert knowledge and skills, he quietly sat with a dog, Pongo, that remained unresponsive and slowly dying, though all its medical needs had been tended. Too tired to talk, Dr. Virga did paperwork, with one hand draped loosely over the animal’s chest, tracking its shallow and labored breathing. After an hour, Virga felt a subtle shift. Pongo’s respiration eased; later, he shifted imperceptibly toward the doctor. In those moments, Virga witnessed the extraordinary power of simple human contact and compassion on a dog struggling to survive. Dr. Virga decided to specialize in behavioral medicine and care of domestic and exotic creatures.

Drawing on his decades of practice and expertise, Dr. Virga brings new relevance and significance to animal behavior, and demonstrates how, by attempting to perceive the world from the perspective of animals, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, improve our character and relationships, enhance our communication, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality.

Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures shows us that by unlocking the mysteries of animal behaviors we can open a door into our own lives for new insights, perspectives, and ways of being. If we’re willing to listen, notice, and embrace what we all hold in common with animals, we can bring deeper meaning and fulfillment to our lives.

ABOUT VINT VIRGA

Dr. Vint Virga is a distinguished practitioner and leader in veterinary behavioral medicine. He consults nationally to zoos and wildlife parks, private corporations, and professional organizations on the care and well-being of animals and has appeared on ABC’s World News, National Geographic’s Explorer, PBS’s Nature and on Wild TV.

Changing forever the way we see our beloved pets, animals in the wild, and ourselves, Dr. Vint Virga has captivating stories to relate.

WITH CHARITY FOR ALL

As the season for giving approaches, it is time to determine if and where you’ll be donating. Ken Stern, the former head of a major nonprofit reveals the surprising failings of the charitable world—a shocking 1.4 million separate organizations that make up 10 percent of the U.S. economy. Counterintuitive, provocative, compulsively readable, With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give (Doubleday; On Sale 2/26/2013; $26.95) creates a new paradigm that will be a game changer for the charitable sector and will transform every American’s relationship to their end-of-year giving.

During his years as the CEO of National Public Radio, Ken Stern became aware that working for a nonprofit was like entering a looking-glass world where the marketplace incentives were utterly perverse. The experience set him on a journey to explore the vast and unaccountable world of U.S. charities. From water charities that serve Africa to the policemen who provide drug education in public schools, from the Metropolitan Opera to college bowl games, he discovers a huge, mostly well-meaning charitable sector that is nonetheless hobbled by deep structural flaws.

Unlike private corporations, which respond to market signals, adjust strategies and go out of business when they fail, nonprofit organizations have a very low barrier to entry (the IRS approves 99.5% of applications) and once begun basically never die. Groups that rate charities use deeply flawed measures, such as the percentage spent on overhead costs, a measure that actually deters charities from making much-needed investments. The problem, according to Stern, lies in a fundamental lack of oversight. Charities are rarely asked to prove their effectiveness to their funders, whether private donors or government grants. When they are, charities themselves define their own success, results that do not paint an accurate picture.

The stories of charities that spend millions despite never even cracking the problems they set out to solve (D.A.R.E, Red Cross and most water charities, sad to say) are devastating. But it’s not all bad news. Stern explores a growing movement toward nonprofit accountability and effectiveness and offers a prescription for individual giving and reform. With Charity For All is an intriguing book and its equal analysis of the charitable sector will have readers reevaluating the ways in which they give.

ABOUT KEN STERN

Ken Stern is the CEO of Palisades Media Ventures, a digital media content company and the former CEO of National Public Radio (1999-2008). He lives in Washington, D.C.

THE SOCIAL CLIMBER’S HANDBOOK

William Ury

“Wise and realistic, noble and practical, brilliant and approachable, Ury has created a definitive body of work on how we can get to yes in our conflicted world.” —Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

“We have met our enemy at the negotiating table–and it is us. Ury has written a prequel to his classic Getting to Yes. If you adopt the winning strategies in this book, you’ll come out ahead in business and in life.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

Conflict is a growth industry. From Washington politics to school board meetings to the Middle East, you see people attacking others instead of tackling problems. Everyone seems to be busy getting to no. Why aren’t we getting to yes?

Ask the guy who literally wrote the book, one of the world’s most influential experts and the co-author of the world’s bestselling negotiation title, Getting to Yes (over 11 million copies sold.)

When caught in opposition, we point fingers. Now, in his new book Getting To Yes With Yourself (And Other Worthy Opponents) (HarperOne; January 20, 2015; $26.00), Harvard negotiation authority Bill Ury suggests a radically different approach: start by looking in the mirror.

In his 35 years of mediating in some of the world’s most daunting conflicts—from civil wars to labor strikes, boardroom battles, and family feuds—Ury has found that the biggest obstacle to agreement is us: our all-too-human tendency to react in ways that do not serve our true interests. Ury proposes that we take the transforming lead by going to the “balcony”—a place of mental and emotional perspective where we can keep our eyes on the prize. From the balcony, we can change the game from lose-lose confrontation to problem solving for mutual gain. In  Getting To Yes With Yourself, he describes a six-step method for creating opportunities even in the toughest circumstances, with common sense uncommonly applied. And while it takes two to tangle, it takes only one to change the way we deal with differences.

ABOUT BILL URY

Bill Ury, cofounder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known and most influential experts on negotiation. He has consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and has served as a consultant to the White House. Ury is the coauthor of Getting to Yes, the best-selling negotiation book in the world, and seven other books, including the New York Times bestsellers Getting Past No and The Power of a Positive No. He lives in Boulder, CO.

Getting To Yes With Yourself is the prequel to Getting to Yes, the prerequisite course we can all benefit from to reach agreement and get along with others – whether at work with a difficult client, at home with a resistant teen, or in the community with a political adversary. Bill Ury’s six-step method will dramatically improve your ability to negotiate with others, develop healthy relationships, make work more productive, and live a more satisfying life.

Getting to yes, it turns out, is an inside job; the first radical step is getting to yes with ourselves.

The Silver Lining

“Like a good friend, this book will be by your side as you travel through the world of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.” — Dr. Susan Love, surgeon, breast cancer advocate, and author of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book

“Hollye Jacobs combines inspiration with practical suggestions for women and men working through a breast cancer diagnosis. She gives breast cancer survivors the ability to put things in perspective, with spot-on advice about what to expect.” — Nancy Brinker, Founder and Chair, Global Strategy, Susan G. Komen®

As a healthy, happy, thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family history of breast cancer, being diagnosed with the disease rocked Hollye Jacobs’ world. As a nurse, social worker and child development specialist, she found herself in the unique position of moving into the hospital bed. She was trained as a clinician to heal. When she became a patient, the healing process became personal.

This book is Hollye’s intimate experience with breast cancer written through the lens of her professional, clinical experiences in health care. In this graceful, practical and exquisitely illustrated book with full-color photographs by award-winning photographer Elizabeth Messina, Hollye offers an informative, therapeutic and supportive resource for those who are diagnosed with the disease. This book is a lifeline, guide and source of hope that is simultaneously honest and illuminating, practical and relatable, beautiful and educational.

Looking for and finding Silver Linings buoyed Hollye from the time of her diagnosis throughout her double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and recovery. Silver Linings gave her the balance and perspective to get her through the darkest of days and comprise the heartbeat of the book.

The Silver Lining of Hollye’s breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery is to try to make it better for those who have to follow her down this difficult path. This is why she is sharing her story. Hollye is the experienced girlfriend who wants to help shed some light on the darkness, provide guidance through the confusion and hold your hand throughout your experience.

At once comforting and instructive, realistic and inspiring, this book is itself a Silver Lining, a beautiful, must-read for all people facing with breast cancer.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW, is an inspirational speaker, writer and clinician. Her professional knowledge in health care combined with her personal experience as a patient presents a powerful wisdom package. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her family. Read her blog, watch videos, laugh, and be inspired at “The Silver Pen.”

Elizabeth Messina was named one of the 10 Best Photographers in the World by American Photo 2010. To see more of her beautiful images visit www.elizabethmessina.com and her award-winning blog “Kiss The Groom.” Elizabeth also lives in Santa Barbara with her family.

Wild by Nature

I was born with two legs, so I decided to use them.

So recounts Sarah Marquis, who invites us to ride shotgun and experience her epic 10,000 mile odyssey through the eyes of a solo traveler in her debut memoir, WILD BY NATURE (Thomas Dunne Books; February 2016).

Marquis adventures through Siberia and into Mongolia, China and Laos, and eventually Thailand, where she boards a cargo ship to Australia in order to take on the final continent in her journey.

A veritable legend in the hiking realm, Marquis shares the unique perspective that lends to her position as one of the most knowledgeable female hikers alive today. While likened to the famed explorers of past, she has experienced a world beyond Robert Falcon Scott and his peers. Antagonized by drunk Mongolian horsemen, robbed of her Blackberry by a gang of Chinese children, a victim of either malaria or dengue fever (she wasn’t sure which one), and self-defender against drug traffickers brandishing machine guns in Laos, Marquis stood her ground as a only a true adventurer can. But of all her trials and tribulations, she says, it is humans—not nature—that consistently prove the most challenging.

With WILD BY NATURE, Marquis has authored a riveting, nearly unbelievable memoir—it’s Wild meets Eat, Pray, Love…on steroids.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A National Geographic 2014 Adventurer of the Year, Sarah Marquis has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. Her past solo expeditions have included hikes along the Pacific Crest Trail, as well as across both Australia and South America.

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When Grief Calls Forth the Healing

In the winter of 1961, Mary R. Morgan was twenty-three-years-old.  She had a new job, a new husband, and a privileged life as a member of the Rockefeller family, specifically the daughter of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New York. But tragedy changed the family forever when Mary’s twin brother, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared off the remote coast of New Guinea while collecting Oceanic art for a New York City museum.  It was a worldwide front-page news event with repercussions it would take decades to heal: Michael was never found.

When Grief Calls Forth the Healing: A Memoir of Losing a Twin (Open Road Media, June, 2014) is a compelling, spiritually evocative journey through the experience and integration of deep personal loss as it is seen through the unique lens of losing a twin.

When Grief Calls Forth the Healing: A Memoir of Losing a Twin tells the painful, hope-giving story of twin loss and healing. Morgan takes the reader on her journey out of the terrible isolation of becoming a lone twin into healing community and into partnership with her own natural healing process. By coming into relationship to herself, to others and to nature, she is able to heal her grief and claim a new relationship to her twin brother.

This story of twin bereavement has universal meaning, for it becomes a magnifying glass for the grieving issues in any deeply bonded relationship. It highlights and brings understanding to some of the most important healing and grieving issues that all people will face in their lives when they lose someone they deeply relate to and love. In this compelling narrative, Morgan provides fascinating insight into the subject of bereavement. Through her personal and professional experiences as a psychotherapist, Morgan discusses her work with the twin survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster and the healing benefits of imagery developed from the work of Carl Jung.  And she reveals our culture’s deep fear of not only death, but grief itself.

The book opens with a play between the family’s futile search for Michael in New Guinea and recounting exquisite childhood memories that unpack the fascinating bonded relationship of twins–the secret names, the effortless exchange of being with someone who knows you in a way that no one else ever could or will. Losing anyone close is like losing a part of ourselves. Losing a twin is like losing an entire identity. What followed was Mary Morgan’s 27-year repression of her grief and an unconscious denial of her twin’s death, which haunted her relationships and controlled her life.

A beautifully honest story that sheds light on the isolation and anguish of personal loss, Morgan’s story is finally hopeful, as it uncovers a universal “natural healing imperative,” supported through personal connection and community.  Her memoir will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Rockefeller Morgan, L.M.S.W., holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University, and is a certified guide and trainer in Spontaneous Interactive Imagery. She lectures on the subject of twin loss and led a bereavement group for those whose twin died in the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster. She conducts bereavement workshops at the Twinless Twins Support Group International conferences and delivered their keynote speech in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 and will deliver it again in 2014. Ms. Morgan has worked as a therapist at the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services and has been in private practice since 1991, specializing in twin loss and bereavement counseling. Mary R. Morgan is also Executive Producer of a forthcoming documentary on genetic determinism and the American dream. She is married and has three children and seven grandchildren.

The Real Food Revolution

We Americans love our food. It’s part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural output are the envy of the world. For most of our history, we lived close to the land, food was accessed locally, and we processed it in our own kitchens. But as our population and economy boomed in the last century and we concentrated in the cities, we industrialized our food system—with food coming far from home and processed multiple times. As foods rich in natural taste declined, we relied on high amounts of added sugar, fat, and salt to entice our palates. And it has taken a toll: our soil is polluted, our practices are unsustainable, and our health problems, including everything from allergy-related disease to obesity, are on the rise. This has all contributed to historic levels of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other causes of preventable death.

The good news is that people are starting to find solutions. They’re voting with their pocketbooks for a new kind of food system—family farm, 21st century style. Suburban and urban moms (and dads) want to know what’s in their food and where it comes from. No more snack packs, Ding Dongs, and soda for lunch. This revolution is not only in how people eat, but also in how they are grow, distribute, shop for, and prepare food. And the food is better tasting, better looking, and better for you.

The Real Food Revolution (Hay House / October 14, 2014) by Congressman Tim Ryan is a manifesto for this new food movement.

Readers will find information on:

• The history and current state of our food systems
• Myriad negative impacts of our present food practices on our health and our planet
• Pros and cons of the current farm bill and what changes could help restore our nation
• What’s happening both at the national and local levels
• How people can get involved, with actionable steps at the end of each chapter

This is a non-partisan, good news message that will inform, inspire, and help readers around the country get involved. The era of the Twinkie and the hot-dog-stuffed-crust pizza has been fun, but now it’s time for a change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Ryan was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, at the age of 29, and is currently serving in his fifth term representing Ohio’s 17th Congressional District. He maintains a strong commitment to the economic and social well-being of his constituents in northeast Ohio. He serves as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, as well as its Subcommittees on Readiness and on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

He also serves as a member of the House Budget Committee and co-chairman of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus.

Congressman Ryan has a daily mindfulness meditation practice. He has been an outspoken advocate for promoting mindfulness practice as an aid to dealing with the variety of complex problems facing the nation. During his tenure in the House, he has helped to get mindfulness and social and emotional learning programs established in several schools in his district. He also spearheaded a conference at a medical school in his district on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Congressman Ryan is a 4-time recipient of the Golden Triangle Award, the National Farmers Union’s highest legislative honor. The award is presented to members of Congress who have demonstrated leadership and support policies that benefit America’s family farmers, ranchers, fishermen and rural communities.

What Makes Business Rock

The Prostitutes’ Ball

Wednesday Martin

“If anthropologist Jane Goodall had landed on Park Avenue with a Birkin bag instead of the wilds of Tanzania with a notebook, this is the book she would have written…a smart, funny, and original dissection of the tribal rites of rich and striving New Yorkers.”—Steven Gaines, author of Philistines at the Hedgerow

What happens when a modern Dian Fossey moves to the social jungle of Manhattan’s most exclusive zip code…and raises her children there?

When Wednesday Martin arrived on the Upper East Side with her husband and young son, she discovered a tight tribe of glamorous, uber-wealthy mommies with sharp elbows and massive ambitions. In a world where morning greetings went unreturned, getting play dates was a blood sport, and even walking down the sidewalk was an exercise in dominance and submission, she was a culture-shocked outcast. Using her background in anthropology and primatology to find her footing, she made like Goodall in Gombe, observing mating practices, display rituals, and moms acting like olive baboons at school drop-off. She channeled Margaret Mead to understand the tribe’s seasonal migrations, cultish exercise rites, and her own overpowering desire to possess a fetish handbag. But she also saw that not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs could protect this ecologically released tribe from calamity. When Wednesday’s life turned upside down, she learned how deep the bonds of female friendship really are.

I absolutely loved this memoir and could not put it down! It’s incredibly clever…astonishingly illuminating. Somehow, Martin manages to be caustically perceptive but also generous, funny, moving, and erudite all at the same time. This is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in a long time.” — Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package

“When mean girls and wannabes grow up, they become the women so perfectly depicted in Wednesday Martin’s funny and intelligent memoir. How wonderful that she survived the jungle of Park Avenue with strong female friendships intact.” —Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes

“Wednesday Martin’s blissfully funny memoir is also the definitive guide to survival on the Upper East Side—or wherever there are social ladders to climb. What a fresh new voice!” —Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climber’s Handbook

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

We Are What We Pretend To Be

The Pallbearers

Visionary Women

The One

Victoria Tennant

In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the lushly photographed life story of one of ballet’s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919–2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York.

Drawing on rare photographs, letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, in Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (October 15, 2014), Baronova’s daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, warmly recounts Baronova’s dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art . She begins with the Baronov family’s flight from Russia during the Revolution, which led them eventually to Paris, where at the age of thirteen, Baronova became a star, chosen by the legendary George Balanchine to join the Ballets Russes. Tennant provides an intimate account of Baronova’s life as a dancer and rare behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road with the stars of the company. The story of Irina Baronova is also the story of the rise of ballet thanks to the Ballets Russes, who brought the magisterial beauty and star power of dance to big cities and small towns alike.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Victoria Tennant played the title role in her first film, The Ragman’s Daughter, in 1972, and she has since then gone on to work in film, television, theater, and radio, receiving Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She lives in Los Angeles.

Advance Praise

“My friend Irina Baronova was a legendary Baby Ballerina of the Ballets Russes and an ambassador of classical ballet in America, but this book shows us the kind, funny, and hardworking woman behind the legend. She was a total pro and an elegant human being. If it’s possible, I’m more in awe than ever.”—Mikhail Baryshnikov

“As a dancer myself, I connected deeply to Baronova’s words about what it’s like to feel in your soul the extremes of sacrifice, familial rivalry, and tremendous love that come from committing oneself to the art form. These pages made me realize how lucky we are now, we American dancers, because of the pioneering energy and sheer strength of Baronova and the other great dancers of the Ballets Russes who performed tirelessly night after night, stirring and thrilling hearts in every tiny pocket of America. It is something that should never be forgotten and should be instilled in all young dancers. We could never enjoy the careers we have today without these artists paving the way for us. I really couldn’t put this book down. I was in tears.”—Wendy Whelan, New York City Ballet

“This is a beautiful record of the twentieth century lived through dance.  It is illuminating and passionate and vivid: imagine Nabokov’s Speak Memory photographed and choreographed.  I loved it.”—Edmund De Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

“The passionate life story of the beautiful and dedicated Russian prima ballerina, Irina Baronova, is tenderly recounted by her daughter with wonderful photographs and vivid detail.”—Anjelica Huston

The Number

The Mother Court

“This lively account of the nation’s oldest, and perhaps its most exciting, trial court, chronicling the Communist trials of the hysterical McCarthy era, the exposing of America to the literature of sex, prosecutions of Mafia cartels, and sensational libel cases, is peppered with the perceptive observations of a wise, experienced litigator.” — Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

“A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin’s sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit’s famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would be criminal not to read this book.” — Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author and former prosecutor

The American justice system, which is the envy of the world, is based on a fair and impartial trial process and the concept of equal justice under law. America’s greatest trial court continues to be the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where the most celebrated trials of the 20th century occurred that became a metaphor for transformational changes in American society. Lawyers call it the “Mother Court,” our country’s oldest federal court. Created in 1789, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York antedates the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the first lawyers admitted to practice was Aaron Burr. Now, in The Mother Court: Tales of Cases That Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court (American Bar Association; June 2014; $29.95), James D. Zirin — appointed by the legendary U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau as a federal prosecutor — shares his fascinating insights into the premier crucible of justice, beginning with the crucial period in the nation’s history, the Cold War era of the 1950s, up to the present.

From racketeering and mobsters to censorship and national security, the Mother Court and these cases for the ages are interwoven and interconnected with the America we know today. Astute and perceptive, Zirin examines the Mother Court’s influence on profound issues — internal security, organized crime, terrorism, obscenity, white-collar crime, libel, official corruption, and press freedoms. It is the court that convicted Russian spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and freed Joyce’sUlysses, the sexually explicit film “I Am Curious Yellow,” and the Pentagon Papers from the censor’s grip. Taking us inside the major cases that unfolded during a time of tremendous change in American society, The Mother Court includes the “Red Scare” trial of Alger Hiss; Roy Cohn, Communist hunter of the McCarthy era; the sensational libel cases of Ariel Sharon and Time magazine; General Westmoreland and CBS; the libel action of Senator Barry Goldwater against eroticist Ralph Ginzburg; the government obscenity suit against the film “Deep Throat,” and Mayor Giuliani’s effort in 1999 to close down the Brooklyn Museum. There are notorious trial incidents, involving storied judges who made an indelible impact on justice in America.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James D. Zirin is a leading litigator who has appeared in federal and state courts around the nation. He hosts the critically acclaimed cable TV talk show “Conversations in the Digital Age.” A former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, his op-ed articles have appeared in theLos Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Washington Times, Forbes, and Barron’s. Capturing the unique traditions and contributions of the Mother Court, and sounding a wake-up call lest we lose something significant in the quality of justice, James D. Zirin provides an engrossing read in The Mother Court.

Very Valentine

Vertical Coffin

The Hunger Fix

Untouchable

Ultra Metabolism

The Glass Closet

“I wish I had been brave enough to come out earlier during my tenure as chief executive of BP. I regret it to this day. I know that if I had done so I would have made more of an impact for other gay men and women. It is my hope that the stories in this book will give some of them the courage to make an impact of their own.”—John Browne

Today gay men and women in the Western world enjoy greater acceptance and more legal protection than ever before. Yet an alarming number of businessmen and women choose to remain closeted at work. In The Glass Closet, John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, argues that whether you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or straight, it’s better for you and your business when you bring your authentic self to work.

Browne draws on the latest research, his own experience as a closeted gay man in the oil industry and interviews with gay and lesbian leaders to expose the lingering culture of homophobia in corporations around the world, and to give courage and inspire the LGBT community to share who they are with their employers and co-workers. Courageous and thought provoking, this call-to-arms demonstrates that the hidden cost of hidden lives is far greater than we think.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley) was CEO of BP from 1995 – 2007, where he built a reputation as a visionary leader, transforming BP into one of the world’s largest companies. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the U.S. Academy of Arts and Sciences and Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Galleries. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Stanford Universities, was knighted in 1998, and made a life peer in 2001. He is now a Partner at Riverstone Holdings, and the author of the memoir Beyond Business and of Seven Elements That Changed the World.

Ultimate Gaming

On April 30, 2013, Ultimate Gaming made history by becoming the first licensed gaming company to offer legal, real-money online casino-style gaming in the U.S. when it launched Ultimate Poker (UltimatePoker.com) in Nevada.  On Nov. 26, 2013, Ultimate Gaming made history again by becoming one of the first companies to offer real-money online casino-style games in New Jersey.

ABOUT TOM BREITLING

Tom Breitling is Co-founder of Fertitta Interactive, an online gaming company, and Co-founder and Chairman of Ultimate Gaming, a real money and social gaming company.

In 2011, Breitling oversaw the purchase of CyberArts Licensing LLC (CyberArts) by Fertitta Interactive. CyberArts provides online gaming solutions and is based in Oakland, California (USA). Through CyberArts, Ultimate Gaming will continue to work towards creating innovative online products, which help revolutionize in the industry. This includes virtual games such as poker and other traditional casino games. In June 2012, Fertitta Interactive launched its real-money and social gaming company, Ultimate Gaming, an online gaming business it has been developing since its acquisition of CyberArts Licensing LLC.

Breitling published his autobiography, Double or Nothing, in 2007 and worked at Wynn Resorts with Steve Wynn from 2008 to 2010.

Breitling lives with his wife and three daughters in Las Vegas.

The Exercise Cure

What if there were a drug to treat every illness, across all body systems, proven potent against heart disease, depression, arthritis, PMS and erectile dysfunction — even in chronic diseases such as asthma, dementia, and certain types of cancer? What if it had no side effects, was completely free, readily available, and worked for everyone? Every single person who took it decreased her risk of premature death and raised his quality of life. Would you want it?

In a healthcare system that spends 17% of GDP, roughly $2.7 trillion, mostly on disease treatment, how do we save money and prevent illness? By increasing the use of the world’s most effective preventive medicine:exercise.

Jordan D. Metzl, MD, explains how everyone can maximize their daily dose in his groundbreaking new book, The Exercise Cure: A Doctor’s All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life (Rodale Books; December 2013; ISBN 978-1-62336-010-8 Hardcover; $26.99; 304 pages; also available as an eBook). In The Exercise Cure, Dr. Metzl — nationally renowned sports medicine physician — offers malady-specific and well-researched exercise prescriptions to help readers stay healthy, heal disease, drop pounds, increase longevity, and transform their lives.

Today’s medical system is largely focused on fixing rather than preventing problems, and many treatments carry significant side effects. Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor and Crestor are linked to frequent muscle and joint problems, anti-hypertensive drugs like Beta-blockers cause headaches and diminished energy, and Prozac and other popular anti-depressant medications carry multiple consequences including sexual dysfunction. Dr. Metzl knows that exercise is inexpensive, powerful medicine that has benefits in prevention and treatment of disease without disturbing side effects. Even in older adults, daily exercise has been found to prevent dementia by generating neuron development in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain.

Combining the latest data and his proven motivational skills, Dr. Metzl addresses the common maladies troubling millions. He discusses our cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neurologic, reproductive, and endocrinologic body systems, with special sections on sleep problems and cancer prevention, presenting the science behind the role of exercise as medicine. Then, he details fun, fat-torching, life-prolonging workouts that can be tailored easily to any fitness level, beginner to advanced, and provides nutritional information, including meal plans for healthy eating and disease prevention, as well.

ABOUT JORDAN METZL

Jordan D. Metzl, MD, is a nationally known sports medicine physician at New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery, author of The Athlete’s Book of Home Remedies, an eleven-time Ironman triathlete and a 30-time marathoner. He appears repeatedly on New York Magazine’s esteemed Best Doctors list, is a regular guest on the “Today” show and has contributed to “Good Morning America,” The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He also developed the Ironstrength workout designed to build kinetic chain strength that has been performed by millions of athletes around the world. He lives in New York City.

The Doors: Unhinged

There are some of us out there who still have principles and cannot be bought. John is one of them. He is not for sale and that is his gift to us.

–Tom Waits, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician

In the late 1960s, America was in political and cultural revolt. The Doors weren’t just a soundtrack to that revolution. Their music gave it a voice. They lived by its ideals. And in a garage in Venice, CA, the four members of the band agreed to a business relationship that was also revolutionary; each member of the band would share equal songwriting credit and equal veto power. All for one, one for all. And for almost forty years, even after the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, that progressive 60s ethos guided the former band mates in all their decisions. Until one day the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll came up against its biggest nemesis—money—and the legendarily equal relationship between the remaining members of the Doors began to splinter.

Drummer John Densmore’s The Doors: Unhinged  is the true story of the court case that put Jim Morrison’s legacy on trial and divided the former band mates in half, with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger on one side, and John Densmore and the estate of Jim Morrison on the other. 

What is the true price of upholding artistic integrity? Is it $15 million for a Cadillac commercial? For Densmore it was a total of five and a half years of litigation, including three months of trial, a month of waiting for the jury’s verdict, six months till the judge’s final ruling, and half a year before the Supreme Court of California finally rejected Manzarek and Krieger’s appeal. It was the realization that his house and his savings were on the line. It was the loss of his relationship with his former band mates and friends. 

The Doors: Unhinged is about the human and artistic cost of what happens when rock ‘n’ roll goes on trial. The book will be available April 17th on Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats, in a hardcover version through Baker & Taylor, as an ebook via Kobo (through local, independent American Booksellers Association bookstores partnering Kobo) and in both paperback and hardcover formats at select independent bookstores. With previously unreleased photos of Jim Morrison, the band, the Morrison family, and the author himself, John Densmore’s second book is a touching, humorous, and often beautiful account of one unlikely hero’s fight to stand up for the spirit of music in the face of greed.

About John Densmore

An original and founding member of the musical group The Doors, John Densmore co-wrote and produced numerous gold and platinum albums and toured the United States, Europe, and Japan. His autobiography, Riders on the Storm, was on the New York Times bestseller list. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. He has written numerous articles for Rolling Stone, London’s The Guardian, the Nation, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post and the Utne Reader.

In film production, he co-produced “Road to Return,” narrated by Tim Robbins. It won several prestigious national awards and was screened for Congress, resulting in the writing of a bill. He also Executive Produced “Juvies,” narrated by Mark Wahlberg, which aired on HBO. It won numerous awards (2004 IDA for excellence, U.S. International Film Fest–creative excellence). 

The DNA Restart

Millions of people around the world spend their entire lives searching for that one specific diet that will help them lose the unwanted pounds, stop cravings, and improve their overall health. For most, it will prove to be a fruitless search, often resulting in further unwanted weight gain and frustration. And that’s because until now there has never been one single diet that takes people’s unique genes into account.

Award-winning physician, scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem M.D, Ph.D., has spent the past two decades uncovering the reason why most diets fail: because we’ve been ignoring our genes. In his groundbreaking new book THE DNA RESTART: Unlock Your Personal Genetic Code to Eat for Your Genes, Lose Weight, and Reverse Aging (Rodale Books, September 6 2016) Dr. Moalem lays out the argument that our modern life is simply out of touch with our DNA—we’ve turned our backs on the wisdom contained within our 3 billion letter genetic code that our forbearers spent thousands of generations carefully annotating and preparing for us.

Recent stories and studies (such as this one from the New York Times (Sep 2015) have been starting to shed light on the pivotal and crucial role genes play in the journey to ideal weight and health (i.e. what might be good for some, may not be good for all). Dr. Moalem’s 20 years of genetics research and his travel to five of the world’s continents brings together, for the first time (in book form), what we truly need—genetically, nutritionally and culturally to live a healthier and longer life. The book offers a unique 28-day plan that Dr. Moalem has successfully used with his own patients, as well as himself, and has resulted in profound physical transformations (some of which he recounts in the book).

THE DNA RESTART is divided into five sections, one for each pillar of the plan.

Pillar 1: Eat for Your Genes

In this section, readers will do simple, scientifically-based at-home genetic self-tests (such as the cracker-test, see attached). These are designed to get you eating the amounts of carbs, fats, and proteins that are right for your unique genes. Readers will also take a genetic self test that will determine the amount of alcohol they should be consuming. Depending on the results of these self tests, the book provides specific meal plans, recipes, and dietary guidelines to follow on the DNA Restart.

Pillar 2: Reverse Aging

In this section, Dr. Moalem introduces ways to turn back the hands on all of our genetically-based, biological clocks using dietary and behavioral changes. Based on the most cutting edge medical research available to date, Dr. Moalem’s instructs readers how to follow the DNA Restart behavioral program to upgrade the health of their genomic and mitochondrial DNA. The exercise prescription within the DNA Restart is based upon scientifically validated research which shows how to improve your skin’s overall collagen levels, resulting in firmer, younger looking skin. Research on the genetic health benefits of unique phytonutrients and signature DNA Restart ways of food preparation round out this important pillar.

Pillar 3: Eat Umami (The Fifth Taste)

Umami is a crucial weapon in the DNA Restart weight loss arsenal. Using strategies developed after meeting with numerous chefs of 3-starred Michelin restaurants, this pillar shows how practical, umami-based dietary strategies will leave readers feeling full and more satisfied naturally (both during and long after meals). Readers will learn how our genes evolved over millennia to keep us effortlessly at our ideal weight by relying on natural umami contained within food to trigger long-lasting satiety.

Pillar 4: Drink Oolong Tea

This special and relatively unknown tea has the potential to shift your microbiome in a beneficial direction by promoting microbes that favor health over obesity. Oolong tea helps absorb fat from your diet and targets the stubborn visceral fat, such as belly fat, that we all want less of. Readers will also learn how to brew oolong tea the DNA Restart way to maximize its calorie-free health benefits, which include sharpened cognitive focus and a natural reduction in anxiety levels.

Pillar 5: Slow Living

By combating some of the stressors created by modern living (sleep deprivation, eating too quickly, etc.); this section teaches readers how to recalibrate their lives in order to maximize their genetic potential. Continued stress has the power to potentially change our DNA and what we then pass on to the next generation. Using signature DNA Restart Slow Living techniques, Dr. Moalem’s shows readers how to more mindfully enjoy their food, upgrade their sleep and use easy visualization exercises to curb unwanted cravings so that they can fully harness the potential of their improved genetic health.

The DNA Restart is a truly paradigm-shifting book that is certain to change the conversation about diet, health, and longevity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SHARON MOALEM, MD, PhD is an award-winning physician, scientist, inventor, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 35 languages. He has been awarded more than 25 patents worldwide for his inventions in the fields of biotechnology and human health. Dr. Moalem has also cofounded three biotech companies and has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. His scientific work led to the discovery of a first-in-class member of a novel class of antibiotic compounds directed against multiresistant or “super-bug” microorganisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). His clinical work also led to his discovery of two new genetic conditions. Dr. Moalem’s current research focus illuminates how historical nutritional and dietary choices impacted and shaped genetic differences across human populations. Dr. Moalem and his research have been featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Today, CNN, Good Morning America, and in the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, and New Scientist. He lives in New York City.

Three Shirt Deal

The Diana Chronicles

Thinking Differently

David Flink, the cofounder of Eye to Eye, a national mentoring program for students with learning and attention issues, has written a pioneering and comprehensive guide, the first of its kind. In his new book Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities (William Morrow paperback original, August 26, 2014), Flink — whose dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed until he was in fifth grade — helps parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children. He provides proven strategies to successfully advocate on their behalf, enable them become their own best advocates, and break the cycle of shame and anxiety they often suffer.

Thinking Differently is a comprehensive toolkit for parents of children with learning disabilities. In it, David Flink offers:

• Effective, innovative strategiesand real-world applications for parenting, teaching, and supporting the 20% of young people with learning disabilities, written by a fighter who experienced these struggles firsthand.
• The power of the parent – Advice on getting proper diagnoses, working with teachers to reconstruct the learning environment, and becoming a “change agent.”
• How to teach kids to self-advocate, build their self-esteem, and discover their inner gifts.
• Illustrative stories from his own and other families’ lives.
• An overview of the legal rights and accommodations available to students with learning disabilities, and more.

Thinking Differently, with a foreword by Harold Koplewicz, president of the Child Mind Institute,is an essential, compassionate, practical guide for proactive parents that can help turn a learning “disability” into a learning difference.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Flink was a member of the first generation to students to receive accommodations for learning and attention issues. Taking ownership of his different-thinking brain, David began to excel academically and holds a bachelor’s in education and psychology from Brown University and a master’s in dis/Ability studies in education from Columbia University. He lectures globally and is the recipient of numerous awards including Ashoka and Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Movers fellowships. He lives with his wife in New York City.

The Debutante Divorcee

The Creator’s Code

“… I like Amy Wilkinson’s comprehensive, analytical approach. She’s interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, and from that data has distilled the skills that allowed them to rise to the top. The good news? These are skills that anyone can develop.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive

“This book is the inspiring story of men and women who are changing our world. Amy Wilkinson has cracked their code and given us all ways to join their ranks. This book is a game changer and a life changer.” —Tom Peters, author of The Little Big Things

 “Based on 200 interviews with entrepreneurs, this book helps explain the skills needed to be a successful innovator. It’s a great guide filled with smart rules for both starting a business and bringing it to scale.” —Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators and Steve Jobs

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses—even $100 million businesses. So why do so many start-ups fail?

Now, handing you the keys to turn your ideas into enterprises that endure, in The Creator’s Code (Simon & Schuster; March 2015; $27.00) Amy Wilkinson, a strategic advisor to start-ups and large corporations alike on innovation and business stratagems, unlocks the six essential skills that turn intriguing concepts into successful companies.

For her landmark book, Wilkinson conducted rigorous interviews with 200 of today’s leading entrepreneurs including the founders of LinkedIn, Chipotle, eBay, Under Armour, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Spanx, Airbnb, PayPal, JetBlue, Gilt Groupe, Theranos, and Dropbox. Setting her work apart, she then drilled down through the latest academic research and analyzed data from across diverse fields, applying scientific methodology to crack the code on what it takes to go from start-up to scale in our rapidly changing economy.

Evaluating companies as diverse as Yelp, Chobani, and Zipcar, Wilkinson found that their creators all share—and have honed—fundamental skills that can be learned, practiced, and passed on. Entrepreneurial success is born of daring, discipline, and the six skills she identifies, proven effective in a variety of endeavors and industries:

• Find the gap: Spot opportunities that others don’t see
• Drive for daylight: Manage speed by focusing on the horizon
• Fly the OODA loop: Master fast-cycle iteration to Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act
• Fail wisely: Set a failure ratio and hone resilience
• Network minds: Harness cognitive diversity to build on each other’s ideas
• Gift small goods: Unleash generosity to increase productivity

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Wilkinson is a strategic adviser, entrepreneur, and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A sought-after speaker, she frequently addresses audiences on entrepreneurial leadership, and advises start-ups and large corporations on innovation and business strategy. She has held leadership roles with McKinsey & Company and J.P. Morgan, and founded a small, foreign-based export company. Wilkinson has served as a White House fellow and special assistant to the United States Trade Representative and as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Learn more at AmyWilkinson.com.

The Wright Stuff

“Bob Wright makes us realize what great leadership can do … transforming NBC into an extraordinarily international enterprise … (and) bringing to the attention of all, the serious problem of worldwide autism and its calamitous impact on the patients and the families who suffer equally with them.” — Herbert Pardes, M.D., Executive Vice Chairman, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and former Director, National Institute of Mental Health

Bob Wright completely reinvented network television, in the process saving NBC and revolutionizing the visual broadcast business. He then harnessed his personal pain and concern, and rededicated his life and resources to establish the foremost autism science and advocacy organization, Autism Speaks.

Named president and CEO of NBC at the age of 43, he dodged the cautious corporate eye of GE and set the traditional network on a bold, uncharted course to survive and thrive in the changing cultural and technological landscape. Leading with the foresight to embrace cable and leverage the NBC brand using the power of the internet, Bob launched alternative news channels CNBC and MSNBC, along with MSNBC.com, and created strategic partnerships to transform “the peacock” into a $45 billion giant.

As Bob’s corporate career was closing on a high, his family was struggling. A baffling condition had turned his bright, talkative, and engaging grandson Christian into an increasingly ill, distant, and agitated toddler. Finally, physicians diagnosed autism—then poorly understood—and “basically said good-bye and good luck,” Bob’s wife, Suzanne, remembers. Always one to forge ahead toward solutions, Bob, together with the charismatic, compassionate Suzanne, founded Autism Speaks, which soon became the principal advocacy and research funding organization for this condition that so devastates families.

Now, in his new book The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks (Rosetta Press; April 2016), Bob Wright delivers his inspiring and instructive story. It is a fascinating insider’s look at revitalizing a business sector in an era of opportunity-filled, disruptive change; a mentor’s guide offering successful leadership strategies; and a deeply personal, compelling memoir of building a research and advocacy organization from the ground up.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bob Wright served as Vice Chairman and Executive Officer of General Electric, President and Chief Executive Officer of NBC, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NBC Universal. Autism Speaks, founded by Bob and his wife, Suzanne, has led the way for more than a decade in global autism research, advocacy, and support services. He has received numerous awards and accolades for philanthropy and community service. He serves on the boards of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, AMC Networks Inc., and is a Trustee of the New York Presbyterian hospital. He is also Chairman and CEO of the Palm Beach Civic Association and Senior Advisor of Thomas H. Lee Capital.

Diane Mermigas is an award-winning business reporter and analyst whose long-running column and cutting-edge interviews with leading industry executives have appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Advertising Age and its former sister publication Electronic Media, and elsewhere. She is a conference speaker, consultant, and adjunct professor on digital media business strategies and trends, most recently at DePaul University. She resides in Chicago and Boston.

The Woman I Was Born to Be

The War At The Shore

The Bag Lady Papers

The Viking Funeral

The Angel’s Lamp

“The Angel’s Lamp is storytelling at its finest, fusing fact and fiction to create a grim, yet darkly romantic, portrait of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Ashby Jones’s masterfully drawn, memorable characters and his cinematic eye make this tale powerful and brutally human. The story unfolds, one heart-pounding paragraph after another… rich with poetic beauty and emotion… written in vivid detail, highlighting the grit and glory and passion that were the earmarks of the Irish Independence movement.” —Linda Bruckheimer, bestselling author and philanthropist

It was bold and bloody and resulted in questions of responsibility and redemption that remain unresolved. In the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, an overpowering British military battered the determined Irish rebels who stood and died, waiting for the popular support that did not immediately materialize. The Rebellion’s leaders were captured, executed, and buried in an unmarked mass grave, but the movement toward Irish independence had been set in motion.

Next April 24th marks the 100^th anniversary of the Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists initially seized strategic buildings in Dublin, declared the formation of the Irish Republic and proclaimed sovereignty. More than a million Irish Americans are expected to commemorate the Centenary of this event, which with renowned repercussions led to a treaty establishing the Irish Free State—today’s Republic of Ireland—in 1922.

Now, in The Angel’s Lamp (Top Hat Books; February 2016), Ashby Jones brilliantly weaves fact and fiction to create a compelling “faction” novel of honor, love, betrayal, and deliverance. In this dark, yet liberating work of romantic historical fiction, he illuminates the turbulent times and the people—the infamous and brutal Black and Tans, the volunteer women of the Cumann na mBan, the commoners on both sides deeply affected by the revolution, and rebel leaders such as Patrick Pearse, Countess Markievicz, Michael Collins and Sean McDermott, among others.

Johnny Flynn, Irish-born and raised, moves to England with his family and becomes staff sergeant in charge of the Rebellion’s soon-to-be executed principals. Guarding the uprising’s charismatic leader, James Connolly, Johnny is torn by his duty to the British military, his honor to his home country, and the call of his heart after meeting Nora, Connolly’s firebrand daughter.

Under the threat of death, Johnny is unexpectedly summoned to serve on Connolly’s firing squad. Ridden with guilt, feeling a traitor to his heritage, and hearing Connolly’s last cry, “Shoot straight, Johnny Flynn,” as an appeal for him to find his moral compass, he deserts the British Army and joins the ragtag Irish rebels. Fate catches Johnny in the crosshairs between his love for Nora, now a rebel, and an act of kindness toward his best friend Ryan Dahl, a Britsh soldier, who is captured and shut away to die. The fiery emotional conflict that follows pits the possibilities of love against the unyielding obstacles to forgiveness.

The stories of the Rising and the ensuing War of Independence have been handed down through the generations of Irish expatriates. Some 40 million Americans claim Irish ancestry and the issues raised by these events are as alive as ever, with the many moral and religious concerns still debated. The conflict of the human heart is ongoing; some who have erred plead for forgiveness, others feel they have done everything possible to earn redemption. The collision of all these forces results in an explosive story that challenges the emotions of the reader.

The Ultrasimple Diet

THE ANGEL IN MY POCKET

 “What we do when the unthinkable happens? We have choices, of course. We can break, become tough, allow cynicism to seep into all our broken places. Or, as Sukey Forbes illustrates in this remarkable book, grief can kick the door wide open and let the light in. The Angel In My Pocket is a devastating and beautiful paean to the human spirit.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Family History and Devotion

The Angel In My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death, (Viking; On sale July 7, 2014; 9780670026319; $27.95) by Sukey Forbes, is the profoundly moving story of a mother’s unconventional path to healing after the death of her young daughter. Told with unflinching honesty and hard-won wisdom, Forbes’s memoir is a powerful story of rediscovering life by discovering the afterlife, coping with the pain of loss, and recapturing the joy of living.

When Forbes lost her six-year-old daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life as she knew it was shattered. Even as she was devastated by her loss, Forbes knew her own life was not over, and she searched for a way to both come to terms with her daughter’s death, and find a way back to a full, meaningful life. The door to both these paths opened when Forbes found a prominent medium who helped her connect with Charlotte on the other side. With the medium’s help, Forbes found reassurance that Charlotte was not truly gone, but rather existed on a different part of the continuum of life and death. These experiences gave Forbes the comfort and peace she needed to march once more into life, aware of all it might hold in store for her. She was determined that she and her family not just survive their loss, but thrive.

The Angel In My Pocket details Forbes’s entire journey from despair to a state of resilience and grace. Forbes’s family traditions played a strong, if contradictory, role in how she processed her daughter’s death. As the descendant of two of New England’s oldest and most distinguished families (that includes Ralph Waldo Emerson, Forbes’s great-great-great grandfather), Forbes was raised in a rarified world of threadbare privilege that valued emotional reserve and strict self-reliance. There is also, however, a widespread belief in ghosts—especially those that haunt Naushon Island, a 6,000 acre family property off of Cape Cod that has remained largely unchanged since its purchase by her family in 1843. The Island is filled with history, artifacts, and the visible presence of departed ancestors.

In the immediate aftermath of Charlotte’s death, the austerity of her WASP-y upbringing prevented Forbes from fully expressing her grief. She returned to Naushon for the solace of the island’s other-worldly beauty and in digging through the family archives, discovered a surprising number of her ancestors who believed in reincarnation and studied mysticism. She found further kinship with the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose son—similar to Charlotte—died at the age of six. Buoyed by the revelation that her family was as spiritually eccentric as it was stoic and reserved, Forbes became determined to break through her conditioned responses and embrace the complexities and legacy of her heritage.

The Angel In My Pocket is an empowering and enlightening look at one woman’s complicated and uncommon route through grief. Forbes is heir to a lost American spiritual tradition that allowed her to look optimistically at life in the face of death. Like The Still Point of the Turning World and Proof of Heaven, Forbes’s story offers hope and help to anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sukey Forbes currently lives near Boston, where she runs an art, antiques, and interior design company. Read more about Sukey here.

The UltraMind Solution

The Allergy Solution

A Toronto Star Bestseller 

“A fantastic voyage to an uncharted understanding of ourselves and our personal environment that will change many readers’ lives.” — Mehmet Oz, M.D.

“Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland unite two important initiatives: how to use science to heal the body and how to live in harmony with nature.” — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

“The Allergy Solution is a game changer!” — David Perlmutter, M.D.

“Dr. Galland’s wisdom has changed my life.” — Susan Sarandon, Academy Award Winning Actress

Americans are suffering from an allergy epidemic. Studies show that spring allergies are getting worse every year. Why? And not only are allergies making us miserable, they can be making us fatter. Just fifty years ago, 1 in 30 people had allergies. Today, that number is 1 in 3.

With The Allergy Solution (May 10, 2016; Hay House), award-winning doctor Leo Galland, M.D., reveals the shocking rise of hidden allergies that lead to unexplained weight gain, anxiety, fatigue, ADHD, depression, digestive problems, and much more. He presents remarkable research showing how each of these is linked to the immune imbalance at the root of allergies, and offers his proven plan to reverse allergies without drugs.

Pollution, unhealthy eating habits, stress and overuse of antibiotics can all inflame allergies. The Allergy Solution takes an in-depth look at how readers can rebuild their immunity through nutrition and lifestyle. It lays out an easy nutritional program, starting with a 3-Day Power Wash designed to “clear the tracks,” to help take back control.

Dr. Galland’s clinical experience and unique insights into cutting-edge science will guide those who suffer from known allergies and unexplained illness back to health. Among other issues, he can discuss:

• Is a Hidden Allergy Making You Fat? – A Yale University study shows that prescription antihistamines can be linked to increased body weight.
• The Power of Good Bacteria – Recent research shows that good bacteria can actually shift the immune system and lessen allergy symptoms, improving how you feel.
• The Toxic Elephant in Your Home – Are your cleaning products or your morning routine of chemical-laced shampoo, shaving cream, and moisturizers making you ill? 
• Driving Under the Influence of Allergies – Pollen allergies are comparable to having two alcoholic cocktails before taking the wheel, according to research. 
• Climate Change Increases Pollen Counts – Air pollution and global warming boost the amount of pollen being released by plants, and make the pollen more toxic, worsening allergies at an alarming rate.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 

Leo Galland, M.D., a board-certified internist, is a recognized world leader in integrated medicine. Educated at Harvard University and the NYU School of Medicine, he won the Linus Pauling Award for his trailblazing vision that created a bold new approach toward healing. Author of The Fat Resistance Diet, Power Healing, and Superimmunity for Kids, he is the director of the Foundation for Integrated Medicine, a nonprofit educational organization. He has appeared on the TODAY show, Good Morning America, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Learn more at drgalland.com.

Jonathan Galland, J.D., is a leader in integrated health education who writes for the Huffington Post and MindBodyGreen. He is CEO of Pill Advised, a website that brings together integrated medicine and environmental health.

The UltraMetabolism Cookbook

The Ables

CinemaSins and its co-founder Jeremy Scott have an incredible story to tell. CinemaSins is securely positioned in the top 1% of all YouTube channels and Scott is a bold new voice in fantasy and sci-fi fiction. Within 24 hours of being announced, his upcoming book The Ables (Clovercroft Publishing May 2015) became the #1 Barnes & Noble bestseller, the #1 Amazon Hot New Release, and the #1 title on Amazon Movers & Shakers.

A YouTube channel dedicated to movie-related comedy — “No movie is without sin. We exist mostly just to remind you of that” — CinemaSins burst onto screens in 2013 and has not stopped garnering praise, new views, and a strong and dedicated following. Amassing over 3.8 million subscribers in just two years, garnering 40 million+ monthly views, and picking up 200,000 new subscribers each month, it enjoys one of the most obsessive cult followings online. It is regularly featured by People, USA Today, Wired, Hollywood Reporter, Huffington Post, Uproxx, Gizmodo, and others.

Skewering movies from “The Hunger Games” and “Toy Story” to “Gravity” and “Frozen,” and capturing the interest and participation of the likes of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, CinemaSins is one of the fastest growing YouTube channels. Each episode averages 1.6 million views and the channel now has more than 2.2 billion total minutes watched.

The CinemaSins brand includes CinemaSins Jeremy, Music Video Sins (“Everything Wrong with Taylor Swift”), and Brand Sins.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeremy Scott, a writer and entertainer from Nashville who is already a widely popular storyteller as the narrator of the CinemaSins videos, quickly evolved into an Interweb Pied Piper. Tweeting @CinemaSins, Scott has 46.2K followers and has written a fast-paced, captivating debut novel to be published in May. With a foreword by Kevin Smith, The Ables tells the story of a blind superhero, Phillip Sallinger. Phillip, with his friends from the “special ed” class for disabled empowered kids, is bullied, threatened, and betrayed, even as they—calling themselves the Ables—find ways to maximize their powers to overcome their disabilities, and are the first to identify the growing evil threatening humanity.

The Truth About Men and Sex

“A courageous and revealing exploration of male sexuality … A must-read for men and the women who care about them.”       —Keith Ablow, MD, New York Times bestselling author

“Dr. Morgentaler has done it again! The courageous Harvard professor takes the reader into the privacy of the examining room to learn about the taboo topic of male sexuality. A must-read for both sexes!”—Suzanne Somers, lecturer and New York Times bestselling author

“An enlightening new book.”—Cosmopolitan Magazine

“Morgentaler’s experienced perspective comes across in his writing and will appeal to a wide audience. Eye opening and never dull, this is a book both male and female readers interested in medicine, sexuality, gender issues, and relationships will enjoy.”—Library Journal

What we think we know about men and sex is wrong, stuck in macho stereotypes and absurd porn scripts and imagery. How do men really feel?

Now, Harvard’s Dr. Abraham Morgentaler offers a unique view of men, sex, and relationships—a true perspective on authentic male sexuality, and one that has never been given before. It provides stunning new ways of understanding men, and it’s already changing women’s perspectives on their men, Viagra, and penile implants, and increasing their enthusiasm and insights on how to improve their personal and sexual relationships with men.

In The Truth About Men and Sex: Intimate Secrets from the Doctor’s Office (St. Martin’s Griffin; March 2015), Dr. Morgentaler presents insights from the revelations of men in real-life situations. Once his examination room door closed, men felt safe to drop their protective bravado, hoping he could help them. They opened up with an unexpected depth of feeling. Dr. Morgentaler learned the fascinating, surprising, and often affirming truth.

In this age of Viagra, testosterone, and yes, even penile implants, we know astoundingly little of true male sexuality. Dr. Morgentaler, with more than a quarter century of medical practice specializing in the treatment of men with sexual and reproductive conditions, was honored with his patients’ trust. He now shares a remarkable understanding of what sex means to a man.

The Truth About Men and Sex reveals the compelling, nuanced, and unanticipated world of men’s feeling about their sexuality—straight, gay, or transgendered.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, MD, FACS, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Urology at Harvard Medical School and the founder of Men’s Health Boston, a medical practice for male sexual and reproductive disorders. He is the author of three previous books and his work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He researches, lectures internationally, and sees a limited number of patients via his new program, Personalized Men’s Health.

The 5 Factor Diet

The Tin Collectors

Social Qs

Thank The Liberals

TERMINAL CITY

“Gripping…The tour of Midtown, both above and below ground, is alone worth the price of admission.” –Publishers Weekly 

“The real star of the series is Manhattan itself. Fairstein describes both the train station and some of Manhattan’s iconic eateries in loving detail, giving readers a glimpse of NYC’s glamour as well as its dark side.” –Booklist

New York Times bestseller Linda Fairstein has set her thrillers in some of New York’s most famous landmarked locations.  From the treacherous waters swirling around Gracie Mansion to the remote caves within Central Park, Fairstein’s crime novels reveal the dark secrets concealed within these familiar sites.  This summer, she goes to the heart of Manhattan and explores the mysteries of one of its most iconic buildings, Grand Central Terminal, in Terminal City (Dutton; On-sale:  June 17, 2014).

Grand Central is one of the most famous structures in the world.  More than 750,000 people pass through the station daily – many to marvel at its century-old architecture, enjoy its majestic celestial ceiling, and eat at the famed Oyster Bar.  But few know the secrets that lie behind its elegant façade.  There are sub-basement rooms that don’t appear on any blueprint or floor-plan, hidden staircases, catwalks that soar twenty stories above the famed concourse, and remote train platforms reserved for heads of state.  All this, accessed by miles upon miles of underground tunnels, full of unimaginable dangers – making the terminal the perfect setting for a chilling mystery.  And no one can tell it better than former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein.

Terminal City opens with the shocking discovery of a young woman’s body in the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel.  The killer’s signature may be a symbol that resembles train tracks that he has carved into her skin – and which appear on another victim, even closer to Grand Central, within days of the first murder.  Assistant DA Alex Cooper and NYPD homicide detective Mike Chapman, in their hunt for the elusive killer, have added pressure when the President of the United States makes plans to arrive at the great terminal for a meeting at the United Nations.  Is the murderer picking his victims for a personal reason, or is his target the colossal train station itself, along with the hundreds of thousands of people who use it daily?  With their personal relationship strained, Cooper and Chapman must work together to find a killer in a space so vast that he or she could easily hide in plain sight.

As is her trademark, Fairstein transforms Grand Central from a Manhattan landmark into a vibrant, even sinister character in her sixteenth novel, Terminal City.  Like a commuter rushing for the last train, readers will race along with Cooper and Chapman, learning the glamorous history of the magnificent building as they’re exposed to its dark and deadly underside.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Linda Fairstein was the chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America’s foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha’s Vineyard.

Dutton is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group (USA). Dutton is home to many bestselling authors such as Harlan Coben, Ken Follett, Eckhart Tolle, Elizabeth George, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Eric Jerome Dickey, Linda Fairstein, Julie Garwood, Jonathan Tropper, Timothy Keller, Dan Savage, T. Jefferson Parker, and Kelley Armstrong. Penguin Group (USA) LLC is one of the leading U.S. adult and children’s trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Viking, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Penguin Press, Riverhead Books, Dutton, Penguin Books, Berkley Books, Gotham Books, Portfolio, New American Library, Plume, Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, Puffin, and Frederick Warne, among others. The Penguin Group (www.penguin.com) is a Penguin Random House company.

Slim & Sexy Forever

Tamara Mellon

“A journalist at The Sunday Times once wrote that I often seemed ‘less an actual person than the heroine of some dicey Danielle Steel bonkathon.’ … take a plucky heroine, set her on a quest, and then subject her to every villain and viper and obstacle imaginable. Which, I suppose, is not an entirely bad summary of my life so far.”
—Tamara Mellon

The sexy, sultry powerhouse who put Jimmy Choos on Carrie Bradshaw, Hollywood’s top leading ladies, and red carpets around the world, then used her business savvy to build a billion-dollar fashion brand and became the subject of worldwide media fascination, is revealing her secrets.

In her candid debut book, In My Shoes: A Memoir (Portfolio/Penguin; October 1, 2013; Hardcover $29.95), Tamara Mellon shares her larger-than-life story, with genuinely shocking insider detail that has never been presented before. Success came at a high price—struggles with an obstinate partner and corporate power plays, a turbulent marriage, and an alcoholic mother who tried to steal her hard-earned wealth.

Her father invested £250,000 to become a partner in Vidal Sassoon, growing it into a global brand. Understated and elegant, he always flew first class, wore bespoke suits, and was part of a group that included Roger Moore, Michael Caine, and Sean Connery. Her mother was a strikingly beautiful woman, a model whose work included a print ad for Chanel. But Mellon’s seemingly glamorous childhood in preferred-postal-code mansions of Beverly Hills and London disguised a tumultuous and broken family life (her mother was prone to inexplicable and deliberate cruelties and rages), battles with anxiety and depression, and prodigious quantities of cocaine and vodka. During a stint in rehab, to punctuate long periods of self-doubt and self-loathing, Mellon considered her “plan”—starting a luxury shoe line. Determined not to end up unemployed, penniless, and living in her parents’ basement under the control of her mother, she honed her natural business sense and invested in what she knew best—fashion.

From her troubled childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue, to her fifteen years leading Jimmy Choo, to her very public relationships, Jimmy Choo’s problematic eccentricities, becoming a mother, being named the British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy, and being honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire, Mellon offers a gripping, often hilarious, poignant, and remarkable account of the episodes that have made her who she is today.

An inspiring tell-all and tell-how, In My Shoes is a definitive book for fashion aficionados, aspiring entrepreneurs, and anyone who loves a juicy true story about sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming adversity.

ABOUT TAMARA MELLON
Tamara Mellon, OBE, has been an international force in the fashion and entrepreneurial worlds since the late 1990s. Beginning with an editorial post at British Vogue, Tamara went on to found Jimmy Choo, serving as the CEO and chief creative officer for one of the most prominent and innovative luxury brands in the world. This November, she will launch Tamara Mellon, a luxury lifestyle brand offering apparel, shoes, handbags, and accessories. She divides her time between London and New York.

ABOUT WILLIAM PATRICK
William Patrick has co-written numerous memoirs, including Sidney Poitier’s #1 bestseller The Measure of a Man.

Simple Pleasures

Siegelvision

Siegelvision is the brainchild of branding and marketing legend Alan Siegel, the former chairman of Siegel & Gale and champion of simplicity in business. Siegelvision specializes in brand and corporate identity consulting founded around the principle of provocative clarity to transform organizations, inspire action and drive results. They have worked with NPR, National Geographic, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Univision, and the Lupus Foundation of America, United Technologies, Cornell College of Engineering, New York University, Urban Institute, among others.

Suzanne Somers

There is a whole new way to age. I’m sixty-five and I feel great. I’m happy, healthy, I have energy, and my bones are strong. I have perfect memory, and best of all, I have a sex drive!” —Suzanne Somers

Last August, Suzanne Somers, one of America’s most informed and passionate health care advocates and a breast cancer survivor, became the first woman in America to have a breast regrown using her own stem cells in a new clinical trial. In her series of New York Times bestsellers, she has underscored the multiple and continually emerging benefits of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to turn back the clock on aging.

Now, in her groundbreaking new book, BOMBSHELL: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (Crown Archetype; May 8, 2012; $26.00 hardcover), Suzanne Somers redefines aging as we know it. Blasting beyond anti-aging, she takes us to the next step, revealing a brand-new approach to embracing and enjoying aging.

Suzanne makes aging aspirational, living with great health and great looks, disease-free, and with robust energy. She shares a fresh new plan for aging well. You are never too young or too old to take advantage of these strategies, and one thing is very clear; the old model of a nursing home as the inevitable destination is out, for good.

Suzanne interviews medicine’s best and brightest pioneers to craft a plan that will reshape the way we treat, approach, and think about aging. She discusses how to avoid catastrophic events such as heart attacks, crippling autoimmune diseases, and cancer and how we can revitalize our bodies by rejuvenating our weakest organs and glands. She also discusses telomeres—the little “tails” located on the ends of each human cell that act as the aging clock for nearly every cell in our bodies—and supplements that may hold the secret to extreme longevity, and more.

A must-read for every thinking person from age thirty and up, BOMBSHELL is empowering and game changing. Filled with valuable information you won’t get anywhere else, BOMBSHELL also includes Suzanne’s BOMBSHELL Age Reversal Plan, 18 Age-Reversing Ideas to Consider, and Advanced Age Reversal Techniques. Any one of these techniques will help you live longer and better. With Suzanne Somers’s BOMBSHELL, we can pick the treatments and techniques to begin our youthful journey right now.

About Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers is one of America’s most popular and beloved personalities. In a multifaceted career that has spanned more than three decades, she has achieved extraordinary success as an actress, singer, comedienne, author, Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year, entrepreneur, and lecturer. A dedicated and informed health advocate, she is the voice and face of alternative medicine. Suzanne has written 24 books, including 13 New York Times bestsellers, five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. BOMBSHELL: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging, was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Suzanne’s fun, smart, empowering talk show, “Suzanne Somers’ Breaking Through,” premiered online on the CafeMom Studios YouTube channel in January 2012. On her weekly Lifetime Network talk show, “The SUZANNE Show,” she provides a thought-provoking morning show alternative with in-depth information on health and wellness in a casual entertaining format.

Sexy Forever

Suzanne Somers

We are under the greatest toxin assault in history, and our bodies have reached their tipping point. These toxins are making us tox-sick. Our bodies, especially our livers (our internal filters) are exhausted, and now the tiniest added chemical exposure can launch a plague of “unexplained” symptoms that put us at risk of seemingly unrelated but commonly linked toxic overload conditions: fatigue, migraines, bloating, nausea, arthritis, Crohn’s, brain fog, even autism, ADHD, depression, and cancers. 

It’s time to detox your entire life to save it.

Suzanne Somers, bestselling health pioneer and advocate, knows that our well-being and lifespans are in the balance. With aid from respected physicians, she wants to help us avoid tox-sickness from the massive environmental chemical attack that is permeating everyone right to the cell level, including our newborns and children.

Thankfully, it doesn’t take much to turn your life around. There are easy steps to get you back on a good path, boost your health, and help guard from the toxic assault.

That is the life-changing message Suzanne shares in her new book, TOX-SICK: From Toxic to Not Sick (Harmony; April 2015). On a mission to get us on the road to recovery, she interviews leading medical practitioners to explain how we can reshape the way we live to regain control of our health and our future. It’s very personal for Suzanne.

“When our house burned down, we rented,” says Suzanne. “In those next years, my husband, Alan, suffered a chronic sinus infection, facial tics, and then spasms. He was diagnosed twice with pre-Parkinson’s. I was hospitalized in anaphylactic shock and diagnosed with cancer everywhere, ‘never seen so much’ I was told. The doctors were wrong about Alan and me. Fungus in my lungs and intestines read like cancer on a CAT scan. We found that dangerous black mold had permeated the house. We were virtually ‘swimming’ in it, breathing it, exercising in it. We moved out like bandits, did massive detoxing, and reclaimed our health.”

Suzanne then saw her grade-A-achieving granddaughter begin to lose her ability to learn, comprehend, and communicate; another very scary family moment. So, passionate health warrior that she is, she sat down with top environmental doctors and specialists, all experts in the field, who shared eye-opening information and practical advice for how to survive, thrive, and stay healthy today.

We’re surrounded by car exhaust, industrial solvents, plasticizers, paint, scents in detergents and creams, the outgassing of new carpeting, microwaved leftovers wrapped in plastic wrap, pesticide-laden berries. These toxins tend to bioaccumulate, building up in our tissues and cells, lingering and gathering in the fat cells, and we have no idea why we can’t lose weight or why we feel so lousy.

Now, in TOX-SICK, Suzanne shows how we can bulletproof our bodies and homes, and effectively detox all our body systems, including the brain, gut (our second brain), heart, thyroid, and more. She also provides protocols for coming clean: detox techniques, how to make your own probiotics, supplements for survival, as well as safe products and protectors.

Seven Elements That Have Changed The World

“This book weaves science and humanity together in a way that gives us new insight. This is an expertly crafted book by a unique thinker.” — Tony Blair

“One of Britain’s best-known business leaders back in the thick of the energy debate. His career has been defined by the search for fossil fuel and economic sustainability. Can we have both?” — HARDtalk, BBC

“John Browne explores with scholarship and imagination the plethora of riches, sometimes the evils, created from the seven elements of iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium and silicon … a fascinating treasure hunt and thoroughly enjoyable.” — Sir Harold Evans

John Browne, CEO of BP (formerly British Petroleum) from 1995 to 2007, advised five prime ministers and built a reputation as a visionary leader, was regularly voted the most admired businessman by his peers, and is a major player in international energy resources and applications. A master of business efficiency and an oil industry executive who acknowledged global climate change, he became known as the “Sun King” for his bolstering speeches on the importance of moving past the limits of oil and gas toward solar energy, wind power, and renewable energies.

Now, Browne brings his in-depth expertise on science, energy efficiencies, trade relationships, and geopolitical and environmental economies together in Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery (Pegasus; March 2014; $27.95) a compelling and engaging story of how our application of seven elements—iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon—have changed modern life, for good and ill.

Carbon unlocked the potential of other elements; with its energy, we smelt iron, mine gold, and enrich uranium. Yet today we face the consequences of carbon energy’s effect on rising global temperatures. In this “Silicon Age,” we communicate effortlessly, with instant access to vast amounts of information, an open and interactive entrée that also has supported political revolutions. Uranium is productive (nuclear power) and destructive (nuclear bombs); our desire for alluring gold is the foundation of global trade, and has led to the death of millions, as well.

Emphasizing that this journey is far from over, Browne also highlights some of the individuals who used the elements to change the course of history—from Carnegie to Curie, Pizzaro to Rockefeller—and shares his own experiences with oil barons in Russia, tribesmen in Colombia, and technology wizards in Silicon Valley.

John Browne is a Partner at Riverstone, an energy and power-focused private equity firm, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tate galleries, and a fellow of the Royal Society. His first book, Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir from a Remarkable Leader, was published in 2010 to great acclaim.

In Seven Elements That Have Changed The World, John Browne combines history, science, and politics to explore human passion, ingenuity, and discovery and the surprising new uses for these seven elements to transform modern consumer society, the global energy sector, and start a technology revolution.

ABOUT JOHN BROWN

Lord Browne was born in 1948, and holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University and an MS in Business from Stanford University, California.

He joined BP in 1966 as a university apprentice. In 1989, he became Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BP Exploration based in London. In September 1991, he joined the Board of The British Petroleum Company plc. as a Managing Director. He was appointed Group Chief Executive on 10 June 1995. Following the merger of BP and Amoco, he became Group Chief Executive of the combined group on 31 December 1998 until 1 May 2007.

Having held a variety of non-executive board positions, he is now a Partner of Riverstone Holdings LLC, and the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive Board member.

Lord Browne was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery on 1 August 2007 and Chairman of the Trustees in January 2009. He is a Fellow and Former President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, and Chairman of a variety of advisory boards.

He was voted Most Admired CEO by Management Today from 1999-2002.
He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.

The Browne Report, an independent review of Higher Education and Student Finance was published in October 2010.

His memoirs Beyond Business were published in February 2010, and his book Seven Elements that have Changed the World was published in April 2013.

Supremely Partisan

As the future of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance, James Zirin has given us an extraordinarily timely, riveting, and historically informed work about how the Court has become a supremely political and partisan body. A must-read.”—Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation

“Supremely Partisan will deepen readers’ understanding of the Court at a time when concerns of partisanship and identity politics undeniably overwhelmingly drive the nomination process. All Americans should pay close heed.” —Kermit Roosevelt, from his Foreword to Supremely Partisan

“A vivid, no-holds-barred portrait of the politicization of the Supreme Court. Read it. It’s a WOW! Book.” —Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson’s top assistant for domestic affairs, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

★“A top-notch book about the Supreme Court. Zirin has his finger on its pulse, and he shows the rest of us how it works and how it doesn’t.” —Kirkus, in a starred review

On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney and former federal prosecutor James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the left and the late Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the right. He also examines four of the Court’s most controversial recent decisions – Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, gay marriage, and capital punishment – arguing that these politicized decisions threaten to undermine public confidence in the Supreme Court.

In SUPREMELY PARTISAN, Zirin:

• Examines whether or not the Supreme Court of the United States has become a political court making policy judgments based on sources outside the Constitution.
• Argues that identity politics has become the overwhelmingly decisive factor in the appointment process.
• Discusses the evolution of the Catholic, Jewish, and African-American seats on the court.
• Offers an explanation of the Supreme Court’s original and intended purpose, and how it may have veered off that course.
• Engages with the politically-charged court cases surrounding issues like religion, abortion, race, LGBT issues, and more.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James D. Zirin is a leading litigator who has appeared in federal and state courts around the nation. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Mother Court about some of the great cases tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He hosts the critically acclaimed cable TV talk show “Conversations in the Digital Age.” A former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, his op-ed articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Washington Times, Forbes, and Barron’s.

Saturday Night Live: The Book

On October 11, 1975 at 11:30 p.m., NBC viewers who tuned in to the network’s new late night show saw a sketch featuring John Belushi repeating, in a thick foreign accent, nonsensical phrases about wolverines being read to him by head writer Michael O’Donohue. Abruptly, O’Donohue clutched his heart and collapsed onto the floor. Belushi paused, raised his eyebrow, and then did the same. Posing as the stage manager, Chevy Chase entered the set and feigned confusion before breaking character and announcing to the camera: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” In that instant, television, which had long been out of touch with the young and hip, experienced the first seismic tremors of a major paradigm shift. TV comedy as we know it today owes it all to Saturday Night Live, the show that dared to take risks (not least the fact that it’s broadcast live), challenge the censors, and celebrate the work of offbeat writer-performers.

Hundreds of gifted and dedicated people have contributed to Saturday Night Live over the years, and this book pays homage to their groundbreaking work. The list of esteemed alumni, most of whom were complete unknowns when they debuted on SNL, reads like a Who’s Who of the past 4 decades in comedy: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Al Franken, Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristin Wiig, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader—to name just a few.

ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR

Now, as SNL celebrates its 40th anniversary, TASCHEN brings you the ultimate tribute to the show. To research this book, editor and author Alison Castle was given not only full access to SNL’s archives, but also the rare opportunity to watch the cast and crew at work. She spent the better part of season 39 in the trenches, learning how everything comes together in just six days for the live performance. Part encyclopedia and part behind-the-scenes tour, Saturday Night Live: The Book (TASCHEN, February 2015)  covers both the making of the show and its remarkable history.

Features include:
Over 2,300 images from SNL’s archives, many previously unpublished
An illustrated breakdown of the 6-day week at SNL through the years, with an expanded section for the live show
Seasons reference guide with complete cast, host, and musical guest lists
Exclusive interview with founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels

Superfoods Healthstyle

Sane New World

Numerous books have tackled aspects of the mind’s complexity (such as Dr. Daniel Siegel’s Brainstorm or Daniel Goleman’s Focus), but none have examined the subject from the perspective of someone who has lost their sanity, regained it, gotten a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in order to retain it, and then written an accessible “user’s guide” for it… Until now.

A #1 bestseller in the UK, Ruby Wax’s Sane New World (Perigee paperback, on-sale Nov 4, 2014) is a candid, no-nonsense manual to deal with the negative voices inside your head from someone who has been there, done that, and gotten the degree. Wax, a comedian and mental health advocate, has suffered her share depression, and though she covers that journey here, her book isn’t a memoir and it isn’t just for those struggling with mental disorders. Rather, the book is a roadmap for anyone who wants to better understand their brain and the ways in which they can tame it. Divided into five sections, the book encompasses:

What’s Wrong with Us? For the Normal Mad—Describing the negative feelings and emotions that affect “normal” people
What’s Wrong with Us? For the Mad-Mad—Exploring problems that affect mentally ill people
What’s in Your Brain/What’s on Your Mind?—Covering the nuts and bolts of how the brain work, its parts, its processes, and the things that keep a healthy brain firing
Mindfulness: Taming Your Mind—Offering an effective tool to calm a brain in overdrive
Alternative Suggestions for Peace of Mind—Providing yet more techniques that have been shown to help

Like Wax’s TED Talk (“What’s so funny about mental illness”), which has received nearly 1.4 million views, Sane New World offers a compelling new way to view your mind—and lifts the veil of shame so often associated with mental illness. I hope you will consider covering the book and/or speaking with Ruby Wax. I look forward to touching base with you soon about these opportunities!

Sugar in My Bowl

Rule #1

STUMBLING GIANT

One of Hong Kong’s most successful entrepreneurs and the founder of the largest independent investment bank in the Far East, Timothy Beardson is uniquely positioned to clarify fact from fiction in the trends and conditions that will fire up or stall the growth, transformation, and—potentially—conflict in the Asian focal point, China. In his ground breaking new book, a nuanced, first-hand look at China, STUMBLING GIANT: The Threats to China’s Future (Yale University Press; May 21, 2013; Hardcover $35.00), Beardson boldly counters the widely held predictions of the country’s near-certain rise to global supremacy, and brings to light the daunting array of issues that confront China in its path to becoming a superpower.

Much has been written on the emergence of China, with some forecasting the country’s dominance and others predicting its collapse. In STUMBLING GIANT, Timothy Beardson uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine China, taking an informed look at key aspects of the country’s current position, from environmental and economic policies through to social and political
considerations.

Drawing on extensive research, Timothy Beardson spells out the details of China’s situation. China faces a demographic outlook of remorseless aging. One quarter of the population of Shanghai, deemed China’s first senior city, is now over the age of 60. A McKinsey Quarterly survey claims that a child’s need to care for parents will reduce the country’s labor mobility, while an increasingly elderly population could cause a severe pension deficit.

Another acute threat to growth that Beardson highlights is a low-tech economy that is not demonstrating sufficient innovation. China’s research and development intensity, which is a crucial element in overtaking other nations, is 40% less than that of the U.S., and a Global Competitiveness Report 2011-12 by the World Economic Forum ranked China as only the 26th most competitive economy in the world. Other challenges that Beardson explores include extreme gender disparity, social instability, a devastated environment, a diminishing labor force and the absence of an effective welfare safety net. He presents bold policy prescriptions addressing these challenges and explains why without substantial reform China is unlikely to replace America as the next superpower.

Crosby Financial Holdings, founded by Beardson, was the first investment bank to be licensed in China and was also actively engaged in the opening of the Shanghai stock exchange. Beardson uses his extensive experience from living and working in Asia over the last 35 years to offer bold policy prescriptions as to how China could address the problems it will face.

Packed with original ideas and insightful perspectives, STUMBLING GIANT takes a fresh approach to China and challenges the reader to look at the country in a different light in order to understand why it will not replace America as the world superpower in this century.

About Timothy Beardson

Timothy Beardson founded and ran Crosby Financial Holdings, the largest independent investment bank in the Far East. An integral part of Hong Kong’s economic ascendance who has lived and worked in Asia for more than 35 years, Beardson successfully sold Crosby. Since the late 1990s he has been a frequent speaker on political, economic, environmental and strategic issues at the World Economic Forum at Davos, at prominent universities, and to corporate boards and central banks. He is also Chairman of the China Oxford Scholarship Fund, which gives scholarships to talented Chinese graduates from poor families to study at the University of Oxford.

Ruby Wax

How well do you understand your mind—how it works, how it keeps you sane, what can drive you insane, and the tools that can improve how it functions?

Numerous books have tackled aspects of the mind’s complexity (such as Dr. Daniel Siegel’s Brainstorm or Daniel Goleman’s Focus), but none have examined the subject from the perspective of someone who has lost their sanity, regained it, gotten a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in order to retain it, and then written an accessible “user’s guide” for it… Until now.

A #1 bestseller in the UK, Ruby Wax’s Sane New World (Perigee paperback, on-sale Nov 4, 2014) is a candid, no-nonsense manual to deal with the negative voices inside your head from someone who has been there, done that, and gotten the degree. Wax, a comedian and mental health advocate, has suffered her share depression, and though she covers that journey here, her book isn’t a memoir and it isn’t just for those struggling with mental disorders. Rather, the book is a roadmap for anyone who wants to better understand their brain and the ways in which they can tame it. Divided into five sections, the book encompasses:

• What’s Wrong with Us? For the Normal Mad—Describing the negative feelings and emotions that affect “normal” people

• What’s Wrong with Us? For the Mad-Mad—Exploring problems that affect mentally ill people

• What’s in Your Brain/What’s on Your Mind?—Covering the nuts and bolts of how the brain work, its parts, its processes, and the things that keep a healthy brain firing

• Mindfulness: Taming Your Mind—Offering an effective tool to calm a brain in overdrive

• Alternative Suggestions for Peace of Mind—Providing yet more techniques that have been shown to help

Like Wax’s TED Talk (“What’s so funny about mental illness”), which has received nearly 1.4 million views, Sane New World offers a compelling new way to view your mind—and lifts the veil of shame so often associated with mental illness. I hope you will consider covering the book and/or speaking with Ruby Wax

Stevie Phillips

Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Robert Redford and Al Pacino are internationally celebrated, but who was the woman behind and responsible for so many of their greatest successes? Stevie Phillips took care of Judy Garland during her struggles with addiction, hosted Liza Minnelli’s wedding to Peter Allen in her living room and handled the professional and personal lives of so many other celebrities, and in her memoir Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me…(St. Martin’s Press; June 2, 2015), she tells all.

No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland’s incandescent talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the “Mad Men” era, Phillips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan’s glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for the legendary duo of Freddie Fields and David Begelman at the Music Corporation of America under the glare of Lew Wasserman. And when MCA blew apart, Fields and Begelman created the powerhouse agency Creative Management Associates (known today as International Creative Management) and promoted Stevie to come along.

After Fields convinced Garland to come on board, Stevie became, as she puts it, “Garland’s shadow,” putting out fires – figuratively and literally – to get Garland to demonstrate reliability in every big city in America so that she could work once more in Hollywood.  She paints a portrait of Garland at the bitter end and, though it was at times a nightmare, Philips says, “She became my teacher,” clarifying for her “how to” and “how not to” live.

From there, Stevie rose quickly to represent Garland’s talented daughter Liza Minnelli, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Henry Fonda, George Roy Hill, Bob Fosse, Cat Stevens, and David Bowie.  She produced the award-winning theater production “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas,” as well as “Nuts,” “Open Admissions,” “Doonesbury” and “Loose Ends,” had a disastrous affair with Begelman and engaged her colleague, the legendary agent Sue Mengers, as a cohort in helping change women’s roles in the entertainment industry.

And, now she reveals her behind-the-scenes story in Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me… a tough-talking, often funny, and engrossing memoir by a woman who worked closely with some of the biggest names in show business.

Rome’s Last Citizen

Spy

Rock Bottom

“Erin Brockovich continues to fight the good fight, now as a writer of fiction. Rock Bottom is a story Erin Brockovich lived. The heroine is brilliant and feisty. Tension and turmoil mount in a high stakes adventure with dire consequences. Nobody could tell this story better.” — New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry

Publishers Weekly called her a powerful cultural icon, “complete with an Oscar-winning movie bearing her name” when it praised her New York Times bestselling motivational autobiography Take It From Me. Now, in her debut thriller Rock Bottom (Vanguard Press; March 1, 2011; $25.99), the first in a series, Erin Brockovich delivers a dramatic, fast-paced, one-of-a-kind thriller that is unique in its ability to entertain while simultaneously educating readers about the devastating environmental problems facing this country and the world today. Brockovich explores the issues she champions every day as an environmental and consumer advocate: protecting communities from environmental crimes that affect people’s lives and health, and the irreplaceable loss of pristine landscapes and potable water caused by greed and lax laws.

“One of the passions in my life is to do all that I can to protect communities from environmental crimes that affect people’s lives and health. I had thought of writing a nonfiction book about my commitment to this important issue, but I have always wanted to write a work of fiction,” says Brockovich. “I hope to attract a whole new group of readers who enjoy a page-turning novel of suspense with a courageous female character, A.J. Palladino, and to share why I have spent much of my life fighting for the welfare of victims of corporate greed across this country. I trust readers of Rock Bottom will find themselves caught up in the intrigue, romance, and danger of her journey.”

Pregnant and 17 years old, Angela Joy Palladino fled her small coal-mining town in West Virginia, trying to protect the people she loved, including her parents and Cole Masterson. She eventually triumphed as an environmental activist and was dubbed “The People’s Champion.” But now, A.J. has hit Rock Bottom, falling fast and far after her sassy mouth and feisty behavior get her blacklisted, and a crushing media disaster ends her career.

She faces a life-changing decision when Zachariah Hardy, a high-powered litigator, offers her a job taking on large mining corporations to stop their mountaintop removal in Scotia — the town she left in disgrace. A.J. finally accepts, and returns to Scotia with her whip-smart, special-needs 9-year-old son David in tow, hoping to find a sense of purpose in saving the only place she’s ever called home. But it isn’t the homecoming she was expecting and A.J. soon discovers deeper betrayals than she ever knew, realizing that hers aren’t the only secrets her mountain hometown has kept buried.

Her parents slam the door on her. Cole Masterson — David’s father and the man A.J. left town to protect — shuns her, and has switched camps to join the family mining corporation. Before she can meet Zachariah Hardy, he is being buried, his untimely demise seemingly linked to his pending case against Masterson Mining.

A.J. joins Elizabeth Hardy to continue legal action against the powerful Mastersons, but when David’s life is threatened, A.J. knows she must work fast. Confronting a harrowing past she thought she had laid to rest, she struggles to reveal the truth before the next murder ruins any chance she may have to reclaim her roots and create a new home and future for herself and her son.

Writing with award-winning medical suspense author C.J. Lyons, in Rock Bottom Erin Brockovich combines captivating characters, first-rate storytelling, and her real-life experiences in a thrilling novel that will grab you and not let go. In A.J. Palladino, Erin Brockovich has created an intriguing, irresistible and engaging heroine, a woman poised to take us all on the next dangerous and rewarding journey.

ABOUT ERIN BROCKOVICH

New York Times bestselling author Erin Brockovich was a legal clerk when she pursued evidence that amounted to the largest toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history, forcing utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric to pay out $333 million in damages for contaminating the ground water of Hinkley, CA. Her story became the blockbuster movie “Erin Brockovich” starring Julia Roberts, in a role that earned the actress an Academy Award. The next year, her New York Times bestselling motivational autobiography Take It From Me was published. A sought-after motivational speaker, Erin hosted ABC-TV’s “Challenge America with Erin Brockovich” and Lifetime’s “Final Justice.” As president of Brockovich Research and Consulting, Brockovich continues her legal work and consults on numerous investigations into toxic spills, water and soil contamination, unexplained cancer clusters, fracking (a process used by oil and gas companies that contaminates ground water supplies), and other health hazards countrywide. These include the cluster of brain tumors in Cameron, Missouri, allegedly linked to a hide tanning plant 37 miles away; a cancer cluster in a suburb of West Palm Beach, Florida; and a coal ash spill in Knoxville, Tennessee. She lives in Southern California with her husband and children. Rock Bottom is her first novel.

Robin Cook

“The master of the medical thriller.” —The New York Times

“Cook has found a formula that keeps readers coming back for more” —Booklist

#1 New York Times–bestselling author, Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word “medical” to the thriller genre. Over thirty-five years ago, he changed the public’s image of medicine with his breakthrough novel Coma, andcontinues to dominate the category he created while uncannily presaging serious medical issues. In Cook’s latest and 33^rd novel, CELL (G.P. Putnam’s Sons; February 4, 2014), he returns with a top-notch fusion of edge-of-your-seat suspense and ground breaking medical science. Cook is once again at the forefront of medical technology by predicting an imminent change in the entire healthcare paradigm just when healthcare reform (the Affordable Care Act or ACA aka Obamacare) is being implemented.

CELLdelves into today’s tech-savvy world, where many new things are possible. Healthcare innovations and discoveries are not only happening rapidly, but changing daily. And your entire medical history can fit neatly into the palm of your hand…

Industry giant Amalgamated Healthcare has developed an amazing healthcare advancement: a cellphone app named iDoc. This app works as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than a real, live doctor. It can monitor your personal wellness, remind you to take medicines as needed, and instruct you on how to take the best care of yourself. It’s like fitting your own personal physician right in your pocket and carrying that doctor with you wherever you go.

iDoc is more than just a personal doctor. It’s networked to all the other users who have downloaded the app, which allows it to learn, to grow, to diagnose more accurately, to determine and monitor treatment, and to collect and analyze health data. But what happens when iDoc begins to execute its duties too well? In CELL  we learn that technology like this comes at a price.

George Wilson, M.D, was a twenty-nine year old radiology resident in Los Angeles, happily engaged to the woman of his dreams, until he woke up one morning to find her dead in the bed next to him. His nightmare has just begun, as a series of patients he’s connected to begin to suddenly die. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, as George digs deeper into the mysterious circumstances, finding a pattern with the deceased. All of them were participating in the same iDoc beta test and had recently received life threatening diagnoses. But none of them should have died yet. And when George discovers that even his late fiancée was using iDoc to treat her medical problems, the mystery deepens further. Could iDoc be a lifesaver for some people and a curse for others?

George is determined to find the answers. But a frightening number of wealthy—and very powerful—people are heavily invested in making sure iDoc succeeds. To them, these deaths are just a “glitch,” a small inconvenience on the path to a greater goal. As they see it, iDoc’s success is not only essential…it’s inevitable. And a few more deaths, including George’s, will not stop them.

CELL  imagines a future that Robin Cook believes is imminent and has already started, thanks to a confluence of advances in informational technology, nanotechnology, and genomics. But it also holds dangerous implications, most notably, what happens when the “human” element is taken out of patient care? This brings up many questions, such as what are the dangers and benefits of these advancements? How far should we allow mobile health technology to go? And of particular current relevance, what will the future of this technology bring within the context of the ACA?

With an up-to-the-minute, cutting-edge take on the medical industry of today—and the near future—thisis Robin Cook’s most gripping thriller yet. Just as Coma launched the bestselling medical-thriller genre, CELL redefines it for the 21^st century…and will leave readers breathless.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Brooklyn, New York, doctor and author Robin Cook graduated summa cum laude from Wesleyan University with a major in chemistry and a distinction in government. He then attended Columbia University Medical School, before serving in the United States Navy and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. After his stint in the military, Cook began his ophthalmology residency at Harvard. He debuted his first medical thriller, Coma, in 1977, and since then, he has written more than 30 others, becoming recognized worldwide as the master of the medical thriller genre. In 2002, he was awarded the “Author of Vision” distinction from the RP International organization, and in 2004, President George W. Bush appointed him to the Woodrow Wilson Board of Trustees. Wesleyan University honored him with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1982 and the McConaughy Award in 2012 for his writing. He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Sorcerers and Their Apprentices

Riding the Snake

Reggie Jackson

A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir, Becoming Mr. October (Doubleday; 10/8/2013; $26.95) brings to light the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend.  In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn’t won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees, “I didn’t know what alone meant.”

His manager, the mercurial, alcoholic, and pugilistic Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie—and the rest of the team—know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York’s tabloid culture, Reggie hadn’t realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines—especially for a black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Sickened by Martin’s anti-Semitism, his rages, and his quite public disparagement of his new star, ostracized by his teammates, and despairing of how he was stereotyped in the press, Reggie had long talks with his father about quitting. Things hit bottom when Martin plotted to humiliate him during a nationally televised game against the Red Sox. It seemed as if a glorious career had been derailed.

But then: Reggie vowed to persevere; his pride, work ethic, and talent would overcome Martin’s nearly sociopathic hatred. Gradually, he would win over the fans, then his teammates, as the Yankees surged to the pennant. And one magical autumn evening, he became “Mr. October” in a World Series performance for the ages. He thought his travails were over—until the next season when the insanity began again. 

Becoming Mr. October is a revelatory self-portrait of a baseball icon at the height of his public fame and private anguish. Filled with revealing anecdotes about the notorious “Bronx Zoo” Yankees of the late 1970s and bluntly honest portrayals of his teammates and competitors, this is eye-opening baseball history as can be told only by the man who lived it.

ABOUT REGGIE JACKSON

Reggie Jackson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993. He hit 563 home runs and drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career. He played three World Series–winning seasons with the Oakland Athletics and two with the New York Yankees. He is a special adviser to the Yankees.

Mitchell Kriegman

Sometimes all you need to stand out in the crowd is a little black dress, the right attitude, and a bit of help from one of the greatest movie stars the world has ever seen. Acclaimed writer and producer Mitchell Kriegman has written a fun and charming novel, Being Audrey Hepburn (on-sale September 16, 2014 from St. Martin’s Griffin) to reflect how all these elements come together and make a world of difference to one young girl trying to find herself.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible.”

—Audrey Hepburn

Lisbeth knows a lot about impossible. Between her alcoholic mother, her walked-out-on-everything father, her five-times-a-felony brother, and her sister Courtney whose major life plans include ragers and wet t-shirt contests, there’s not a lot of possible out there.

Obsessed with everything Audrey Hepburn (whose movies are an answer to any major crisis), Lisbeth is transformed when she secretly tries on Audrey’s iconic Givenchy black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Mistaken for a fashion icon at a party for the young and privileged Manhattan elite, Lisbeth’s identity shifts into ‘Lisbeth Dulac’. With the aid of her grandmother and her fashionista friend Jess, Miss Dulac has everybody fooled. Soon she’s faced with choices that she never imagined making – between who she’s become and who she once was.

Perfect for every Hepburn-obsessed fan,  Being Audrey Hepburn is a coming of age Cinderella story, in the tradition of The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada, and is sure to chase away all the ‘mean reds’.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mitchell Kriegman has been published in the New Yorker, the National Lampoon, Army Man, Glamour, Between C&D, New York Press and Harper’s Bazaar. Winner of four Emmy Awards, the Director’s Guild Award and many others, he was executive story editor on Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats and Doug and wrote for Saturday Night Live. Kriegman was also the creator of the classic groundbreaking television series Clarissa Explains It All. He currently writes for the Santa Barbara Independent and lectures at UCSB. Being Audrey Hepburn is his first young adult novel.

MASTERMINDS AND WINGMEN

“Rosalind Wiseman, who so insightfully explained the world of girls in Queen Bees and Wannabes, has done it again. This book is a powerful exploration of the inner life of boys, which is far more complex than many parents and educators may realize. Wiseman reveals the unwritten rules boys must both abide by and try to overcome, and she helps parents understand boys’ reactions, as well as their own. This is an essential guide – not just for parents but anyone who wants to better understand their own childhood and its impact.” — Anderson Cooper

Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes, a massive bestseller and the basis of the hit film “Mean Girls,” upended assumptions about how teenage girls relate to one another. But lost in the attention was an equally important and vulnerable group: boys. Less prone to talk about their feelings and stereotyped as settling every dispute with a fistfight, boys face social issues that have long been ignored as an important key to understanding their behavior. So Wiseman, a mother of two boys, decided to pull back the curtain on “Guy World,” working collaboratively for two years with middle-school and high-school boys to explore their own complicated, emotional world. What she learned is fascinating, and critically important for all of us to know. Now, Wiseman is sharing her findings in Mastermind and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World (Harmony Books; On-Sale September 10, 2013), a vital roadmap for parents, teachers, and leaders to better understand boys and provide the critical support they need to succeed and be happy.

Research shows that boys are struggling in the United States. Boys commit suicide at five times the rate of girls, do worse in school, have more social problems, and are less likely to attend college. Boys feel pain and need support just as much as girls do – but they’re far more likely to hide their feelings, claim everything is “fine,” and believe that adult involvement will only make their lives worse. We owe it to our boys to break through communication barriers so we can recognize what their dealing with. Mastermind and Wingmen helps expose boys’ thoughts on everything from cliques and social hierarchy (dominated by “mastermind” ringleaders and adjutant “wingmen”), to dealing with lying (research shows that 96% of all kids lie to their parents), to social networking (few things are more valued and important in guy world, and few things cause so much anxiety and conflict in parent world), to problems with girls (Rosalind explores boys thoughts on everything from heartbreak to “friends with benefits” to pregnancy).

There is a vital need for us to understand how to better understand and talk to boys, and Mastermind and Wingmen provides the tools to build our relationships with boys to help them develop a more positive, authentic, strong sense of self.

ABOUT ROSALIND WISEMAN

Rosalind Wiseman is an internationally recognized expert on children, parenting, bullying, social justice, and ethical leadership, and the New York Times bestselling author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads.

Rearview Mirror

MASTERMINDS AND WINGMEN

“Rosalind Wiseman, who so insightfully explained the world of girls in Queen Bees and Wannabes, has done it again. This book is a powerful exploration of the inner life of boys, which is far more complex than many parents and educators may realize. Wiseman reveals the unwritten rules boys must both abide by and try to overcome, and she helps parents understand boys’ reactions, as well as their own. This is an essential guide – not just for parents but anyone who wants to better understand their own childhood and its impact.” — Anderson Cooper

Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes, a massive bestseller and the basis of the hit film “Mean Girls,” upended assumptions about how teenage girls relate to one another. But lost in the attention was an equally important and vulnerable group: boys. Less prone to talk about their feelings and stereotyped as settling every dispute with a fistfight, boys face social issues that have long been ignored as an important key to understanding their behavior. So Wiseman, a mother of two boys, decided to pull back the curtain on “Guy World,” working collaboratively for two years with middle-school and high-school boys to explore their own complicated, emotional world. What she learned is fascinating, and critically important for all of us to know. Now, Wiseman is sharing her findings in Mastermind and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World (Harmony Books; On-Sale September 10, 2013), a vital roadmap for parents, teachers, and leaders to better understand boys and provide the critical support they need to succeed and be happy.

Research shows that boys are struggling in the United States. Boys commit suicide at five times the rate of girls, do worse in school, have more social problems, and are less likely to attend college. Boys feel pain and need support just as much as girls do – but they’re far more likely to hide their feelings, claim everything is “fine,” and believe that adult involvement will only make their lives worse. We owe it to our boys to break through communication barriers so we can recognize what their dealing with. Mastermind and Wingmen helps expose boys’ thoughts on everything from cliques and social hierarchy (dominated by “mastermind” ringleaders and adjutant “wingmen”), to dealing with lying (research shows that 96% of all kids lie to their parents), to social networking (few things are more valued and important in guy world, and few things cause so much anxiety and conflict in parent world), to problems with girls (Rosalind explores boys thoughts on everything from heartbreak to “friends with benefits” to pregnancy).

There is a vital need for us to understand how to better understand and talk to boys, and Mastermind and Wingmen provides the tools to build our relationships with boys to help them develop a more positive, authentic, strong sense of self.

ABOUT ROSALIND WISEMAN

Rosalind Wiseman is an internationally recognized expert on children, parenting, bullying, social justice, and ethical leadership, and the New York Times bestselling author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads.

Reagan Remembered

Madboy

Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads

Protecting Capitalism Case By Case

“Eliot Spitzer, a dedicated advocate for the public interest, writes with wisdom born of his experience in fighting for what is right and good for the people of New York State and the U.S. Protecting Capitalism Case by Case illuminates some of the greatest threats to sustainable capitalism and prescribes solutions to help to mark a clear-headed path forward.” —Al Gore

Leading independent eBook publisher RosettaBooks has released Eliot Spitzer’s Protecting Capitalism Case By Case (RosettaBooks; July 15, 2013; eBook $9.99, POD Trade Paperback $17.95), a compelling examination of the enforcement necessary to protect the principles that sustain our economic markets and fuel their vigor. Refuting as dangerous the poor caricature of capitalism advocated today by those who accrue wealth for themselves while breaching fundamental codes of conduct and creating nearly unlimited long-term costs to society, Spitzer sets forth an insightful defense of capitalism. All of the author proceeds will be contributed to City University of New York and Better Markets.

Well known as a hard-charging agent of change, Eliot Spitzer was called the “Sheriff of Wall Street” as New York State Attorney General, when he set a new standard for law enforcement in financial fraud, environmental protection, and civil rights. The cases he brought—both criminal and civil—targeted pervasive misconduct and structural flaws in the economy that were metastasizing. Today, after the financial crisis has exposed the faults that were brewing and the ever-expanding gap between the 1% and the 99%, it is clear that Spitzer was prescient.

What happens when nobody enforces the rules, when government simply “gets out of the way?” Some suggest the energy and spirit of the free market are liberated. In fact, in the less-than-ideal world we live in, the central and essential values and principles of democratic capitalism are eviscerated by fraud and greed.

Spitzer persuasively argues that a fundamental misunderstanding of the “market” underlay the ideology that dominated for nearly 30 years and that the crisis of 2008 was almost predictable as a result. Referencing the groundbreaking cases from multiple sectors – public, private, and not for profit – he brought while a lawyer and later, Attorney General, he calls for a more robust enforcement regime, one that will protect capitalism. He asserts the legitimate and necessary role of government to maintain the integrity, competitive environment, and respect for fiduciary duties without which the economy will once again descend into crisis.

Weighing the tension between capitalism and the need for vigilant oversight of excesses, to protect those who cannot protect themselves, Spitzer includes absorbing insider insights and astute commentary on the practices that can so easily drift into damaging economic circumstances. Included in his framework for sustainable capitalism and prescriptions to repair and avoid economic deterioration are:

• Competition as Planned, Not Practiced – Competition is key, yet companies strive to eliminate it, from the Gambino crime family structuring a cartel to control trucking; to the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Mac, rigging bids; to leading pharmaceutical Bristol-Myers Squibb manipulating the patent system to keep a generic drug from competing with the brand-name equivalent; to politicians gerrymandering their districts, and more.
• Supply-and-Demand Market Failure – Why supply-demand curves don’t always give us the right price and quantity; how the mortgage lending industry succeeded, until caught, in giving brokers incentives to push up loan rates, targeting African-American and Latino neighborhoods for the very worst credit products on the market.
• Markets Can’t Regulate Themselves – Self-regulation is an oxymoron.
• Faltering Respect for Fiduciary Duty – An example: the chasm between the flurry of marketing pieces inviting the middle class “into” the capital markets, and the dearth of rules to protect and inform the middle class about the risks they are absorbing.
• What Happened to Corporate Governance – Why is management seemingly unfettered from shareholder and community interests; between 1978 and 2011, worker average compensation rose 5.7%, while CEO compensation rose 726%; plus the interlocking relations that limit change.
• Hard-to-Sanction Corporations – Corporations revel in the rights of personhood but have few of the responsibilities and potential exposure to prosecution.
• Did We Waste the Financial Crisis? – We resuscitated the economy but failed to reform the industry primarily responsible for the crisis, and neglected to impose sanctions where required; added to “too big to manage,” do we have now also “too big to prosecute”?
• Greed is Not a Social Contract – How do we divide income and what incentives do we create through our tax code and governmental expenditures? Who is it we most protect, encourage, support, or tax? Though productivity continued to rise, making U.S. workers the most productive in the world, real wages have barely budged.
• Rules for Life – Loyalty, fiduciary duty, and incentives matter; hubris is terminal; politics should be a cause, not a profession; and more.

An intriguing look at the U.S. practice of capitalism, both the forces that propel it and those that shackle its strength, Protecting Capitalism Case By Case is a call to action and a new vision for financial stability, integrity, and prosperity. Combining discerning economic and political assessments with judicious solutions to the issues that interrupt a vibrant marketplace, Eliot Spitzer has written a book for our times.

Protecting Capitalism Case By Case is being published simultaneously in eBook and print-on-demand formats, and as an Audible audio book.

ABOUT ELIOT SPITZER

Eliot Spitzer is a political commentator who prosecuted abuses among major Wall Street firms and other industries, both as a young lawyer and as New York State Attorney General. Former New York State Governor, elected by nearly 70% of the vote, Spitzer has for the past several years been at the forefront of the American political scene sparking lively debates on compelling topics ranging from global business to party politics. He is a regular television panelist, pundit, in-demand speaker, and former host of CNN’s “In the Arena” and Current TV’s “Viewpoint.” He taught a weekly seminar, “Law and Public Policy” at City College in New York from fall 2009 to spring 2012. Spitzer graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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Life, Animated

“When his ebullient three year old suddenly stops speaking and plunges into the inscrutable depths of autism, the Suskinds must follow, on an odyssey of the heart and a heroic quest to reach him. Life, Animated is an unputdownable love story with the power to radically transform the way we look at the autistic, and at ourselves. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece.” —Geraldine Brooks

“A deeply felt, movingly written account of raising an autistic son. A master journalistic storyteller tells his family’s own story.” 
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Timesbestselling author Ron Suskind’s new book, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism, to be published April 1, 2014, has already prompted intense interest from the autism research community and coverage in the New York Times. And with the Centers for Disease Control poised to release a startling new report on the incidence of autism in America, Life, Animated will be at the center of conversations about meaningful treatment, education, and healing during National Autism Awareness Month in April.

Just shy of his third birthday, Suskind’s lively, chatty son Owen became mute. He didn’t sleep or eat, and cried inconsolably. His only solace: the Disney animated movies he loved before autism struck. The boy’s ability to understand speech had vanished, so he memorized the movies, dozens of them, based on sound, alone. Yet he remained trapped inside himself, isolated, unable to communicate and make himself understood.

In a startling breakthrough, Suskind discovered he could engage his child if he “became” a character. When, in a flash of insight, he spoke to six-year-old Owen with a hand puppet as Iago, the parrot from “Aladdin,” Owen responded in full, articulate sentences. He had relearned language by watching movies. His affinity and passion for the animated movie sidekicks was the key to unlock the door into his shut-off world.

Suskind, his wife, Cornelia, and their son Walt began to communicate with their lost son and brother in movie dialogue. As animated characters, they could touch this “left-behind” boy, help him develop his drawing skills in his interest area — animation, and most importantly, begin to welcome him back into the world of expressing love, sharing feelings, and interacting with family and friends.

Life, Animated is the story of a family’s resilience when their world is turned upside-down. It’s about perseverance and hope. A child disappeared into confusion, frustration and silence. Then, he and his family began to dig for diamonds, working year by year, trial by trial, on a most improbable project: to find a way to connect again, by following the lead of the child — his passions and interests.

Inspiring, graceful, and fascinating, Life, Animated is destined to become a classic on the order of Oliver Sacks’ Awakenings. Taking The Reason I Jump a step further, it reveals a way into the heart and mind of an autistic child. It is essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever loved another, showing that insights can come from the most improbable places and a child can give you the key to a self that had seemed lost and beyond reach.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ron Suskind is the author of four New York Times bestsellers and the critically acclaimed, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. His other books include, Confidence Men, The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine and The Price of Loyalty. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal,where he won the Pulitzer Prize, and is currently the Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy.

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Life’s Operating Manual

Modern society is replete with electronics—iPads, computers, cell phones, cars, and so on—and all of these come with one important accessory: a manual that teaches you how to use and care for your device. In Life’s Operating Manual, Tom Shadyac answers a simple yet provocative question: is it possible that life comes with a similar set of guidelines?

Once reserved for exploration by poets, prophets, and philosophers, Shadyac, the man behind such comic hits as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, brings a new voice to the mix. Inviting us into a conversation that is both challenging and empowering, he looks at the workings of nature and the ideals of the longest lasting civilization on earth in a series of essays and dialogues between the voices of truth and fear. And through this examination, he opens our eyes to one underlying principle that should guide the human race: love. This single principle is, in essence, our operating manual … and its instructions are very simple.

The question he then sets out to answer is, do we have the courage to live in accordance with this precept—to step away from how society currently works and the ills we experience because of it? Do we have the fortitude to change and cast aside the ideas that have led to war, poverty, genocide, and environmental destruction?

With Shadyac’s inspiring vision of what the world can be and his straightforward advice on how to move toward it, your answer to these questions will be a resounding yes.

ABOUT TOM SHADYAC

Tom Shadyac is the film director behind such blockbuster hits as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Nutty Professor; Liar, Liar; Patch Adams; and Bruce Almighty. A recent brush with death compelled Tom to make his latest film, I AM, a documentary that asks some of today’s most profound thinkers two questions: “What’s wrong with the world?” and “What can we do about it?”

Politics, War, and Personality

“Ken Rendell—master collector, literary sleuth, and historian—has given us a book that I will long treasure and restudy. Thousands of others will do the same.” — John S.D. Eisenhower, retired ambassador, U.S. Army Brigadier General, son of Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Kenneth Rendell’s Museum of World War II simply has no equal.” — Phil Reed, OBE, Director, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms; Executive Director, The Churchill Centre

“The museum is the repository for the actual Holy Grail documents of World War II.” — Tom Hanks

What if we could read, in his own handwriting, what is perhaps Hitler’s earliest known attack on the Jews, scribbled on an announcement of the Versailles Peace Treaty recently discovered in a file cabinet in his Munich apartment? What if we could hold Churchill’s message to the French president on the last day Allied soldiers were able to escape from Dunkirk; Japan’s official declaration of war “by the grace of Heaven” against the United States; a combat report showing Rommel’s tactical genius; an original map marked with landings and objectives for the D-Day invasion; a letter from General George S. Patton, describing the Battle of the Bulge—as it was happening, or the Christmas greeting Patton had delivered to every one of his troops during that same encounter.

Now, best-selling author Kenneth W. Rendell gathers 50 of the most important and iconic documents of Mankind’s greatest conflict in his compelling and unique Politics, War, And Personality: Fifty Iconic World War II Documents that Changed the World (Whitman Publishing; $29.95 U.S./ $31.18 Canada).

Nothing gives a closer intimacy with the people and events of history than the actual papers that mark the momentous events and the original letters discussing turning points—political, military, and personal. Handwriting says a great deal about people, and original letters can show an unexpected side of historical personalities. Erwin Rommel and Dwight Eisenhower, two commanders writing to their wives from either side of the English Channel on June 9, 1944, three days after the D-Day landings, show great affection with very different forecasts for the future.

Kenneth Rendell tells the dramatic stories of these history-drenched documents, each one part of his outstanding collection in the Museum of World War II, which Tom Hanks has called “the repository for the actual Holy Grail documents of World War II.” Each paper foreshadowed, announced, or altered the course of war—and in doing so, changed the world. Featuring a foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower, son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Politics, War, And Personality includes:

• A letter by Benito Mussolini, around 1908: “Life in this semi-wild village of my birth is beginning to weigh on me, and to get away from it I got an idea …”
• The 1933 order by which President von Hindenburg gave in to Adolf Hitler’s demands, leading to what would be the last election until after WWII.
• The leaflet distributed in the beer hall in Munich outlining the Nazi Party’s original platform, with Hitler’s colored sketch of the Nazi banner.
• Generally considered the most important document of WWII, the Munich Agreement, with Hitler’s bold handwriting making “concessions,” and the British smaller, finely written notes; Hitler proved his instinct that England and France would concede to avoid war.
• Franklin Roosevelt’s letter to the French president after the defeat by Germany, “France herself will ultimately regain her full independence and freedom.”
• The first urgent message sent during the Japanese attack in 1941: “Air raid on Pearl Harbor X This is no drill.”
• The secret special order that required Douglas MacArthur to evacuate Corregidor, before American troops were forced to surrender to the Japanese and experience the Bataan Death March.
• A poignant letter from General Dwight Eisenhower to his wife—the most revealing of a commander-in-chief in wartime.
• The journal and mission map of the fighter pilot who shot down Admiral Yamamoto’s plane.
• Winston Churchill’s draft memorandum to Josef Stalin, deciding the fate of Poland.
• The communiqué signed by Eisenhower, announcing the D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
• A note from Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish businessman and diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews—“Mrs. Kellner is to be considered a Swedish citizen and is to be exempted from bearing the distinctive Jewish sign.”
• Hitler’s order of March 30, 1945, one month before his suicide, commanding the fanatical defense of Berlin.
• A letter from Franklin Roosevelt, five days before his death and four months before Hiroshima, writing of “complete victory over our enemies.”
• General MacArthur’s draft of the surrender terms for Japan.
• Hermann Goering’s detention report from Nuremberg.
• Hideki Tojo’s requests while on trial for war crimes.
• Letters from Anne Frank’s father and aunt after the war.
• Harry Truman’s 1957 letter explaining the necessity of dropping the atomic bombs.
• And many more historic and profoundly significant documents.

Including more than 150 archival images and photographs, Rendell places these documents in context with insightful notes and astute commentary. His Politics, War, And Personality is a riveting, remarkable book that brings us into the hearts and minds of those who made history.

ABOUT KENNETH W. RENDELL

Kenneth W. Rendell, the bestselling author of World War II: Saving the Reality, is a dealer in historical letters and documents, well known for debunking the infamous “Hitler diaries” and proving the so-called Jack the Ripper diary to be a hoax. He is founder and director of the Museum of World War II, called “the repository for the actual Holy Grail documents of World War II” by Tom Hanks. Author of Forging History, The Great American West, and With Weapons and Wits, he is also an expert witness called in criminal trials. He has received the Justice Department’s Distinguished Service Award for his work leading to convictions for thefts from the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

Life! By Design

Plenty, More

The hotly anticipated follow-up to London chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s bestselling and award-winning cookbook Plenty, featuring 120 vegetarian dishes organized by cooking method. Ottolenghi’s monumentally successful cookbook Plenty changed the way people cook and eat vegetables. Its focus on flavorful, vegetable-centric dishes that emphasize spices and fresh ingredients caused a produce-cooking craze in the UK, the US, and the world over. Plenty More continues in the spirit of Plenty, with dazzling dishes, prepared raw, grilled, baked, simmered, cracked, or braised. Featuring recipes for main dishes, sides, salads, and sweets including Membrillo and Stilton Quiche, Buttermilk-Crusted Okra, Candy Beets with Lentils, Roasted Rhubarb with Sweet Labneh, and Quince Poached in Pomegranate Juice, this is the follow-up cookbook everyone has been waiting for.

ABOUT YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

Yotam Ottolenghi owns an eponymous group of four restaurants, plus the high-end restaurant, Nopi, in London. His previous cookbooks—Plenty, Jerusalem, and Ottolenghi—have all been on the New York Times bestseller list. Yotam writes for The Guardian, and appears on BBC. He lives in London.

Liar’s Ball

“Vicky Ward has done it again. She has taken a subject and a cast of characters, many of whom we would not invite to dinner, and woven a page-turning, compelling tale. She transforms real estate players, who to most of us are stick figures, into pulsating characters. Yes, they are greedy. But they also can be visionary, and vulnerable, and damn interesting.” —Ken Auletta, The New Yorker

The Liar’s Ball (Wiley; October 22, 2014) is the shocking exposé of how brilliant and audacious real estate tycoons lie, cheat, bluff, and bully their way into some of the world’s biggest deals. It is also the story of the iconic building so many of them chased like it was a glass and steel Holy Grail, and the extraordinarily charming yet crude hustler who grabbed that prize … and then let it slip through his fingers in a family drama that makes Shakespeare’s King Lear look like Father of the Year.

In over 200 interviews, Vicky Ward got a rare look into the world of these vain and powerful men chasing their profits and schemes and dreams. They are brilliant, but they are also careless, unregulated, and dangerous. In this crowd, Donald J. Trump looks like a Boy Scout (and don’t worry, he’s not). At the center of this tale is Harry Macklowe, who bootstrapped his way to a billion-dollar empire with guile, charm, vision, and plenty of bluster … and came within days of going bust as his wife and son tried to wrest control of it away from him. It is a gripping drama that reads like a thriller.

In The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons, New York Times bestselling author Vicky Ward rips back the curtain on this world to examine the soaring egos and boundless hunger of these buccaneers, men who might swap billion-dollar buildings over a round of golf and or draw up a deal on a cocktail napkin.

Welcome to The Liar’s Ball. It’s rough, it’s vulgar, and it’s riveting.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vicky Ward is an investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Devil’s Casino. A former contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years, her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the Times (London), The New York Times, and the Daily Telegraph. She lives in New York.

Pitch Perfect

“With Bill McGowan’s book in front of you, your days of thinking ‘I wish I had said that’ will be behind you. His peerless advice offers readers a real chance to be heard and to succeed.” — Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

“Success depends on having a great game plan. In Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan provides just that – winning strategies for how to improve your communication skills, especially in life’s red-zone situations.” —Eli Manning, Quarterback, The New York Giants

We all experience Pitch Perfect moments every day in every area of our lives, high-stakes situations where it is critical to know what to say, what not to say, and what to do or not do as you say it. How we deal with these decisive moments can be game-changers when it comes to nailing or tanking a job interview, dazzling or disappointing the boss, or charming or antagonizing future in-laws.

But whatever the situation, renowned media coach Bill McGowan, who has trained everyone from CEOs to celebrities to everyday job seekers, has the solution. Now he reveals the secrets to always communicating efficiently and successfully in Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time (HarperBusiness; Hardcover; $27.99/$32.99 Can.; ISBN 13: 9780062273222; On Sale: April 1, 2014;), an indispensable guide written with Alisa Bowman that shares all of the tools required to speak with conviction, enthusiasm, and confidence at the office, while socializing, and everywhere you go.

His innovative philosophy centers around Seven Principles of Persuasion, simple yet powerful guidelines for tackling a wide variety of personal and professional scenarios and handling the most frequent communications issues you will encounter. These transformative principles include: The Headline Principle: To grab your listener’s attention, keep your introduction short, suspenseful, and surprising, just like a catchy lead to a news story; The Scorsese Principle: Good communicators are like film directors, telling stories that paint visual pictures in the minds of their audiences; and The Pasta Sauce Principle: Like pasta sauce, the more you reduce your message, the more dynamic its flavor.

Under McGowan’s expert tutelage, you will project greater self-assurance and command, inspire others to deliver their very best, and learn to ask for what you deserve in a way that’s persuasive. From preparing for a media appearance and closing a deal to shining as a guest on a panel and honing public-speaking skills, Pitch Perfect will overhaul and optimize your verbal and nonverbal approach to communication. Follow his suggestions and you will never again wish for a conversational do-over.

Filled with anecdotes and illustrated with makeovers, Pitch Perfect identifies common mistakes and pitfalls and then advises corrective measures using the can’t-miss principles. McGowan also points out the five reasons not to talk longer, the six clues that you’ve lost your audience, and the top seven ways speakers blow their presentations. He explains how to maximize your listening abilities, why you should never ad-lib, how to break your addiction to business jargon, why even born communicators need to practice and prepare, what signals your body language is sending (for example, beware of “bitchy resting face”), why you should ask for advice and not favors, and so much more.

The Seven Principles of Persuasion—which McGowan first developed during his broadcast career and has since fine-tuned during his four thousand coaching sessions—are as easy to master as they are to implement. So whether you’re giving a TED talk or a best man toast or having an impromptu chat with your boss, Pitch Perfect will ensure that your message resounds clearly and memorably.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bill McGowan, the founder and CEO of Clarity Media Group, is a two-time Emmy Award-winning correspondent who has reported more than seven hundred nationally televised stories and anchored hundreds of hours of news and information programming. During his twenty-five years in television, McGowan conducted hundreds of interviews with newsmakers, CEOs, celebrities, authors and editors, attorneys, and athletes. Specializing in hard-hitting investigative reports and feature lifestyle segments, he has worked on such notable programs as ABC News’s 20/20 and CBS News’s 48 Hours. McGowan now uses that experience to coach and train on-air talent. As a media coach, McGowan trains everyone from corporate CEOs to celebrities to everyday job seekers. Among many others, his clients have included New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the actress Katherine Heigl, the chef Thomas Keller, the fashion critics Tim Gunn and Nina Garcia, and the singer and songwriter Kelly Clarkson. McGowan also speaks regularly to large corporate audiences for such companies as Diageo, Wrigley, Campbell’s, IKEA, Teach for America, Time Inc., and Clinique.

Lessons of Hope

An unconventional choice as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Joel Klein shook up a failed and stagnant educational system and replaced it with new initiatives that radically improved schools. As a lawyer and businessman, Klein applied lessons learned working in the private sector as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House to find aggressive new approaches to improving the way we educate our kids. Challenging unions, bureaucrats, and politicians, he held New York’s schools, principals, and teachers accountable as never before, and spearheaded the opening of several hundred new public schools and more than a hundred charter schools that redefined the schooling options for the city’s youth.

In Lessons of Hope (Harper; November 4, 2014; $27.99), Klein chronicles his eight year crusade as chancellor, detailing the unprecedented reform he oversaw.  He tells the riveting stories behind the reforms, bringing to life the various players that were key to the policies he pushed and those who fought hard against them.  The scope of the change he instituted was breathtaking, beginning with empowering principals – previously among the weakest link in the system – and then holding them accountable for progress at their schools, closing scores of failing schools over howls of protest, opening hundreds of new schools to finally provide choices for families, especially in high-needs communities, and stimulating new, innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Although controversial, the media and academic researchers ultimately hailed his work in New York as establishing a national model that got real improvements for students.  Under his and Bloomberg’s leadership, New York won the prestigious Broad Prize for the most improved urban school district.  Robert Schwartz, academic dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, called Klein’s efforts “the most dramatic and thoughtful set of large scale reforms going on anywhere in the country.”  The Economist observed that NYC had become “a laboratory for school reform,” and John Merrow of PBS called Klein “the person most responsible for shaping U.S. schools today.”

Building on the success of New York City schools, Lessons of Hope looks to the future of education across the United States. “America is at a crossroad,” Klein writes. “Despite decades of trying to improve ours schools—and more than doubling the financial outlay earmarked for them—only slightly more than a third of our students are being well educated.” Those hardest hit—economically and socially challenged kids—need not be left behind, Klein says. Safety-net and support programs, though important, can never do what a good education can for disadvantaged children, he asserts. The success story Klein engineered in New York has lessons to teach schools across the country. We can continue to hope that more money will make small, incremental fixes, or we can push for a fundamental restructuring that will create an American educational system that can compete globally in the 21st century. Such a restructuring would include increasing school choice across the spectrum of public education, making teaching a true profession (rather than a trade union), and using technology to change the way teachers teach and kids learn.

Himself the product of the New York City public schools, Joel Klein is the CEO of Amplify, News Corp.’s education division, which is reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn in our digital age. Prior to serving as chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, he served as chairman and CEO of the U.S. arm of the global media company, Bertelsmann. He was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and Deputy White House Counsel to President Clinton. Klein graduated magna cum laude from Columbia and earned his J.D., also magna cum laude, from Harvard. Among his many honors, he received The Alexander Hamilton Award, Columbia College’s highest recognition,  was selected by Time as one of “Ten People Who Mattered” in 1999, and by U.S. News and World Report as “One of America’s 20 Best Leaders.”  He has received eleven honorary degrees, including from Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke and Amherst.

Lessons of Hope offers an invaluable blueprint for change and is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of America. I hope you will plan prominent attention and I look forward to talking with you about the possibilities.

Philip R. Reilly, JD, MD

“Because of an unlucky roll of the genetic dice, children can be born with one of several thousand rare disorders; until recently, their prospects were poor. Now, there is extraordinary progress.”  -Philip R. Reilly, MD, JD

ORPHAN: The Quest to Save Children with Rare Genetic Disorders (CSHL Press; November 2015) is the compelling stories of scientists seeking—and finding—cures for rare genetic disorders and the patients and families who assist them.

“In his intriguing and inspiring new book, Phil Reilly reveals the new avenues being pursued that offer hope to families around the world,” said Dr. John Inglis, Publisher and Executive Director, CSHL Press. “He began his clinical career caring for patients with unknown genetic syndromes who were beyond help. Now, after decades of immersion in science and medicine, he is seeking out and helping drive investment in highly promising opportunities for intervention in these disorders.”

Highly readable and engaging, Orphan provides first glimpses of the frontiers of scientific research and novel treatments, not previously explored in book form. Readers will learn, perhaps for the first time, about scores of conditions such as phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia, dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and Friedreich’s ataxia, and the hopes for reducing the toll they take on patients and families.

Built on Dr. Reilly’s extensive experience of scientific startups aimed at breakthrough treatments, the book also contains a visionary road map for government and corporations that will bring advances from the lab bench more rapidly to a patient’s bedside.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philip R. Reilly, MD, JD, is a Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts. Trained in internal medicine and clinical genetics, he specializes in starting companies that develop breakthrough therapies for orphan genetic diseases. Dr. Reilly was Executive Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation and was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University, among other positions. Along with serving on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Human Genetics, Dr. Reilly was twice President of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. He is the author of more than 100 articles and seven books.

Lauren’s Kingdom

Lauren has made a beautiful book with a crucial message for kids—if something doesn’t feel right to you, speak up, and don’t be ashamed. And I hope that parents reading it to their children will remember something, too: listen.” —Dr. Howard Koplewicz, President, Child Mind Institute

Lauren Book was 10 years old when a new female nanny joined the family. After she turned 11, and for the next six years, Lauren endured daily sexual, emotional, and physical abuse.

Today an internationally renowned and respected child advocate, and founder and CEO of Lauren’s Kids, Lauren has turned her horrific personal experience into a vehicle to prevent childhood sexual abuse and help other survivors heal. Her mission is to end the abuse that affects 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys in the U.S.

• She and her father have led a successful legislative onslaught against predators, influencing the passage of nearly two-dozen Florida lawsto protect children.
• Committed to empowering children to protect themselves against abuse, Lauren created and now teaches a Pre-K to grade 12 in-school curriculum that provides children with the necessary tools to be the first line of defense against abuse.
• She has written her first book for children, LAUREN’S KINGDOM (Sweetwater Press; March 9, 2015; $16.99), an uplifting, inspiring, and instructive tale that reaffirms a life-saving message to children: It’s OK to tell.
• 2015 marks Lauren’s 6^th annual 1,500-mile statewide Walk in My Shoes journey across Florida to end child sexual abuse and help survivors heal; tens of thousands of survivors and other supporters have walked with her, including the Miami Heat and the Miami Dolphins; the next Walk takes place March 14 – April 22 — during National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
• KIND snacks selected Lauren’s “Walk in My Shoes” as a KIND Cause recipient of $10,000 and named her a #kindawesome advocate.
• Lauren was named a 2013 L’Oreal Paris Woman of Worth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lauren Book, M.S. Ed, a former classroom teacher and author of the memoir It’s OK To Tell, has been named a PEOPLE All-Stars Among Us and a L’Oreal Paris Woman of Worth, and awarded a Congressional Medal of Merit for her tireless work to protect childhood. A sought-after speaker, Lauren has addressed UNICEF, a symposium in The Hague, and taught her safety-awareness curriculum in the Cape Town, South Africa region. An Emmy-nominated and Gracie Award-winning television producer, she has been featured by USA Today, ABC’s “Katie,” FOX News, CNN’s HLN, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, and Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change. She lives in South Florida.

We know that 95% of sexual abuse is preventable through education and awareness. I will call you soon about this inspiring and passionate leader and advocate, Lauren Book.

Peter Kiernan

“Peter Kiernan is a man with a big vision—for the middle class. In this robust and imaginative analysis of how the middle class must be secured he cuts through the fog and presents a clear vision for a new course. Bravo.” —Tom Brokaw

America’s middle class drove our ascension to global superpower status—a post-World War II position we enjoyed while manufacturing around the globe smoldered.

In time, we  came to believe a strong middle class was a naturally occurring force of our nature. Disinterest made it ever harder for this powerful resource to keep up. Dual income households strained, as elements of middle class well-being faced spiraling costs and stagnating wages. Consumer borrowing surged to historic heights until everything toppled, leaving a wake of lost jobs and dimmed hopes for tens of millions of Americans.

A tiny minority saw their wealth surge while most Americans suffered, with 45 million poor and another 50 million just a whisker from the same fate. In the middle, scrimping, saving and working longer hours were simply not enough. As our middle class changed in every way imaginable, Americans longed for the good old days.

Now, in American Mojo: Lost and Found–Restoring Our Middle Class Before the World Blows By (Turner Publishing Company; June 2015; $34.95), New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Kiernan reveals how we can re-ignite the engine of a strong, vibrant middle class.

American Mojo rejects recovery “recipes” using rearview mirror approaches applying fifty-year-old remedies to modern, dynamic problems. Supported by extensive research, Kiernan offers fresh solutions.

Kiernan is uniquely positioned to offer perspective. With a successful multi-decade Wall Street career, he understands the wrong economic turns we have made. After Wall Street, he led the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and numerous health care and poverty fighting organizations. A twenty-five year Robin Hood Foundation board member and former chair, he has dedicated himself for decades to fighting the epidemic of poverty.

Kiernan’s powerful storytelling weaves a tapestry of iconic individuals and events that catapulted the middle class to its apex, and incidents that left it to stumble through the social turmoil and the sine waves of economic ups and shattering downs in the decades that followed. Restoring the middle class is now a global challenge and greatness is within our grasp. But we must act before the developing world behind India and China steals the march. If dozens of nations have centerpiece plans to build their own robust middle class—how can we expect to compete without an equally robust commitment to a strategy of our own?

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter D. Kiernan, award-winning bestselling author, is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and advisor to businesses and government. He left Wall Street in 2000 to pursue venture capital start-ups, nonprofit work, and writing. He has played a leadership role at hospitals, colleges, graduate schools, disability and poverty fighting organizations, and charter schools. He is a frequent TV and radio talk show contributor and a dynamic speaker. His last book, Becoming China’s Bitch, won the International Book Award and was a bestseller.

Know Your Power

Knockout

Paula Wallace

“Paula Wallace built one of the world’s premier institutions of design, art and education. In her candid and compelling memoir, she weaves the story of its founding together with her deeply personal meditations on creativity, family and faith.” –  Arianna Huffington.

In The Bee and the Acorn (Assouline, March 2016) Wallace shares the remarkable story behind the creation of the most revered and comprehensive art and design university in the world.

In The Bee and the Acorn, readers journey with Wallace from her Atlanta Public Schools elementary classroom to storied Savannah, where, just as General Oglethorpe built a new kind of city, Wallace built a new kind of college — marrying the best of higher education tradition with pedagogical and curricular innovation. For four decades, Wallace’s path has paralleled that of the university she founded. Through touching tales that span the purchase of SCAD’s first building to its global expansion and more, Wallace reveals herself as an educator, entrepreneur, designer, preservationist, mother and wife.

Eschewing convention, Wallace’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovative excellence transformed a tiny art college with an incoming class of 71 students into an international university. With a mission to prepare talented students for professional creative careers, SCAD has grown to define Wallace’s singular vision. Evidenced the world over by SCAD’s four locations on three continents, the university now encompasses 45,000 students and alumni. “I imagined a student-centered university where the hands readily made what the mind dreamt and what the heart desired. SCAD is that magical triad of a place. The Bee and the Acorn is my way of sharing with others what they can do, if only they dare to try,” said Wallace.

Sincere, witty and candid, Wallace shares the trials and triumphs of building a university and the visionary SCAD story that appeals to students, educators, entrepreneurs and anyone who dares to dream big and do the impossible. Titled after SCAD’s mascot, the bee, and the university’s crest emblem, the acorn — two beings that defy the odds of nature in their ability to rise to great heights — Wallace’s memoir is about joy, determination and a life filled with gratitude. Whimsical illustrations by SCAD alumna Emily Isabella (B.F.A., fibers, 2008) punctuate the story with artful vignettes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paula Wallace is the president and founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a private, nonprofit, accredited university for creative careers. Wallace served as academic dean and provost of SCAD for twenty-two years and has served as president of the university since 2000. Wallace has authored several children’s books and two interior design titles — A House in the South and Perfect Porches. Among many awards and honors, she has been named Southeast Area Ernst & Young Principled Leadership Entrepreneur of the Year and was awarded the inaugural Elle Décor Vision Award. Wallace has been appointed a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Conseiller Culturel and Consul Général of the French Embassy in the United States of America, and the Georgia Historical Society named her a 2015 Georgia Trustee. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

“During his long career in Washington, Bob Graham became one of the Senate’s most respected authorities on national security. His novel delivers uncommon insight into the treacherous and sometimes frantic craft of intelligence gathering. It’s also an insider lesson on the maddening politics of trying to keep America safe from terrorists. It reads like a true story because Graham knows where the truth lies.” —Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author

 “Keys to the Kingdom ignites like a Homeland Security briefing and The Situation Room colliding head-on. Current, fast-paced, and crackles with the authenticity of someone who has obviously been ‘in the room.’” —Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times bestselling author

 “Graham is able to present a narrative about the threats we face in an exciting and fast-paced novel. Read this book and you will become more expert in understanding our dangerous world.”—Jane Harman, Former Congresswoman and President, CEO, and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former member of the House Intelligence Committee

Respected and trusted by leaders on both sides of the political aisle, Senator Bob Graham was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a presidential candidate with 18 years of service in the United States Senate, and a two-term Governor of Florida. Now, based on actual events, he has written a compelling political thriller, Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press; June 2011; $25.99). With a story line that cuts chillingly close to true-life dealings, it raises penetrating questions and all-too-real, alarming predictions.

Retired U.S. Senator John Billington, a co-chair of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Commission, sets off a firestorm of protest when he suggests in a New York Times op-ed that Saudi Arabia — aka “The Kingdom” — was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Billington asks: Will Saudi Arabia assist in future attacks within the U.S., does the Kingdom have the bomb, and why is the Administration engaged in a comprehensive, sustained cover-up to keep answers from the American people?

Less than two weeks later, Billington is murdered — but not before slipping a detailed briefing to ex-Special Forces operative Tony Ramos, a street-smart Miami Cuban, proficient in Pashto and Arabic, with a love of fine clothing that has tagged him “the Will Smith of State” at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Soon Tony is on the road and on the run for his life, collaborating with Billington’s estranged, enticing, and egotistical daughter Laura to solve her father’s murder and discover the hidden agendas that ominously threaten the security of America and the world.

In a race against time, betrayals, and layers of deceit, Tony uncovers a shocking international conspiracy linking Saudi Arabia — the Kingdom — to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, in an investigation that spans Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Afghanistan. Targeted by an assassin and framed for murder, will he be able to honor the senator’s last wish and thwart al-Qaeda’s planned nuclear attacks, as they escalate toward a final massacre in the United States?

In Keys to the Kingdom, Senator Bob Graham delivers a page-turner that sounds a warning and is thoroughly entertaining.

Paul McKenna Ph.D

THE BIGGEST WEIGHT LOSS BOOK OF THE YEAR!

180 million Americans are overweight – at last there is a solution!

Ryan Seacrest calls him “a cross between Dr. Phil and Tony Robbins.” International best-selling author Paul McKenna, Ph.D., has worked his unique brand of personal transformation with Hollywood celebrities, Olympic gold medalists, rock stars, leading business achievers and royalty, and helped millions of people successfully quit smoking, lose weight, overcome insomnia, eliminate stress and increase self-confidence.

All our decisions about food are made in the mind, which is like a computer. This system helps people to reprogram their minds, so they automatically feel in control around food. A recent study at Yale University concluded weight loss is a behavioral issue. It’s not about food, but how we think and act around it.

In his new book Freedom From Emotional Eating (Hay House; January 2016), Paul McKenna has cracked the code for sustainable weight loss.

Dr. McKenna has been helping people lose weight for more than 20 years. Here, he applies the latest science to eradicate the roots of emotional overeating, the number-one cause of excessive weight gain. His life-changing new approach resets your brain chemistry to reduce and control overwhelming emotions and brings about dynamic lasting change.

Dr. McKenna’s proven program adjusts your relationship to food, your body and your entire life. It is not a diet. Research has shown that for 84 percent of people, diets don’t work. His system is a process of psychological and behavioral change and is successful because it works with the natural intelligence of your body. It restores the body’s own method to keep itself fit and healthy and shows you how to comfortably process all of your emotions and find peace.

Freedom From Emotional Eating includes downloadable video and audio neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) sessions and guided hypnosis techniques to bring about the powerful breakthrough that will stop self-sabotage, transform your body and bring the sense of freedom, success and security overweight Americans have been craving.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul McKenna, Ph.D., recently named by The Times (London) as one of the world’s most important modern self-help gurus, alongside Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, is Britain’s best-selling nonfiction author. Each week, 8,000 McKenna books are sold in 35 countries—a total of 8 million copies in the last decade. Dr. McKenna has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Good Morning America, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Rachael Ray, Anderson Live and The Early Show. He hosts his own TV show on HULU, where his guests include Simon Cowell, Harvey Weinstein, Rachael Ray, Sir Roger Moore, Roger Daltrey and Tony Robbins. He is regularly watched on TV by hundreds of millions of people in 42 countries around the world.

Kellyann Petrucci, MS, MD

“Here’s what Kellyann and I know from decades of transforming people’s lives: What you put on your fork is more powerful than anything you’ll find in a prescription bottle.” —Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Blood Sugar Solution

“Dr. Kellyann’s Bone Broth Diet is totally dialed in. This is empowering, user-friendly information supported by the most forward-thinking scientific research available.” —David Perlmutter, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain

“Wealth doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have your health. In this book, Dr. Kellyann gives you the tools you need to conquer your weight problems, heal your body, stay young, and take your energy to an incredible level. Read it and take charge of your life.” —Daymond John, co-host of ABC’s “Shark Tank”

One of the best healing and anti-aging foods on the planet, it’s being sipped by celebs coast to coast. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shailene Woodley, Salma Hayek, and Kate Winslet are hooked. Athletes like Kobe Bryant drink it daily. This liquid gold is bone broth, a powerful medicinal tool that Dr. Kellyann uses to help her Hollywood patients smooth their wrinkles and sculpt perfect bodies.
In her new book, DR. KELLYANN’S BONE BROTH DIET: Lose Up to 15 Pounds, 4 Inches – and Your Wrinkles! – in Just 21 Days (Rodale; December  2015), Dr. Kellyann Petrucci, MS, ND, explains why nutrient-rich bone broth is “concentrated healing” in a cup , her secret weapon for weight loss, a “natural Botox” that acts to eliminate wrinkles, and a detoxifier that re-energizes and de-ages cells.

The cornerstone of Dr. Kellyann’s booming health practice, bone broth is packed with fat-burning, skin-tightening collagen; has anti-inflammatory properties; improves gut health; and warms and satisfies the entire body.

In DR. KELLYANN’S BONE BROTH DIET, Dr. Kellyann couples her family’s delicious bone broth recipes with a groundbreaking mini-fasting plan and exercises for mindfulness and simple resistance training, helping readers achieve spectacular weight loss and more youthful-looking skin in just 21 days without experiencing harmful cravings or hunger pains.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kellyann Petrucci, MS, ND, is a board-certified naturopathic physician and certified nutrition consultant with a thriving practice in Birmingham, Michigan. She is also a concierge doctor for celebrities in Los Angeles and New York. She has appeared on The Doctors, Dr. Oz, and national news programs, and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and MindBodyGreen.

Our Fathers, Ourselves

Jon M. Huntsman

I desire to leave this world as I entered it—barefoot and broke.” —Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.

“Everyone who knows Jon Huntsman is aware that he is a man of impeccable character and decency.” —President George H. W. Bush

“(Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. is) one of the finest human beings, industrial leaders and philanthropists on the planet.”—Stephen R. Covey

“Jon Huntsman is a different breed. He believes business is a creative endeavor, similar to a theater production, wherein integrity must be the central character.”—Larry King

At his birth, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. was deemed dead on delivery. A descendant of pioneer ancestors as rugged as the land they settled, the newborn finally let out a faint gasp, grew, and hustled to outrun the shadow of poverty. He became a billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate.

On the way toward building a global industrial empire, Huntsman Corporation, which averages more than $12 billion in sales each year, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. nearly flunked out of college, confronted bankruptcy three times, suffered four bouts with cancer, and faced the personal challenges of a severely mentally challenged son, the kidnapping of a child, and the death of a daughter. He served in the Navy, HEW, and the Nixon White House, and created a world-class cancer research and treatment center in Salt Lake City. Now, with his philanthropic focus on defeating cancer, he and his wife, Karen, have dedicated more than a billion dollars of their personal funds to the fight for a cancer cure. He intends to spend what it takes to help eliminate the suffering and death that all too often accompany this scourge.

In Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life’s Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer (Overlook Press; November 2014; $35.00 U.S.), bestselling author Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. vividly recounts his made-in-America, rags-to-riches entrepreneurial journey of risk, rewards, and tumult. In his fascinating and down-to-earth style, he shares the key moments that shaped his views of faith, family, service, business leadership, the responsibility wealth imparts, and his decision to give away his entire fortune before his death.

Incorporating incidents and details never before made public, Huntsman relates business-building strategies, including ingenious financial engineering (a revolving $10 million float loan); international charitable efforts, such as the earthquake-relief erection of a concrete plant in Armenia; and his service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, serving on its Board of Overseers for 28 years and as Chair of that Board for the past 14 years. He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Huntsman Corporation, a leading global petrochemical manufacturer. Author of the bestseller Winners Never Cheat, his books have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1995, he founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute, one of America’s largest cancer research centers. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Karen.

Barefoot to Billionaire tells of a rich life and a man who has vowed to fully share its rewards. I look forward to speaking with you about Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. and Barefoot to Billionaire.

Ottolenghi

“American food lovers are not only cooking from Jerusalem; many of them are cooking their way through it, as cooks did with Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the 1960s and with The Silver Palate Cookbook in the 1980s. Jerusalem is the first book in recent memory to join that group.” — The New York Times, on Ottolenghi and Tamimi’s Jerusalem.

The food is inventive, fresh, vibrant. It is simple and unfussy to prepare, unapologetically striking in its colors, textures, and tangs, and reflects all the zest and rich essence, the sometimes controversial flavors of their childhoods. It took the world by storm. Today a culinary rock star and one of the world’s most lauded chefs, Yotam Ottolenghi wrote Ottolenghi: The Cookbook (Ten Speed Press; September 3, 2013; $35.00) with Sami Tamimi before the runaway hit Plenty and the immensely successful Jerusalem, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and was named “Cookbook of Year” by the IACP. Now, it comes to America for the first time.

Their debut cookbook Ottolenghi presents 140 recipes featuring bold and flavorful ingredients, aromatic herbs and magnificent produce, inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean. It also clearly conveys their ability to have fun, to really enjoy food, to engage with it lightheartedly and wholeheartedly, in a carefree and realistic approach to cooking that is simple, fulfilling, and tastes amazing.

Chef Ottolenghi grew up in Jewish West Jerusalem. His business partner and co-chef Sami Tamimi was raised in the Muslim neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Reflecting their early years surrounded by a wealth of diverse tastes, Ottolenghi also includes traditions from California, Italy, and North Africa, taking us on a culinary tour of vegetables, legumes and grains, meats, fish, and baking, as well as patisserie treats. It favors star ingredients considered the building components of their famously familiar, yet highly innovative cooking. Among the flavors they love and highlight are Sea Salt, Lemon, Garlic, Olive Oil, Fresh Cilantro, Mint, Yogurt, Maple Syrup, Tahini, Pink Peppercorns, and Sweet Potatoes; as well as Pomegranate Molasses, the fragrant spicy citrus of Sumac and the earthy tanginess of Za’atar spice.

With Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, chefs Ottolenghi and Tamimi welcome you to a coveted seat at their table, to share the engaging warmth and unparalleled Ottolenghi brand of cuisine: fresh ingredients, full-bodied Mediterranean flavors, all served up with European flair.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Yotam Ottolenghi owns an eponymous group of four restaurants, plus the high-end restaurant, Nopi, in London. He writes for The Guardian, and appears on BBC. Sami Tamimi is a partner and head chef at Ottolenghi. Authors of the New York Times bestseller Jerusalem and the runaway hit Plenty, they have been featured in the New York Times, Saveur and the Los Angeles Times. They live in London.

John LeFevre

“Bad Behavior 101 … No, it’s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson’s ranch but … a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. … you’d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth.”—Kirkus Reviews, on Straight to Hell

Praise for John LeFevre and @GSElevator

 “Tasteless, boorish, smug, and reliably funny.” —Editorial Board, New York Times

“Compulsory reading for bankers, their clients, and celebrities” —CNBC

Wall Street’s elite players are different from the rest of us. They believe their ends justify their means, however debauched, shockingly lawless, and excessive they might be.

You might not like what John LeFevre reveals, but you’ll really want to listen. Because he’s giving you an unprecedented—and darkly humorous—inside look at how business in the world of finance is conducted.

It’s a blood sport, raunchy and raucous, and today those left standing are wielding influence in Washington, sitting on Fortune 500 company boards, and held in esteem.

Now, in Straight To Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals (Atlantic Monthly Press;  July 14, 2015), John LeFevre, the man behind the infamous and hilarious @GSElevator Twitter account, rips the lid off the hated and envied world of high stakes, high impact finance.

While @GSElevator—now with more than 705k followers—captured the character and culture of the banking elite with curated jokes and jibes overheard by readers, Straight To Hell is John LeFevre’s personal story, an unapologetic and outrageous account of his career as a globe-conquering investment banker in New York, London, and Hong Kong. As a leader on the bond syndicate desk uniquely positioned above the Chinese Wall separating investment banking and debt capital markets (the private side) from sales and trading (the public side), LeFevre saw, heard, and lived it all. From the trading programs, trading floors, roadshows, and private planes to the shady pacts and after-hours overindulgences, he bares the raw elements of how deals get done.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John LeFevre has enjoyed a distinguished career in international finance. He joined Solomon Brothers immediately out of college, and was a bond executive for Citigroup in New York, London, and Hong Kong. In 2010, he was hired by Goldman Sachs to be head of Debt Syndicate in Asia, a position that he eventually did not take due to a contractual issue. He has written for Business Insider, Politico, and Esquire.

On The Grind

JFK’s Final Hours in Texas

Julian Read, a Texas political insider who delivered the first eyewitness account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to the media, has authored a behind-the­scenes account that chronicles the tragedy and its fifty-year legacy. In JFK’S Final Hours, Read documents not only the immediate agony endured by the people in the epicenter of the tragedy but also the continuing experience of a wounded community recovering from its aftermath.

In 1963, Read was the media representative for Governor John B. Connally, host of the president’s November visit to Texas. On the day Kennedy was killed, Read was aboard the chartered White House Press bus, just a few vehicles behind the presidential limousine in the ill-fated motorcade through downtown Dallas. After hearing the assassination shots and watching the limousine lurch forward amidst panicking onlookers, Read raced to nearby Parkland Hospital, where the president and Connally had been rushed to emergency rooms. There, immediately after White House Deputy Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff announced that the president was dead, Read briefed journalists based on what Nellie Connally, wife of the governor, had hurriedly reported to him.

Beyond capturing the drama of the immediate hours following the assassination, Read illuminates the previously overlooked consequences of the aborted portion of the trip. The author also traces the long aftermath of the assassination, including the intensity of the bitterness against Dallas and Texas. And in what he calls “the long journey from anguish to reconciliation,” Read follows the decades-long struggle to create the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas, located in the space where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots.

Read’s very personal account of his experiences surrounding that historic event and previously obscured details of the president’s Texas trip constitute a worthy addition to the record of a turbulent time.

ABOUT JULIAN READ

Julian Read is a nationally prominent Texan corporate communications and public affairs counselor who has been part of the state’s business and political scene for more than half a century. He founded and operated his own firm, Read-Poland Associates, for five decades before partnering with New York public relations executive Jeff Hunt to merge it with a global industry leader.

Read was a cub reporter for the Scripps-Howard Fort Worth Press at the age of 18. Six years later, he founded his own fledgling advertising and publicity shop. He soon scored two political campaign upsets that led to a lifetime of broad experience in the public sector. He became intimately involved in John B. Connally’s successful campaign for governor of Texas in 1962, and remained his counselor and confidant for more than 30 years until Connally’s death in 1993. He served as Connally’s representative to the national media for John F. Kennedy’s fateful visit to Texas in November 1963.

The author’s background and deep involvement in Texas communications and politics for more than six decades give him a unique perspective to bring fresh context and insight to the record surrounding the Kennedy assassination and its fifty-year aftermath.

Based in Austin, Read continues to provide senior counsel for Cohn & Wolfe, a worldwide unit of London-based WPP. He also devotes much of his time in support of historic preservation.

ABOUT ROSETTA BOOKS

RosettaBooks is the leading independent eBook publisher, responsible for brand line publishing in collaboration with AARP, Harvard Health Publications, and the Mayo Clinic, as well as such timeless classics as Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the complete works of Winston Churchill, and the first-time digital release in the U.S. of 35 titles from renowned science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Publisher of ten Kindle Singles, including Ray Bradbury’s The Playground, RosettaBooks has launched nine of them to bestseller status.

Nopi

“Scully’s food also fit with the Ottolenghi way. The bold, surprisingly intense flavours, the irreverent blends of ingredients, the vibrant colours on the plate, the generosity of spirit and big gestures, the curiosity and approach (always looking for the next ingredient, a fresh combination or a radically different method).” —Chef Yotam Ottolenghi”

Yotam Ottolenghi is a food world superstar, admired for his inventive, vibrant dishes and his beautiful, inspirational New York Times bestselling cookbooks, as well as his eponymous London delis and fine-dining restaurant, NOPI.

NOPI: The Cookbook (Ten Speed Press; October 2015) celebrates a new hybrid set of rich, bold servings—the “Ottolenghi haut cuisine” of NOPI, created when Ottolenghi’s Middle Eastern influences met and mingled with NOPI head chef Ramael Scully’s Asian roots.

Combined in these restaurant-quality dishes are Yotam’s Jerusalem traditions and his influences from California, Italy, and North Africa blended with Scully’s bright set of Asian flavors and ingredients.

The delicious result? Gorgeous, artistic dishes that are all within reach of the home cook.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Yotam Ottolenghi is the author of Plenty and Plenty More, and co-author with Sami Tamimi of Ottolenghi and Jerusalem, which was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. All four books were New York Times bestsellers. Yotam writes for The Guardian, appears on BBC, and made the BBC4 documentary, “Jerusalem on a Plate.” He lives in London, where he owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the high-end restaurant, NOPI.

Ramael Scully was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and started his culinary career at the age of seventeen in Sydney, Australia. Now head chef at NOPI, Scully first worked under Yotam Ottolenghi in 2004 at Ottolenghi. Scully’s distinct culinary baggage—the Malaysian flavors of his childhood, his training in the European tradition, his insatiable appetite for Asian ingredients—has been the creative force behind much of what is on the NOPI menu.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Over the course of four decades in Hollywood, legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer has become synonymous with blockbuster filmmaking. Bruckheimer has had a creative eye and a guiding hand in every aspect of a production’s creation from reading the script on every single episode of the CSI television series to casting soon-to-be stars in their breakthrough film roles. Best known for his wildly successful franchises, era-defining epics, and smartly-packaged action adventure flicks “Top Gun,” “Days of Thunder,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Bad Boys,” “The Rock,” “Crimson Tide,” “Con Air,” “Armageddon,” “Gone in Sixty Seconds,” “Black Hawk Down,” the “National Treasure” movies, and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, Bruckheimer has also turned a lens on the historical moments that redefined American history in “Glory Road,” “Remember the Titans,” and “Pearl Harbor,” and challenged the boundaries of mainstream filmmaking through his work on “Flashdance,” “American Gigolo,” and “Veronica Guerin.” Despite being the top producer in the world, Bruckheimer describes himself as a “meat and potatoes guy,” and strives to make films whose stunning visuals, edgy soundtracks, and compelling narratives cut across lines of nationality, class, education, and language to tell accessible stories that keep us entertained and engrossed.

But Bruckheimer’s greatest gift is his ability to assemble teams that make others’ gifts shine. Jerry Bruckheimer: When Lightning Strikes/Four Decades of Filmmaking (December 31, 2013; Disney Editions) celebrates the producer’s collaborations with composers, screenwriters, actors and directors that have launched careers and won acclaim for the established and the unproven alike. He has employed musical luminaries Giorgio Moroder, Hans Zimmer, Trevor Rabin, Aerosmith, Blondie, and Trisha Yearwood. He has worked with top screenwriters Elaine May (“Tootsie”) and Ron Bass (“Rain Main”) on “Dangerous Minds,” Robert Towne (“Chinatown”) on “Days of Thunder,” and with an uncredited Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom) on The Rock and Enemy of the State. His films have helped propel Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Richard Gere, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Ben Affleck, Denzel Washington, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom and Jake Gyllenhaal to superstardom, and have given directors Michael Bay, Gore Verbinski, Jon Turteltaub, Paul Schrader, Martin Brest, Michael Mann and the late Tony Scott some of their greatest successes. This beautifully-crafted coffee table book features a foreword by Johnny Depp, a career retrospective by author and unit publicist Michael Singer, and a Q&A with the notoriously shy producer’s wife Linda Bruckheimer, plus page after page of high quality stills from the producer’s most beloved feature films, and incredible selections from Bruckheimer’s personal photos from set.

Jerry Bruckheimer also discusses his journey from a lower-middle class upbringing in Detroit to innovative New York ad man to the world’s top producer, his forty years shaping the movie industry, from his work with revisionist westerns to record-breaking blockbuster franchises, how he will be the first producer ever to receive an upcoming American Cinematheque Award, an honor primarily given to superstar actors and some directors, and the Honorary Golden Nymph Award that will be personally presented to him by Monaco’s Prince Albert at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in June 2014.

Jerry Bruckheimer: When Lightning Strikes/Four Decades of Filmmaking takes a look back at a distinguished career in American cinematic history, revisiting the films that defined an era, challenged studio expectations of what the public would pay to see, and transported audiences to other worlds, and other lives.

ABOUT MICHAEL SINGER

Michael Singer is a writer and production unit publicist with more than 35 years of experience in his field. Singer’s previous books include The Art of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; The Answer is Yes: The Art and Making of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; We Make Our Own Destiny: Behind the Scenes of Prince of Persia The Sands of Time; Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean; The Making of Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth; and “making of” books for “Batman Returns,” “Batman Forever,” and “Batman & Robin,” as well as A Cut Above: 50 Film Directors Talk About Their Craft and 13 annual editions of the pre-internet age reference book Michael Singer’s Film Directors: A Complete Guide.

Jennifer Cohen & Stacey Colino

Health and wellness expert Jennifer Cohen is ready to change the conversation about women’s fitness. Thanks to a long overdue cultural shift, women are no longer interested in starving themselves to be rail thin. Instead they want to look and feel strong. Women are increasingly turning to hard-core training regimens like CrossFit, Tough Mudder, and P90X, over kinder, gentler yoga and Pilates workouts. Instead of eating like rabbits, they want to eat like cheetahs and use food as fuel. Forget damsels in distress—women want to be superheroes. Strong is sexy. Strong is powerful. And best of all, strong is achievable.

In her new book with Stacey Colino, Strong is the New Skinny: How to Eat, Live, and Move to Maximize Your Power (Harmony Books; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale September 16, 2014), Jennifer Cohen lays out a multipronged plan to help readers become strong from the inside out—nutritionally, physically, psychologically, and emotionally. Their message is both clear and empowering: it’s time to embrace what your body can do, not just how it looks.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jennifer Cohen is a trainer, writer, studio owner, and successful health and fitness entrepreneur. A regular contributor to Health.com and Forbes, she is also the fitness ambassador for Weight Watchers and has a series of bestselling DVDs with them. She has developed fitness programs for leading health clubs, and works with celebrities and top executives to incorporate fitness and nutrition into their lives. Stacey Colino is an award-winning writer specializing in health, fitness, and psychology, and a certified group exercise instructor and Spinning instructor.

Nigellissima

“Italy is not just a country, but my spiritual—and gastronomic—home. The essence of Italian food lies in simplicity and directness and I want to show you how easy it is to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen and onto your plate in an instant.” — Nigella Lawson

When she was 17, Nigella Lawson decided she wanted to be Italian. She applied to study Italian at Oxford, and spent her gap year working as a chambermaid in a family-run pensione in Florence, earning meager wages but learning a wealth of hands-on knowledge in Italian cooking from “Nonna—the paternal grandmother, straight from Central Casting”—in the kitchen. Today, Nigella brings as much of Italy as she can into her own kitchen, and now, she celebrates the pleasures of Italian food with you in her first Italian cookbook Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes  (Clarkson Potter; $35.00; on sale February 12, 2013).

A sentimental journey for the internationally bestselling author and food celebrity, Nigellissima is filled with 120 mouthwatering, simple, fast recipes, combining the richness of Italian culinary tradition with Nigella’s own distinctive twists: insights learned from Nonna and experience for a light touch and full taste.

To Nigella, no ingredient belongs in a recipe—or in the pantry for that matter—unless it really earns its place, and in Nigellissima she shows readers how a weeknight dish can be a heartfelt interpretation of traditional Italian fare without involving a lot of steps or ingredients.

Going beyond Bolognese, Nigellissima inspires us to dress our tables with the savory flavors of Italy in chapters that include: Pasta (Sicilian Pasta with Tomato, Garlic, and Almonds; Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Marsala, and Mascarpone); Flesh, Fish & Fowl (Pork Loin with Parma Ham and Oregano; Shortcut Sausage Meatballs; Italian Tempura Prawns), Vegetables & Sides (Green Beans with Pistachio Pesto; Roast Butternut Squash with Sage and Pine Nuts), Sweet Things (One-Step No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream, Iced Berries with Limencello White Chocolate Sauce), and Italian-Inspired Christmas, perfect for the entire holiday season (Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage & Marsala-Steeped Cranberries, Pappardelle with Chestnuts & Pancetta). Rounding out Nigella’s Italian quick-cook tour are festive ideas for party foods, like Parmesan Shortbreads and Polenta Triangles with Chili Tomato Sauce.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nigella Lawsom, food enthusiast, television personality, and journalist, is the author of eight bestselling books including Nigella Kitchen, Nigella Fresh, Nigella Christmas, Nigella Bites, Feast, How to Be a Domestic Goddess and How to Eat, which have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. Her books and groundbreaking iPhone app and television shows on Food Network, E! Entertainment Television, and Style have made her a household name globally. She hosts an innovative new culinary competition series, “The Taste,” with Anthony Bourdain, Ludo Lefebvre, and Brian Malarkey that premieres in early 2013 on The ABC Television Network. She lives in London with her family.

With essential notes on everything you will need to make your daily Italian-inspired cooking life easier, and fully illustrated with beautiful color photographs, Nigella Lawson reveals in Nigellissima, with gusto, how we can all bring Italy into our kitchens.

Simply Nigella

“While I have read much about mindful eating, I have not found much, if anything, about mindful cooking … For me, cooking stems from an engagement with life, which in itself combines hopefulness with playfulness.” —Nigella Lawson

As only bestselling author Nigella Lawson can, SIMPLY NIGELLA: Feel Good Food (Flatiron Books; November 2015) taps into the rhythms of our cooking lives, with recipes that are uncomplicated, relaxed, and always satisfying. Offering easy-to-prepare everyday meals and indulgent dishes for special occasions, the message is simple: great food with zest can be celebrated without stress.

“This book tells the broader story of how I live: how I feed my friends and family, the aesthetic pleasure I derive from food, and my belief that what and how we cook can make our lives easier, make us feel better and more alive,” says Nigella.

“Part of the balance of life lies in understanding that different days require different ways of eating…” Food—in the making and in the eating—should always be pleasurable.

Here is food to make everyone feel good. Containing 125 new recipes, Simply Nigella  includes strength-giving “Beginnings”—breakfast and brunch recipes Nigella calls her “kitchen carpe diem”—including Breakfast Banana Bread with Cardamom and Cocoa Nibs. You’ll find “Quick & Calm” work-day suppers like Crunchy Chicken Cutlets, Miso Salmon, Shrimp and Avocado Lettuce Wraps, and Cauliflower and Cashew Nut Curry; tasty “Sides” like Criss-Cross Potatoes, Quick-Pickled Carrots, and Cucumber, Chili and Avocado Salad; a “Dine” chapter with offerings like Tamarind-Marinated Flank Steak; recipes that allow you to “Breathe” at the end of a long week, including Pork Buns, Malaysian Red-Cooked Chicken, Leek Pasta Bake, and Asian-Flavored Short Ribs; and the joy of “Bowlfood” for cozy nights on the sofa (Thai Noodles with Cinnamon and Shrimp, and Sweet Potato, Ginger and Orange Soup). There are stress-free recipes for entertaining a crowd like Sake-Sticky Chicken Drumsticks and an array of “Sweet” treats such as Lemon Pavlova and Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake, plus fabulous dairy-free and gluten-free recipes.

Nigella Kitchen

Jacqueline Susann

“Valley of the Dolls is a grim fable. It’s Thomas Hardy dark. It’s Dostoyevsky greige. Nothing ends well. Success corrupts. Fame destroys. It is, in other words, the perfect mirror for today’s culture.”— Simon Doonan 

“The kind of book most of its readers could not put down. I, for one, could not … For me reading Valley of the Dolls was like reading a very very long, absolutely delicious gossip column … Magnetic.”—Nora Ephron

“I couldn’t believe these weren’t real girls because I know them. Maddeningly sexy. I wish I had written it.”—Helen Gurley Brown

It’s hard to believe, but Jacqueline Susann’s groundbreaking first novel Valley of the Dolls  (Grove Press/July 2016), is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. When it was published in 1966, the book became a cultural phenomenon with its pioneering look into drug addiction, feminism, and women’s and gay rights. An overnight success and #1 bestseller, it electrified readers around the world. A department store in Chicago sold the book under the counter, literally. TIME magazine branded it “the dirty book of the month.”

Considered not just risqué, but outré, it transformed fashion by introducing readers to the stylish and charming author who was known for her Pucci dresses, big sunglasses, beaming smile, and movie-star charm. Hollywood buzzed with theories of who was who. One of the world’s most popular novels in the late ‘60s, the all-time pop-culture classic has sold over 31 million copies (putting it in the bestselling ranks of To Kill A Mockingbird and Gone With The Wind), and has been printed in 30 foreign editions. It is as timely and relevant as it was 50 years ago.

The story of Anne, Neely and Jennifer—three ambitious young women in New York City, best friends hungry for love and celebrity—is just as gloriously, scandalously fun, as ever. Long before “Sex and the City” and “Girls,” Susann brought us their dreams, sexual appetites, success, and the deadly seduction of power, money, and prescription pills. She coined the word “dolls” for barbiturates to be washed down with vodka or swallowed straight, which became a dark and dangerous escape.

For the 50th Anniversary of the innovative and trend-setting novel, Grove Press will publish a limited hardcover and a new and revised paperback edition of Valley of the Dolls, with a foreword by Simon Doonan and a new preface by Susann’s estate. The new editions will have a beautiful new cover design and reveal some of Susann’s substantial archive for the first time, including personal photos and an article she wrote in 1966 entitled, “My Book is Not Dirty.”

Nigella Fresh

Jackie Collins

Nigella Express

The Future of Men

“The Future of Men is an incredibly important and timely book. A game-shifting story.” —Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker, “Super Size Me,” “Mansome,” and “Inside Man”

Women are powering up, progressively capturing control and influence.

The age of the dominant male has passed.

As traditional gender roles disappear, men are left confused, conflicted, and challenged, rejecting macho stereotypes and rewiring their emotional lives. But are they also being left behind—a lost generation?

In his new book THE FUTURE OF MEN: Masculinity in the Twenty-First Century (Inkshares; March 2016), dynamic culture forecaster Jack Myers provides tools to help men—especially younger men—and those who love them, recognize and embrace new behaviors as they navigate this much-needed shift in gender norms.

THE FUTURE OF MEN examines gender, and its influence on the way Americans live. Myers presents readers with a template for healthier self-esteem, sexual self-confidence, and psychological well-being that promotes mutual respect for women and men. It is a must-read guide to thriving in a world of changing gender realities by finding happiness at work, at home, and in relationships.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack Myers, founder and publisher of MediaVillage.com and author of Hooked Up: A New Generation’s Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World, and several other books, is a recognized cultural visionary, award-winning documentary film producer, and adviser to hundreds of leading corporations on media and technology trends. His prescient insights and counsel make him one of the foremost global experts on the impact of technological advances on culture, society, business, advertising, marketing, and human connections. He has been honored with a George Foster Peabody Award and Academy and Emmy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature.

Nigella Christmas

I’M TOO YOUNG FOR THIS!

Does PMS feel like your new normal? You’re only 35 or 40 and feel cranky, fatigued, and on a roller-coaster ride of emotions — a bitchy, nasty, fuzzy-minded person you barely recognize? It’s your hormones — kissing you good-bye, and it’s taking a big toll.

What, too young for this? Suzanne Somers, women’s health pioneer and bestselling phenomenon, knows it—and is here to change the way that women experience the decade-plus before menopause—when your hormones start shifting and your moods, health, and even relationships can take a nosedive.

“At around age 35 things started to change. Mood swings, PMS, plus annoying weight gain. I didn’t know that these symptoms were simply a prelude to other changes I was about to experience,” says Suzanne. “No one warned me I was about to lose ‘me’!

“I went from doctor to doctor, getting the same explanations, ‘It’s a passage dear, it will pass.’ ‘No,’ I would say, ‘it’s not passing!’ They would try to prescribe antidepressants, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety meds. I didn’t want their drugs! There had to be another way. I had to find some answers because—I WAS FALLING APART!”

Now, in I’m Too Young For This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause (Crown Archetype; October 2013; $26.00 hardcover), Suzanne shares her findings on how to thrive during the years leading up to menopause, and relish those decades, feeling sexually vibrant and happy, with a strong, fit body and your brain firing on all cylinders.

Breaking the silence, and sharing the latest information, in I’m Too Young For This! Suzanne informs women, as young as 35, on what to do when they start to experience hormonal shifts that wreak havoc on their lives, prime them for cancer and other chronic and deadly health issues, and make them feel plain miserable.

Few women would turn down an antibiotic to save their life, yet they might decline a hormone that could prevent a deadly heart attack.

I’m Too Young For This! is empowering and liberating.

ABOUT SUZANNE SOMERS

Suzanne Somers is one of America’s most popular and beloved personalities. In a multifaceted career that has spanned more than three decades, she has achieved extraordinary success as an actress, singer, comedienne, author, Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year, entrepreneur, and lecturer. A dedicated and informed health advocate, she is the voice and face of alternative medicine. Suzanne has written 24 books, including 13 New York Times bestsellers, five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. BOMBSHELL: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging, was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Suzanne’s fun, smart, empowering new talk show, “Suzanne Somers’ Breaking Through,” premiered online on the CafeMom Studios YouTube channel in January 2012, and also appears on her website. On her weekly Lifetime Network talk show, “The SUZANNE Show,” she provides a thought-provoking morning show alternative with in-depth information on health and wellness in a casual entertaining format.

Nigella Bites

In!

My Remarkable Journey

I Stand Corrected

In I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; October 7, 2014; $26.95), international media and communications specialist Eden Collinsworth shares the humorous, lesson-filled, and exceptionally unlikely true adventure story of how a single American woman, raising a son, decided to move to China and write a Western etiquette guide for the Chinese.

As a veteran of the magazine and book publishing industries, the former chief of staff to a global security think tank, and a consultant in international communications, American entrepreneur Eden Collinsworth’s career has, quite literarily, moved her around the world.  Witnessing China’s profound transformation, she came to the conclusion that despite the nation’s growing status as a world economy and the unprecedented range of its investments overseas, businessmen in mainland China—well-educated and speaking English—were fundamentally uncomfortable in the company of their Western counterparts. This realization spawned an idea to work collaboratively with a major Chinese publisher on a Western etiquette guide, written in Chinese, for Chinese businessmen.

I Stand Corrected chronicles Collinsworth’s mad cap and revelatory Chinese year abroad—some part of it with her son—while she researched and wrote The Tao of Improving Your Likability – a widely-read and wildly-successful bestseller in mainland China. Offering a clear-eyed account of East-West divide and, at the same time, scrutinizing the kind of etiquette that has guided her own business career, one which has unfolded in predominately male company, Collinsworth creates a counterpart that explains Chinese practices and reveals much about our own Western culture.

Interspersed throughout with entertaining episodes that include, among others, her experience with a client who spent billions of dollars building a resort in Guangzhou that stood empty, her run-in with the censors, and her disastrous introduction to ancient Chinese herbs, I Stand Corrected offers a unique window into contemporary China, and tells a story of how—despite the challenges—Collinsworth became enchanted by the beguiling mysteries of the enigmatic Middle Kingdom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

At the age of twenty-eight, Eden Collinsworth was cited as one of “Ten People to Watch” by Fortune magazine when she was named president and publisher of Arbor House Book Publishing Company, owned by the Hearst Corporation.

Recognized as a leader in the publishing industry by the New York Times, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, Eden left the book business in 1990 to launch the Los Angeles-based monthly lifestyle magazine, BUZZ. As its founding president and CEO, she shepherded BUZZ through ten years of growth by entering into agreements with National Public Radio, Paramount Studios, and CBS-TV. BUZZ was nominated for a National Magazine Award the year it was sold to Cap-Cities/ABC.

In the third decade of Eden’s career, she was vice president and director of Cross Media Business Development at the Hearst Corporation, responsible for identifying and pursuing development opportunities, which crossed all of Hearst’s divisions, including magazines, newspapers, broadcast, and syndication.

In 2008, Eden became vice president, chief operating officer and chief-of-staff of The EastWest Institute, an international think tank acknowledged for bringing together business, civil society, and public sector individuals in order to shape practical solutions to global security threats. She was accountable for all operations, including the day-to-day performance of staff in New York, Brussels, Washington, D.C., and Moscow.

In 2011, Eden launched Collinsworth & Associates, a Beijing-based consulting company that specializes in intercultural communication. She is the author of a bestselling book on Western Business Deportment for the Chinese, published by Beijing Xiron Books Co., Ltd., one of the largest independent publishers in China. A Personal Guide to Effective Business Etiquette in Today’s Global World is currently used as a textbook in the MBA program at Peking University, where she also lectures. Profiled in Lunch with the FT, which was included in the Viking anthology Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews, Eden has also been featured on the BBC and CNN.

Eden is the author of a novel, It Might Have Been What He Said (Arcade/Little Brown).

She lives in London and New York.

My Paper Chase

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This

MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD REMEMBERED

 “Avery Corman has written a lyrical ode to another New York, a time when stickball and punchball and hanging out on stoops and drinking egg creams filled out afternoons, a city where people had an embracing sense of community. Reading this book is like gathering around a warm fire to hear tales spun by a master storyteller.” — Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker magazine writer

“This is a poignant and evocative book filled with lessons for today. It will strike a chord in you wherever you may have grown up.” —Walter Isaacson, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Steve Jobs

Like Norman Rockwell with words, New York Times bestselling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood he grew up in — the Bronx in the 1940s and ‘50s — bringing to life a world and way of life now vanished. In My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir (Barricade Books; June 2014; $19.95), Corman, who wrote Kramer vs. Kramer and Oh, God!, conjures up the candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams and double feature movie shows, the old Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds, Jackie Robinson, strolling the Grand Concourse to “walk me for a soda” with friends, and barbershops where men congregated for hours. Gas rationing kept cars off the streets, so stickball games were almost daily events. Everyone rooted for the Giants, Dodgers, and the Yankees because they were all New York home teams, and a kid of 11 or 12 was at liberty to hop on a subway and visit Manhattan by himself.

More than a telling of times past, My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lively and memorable urban history, with 16 black and white photographs. His was the generation of home front children during World War II, who became literate courtesy of Dick and Jane, newspaper war headlines, and comic books. There was a deep connection to place, a sense of community and shared experience. Corman also discusses the factors that altered the Bronx, in a decline that was particularly rapid and vast, before the area began to rebuild.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Avery Corman is the author of nine novels including Kramer vs. Kramer, the basis for the Academy Award-winning best picture, and so successful, many assumed he was divorced. He was happily married, though his parents were not, and that story is woven into his memoir. He wrote Oh, God! (it became the hit comedy movie starring George Burns), The Bust-Out King, The Old Neighborhood, Prized Possessions, The Big Hype, and A Perfect Divorce. He has also written non-fiction for many publications, including numerous articles for the New York Times.

I Brake for Yard Sales

Monte Burke

In what Warren St. John calls “the most comprehensive portrait yet of football’s most enigmatic coach,” SABAN: The Making of a Coach  (Simon & Schuster) is the first definitive biography of the most influential—and polarizing—man in the sport: Nick Saban. Burke’s interest in Saban stems from his August 2008 cover story for Forbes entitled “The Most Powerful Coach in Sports” which was so popular that the magazine issued a reprint of 10,000 copies to meet demand. Knowing there was still much to be discovered about Saban beyond his reputation for being unpredictable in his professional loyalties and uncompromising in his vision, Burke conducted more than 250 interviews with childhood friends, colleagues, rivals, former players, university trustees, beat reporters, and others to reveal the defining moments and individuals in Saban’s life which have made him the man and coach he is today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Monte Burke is a staff writer at Forbes magazine and has also written for The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal, Town & Country, and Garden & Gun, among many other publications. He is the author of the books 4th and Goal and Sowbelly, and is a recipient of Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Great New Writers” award. He grew up in New Hampshire, Vermont, North Carolina, and Alabama, and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters.

How to F*ck a Woman

“Adler’s book is probably the most useful ‘how-to’ ever written. Trust me.” – Jenni Konner, writer, Executive Producer of HBO’s Girls

“A candid, funny and incredibly insightful book filled with great advice about relationships. If I weren’t John Stamos, I would really need this book.” – John Stamos

Acclaimed television writer Ali Adler has spent the better part of her professional career locked in male dominated comedy writers rooms. Along with the laughs came the eye-opening realization that these “boys,” who talk endlessly about women and sex, know nothing about women or sex.

Until now, most men have learned the ins and outs of sex from the male perspective, i.e. pornography, sex-ed gym teachers, and equally misinformed older brothers.

Thank goodness for gay women, the Rosetta Stone of human sexuality – both owners and operators of the enigmatic equipment that has stymied men since the dawn of time.

In How to F*ck a Woman (Weinstein Books: on sale May 26, 2015),Adler uses this uniqueperspective, as well as her familiarity with the male mind, to offer this profane, wildly funny, yet deeply insightful field manual for mutual sexual and emotional fulfilment.

Inside, Adler doles out advice in chapters dedicated to the importance of communication, provides readers with hilarious lists of do’s & don’ts, and offers detailed diagrams for the more visually stimulated gender.

How To F*ck A Womancombines humour, heart and essential instruction for both men and women who want to give and get the most out of their relationships. It will have every woman nodding her head in agreement and every man feverishly jotting down notes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ali Adler is a TV writer and producer. She is co-creator of The New Normal and executive producer, co-developer and writer of the upcoming Supergirl on CBS. She has also worked on Glee, Chuck, and Family Guy.

Moguls, Monsters And Madmen

“An extraordinary look at a few influential power players that redefined Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Barry goes inside and gives you a front row seat.” —Ron Meyer, Vice Chairman, NBC Universal 

“Nobody understands the brilliant, twisted, dark mind of an entertainment mogul better than Barry Avrich. Read this book. It’s thrilling — and terrifying.” — Michael Riedel, New York Post

“Barry has carved out a fascinating career walking a tightrope while simultaneously chronicling moguls and working for them. This book will be dangerously fascinating for those that love the machinations of Hollywood.” —James Earl Jones

Film producer/director and advertising executive Barry Avrich has created powerful documentaries on Harvey Weinstein, Lew Wasserman, and Bob Guccione, among others. He taught Prince Charles how to spin records, palled around with Vanity Fair columnist Dominick Dunne, who topped even Truman Capote’s capacity for celebrity access, and once “saved” Maggie Smith from a hotel she dubbed The Shining.

Now in his memoir Moguls, Monsters And Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business (ECW Press; May 2016) Avrich spares no one, least of all himself, as he details his extraordinary relationships and encounters with legends like Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones, Lauren Bacall, Shirley MacLaine, Harvey Weinstein, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tony Bennett, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kathleen Turner, and many others. In his foreword, Peter Fonda calls these accounts “some of the great show business stories in print today.”

In his sharp and witty exposé of show business and notorious characters, Barry reveals the shaping of his brand as a creative adman with the infamous convicted Broadway impresario Garth Drabinsky and the legendary Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and U2 promoter Michael Cohl. He shares the backstory to his most provocative films — like “The Last Mogul,” “Unauthorized,” and “Filthy Gorgeous,” and the unexpected, raucous, and outrageous experiences while hanging around with royalty, rogues, clients, and confidants.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Barry Avrich is a marketing executive, film and television producer, and philanthropist. His film documentaries on Harvey Weinstein, Lew Wasserman, Bob Guccione, and many others have been widely acclaimed. Author of three books on marketing, he has led thousands of cultural marketing campaigns for high profile clients and films. He led the strategy that won the 2015 Pan American Games for Toronto, and in 2008, built the Daniels Hollywood Theatre, the world’s first movie theatre in a hospital, at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is director of The Prince’s Charities Trust and Hot Docs, and previous director for TIFF. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

French Women for All Seasons

HOW THE WORLD SEES YOU

Know how you see yourself and how you see the world, but you are still missing a crucial piece of the story.  In How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination (HarperBusiness; July 1, 2014; $29.99) world-renowned branding and marketing expert Sally Hogshead reveals the powerful hidden weapons within your own personality that give you the tools you’ll need to fascinate everyone you speak to. 

We live in a distracted and competitive world in which you have just a few seconds to grab someone’s attention.  Hogshead gives the exact words you need to immediately impress and persuade others. You’ll quickly create your own “Anthem” ¾ the tagline for your personality. You’ll be able to confidently and authentically introduce yourself, write an online profile, or meet prospects.  When you understand what others value in you, you can become their most valuable asset.

Sally Hogshead’s innovative science of fascination is based on a decade of research with 250,000 initial participants, including dozens of Fortune 500 teams, hundreds of small businesses, and over a thousand top C-level executives.  In How the World Sees You, Hogshead puts this experience to work to show you how the world perceives you, which of your personality traits are most valuable to others, and how to play to your strengths, giving you an edge with your colleagues and your competitors.

How the World Sees You incorporates the revolutionary Fascination Advantage® online assessment that reveals how others perceive you. (What do co-workers admire about you? Are you unintentionally turning people off?) Your in-depth customized report details how you add value, including:

• Your personality’s top two most impressive and influential Advantages
• Your danger zone—situations that put you at a disadvantage, even damaging your reputation
• How to identify the hidden communication patterns of your team members, and how seemingly incompatible personality pairings can actually improve a team’s results
• The three deadly threats working against you and how to overcome them
• How to create your own Anthem, the descriptive phrase that highlights your strongest attributes

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sally Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Her previous book, Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation, has been translated into over a dozen languages. She frequently appears in national media, including NBC’s Today show and The New York Times. Hogshead was recently inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, the industry’s highest award for professional excellence.

In today’s ultra-competitive atmosphere your success relies on understanding the impressions you create: research by the Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that 85% of your financial success is due to your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead.  Insightful and inspiring, How the World Sees You helps you maximize those impressions, whether you’re looking to unlock the personality advantages you already possess or seeking to propel your staff to contribute at the highest levels.  I hope you will consider How the World Sees You for prominent review or feature coverage and I look forward to discussing possibilities for this summer.

Feast

Hot Water

This spring, the massive earthquake that devastated Japan triggered a crushing tsunami that crippled the country’s nuclear power grid, releasing contaminating levels of radiation from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In response, Germany has sworn off nuclear power. On our own shores, the earthquake that shocked the Eastern seaboard sent Virginia’s North Anna nuclear plant, located 10 miles from the quake’s epicenter, into “cold shutdown” as the quake exceeded the ground motion its two reactors were designed to handle. Then Irene boiled up the coast. What if it had been a category 3 or 4 hurricane? What if the earthquake had lasted 30 seconds longer?

Now, in a convincing novel that runs tantalizingly close to nonfiction, Erin Brockovich combines the timely topics of safe power production, ongoing severe weather, and consumer activism. Her feisty and fearless environmental activist and single mom A.J. Palladino is back, and in Hot Water (Vanguard Press; November 2011; $25.99), the fast-paced and dramatic follow-up to Erin’s debut thriller Rock Bottom.

Once again exploring the issues she champions every day as an environmental and consumer advocate, Brockovich has crafted a compelling, can’t-put-it-down “cause” work, dedicated to the victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, that encourages people take control of their lives with the goal of preserving our environment and our future.

A.J. and her whip-smart, special-needs 9-year-old son David are still struggling with the loss of David’s father — a death blamed on A.J. by many in her Scotia, West Virginia hometown — when Owen

Grandel, the owner of a new nuclear facility designed to create medical isotopes with the potential to save millions of lives, knocks on her door. His offer? If she will use her high profile as “The People’s Champion” to help him convince protesters that his plant is safe, he will pay a cool $1 million, plus a $10,000 bonus for David’s education. Worried that she might be making a deal with the devil, A.J. agrees to leave for South Carolina after learning that further protestor delays could cost lives. Soon, her simple business trip spirals into disaster.

Her beloved grandmother Flora suffers a near-fatal accident back home, and David’s grandfather — the powerful and ruthless coal king Kyle Masterson — threatens in court for  “emergency custody” of David, painting A.J. as an unfit mother. At the nuclear plant, someone is setting false radiation-leak alarms and activists are planning to steal the next shipment of radioactive isotopes, all to scare and destabilize the community. As A.J. hunts the homegrown terrorist who is attempting to take control of the nuclear plant, she is caught off-guard by the most crushing blow — her son disappears.

While A.J. works furiously to help restore plant operations before the damage escalates and meltdown occurs, her associate Elizabeth Hardy confronts the legal action brought by Masterson and calls on A.J.’s best friend from childhood, sheriff’s deputy Ty Stillwater, to help find the boy. Apprehensive and trying to secure David’s safe return, A.J., Elizabeth, and Ty are unaware that A.J. has become the prime target of a hit man.

Writing with award-winning medical suspense author C.J. Lyons, Erin Brockovich skillfully combines an irresistible can-do heroine and captivating characters with her hope of empowering people to take up the cause of keeping our environment clean and our natural resources protected. Hot Water is a thrilling novel that pulls you into the swirling tumult and does not let you go.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

New York Times bestselling author Erin Brockovich was a legal clerk when she pursued evidence that amounted to the largest toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history, forcing utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric to pay out $333 million in damages for contaminating the ground water of Hinkley, CA. Her story became the blockbuster movie “Erin Brockovich” that earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award. The next year, she published her New York Times bestselling motivational autobiography Take It From Me. Active on the motivational speaking circuit, with a thriving lecture series and a television talk show in development, Erin hosted ABC-TV’s “Challenge America with Erin Brockovich” and Lifetime’s

“Final Justice.” As president of Brockovich Research and Consulting, Brockovich continues her legal work and consults on numerous investigations into toxic spills, water and soil contamination, unexplained cancer clusters, fracking (a process used by oil and gas companies that contaminates ground water supplies), and other health hazards countrywide. She lives in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.brockovich.com

C.J. Lyons is a New York Times bestselling author. An award-winning medical suspense writer, her new book Blind Faith hit #2 on the New York Times Best Sellers list and is a USA Today bestseller, as well.

Fear of Flying

Erica Jong’s groundbreaking first novel Fear of Flying set off fierce debates and a purchasing frenzy when first published 40 years ago. An international bestseller, it electrified readers around the world, shattered expectations of fiction by and about women, explored a new level of female sexual freedom, and fired changes that rippled through the zeitgeist faster than its freshly coined term, “zipless fuck.” Liberated by Isadora Wing’s journey of self-discovery, readers made certain this book has never been out of print, has sold over 20 million copies, and has been printed in 27 languages. Isadora Wing’s story is our own.

Fear of Flying remains as relevant and provocative as it was in 1973. Isadora now likely would fly American Airlines to Italy rather than the Pan Am flight referenced in the book, yet her inner monologue debating the importance of sex, education, marriage, child rearing, and career mirrors the top-of-mind concerns of today’s thirtysomethings. And without Fear of Flying, there would be no Sex in the City, no Fifty Shades of Grey, no “Girls.”

For the 40th Anniversary of the innovative and trend-setting novel, Henry Holt and Penguin Classics present two special editions: A tribute to the original hardcover, Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Jennifer Weiner (Henry Holt and Company/ISBN: 978-0-8050-9858-7/On Sale October 8, 2013) and Fear of Flying: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a new introduction by Theresa Rebeck (Penguin Classics/ISBN: 978-0-14-310735-4/On Sale September 24, 2013).

The publishers are thrilled to reintroduce this timeless story to all those who bought it in 1973 and stuffed it under their mattresses, and equally excited to introduce it fresh to a new generation of readers, as well. Fear of Flying reminds women — and men — that the daringly bold prose of Erica Jong launched a new way of thinking about gender, sexuality, and liberty in our society. It also shows us that while we’ve made great strides, we still have a long way to go.

ABOUT ERICA JONG

Erica Jong’s best known work, Fear of Flying, has sold more than 20 million copies and been translated into 27 languages. Her other titles include celebrated fiction and nonfiction: Sugar in My Bowl, Sappho’s Leap; Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones; Shylock’s Daughter (formerly titled Serenissima); Inventing Memory, a novel of mothers and daughters; Witches; What Do Women Want? and seven widely respected volumes of poetry, including Fruits & Vegetables, Half-Lives, Loveroot, At the Edge of the Body, and Becoming Light, among others. In 1998, she was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has received Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize and the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence in France. In Italy, she was given the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature in 1975. An honorary doctorate was bestowed on Jong by the College of Staten Island, part of the City University of New York.

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Hollywood Tough

Eyes Wide Open

If you make the wrong choice when it comes to your morning coffee, one of up to 10,000 trivial decisions we make every single day, it doesn’t matter very much. But if you make the wrong choice in a high-stakes situation, if you pick the wrong surgeon or put your trust in the wrong financial advisor, if you choose the wrong partner or are swayed by the wrong advice of a colleague, the consequences could be disastrous.

In Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World (HarperBusiness; $26.99; Hardcover), bestselling author and decision making authority Professor Noreena Hertz explains how to make better choices and smarter decisions in our personal and professional lives while navigating this age of information overload.

Studies show that after checking an email, we take an average of 22 minutes to get back to what we were doing at our original level of concentration. And that when bombarded by phone calls, texts and emails, our IQ falls by a disturbing 10 points. But regardless of how distracted we are, how much data swirls around us, and how unpredictable our world is today, we still have to make decisions constantly. And this cacophony doesn’t just impair our judgment; it’s also exhausting us and keeping us in a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

Cutting through the noise, Hertz advocates that for the sake of our health, our wealth, and our future security, we need to take a radically different approach to our decision-making process. Filled with practical suggestions and actionable advice, insights from sources as diverse as Hollywood Moguls and NASA scientists, and inspired by her own personal journey when six years ago she became very sick and had to make high stakes decisions for herself, as well as the latest research, this step-by-step guide reveals how to get better at collecting, filtering, and analyzing information, get smarter at establishing who to trust and whose recommendations to follow, get more confident at challenging authority, and get more adept at soliciting divergent opinions and evaluating diverse options. Hertz also illustrates how our emotions, feelings, moods, and memories affect our choices and points out the insidious ways our fast-paced environment is messing with our minds.

Throughout this game-changing book, the ideas of which were first mooted in her wildly popular 2011 Ted talk on the subject, Hertz shares findings, explores ideas, and offers insights including:

• Why it’s smart to be skeptical about experts and their pronouncements; and how to identify the best amongst them.
• Why you can’t assume that your doctor understands your test results, and how to make sense of these yourself.
• Why it’s crucial to carve out time to think even in times of crisis: If President Obama can find room in his schedule, and the best ER doctors can take a pause, so too can you. 
• Why we can’t use the past as too fixed a steer and why we shouldn’t assume tomorrow will look like today-—lessons from Nokia and Harry Potter.
• Why, as a boss, you really don’t want to surround yourself with yes-men; why you do want to hire a Challenger in Chief, preferably who doesn’t look like you; and how to tap into the wisdom throughout your organization. 
• How to regulate your emotional thermostat—and why if you want to make smart decisions, you need to.
• Why looking at information in black and white rather than in color can lead to better decisions; and why you need to be much more probing of that PowerPoint presentation. 
• How to brush up on statistics and figure out what probabilities, risk assessments, and test results actually mean before you can decide what action to take.
• How social media and online forums can be a huge asset to your decision-making… as long as you understand their pitfalls.

Modern life is too complex for a one-size-fits-all decision-making template that can work for everyone at all times. Instead, the ultimate goal of Eyes Wide Open is to empower readers to become confident, independent, and wise decision-makers, and Noreena Hertz provides the tools, takeaways, and strategies for us to achieve this.

ABOUT NOREENA HERTZ

Noreena Hertz is a decision-making guru who advises some of the leading politicians and CEOs in the world on economics and geopolitics. Her internationally best-selling books, The Silent Takeover and I.O.U.: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It, have been translated into 18 languages. The Observer has named her “one of the world’s leading thinkers.” Vogue calls her “one of the world’s most inspiring women,” the Guardian has identified her as “one of the top British Public Intellectuals.” Noreena’s latest book, Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World was published by HarperCollins in September 2013.

Hertz is a sought after broadcaster and commentator and regularly appears on flagship television programmes globally including BBC and CNN. She has been interviewed on shows like Charlie Rose and Hard Talk, and her work has been the subject of three broadcast documentaries. Her op-ed pieces have been published in such places as The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and The Washington Post.

Noreena is also an accomplished speaker and has provided keynote addresses at such forums as TED and the World Economic Forum. She regularly speaks at major corporate events all over the world. Noreena advises major multinational corporations, CEOs, NGOs and politicians, as well as start-up companies, and sits on various corporate and charitable boards. She played an influential role in the development of (RED), an innovative commercial model to raise money for people with AIDS in Africa, having inspired Bono (co-founder of the project) with her writings.

Professor Hertz is based at University College London.

HAM

“A vividly crafted series of essays…a charmingly candid collection.” — Publishers Weekly

“[Harris] has the writing chops to tell a good tale…entertaining and occasionally moving tales from the wilds of showbiz.” — Kirkus

Introducing Ham: Slices of Life (Gallery Books; On-sale: January 14, 2014; Hardcover; $26.00) by Sam Harris — the first winner of “Star Search” whose diversified career has since run the gamut from multi-million-selling singer and songwriter to Tony-nominated actor to writer, director, and producer.

Writing with a wry style evocative of David Sedaris and David Rakoff, Harris shares sixteen stories from his life, from growing up gay in the buckle of America’s Bible belt (Sand Springs, OK) to performing on Oprah’s first show after 9/11.

In a review of one of Harris’s musical performances, The New York Times called his stories “New Yorker-worthy,” and he further proves himself as a natural humorist in HAM.

Chapters include:

• “Promises” – A front-row account of his best friend Liza Minnelli’s infamous wedding to “the man whose name shall go unmentioned.”
• “Drilling Without Novocain” – Harris details the sequence of losing his childhood home to a fire, his family’s temporary trailer home being destroyed in a tornado, and their newly constructed replacement home also burning down — all within the course of a year.
• “I Feel, You Feel” – Harris opens for Aretha Franklin during a blizzard.
• “I Know, Baby. I Know” – Harris visits Liza Minnelli in rehab for Family Week and walks away realizing the extent of his own alcohol addiction.
• “Liver” – The self-examination of his compulsion to smother grim reality with blind optimism.
• “Comfort Food” – It’s September 11, 2001 and Harris has just moved from New York to LA the day before. In the days following, Oprah calls and invites him to perform in her “Music to Heal Our Hearts” show.

Taking on issues as diverse as addiction, fame, and parenting with his hilarious and deeply human voice, Harris’s entertaining tales trace an arc of personal triumph that is universally accessible and inspiring.

ABOUT SAM HARIS

Sam Harris’s diversified career has run the gamut from multi-million-selling singer and songwriter to Tony-nominated actor to writer, director, and producer. After winning over a weekly audience of more than 25 million viewers as the first winner of “Star Search,” Sam has toured extensively in concert. He resides in Los Angeles with his husband and their son.

Greetings From Utopia Park

“Claire Hoffman brilliantly captures a world that is at once familiar and exotic, yet it is more than that. It is about the meaning of faith in the modern world and how the simple desire for spiritual connection can sometimes lead to devastating consequences. I love it.” —Reza Aslan, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Zealot

When Claire Hoffman’s alcoholic father leaves a pile of cash on their New York apartment table and disappears, her mother tells Claire and her brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven—Maharishi’s Heaven on Earth in Iowa, ground zero for the Transcendental Meditation movement in America during the ’80s.

In this insular enclave, with its commitment to world peace and enlightenment, the Hoffmans find security, serenity, and connection—along with unique problems. Claire receives an unorthodox education, and meditation is graded. Increasingly skeptical, determined to make something of herself, Claire flees to her father in California.

Decades later, working in journalism and academia, Claire struggles with new motherhood and professional cynicism, and misses the vivid, hopeful, mystical essence of her youth. However, she realizes that a reckoning with her history in Iowa holds the key to moving forward. Returning to her hometown, she pursues a universal question: Can you reconcile cynicism about faith with a desire for the sacred?

With GREETINGS FROM UTOPIA PARK: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood (Harper; June 2016), Claire delivers a riveting chronicle of growing up in this remote Midwestern meditation community. Beautifully told, emotionally stirring, and unflinchingly candid, this exquisite memoir provides an immersive look into a closed society while it contemplates essential questions of meaning, faith, purpose, and fulfillment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Claire Hoffman writes for national magazines and holds a master’s degree in religion from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She was a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She serves on the board of her family foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation, as well as ProPublica and the Columbia Journalism School.

Eragon: Collectors Edition

“Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.”  — People

“Unusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.” — Booklist Starred

“An auspicious beginning to both career and series.”  — Publishers Weekly

Christopher Paolini was 15 when he began writing Eragon, Book One of the Inheritance cycle. Now, nearing 30, he enjoys a success that is as magical as the fantasy novels he writes. His Inheritance cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr andInheritance) has sold 35 million copies worldwide and is available in 125 countries in 49 languages. His journey has been extraordinary.

While most kids were playing baseball and soccer, Christopher, who was homeschooled, taught himself how to fence, weave, paint, and read ancient languages, and became expert at woodworking. He built a forge and created his own medieval armor. He read 3,000 books.

After graduating from the accredited distance-learning high school, American School, Christopher put pen to paper on his first novel. Inspired by the fantastic view of the jagged Beartooth Mountains from his bedroom window in Paradise Valley, Montana, he created a vibrant, compelling fantasy world. Helped by his family, Christopher self-published Eragon in February 2002. They sold nearly 10,000 copies through diligent self-promotion (including sales from the family car and Paolini visiting schools to address students his own age, in medieval costume).

In a few short months, everything changed. A Montana bookseller gave author Carl Hiaasen’s 12-year-old stepson—on vacation with his family—a copy of Paolini’s Eragon. The boy devoured it, declaring it better than Harry Potter. Hiaasen called his editor at Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers in New York. Quickly acquiring the series, Knopf (an imprint of Random House Children’s Books) edited the self-published Eragon and released it in August 2003, when Christopher was 19. It was an instant bestseller. Six months after publication, Eragon had already sold 1 million copies.

This fall, Knopf will celebrate the 10th anniversary of this worldwide phenomenon with the release of a collector’s edition of Eragon on October 22, 2013 (9780449819531 / $50.00). This faux-leather bound edition features gold-foil line art on the cover and six glossy, full-color original illustrations on the interior by award-winning artists who inspired Paolini—John Jude Palancar (the Inheritance cycle cover artist), Michael Hague, Donato Giancola, Ciurelo, and Raoule Vitale—as well as Paolini himself. Christopher’s large, diverse and intensely devoted fan base—including many parents who thank him because Eragonturned their reluctant readers into book lovers—are sure to add this special edition to their bookshelves.

Paolini broke sales records from the beginning. His second novel, Eldest, sold more than 425,000 hardcover copies in its first week, making it the greatest single-week sale ever recorded for a Random House Children’s Books title—hardcover or paperback—and the fastest-selling title in the publisher’s history. Brisingr and Inheritance released with 2.5 million copy first printings and Inheritance, the fourth and final book in the cycle, achieved the highest first-day sale in 2011 of any fiction or nonfiction adult or children’s title published in the U.S. and Canada, with a staggering 489,500 copies in print, digital, and audio formats. Paolini is greeted at every tour stop by screaming crowds numbering in the thousands.

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Christopher Paolini is one of today’s best-known fantasy writers with a fascinating and inspiring journey to share.

Green Goes with Everything

Drinking in America

Since the beginning, drinking and taverns have been as much a part of American life as churches and preachers, or elections and politics. The interesting truth, untaught in most schools and unacknowledged in most written history, is that a glass of beer, a bottle of rum, a keg of hard cider, a flask of whiskey, or even a dry martini was often the silent, powerful third party to many decisions that shaped the American story from the seventeenth century to the present.

– From DRINKING IN AMERICA

In Drinking in America (Twelve – October 2015), bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, giving alcohol its due as a stimulus and lubricant to some of the most pivotal moments in American history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history—the Pilgrims’ illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few—alcohol has acted as a catalyst. In Drinking in America, Cheever brings us the fascinating backstories to these famous – and infamous – moments.

The American character has always oscillated between temperance and drunkenness, between the inebriated and the teetotalers. Covering everything from Paul Revere stopping off to drink on his famous ride to “our drunken friend” Richard Nixon, Cheever takes a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has transformed our nation’s history, both for the good and for the bad.

Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, Drinking in America unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation’s tumultuous affair with alcohol.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of the biographies E.E. Cummings, American Bloomsbury, and My Name Is Bill, as well as five novels and four memoirs. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, and Newsday, among other magazines and anthologies. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been nominated for a National Book Circle Award, and won the Boston Globe Winship medal. She attended Brown University and has taught at many places, including Yale, Brown, Columbia, the New School, and Bennington College.

GRATITUDE AND TRUST

Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Successful screenwriter and author Tracey Jackson is not.

Together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life (Blue Rider Press / September 2014), applying the principles of the recovery movement to help countless individuals who are not addicts yet seek effective help with their difficulties — credit card debt, anger issues, a victim mentality — and pain. Williams and Jackson have designed a new, positive program, based on Six Affirmations of Personal Freedom, to guide you toward conquering your vices, addressing personal dysfunction, and starting to brighten the darkest moods, to find contentment and happiness.

Williams, the multi-award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of sobriety. Jackson, a well-known TV and film writer—and veteran of many years of traditional therapy—though never an alcohol or drug abuser, has struggled with other negative behaviors to numb her pain such as men, cigarettes, and over-spending. Jackson realized that many of the tenets of Williams’s program could apply to her and in Gratitude and Trust, the authors answer the questions: What happens to those who face vexing problems yet are not full-blown addicts? Are there any lessons to be learned from the foundational and time-tested principles of the recovery movement?

Whether you’re tethered to your phone or you use food for comfort; whether you’re a perfectionist and can’t let things go or are too afraid to fail to even try; whether you can only find intimacy online or you’ve been involved in a string of nasty relationships—the first step toward feeling better about yourself and your life is the realization that you are what’s standing in your way. Williams and Jackson’s Six Affirmations of Personal Freedom include:

1. Something Needs to Change, and it’s Probably Me
2. I Don’t Know How to Do This But Something Inside Me Does
3. I Will Learn From My Mistakes and Not Defend Them
4. I Will Make Right the Wrongs I’ve Done Wherever Possible
5. I Will Examine My Behavior on a Daily Basis
6. I will live in Love and Service. Gratitude and Trust.

Together these affirmations make up a set of tools to break bad habits by recognizing the behavior and replacing it with a healthy routine. A routine that, if followed with consistency, will become your new way of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Paul Williams is an Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Hall of Fame songwriter (“Rainbow Connection,” “Evergreen,” and “We’ve Only Just Begun”). Winner of a 2014 album of the year Grammy as a collaborator on Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” and President of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), he is a major public force in the recovery movement, a graduate of UCLA’s Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certification Program, and has served as a member of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Board of Directors. He was a founding board member and counselor for the Musicians Assistance Program (MAP), now the treatment wing of MusiCares. He has been a passionate public advocate for the recovery movement for the past twenty-four years.

Tracey Jackson wrote the films “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “The Guru,” and “The Other End of the Line,” among others. She has also written twelve TV pilots, and created the series “Babes” for Fox TV. Tracey wrote, directed, and starred in the controversial documentary “Lucky Ducks,” which can be seen on Amazon, Journeyman Docs, and pay for view. Her first book, Between a Rock and Hot Place: Why Fifty is Not the New Thirty, came out in 2011 and was optioned for a TV movie by Lifetime. Tracey blogs on traceyjacksononline.com, and has blogged for Huffington Post, WOWOWOW, Society for Drug Free America, Tiny Buddha, and various other sites.  She runs GratitudeandTrust.com with Paul Williams.

Gratitude and Trust is an essential, inspirational, and uplifting guide to identifying and changing maladaptive behaviors in order to uncover your most productive, healthiest self. I will call you soon to discuss review and feature possibilities with you.

Dr. Jeffry Life

“Dr. Life lives and breathes a paradigm of health, vitality, and fitness—men everywhere would be smart to follow his example.” — Anthony Robbins, entrepreneur, author, and Peak Performance Strategist

This is not your wife’s health plan, nor your girlfriend’s. Following his New York Times bestseller Mastering the Life Plan, Dr. Jeffry S. Life continues to combine proven science with his encouraging message for men: it’s never too late to transform your body, your health, your libido, and your life. Now, in his new book, Mastering the Life Plan: The Essential Steps to Achieving Great Health and a Leaner, Stronger, and Sexier Body (Atria Books, March 19, 2013, ISBN: 9781451681703), Dr. Life distills his highly successful program designed specifically for men into simple steps that readers can further customize to their individual needs.

At 74 years of age, with an unbelievably toned torso and biceps that any thirtysomething male would envy, Dr. Life is living proof that his program of exercise, nutrition, hormones, and holistic medicine has extraordinary and lasting results. He offers all men a method for developing and sustaining a younger, healthier body – and the more fulfilling life that comes with it.

Dr. Life is at the forefront of a growing trend in medicine: applying preventative best practices to achieve healthy aging rather than waiting for and then treating chronic disease. In this motivating and life-changing book, he tells men how they can turn their health around, regain their energy and competitive edge, prevent disease, and reverse aging.

Mastering the Life Plan is the one plan that men can take and follow no matter their level of fitness, and it’s perfect for business travel, with its at-home or on-the-road workouts. It incorporates new exercises that are accompanied by photos demonstrating proper body position, fresh meal plans, an expanded food guide, and the latest information on hormone optimization, giving a deeper understanding of therapies, controversies, myths, and realities. Dr. Life addresses the “Deadly Myths of Heart Disease” that men need to know, and outlines the importance of nutraceuticals — supplements that provide the right vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and antioxidants to fight disease, improve libido, and sharpen the mind. He also includes health management charts and guides, plus a comprehensive chart to health tests that every man must request.

Rich with dozens of personal anecdotes and success stories from men who have already embraced The Life Plan and have seen significant change to the way they both look and feel, this empowering, revolutionary, step-by-step program will enable men to slow aging and live life more fully no matter what shape they are in. More than a diet or exercise plan, Mastering the Life Plan is a resource for men who want to take control of their physical and emotional health to live their best possible lives.

ABOUT DR. JEFFRY LIFE
Jeffry S. Life, M.D., Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Life Plan. At a vibrant 74 years of age, he is in great shape, practicing medicine, and at the top of the healthy aging field. He is a senior partner at Cenegenics® in Las Vegas, one of the world’s largest age management medical practices. He has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Esquire magazine, as well as on national television, including “The Doctors,” “Dr. Phil,” and “Fox & Friends.”

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DOUBLE OR NOTHING

Americans have caught green felt fever, and gambling is staking its claim as one of the country’s hottest new pastimes. Now, revealing the smarts, loyalty, and sheer love of the game that would draw a nod from Danny Ocean, Tom Breitling—a guy who had never seen The Godfather or a $100 bill until he went to college—tells how he and his best friend Tim Poster made their second $100 million in Vegas by age 35. Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas’ Legendary Casinos (Collins; March 18, 2008; $24.95) is an engrossing true story of friendship, fearless gamesmanship, trust, risk-taking, and how Tom and Tim, the youngest casino owners in the history of Nevada, hit the jackpot in two industries.

Call them the Odds Couple. Tom, a self-proclaimed “square from Barnesville, U.S.A.,” is practical and precise (ploddish, Tim might say). Tim, with his brilliant mind for numbers and gambler’s instincts, was already doing brisk business as a bookie (and was once 20 grand in the hole) while attending Bishop Gorman High School, where casino chips were welcome in the chapel collection plate at graduation. Together, they called Barry Diller’s bluff, appeared on People’s 50 Hottest Bachelors list, starred in the reality TV show “The Casino,” partnered with Andre Agassi and Perry Rogers, and went on the ride of their lives.

In Double or Nothing, Breitling and co-author Cal Fussman retrace the astounding arc of Tom and Tim’s careers. A young college graduate hoping to be the next Bob Costas, Breitling landed his first broadcasting job at KHIZ-TV in California before joining Tim’s company, Las Vegas Reservation Systems, Inc., a hotel room rental business built around the merchant model Tim devised during an entrepreneurial class at USC. Tom added one of the first automatic online reservation systems that allowed people to search, compare, and reserve hotel space via the Internet. Playing their two great hands—the dot-com/Internet explosion and the Las Vegas hotel-building boom—they co-founded Travelscape. Selling the company in 2000 to Expedia, in a deal valued at more than $100 million, the partners’ next big score was The Golden Nugget hotel-casino property in Las Vegas.

It was a toss of the dice that put everything at risk—their reputations, their friendship, and every cent they had. “People in the know were truly scared for us,” says Breitling in Double or Nothing. Faced with inexperienced dealers, dishonest cashiers, and high rollers who took their house profits on half-a-million-dollar swings, Breitling and Poster

• Get the Best of It – Intent and intense, they work 90-hour weeks and lavish personal attention on customers, nurture their “whales” (big spenders), and restore “vintage Vegas” glamour to The Golden Nugget;
• Learn from the Legends – Las Vegas greats from Elaine and Steve Wynn to Tony Bennett become friends and mentors (a prized possession is the portrait Tony painted for them);
• Survive the Scrutiny – The FBI and the Gaming Control Board suspect them of illegalities and the newspapers paint them as mobsters;
• Pay Attention to the Partnership – Tensions escalate when Tom “drinks the Kool-Aid hype” that surrounds them, a gambler starts taking the Nugget for $8 million, and a woman comes between them;
• Turn the Tables– The partners sell The Golden Nugget, making $113 million in profit (226% on their $50 million investment)—called the highest rate of return in such a short time in the gaming industry. As businessmen and community leaders, the partners give back and scan for the next great roll of the dice.

Double or Nothing takes us into the hurly-burly of big stakes gamblers and chumps, and into the heart of the phenomenally successful business partnership and friendship of Tom Breitling and Tim Poster. Introducing a host of unforgettable characters like Big Frank, The Captain, The Sniffer, and more, plus the behind-the-scenes secrets of counting cards and working blackjack, the scams players pull, and the value of a man’s word as his bond, Double or Nothing is a memorable and mesmerizing insider’s look at two great American arts—business and gaming.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Tom Breitling is the president of Breitling Ventures, a private investment company. Together with his friend and business partner Tim Poster, he made his second $100 million by age 35. A student mentor and on the Capital Campaign committee for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a K-12 model charter school, he is a graduate of the University of San Diego. Breitling lives with his wife in Las Vegas.

Cal Fussman has been a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine since 1997. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen, Muhammad Ali, Robert DeNiro, Jeff Bezos, Michael Eisner, and Tommy Franks, among many others. Author of After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes, an Entertainment Weekly Pick of the Week, he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Domestic Affairs

Genius On The Edge

Do the KIND Thing

For the socially conscious reader of Blake Mycoskie’s Start Something That Matters, Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness, and Howard Schultz’s Onward comes an inspiring handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.
 

When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004, he aimed to defy the conventional wisdom that snack bars could never be both tasty and healthy, convenient and wholesome. A decade later, the transformative power of the company’s “AND” philosophy has resulted in an astonishing record of achievement. KIND has become the fastest-growing purveyor of healthy snacks in the country. Meanwhile, the KIND Movement—the company’s social mission to make the world a little kinder—has sparked more than a million good deeds worldwide.

In Do the KIND Thing (Ballentine Books, April 2015), Lubetzky shares the revolutionary principles that have shaped KIND’s business model and led to its success, while offering an unfiltered and intensely personal look into the mind of a pioneering social entrepreneur. Inspired by his father, who survived the Holocaust thanks to the courageous kindness of strangers, Lubetzky began his career hand selling a sun-dried tomato spread made collaboratively by Arabs and Jews in the war-torn Middle East. Despite early setbacks, he never lost his faith in his vision of a “not-only-for-profit” business—one that sold great products and helped to make the world a better place.

While other companies let circumstances force them into choosing between two seemingly incompatible options, people at KIND say “AND.” At its core, this idea is about challenging assumptions and false compromises. It is about not settling for less and being willing to take greater risks, often financial. It is about learning to think boundlessly and critically, and choosing what at first may be the tougher path for later, greater rewards. By using illuminating anecdotes from his own career, and celebrating some past failures through the lessons learned from them, Lubetzky outlines his core tenets for building a successful business and a thriving social enterprise. He explores the value of staying true to your brand, highlights the importance of transparency and communication in the workplace, and explains why good intentions alone won’t sell products.

Engaging and inspirational, Do the KIND Thing shows how the power of AND worked wonders for one company—and could empower the next generation of social entrepreneurs to improve their bottom line and change the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Lubetzky is a pioneering social entrepreneur known for integrating social objectives with sustainable market-driven forces to forge new business models that build bridges between people. He is the CEO and founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement. He is also founder of PeaceWorks and OneVoice, and cofounder of the apparel company Maiyet. Lubetzky has received numerous awards and recognitions for his humanitarian efforts and his business practices; among them he’s been named one of America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs in BusinessWeek, one of 25 Responsibility Pioneers by Time, one of the Creativity 50 by Advertising Age, and one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Summit. He has received Entrepreneur of the Year awards from both Entrepreneur magazine and Ernst & Young. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.

Full Service

Discretion

Dinner With Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock the artist needs no introduction—but lesser known is Jackson Pollock the gardener, baker, and dinner-party host. Food preparation for Jackson and his wife, artist Lee Krasner, was not a tiresome daily chore but an extension of their creative outlook that blossomed into a shared passion. Planting, gathering, fishing, and clamming for fresh seasonal ingredients connected Jackson to nature, which fed his inner creative terrain and in turn inspired many of his greatest works.

Featuring recipes collected from handwritten pages scrawled by Lee, Jackson, his mother, Stella, traded among their many friends in the town of Springs on Long Island, and gleaned from well-worn newspaper clippings tucked into their cookbooks and recipe files, Dinner with Jackson Pollock is a seamless blend of the fresh local ingredients Jackson and Lee grew and cooked, and the nature that influenced their art.

Robyn Lea weaves together tales from interviews with Jackson and Lee’s family and local friends, and her photographs perfectly complement these culinary records, including still lives inside the Pollock-Krasner home, Pollock’s studio, and beautiful portraits of each delectable recipe. From starters and entrees to side dishes, breads, and desserts, more than 50 tried-and-true favorites include Stella’s Potato Pancakes, Perle Fine’s Bouillabaisse, Jackson’s Classic Rye Bread, Jackson’s Famous Spaghetti Sauce, Jackson’s Prize-Winning Apple Pie, Elaine de Kooning’s Fruit & Grain Salad, and Rita Benton’s Pecan Torte with Mocha Frosting.

Interspersed with Jackson’s masterworks and family photo album snapshots, this deeply researched volume also includes a preface by Jackson’s niece Francesca Pollock, and a foreword by Helen Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Dinner with Jackson Pollock is truly a unique and insightful portrait of Pollock and a delightful taste of Springs

Devil’s Casino

Congressman Tim Ryan

We Americans love our food. It’s part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural output are the envy of the world. For most of our history, we lived close to the land, food was accessed locally, and we processed it in our own kitchens. But as our population and economy boomed in the last century and we concentrated in the cities, we industrialized our food system—with food coming far from home and processed multiple times. As foods rich in natural taste declined, we relied on high amounts of added sugar, fat, and salt to entice our palates. And it has taken a toll: our soil is polluted, our practices are unsustainable, and our health problems, including everything from allergy-related disease to obesity, are on the rise. This has all contributed to historic levels of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other causes of preventable death.

The good news is that people are starting to find solutions. They’re voting with their pocketbooks for a new kind of food system—family farm, 21st century style. Suburban and urban moms (and dads) want to know what’s in their food and where it comes from. No more snack packs, Ding Dongs, and soda for lunch. This revolution is not only in how people eat, but also in how they are grow, distribute, shop for, and prepare food. And the food is better tasting, better looking, and better for you.

The Real Food Revolution (Hay House / October 14, 2014) by Congressman Tim Ryan is a manifesto for this new food movement.

This is a non-partisan, good news message that will inform, inspire, and help readers around the country get involved. The era of the Twinkie and the hot-dog-stuffed-crust pizza has been fun, but now it’s time for a change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Ryan was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, at the age of 29, and is currently serving in his fifth term representing Ohio’s 17th Congressional District. He maintains a strong commitment to the economic and social well-being of his constituents in northeast Ohio. He serves as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, as well as its Subcommittees on Readiness and on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

He also serves as a member of the House Budget Committee and co-chairman of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus.

Congressman Ryan has a daily mindfulness meditation practice. He has been an outspoken advocate for promoting mindfulness practice as an aid to dealing with the variety of complex problems facing the nation. During his tenure in the House, he has helped to get mindfulness and social and emotional learning programs established in several schools in his district. He also spearheaded a conference at a medical school in his district on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Congressman Ryan is a 4-time recipient of the Golden Triangle Award, the National Farmers Union’s highest legislative honor. The award is presented to members of Congress who have demonstrated leadership and support policies that benefit America’s family farmers, ranchers, fishermen and rural communities.

Colleen Saidman Yee

“There are so many maladies that keep the body and mind from working optimally. Colleen Saidman Yee tells us her story and how yoga has unraveled the knots that have been stored from different traumas and everyday life. The yoga solutions she offers are a first aid kit that we should be schooled in. This book is a must for your library of home health.” —Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and author of #1 New York Times bestseller, The Blood Sugar Solution 10 Day Detox Diet

Highly sought-after, superstar yoga teacher Colleen Saidman Yee is called the “first lady of yoga” by the New York Times. Her classes are over-subscribed and mat-to-mat filled. Now, she shares her popular yoga method for the first time in a book, along with the remarkable story of how she overcame early rebellious years and a heroin habit to become an internationally sought fashion model, and then a globally respected teacher and activist. She attributes her success to the healing power of yoga.

In YOGA FOR LIFE: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom (Atria Books; June 2015), Colleen Saidman Yee tells how she found clarity, fulfillment, and her true self and voice, and continues inspiring others to experience the deep and lasting change yoga can nurture.

“Women are strong and beautiful, and we are also in pain—physical, emotional, and psychological—stemming from past or present trauma,” says Colleen. “Yoga gives us tools to overcome the obstacles that exist between us and freedom, joy, and gratitude. I see why women come to yoga; they want to reclaim something in themselves. It’s beautiful to watch.”

Candid and revealing, Colleen covers her coming of age, drug addiction, modeling career, navigating marriage, divorce, and motherhood, and learning to cope with a frightening seizure disorder and grieving a beloved parent. She discusses how yoga has helped her understand her true value as a person and meet the right life partner, as she found her way in her lightning-rod relationship with her husband, Rodney Yee, another powerhouse yoga teacher. She also imparts perceptions from her time in India with Mother Theresa’s sisterhood.

Colleen presents personal anecdotes, compassionate insights, and practical instructions for applying yoga to everyday issues and anxieties. Specific yoga sequences address everything from hormonal mood swings to detoxing, depression, stress, and increased confidence and energy. Step-by-step instructions and 100 photographs demonstrate her signature flow of poses so you can follow them with ease and begin to experience the benefits that transformed her life.

Colleen Saidman Yee is an internationally respected yoga teacher. For 20 years, she was a top global fashion model, represented by Elite and Ford Models. She and her husband, Rodney Yee, another world-renowned teacher, lead the premier studio Yoga Shanti, with locations in New York City, Sag Harbor, and Westhampton Beach, New York. With Donna Karan and Rodney, Colleen created and runs the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program, utilized in healthcare facilities around the country. She has been featured in The New York Times, New York magazine, Vanity Fair, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among many others. She lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

Yoga For Life, written with Susan K. Reed, offers techniques to bring awareness to every part of your physical and spiritual being, allowing you to feel truly alive and to embody the peace of the present moment.

Cold Hit

Chineasy

Chinese is one of our oldest written languages, considered by many to be one of the most difficult to master, especially for Westerners. Spurred by China’s growing cultural and economic influences, there is a strong interest in learning this ideographic language, but how do we scale the Great Wall of an “alphabet” composed of symbols? Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese (Harper Design; on sale March 11, 2014) by ShaoLan Hsueh allows people to learn to read Chinese with a ground-breaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into illustrations for easy recall and comprehension.

Helping Westerners leap the language barrier, ShaoLan used her entrepreneurial and cultural background to “decode” Chinese characters, creating a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of the written language. Working with renowned illustrator Noma Bar, she has turned key Chinese characters into pictographs that are engaging and easy to remember. She teaches these characters, the language’s foundation, and then shows how they can be combined to form new words and phrases. Wallpaper* Magazine has given CHINEASY its 2014 Design Award as “Life-Enhancer of the Year.”

In fewer than two hundred pages, readers of all ages will be able to navigate a Chinese menu, read signs and billboards, and begin to understand the meaning of basic articles in a Chinese newspaper.

ABOUT SHAOLAN HSUEH

ShaoLan Hsueh is a bestselling author and entrepreneur with extensive experience in both Asia and Europe. While studying for her MBA at 22 in Taiwan, she wrote four bestselling books on software that were named “Book of the Year.” At 24, she co-founded pAsia, one of the major Internet solution providers in Asia in the ‘90s. In 2005, after completing her second master’s degree at the University of Cambridge, she founded Caravel Capital in London to advise young technology companies. CHINEASY is for ShaoLan a return to her artistic upbringing, an arts project that is the culmination of her life’s journey through the East and West. For Westerners, CHINEASY is a unique, lively, and beautifully envisioned “new route” into China through its language.       

Celebutantes

BUZZ BOOKS 2014: Fall/Winter

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ABOUT PUBLISHERS LUNCH

Publishers Lunch is the industry’s “daily essential read,” the largest book publishing publication in the world, now shared with more than 45,000 publishing people every day. Each report gathers together stories from all over the web and print that are of interest to the professional trade book community, with original reporting and analysis added in. The full version, Publishers Lunch Deluxe, is e-mailed every business day to members of PublishersMarketplace.com. It contains five to ten stories and links a day, or more, plus different standing weekly features. The individual Buzz Books titles — and a full in-print catalog of over 1 million books — can be found at the publisher’s online book discovery store, Publishers Lunch Bookateria, which features dozens of curated lists of recommended titles. The “industry insider’s” view taps into “buzz books” touted as new discoveries of note, and drawing on recommendations from a variety of booksellers and bellwether award nominations to connect avid readers everywhere to great reads. Follow Publishers Lunch on Facebook and Twitter.

Buzz Books

Why wait for a taste of highly anticipated books like ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame’s debut fiction, Blowback, a contemporary international thriller by the New York Timesbestselling author of Fair Game? Now, passionate readers everywhere can preview a favorite author’s next work or discover a powerful debut novel before it’s in print, enjoying the same early access to important new titles that publishing insiders get. Building on its popular Buzz Books series, Publishers Lunch, the “daily essential read” known for its incisive insider commentary on publishing, has gathered substantial excerpts from 40 of the most buzzed-about books scheduled for publication this fall and winter in an exclusive, free new ebook, Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter (Download Buzz Books 2013). More than half of the adult titles featured in last year’s Buzz Books 2012 were named to one or more major “Best Books of 2012” lists, and ten became bestsellers; already nearly half of the books featured and previewed in the 2013 Spring/Summer edition have made “best of the month” lists from major booksellers over the past three months.

As booksellers and publishers prepare to converge on New York for the annual Book Expo America convention, Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter brings the pleasure of touted forthcoming books to everyone. Enjoy a first look at Actors Anonymous from James Franco, The Valley of Amazementfrom Amy Tan, We Are Water from Wally Lamb, Dissident Gardens from Jonathan Lethem, or On Such a Full Sea from Chang-rae Lee (whose The Surrendered was a nominated finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Coming in October, Johnny Carson reveals the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, as seen by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant, Henry Bushkin; you can get a sneak peek.

With shorter collections and digital “singles” gaining popularity among readers, Buzz Books 2013 gathers 40 great “singles” in single volume of 750 pages in its printed version. Buzz Books 2013 includes selections from captivating debuts, such as Anything That Moves fromNew Yorker writer Dana Goodyear, a range of titles from the flourishing field of young adult and children’s literature (including Newbery winner Cynthia Voigt and Tamora Pierce), news-making nonfiction, and the next highly anticipated works from bestselling authors, like The Signature of All Things from Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love; Committed) and W is for … from Sue Grafton. The Witness Wore Red from Rebecca Musser is a gripping account of her struggle to escape religious fanaticism and sexual slavery, taking the witness stand to put Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints president Warren Jeffs in prison for life (she was coerced to become the 19th wife of his 85-year-old father while in her teens).

Buzz Books 2013, free from Publishers Lunch, is offered in consumer, international and trade editions. The consumer edition is available in the U.S. on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle/Amazon, Nook/Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Sony, Google Play, Kobo, and the universe of retailers served by Ingram, such as Powell’s. It includes an extensive overview of the fall/winter publishing season, with over 100 titles to look out for, and click-throughs to pre-order or buy the full books on major platforms.

The trade edition — found at PublishersMarketplace.com and through NetGalley — features extensive trade information for each title. In most cases, full digital galleys are available to the trade on request from NetGalley, via click-throughs in the trade edition.

In Buzz Books 2013, Publishers Lunch helps readers and trade insiders alike discover exciting upcoming books via a fascinating collection. Follow @PublishersLunch for the latest updates on #BuzzBooks.

Breakthrough

Bread & Butter

At long last, the holy grail of gluten-free baking: airy, light, chewy, and tender breads, from Erin McKenna, the woman who also cracked the code of vegan frosting.

For the twenty million Americans (including baker and founder of BabyCakes NYC Erin McKenna) who are gluten sensitive or intolerant (and the 30 percent of adults interested in cutting back on the amount of gluten they consume), it is torturous to watch a basket filled with warm rolls or chewy bread arrive at the dinner table and not be able to dig in. Brunch is even worse: flaky croissants and biscuits, not to mention bagels! As an act of self-preservation, Erin tried to pretend they didn’t exist.

After pioneering vegan and gluten-free dessert baking at her beloved bicoastal bakery, BabyCakes, Erin set about righting this wrong, tackling the beautiful treats in those forbidden bread baskets. The result is all the savory bread a gluten-free vegan guy or gal could want and more!

In Bread & Butter: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes to Fill Your Bread Basket (Clarkson Potter; On Sale: March 17, 2015), you will find recipes for English Muffins, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Sweet Potato Sage Rolls, Pizza Dough, Corn Tortillas, Puff Pastry Dough, Pretzels, Scallion Pancakes, even a simple and perfect Sandwich Bread. And since you can’t say “bread” without saying “butter,” Erin created a rich and creamy vegan butter unlike anything else, too. The world’s bread basket just got a whole lot fuller.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erin McKenna is the founder and head baker of BabyCakes NYC, which specializes in gluten-free vegan pastries and baked goods, with outposts in New York City, Lost Angeles, and Disney Springs at Downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida. This is her third book—the first to focus on savory breads. She lives with her husband and their daughter in New York City.

Brava, Valentine

Book Hampton

Black Rainbow

“The greatest gift a depression memoir can offer… the writer has survived. Rachel Kelly’s memoir goes one better … she adds a selection of the poetry that helped her. Black Rainbow is moving, written with compassion and insight.” — The Guardian

“It’s a book we should all read, especially women… Those with new babies, exhausted from pregnancy, sleepless nights and the sheer shock of motherhood, are often consumed with fear bordering on terror. That’s what depression is, and if it applies to you or your daughter, take heart. Help is available. And it will help to read Rachel Kelly’s Black Rainbow.” —The Daily Mail

A Sunday Times bestseller, Black Rainbow (October 2015; Quercus) is the powerful and uplifting story of former London Times journalist Rachel Kelly’s struggle with depression and her heartening recovery applying a unique “prescription” with no side effects—poetry.

After recovery from a debilitating episode of depression that saw Rachel hospitalized, the descent that had startled her family and friends struck a second time during a glamorous Christmas party. Soon, she was no longer sure she wanted to live.

“I have a privileged life, but I don’t have privileged health,” Rachel notes.

Black Rainbow breaks through the stigma associated with depression, offering consolation, hope, and practical advice for anyone seeking to understand depression and new ways to treat it. In Rachel’s frank and moving story, poetry—“prescribing words instead of pills”—emerges as a powerful therapeutic tool.

Applying her keen mind to resolve the mix of feelings and family, career, and social roles that had left her with crippling anxiety, Rachel analyzes why poetry can be one solution for easing depression—an illness known more for its opacity than clear answers.

The book contains 40 poems that brought comfort during her two sudden slides into depression, including words from W.H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, and more.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Kelly is a former London Times journalist-turned-mental health advocate and author of three books. She uses her experience with depression as fuel to run workshops in prisons, for mental health charities, on behalf of companies, and in bookshops.

Between a Rock and a Hot Place

Better

Bend Not Break

“In this outstanding testament to the resilience of the human spirit, Ping takes readers on a journey both heartbreaking and inspiring. Ping’s eloquent prose and remarkable attitude shine through in every word.” — Publishers Weekly

When she was eight years old, Ping Fu was torn from the family she knew, relocated to a new city, and became a “mother,” solely responsible for feeding and caring for her four-year-old sister in one of Chairman Mao’s campuses for “black elements,” those born to educated and affluent families. She suffered unspeakable abuse, was forced by Mao’s teenage Red Guards to eat “bitter meals” of dirt, animal dung, and tree bark, was gang raped at 10, detained for political reasons at 25, and told to leave the country. She arrived in the United States with $80 and three English phrases: “Hello,” “Thank you,” and “Help.”

Starting all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student who arrived at the University of New Mexico in a squad car, Ping became a pioneering software programmer and innovator. She founded and was the CEO of the successful global technology company Geomagic, an Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of President Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a proud mother of a daughter, and a U.S. Citizen.

Now, in Bend, Not Break (Portfolio/Penguin; December 31, 2012; $26.95), Ping Fu shares her remarkable and inspiring journey through these two very diverse worlds in a powerful testament to the resilience and strength of the human heart and spirit. As an “unfinished child,” she held tight to the memories and teachings of her beloved Shanghai Mama and Papa — “Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting” — and to any small kindness, like Uncle W smuggling to her forbidden Western novels including Gone With the Wind. She persevered through the Chinese Cultural Revolution, in which 36 million people were persecuted, and 3 million were killed or maimed.

In Bend, Not Break, Ping skillfully blends the wisdom and lessons learned from both her worlds in her fascinating story; from imprisonment to freedom, from a cruel childhood in which her voice was silenced as she was forced to denounce herself and her parents as less than nothing to an engaging speaker who inspires rapt audiences, from a 10-year-old worker building 40 radios a day in Mao’s anti-capitalistic China to a mentor and powerhouse in the high-stakes realm of U.S. technology start-ups. Hopeful, heartbreaking, and empowering, in Bend, Not Break Ping includes her thoughts on her life, starting a business that revolutionized design, motherhood, and creating success.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ping Fu is the Chief Strategy Officer and Vice-President of 3D Systems. She founded and was CEO of Geomagic, a 3D software company that reshaped the world of design and manufacturing, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repairing NASA spaceships. She was Director of Visualization at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she initiated and managed the NCSA Mosaic software project that led to Netscape and Internet Explorer, the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies, available for every desktop, for free. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

MeiMei Fox is an author and book editor who also blogs regularly for the Huffington Post.

Behind The Palace Walls

Becoming China’s Bitch

America is frozen. We have failed to face our nation’s most crucial challenges—and we are about to pay the price.

Delighted by our disorder, China builds with uncanny strength and determination. While we have been diverted and lost momentum, a dragon leaped into the breach. China fully expects to pass us by.

Now, in Becoming China’s Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now (Turner Publishing Company: March 2012; $27.95) widely influential business builder and venture philanthropist Peter D. Kiernan offers innovative and realistic steps which transcend partisan agendas that can help put our nation back on the path to greatness.

A leader in investment banking, philanthropy, education and healthcare, Kiernan provides a cogent analysis of our most pressing national problems and a unique perspective of how to get past the gridlock of polarized leaders and partisan gamesmanship. With provocative insight and analytic depth, he offers radical yet practical solutions—solutions every American must act upon before it’s too late.

Kiernan begins by revealing the five factors that freeze us and uncovers an architecture of divide that prevents our progress: polarizing and proselytizing media; the unbridled and expansionist role of lobbyists; the well-funded Selectorate of think tanks that have a far more influential relationship with policy makers than we do; our confusion of Constitutional and religious imperatives; and the challenges to an entrenched and aging two party system.

Then Kiernan provides innovative and common sense ways to address ten impending catastrophes that pose the greatest threat to America’s future: our semiconscious dependency on China; retiring our aging to nursing homes instead of realizing the longevity dividend they represent; the labor pains of union’s changing role in society; our lack of a coordinated intelligence effort; America’s dual addiction to cigarettes and sin tax revenues; our downward-spiraling healthcare system; our faltering efforts at sensible education reform; mishandling of illegal immigration; a missing-in-action energy policy; and our inability to accept same sex marriage as the ultimate test of who we claim to be as a nation and move on.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter D. Kiernan is a successful business man, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and corporate and government advisor. The former Goldman Sachs partner for nearly two decades and multi-billion dollar hedge fund president now chairs a venture firm. He is recent Chair of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and the Robin Hood Foundation and board member of numerous other healthcare, hospital, poverty fighting, and disease-related charities. He is Chairman of University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, board member of UVA’s Graduate Schools and College of Arts and Sciences; and formerly of Williams College, was a founding board member of the Center for Charter School Excellence and board member of the Al Smith Foundation. A frequent guest on television and radio, Kiernan has appeared in lively and dynamic interviews and segments on programs including “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “Larry King Live,” CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” and on CBS News, CNN, and Bloomberg. A graduate of the Darden School where he earned an MBA and Williams College (BA), he currently lives in Connecticut with his family.

Becoming

“I want to honor and acknowledge the girl I once was while embracing the woman I am today, and I even look forward to the wise woman I hope I will become in future decades.”—Cindy Crawford, from the Foreword

Rizzoli is proud to announce the October publication of BECOMING, a chronicle of American icon and supermodel Cindy Crawford’s life, in which she shares stories of her professional and personal evolution, accompanied by her most iconic images, as well as never-before-published photographs from her personal archive.

The 1990s era of the supermodel was a cultural phenomenon which made stars out of a select group of strong women who surpassed mere beauty by embodying a new spirit and personality that made them celebrities in their own right. In this pantheon, Cindy Crawford blazed a trail from the runway and covers of leading fashion magazines around the world, to unconventional pop culture outlets such as then-new and cutting-edge MTV, Super Bowl commercials, and even Playboy magazine—in which she appeared not once but twice—in photo features ten years apart.

On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Cindy Crawford looks back on a super-nova career and remarkable life. In the completely accessible, down-to-earth voice of the Midwestern girl she is, Cindy discusses the love-filled, small-town childhood that shaped both her legendary work ethic, and the professionalism for which she is so well-regarded in an often cut-throat and competitive business, but she is also candid about the devastating early loss of her brother, Jeff, and her parents’ subsequent divorce only a few years later.

Cindy describes her earliest modelling years and the process of becoming less self-conscious in front of a camera; her reaction when an early agent suggested she remove the mole that would become her trademark; and how her exile from a Chicago studio gave her the courage to “dream big”, move to New York, and learn to own her power in a business that has been known to infantilize women.

Cindy also gives us an account of her entrepreneurial accomplishments, and shares her observations on our youth-obsessed culture. The reader will be inspired to read about Cindy’s determination to create positive messages about a healthy body image that she knew would reach women of all ages; her feelings about marriage and motherhood; her thoughts on this milestone birthday, and what she would tell her younger self if she had the chance.

The 150 stunning photographs span Cindy’s entire career beginning in the mid-1980s, and feature images by every top name in fashion photography, including Annie Leibovitz, Victor Skrebneski, Arthur Elgort, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, and Richard Avedon, among others. Most fascinating are Cindy’s descriptions of the creative philosophy of each of these masters, and the priceless and very different lessons she learned from each.

Beautifully illustrated, BECOMING is an engaging series of stories that shed light into the life and work of an extraordinary woman who is as beautiful inside, as out. BECOMING is a must for anyone who has followed Cindy’s legendary career, is fascinated by the worlds of fashion and photography, and will be a meaningful mother-to-daughter gift for all young women who can benefit from reading this modern-day American success story with universal coming-of-age lessons.

ABOUT THE  AUTHORS:

Cindy Crawford is one of the original supermodels who defined that pivotal moment when fashion models became cultural stars in their own right. Crawford used her fame and business savvy to launch an entrepreneurial career that has encompassed beauty, fashion, fitness and home décor brands. She has appeared on over a thousand magazine covers worldwide and has been the face of brands as diverse as Revlon, Omega watches, and Pepsi. For more about Cindy please visit www.cindy.com. Katherine O’Leary and Cindy Crawford have worked together in many different capacities for over sixteen years. BECOMING is Katherine’s writing debut.

Barefoot to Billionaire

I desire to leave this world as I entered it—barefoot and broke.” —Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.

“Everyone who knows Jon Huntsman is aware that he is a man of impeccable character and decency.” —President George H. W. Bush

“(Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. is) one of the finest human beings, industrial leaders and philanthropists on the planet.”—Stephen R. Covey

“Jon Huntsman is a different breed. He believes business is a creative endeavor, similar to a theater production, wherein integrity must be the central character.”—Larry King

At his birth, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. was deemed dead on delivery. A descendant of pioneer ancestors as rugged as the land they settled, the newborn finally let out a faint gasp, grew, and hustled to outrun the shadow of poverty. He became a billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate.

On the way toward building a global industrial empire, Huntsman Corporation, which averages more than $12 billion in sales each year, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. nearly flunked out of college, confronted bankruptcy three times, suffered four bouts with cancer, and faced the personal challenges of a severely mentally challenged son, the kidnapping of a child, and the death of a daughter. He served in the Navy, HEW, and the Nixon White House, and created a world-class cancer research and treatment center in Salt Lake City. Now, with his philanthropic focus on defeating cancer, he and his wife, Karen, have dedicated more than a billion dollars of their personal funds to the fight for a cancer cure. He intends to spend what it takes to help eliminate the suffering and death that all too often accompany this scourge.

In Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life’s Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer (Overlook Press; November 2014; $35.00 U.S.), bestselling author Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. vividly recounts his made-in-America, rags-to-riches entrepreneurial journey of risk, rewards, and tumult. In his fascinating and down-to-earth style, he shares the key moments that shaped his views of faith, family, service, business leadership, the responsibility wealth imparts, and his decision to give away his entire fortune before his death.

Incorporating incidents and details never before made public, Huntsman relates business-building strategies, including ingenious financial engineering (a revolving $10 million float loan); international charitable efforts, such as the earthquake-relief erection of a concrete plant in Armenia; and his service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, serving on its Board of Overseers for 28 years and as Chair of that Board for the past 14 years. He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Huntsman Corporation, a leading global petrochemical manufacturer. Author of the bestseller Winners Never Cheat, his books have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1995, he founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute, one of America’s largest cancer research centers. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Karen.

Barefoot to Billionaire tells of a rich life and a man who has vowed to fully share its rewards. I look forward to speaking with you about Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. and Barefoot to Billionaire.

Barbra

Barbra. Iconic, incandescent, brilliant. A bold, multi-talented, multi-hyphenate artistic and creative force. What would we give for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the star being born, just at the beginning of her meteoric rise? To say, I knew her when?

Acclaimed photojournalists Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller — two of the top lens men of the day — were there, commissioned to periodically follow her over the course of her early years in Hollywood. Schapiro and Schiller, who have taken some of the most iconic photographs of the era, captured an intimate, honest, perceptive portrait, as the young actress creates and takes on the role of riveting and charismatic star.

Now, in Barbra: Streisand’s Early Years in Hollywood, 1968-1976, Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller, with contributing authors Patt Morrison and Lawrence Grobel, reveal a Streisand who is enigmatic, determined, exultant, pensive, and, once in a while, still just one happy gal from Brooklyn.

More than 240 images, the majority of which have never been published before, are accompanied by a running conversation between the two photographers that gives insight into Barbra caught up in the pace and urgency of filmmaking. Here are the stories — one night in Kenya, during work on “Up the Sandbox,” Barbra’s manager leaned in during a card game and whispered to Steve, “We’ve got to let her win.” And the quiet moments with family, the banter between takes and on planes and trains, and in hotel rooms, when the “star” was offstage and the true Barbra emerged.

Limited to a total of 1,200 numbered copies signed by Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller, this gorgeously produced book is available as a Collector’s Edition (No. 201-1,200), and also in two Art Editions of 100 copies each (No. 1-100 with a print signed by Steve Schapiro, and No. 101-200 with a print signed by Lawrence Schiller).

Here are the crucial movies of Streisand’s first Hollywood decade: “Funny Girl,” “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “The Way We Were,” “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Up the Sandbox,” “Funny Lady,” and “A Star Is Born.” And her loves, directors, confidantes, and costars: Elliott Gould, William Wyler, Sydney Pollack, Vincente Minnelli, Cis Corman, Omar Sharif, Kris Kristofferson, and, of course, Robert Redford.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Steve Schapiro is a distinguished journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced the covers of Vanity Fair, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match, and People, and are found in many museum collections. He has published five books, American Edge, Schapiro’s Heroes, The Godfather Family Album, Taxi Driver, and Then and Now; covered the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King, and many other newsworthy events; and has worked on more than 200 Hollywood motion pictures. His most famous film posters are for “Midnight Cowboy,” “Taxi Driver,” “Parenthood,” “The Godfather Part III,” “Billy Madison,” and “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life, Playboy, and Paris Match, among others, photographing some of the most iconic figures of the 1960s, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Robert F. Kennedy, from Ali and Foreman to Redford and Newman. He has written five New York Times bestsellers and collaborated with Norman Mailer on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Executioner’s Song. He has also directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; “The Executioner’s Song” and “Peter the Great” won five Emmys. He is also the founder of The Norman Mailer Center & Writer’s Colony.

In Barbra, Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller get beneath the protective veneer and give us a unique and compelling look at “the real Barbra” in her early years in Hollywood.

At First Sight

Assisted Loving

Ask Bob

“[Gethers has] written thrillers along with best-selling accounts of Norton, his late, lamented cat . . . Now, appropriately for the dog days of August, he’s publishing a first romantic novel called Ask Bob, with dogs, cats, and a veterinarian named Dr. Bob. It’s quirky, heart-stirring, and commercial as all get-out.”— Vanity Fair

Peter Gethers is a hugely successful book editor, screenwriter, playwright, publisher and author—but most of all, a gifted storyteller. His previous best-selling trilogy (The Cat Who Went To Paris, A Cat Abroad, and The Cat Who’ll Live Forever), the charming true tales about what he learned from his beloved cat, Norton, have set the stage for Ask Bob (Henry Holt; on sale: August 6, 2013), a clever and moving novel about a pet doctor who understands animals a lot better than people.

Dr. Robert Heller is one of New York City’s leading veterinarians and his “Ask Dr. Bob” newspaper advice column is a must-read among pet lovers. However, Dr. Bob himself could use some advice, especially when it comes to dealing with his family. His father is angry and controlling, his mother is nearly invisible, and his brother seems hell-bent on destroying not just his own life, but the lives of everyone around him. As for Bob’s wife, Anna, she is all but perfect, despite her own colorful but deeply dysfunctional clan. The small practice where Dr. Bob works in Manhattan’s West Village provides him with a regular, albeit quirky, community—a faux Frenchman from the Bronx with a pet snail named Speedo and an elderly compulsive gambler on her ninth cat, to name a few—but just when Bob thinks he’s figured out how to thrive in the human world as easily as he does among cats, dogs, and hamsters, tragedy strikes.

Gethers’ novel is utterly irresistible; witty, wise, and wonderfully human. Full of unforgettable characters (and more than a few exotic creatures), Ask Bob reminds us that the road to happiness–although bumpy–is worth it.

ABOUT PETER GETHERS

Peter Gethers is the author of Ask Bob, and The Cat Who Went to Paris, the first book in a bestselling trilogy about his extraordinary cat, Norton. When not writing memoirs and novels, he is a screenwriter, playwright, book publisher, and film and television producer. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the hit off-Broadway play Old Jews Telling Jokes, and one of the co-creators of Rotisserie League Baseball, which begat the fantasy-sports craze.

Amy Larkin

Hurricane Sandy, one of many recent climate change weather events, will cost over $100 billion. And the combined external costs of coal and oil (money paid by governments, families, health and school systems) in the U.S. come to more than the 2012 federal deficit of $1.1 trillion.

Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy connects the financial and environmental crises: both causes and solutions. Amy Larkin shows how the costs of climate change, extreme weather and pollution combine to wreak havoc on the economy as well as the earth, creating what she calls, “environmental debt.” She contends that addressing fiscal problems while simultaneously creating environmental ones is a recipe for financial disaster.

In ENVIRONMENTAL DEBT: The Hidden Costs of A Changing Global Economy (Palgrave Macmillan; Hardcover; ISBN 978-137-27855-5; $27.00; Pub date June 25th 2013), Larkin points to numerous corporate initiatives that demonstrate courage and foresight and point the way to a secure global economy. In fact, she contends that many corporations are way ahead of government when it comes to understanding and addressing the real costs of climate change and pollution. She proposes a new policy framework for 21st century commerce that includes three pillars to empower profitable business: business that coexists with the environment. She also outlines some of the most exciting innovation in the lab, the executive suite, the halls of Congress and the patent office. The book presents complex ideas in easy-to-read prose and is a must-read for anyone interested in policy, business, the environment or economics.

About Amy Larkin

Amy Larkin was the Solutions Director for Greenpeace USA for six years until 2011 where her work received the prestigious 2011 Roy Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Since 2012, she has consulted for Greenpeace International, The Consumer Goods Forum (a consortium of 400 of the world’s leading consumer brands and retailers), and the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC/Davis.

She is the Chair of the Advisory Board of Biomimicry NYC, a Strategic Advisor to RESOLVE, and is Chair of the Board of the ARChive of Contemporary Music.

Amy Larkin has been featured in The Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Greenbiz, appeared on NPR and CNBC, etc. She lives in New York City.

Alex Ferguson, with Michael Moritz

“Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United.”

—Harvard Business Review

Internationally acclaimed manager and bestselling author Sir Alex Ferguson enjoyed an astonishing soccer career—first in Scotland as a player and manager, and then with Manchester United Football Club, which he helped build into one of the most successful and valuable franchises in the world of sports. In his twenty-seven years with Manchester United, the club won thirty-eight trophies—and his remarkable forty-nine trophies accumulated over an entire career is almost double that of the next-most-winningest English club manager.

Now, in his new book LEADING: Learning from Life and My Time at Manchester United (Hachette Books; October 2015), co-written with author and legendary venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz, Sir Alex reveals the tools, tactics, and pivotal decisions he applied throughout his record-breaking career to deliver sustained success on and off the field.

LEADING is wry and full of wisdom as Sir Alex discusses identifying, developing, and managing talent, measuring people, and much more. Analyzing the principal leadership approaches he applied and implemented over the duration of his career, Ferguson draws from his decades of experience to cover a long range of topics germane to every leader including: hiring practices; firing decisions; learning what personal traits to cultivate and strengthen; the art of delegation; fostering of  and teamwork; the appropriate response to failure and adversity and personal time management. Successful business man and friend to Sir Alex, Michael Moritz draws out the wider lessons of how such examples of great leadership can generate long-term, transformational success.

The book features an enlightening epilogue by Sir Michael Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capital, which takes a close look at how Sir Alex ran Manchester United and compares this to what he has observed during thirty years as an operator and investor in California’s Silicon Valley. He looks at the challenges and the competitiveness inherent in both worlds and illuminates how Sir Alex’s core principals of leadership are timeless and broadly applicable. LEADING is inspiring, astute and serves as a go-to reference for current and rising leaders in, or on, any field—business, sports, and life.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sir Alex Ferguson is a former Scottish soccer player and manager who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most successful, admired, and respected managers in the history of the game. He retired as manager of Manchester United in 2013. He has gone on to work as a Fellow to the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School and is a United Kingdom Ambassador for UNICEF.

Sir Michael Moritz is chairman of Sequoia Capital, the original backers of Apple, Cisco, YouTube, and WhatsApp; and has served on the board of directors of several other companies first backed by Sequoia which include Google, LinkedIn, PayPal and Yahoo!. He is a former journalist with Time and was the author of the The Little Kingdom, the first book written about Apple, the world’s most valuable company. Originally from Wales, he lives in San Francisco, CA.

Ageless

A TRIUMPH OF GENIUS

 “Edwin Land was a multi-faceted genius, and his Polaroid was a quintessential American success story. With great skill, Ron Fierstein tells the full story of the company’s epic court battle with Kodak for the first time—a sobering tale with many lessons for 21st-century entrepreneurs.” —Harry McCracken, Technology Editor, Fast Company magazine.

You can almost hear Steve Jobs saying it: A worthwhile invention “must be startling, unexpected and must come into a world that is not prepared for it.”  Except the person who actually said this was Edwin Land, the man Steve Jobs revered and called “a national treasure.”

Founder of Polaroid and father of instant photography, Land led what was arguably the most glamorous technology company of the 20th century.  Relying on his personal vision of what consumers would want—before consumers could even conceive of it—he introduced new products in widely anticipated, dramatic demonstrations that generated huge publicity. In many ways, he was the original Steve Jobs.

Now, in A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War (Ankerwycke; February 2015; $35.00), Ronald K. Fierstein tells the fascinating story of the reclusive genius who, as a teen, invented the plastic polarizer, which is still used almost a century later in countless popular applications including our ubiquitous sunglasses and LCD screens.  In addition to pioneering the revolutionary one-step system of photography, Land made critical contributions to top-secret U.S. military intelligence efforts during World War II and the Cold War in the service of seven American presidents.  He amassed 535 patents in his name, third on the list of U.S. inventors behind only Edison and one of Edison’s associates.

When Land planned to drop out of Harvard and asked for the equivalent of $50,000 to commercialize his polarizer discovery, his father was concerned, but not about the idea or the money.  He counseled his young son to protect himself in case some big company came along to steal his invention.  Land took this advice to heart and became one of the most vocal advocates of the patent system, earning the sobriquet “Champion of Patents.”  Ultimately, Land and Polaroid looked to the patent system to protect their company in the high-stakes battle with mentor, turned rival, Eastman Kodak.  A Triumph of Genius presents an unprecedented account of the most significant patent litigation of the 20^th century.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ron Fierstein worked closely with Edwin Land as a young lawyer on the team of litigators representing Polaroid in court.  After leaving the practice of law in the early ‘80s, he enjoyed a successful career in the entertainment industry, managing recording artists such as Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Ron continues to represent his brother, Harvey Fierstein, in his theater, TV and film endeavors.  He lives with his wife in Chappaqua, NY.

A nonfiction biographical legal thriller, A Triumph of Genius  chronicles the life of a man whose work and legacy continue to influence technological innovation today.  I look forward to speaking with you about Ron Fierstein and A Triumph of Genius .

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS by Sophie Brickman

Journalist and parenting columnist Sophie Brickman is one of our most incisive chroniclers of modern parenting. Her eye-opening 2021 book Baby, Unplugged explored the impact of technology on today’s kids and parents, and her witty observations on modern life have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and her regular column with The Guardian. 

Now in her razor-sharp debut novel PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS, Brickman delivers a wickedly funny satire and “wildly recognizable portrait of parenting” (Emily Oster) that will prove irresistible to fans of novels like Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Fleishman Is In Trouble.

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS introduces us to Annie Lewin, a Manhattan mother who’s quickly reaching the end of her rope navigating the rat race of NYC parenting. With three young children and a workaholic husband, Annie is unspooling just as the vicious competition for spots in the city’s kindergartens is heating up. As a New York Times journalist-turned-parenting-advice-columnist for an internet start-up, Annie can’t help but judge the insanity of it all—even as she finds herself going to impossible lengths to secure the best spot for her own son. Her intensifying rivalry with Belinda Brenner—a hotshot divorce lawyer with perfectly curated bento box lunches, an effortlessly chic Instagram page, and a son who’s been studying Suzuki violin seemingly since birth—pushes Annie even further to the brink. 

Soon a raw, unhinged version of Annie emerges—and it is great for driving clicks on her advice column. But when Annie commits a ghastly social faux pas that goes viral, she’s forced to confront the question glaring her in the face: is she really any better than the cutthroat preschool parents she always judged?

Inventively incorporating emails, group texts, advice columns, newspaper profiles, and more, PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS is brutally witty and richly observed, perfectly capturing the minefield of modern motherhood. But beneath its fast-paced, satirical veneer, Brickman gives us a fresh, open-hearted, all-too-real take on what it means to be a parent—fierce love, craziness, and all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter, and editor who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle, Saveur, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and other outlets. Her work has also appeared in the Best Food Writing and the Best American Science Writing anthologies. Her first book, Baby, Unplugged, about the intersection of technology and parenting, received a starred Publishers Weekly review and landed her a spot on Good Morning America. Plays Well with Others is her first novel. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

A Hand to Guide Me

Walking on Sunshine

“Beautifully and truthfully written.”
—Daily Telegraph

In the form of weekly journal entries over the course of a year, journalist and mental health activist Rachel Kelly shares the fifty-two strategies that have helped her cope with depression and anxiety and maintain a calm, happy lifestyle. There’s no complicated program involved, no overhaul of your current way of life: just simple shortcuts to lighter, more conscious living—tangible rituals you can use to care for your body and mind.

WALKING ON SUNSHINE is a compact, accessible, life-changing book that offers 52 tips and tools—one for each week of the year—to increase your happiness year-round and help you manage the mood-altering pressures of everyday life.

In the pages of this engaging, user-friendly book, you’ll find breathing techniques, poetry, prayer, philosophical nuggets, and meditations, all of them lovely, gentle suggestions designed to bring more ease and equanimity into your daily life.

Written in the candid, conversational style of a good friend and accompanied by delightful cartoon illustrations, Walking on Sunshine is a portable, supportive companion that will see you through your ups and downs.

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Kelly began her career as a journalist at The Times of London. She is the creator of two poetry apps and gives talks and workshops across the UK on the therapeutic value of the arts. BLACK RAINBOW, her memoir on the healing power of the written word, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Best First Book prize at the Spear’s Book Awards. Rachel is an ambassador for SANE and Vice President of United Response and campaigns to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Law and Disorder

“Law and Disorder is not only a legal thriller in true Grisham style, it is also an excellent window into the total dysfunction of the Justice System. I literally couldn’t put it down.” —Mark Geragos, renowned criminal defense attorney and acclaimed author

In LAW AND DISORDER, bestselling author Mike Papantonio skillfully examines issues that could be pulled from today’s newsfeed—billionaires funding litigation, partisan judges ruling personal politics instead of the law, a reckless media seeding innuendo-filled stories—for a suspenseful, highly entertaining read.

Meet Nick “Deke” Deketomis, a principled, brilliant legal strategist with a bit of a temper.

Never afraid to speak his mind, his associates are worried that he has taken on too many causes and cases, and that his history of rubbing people and the press the wrong way will catch up with him.

But when a man is found dead, and Deke is caught on tape wielding the murder weapon, the images go viral and the feeding frenzy begins.

Battling a community hurling accusations and his own inner demons, Deke fights the trial of his life. His family is threatened, and he appears cornered by a system working against him; this time, it might be his friends in low places who count the most.

A riveting page-turner, LAW AND DISORDER is a compelling story of one man’s struggle to keep his family together while helping people take on injustice, powerful interests, and Big Money.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Papantonio, author of four motivational books for lawyers and co-author of Air America: The Playbook, listed by The New York Times as a Political Best Seller, hosts the nationally syndicated radio show “Ring of Fire” with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Sam Seder. He has interviewed Dan Rather, Helen Thomas, Howard Zinn, Arianna Huffington, Bernie Sanders, Bill Moyers, and many others. Senior partner at Levin Papantonio, one of the largest plaintiff’s law firms in America, Papantonio is a political commentator who frequently appears on MSNBC, Free Speech TV, RT America Network, and Fox News.

Truth Is A Total Defense

“An inside look at television from the man who transformed it. The origins of today’s golden age of television dramas can be traced to one man: Steven Bochco. This juicy and fascinating account tells you how he did it. A must read.” —David E. Kelley, Emmy Award winner and prolific creator of TV hits “Picket Fences,” “Chicago Hope,”  “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Public,” and “Boston Legal”

“It’s raucous, it’s witty, and very savvy on the business of television. It’s master storyteller Steven Bochco telling the story of his life and his life’s work—creating groundbreaking TV shows. Fascinating and funny. Read it.” —Danny DeVito, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor, director, and producer

In his insightful, candid, and utterly entertaining memoir TRUTH IS A TOTAL DEFENSE: My Fifty Years in Television, the legendary Steven Bochco reveals the mad genius, vision, mayhem, and brilliance behind his groundbreaking, widely popular hits (and near misses). Sparing no one, including himself, he shares insider anecdotes from his triumphs and turbulent times in broadcast TV, discerning thoughts on the business of television writing and production, and personal lessons from his life-threatening and altering battle with a rare form of leukemia.

From January 1981 through May 2005, Bochco never had less than one show, and sometimes two or three, on the air. In TRUTH IS A TOTAL DEFENSE, his remembrances and from-the-hip assessments combine with gracious praise and tales from the wild side in stories that include:

• Rescuing the first cut of “Hill Street Station” (before it became “Blues”) from disaster
• “NYPD Blue” co-creator David Milch asking for an advance because he’d lost $1 million betting on football games that day
• Stephen J. Cannell turning down a cop show pilot at ABC, telling their head of development that “Hill Street Blues” was the best cop show ever made, and he didn’t want to compete with it
• Rupert Murdoch being slapped with a subpoena by a pleasant little lady in the commissary

A revealing, wryly humorous page turner, TRUTH IS A TOTAL DEFENSE is a window into the inception of the second Golden Age of television, by the man who helped create it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ten-time Emmy-award winning television producer and writer Steven Bochco “owned” Thursday night at 10:00 for 15 years. For 25 years, his shows—“Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law,” “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” and “NYPD Blue” were enormously successful must-watch TV that irrevocably changed the landscape of television. More than 30 million people watched the premiere of “LA Law.” His hot, homicide detective TNT show “Murder in the First” premiered its third season in late June.

This Close to Happy

“Opening This Close to Happy was like getting a long letter from my best friend at sleep-away camp. I had no idea it was this bad for you, was my first thought, and then, we have both been so paralyzed by grief. This is why we all feel so lonely right now—the longing, the depression, the comedy of it all, wrapped up in a story about sex and Judaism, our mothers. How hard it is to be happy. I felt so whole when snuggling up alone with Merkin’s brilliant, full-of-feeling masterpiece. Reading it was dreamy in the saddest, best way. I flew through it and hated to let go when it ended. Daphne Merkin’s existence as a writer made and makes me feel possible.”

 —Jill Soloway, Emmy award-winning creator of “Transparent”

“If the face presented to the world is a mask to protect ourselves, Daphne Merkin bravely removes hers, revealing the truth of herself, courageously exploring, seeking — and sometimes even finding — the hope that glimmers on and off so briefly at the end of the tunnel. Please read as soon as possible. Hope awaits.” —Gloria Vanderbilt

“This beautifully written tale of Daphne Merkin’s depressive demons is by far the most accurate and human account of depression and its impact that I have ever read. I highly recommend it, both to those in the mental health professions and to those who care about the suffering of their loved ones.”

—Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, author of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

“D. W. Winnicott wrote that depression is the fog over the battlefield. In this extraordinarily lucid and moving book, Daphne Merkin illuminates the dark and desperate battle that depression can be. This is a book for all those who know nothing about depression and for those who know too much.”

—Adam Phillips, author of Unforbidden Pleasures

“This Close to Happy belongs on the shelf with William Styron’s Darkness, Visible and Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon. It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.” —Carol Gilligan, Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology, New York University; author of the classic In a Different Voice

The plunge in mood and sense of despair can be sudden and steep. Or the negative thoughts can creep in, blotting out any sense of hope or joy or accomplishment. The stubborn impulse to take her own life can return at any time to someone gripped by lifelong depression.

Now, in THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY: A Reckoning with Depression, acclaimed writer Daphne Merkin gives us the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective. Informed by an acute understanding of the implications of living with this affliction, she describes how she has learned to navigate it. “If I can’t quite declare victory over my depression, I am giving it a run for its money, reminding myself that the opposite of depression is not a state of unimaginable happiness, but a state of relative all-right-ness,” writes Merkin.

Examining depression’s causes and its treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), she discloses her experience with therapists, psychopharmocologists, and “the California rocket blaster”—Remeron and Effexor. She discusses the stigma surrounding depression, the nature/nurture controversy, the question of whether or not to take medication, and the illness’s relationship to upbringing and creativity.

Merkin recounts her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother and her experience growing up in a household that lacked love and basics such as food and clothing, despite her family’s affluence. She shares her struggle with childhood depression and early hospitalization for it in poignant detail. Sustained by her redemptive love of reading and emerging as a well-respected writer, she marries and has a child. Suffering severe postpartum depression, she is hospitalized, and then returns to the hospital once more after her mother dies, before emerging once again to re-engage with life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daphne Merkin, a former staff writer for The New Yorker, is a regular contributor to Elle. She has written a novel and two collections of essays; her writing appears in The New York Times, Departures, Travel + Leisure, W, Vogue, and other publications. Her essay collection The Fame Lunches was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Hundred Notable Books of the Year.

Cork Dork

Though more Americans are drinking wine than ever before, the rituals, customs and language around it are as rarefied and opaque as ever, leaving many of us wondering what all the fuss is about.

What makes the bottle I bought for last week’s dinner party “bad”? Are sommeliers just pretentious, glorified salespeople, or can they actually taste things like pyrazine and honeysuckle in wine? And why do so many people devote their lives (or life savings) to experiencing minute differences in flavor that most of us can’t even perceive, let alone appreciate?

These were some of the questions obsessing Bianca Bosker when she decided to give up her job as Executive Tech Editor at the Huffington Post in favor of tasting wines at 8 a.m., lifting and sorting heavy bottles as a “cellar rat” in one of Manhattan’s top restaurants, and foregoing coffee, spicy foods, and sometimes even toothpaste in order to taste better.

The account of her year-and-a-half long journey, CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste (Penguin Paperback Original, March 2017) takes the reader inside an elite tasting group, a Burgundy bacchanal, a Michelin-starred restaurant, an fMRI machine and more as Bosker strives to make sense, once and for all, of our complicated relationship with fermented grape juice.

Compulsively readable, fascinating, and a hilarious exploration of the wine world, CORK DORK includes:

• Bosker’s training for and entry into the country’s oldest sommelier competition, with hilariously disastrous results (though she does eventually become certified).
• Behind-the-scenes looks at two elite Manhattan restaurants, where she trailed sommeliers and watched the charade of service and hospitality unfold.

• The science behind how we can improve our senses of taste and smell, and thereby live more richly.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist who has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The New Republic. The former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (University of Hawaii Press, 2013).

We

“WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is a bracing, honest, uplifting manual for changing the world by owning your gifts, telling the truth, expressing gratitude, and living with joy. It’s for every woman, everywhere on the planet. Open to any page, and there you will find a truth that can set you free. We’re all in this together. And WE is the GPS for the journey.”
 —Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom; The Wisdom of Menopause; and Goddesses Never Age

Do you wake in the dead of night feeling your true self has been lost? For years, award-winning actress Gillian Anderson (X-Files, The Last King of Scotland) and journalist Jennifer Nadel struggled with despair, suicidal thoughts, and the sense that something was not quite right. No amount of success or the unhealthy crutches they tried – alcohol, drugs, work, food, self-harm — could fix it. Beyond their inner conflicts, they saw that the world around them was deteriorating. “Our current way of doing things — the ‘me’ culture — isn’t working. The world we all share is more divided and unequal than ever.” Yearning for a better way to think, live, and be, they searched for answers.

Now, the friends combine spirituality, politics, and psychology in their powerful call to action WE: A MANIFESTO FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE (Atria Books; March 2017). Based on a set of Nine Principles that have been taught throughout the ages, WE: A MANIFESTO FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE offers a path to radical self-transformation with compassion for others at its core. It is a journey toward inner peace and a more meaningful life that can create a ripple effect around the world, lifting individuals even as it helps all women support and encourage one another.

WE is a compendium of and practical guide to the teachings and solutions Gillian and Jennifer found. “The wisdom in this book isn’t ours; it’s distilled from a myriad of teachers far wiser. We are passing it along with gratitude and in hope that others might gain comfort and meaning in it.”

At the core of WE are the Nine Principles that provide a compass for living a more generous and satisfying life, with an action and affirmation for each. (WE emphasizes that for change to work, action is necessary.) But before embarking on the Nine Principles, WE: A MANIFESTO FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE starts with the essential practices for personal well-being that will help readers get the most out of their journey: “Taking care of yourself emotionally, physically, and spiritually is a profoundly political act.”

The Nine Principles and how they guide us:

• Honesty: Letting go of others’ messages of who we are and facing our own inconvenient truths enables us to live authentically, as our authentic selves.
• Acceptance: Helps us handle whatever life throws our way.
• Courage: Frees us from the past by releasing resentment and rewriting our story.
• Trust: An antidote to fear; unmask limitations and move toward your power.
• Humility: Visit your “spiritual gym” to calm self-blame and the Toxic Cs (comparing, competing, controlling) to trust your own worth.
• Peace: How to transform difficulty, indecision, and uncertainty to find stillness, serenity, and freedom from inner conflict.
• Love: Enables us to transform our relationships with ourselves and others.
• Joy: How to create space for joy to flow into your life.
• Kindness: Allows our love to go out into the world; as you heal, your love can flow to the lives of others.

With personal anecdotes from Gillian and Jennifer, inspirational quotes from famous female thinkers, artists, and leaders, and a comprehensive appendix of resources for supplemental support, WE: A MANIFESTO FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE is a revolutionary guide based on the notion that change truly begins from within, and has the power to reach far beyond the individual to create a kinder, more purposeful world for us all. Such change provides a crucial and timely antidote to the “have-it-all” superwoman culture, to deliver a more rewarding, happier, and fulfilling life.

For more information, visit www.wewomeneverywhere.org

#WeWomen

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gillian Anderson gained worldwide recognition in The X‑Files, garnering awards and critical acclaim for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully over the show’s nine-year run. Some of her many screen credits include The House of Mirth, The Last King of Scotland, and the acclaimed BBC miniseries Bleak House and Great Expectations. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her stage performance as Nora in A Doll’s House and won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Gillian is on the BBC and Netflix’s The Fall as DSI Stella Gibson, on NBC’s Hannibal as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, and Starz’s American Gods as Media. She is an activist, speaking out regularly on issues ranging from feminism to climate change and human trafficking. Born in Chicago, she lives in London with her three children.

Jennifer Nadel trained as a barrister before becoming a writer, journalist and campaigner. She was one of the UK’s most senior female television correspondents and has broadcast for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 News. Her book on domestic violence was made into a BBC film and a Channel 4 documentary, and her report from Bosnia on the use of rape as a weapon of war was broadcast around the world. Her first novel, Pretty Thing, was published by Little, Brown in 2015. She is a trustee of the charity INQUEST and has a long history of activism. She stood as a candidate for the Green Party in the UK general election in 2015. A mother of three boys, she was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and is a dual US/UK national who lives in London.

On Christopher Street

“I’ve always been intrigued by the life and theatre of Christopher Street. I’ve noticed the photographic possibility out of the corner of my eye for the past couple of decades—an Ellis Island for freedom of expression and gender identity. More recently, I’ve noticed it vanishing. My interest in photo documentary led to the building of a series of portraits, which led to three summers of shooting. At first I didn’t even realize I was shooting trans stories, just stories of people who found their way to Christopher Street. As I began to talk about this project, I realize that everybody has a trans story, that being trans is something that affects all of us.” — Mark Seliger

On Christopher Street there are all kinds of sexual orientations and gender identities, endless possibilities of potential selves: transgender, transsexual, non-binary, genderqueer, femme, butch, cross-dresser, drag kings, drag queens, and many other identities that shift, adapt, and challenge our understanding of gender. This street nestled in the middle of New York City’s Greenwich Village is heralded as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Today, the intersection at Christopher and Hudson Streets has been renamed “Sylvia Rivera Way,” after the pioneering trans-activist and the annual LGBTQ pride parade ends its procession on Christopher Street, where the revolution began at the Stonewall Inn.

Renowned photographer Mark Seliger, best known for his portraits of celebrities, musicians, and artists, has called the West Village home for nearly two decades. For his latest book, ON CHRISTOPHER STREET: TRANSGENDER STORIES, his curiosity inspired him to shoot a handful of portraits—documentary style—in hopes of capturing the color, flamboyant characters, and theatre of a famous, but vanishing neighborhood.

What Seliger discovered was a nightly carnival of personalities that open up the visual discourse about sexuality and the constant ebb and flow of the transgender world we all inhabit today. The end result is a collection of 74 beautiful, black and white portraits, all taken with Seliger’s Hasselblad camera, and never-before-published.

These forthcoming portraits of trans people on Christopher Street combined with their moving and deeply personal stories remind us of our need for sanctuary, for a space to call our own. Their presence challenges us to redefine home, community, and ownership. Their presence challenges us to stop and reflect. No longer will we remain idle and pass by them in fear and prejudice. We will stand with them, recognize them, and see them. These are our streets, and these are our people. ON CHRISTOPHER STREET: TRANSGENDER STORIES stands out as some of Seliger’s most powerful work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Seliger was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone for more than ten years. Born in Amarillo, Texas, Seliger now lives and works in New York City, where he contributes to Vanity Fair, GQ, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Time, and more. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, and his previous publications include Rizzoli’s Listen and In My Stairwell.  Seliger is the recipient of such esteemed awards as the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, Lucie Award, Clio Grand Prix, Cannes Lions, and ASME. Janet Mock is the New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness and host of So POPular!, a weekly MSNBC digital series about culture. She is a sought-after speaker and the founder of #GirlsLikeUs, a social media project that empowers trans women.

Open Wide(r)

“Dr. Rosenthal is not only a superb technician but an incredible artist. His work can affect the entire structure of a woman’s face aesthetically.” —Vera Wang, fashion designer

 “No one knows their way around a mouth like Dr. Larry! He is a genius, but thank God he doesn’t act like one. If you have teeth, Open Wide(r) is for you!” —Kathie Lee Gifford, television host

Dental pioneer Dr. Larry Rosenthal reimagined dentistry as a visual art, transforming the practice of Aesthetic Dentistry, simplifying new approaches to dental care that begin with a beautiful smile and facial enhancement and expand to help eliminate disease, improve anti-aging vigor, and reduce long-term healthcare problems. He invented the Smile Lift, his “non-surgical facelift” that helps us look our best, raising self-esteem without surgery and completed in a day or two.

Now, in his new book OPEN WIDE(R): A Guide to Smile and Facial Aesthetics to Enhance Your Confidence, Appearance, and Overall Health (Rosetta Books; 2017), Dr. Larry Rosenthal breaks down the myths, deceptions, and misconceptions about dental care and empowers you to take charge of your smile and the lifelong health you’ve always wanted and needed.

Dr. Larry, as his patients call him, reveals how our mouth and teeth health can significantly influence our overall health, including an array of problems like sleep apnea, snoring, chronic head and neck pain, TMD and heart disease. Tooth health also can influence oxygen intake, affecting our immune system, which can be related to misdiagnosed attention deficit disorder (ADD).

Offering insights and news about treatments and convenience that many consumers are not yet aware of, in OPEN WIDE(R) Dr. Larry discusses, among many topics:

• The Smile Lift – A “non-surgical facelift” that Dr. Larry and his “Dream Team” achieve with proper lip support, smile balance and facial enhancement, as well as anti-aging implementation — it also combats the sunken-face syndrome that can be common when we age, taking a decade off one’s visage noninvasively and painlessly
• The Trial Smile – A cool way to try before you buy; using provisionals, a dentist can demonstrate a wider, fuller smile on one side, and a more subtle, softer smile on the other, with variations in color and shading, to help patents in the decision making
• A Smile Literally Increases Your Face Value — It boosts your immune system, increases your endorphins, so you feel better and your self-confidence rises; visually, others attribute you with intelligence, and higher employment value
• “Designing Your Smile” – Less invasive than crowns, porcelain veneers can result in a dramatic overall change in facial appearance, covering minor chips, cracks, or striations in the enamel, closing small gaps, and restoring tooth color or worn-down or crooked teeth
• How “Bleach Junkies” Do Harm – Over-bleaching causes their teeth to be brittle and crack
• The Parent’s Responsibility – Proactive steps to take to now with children to prevent major adult problems
• The Artistry of Dentistry from Prep-Less, Minimal Invasive Dentistry to Full Reconstruction; prep-less means painless, little-or-no-drilling procedures that maintain as much tooth structure as possible
• A Visual Guide to the Smile Assessment – What you should be looking for and asking your dentist about
• Health Dentistry – How it applies to anti-aging and it’s correlation to heart disease, head and neck pain, maximum oxygen intake, and snoring

Informative and inspiring, Dr. Larry Rosenthal’s OPEN WIDE(R) is a valuable consumer handbook to getting optimal dental care and an intriguing look into the latest advantages in modern dentistry. It will have people across the country smiling.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Larry Rosenthal, DDS, is internationally recognized expert in aesthetic dentistry. He is Director of the Aesthetic Continuum at The Advanced Aesthetic Program at The Rosenthal Institute at New York University. He has lectured globally and has written numerous articles in dental journals as well as being featured in many beauty and health magazines and on television. Based in New York City, he maintains a private dental practice, The Rosenthal Apa Group, with his partner Dr. Michael Apa.

America, The Owner’s Manual

“When it comes to the state of American democracy, are you a doer or a complainer? Bob Graham and Chris Hand don’t just urge more Americans to be better citizens. They provide the instructions on how to do it.” – Chuck Todd, NBC “Meet the Press”

“Combining expert advice with relevant and timely examples, this is a straightforward and accessible ‘how to’ guide to working for change.” – Annise Parker, former Houston Mayor

Tired of a divisive campaign season full of mudslinging but lacking substantive discussion of important topics? Frustrated at government officials who seem to prioritize gridlock and partisanship over problem solving and progress?

If you’re mad as hell at the political process and don’t want to take it anymore, you’re not alone. In 2015, a Pew Charitable Trusts survey found that 74 percent of Americans believed that most elected officials didn’t care what people like them thought. In the 2016 presidential election, people have vented those frustrations with their votes. Republicans nominated a wealthy real estate developer and former reality show host who had never before run for office, and until recently was best known for his sharp rhetoric on immigration and his questioning the current president’s birthplace. Democrats nearly nominated a self-described socialist who criticized previous trade agreements and the influence of big money in politics.

While it is not surprising that Americans would channel their frustrations into contenders pledging to end business as usual, you don’t have to pin your hopes for change on any one candidate. Nor should you throw in the towel on democracy, and simply assume that you can’t fight City Hall. In AMERICA, THE OWNER’S MANUAL: You Can Fight City Hall and Win (CQ Press/Sage Publishing; 2016), former U.S. Senator Bob Graham and attorney/long-time public servant Chris Hand show us how to discover, build, and flex our citizenship muscles.

As Graham and Hand write, the book explores “what it truly means to be a citizen in our democracy, including the power to engage government directly and move it in a different direction.” Citizens “do have a say about what the government does—if they learn, master, and practice the skills of effective citizenship.”

AMERICA, THE OWNER’S MANUAL contains 35 “Tips from the Pros” offered by people who have served as governors, Cabinet members, members of Congress, mayors, county commissioners, school board members, appointed officials, journalists, public finance professionals, political consultants, non-profit leaders, and business advocates.

But as Graham and Hand write, “[t]he worst mistake we could make in writing this book would be to provide the ‘how to’ of active democratic engagement – a lecture on paper – without showing you how citizens have succeeded in making government respond.” That’s why the book is filled with stories of everyday people who have moved government. These stories include:

• A Georgia Tea Party founder who formed an unlikely alliance with environmental activists and solar power advocates to demand more solar power from the state’s largest utility;

• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), which started around a California kitchen table, and in a few short years achieved an increase in the legal drinking age from 18 to 21;

• University of Missouri football players who took a stand and refused to play until college administrators took serious action to address racial issues on campus;

• LGBT advocates and business leaders who joined forces and persuaded a reluctant county commission to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity;

Graham and Hand hope the reader will see themselves in these examples of citizens who chose to be participants rather than spectators in the arena of democracy. Is your goal to clean up a local river? Persuade your school board to invest in needed classroom equipment? Start a city bike share program? By the end of AMERICA, THE OWNER’S MANUAL, you will have new confidence that you can make governments work for you, not the other way around.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Following 12 years of service in the Florida Legislature, Bob Graham was elected governor of Florida in 1978. During two successful terms as governor, Graham was nationally recognized for reforms in education, environmental protection, and economic diversification. Upon concluding his two terms as governor, Graham left office with an 83% approval rating from the people of Florida. Graham was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, serving three consecutive terms. As a member of the Senate Finance, Environment and Public Works, and Veterans Affairs Committees, he was a leader on health, trade, tax, water and infrastructure issues. Graham also authored the 2004 book Intelligence Matters and the 2011 novel Keys to the Kingdom, both revealing serious faults in the U.S. national security system. He currently leads efforts to enhance citizen engagement and train future leaders at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida.

Chris Hand is an attorney with a long record of public service. He previously served as speechwriter, press secretary, and campaign press secretary for Senator Graham and as Chief of Staff for the consolidated City of Jacksonville, Florida—the largest city by area in the contiguous United States and the 12th largest by population in the entire nation. In 2008, Hand was one of 27 Florida electors in the United States Electoral College. He graduated with honors from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. At Princeton, Chris was honored with the Daily Princetonian Award for his successful efforts to reform the university’s then century old Honor Code. At the University of Florida, the law school student body elected Hand as president of the student bar association.

Darwin Health

The roadblocks to achieving meaningful improvements in cancer treatment are well known. In a nutshell, despite important advances over the years, the world of cancer research and drug development is struggling. How and from where will much-needed breakthroughs come?

A groundbreaking company, DarwinHealth™, is digging deeper than genes to put its finger on the off-switch of cancer. Today’s approaches based on precision medicine—mutation-targeted drug therapy and immunotherapy—fall short because of the very small percentage of patients who can benefit, and the downside of severe side effects. We are in dire need of innovative strategies. To fight a disease as complex as cancer, you need an equally complex bullet. And there are few technologies currently available that address this need with the rigor or directness required.

For precision medicine to achieve its promise, we need to consider multifaceted bullets that target the full spectrum of tumor vulnerabilities. One of the world’s leading scientists, Andrea Califano, Wu Professor of Chemical Systems Biology at Columbia University and recipient of an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award, along with Gideon Bosker, MD, co-founded DarwinHealth to address the “precision deficit disorder” in cancer medicine. Using robotics, super-computers, and novel approaches from systems biology, their validated technology is able to identify targets that lead to more customized and effective treatments, drawing upon drugs already available in the cancer space.

In a new perspective just published in Medscape Oncology®, Drs. Califano and Bosker describe how and why new models for cancer that dig deeper than genes and mutations have the potential to unveil the next generation of cancer targets so that treatments will be more effective and precise; and produce more enduring results.

Unlike current mutation-based approaches, their strategy to make precision cancer medicine truly precise aims to pinpoint pivotal protein targets that represent the universal, structural pillars of cancer. This is poised to set the stage for more effective treatments for virtually every cancer patient. DarwinHealth’s pioneering technology is described in landmark articles authored by Califano in Nature Reviews Cancer and Nature Genetics.

In only 12 months, this young company has secured a number of key collaborations with a “Who’s Who” of Fortune 50 biopharmaceutical and healthcare-focused companies.

The real world impact of this precision-focused discovery already is being felt. Patients are or will soon be starting to enroll in a new class of clinical trials built around this methodology at Columbia University and the MD Anderson Cancer Center. As just one example, a breast cancer patient started on a combination drug regimen predicted by the methodologies used in DarwinHealth’s deeper-than-genes models has been stable for 10 months after her cancer had progressed rapidly on every other previous therapy deployed on her behalf.

Rick Dees All-Time Top 40 Greatest Desserts

“Rick Dees and I are both crazy about pastries and desserts. So I’m delighted that he’s sharing his favorites. Like Rick himself, they are approachable, down to earth, and great fun. You’ll love every bite.” —Wolfgang Puck, from his foreword to Rick Dees All-Time Top 40 Greatest Desserts

Renowned radio and TV personality, comedic performer, and Grammy Governor’s Award winner Rick Dees has made an indelible mark in entertainment. He entertains the world with music and comedy. His #1 internationally syndicated radio show, “The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40,” is heard each weekend by more than 70 million people across the U.S., in 125 countries, and on the Armed Forces Radio Network.

When he’s not keeping the beat for millions of fans, he relaxes with the eggbeaters. Rick has a longtime passion for and expertise in baking.

Now, Rick has brought together his favorite scrumptious “deeserts” in RICK DEES ALL-TIME TOP 40 GREATEST DESSERTS (Dees Creations, Inc.; 2016). With a foreword by Wolfgang Puck, it includes pies, cobblers, cakes, soufflés, flans, cookies, tartes, toffee, and more. There are delicious delectables and crowd pleasers like Rick’s Old-Fashioned Apple Pie, Shaker Lemon Pie, Peach Cobbler, Rick’s Red Velvet Cake, Don’t Tell Mama Cake, Molten Chocolate Cake, Cola Cake, Date Shakes, Butterscotch Pecan Soufflé, Bananas Foster, Super Creamy Chocolate Frosting, Crème Fraîche, and Caramel Sauce.

Rick includes personal stories and anecdotes, like his memory of gathering fresh pecans from his grandmother’s backyard in Goldsboro, North Carolina, for his first pie, and discovering the social benefits of being a great baker in high school. His go-to dessert cookbook provides more than 50 simple recipes that even first-time bakers will whip up with ease.

Beautifully illustrated with full-color photography throughout and with helpful tips on metric equivalents, baking the perfect pie crust, serving recommendations, and informative Chef’s Notes for each recipe, RICK DEES ALL-TIME TOP 40 GREATEST DESSERTS will add mouth-watering desserts to your table every time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rick Dees, comedic performer, and renowned radio and TV personality, has captivated millions with his quick-witted style. His familiar voice and characters have made an indelible mark on American radio and television, and entertained people worldwide. His #1 internationally syndicated radio show, “The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40,” is heard each weekend by more than 70 million people. He is founder/partner of the Fine Living Network, which is now the Cooking Channel on Scripps Networks. A winner of the Grammy Governor’s Award, he turned KIIS-FM into the #1 revenue-generating radio station in America with an asset value approaching a half-billion dollars in the ‘80s. Dees won Billboard Radio Personality Of The Year ten years in a row. Among his many other accolades are the Marconi Award and induction into the National Radio Hall Of Fame and the National Association Of Broadcasters’ Hall Of Fame. For more information, please visit RickDeeserts.com and Rick.com, and connect with Rick on Facebook, @RickDees on Twitter, Pinterest, or catch up with his shows on the Rick Dees Channel on YouTube.

Design Wise

Vern Yip, one of the most beloved and recognizable interior designers in America, has helped thousands of people beautify their homes during his near-decade at HGTV. He effortlessly combines their personal styles with his trademark look that’s sleek, simple, and welcoming. And as a family man with “two very active kids and 500 pounds of dogs,” he understands the challenges of decorating a home that fits with a busy family life.

Now in his debut design book VERN YIP’S DESIGN WISE: Your Smart Guide to a Beautiful Home (Running Press; September 2016; $27.50), Vern shares his secrets to smart, beautiful living with a “design by the numbers” approach, revealing the optimal measurements that are integral to making a room feel “right.”

These standards of distinctive, good design—where to place sofas in relation to coffee tables, how high or low to hang artwork, and how large a living room rug should be—free you to explore and develop your personal aesthetic while bringing flow and balance to your living spaces. Applicable to all décors, from old-world elegance to rustic simplicity, these principles save money because you know what to look for and ask about when making a major purchase, and save time by eliminating the agonizing decisions about where to place furniture.

Combining his signature attention to detail with creative, clean-lined interiors balanced with warmth, Vern includes:

• Design by the Numbers – Critical dimensions for transformative spaces
• Shop Smart – Need-to-know insights before you buy wood, dining, bedroom, or living room furniture; lighting fixtures; window treatments; accessories and more
• Creating Moods and Functionality – How he expresses these design principles in his own distinctively different homes: an historic Atlanta family home, a modern Manhattan apartment, and a casual laid-back cottage in Florida’s panhandle
• Design Dilemmas – Break through “design paralysis” to solve them for good value
• “Learn from Vern” – Sidebars of practical information and tips on how to personalize your space
• At-a-Glance Cheat Sheets – Gather the most essential information for quick and easy reference

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vern Yip has helped countless families with their homes during his four seasons on TLC’s Trading Spaces, NBC’s Home Intervention, his own HGTV shows Deserving Design with Vern Yip, HGTV Urban Oasis, and through his private practice Vern Yip Designs in Atlanta, Georgia. A judge on nine seasons of HGTV’s hit summer series, HGTV Design Star, he also hosted his own special, Live In Vern’s House. Vern has been writing for The Washington Post since 2011 and has had his own HGTV Magazine column, “Learn From Vern” for four years. Vern’s design brand has also successfully extended into home product design, with fabric collections available at Calico and other major fabric retailers, lighting for Stonegate Designs, and home fragrance and home accessories available nationwide.

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.

 Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart plummeted into failure. If she wanted to live, she had to take on the grueling quest for a new heart—immediately.

A shot at survival meant uprooting her life and moving across the country to California. When her friends heard of her plans, there was only one reaction: “I’m there.” Nine remarkable women—Joy, Jill, Leja, Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann, and Jane—put demanding jobs and pressing family obligations on hold to fly across the country and be by Amy’s side. Creating a calendar spreadsheet, the women—some of them strangers to one another—passed the baton of friendship, one to the next, and headed straight and strong into the battle to help save Amy’s life.

Empowered by the kind of empathy that can only grow with age, these women, each knowing Amy from different stages of her life, banded together to provide her with something that medicine alone could not.  Sleeping on a cot beside her bed, they rubbed her back and feet when the pain was unbearable, adorned her room with death-distracting decorations, and engaged in their “best talks ever.”  They saw the true measure of their friend’s strength, and they each responded in kind.

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends is a tribute to these women and the intense hours they spent together—hours of heightened emotion and self-awareness, where everything was laid bare. Candid and heartrending, this once-in-a-lifetime story of connection and empathy is a powerful reminder of the ultimate importance of “showing up” for those we love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Silverstein is the author of Sick Girl, which won a “Books for a Better Life Award” and was a finalist for the Border’s Original Voices Award. She has served on the Board of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and is an active speaker on women’s health issues and patient advocacy. She lives in New York.

My Mother’s Kitchen

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

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

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

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Washington’s Farewell

The Winchester

“The extraordinary life of Oliver Winchester and his company – and its rapid rise and slow and tragic fall into modern obscurity – is told gallantly and with great precision by a distant descendant, the noted BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan. From Little Bighorn to the Winchester Mystery House – it is all there, a series of American icons sturdily described by a writer who, because of her ancestry, knows the story far better than most and tells it better than all.” —Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

“Laura Trevelyan is one of the most brilliant journalists and incisive television presenters working in America today. She is also a very accomplished historian, and in this fascinating and vividly evocative book, she tells the story of her Winchester and Bennett forebears. Deeply researched and beautifully written, this is an outstanding study of an iconic American firm and of an extraordinary American family.” —Sir David Cannadine, Princeton University

It is impossible to tell the story of America’s westward expansion without underscoring the importance of the Winchester, the “Gun That Won the West.” In The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty (Yale University Press; 2016), Laura Trevelyan, a descendant of the Winchester family, offers an engrossing personal history of the colorful New England and their iconic firearm.

Trevelyan chronicles the rise and fortunes of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company across three generations, from Oliver Winchester’s involvement with the Volcanic Arms Company in 1855 through the following turbulent decades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Trevelyan tells the story of the Winchester company as a family concern, through the lens of the individuals themselves. From the Civil War era until World War I, larger-than-life characters ran the Winchester Repeating Arms Company with great success. The war led to a precipitous decline in the company’s fortunes and eventually the end of the family’s association with the business.

The popularity of Winchester arms mirrored American expansion at a time of rugged individualism and the opening up of the Western frontier. In The Winchester, Trevelyan tells a story of the evolution of an iconic, paradigm‑changing weapon that has become a part of American culture—a longtime favorite of collectors and gun enthusiasts that has been celebrated in fiction, glorified in Hollywood, and applauded in endorsements from the likes of Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, and Native American tribesmen who called it “the spirit gun.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura Trevelyan is an anchor and correspondent for the BBC based in New York. She has worked for the BBC since 1993, reporting for many radio and television programs. The great-great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, Laura Trevelyan first became interested in the subject at the age of 17, when she was visiting the Connecticut home of her Winchester relatives and learned to fire a rifle adapted to shoot tennis balls.

Climate of Hope

“Meeting our world’s growing energy demands will require contributions from science, business, and government. As Climate of Hope shows, Michael Bloomberg has a unique understanding of the importance of this collaborative approach. Michael’s leadership and optimism remind us that by working together, we can develop breakthrough innovations to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of clean energy technology.” —Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  “Upbeat, pragmatic, eloquent, and supremely well-informed, Bloomberg and Pope present striking statistics, cogently describe diverse examples of energy reforms and innovations across the U.S. and around the world, and make clear on both personal and social levels why a low-carbon future is possible, necessary, and of great benefit to everyone.”—Booklist, Starred Review

 “…a hopeful book of strategies for delivering the planet from our worst environmental depredations.…a thoughtful, eminently reasonable set of proposals”—Kirkus

Given the news out of Washington, D.C., and the rate at which the earth’s temperature is rising, it’s easy for people to become despondent about climate change. But Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope are optimistic. They believe that we are now in a better position to stop climate change than ever before. In the years ahead, cities, businesses, and communities—not Washington or other national governments—can lead and win the battle against global warming. In CLIMATE OF HOPE: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet (St. Martin’s Press; April 2017), Bloomberg, a renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist and former mayor of the nation’s largest city, and Pope, the former executive director of the Sierra Club, approach climate change from different perspectives yet arrive at similar conclusions. Together, they create a new type of conversation about climate change—one that moves the issue from partisanship to empowerment; from top-down to bottom-up; and from fear to hope.

“Cooler heads can produce a cooler world,” write Bloomberg and Pope, who lower the temperature of the debate by showing that the changing climate is a series of discrete, manageable problems each with a solution that can make our society healthier and stronger. National governments, they argue, are not the best places to create these solutions. Rather, it is the mayors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, activists, concerned citizens, and other local actors who truly have the power to win the battle against climate change in ways that will also generate economic growth and improve public health—and many, in fact, are already making substantial progress.

Readers will discover how mayors in cities around the U.S., in red and blue states, are leading this work, and the crucial roles that business leaders and citizens are playing. And readers will come away with a clear sense of what they can do, in their own hometowns, to contribute to the progress.

Writing in alternating chapters from their own experiences, sharing illustrative moments from their distinguished careers in public service and activism, Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope provide a practical road map for tackling the most complicated challenge the world has ever faced. Rather than using the apocalyptic alarmism that often characterizes discussion of this issue, CLIMATE OF HOPE inspires action by offering practical solutions and showing how they can produce immediate and concrete benefits.

 For more information, please visit: climateofhope.com

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Michael Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg LP, a global media and financial information company. He served as Mayor of New York City from 2002-2013. In 2014, the U.N. Secretary-General appointed him Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change. He is one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, and the environment is one of the five main focus areas of his foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Carl Pope currently serves as the principal advisor at Inside Straight Strategies, looking for the underlying economics that link sustainability and economic development. Former executive director and chairman of the Sierra Club, he has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, and National Clean Air Coalition among many others. He is the author of three books. He writes regularly for Bloomberg View and Huffington Post.

Smart Women Love Money

“In this essential book, Alice Finn shows that women have the power to rewrite the rules when it comes to managing their money. As a leader in financial planning, Alice knows better than anyone the core tenets of smart investing. Smart Women Love Money is a manual for how women can use five simple rules to achieve their financial goals.” —Andrea Jung, President and CEO of Grameen America and former Chairman and CEO, Avon Products

Learning to apply the power of investing is the last frontier of feminism. Women who invest can succeed without asking for anyone’s approval; the stock market has no glass ceiling and it does not care what gender you are. Yet, women still have a blind spot when it comes to managing our money. Why, when women have broken barriers in business, sports, politics, science, and the arts, are we still afraid to shine in finance?

Especially when as many as nine out of ten of us, at some point in our lives, will have to manage our finances and those of our family. Most women earn less than men over a lifetime, so we must make the money we do have work for us as much as possible.

Now—instead of simply offering to invest your money for you—wealth management expert Alice Finn (called “The Giant” by Barron’s) is giving you a solid financial education so you don’t pay the cost of opportunities lost by not investing: the ability to pay for a college education, own a home, change careers to pursue a dream, or retire.

Alice Finn shows you can have it all and pay for it yourself, too, in SMART WOMEN LOVE MONEY: Five Simple, Life-Changing Rules of Investing (Regan Arts; April 2017), the first step in educating yourself, learning how to invest wisely, and building a portfolio for the resources to live a productive and secure life for years to come. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a successful wealth management adviser, Finn shares proven strategies for women at all stages, whether starting a career, home raising children, or heading up a major corporation.

It’s beyond time to change the game, when the majority of millennial women still feel a typical investor is an old, white man; when only 53% of women have begun saving for retirement, compared to 65% of men, and when the average balance for women’s 401(k) retirement accounts in mid-2016 was $75,771, while men’s 401(k) accounts contained an average of $115,835, a difference too large to be explained by the gender wage gap alone.

Finn will show you how to invest in your financial future with five simple rules that cut through the unnecessarily complex jargon of Wall Street. The five life-changing rules will: motivate you to invest, focus you on strategy that really matters, simplify your investing, keep you on track, and ensure your fees are low so you don’t lose half your wealth to Wall Street (yes, many people do that and don’t even know it’s happening).

Finn’s five life-changing rules:

• Invest in Stocks for the Long Run – A guiding principle, giving you perspective so you will get the magic of compounding working for you, starting now.
• Allocate your Assets – Your lynchpin strategy for investing that will determine most of your returns.
• Implement with Index Funds – The best simple, low-cost way to invest.
• Rebalance Regularly – How to sell high and buy low without much effort, to keep you on track toward your goals.
• Keep Your Fees Low – A how-to, so you don’t risk forfeiting a significant portion of the wealth you will accumulate over time.

This book is particularly timely as the Trump Administration is questioning the Obama-era Fiduciary Rule, meant to protect consumers by requiring all financial advisors who manage client retirement accounts to act as fiduciaries, putting their clients’ interests ahead of Wall Street’s interest. SMART WOMEN LOVE MONEY will give you the needed information to protect yourself and all of your assets, whether or not the Fiduciary Rule is put into effect, and if you invest outside of qualified retirement accounts, where the Fiduciary Rule does not apply. It also includes important questions to ask a financial advisor and an easy-reference financial glossary.

Whether you have $10, $1,000, $10,000, or more, it’s time to get smart about your money.  Embrace the full potential of financial independence and prepare to reap the rewards with Alice Finn’s SMART WOMEN LOVE MONEY.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alice Finn is a wealth management expert. Featured as “The Giant” by Barron’s in its inaugural list of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisers, she has appeared as a top financial adviser on CNBC and been named repeatedly by Worth Magazine as one of the Top 100 Wealth Advisers in the United States. She is the CEO of PowerHouse Assets LLC, a firm she founded to help women become more engaged in their important financial matters. Among other outreach activities, the firm hosts “PowerHouses,” woman-to-woman educational discussions about investing to plan for the financial future. Prior to that, Finn was co-Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Ballentine, Finn and Company Inc., named the #1 wealth management firm by Bloomberg, where she grew the firm’s assets under advisement to $5 billion. Under her leadership, the firm was honored with the Growth Leadership Award by the Family Wealth Alliance and was consistently named by Charles Schwab as among the industry’s best-managed firms. Prior to becoming a financial advisor, Finn worked in the general counsel’s office at NASA. Finn is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) professional, received her AB from Harvard, has a MALD from The Fletcher School at Tufts and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Do I Make Myself Clear?

“Harry Evans reminds us how important it is to write clearly. Then he shows how. Those of us who have been edited by Harry marvel at his dexterity in unclogging dense prose, and in this book he reveals his secrets.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

“Clarity and wit have something in common, and it’s Harry Evans. He clears a path through the thorny underbrush that stands between us and meaning, and he does it with cutting humor and graceful charm. He certainly does make himself clear, and us, too.”—Alan Alda, Actor and Writer

“Harold (Harry) Evans is a writer and thinker of deep and celebrated accomplishment and marked independence, and his new book on how our government hides behind a word it’s never even heard of—prolixity—is acutely on target.”—Peggy Noonan, author of The Time of Our Lives

 “Harry Evans is one of the great—indeed legendary—editors of our time. Over the course of his career, he has edited newspapers, books, and magazines, which surely qualifies as a publishing trifecta. All his talents—and irresistible charm—are on display in Do I Make Myself Clear? It’s much more than a guide to English usage—it’s a companion: informative, delightful, and indispensable. ” —Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking

Writers of renown agree on the clarity, wit, and timeliness of DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR? Why Writing Well Matters, by Sir Harold Evans, one of the great editors of our time. His insistent theme is that writing well matters because words have consequences. The bursting of the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession revealed that millions had signed agreements they hadn’t understood. Insurance policies for medical treatment or flood and wind damage turn out not to cover what the language suggests they covered. And now the attorneys general in Illinois and Washington, backed by a coalition of 27 other states, have filed lawsuits accusing Sallie Mae of subprime notoriety and its spinoff, Navient, of duping hundreds of thousands of students into accepting loans designed to fail.

Evans calls the words that confuse and deceive people “the fog.” He writes: “Fog everywhere. Fog online and in print, fog exhaled in television studios where time is anyway too short for truth. Fog in the regulating agencies that couldn’t see the signals flashing danger in shadow banking. Fog in the pressure groups that conceal their real purpose with euphemism….The fog that envelops English is not just a question of good taste, style, and aesthetics. It is a moral issue.”

This argument has never been more relevant.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harold Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who edited the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981 and the Times from 1981 to 1982. In Attacking the Devil, Netflix dramatizes his famous Sunday Times campaign exposing the negligence in the poisoning of thousands of thalidomide babies. He is an MA graduate of Durham University and was a Harkness Fellow at Chicago and Stanford Universities and a Poynter Fellow at Yale. He became an American citizen in 1993, following the trajectory of another Harkness Fellow, the late Alistair Cooke, broadcasting commentaries on America for the BBC. Evans founded and edited the prize-winning Condé Nast Traveler. He was editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press and president and publisher of Random House, with a record of bestselling authors. He holds the British Press Awards’ Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 2001, British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor. He was knighted in 2003 for services to journalism. Since 2011, he has been editor-at-large for Reuters, writing political commentary and interviewing political and economic leaders.

Problem Solved

“This excellent book shows how the science of decision-making can be applied to anything…from politics to business to creative art…and therefore the outcome made better. In today’s world of complexity that is a pretty useful guide!” —Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

 “Cheryl Einhorn has given us a practical book providing a wealth of useful lessons for making complex decisions of almost any kind. It breaks down everything from where to look for data and insights to how to make sure you don’t see only what you want to see. This is a book that can be useful for everyone.” ―Atul Gawande, bestselling author of The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal

Facing a high-stakes decision can be overwhelming. How can we trust that our own preconceptions and mental shortcuts aren’t directing our attention away from unfamiliar, yet viable opportunities? In her new book, PROBLEM SOLVED: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction (Career Press; April 2017), award-winning investigative journalist and Columbia Business School Adjunct Professor Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shares her AREA Method to help you solve high-stakes personal and professional decisions.

Einhorn has applied the AREA Method successfully for a diverse mix of consulting clients including National Public Radio, the Milken Institute, Kroll, and WorkMarket. In her investigative journalism work, she’s used it to unearth stories for publications including The New York Times, Pro Publica, Foreign Policy Magazine and the Council On Foreign Relations, in addition to her live on-air news analysis at CNBC.

AREA is an acronym that stands for the four stages of Cheryl’s decision-making process:  Absolute, Relative, Exploration & Exploitation and Analysis. Absolute refers to primary, uninfluenced information from the source at the center of your research and decision-making process. Relative refers to the perspectives of outsiders around your research subject. Exploration and Exploitation are the twin engines of creativity, one focused on expanding your research breadth and the other on deepening your understanding of you as a decision maker. Analysis synthesizes and interprets the information you’ve collected.

In describing her step-by-step approach, Einhorn shares with readers:

• How to hone in on your motivation behind the decision and how to identify what’s most critical for you to feel that the outcome is successful
• How to avoid relying on faulty intuition and snap judgments
• How to understand other stakeholders’ incentives and motivations
• When it’s important to decelerate and pause in the process to refine and re-articulate the progression of the investigation
• Why it’s important to try to disprove each possible decision and plan for failure
• How to employ a feedback loop at each stage to show when circling back for more data or analysis is needed

Einhorn walks readers through the AREA Method by describing four real-life scenarios: two high-stakes professional decisions, and two momentous personal decisions, and illustrates how each person navigated the process to end up with a decision that, while sometimes unexpected, led to positive outcomes.

Filled with proven strategies and concrete tools readers can apply immediately for effective results, PROBLEM SOLVED provides a clear sense of how to make sound decisions to reach goals with confidence and conviction.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, an award-winning investigative journalist, covers business, economic, and financial news for publications including Barron’s, Pro Publica, Foreign Policy, and The New York Times. As the founder of CSE Consulting, a strategic consulting practice, she applies her AREA Method—initially developed to promote better decision-making in her journalism work— toward the success of businesses and individuals. A Columbia University adjunct professor, she teaches her AREA Method at Columbia Business School, having also taught it at the Graduate School of Journalism. To learn more about Einhorn, please visit areamethod.com.

Spies In The Family

At the height of tensions between the US and the USSR, the Americans had a secret weapon—a Soviet double agent who rose to the rank of general and passed intelligence which most likely averted a nuclear showdown. And yet this crucial historical chapter has remained hidden in the shadows…until now.

 Reporting from the inside, Eva Dillon breaks the incredible story of her CIA officer father, his GRU asset, and their remarkable relationship in SPIES IN THE FAMILY: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War (Harper; On Sale: May 9, 2017; $28.99; Hardcover). Given the cooperation of both families as well as extraordinary access to former CIA and FBI officials involved in the case and to archival documents, Dillon delivers a riveting account that is part nail-biting spy thriller, part intimate family memoir, and an altogether electrifying read. With concerns about Vladimir Putin’s intentions and aggressions making headlines daily, this stunning page-turner brims with chilling contemporary relevance.

Growing up, Dillon always thought that her father’s job at the State Department explained their peripatetic lifestyle as they moved from continent to continent. Then his diplomatic cover was blown in a sensational book, exposing his real career to his kids and, more dangerously, to the entire world. However, it would be decades before the extent of his clandestine activities became clear to Eva and her siblings. What ultimately emerged: his role as handler for the CIA’s most valuable operative during the darkest moments of the Cold War.

Codenamed TOPHAT, Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov was a World War II hero turned military intelligence officer who volunteered his services to the United States, a decision with potentially fatal consequences, when he was stationed at the UN in 1962. A principled man motivated by his love of his country, he wanted neither money nor asylum. Instead, by alerting the US government to its deficiencies in the arms race via a wealth of classified material, he sought to prevent a superpower faceoff. Enter Paul Dillon, Eva’s father, the primary CIA contact for whom the Soviet felt respect. After first meeting in Burma, the Russian-speaking Dillon and Polyakov developed a close friendship over the years that transcended the ideological divide and endured until their respective tragic final days.

Spanning lives, families, and politics across the Iron Curtain, this spellbinder digs deep into the past to contemplate timeless—and sometimes heartbreaking—questions of loyalty, honor, duty, conscience, and betrayal. Meticulously investigated from Dillon’s unique perspective, SPIES IN THE FAMILY intertwines the personal and the professional to illuminate at last a seminal Cold War espionage tale that could easily have been lost forever.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eva Dillon spent twenty-five years in the magazine publishing business, including stints at Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, The New Yorker, and as president of Reader’s Digest. Dillon and her six siblings grew up moving around the world for her father’s CIA assignments from Berlin to Mexico City to Rome to New Delhi. A transplanted New Yorker now living in Charleston, she holds a bachelor’s in Music from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Loving Robert Lowell

“Sandra Hochman shocked the literary world with her novel Walking Papers. I was dizzy with excitement about her talent. Her originality is repeated again in this memoir on her love affair of Robert Lowell…. She’s one of the greatest American writers.” ―Philip Roth

Sandra Hochman was 25 when she received a journalism assignment that changed her life: interview Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. She called him to set a time to speak and he suggested they meet immediately at the Russian Tea Room in New York. There, he confessed he had just left his wife. Many martinis later, they began a heady and disorienting affair with more heat than city asphalt baking in the sun.

Hochman, whose 1973 documentary Year of the Woman featuring Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Gloria Steinem, and Nora Ephron has new relevance, was part of a literary crowd that included Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth. She revered Lowell, having studied him at Bennington College, then carrying Lord Weary’s Castle around Paris while her own marriage dissolved. That Lowell was 43 was no matter: to Hochman, he was a handsome genius, a Boston Brahmin, whose waspy presence she was delighted to luxuriate in. They took immense pleasure in reading and critiquing each other’s work, promising to spend the rest of their lives together. Both poets sought to break away from the customs of their rigid families, finding acceptance and understanding for a blissful time with each other.

The first new work from Hochman in forty years, her memoir LOVING ROBERT LOWELL (July 2017; Turner Publishing) is about the passions that flare within us and the secrets that undo us. It’s a story about what happens when our best face, the one we put on for new friends and lovers, disappears in a flash.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sandra Hochman is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet with six volumes of poetry. She also authored two nonfiction books and directed a 1973 documentary, Year of the Woman, currently enjoying a renaissance. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she was a columnist for Harper’s Bazaar.

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

“The individual stories of these men—who were central to my experiences as a psychiatrist—are at once incredibly humbling, terrifying, and inspiring. Through them, I learned about survival and hope.” —Elizabeth Ford, MD

Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island.

In this captivating memoir, Dr. Elizabeth Ford, now the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City’s Health and Hospitals, shares her stories of caring for these at-risk patients—like the most hated and alienated inmate on Rikers, who cries when discussing his abusive childhood, the writer who agrees to treatment in exchange for Dr. Ford’s take on the opening chapter of his novel, and the twenty-four-year-old schizophrenic whom Dr. Ford later encounters on the streets of Manhattan, happy and healthy after finally finding the right medication.

This is a story of friendship, redemption, and joy—of tough, hardworking doctors and staff fighting to care for and keep safe a population many would like to forget. It is also a story of institutional failure, and the nationwide warehousing of the mentally ill which has funneled more than 300,000 severely impaired individuals into prisons and jails that are neither equipped nor staffed to handle them.

The numbers involved are staggering:

• 356,268 people with mental illnesses  are incarcerated— compared to just about 35,000 people who are receiving treatment in state hospitals.
• 44 states and the District of Columbia have at least one jail that houses more people with mental illnesses than the largest state psychiatric hospital does.
• Most of the prisoners who suffer from mental health issues are grappling with mood and psychotic disorders, like severe depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

Ford’s patients could be violent and unpredictable, but they were also funny and tender. Above all, they were human—and they awakened in Ford a profound compassion. Urgent and eloquent, her indelible chronicle offers proof that sometimes amazing things happen.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Elizabeth Ford, MD is currently the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City’s Health and Hospitals and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. She spent years working on the jail inpatient psychiatry service at Bellevue and in the Bellevue psychiatric emergency room, specializing in the care of individuals with mental illness in the criminal justice system. Dr. Ford teaches and writes extensively about topics related to the interface of mental health, law, and correctional settings. She lives in New York with her family.

Surviving Berlin – An Oral History

“Karl von der Heyden has written two fascinating autobiographies wrapped in one. The first is of his childhood years in Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a youngster trying to live a normal life. The second is of a young immigrant’s discovery of America, and his growing love for his adopted new home, even as he discovers the racial injustices of the South that remind him of the anti-Semitic racism of his native land under Nazism. He belongs to that generation of young Germans who, years later, first confronted their Nazi parents with the hard questions of ‘what did you know, what did you do, and why did you go along?’ Insightful and well-written, Surviving Berlin eloquently raises questions that continue to have relevance today. It’s a book you will not want to put down.”

—Michael Blumenthal, former United States Secretary of the Treasury

“Karl von der Heyden has done a signal service to those of us who wonder what it was like to grow up in Germany under Nazi rule. His intimate account of life as a Berliner coming of age during World War II and its aftermath is a reminder in these troubled times that averting our eyes from racist intolerance has devastating personal consequences.”

—Martin Indyk, Executive Vice President of the Brookings Institution
and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Karl M. von der Heyden was born in 1936 in Berlin—the heart of Nazi Germany. When young, he played with friends in the active and robust streets. Short years later, they fled for their lives east and then west along those same streets, trying to avoid the Russian army. His vibrant city, peopled with citizens he perceived as kind and honorable, had been wiped from the Earth. He experienced constant hunger.

Now, in SURVIVING BERLIN: An Oral History (MCP Books; July 2017), von der Heyden tells the story of his unlikely journey from the bomb shelter outside his childhood home, and massive destruction and deprivation, to the top corporate boardrooms in America. The book covers the summer of 1936 until 1963: the first third of his life. During the war, Hitler, ruling Nazi Germany from an office perhaps ten miles from von der Heyden’s home, carried out the mass extermination of six million Jews.

For years after peace came, the consequences of that horrific war continued to define von der Heyden’s everyday existence and a question plagued him: What had his parents known—how much could they have known—about the atrocities that the Nazis had committed? Von der Heyden’s father had been a member of the Nazi Party, and as a son, his guilt was complicated by the fact that his father had spent five harsh years as a prisoner of war in a Russian camp in Siberia. SURVIVING BERLIN is a first-hand account of the tumultuous Nazi and post-war years in Germany, and one man’s poignant search to find and understand the unvarnished truth.

In 1957, attending Duke University on a scholarship, he found his answers in an improbable place, the archives of the southern American institution. He located issues of the Nazi party’s newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter (The People’s Observer), and spent hours piecing together events, slowly filling in the gaps that had developed in the silence of his father and mother’s generation.

Equipped with new insights, von der Heyden was stunned to see a “parallel injustice” between the experiences of the Jews in Nazi Germany and of the blacks in the segregated South—the North Carolina university itself did not admit African-Americans until 1963. Von der Heyden writes, “I found the fact that systematic discrimination against a particular group of citizens could exist in America—a country we Germans viewed as enterprising and modern—incomprehensible.”

He became an American citizen, and served as the CFO of three of America’s largest consumer products companies: H.J. Heinz, PepsiCo, and RJR Nabisco, where he was also CEO. He also served as an independent director on a dozen large publicly held companies, including the New York Stock Exchange, DreamWorks Animations, and Macy’s. On an interim basis, he became president and chief executive officer at financially troubled Metallgesellschaft Corp. and successfully restructured the company in a period of seven months. He and his wife, Mary Ellen, share a commitment to philanthropy and have funded a library, an arts center and numerous fellowships at Duke University, in addition to significant endowments elsewhere. In his foreword to the book, Norman Pearlstein calls von der Heyden, “a legend whose career defies comparison. …that trusted individual who gets results while shunning the limelight.”

Today, von der Heyden remains “part of a generation of Germans plagued by guilt about what the Nazis did” to Jews and other minorities. And he states clearly, “In no way is anything in this memoir meant to compare my family’s travails with the terrible suffering experienced by so many during and after the war. There is no comparison of any kind to be made.”

Affecting and thought provoking, SURVIVING BERLIN is a remarkable story, whose themes are as profound today as they were seventy years ago.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karl M. von der Heyden served as the Chief Financial Officer of three of America’s largest consumer products companies: H.J. Heinz, PepsiCo, and RJR Nabisco, where he was also CEO. He also served as an independent director on a dozen large publicly held companies, including the New York Stock Exchange, DreamWorks Animations, AstraZeneca, and Macy’s. Recipient of The International Center in New York’s Award of Excellence and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, he served as Co-Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin and as a former trustee of Duke University, the YMCA of Greater New York, and other nonprofit organizations.

Downtime: Deliciousness at Home

“Most of the food I serve at home is simple, flavorful comfort food. It’s all about blurring the distinction between family food and special occasions. Cook for guests as you would for family, and treat your family like company.” —Nadine Levy Redzepi

Nadine Redzepi has cooked for friends who just happen to be world-acclaimed chefs. Whether preparing meals for her own growing family, friends, or incredible chefs, she puts flavor first and presents everything in a casually elegant way anyone can emulate, day in, day out. Great meals don’t have to be complicated to be sophisticated.

Even though her husband, René, is the chef of the critically acclaimed restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, Nadine is the one cooking when chefs like David Chang come over for dinner. As René says in his foreword, “Nadine, without ever intending it, embodies the values a cook can sometimes forget when they’ve spent most of their young career as a mercenary in adrenaline-fueled kitchens. If I hadn’t seen her channeling all of her best intentions into making someone happy, I don’t think Noma would have ended up where it has. Her lack of ego and generosity of spirit reminded me, and the chefs whom she would ask for tips or would cook for on their nights off, of the reason people gather around a table.”

Now, in DOWNTIME: Deliciousness at Home (Pam Krauss Books/Avery; October 2017), Nadine Levy Redzepi shares her recipes for family food and relaxed get-togethers that carry the extra touch you generally might reserve for special occasions.

Reflecting her preference for straightforward simplicity, the book is comprised of three sections: 20 starters, 40 mains, and 20 desserts. It’s an eclectic mix of comfort food dishes—some of which she has been eating and preparing since childhood—and easy-to-make dishes with restaurant-level plate appeal. Her only hard-and-fast rules are to use the very best quality ingredients and prepare them in the way that allows their inherent flavors to shine most brightly.

Most of her recipes—such as Breaded Tomatoes with Mascarpone and Sardines, Tonkatsu Chicken with Caramelized Carrots, Roasted Ratatouille with Orzo, Duck Breast Rice Bowl with Tomatoes and Cucumbers, or Kale and Mushroom “Carbonara”—are easy enough to make on a busy weeknight. Her building-block approach allows cooks to master elements like making mayonnaise, browned butter, or deep-fried eggplant and combine those elements in different ways. One cake batter is fashioned into multiple desserts, from a simple loaf cake to a show-stopping Giant Macaron Cake. A tart shell is filled with eggs and sweet potatoes for a savory supper or there is fresh fruit and frangipane for an easy weeknight dessert. 

Beautiful photographs by Ditte Isager transport readers to her home kitchen. Filled with pro tips for elevating meals easily, plus sections on pantry must-haves, kitchen tools, and equipment, DOWNTIME is the everyday cookbook a new generation of home cooks has been waiting for.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nadine Levy Redzepi is an enthusiastic home cook, a mother of three, and has spent most of her adult life working with her husband, René Redzepi, at the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen.

The Happiness Diet

Improve your mental health and make yourself happier with this mood-boosting, life-changing, holistic nutritional plan that includes recipes, advice, and the science behind it from an internationally bestselling author and a nutritional therapist.

Eat better, feel better! There’s a reason that our stomachs are often referred to as our second brains: the gut is responsible for producing around 90 percent of a person’s serotonin, the chemical responsible for making you feel good. Since suffering from her last serious bout of depression, bestselling author and mental health advocate Rachel Kelly has developed a broad holistic approach to staying healthy and happy, and the heart of her recovery process involves a crucial shift in diet.

Over the past five years, Kelly and nutritionist Alice Mackintosh have drawn from more than 100 scientific studies to identify the foods that either drag us down or lift us up. Together, they have built up a repertoire of over five-dozen recipes that target particular symptoms, from insomnia and mood swings to anxiety and exhaustion.

In this bright, warm, beautifully designed cookbook with chapters ranging from Steady Energy and Beating the Blues to Hormonal Peace and Finding Comfort, they put all the theories into practice, explaining how you can incorporate these changes seamlessly into your daily life. Along with fantastic recipes and daily meal planners, each chapter features informative introductions explaining the nutritional science behind their advice. The Happiness Diet also offers cheat sheets of essential foods to incorporate into your diet, with comforting thoughts and inspirational quotes. Follow the advice in these pages, and even if it’s the only life change you make, you will begin to feel stronger and lighter with each passing week. Happy eating!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Kelly is the bestselling author of The Happiness Diet, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness, and Black Rainbow. She began her career as a journalist in London at The Times. She is now an official Ambassador for SANE and Re-Think Mental Illness. Rachel Kelly lives in West London.

Two’s Company

“Authentic and real: a love story that is inspirational and filled with helpful insights that can help us all find true and lasting love.” — John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

In her most personal and inspiring book yet, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Somers shows how to shape a healthy, lasting relationship through the lens of her 50-year love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. Exposing the inner workings of her marriage, Suzanne writes, “We have what everyone wants; the combination for a great love lock.” It’s what she calls the “figure 8” of their relationship: a winning combination of love, business, and family—and great sex.

Intimate, funny, candid, and insightful—Suzanne shares it all in TWO’S COMPANY: A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business (Harmony; November 2017).

Beginning when a big-city guy from Toronto met a small-town girl from San Bruno, California, that unique “figure 8” blossomed when Suzanne was fired from TV’s #1 show Three’s Company for asking to be paid commensurately with men who were making 10 to 15 times her salary on lower-rated shows. Her contract had ended and as is normal in TV, it was time to renegotiate.  Unbeknownst to Suzanne, the network decided to use her as the example so no other woman in TV would dare try for parity.  The thinking was if the #1 female star could be fired, it would scare all the other women from doing likewise.  As a result Suzanne and Alan decided to take control of her brand as one of the most popular female personalities and work only for themselves.

Building on the adoration she inspired among her fans, they turned her momentum into a major enterprise, expanding from her books and television into Las Vegas headliner shows, a one-woman Broadway musical, international speaking engagements, beauty and health products, fitness, and fashion.

Suzanne reflects on her groundbreaking success as a TV star and Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year, author of 14 New York Times bestsellers, and successful entrepreneur, and on overcoming the shadow of an alcoholic father to become a mother, partner, and ultimately self-fulfilled woman. Through fame, fortune, shattering sickness, and blended families, Suzanne and Alan have kept their marriage vital—together 24/7 with not one night apart in 37 years, and combining individual business strengths in their evolving, loving relationship.

Suzanne reveals hard-won advice on turning negatives into positives and relying on another person without sacrificing individuality, among many other intriguing stories:

• Her brother installing a lock on the inside of an upstairs closet, so the family could hide on nights when her alcoholic father was especially violent
• On seeing her play Adelaide in a high school production of Guys and Dolls, Walter Winchell– the New York columnist on whom Damon Runyon had based one of his characters– saying, “You’re goin’ someplace, sister.”
• Leaving home as a teenage mother, and the horrific near-death car accident involving her son, Bruce, when he was five years old
• Lacking the 50-cent bridge toll en route to an audition, she gave the toll-taker a lipstick as collateral. The part? The mysterious blonde in the Thunderbird in American Graffiti
• A chance meeting with Johnny Carson in the NBC commissary that led to Three’s Company
• Her gutsy, ballsy creative move to land a high-powered publicist
• Landing a Vegas deal better than the one requested that got her fired from Three’s Company
• Working with Barry Manilow, Bob Hope, Paul Anka, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Donna Summer, John Wayne, Red Skelton, and more; partying with Ringo Starr, Monaco royalty, and Rod Stewart
• Her last conversation with John Ritter
  The story behind the incredible success of the ThighMaster
• Her breast cancer, and becoming the first patient in the United States to undergo cell-assisted lipotransfer (CAL) in breast reconstruction, after spearheading the clinical trial
• The home inferno they escaped, and kindness from stars and strangers that helped them rebuild
• Her suspicious poisoning with succinylcholine, a drug ABC News called “a perfect murder weapon”
• Creating one of the world’s most trusted business brands, and more

Suzanne’s narrative is spiced throughout with Alan’s takes on events and feelings, as well as her meaningful “What I Know Now” insights—her personal life lessons that are uplifting and transformative.  TWO’S COMPANY also features 70 captivating black-and-white and full-color images from Suzanne’s personal scrapbooks, including favorite moments with Alan, family, and celebrity friends, as well as highlights from throughout her career.

As always, Suzanne Somers tells it like it is.  In TWO’S COMPANY, an empowering and entertaining love story, memoir, and motivational guide, readers, too, will discover how to forge and maintain a partnership that’s built to last.

Make It Rain

“Areva is the first true expert to reveal these secrets about how the media works behind the scenes. This is how the pros do it…In Make it Rain!, Areva provides invaluable advice about how to leverage the incredible power of the media to get your message out to the people who need it most…Following her well-articulated guidelines and watching her appearances is the formula for assured success. Areva is my number one expert. She always delivers.”  — Dr. Phil McGraw

Areva Martin is an award-winning attorney and a leading expert, host and commentator on a range of compelling legal, political, women’s, children’s and celebrity issues. Her appearances as recurring co-host of The Doctors, CNN legal analyst, and on Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, and DailyMailTV, among other shows across the CNN and HLN networks, have helped her become one of America’s most sought-after thought leaders.

Areva understands the power of media and what it can bring to any business owner, executive, nonprofit spokesperson, author or anyone else looking to grow their brand.  In her new book, Make It Rain! How to Use Media to Revolutionize Your Business & Brand (Center Street, March 20, 2018 ISBN: 9781478989875), Areva delivers a new perspective on developing your personal branding, building a career, and creating advantage. She uncovers the secrets to gaining media exposure and explains why becoming a go-to expert on tv, radio, or online can be the most effective—and cheapest—way to take your business or career to a level higher than ever imagined.

Every day, guest experts are getting local and national exposure and reaching millions of potential customers without spending a dime on ads. As Areva explains, the key lies in knowing how to define your audience, connect with producers, hosts, and writers with engaging content, and display a mastery of your topic. In Make It Rain! she offers the most comprehensive guide available to making media appearances to build visibility via social media.

“Media appearances can give you the opportunity to make your expertise available, to raise the profile of your business and get your message out,” Areva writes. “If you inform, educate, and empower people in the process, producers will be quick to invite you back. Those invitations can lead to a dramatic uptick in business.” In an interview, she can discuss such topics as:

• How to craft pitches producers can’t resist
• How to jump on breaking news shows
• How to pivot and speak in soundbites like the pros
• Effective ways to amplify every interview with social media
• The keys to turning appearances into a platform

Never before have there been more ways to build a presence that matters. With Make It Rain! Areva proves that gaining exposure through media is the fastest and most effective way to obtain the power and influence you need to be an even greater success.

Areva Martin is an attorney, advocate, television host, legal and social issues commentator, and author. A recurring guest host on The Doctors and a CNN Legal Analyst, she is a regular contributor to The Dr. Phil Show, Anderson Cooper 360, and DailyMailTV, among other shows across the CNN and HLN networks and more. She is founder of Martin & Martin, LLP, and creator of Special Needs Network, Inc., a grassroots nonprofit to assist families raising kids on the autism spectrum.

The Education of Eva Moskowitz

Eva Moskowitz, the controversial founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, has earned allies and enemies in equal measure for championing school choice and waging war on the policies responsible for our nation’s dysfunctional public schools.  Now, she has brought her crusade to the page in THE EDUCATION OF EVA MOSKOWITZ: A Memoir (Harper; September 12, 2017), a riveting chronicle of her battles, a deeply felt personal story and a resounding mission statement.

 A quintessential New Yorker known for her “sharp elbows,” Ms. Moskowitz pulls no punches in her candid account of her clashes with powerful interests, including the teachers unions and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced during his mayoral campaign that it was “time for Eva Moskowitz to stop having the run of the place … to stop being tolerated, enabled, supported.”  When De Blasio evicted three of her schools, it led to showdown that garnered national press coverage. Ms. Moskowitz provides a behind the scenes account of her successful battle to save her schools.

Ms. Moskowitz, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and former Professor who holds a Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University, also recounts her decision to enter politics, the conflicts she had with the teachers unions as a member of the New York City Council, and the revenge they exacted on her when she sought to run for Manhattan Borough President. It also covers the remarkable story of how she founded Success Academies and grew it over the course of a decade from a single school in Harlem to a network of 46 schools serving 15,500 children in four boroughs.

Ms. Moskowitz provides a deeply personal account of her life describing her own personal insecurities, her struggle to have children, her firsthand accounts of the attack on the Twin Towers and the murder of one of her colleagues by a political opponent, her joy at seeing the children at her schools succeed and her heartbreak at the tragedies that have befallen many of them.

Over the years, many people have given their opinion of Eva Moskowitz:

“Possibly the most polarizing, successful and controversial charter leader in the country.” –Richard Whitmore

“I’ve never experienced star-chamber hearings the way her hearings went, and they were so biased and so one-sided.” –Randi Weingarten

“Brilliant, savvy, ambitious, often a pain in my neck, and atypically fearless for an elected official.” –Joel Klein

“Why’s there so much hate for a woman who has decided to spend her days starting schools for poor and mostly black children in Harlem?” –Elizabeth Greene

“Charter czarina Eva Moskowitz carries sharp elbows.” –Michael Powell, New York Times columnist

“[Y]our arrogance about what the system should do and that charter schools are the answer is exactly what drives the conflict in a community.” –Council Member Carmen Arroyo

“They’re both extraordinary. I’m going to vote for both of them.” –Donald Trump on Moskowitz and her political opponent

“Surprises From 2015, and Reasons for Hope….: Eva S. Moskowitz realizes that lots of people don’t like her.” —Ginia Bellafante, New York Times

“A lightning rod for praise and rage: the patron saint of parents and the pariah of the unions.” —Lizzy Ratner, New York Observer

The Climbers

“Jim Herrington captures the men and women behind the superhuman feats. His experience as a climber allows him access to their world, but his talent as a photographer is what brings them back to ours. In these portraits, we are reminded that great men are still men, sharing the same humor, motivation, and humanity as the rest of us.” – Alex Honnold

Photographs by Jim Herrington
Essay by Greg Child
Foreword by Alex Honnold

For nearly two decades, professional photographer Jim Herrington has been working on a portrait series of influential rock and mountain climbers. The Climbers (Mountaineers Books; October 2017) documents these rugged individualists who, from roughly the 1930s to 1970s, used primitive gear along with their considerable wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. Today, these men and women are renowned for their past accomplishments and, in many cases, are the last of the remaining practitioners from the so-called “Golden Age” of 20th century climbing.

Herrington’s images—the result of his own passion for climbing—allow us to study the faces of climbers who were driven to do the impossible for no other reason than the challenge. In these portraits we find people who ascended bold, visionary lines, often in remote regions, away from the media spotlight and without any hope for reward. Yet in many ways the severe routes these men and women established outshine today’s ascents due, in part, to the fact that rope and other gear were so strikingly inferior to today. And often our pioneering predecessors were climbing into a malevolent unknown—if compromised or injured, the only people in the world likely capable of initiating their rescue were the climbers themselves. Innovation emerged frequently and in unlikely ways. In these images, Herrington has captured the utter humanity of obsession, determination, intellect, and frailty.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jim Herrington began taking pictures as a teenager in his native North Carolina. Over the past forty years he has photographed scores of luminaries, including Benny Goodman, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Cormac McCarthy, Morgan Freeman, and Dolly Parton, as well as the iconic mountaineers found in The Climbers. Jim’s work has appeared on album covers, in international ad campaigns, and in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and GQ. Herrington’s photography has been exhibited in solo and group gallery shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Nashville, Milwaukee, and Charlotte, and is in numerous private collections. He divides his time between New York City; Owens Valley, California; and Southern Europe. The Climbers is his first book.

Greg Child started rock climbing as a teenager in his native Australia. In 1981 he made his first expedition to the Himalaya, climbing a new route on 21,500-foot Shivling. He returned to the great ranges many times, climbing peaks like Gasherbrum IV, K2, and Everest, and the vertical Trango Tower. In Yosemite he racked up two new routes on El Capitan: Aurora, and Lost in America. These big wall climbs led him to Baffin Island for a first ascent on the 4000-foot face of Great Sail Peak. Throughout his career Greg has written about the climbing life, in numerous articles and in his books Thin Air, Mixed Emotions, Postcards from the Ledge, and Over the Edge. In 1996 he received the American Alpine Club’s Robert and Miriam Underhill Award for outstanding mountaineering achievement. He lives in Utah.

Alex Honnold is a professional adventure rock climber, known best for his audacious free-solo ascents of dizzyingly tall cliffs including the first free solo ascent of the 3,000 foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He has been profiled by 60 Minutes and the New York Times, was featured on the cover of National Geographic, and has starred in numerous adventure films including the Emmy-nominated  Alone on the Wall. Honnold is the founder of the Honnold Foundation, an environmental nonprofit. His autobiography, coauthored with David Roberts, is Alone on the Wall.

Sweet

“Here is my confession: I rarely go a day without a slice or bite or square of something sweet.” —Yotam Ottolenghi

When food world superstar and New York Times bestselling cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi started out in the world of cooking, he was “firmly on the sweet side. I trained in patisserie, and my first job in the kitchen was as a pastry chef.”

Now, in his highly anticipated and stunning new baking and desserts cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi and his longtime friend and collaborator Helen Goh bring the Ottolenghi hallmarks of fresh, evocative ingredients, exotic spices and complex flavorings — including fig, rose petal, saffron, aniseed, orange blossom, pistachio and cardamom — to indulgent cakes, cookies, tarts, puddings, cheesecakes and ice cream.

SWEET (Ten Speed Press; October 3, 2017) brings Yotam full circle back to his roots. It is also the fruit of ten years of collaboration between him and Helen and their Ottolenghi pastry team. It is the book Ottolenghi fans have been waiting and asking for and it embraces indulgence, abundance and generosity, sharing sweet things to celebrate and treat those you love.

SWEET includes over 120 innovative recipes, from Tahini and Halva Brownies, Persian Love Cakes, Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread, and Saffron, Orange and Honey Madeleines to Frozen Espresso Parfait For a Crowd; Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake with Coffee, Walnut and Rosewater; Apricot and Amaretto Cheesecake; Cinnamon Pavlova with Praline Cream and Fresh Figs; Louise Cake piled high with meringue; Gingerbread with Brandy Apples and Crème Fraîche, and so much more. In a happy accident, there are more than 30 gluten-free recipes, as well as nut-free offerings. While these recipes are underpinned by a rich heritage of baking and dessert making, the Ottolenghi flavor formula brings in influences from Yotam and Helen’s Middle Eastern and Australasian heritage with unique twists balancing the traditional with the exotic.

The book is exquisitely photographed by the award-winning New York team Peden + Munk, whose work appears regularly in Bon Appétit.

A pleasure to read from as well as cook from, there is something here to delight and surprise everyone — from simple mini-cakes and cookies that parents can make with their children to show-stopping layer cakes and roulades that will reignite the imaginations of accomplished bakers. Widely beloved in the food world for his beautiful, inspirational, and award-winning cookbooks, Ottolenghi has created another must-have for home cooks.

About the Authors:

Yotam Ottolenghi is the award-winning author of Plenty and Plenty More, co-author of NOPI with Ramael Scully, and co-author with Sami Tamimi of Ottolenghi and Jerusalem, which was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. All five books were New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold 3.7 million copies worldwide. Yotam writes for The New York Times and The Guardian, appears on BBC, and made the BBC4 documentary, “Jerusalem on a Plate.” He lives in London, where he owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the high-end restaurant, NOPI.

Helen Goh is a pastry chef, longtime Ottolenghi collaborator, and has been the lead Ottolenghi product developer for ten years. She was born in Malaysia and began her cooking career in Australia. After seven years as head pastry chef at Donovans, a landmark Melbourne landmark restaurant, she moved to London, went to meet Yotam, and they have been baking and discussing the sweeter things in life ever since. She lives in West London.

Republican Like Me

Ken Stern, the former CEO of NPR and lifelong Democrat, set out for conservative America to find out why Republicans are so wrong about everything.

It turns out, they aren’t.

REPUBLICAN LIKE ME: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right

Lifelong Democrat Ken Stern doesn’t believe that our political world is as binary as pundits keep telling us. Extensive research has demonstrated that much of the partisan divide in our country is artificial, driven by media, campaign spending, and the increasing social and physical isolation of political communities.

Stern believes that you can break down that divide with a little listening, and a little human contact—which is exactly what he set out to do when he spent a year across the aisle listening to, talking to, and praying with Republicans of all stripes.  He writes about this experience in REPUBLICAN LIKE ME: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right.

With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, Stern went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas, stood in pit row at a NASCAR race, hung out at Tea Party meetings and sat in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. He also read up on conservative wonkery and consulted with the smartest people the right has to offer. Doing his best to keep an open mind, Stern hoped to find common ground, rationality, and maybe even persuasion from the other side. Structured around the key topics that divide and inflame Democrats and Republicans: immigration, gun control, abortion, the environment and global warming, philosophies of government, and attitudes toward race and racial preferences, REPUBLICAN LIKE ME reveals what happens when a liberal sets out to look at issues from a conservative perspective. Spoiler alert: Some of his dearly cherished assumptions about the right slipped away.

REPUBLICAN LIKE ME will challenge the assumptions and attitudes of liberals and liberal orthodoxy, while giving Americans of all stripes a road map to coming together.

Cowgirl Power

“Cowgirls are the ones who don’t back down from anything or anyone. The ones who work harder and keep playing until they get it right. Gay Gaddis calls this ‘Cowgirl Power.’ Her stories give women a clear path to find their own personal power.” —Billie Jean King

“Cowgirl Power is a book about embracing your story and your power. Gaddis, a fellow Texan who built her successful business from the ground up, shares her hard-won and thought-provoking wisdom on showing up and getting it done. It’s a great combination of story telling, actionable strategy, and a fun history of some of the cowgirls that came before us.” —Brené Brown, PhD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Braving the Wilderness

When a boss said her concept for a new breed of marketing agency wouldn’t work, Gay Gaddis quit. The successful Austin-based businesswoman cashed in her $16K IRA, and founded T3—The Think Tank—a top-ranked firm with offices nationwide, creating innovative digital marketing programs for name brands such as Allstate, UPS, 7-Eleven, Staples, Capital One, Pizza Hut, and a growing roster of Fortune 200 clients.

A hard-charging Texas woman, CEO, and popular speaker, Gay Gaddis knows her value and doesn’t let gender get in the way of a win. Now, in her book COWGIRL POWER (January 23, 2018; Center Street; $26.00), she shares insights and lessons learned from generations of ranchers and the spirited cowgirls she grew up with to help women lead; to enhance and exude confidence, and develop personal power on all fronts.

Why cowgirls now? Cowgirls have a bravery, authenticity, and grit that Gay sees reflected in powerful women today. She knows we all can channel some of that power.

COWGIRL POWER is about finding your own inner cowgirl to open up a world of possibilities. As the owner of one of the largest woman-owned advertising agencies in the U.S., and former chairman of C200, one of the country’s top women’s business organizations, Gay Gaddis knows a thing or two about empowerment. As the owner of a working Texas Longhorn cattle ranch in Texas Hill Country, Gay is a true cowgirl. Her insights are rooted in the feisty strength of 1920s and ’30s cowgirl heroines who were gutsy risk-takers in all they did. She shares her personal story of bootstrapped beginnings and hard-won lessons, offering an inspiring action plan for women to blaze their own trail in business and life.

In COWGIRL POWER, Gay discusses, among other motivating concepts:

• How to develop a cowgirl state of mind by owning your own power; it already exists in you
• How to cross the confidence gap; men have done it, women can, too
• Cut your own trail; do the unexpected; take opportunities outside your comfort zone
• Take responsibility for getting useful feedback; research shows men are more likely than women to get specific comments tied to outcomes; do not settle for vague answers
• Round up your Rough Riders, a feedback system of people who will tell you the truth
• Prioritize action over perfection; get it 80% right, go for it, and improve it over time
• Don’t try to separate your work entirely from your home life, and much more

Inspiring, uplifting, and full of energizing advice, COWGIRL POWER is a guide on how to develop a cowgirl state of mind and courageously take power when it comes your way. Whether your goal is to start a family or your own business, to climb the corporate ladder, organize community outreach, or run for office, Gay’s book with its Cowgirl Tool Kit equips you with the know-how to get there.

Gay Gaddis is CEO and Founder of T3—The Think Tank, and has been nationally recognized for the unique family-friendly policies like “T3 & Under” she has initiated. An active speaker, writer, and artist, Gay is contributes to Forbes and is part of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Insider Network. Her awards and honors include Fast Company’s “Top 25 Women Business Builders” and Inc. Magazine’s “Top 10 Entrepreneurs of the Year.” She the first female Chairman of the Texas Business Leadership Council and serves on the Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. Board of Directors. A native Texan, she graduated from University of Texas.

A Table in Venice

HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship

“It is difficult to think of anyone better suited to write about the idea of ‘hate speech’ than Nadine Strossen.… [She] has dedicated her career to the defense of civil liberties and to the First Amendment. It is therefore fitting that at this turbulent time in our nation’s history she should re-enter the debate in an effort to shed light on some of the issues that divide our nation today. Strossen stakes out a bold and important claim about how best to protect both equality and freedom.” —Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

“While other countries provide significant protection for free expression, the United States provides a significantly elevated level of protection, particularly for hateful speech. Nadine Strossen’s insightful and eminently readable study on why we protect such speech and why we should continue to do is an all-too-rare example of first-rate legal scholarship that the public at large can learn from and savor reading.” —Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School; Author, The Soul of the First Amendment

“Nadine Strossen is one of the great civil libertarians of our day. This book provides a powerful and subtle defense of free speech. Don’t miss it!” —Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School

In the United States, the First Amendment protects free speech for everyone, ensuring the right of unpopular and yes, even hateful voices to be heard. You’ll recall the quote: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

In her new book HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press, May 2018) Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1991 to 2008, argues that expanding free speech, not limiting it, is the solution for changing the hearts and minds of those who espouse hateful ideologies. She dispels many of the myths and misunderstandings that have permeated the debates about what constitutes “hate speech,” including what is and isn’t protected language, and affirms that we don’t have to choose between civil rights and civil liberties, or between free speech and equality.

Strossen’s powerful argument promises to elevate the conversation around why freedom of speech cannot mean freedom to express popular sentiment only. We must tolerate all speech even when it supports intolerance, or we may find we’ve given away our own right to speak against it. As Thomas Paine noted, “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking

Our lives are formed by memories, and the focus of mine is the food I’ve cooked and the people I’ve cooked for, the people who have sat at my table, as well as the other tables I’ve eaten on, from the blue Formica of my childhood, to the mottled zinc that is the nexus of my life now.” – Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson has long been a champion of the home cook, creating recipes that are approachable, achievable and above all, delicious. Her new book, AT MY TABLE: A Celebration of Home Cooking (Flatiron Books; 3 April 2018) includes over a hundred new recipes that she has shared with friends and family at her table, and are offered here for her readers to enjoy.

AT MY TABLE is abundant with recipes that are warming, comforting, and inspirational, from new riffs on classic favorites – Chicken Fricassee; Maple Roast Plums – to adventures in a host of new dishes and ingredients: Eggplant Fatteh; White Miso Hummus; and Garlicky Roast Potatoes with Oregano and Feta. As with all of Nigella’s work, this is a book to read and savor as much as to cook from. “This book, like all the books I’ve written and all the cookery books I’ve read, is not just a manual, but a collection of stories and a container of memories.” Engaging and amiably humorous, the recipes in AT MY TABLE include anecdotes and advice from Nigella that are as entertaining as they are nourishing. Here are dishes to inspire all cooks and eaters, from Hake with Bacon, Peas and Cider to Apple Pork Chops with Sauerkraut Slaw; Rump Steaks with Anchovy Cream Sauce to a Chicken and Pea Traybake; plus a host of colorful vegetable dishes, such as Eastern Mediterranean Chopped Salad, and Carrots and Fennel with Harissa.

No Nigella cookbook would be complete without crowd-pleasing cakes and desserts and AT MY TABLE delivers, with a number of recipes set to become repertoire regulars: Victoria Sponge with Cardamom, Marmalade and Crème Fraiche; Emergency Brownies; White Chocolate Cheesecake; and a beautiful Rose and Pepper Pavlova being just a few contenders.

Sure to be welcomed as another home cooking classic from Nigella, AT MY TABLE answers, in her words, “that important, everyday question ‘What are we going to eat?”’

AT MY TABLE is as gorgeous as the recipes within it. Designed throughout by Caz Hildebrand and Harry Bingham and with food photography by Jonathan Lovekin, collaborating with Nigella for the first time, AT MY TABLE is sumptuously produced and ultimately covetable; fit for the coffee table, as well as the kitchen table.

Nigella Lawson, food enthusiast, television personality, and journalist, has written ten bestselling cook books including the classics How to Eat and How To Be A Domestic Goddess—the book that inspired a whole new generation of bakers. These books, and her TV series, have made her a household name around the world.

Preschool Clues

We’ve all heard warnings about watching too much TV and compulsively looking at our phones. Looking at children we love, we wonder about screen-time and its effects on their development. Some parents are consumed by guilt – but should they be?

Like eating, media diets can be healthy or unhealthy. But unlike labeled groceries, most media content is not so easy to categorize as good-for-us whole foods or the equivalent of empty calories.

Now, Angela Santomero – award-winning co-creator of Blue’s Clues and creator of Super Why! and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood – explains how to evaluate children’s media content and utilize it to help children flourish academically, socially, and emotionally. In her new book PRESCHOOL CLUES: Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World (April 2018; Touchstone), she shares how healthy media empowers, challenges, and builds the self-worth of children, while making them laugh.

Her iconic and wildly successful show Blue’s Clues changed the way young children watched television, destroying the myth that TV is a passive medium. It actively and consistently invited audience participation, engaging viewers and blending fun and learning.

In Preschool Clues, Angela distills the latest research in child development and education, and translates her learning philosophy beyond her award-winning shows, straight into actionable advice for parents and educators. Angela’s 11 clues can be used in everyday scenarios:

• Clue #1: Play: Play opens the door to a preschooler’s world
• Clue #2: Pause: Pausing helps preschoolers find their voice
• Clue #3: Repeat: Repetition leads to learning and mastery
• Clue #4: Think: Knowing how to think is the key to future success
• Clue #5: Resolve: Conflict develops grit, coping skills, and strategies
• Clue #6: Respect: Respectfully communicating builds a preschooler’s self-worth
• Clue #7: Help: Asking preschoolers “Will you help me?” develops empathy and confidence
• Clue #8: Model: Modeling shapes our preschooler’s behaviors and experience
• Clue #9: Observe: Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary can spark our preschooler’s passion
• Clue #10: Enjoy: Singing and laughing makes parenting easier
• Clue #11: Celebrate: Celebrating the small things grows a preschooler’s sense of optimism and intrinsic motivation

Called a “modern-day Fred Rogers” by his wife, Joanne, Angela Santomero creates high-quality programs that help young viewers develop the basic skills they will call upon for the rest of their lives. She is the co-creator of Blue’s Clues and creator of Super Why!, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Creative Galaxy, and Wishenpoof. She holds a master’s degree in Child Developmental Psychology, has won 7 Parents’ Choice Gold Awards, and her work has been cited in numerous publications including Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, The Tipping Point. She lives in New York with her husband, Greg, daughters Hope and Ella, and dogs Oreo and Samoa.

PRESCHOOL CLUES is an invaluable guide to how quality media helps children learn — and explains how everyone can extend Angela’s successful learning techniques when the show is over.

The One-Bottle Cocktail

No bitters, no vermouth, no liqueur?

No problem!

Maggie Hoffman’s The One-Bottle Cocktail: More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit is here to help! This collection of creative, vibrant, and delicious cocktail recipes won’t break the bank, won’t require an emergency run to the liquor store, and (best of all!) will delight cocktail lovers of all stripes.

Maybe you’ve fallen in love with the drinks at your best local bar, then been disappointed to find out how complicated—and expensive—they are to make at home. Or maybe you’re renting a beach house with friends and you want to drink well (but pack light.) If you love cocktails but don’t have an extra room in your apartment for a ton of esoteric bottles, this book is for you.

Gathered from some of the best bartenders around the country (and beyond), these all-new drinks call on common ingredients (herbs, vegetables, spices, vinegars, honey, and more) to build complex and unexpected flavor profiles. Every drink in The One-Bottle Cocktail contains a single spirit: vodka, gin, tequila, mezcal, rum, pisco, cognac, bourbon, rye, or Scotch. There are no bitters, no absinthe, no amari. There’s no vermouth, no orgeat. Just one bottle of booze and ingredients you can get at your favorite grocery store.

Maggie Hoffman writes about cocktails, wine, and beer for the James Beard Award-winning website Serious Eats, where she founded the drinks section in 2011 and served as managing editor.  Hoffman has written for Wine Enthusiast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Magazine, as well as the websites of Saveur, Food & Wine, and others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and more than a few bottles of booze.

Life After Darkness

“In the 12 years of doing the ‘Dr. Phil’ show, no one has changed me like Michelle Knight and her story of survival.” —Dr. Phil McGraw

Michelle Knight—Cleveland kidnapping survivor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Finding Me—writes an inspiring and intimate book about healing and resilience, to be published on the five-year anniversary of her escape.

Michelle Knight—now known as Lily Rose Lee—captured the world’s attention in May 2013, when she and fellow kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found and freed after years of torture. Michelle was a young single mother when she was taken by Cleveland school bus driver Ariel Castro. Her story of the horrors she endured and the hope she nurtured for more than a decade became the riveting #1 New York Times bestseller Finding Me, and translation rights were sold in 18 countries.

Now, in the highly anticipated and deeply personal follow-up, she explores healing after great tragedy, and recovering from the unrelenting stress of conflict. In LIFE AFTER DARKNESS: Finding Healing and Happiness After Tragedy: A Memoir of Life After the Cleveland Kidnappings (Hachette Books; May 2018; $28.00), Michelle shares how she dared to emerge into life again, rebuilding and re-creating her true self, and offers her thoughts on how anyone who has suffered greatly can learn to find new meaning and purpose.

In LIFE AFTER DARKNESS, Michelle reveals:

• Her struggle to find love, and if she has been able to
• Why she changed her name
• Her feelings about her long-lost son
• How she adjusted to life outside of captivity
• The truth about her relationships with Amanda and Gina
• Her battles with addiction
• How she has healed and the hard-won lessons she has learned since her escape

Michelle Knight, now known as Lillian Rose Lee, is an artist, author, speaker and a survivor living in Cleveland. Lily is passionate about inspiring others, and now helps animals and volunteers at local shelters, creates art, and advocates for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome.

An American Sickness

“An eye opening discussion…[An] important book…Rosenthal told an interviewer her goal was to ‘start a very loud conversation’ that will be ‘difficult politically to ignore.’ We need such a conversation—not just about how the market fails, but about how we can change the political realities that stand in the way of fixing it.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A blast across the bow of the entire health care industry…Throughout, the author blends extensive research with human interest…A scathing denouncement.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing An American Sickness.” —New York Journal of Books

Even with Congress’s failure to officially repeal the Affordable Care Act, our healthcare system is desperately broken.  No proposed reforms have addressed the fact that the cost of medical care in the U.S. has grown far beyond what most people can afford, and pharmaceutical giant CVS’s recent acquisition of Aetna only underscores what Americans have known for years: Our healthcare system is now in the money-making business and not the healing one.

As a Harvard-trained medical doctor and veteran journalist—first with the New York Times and now as editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News—Elisabeth Rosenthal has witnessed firsthand how healthcare has become a business. In AN AMERICAN SICKNESS: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin Books; On-sale March 13, 2018), she provides an in-depth analysis of how, in the past twenty-five years, the healthcare system has begun to focus less on the patient and more on revenue.

We are all experiencing increasing out-of-pocket healthcare costs: rising drug prices, insurance premiums, copayments and deductibles and surprise bills for services that we discover only after-the-fact are not covered by our insurance at all. American prices for everything in healthcare are 2-3 times what they are in other developed countries. Getting sick is unaffordable.

AN AMERICAN SICKNESS wants to educate readers on how we got into this dire situation, because an educated consumer is the one who can change it. The book gets granular (Questions I should ask my doctor; How to read a hospital bill; How to fight a hospital bill; How to negotiate with your insurer over cost) as well as macro (Why has our healthcare system become so byzantine? Who are the bad guys? Why are things like drugs, medical devices, surgery, childbirth, more expensive here than in most any other place in the world?). Blending extensive research with real stories of people caught in healthcare nightmares, she offers sage advice on how to make the system more responsive and affordable.

Even before Elisabeth Rosenthal grabbed the attention of the American public with the hardcover publication of AN AMERICAN SICKNESS, she had spent a lifetime studying our healthcare system.  As a child of a physician, then a Harvard-trained medical doctor, and eventually as a reporter, she’s had a front-row seat to the transformation of the American medical system from a caring endeavor to the most profitable industry in the United States.  AN AMERICAN SICKNESS helps us wrest control of our health from the ledgers of the medical-industrial complex and put it back where it belongs—with the consumer.

About the Author:

Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health and health policy. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine, and has worked as an ER physician. She lives in New York City and Washington, DC.

Take Off Your Shoes

“Most hard-charging senior executives have thought of leaving their stressful jobs and bugging out to Bali. Ben Feder had the guts to do it. Even if we can’t follow in his footsteps, we all can benefit from his experience through the compelling story he tells in Take Off Your Shoes.” — Tom Glocer, Former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Founder of Angelic Partners

“Fiercely honest, Ben Feder takes off more than his shoes. He takes the bands off his plastic, expansive brain and lets us in on an intimate journey. At the end I felt a crazy thing: this is an exciting time to be a man. Could this book be more timely? I read it cover to cover on my iPhone!” — Geraldine Laybourne, Co-founder of Katapult; Founder, Oxygen Media; first President, Nickelodeon

“The magic of Ben Feder’s narrative is that we see our own lives unfold as we travel alongside him on his journey. His poignant inner monologue touches us and emboldens us to make braver choices. We are left richer for the voyage.”  —Eric Langshur, author of the New York Times bestseller Start Here

Top tech exec Ben Feder was hugely successful as CEO of Take Two Interactive, publisher of the monster-hit video games Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. But his hard charging, high-performance business life was seriously impacting his personal and family health. That’s when he made the bold and potentially career-ending decision to take an eight-month family sabbatical in Bali.

Now, in TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES: From the Boardroom to Bali and Back (Radius Book Group; April 2018) Ben Feder asks and answers the question: Could he—could anyone—find a way to live a harmonious and balanced life and simultaneously achieve substantial success?

Illuminating and inspiring, TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES is Feder’s brutally honest and revealing journey of self-rediscovery, his heartfelt attempt to find personal fulfillment and rebuild family relationships before he loses them forever. Exploring brain plasticity and our ability to change our lives by changing our minds, Feder deepened his connections to his wife and children, lost 20 pounds, and moved his health stats from the red zone to normal levels. Now, could he return to New York City and live with greater compassion and gratitude, engaging in a richer life fiercely and wholeheartedly?

The family’s encounters transformed them, and his children became more mature, compassionate, and able to lead more fulfilling lives—even at their young ages. Sharing his experiences on changing a life of doing to one of being and meaning, Feder narrates how he:

• Interrupted the relentless recipe for suffering: striving leading to more striving;
• Moved his mindset from corporate takeover to spiritual makeover;
• Challenged preconceptions through Inquiry Practice (thoughts are not facts);
• Tackled life’s challenges in new ways that maintained relationships and opened new doors by learning to “see” differently through the practice of art and yoga;
• Became a better father, offering his children a broader worldview and freeing them from unnecessary stressors, so they could engage, play, and create;
• Gained a fresh perspective on corporate life that he applies daily;
• Leads now with intention, how it impacts conversations, alters a point of view, and more.

Ben Feder is President of International Partnerships for the U.S. at Tencent, the Chinese internet titan, and formerly was CEO of Take Two interactive, the publisher of the smash video game hits Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto, and NBA 2K. He serves on the boards of directors of public and private companies in the media and entertainment industries and is a director of Save a Child’s Heart, a nonprofit that works globally to rescue children with congenital heart defects. A Harvard Business School graduate, Feder lives in New York City with his wife, Victoria, and their four children.

Witty and wise, TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES provides insightful guidance for anyone facing change, seeking career-life balance, or weighing a next step in life.

Make Me Even And I’ll Never Gamble Again

“A rip-roaring yarn of baseball, poker, and Wall Street told with humor and humanity.”
—Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School

“I bet you won’t be able to put down this book. By turns hilarious, insightful, and touching, Fine has written a coming-of-age story for the ages.”
—Peter Lattman, Vice Chairman, The Atlantic

Drawing from his own experiences in the turbulent ‘70s and ‘80s, hedge fund pioneer Jerrold Fine blends a heartfelt story of a young man fiercely intent on achieving independence with a fascinating insider’s look at the perks and pitfalls of a high-stakes life in the world of financial markets in his debut novel MAKE ME EVEN AND I’LL NEVER GAMBLE AGAIN (RosettaBooks; August 2018).

Rogers Stout has the gambler’s gifts—a titanic brain, an uncanny ability to read people, and a risk-taker’s daring. As an apathetic high school student who loves baseball but lacks a 90-mph fastball, he knows that the game does not begin until the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand. But his life needs direction.

Everything changes the summer he is invited into the boisterous environment of an investment bank’s trading room, and to a gambling hall dive where he immediately wins big at poker, capturing the attention of his co-workers with his card-playing skills. Intrigued by trading markets, Rogers’s intellectual curiosity takes him to Wharton and then Wall Street, where he faces challenges as an outsider who thinks and acts differently from the white-shoe establishment. With his intuition and prowess, he’s ready to rewrite the rules and tackle markets with a flair that leaves his employers flabbergasted. Rogers leans heavily on his gut instincts and the unusual cadre of friendships he cultivates, but learns the hard way to be alert to the perils that await him. As Rogers plays his career hand, life plays another. Should he follow the temptress Elsbeth and her ravishing beauty, or Charlotte, his high-spirited first love?

Jerrold Fine is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has served multiple terms on its Undergraduate Executive Board and Board of Overseers. He has been a founding managing partner of a hedge fund since he was twenty-four years old. He continues to run his family’s investments while he works diligently on his next novel. He lives in Connecticut with his artist wife and a ridiculously spoiled Portuguese water dog.

An intriguing look at human aspiration and the interplay of honor, greed, fear, and individuality, MAKE ME EVEN AND I’LL NEVER GAMBLE AGAIN reveals a time when a new generation upended the status quo on Wall Street and forever changed investing

Mark Seliger Photographs

Mark Seliger’s extraordinary portfolio is 30 years in the making. In 1987 Seliger began shooting small assignments for Rolling Stone; in 1992 he became their chief photographer, a position he kept for 15 years. During the course of his time at the magazine, he photographed more than 125 covers. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, ELLE, GQ, Vogue Italia, New Yorker, Purple, and in museums and galleries worldwide. He has captured some of the most iconic images of the most famous and influential faces of our time, including Kurt Cobain, Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Emma Stone, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, Matthew Barney, Jennifer Lawrence, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay-Z, Misty Copeland, Amy Schumer, and Paul McCartney.

Mark Seliger Photographs (Abrams; May 1, 2018; Hardcover) showcases his best-known portraiture, as well as never before seen outtakes and select standouts from his landscape and personal work including portraits of Holocaust survivors and transgender men and women on Christopher Street, and documentary photography of Cuba. Accompanying the photographs is an interview between Mark Seliger and Judd Apatow, in which Seliger shares stories behind some of his most iconic work: Kurt Cobain showing up for a Rolling Stone shoot in a “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” T-shirt; taking a road trip with Brad Pitt; and navigating a room full of Tibetan monks while shooting His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In addition, the book also features an essay by Lyle Lovett. Mark Seliger Photographs is the ultimate celebration of one of the most in-demand portrait photographers.

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