Houghton Mifflin Books General Interest Books Catalog, Spring 2005, Part 2 · 2005-06-21 ·...

A U T H O R P R O F I L E

CINDERELLA MANJames J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History

An ESPN anchor and national corre-

spondent, JEREMY SCHAAP is a

host of ESPN’s Outside the Lines, an

issues-oriented news show, as well

as its acclaimed SportsCentury series.

A highly regarded reporter and the

winner of five Emmy Awards, he

has also appeared on ABC’s World

News Tonight and CBS Evening

News. In addition, Schaap has been

published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN:

The Magazine, Time, Parade, and the

New York Times. Born in 1969, Schaap

is a native of New York City and a

1991 graduate of Cornell University.

He is the son of the award-winning

journalist Dick Schaap.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE

New York City

Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport’s true Cinderella story.James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon,

was a once-promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses inthe ring and a broken right hand happened to correspond with theGreat Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor onthe docks of Hoboken while only his manager, Joe Gould, still believedin him. The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet Irishmanmade one of boxing’s oddest couples, but together they staged animpossible comeback. In the span of less than twelve months Braddockwent from the relief rolls to face heavyweight champion Max Baer, theLivermore Butcher Boy, notorious for allegedly having killed two menin the ring. A ten-to-one underdog, Braddock carried the hopes anddreams of the working class on his shoulders. And when boxing wasthe biggest sport in the world, his unlikely upset made him the mostpopular champion boxing had ever seen.

Against the gritty backdrop of the Depression, Cinderella Manbrings this dramatic all-American story to life, evoking a time when the sport of boxing resonated with a country trying desperately to getback on its feet. Schaap paints a vivid picture of the fight world in itsgolden age — populated by men of every class and ethnic backgroundand covered voluminously by writers who elevated sportswriting to art. Cinderella Man is a classic David and Goliath tale that transcendsthe sport.

In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Perfect Mile,

the fascinating true story of James J. Braddock, a

Depression-era boxer and American folk hero,

whose life is also the inspiration for an upcoming

major motion picture© ESPN

Jeremy Schaap

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FROM

CINDERELLA MAN

Jim Braddock’s decline as a fighter exactly paralleled the nation’s

descent into the Depression. After fighting for the light heavy-

weight championship in the summer of 1929, he met defeat after

defeat, first in big arenas, at the hands of top competition, then,

gradually, at the hands of fighters only a couple of notches, not

more, above club fighters, tomato cans and ham ’n’ eggers, the

dregs of the heavyweight division. He’d lost 16 out of 26 fights

since the day the market crashed in 1929. Finally, on September

25, 1933, he broke his right hand, his only real weapon, on the

jaw of a 20-year-old heavyweight named Abe Feldman. The hand

had been broken twice before, and Braddock thought it was

unlikely that it would ever heal correctly. If he somehow managed

to scrape up enough cash to find a doctor who knew how to set

the fracture, it would still take months to heal. By that time, he

knew, he would be older and even slower than he already was,

which was quite slow. Braddock announced his retirement — but

virtually no one noticed.

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ARBELLAEngland’s Lost Queen

In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own

destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world.Arbella was niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I

— who indicated that the teenage Arbella was to be heir to her throne. A critical pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during thelong, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying, the young Arbella enduredtwenty-seven years of isolation at the grand Hardwick Hall, held by herscheming and powerful grandmother.

The accession of James I, Arbella’s first cousin, ended the youngwoman’s royal aspirations but thrust her into James’s licentious court.Then, at age thirty-five, she risked everything to make a forbidden marriage. An escape in disguise, a wild flight abroad, and capture at sea led in the end to an agonizing death in the Tower. Yet nothing is asremarkable as the almost modern freedom with which, in a series ofextraordinary letters — more passionate and extensive than those of anyother woman of this suffocating age — Arbella Stuart revealed her owncompelling personality.

“Fresh, vivid, and beautifully detailed . . . Much of the narrative is high melodrama, and Gristwood conveys it with exactly the rightmixture of suspense and sympathy” (Independent).

SARAH GRISTWOOD is an Oxford-trained historian, journalist,

and broadcaster.

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A stunning debut biography that restores Arbella,

England’s “lost queen,” to vivid life. “Utterly compelling

. . . an exquisite jewel of a book.” — Alison Weir

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THE DIEZMOA Novel

In the early days of the Republic of Texas, two young men, wild forglory, impulsively volunteer for an expedition Sam Houston has

ordered to patrol the Mexican border. But the dreams of triumph soonfade into prayers for survival when all that is on their minds is gettinghome and having a cool drink of water. After being captured in a raid onthe Mexican village of Mier, escaping, and being recaptured, the men ofthe expedition are punished with the terrible diezmo, in which one manin ten must die. The survivors end up in the most dreaded prison inMexico. There they become pawns in an international chess game beingplayed to decide the fate of Texas, and, with their hopes of release allbut extinguished, they make one last-ditch, desperate effort to escape.

Based on the Mier Expedition, this is one of the most absurd andtragic military adventures in the history of Texas — a country and astate, as Rick Bass writes, that was “born in blood.”

RICK BASS is the author of twenty-one books, including Where the

Sea Used to Be and Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever

Had. This is his second novel.

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RED SOX VS. YANKEES(TENTATIVE)A Season in the Life of America’s Greatest Sports Rivalry (tent.)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY is an

award-winning columnist for the

Boston Globe and the author of

several sports books, including The

Curse of the Bambino, a best-selling

classic now in its twenty-first print-

ing. Seven times Shaughnessy has

been voted one of America’s top

ten sports columnists by Associated

Press Sports Editors and named

Massachusetts Sportswriter of the

Year. He has appeared on Good

Morning America, The Today Show,

The Early Show, CNN, Nightline,

NPR, Imus in the Morning, ESPN,

HBO, and many others.


Newton, Massachusetts

For more than eighty-five years, the Boston Red Sox have been theunderdog in what ESPN named the number-one sports rivalry of

all time. But in 2004 the snakebitten Sox finally got their revenge. Afterthe stunning 2003 postseason matchup, which sent the Red Sox pack-ing in history-making fashion, and the infamous deal that landed A-Rod, baseball’s highest-paid player, in pinstripes, the age-old rivalryescalated to dizzying new heights. The result was a season in which aplucky team of comeback kids improbably brought down the HouseThat Ruth Built and a sports story that will long be etched in the mindsand hearts of baseball fans around the world.

From right on the sidelines, Dan Shaughnessy chronicles thisunforgettable season and what it means to those involved, from theBronx to the Hub, the front office to the bleachers. We witness the colorful antics of baseball’s best-known stars, the dramatic play on thefield punctuated by bench-clearing brawls and the cold war–style battlebeing waged behind the scenes. We also come to understand in an inti-mate way what it’s like to be a fan. With lively reporting, penetratinginsight, and a keen sense of history, Shaughnessy brings the 2004 sea-son alive in all its glory, drama, and garishness. Here, in the course ofone season, is the essence of a rivalry that turns everyday sports into thestuff of legend.

With unique access, the best-selling author of the

classic Curse of the Bambino takes us inside the Red

Sox/Yankees rivalry to experience firsthand the

highly contentious 2004 season, which culminated

in the greatest sports story of our lifetime.© BOSTON GLOBE

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Coming inMarch

Dan Shaughnessy



FROM

RED SOX VS.YANKEES(TENTATIVE)

The beginning of the 2004 season started while Aaron

Boone rounded the bases on that fateful night in October

2003. It was the beginning of perhaps the most remarkable

off-season in the history of baseball, a nuclear winter when the

Red Sox and the Yankees eyeballed each other much like the

Americans and the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis of

1962. It was a Nation versus an Empire, and it set the stage for

the stunning events of the 2004 season. It was the hottest of

hot stoves, a scalding series of strikes and counterstrikes that

eventually left both teams with all-star rosters and the two

heftiest payrolls in baseball history. It drew commentary from

the president of the United States and almost every schoolchild

in both regions. And who knew that Boone — the grandson of

the Sox scout who started the whole thing with a walkoff shot

in October — would trigger the most remarkable trade of all

time simply by playing an off-season game of pickup basketball?

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RED SOX VS.YANKEES

(TENTATIVE)

A Season in the Life of America’s

Greatest Sports Rivalry(tent.)

Dan Shaughnessy



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DAVID L. SCOTT, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting and finance at

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THE GRAIL BIRDThe Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

What is it about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker? Why does this supposedly long-extinct bird arouse such an amazing level of

interest and dedication in its devotees, who range from respectedresearchers and naturalists to Loch Ness monster fanatics and Elvischasers? Since the early twentieth century, scientists have been tryingtheir best to prove that the Ivory-bill is extinct. But every time they think they’ve finally closed the door, the bird makes an unexpectedappearance. It happened in the 1920s, it happened in the 1930s, and it has happened almost every decade since. For at least the past sixtyyears, every sighting has been met with ridicule and scorn. Friendshipshave ended. Careers have been ruined. And yet the reports still tricklein. Now author Tim Gallagher takes up the chase, heading deep into the trackless southern swamps and bayous to determine once and for all if the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still lives.

TIM GALLAGHER is a lifelong bird fanatic. An award-winning

writer and photographer, he is editor in chief of Living Bird maga-

zine, the flagship publication of the renowned Cornell Laboratory of

Ornithology. For many years Tim has traveled to faraway places,

from the high Arctic to the tropics, to study and photograph birds

and report on research.

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BLINDING LIGHTA Novel

PAUL THEROUX has written more

than two dozen novels, including

The Mosquito Coast, Kowloon Tong,

and most recently Hotel Honolulu.

His acclaimed travel writing includes

The Old Patagonian Express, The

Happy Isles of Oceania, and Dark

Star Safari.


Hawaii and Cape Cod

Slade Steadman is the ultimate one-book wonder. His lone opus,published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about

his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport.With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, he sets out for Ecuador’sjungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for hiswriter’s block.

Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, Steadman finds his drug and his inspiration but is beset with an unnerving side effect — periodicblindness. His world is altered profoundly; Ava stays by his side, hewrites an erotic, autobiographical novel with the drug serving as muse,and he returns to stardom, now as a Blind Writer.

He becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, onlyto have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision?His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambi-tion? As Theroux leads us toward the answers, he makes fresh magicout of the venerable intertwined themes of sight and insight. He alsooffers incisive, sometimes hilarious takes on the manifold ironies oftravel and the trappings of the writer’s life — from the fear of the blankpage to the unexpected challenges of the book tour.

From the New York Times best-selling author of

Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, a novel of

manners and mind expansion about a writer literally

blinded by his pursuit of the muse© GREG MARTIN

Paul Theroux

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Blinding Light

The blinding light bestowed by the datura inspired andstrengthened him and gave him back the past; granted him

something just short of omniscience; was revelation and remem-brance. He had heard that blindness was sensory deprivation andhad believed it to be something like a thick bag over the head of adoomed man in a noose. Never had he imagined that such blind-ness would grant him power, that he would be given such vision.Darkness was light, the world was turned inside out, he saw to theessence of things, and it was prophetic, for at the heart of all wasthe future.

Blindness was his addiction and his obsession — his entirewaking life was given to it; his whole world was transformed. Noone knew what he knew. How deluded sighted people were,insects twitching in a stick-figure tango, animated by their feebleimpulses, seeing so little.

Drinking the muddy mixture, Steadman was blinded anduplifted. In the glow of his sightlessness nothing was hidden, theworld was vast and bright, and its vital odors filled his soul. Thesimplest touch roused him by the pressure of its tragic eloquence.He learned a whole narrative of smell, a grammar of sound, a syntax of touch.

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REBUILTHow Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

A graduate of Brown University,

MICHAEL CHOROST does research

in educational technology. This is his

first book.


Redwood City, California

Michael Chorost became a cyborg on October 1, 2001, the day hisnew ear was booted up. Born hard of hearing in 1964, he went

completely deaf in his thirties. Rather than live in silence, he had asmall computer chip implanted in his skull that would allow him tohear. The melding of silicon and flesh has long been a science fictionstaple, but as Chorost reveals, it’s now commonplace. Human andmachine are becoming one.

This is the story of Chorost’s journey — from deafness to hearing,from human to cyborg — and how it transformed him. Despite his fearof technology’s dehumanizing effects, Chorost’s cochlear implantallowed him to connect with the world in surprising ways: he learnedabout love, joined a writing group, and formed deeper friendships.More profoundly, it altered his perception of reality: with everyupgrade to the implant’s software, his experience of the world changed.For cyborgs, the senses have become reprogrammable; there is no single truth.

Written with the self-deprecating, dry wit of a high-tech DavidSedaris, Rebuilt explores the biology of hearing, the physics of sound,and the engineering of software that can now mend the senses whenthey break down. At once illuminating and inspiring, this quirky coming-of-age story unveils — in a way no other book has — the magnificent possibilities of a new technological era.

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Michael Chorost




FROM

RebuiltTo celebrate my new ear, I go out to buy my first portable CD player. I want to play my familiar old CDs as a way of mapping mynew auditory world onto my old one. Knowing how Bolero sounds— or, at any rate, did sound through hearing aids and cochleasmissing most of their hair cells — will help me reconnect to reality,whatever exactly that is these days.

I start by going to Radio Shack to get a patch cable. This willenable me to connect the CD player directly to the processor. I amgreeted immediately by a young, attentive, and expressionlessemployee.

“What can I do for you?”“I’d like to get a patch cable to connect to a CD player,” I say.“You’re connecting it to a speaker?” he asks.I hesitate. How do I explain this? I point to the processor at

my waist, and then to the back of my head. “This is a bionic ear.The patch cable will go in here. Then the sound will go into myhead.”

He simply nods and turns to the cables on the wall. I’m a littlebefuddled. Maybe he has customers walking into the store all thetime asking how to plug things into themselves. He picks out acable and hands it to me.

“Can I try this out first?” I say. “I want to make sure itworks.”

He rustles up a CD player from the display case and slides adisc into it. I peek at the label. It’s country and western. He keepsthe player in his hands, which unnerves me a little because I don’tknow what the heck is going to happen. I entertain a brief vision ofa searing pain in my head, followed by both me and my credit carddropping limply to the floor. Killed by George Strait.

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TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WARThe Threshold of Middle-earth

Revealing the horror and heroism Tolkien experienced in the FirstWorld War, author John Garth introduces the close friends who

spurred Tolkien’s mythology to life. He shows how the deaths of twocomrades encouraged Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared. Heargues that Tolkien transformed the cataclysm of his generation whilemany of his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment.

Winner of the 2004 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award,

JOHN GARTH has studied Tolkien’s personal wartime papers

and a multitude of other sources. He studied English at Oxford

University and is a journalist in London.

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THE PRACTICE OF DECEITA Novel

ELIZABETH BENEDICT is the author

of Almost, which was selected as a

New York Times Notable Book, a

Washington Post Book World Book

of the Year, a Newsweek Best Fiction

Book of the Year, and a Best Book of

the Year by National Public Radio’s

Fresh Air. She is also the author of

three other novels, as well as The

Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fic-

tion Writers.


New York City and Somerville, Massachusetts

When Eric Lavender meets Colleen O’Brien Golden, his cher-ished life as Manhattan therapist and eligible single suddenly

loses its long-standing appeal. Colleen is a stylish lawyer in the suburbof Scarsdale, and Eric, to his own amazement, is besotted. He moveshis practice to Scarsdale to marry her and quickly settles into blissfulsuburban domesticity with their new baby and adorable stepdaughter.He even becomes a local hero when the police turn to him to resolve ahostage crisis.

But Eric’s transformation comes to an abrupt halt when the policecome knocking on his door again — this time with handcuffs. He andhis lawyer-wife are caught up in an explosive conflict of interest involv-ing their clients. When Eric discovers that Colleen has gone to extremelengths to conceal a secret past, she retaliates with horrendous chargesagainst him. Eric must uncover the truth before his children, his career,and his freedom are taken from him forever.

As she did in her bestseller Almost, Benedict navigates the turbu-lent waters of love, law, psychology, and ethics with wit and penetrat-ing insight. The Practice of Deceit is a gripping thriller and razor-sharpnovel of marriage — and divorce — gone awry.

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Elizabeth Benedict




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“Benedict captures finely tuned calibrations of feeling . . . gets just right the weird detours our brains take when they’resupposed to be on the straight and narrow . . . [She] seems to understand humor’s real function: not to be funny,necessarily, but to get us through the day.”— Newsday

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CHARACTER STUDIESEncounters with the Curiously Obsessed

For thirty years, Singer’s been MVP at The New Yorker . . . searchingthe country for superslices of Americana,” praised Entertainment

Weekly upon the publication of Singer’s previous book, Somewhere inAmerica. His newest collection, Character Studies, is filled with profilesof Americans that Singer thinks we ought to meet. Whether it’s aboutthe sleight-of-hand master Ricky Jay, the ardent bibliophile MichaelZinman, or better-known personalities such as the hype artist DonaldTrump or the meticulous filmmaker Martin Scorcese, Singer’s elegant,incisive journalism uncovers the passions that drive the ordinary, thequirky, and the truly, fanatically fixated.

Singer is interested in people driven by their intensity, like TomChino, the produce farmer whose pristine vegetables are, in the handsof chefs like Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, quite literally the essen-tial ingredients of the new American cuisine. “Wherever Singer goes,”raves Discover magazine, “he brings great wit and sensitivity with him,”and this is true whether he’s interviewing a devoted fan of cowboymovie star Tom Mix or the self-selected intelligentsia of El Paso, Texas,who are determined to recover the skull of Pancho Villa. Singer’s keenear and sharp eye are sure to appeal to anyone interested in oddballs,America, or the conviction that character is destiny.

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THE WRECKERSA Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks

Bella Bathurst’s first book, the acclaimed Lighthouse Stevensons,told the story of the construction of the Scottish lighthouses by

the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. Now she returns to the sea to search out the darker side of those lights.

Even now, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. An islandsoaked by four separate seas, with shifting sandbanks to the east, veiledreefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world’s busiest ship-ping channel below, the country’s offshore waters are strewn with oldshipwrecks. For villagers who scratched an existence along Britishshores, those wrecks often represented the difference between a goodlife and a hard one. Sometimes the “wreckers” scavenged ships alreadyashore; sometimes they deliberately caused the casualties. Spanningthree hundred years of seafaring history, The Wreckers examines themyths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks, from false beacons tosmugglers’ hideaways to twenty-first-century wrecking. Throughpainstaking research and interviews, Bathurst has created a remarkablework of narrative history and contemporary storytelling.

BELLA BATHURST is the author of The Lighthouse Stevensons,

which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and of the novel

Special. Her journalism has appeared in the Washington Post,

the London Sunday Times, and other major periodicals. Born in

London, she lives in Scotland.

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THE EVERY BOYA Novel

DANA ADAM SHAPIRO is a former

senior editor at Spin and a founder

of Icon, and has written for Spin, the

New York Times Magazine, Boston,

Maxim, and other publications. His

first film, Murderball, a documentary

he codirected about quadriplegic

rugby players, will be released

theatrically in 2005.


New York City

In the tradition of John Irving and Tom Perrotta, The Every Boy findshumor in dysfunction and hope in the roller coaster of self-discov-

ery. During his short lifetime, Henry Every flirted badly with girls,

broke into the houses in his neighborhood, fantasized about being aminority, and killed a great blue heron. His sudden, unexplained deathwas a shock to all who knew him, especially his father. Alone now in hissuburban house, Harlan Every pores over his late son’s secret thoughtsin an attempt to connect with the boy he never really knew — and to figure out how he died. Harlan had reached out to his son in the onlyways he knew how: giving competitive boxing lessons, sharing marine-life minutiae, and doling out hard-bitten maxims about how to get theupper hand in life. Now, for the first time, Harlan really listens. Helearns the truth about Henry’s many misadventures and transgressions.He also discovers the part he played in Henry’s tragic death and thereal reason his wife walked out years ago. The story grows into two parallel love stories — one past, one present — with very different out-comes.

Both whimsical and wise, The Every Boy is a page-turning mys-tery, an exploration of fathers and sons, a romance, and a one-of-a-kind celebration of human individuality.

From a former senior editor at Spin, an unconven-

tional debut novel about a fifteen-year-old boy who

dies mysteriously and leaves behind a ledger filled

with darkly comic confessions© NINA SUBIN

Dana Adam Shapiro




PRAISE FOR

The Every Boy

“For a novel whose appealing teenage protagonist is pronounceddead on page one, The Every Boy is remarkably buoyant and witty, without sacrificing gravitas. Its hero and its author both areunsentimentally perceptive and optimistic about the oddness anddifficulty and even, sometimes, the joy of being a human amonghumans.” — Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleeping Father(a Today Show Book Club pick)

FROM

The Every Boy

For his fifth birthday Henry got two presents that would cometo shape his soul. From Dad, a bean-stuffed cow that went

moo when squeezed. Henry called it Moo. From Mom he got aninner voice, a grand and booming yes man for each of his stoopedshoulders. Gift-wrapped in silver, Great Ovations was a 45-minute record filled with nothing but applause from “majormoments” of the twentieth century. There was no context for theclaps — it could have been a Puccini encore, Willie Mays on the flyin center field, hails for the Führer in Berlin. What difference did itmake? The message never muddled, and while Dad thought it wascoddling and bad for a growing boy’s spine, Henry fell asleep to itevery night for three years, even carrying a dubbed cassette in hisknapsack just in case he needed exaltation on the go.

Dad found this out just before Henry’s funeral, when he wasfirst presented with the ledger his son had secretly kept since hewas ten on over 2,600 sheets of looseleaf graph paper. (Only girlskept diaries, Henry had been told.) Color-coded to reflect theauthor’s changing moods, it was a catalogue of life’s wee tics andpangs . . . There were threadbare confessionals, overhead dialoguetranscriptions, stabs at investigative journalism. And finally, on thelast page, three maxims under the acronym AMFAS (As My FatherAlways Said):

1. Hit ’em back twice, three times as hard.2. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on

me.3. Don’t wear red trousers to battle.

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DEATH AND THE SUNA Matador’s Season in the Heart of Spain

EDWARD LEWINE writes for the

New York Times and Salon.com. He

graduated from the Columbia School

of Journalism. This is his first book.


New York City

Much as Adam Gopnik unveiled Paris, Edward Lewine revealsSpain as few outsiders have seen it. There’s nothing more Span-

ish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadorsand aficionados alike, it is an art, not a blood sport. For a brilliantobserver like Lewine, it also proves to be one of the world’s most vener-able subcultures, steeped in ancient ritual, archetypal machismo, andthe feverish attentions of the tabloid press.

Lewine illuminates this art and the country it defines by spending ayear with one of Spain’s most celebrated matadors, Francisco RiveraOrdoñez, following him through the country’s every region and socialstratum. His grandfather was the greatest bullfighter of his day, whoseexploits were chronicled in Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon. Hisfather was the greatest matador of his day, until a bull killed him whenFran (as he’s known) was ten. Fran is blessed by his forebears’ talent,and scarred by his father’s death.

As the season opens, he feels intense pressure to live up to his lega-cy amid tabloid scrutiny in the wake of his separation from his wife, aduchess. Nonetheless, Fran manages a dazzling season, with early tri-umphs followed by a potentially career-ending injury and an unlikelyreturn to glory.

Peril and tradition mingle in this account of

a thrilling season on the bullfighting circuit

in the company of Spain’s most dashing,

tormented matador.© EILEEN TRAVELL

Edward Lewine




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Death and the Sun

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But underneath the louche, seedy, inebriated carnival

atmosphere of Pamplona is something solid and good

that rescues the proceedings. This can be found in the heartfelt

devotion of the religious processions and services that take

place during the feria in this most Catholic part of Spain. It

can be found at midday in the bullring, where the aficionados

sample aperitifs and tapas and watch the bulls being sorted in

an immaculate corral. It can be found in thousands of local

homes, where the food is excellent and old friends and new

ones are treated to sincere, open hospitality. It can be found in

the innate elegance of the people and their democratic desire

to celebrate their town and saint with the rest of the globe, no

matter how rude or drunk the rest of the globe may be. Like

the bullfight itself, the Pamplona feria is another example of

the Spanish genius for mixing the high and the low, the sacred

and the profane, the serious and the silly, death and life, so

that it all makes sense in a way that it couldn’t and wouldn’t

anywhere else.

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From aerobatics to wrestling and everything in between, the Chambers SportsFactfinder covers more than one hundred sports from around the world.

Packed with fascinating facts and interesting information about sports — includingrules and diagrams, terminology and slang, major competition results, biographies,and little-known facts — this helpful resource is current and authoritative and ispresented in a clear, easy-to-use format. Comprehensive coverage and an engaging,informative style make it an ideal book for any sports fan.

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Perfect for the history buff or trivia fan, this is the one-stop

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Chambers History Factfinder is the perfect reference for anyone who has aninterest in history. Comprehensive and highly accessible, informative and

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THE UNITED STATESSUPREME COURTThe Pursuit of Justice

With its ability to review and interpret all American law, the U.S.Supreme Court is arguably the most influential branch of

government but also the one most carefully shielded from the publicgaze. The United States Supreme Court pulls back the curtain of mysteryand makes the Court accessible to all readers, offering the perfect pointof entry into the history of the revered institution.

Eighteen essays by top legal historians — including Paul Finkelman, Katherine Fischer Taylor, and Michael Vorenberg — provide a succinct, authoritative interpretation the Court’s activitiesover the past two centuries, from its inception to the present day. Organized chronologically by the terms of each chief justice, the book showcases the Court’s legal triumphs and disasters, its internalworkings, and its political, social, and cultural impact. Here are freshinsights into the Court’s key moments and cases, from the Dred Scotdecision to Brown v. Board of Education, from the Lochner Era to theWarren Court, from Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore. This book also bringsto light the uneasy influence of popular culture and electoral politics on the Court. A fitting companion to The American Congress and TheAmerican Presidency, The United States Supreme Court is essential reading, riveting and incisive.

CHRISTOPHER L. TOMLINS is a senior research fellow at the

American Bar Foundation and the editor of Law and History

Review. His previous books include The Many Legalities of Early

America; Law; Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic;

and The State and Unions.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS

For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulatedworldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written. No

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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it withhis own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring wastaken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, still it remained lost to him . . .

“J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy remains the ultimate quest, the ultimate battle between good and evil . . . Endlessly imitated, it has neverbeen surpassed.” — Kansas City Star

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VENUS AND SERENA: SERVING FROM THE HIP10 Rules for Living, Loving, and Winning

Venus and Serena Williams — superstars and super sisters — sharetheir code for living, loving, learning, and playing with the right

crowd. How do you stay true to yourself when you’re pressured inother directions? What’s the best way to achieve your dreams? How doyou know if someone is a true friend? This book offers honest and prac-tical advice from Venus’s and Serena’s personal experiences on and offthe court.

Energetic, straight-talking, and smart, Venus and Serena: Servingfrom the Hip gives readers an advantage in the game of life.

VENUS and SERENA WILLIAMS are world champion tennis

players known for their dedication, drive, and family values.

They live in Palm Beach, Florida. Check out the sisters’ Web site

at www.venusandserena.com to learn more about them.

HILARY BEARD is a health and wellness and fitness writer who

grew up playing tennis in Cleveland, Ohio. She now lives in

Philadelphia.

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LITTLE STEVIE WONDER

Eleven-year-old Steveland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Motown recording contract. At the age

of thirteen, Little Stevie Wonder had millions of fans dancing to thenumber-one song in the nation.

Little Stevie Wonder is the true story of a boy who lost his sightshortly after birth, grew up loved but poor in Detroit, Michigan, andbecame one of the twentieth century’s most creative and influentialmusicians — an instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, musical innovator,and cultural activist.

Here in Quincy Troupe’s joyful poem and Lisa Cohen’s vibrant art is an uplifting celebration of life, peace, and music.

QUINCY TROUPE is the author of fourteen books, including seven

volumes of poetry, the latest of which is Transcircularities: New

and Selected Poems, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the

ten best books of poetry published in 2002 and the winner of the

2003 Milt Kessler Prize for Poetry. He is a coauthor of Miles:

The Autobiography, which won an American Book Award, and

wrote Miles and Me: A Memoir of Miles Davis. He lives in New York

City with his wife, Margaret. This is his second book for children.

LISA COHEN is a self-taught artist who was born in Cape Town,

South Africa. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s,

eager to embrace freedom of expression. She paints and lives in

New Orleans with her husband and daughter. This is her fourth

children’s book.

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Includes a CD featuring two

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Quincy Troupe

Illustrated by Lisa Cohen



GOOD BEGINNINGS /UN BUEN COMIENZO

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In What Day Is It? (¿Qué día es?), days of the week are illustratedby a charming rabbit family who engage in such activities as groceryshopping and dining out. Where Am I Hiding? (¿Dónde me escondo?)introduces prepositions through a mischievous elephant who hides inunusual places.

In engaging stories and whimsical pictures, these books introducethe basic grammar of English and Spanish to even very young children.

PAMELA ZAGARENSKI lives in Mystic, Connecticut.



RUTH REICHL is the author of the

critically acclaimed New York Times

best-selling memoirs Tender at the

Bone and Comfort Me with Apples,

as well as of a new memoir, Garlic

and Sapphires.


New York City

THE GOURMET COOKBOOK

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