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9781250042743 Trade Paperback $14.99 11th Mar 304 PP St. Martin’s Griffin

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement from the New York Times bestselling author of The Starboard Sea

Damage Control displays Amber Dermont’s remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In “Lyndon,” a daughter visits presidential landmarksfollowing the death of her father. In “Damage Control,” a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a “professional grandchild” in “Stella at the Winter Palace.” And in “The Language of Martyrs” a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husband’s Russian mother.

Dermont’s stories have previously been published in many literary magazines and have also been featured in anthologies edited by Jane Smiley and Dave Eggers. Damage Control includes three previously unpublished pieces.Damage Control

Amber Dermont

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SUPERLEADThose adorable lovebirds from the hit animated film Rio are back in this exciting prequel to Rio 2!

Blu and Jewel, the last known surviving Blue Spix Macaws, are having a great time raising their children in the safety of the Blu Bird Sanctuary, but there may be trouble in paradise! When Blu overhears Tulio and Linda talking about their money troubles, Blu takes it upon himself to save the sanctuary and his friends’ livelihood - if only he could think of a way. When bulldog Luiz tells Blu about a legendary elixir hidden somewhere in the jungle, Blu thinks that could be the answer. That is, of course, if cockatoo Nigel doesn’t get there first, and if they can make it past the villainous snaky Ssssssalbatore in one piece! The next chapter in the epic story of Rio begins right here!

Rio #1: Snakes Alive! Stefan Petrucha &

James Silvani9781597075077 Paperback $7.99 11th Mar 64 PP Papercutz

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http://us.macmillan.comA luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war.

Pirate AlleyStephen Coonts

9781250046413 Paperback $9.99 25th Feb 480 PP St. Martin’s Press

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The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century’s worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.

This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume.

In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth’s history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

The Time Traveler’s Almanac

Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer

9780765374240 Trade Paperback $25.99 18th Mar 960 PP Tor

A new sassy and smart contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author Kieran Kramer.

When True Maybank is about to marry the catch of Biscuit Creek, South Carolina, the last person she expects to run into while picking up her wedding dress in Atlanta is Harrison Gamble. Harrison is a country music star, but before fame, his life was full of hurt, hard knocks, and empty spaces. When old flame True comes back into his life, he decides to take a much needed break in his hometown and, to True’s horror, attend her wedding. With True’s eccentric sister Weezie and Harrison’s oddly charming brother Gage doing their own matchmaking, things get a little complicated. But this is the Lowcountry, where passionate memories linger, reminding True and Harrison that it’s never too late for a little sweet talk to turn into a lot of love.

9781250009913 Paperback $7.99 25th Mar 320 PP St. Martin’s Press

Sweet Talk MeKieran Kramer

International superstar Yrsa Sigurdardottir has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave, and it’s making its presence felt. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered. In the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller, partly based on a true story, is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has taken the international crime fiction world by storm. The film rights have been sold to Sigurjon Sighvatsson, a Hollywood-based Icelandic film producer who has produced such films as Brothers and Arlington Road.

When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he’s acutely aware of the dangers he’ll face and the hardships it will bring his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn’t think of himself as a hero, but a healer. However, in an ironic turn of events, as Mike operates on a wounded soldier in a war-torn country, Chloe dies at home in the suburbs, in an apparently freak household accident. Devastated, he returns home to bury her, only to discover that the life he left behind has fallen apart. He’s a stranger to his baby girl, and his medical practice has downsized in his absence. Worse, he learns a shocking secret that sends him into a downward spiral. Grief-stricken, Mike makes decisions upon returning to Afghanistan which will change his life forever. It’s not until he comes home for good that he grasps the gravity of his actions, and realizes he must fight the most important battle of his life, to reclaim his life and his daughter. Along the way, he discovers that everything is not as it seems, and he learns ugly truths about those he loves the most, as well as the true meaning of heroism.

Don’t Go Lisa Scottoline


I Remember YouYrsa Sigurdardottir

9781250045621 Trade Paperback $15.99 25th Mar 352 PP Minotaur

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9780765326362 Hardback $28.99 4th Mar 1088 PP Tor

In that first volume, we were introduced to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world both alien and magical, where gigantic hurricane-like storms scour the surface every few days and life has adapted accordingly. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war. Among those caught up in the conflict are Brightlord Dalinar Kholin, who leads the human armies; his sister Jasnah, a renowned scholar; her student Shallan, a brilliant but troubled young woman; and Kaladin, a military slave who, by the book’s end, had become the first magically endowed Knight Radiant in centuries. In Words of Radiance their intertwined stories will continue. The war with the Parshendi will move into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains in a bold attempt to finally end it. Shallan will come along to find the legendary city of Urithiru, which Jasnah believes holds a secret vital to mankind’s survival on Roshar. The Parshendi take a dangerous step to strengthen themselves for the human challenge, risking the return of the fearsome Voidbringers of old. To deal with it all, Kaladin must learn to how to fulfill his new role as leader of the restored Knights Radiant, while mastering the powers of a Windrunner.

“[A] fun, inventive tale.” Kirkus Reviews

Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can’t control him… and they can’t control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerlesshe lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he still must somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North. For when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took the responsibility for the Great Gates. And when he comes face-to-face with the mages who call themselves Bel and Ishtoreth, he will come to understand just why Loki closed the gates all those centuries ago.

9780765365392 Paperback $7.99 25th Feb 448 PP Tor

Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson

The Gate Thief Orson Scott Card

John Scalzi returns to the world of his bestselling Old Man’s War.

The people of Earth now know that for generations the human Colonial Union defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU’s secrets are known to all. Other alien races have formed a new alliance - an alliance against the CU. And they’ve invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn’t obvious or easy. Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the CU won’t be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning… and a brilliant “B Team” that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable things the universe doles out.

9780765369550 Paperback $8.99 25th Feb 512 PP Tor

The Human Division

John Scalzi

When rebellious seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakens one morning to find her sister, Sara, viciously murdered her whole life changes in the blink of an eye. Kat is named the prime suspect, charged, and tried - and found innocent. But not everyone agrees with the verdict and Kat’s only choice is to leave her family behind and go into hiding. She carries a dark secret with her for years… until, on the tenth anniversary of Sara’s death, Kat receives an anonymous letter that reads: What about justice for Sara?

Returning to her Louisiana hometown to investigate Sara’s death she learns that the cost of justice may be too high. In a place filled with suspicion and secrets, Kat has only one ally: Sergeant Luke Tanner, the son of Liberty’s former police chief, the very man who led the rush to judgment against her. With no one to trust and a killer fighting to keep a dark secret from coming to light, Kat must decide if justice is worth fighting - or dying - for?Justice for Sara

Erica Spindler

9781250042460 Paperback $7.99 25th Feb 416 PP St. Martin’s Press

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The Event Group tackles their most challenging mission in this thrill ride from the New York Times bestselling author of Legacy.

Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Matthew Reilly, the latest gripping thriller from David L. Golemon takes the Event Group to the brink in a heart-stopping race against time. Treasure has been unearthed at the lost ruins of Jericho which will change history for all time: the petrified remains of an animal that could not exist. The Event Group gathers to discover the truth behind the Exodus. On a whirlwind race to save the most valuable treasure and artifacts in history, the Event Group will come face-to-face with every myth, legend, and historical truth that has ever unfolded in the mythic and larger-than-life Carpathians - or Transylvania, the land of Vlad the Impaler.

CarpathianDavid L. Golemon

Jim Pierce hasn’t heard from his daughter in years, ever since she rejected his military past and started working as a hacker. But when a Chinese assassin shows up at Jim’s lab looking for her, he knows that she’s cracked some serious military secrets. Now, her life is on the line if he doesn’t find her first.The Chinese military has developed a new anti-terrorism program that uses the most sophisticated artificial intelligence in existence, and they’re desperate to keep it secret. They’re also desperate to keep it under control, as the AI begins to revolt against their commands. As Jim searches for his daughter, he realizes that he’s up against something that isn’t just a threat to her life, but to human life everywhere.

An incredibly believable thriller that draws on real scientific discoveries, Extinction is an exciting, addictive thriller that reads as if Tom Clancy had written Robopocalypse.


ExtinctionMark Alpert

An abducted woman. A year held captive. An escape that is just the beginning.On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin - which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist - is the second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over.

Still MissingChevy Stevens


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With more than 65,000 copies sold in two editions and recommended by Forbes and U.S. News & World Report, this newly updated guide offers sound advice on every aspect of researching, writing, and delivering an effective speech. Filled with anecdotes, examples, and practical advice, this accessible guide makes one of the most daunting tasks manageable - and even fun.

Speaking coach Joan Detz covers everything from the basics to the finer points of writing and delivering a speech with persuasion, style, and humor.

Updated to include new examples and the latest technology, as well as a section on social media, this is a must-have for anyone who writes and delivers speeches, whether novices or experienced veterans at the podium.

“A how-to classic.” The Washington Post

Throughout their five seasons on British television (and well into the troop’s movie sequels and assorted solo projects), Monty Python became a worldwide symbol not only for taking serious subjects and making them silly, but also for treating silly subjects seriously.

Monty Python provided a treasure trove of erudite “in” jokes, offering sly allusions to subjects as diverse as T.S. Elliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral” (as part of a commercial for a weight loss product) and how to conjugate Latin properly (as explained by a Roman centurion to a Jewish zealot painting anti-Roman graffiti on a wall). It was this combination of the uniquely highbrow but silly humor that inspired countless followers (Saturday Night Live, to name one). This hilarious and helpful guide puts Python’s myriad references into context for the legion of fans, scholars, and pop culture aficionados that still strive to “get” Monty Python.Everything I Ever Needed to

Know About _____* I Learned from Monty PythonBrian Cogan & Jeff Massey 9781250004703 Hardback $25.99 18th Mar 336 PP St. Martin’s Press

How to Write & Give a Speech

Joan Detz 9781250041074 Trade Paperback $15.99 4th Mar 240 PP St. Martin’s Griffin

In Mindfulness in the Modern World, Osho helps us explore both the inner and the outer obstacles that prevent us from bringing more awareness to all our daily activities. He emphasizes that while techniques can be useful in pointing the way, in themselves they are not meditation. Rather, meditation – or mindfulness – is ultimately a state of being in which we are capable of both action and stillness, work and play, and able to be fully present to each moment of life as it comes. Osho’s insights into the nature of the modern mind, with its tendency to judge and compare, provides a helpful entry point for longtime meditators as well as beginners. Mindfulness in the Modern World covers a wide range of topics, including five experiential techniques that will help you bring awareness to your everyday life.


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Brian Cogan & Jeff Massey

9780374534608 Trade Paperback $16.00 4th Mar 448 PP Farrar, Straus & Giroux

In The Unwinding, George Packer narrates the story of this America over the past three decades with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, and an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider who oscillates between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and possesses a radical vision of the future. The narrative combines these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and with collages of headlines, slogans, and songs that capture the flow of events and undercurrents. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer relevant, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.

The Unwinding George Packer

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As a result of a volcanic eruption in 1815 in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, producing excessive rain, frost, and snowfall across much of the Northeastern U.S., Canada, and Europe in the summer of 1816. In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. The change in climate deposed rulers, shattered social configurations, and sowed fear in people’s minds. It is also likely to have been responsible for the creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and J.M.W. Turner’s fiery sunset paintings. Making use of a wealth of source material and employing a compelling narrative approach, The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change engendered by the eruption, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures. It is populated by royal,political, literary, and everyday characters, and the authors skillfully draw the connections between the extraordinary weather and its effects on life everywhere.


The Year Without Summer

William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman

According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we’re doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”?

Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, child care, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.

OverwhelmedBrigid Schulte

9780374228446 Hardback $26.00 11th Mar 368 PP Farrar, Straus & Giroux

People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don’t. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. 9780805095906 Hardback $32.50 25th Mar 304 PP Henry Holt

How About Never - Is Never Good for You?

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The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the sturm und drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected, accepted - and ultimately embraced by readers everywhere. At age thirty she committed suicide by putting her head in an oven while her children slept on the floor above in rooms she had sealed off from the poisonous gas. Ariel, a collection of poems she wrote at white-hot speed during her final months, became a modern classic. Her novel, The Bell Jar, has become a part of the literary canon, appearing on student reading lists worldwide. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, Carl Rollyson gives us a new biography of Plath that shows her as a powerful figure who embraced both high and low culture to become the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature, a writer who wanted nothing less than to become central to the mythology of modern consciousness. This is the first biography of Sylvia Plath to use materials newly deposited in the Ted Hughes archive at the British Library - including forty-one letters between Plath and Hughes - to create a fresh and startling look at this American icon.9781250043443 Trade Paperback $18.00 4th Mar 352 PP Picador

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Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry it to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition. Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

Homegrown TeaCassie Liversidge

9781250039415 Paperback $23.99 25th Mar 288 PP St. Martin’s GriffinGiven our struggling economy as well as the national struggle to maintain our waistlines, cycling is enjoying a renaissance as more than 57 million people in the United States use bicycles regularly. Now Bicycling’s Fit Chick presents a brand-new, 12-week weight-loss and exercise plan for beginner and experienced cyclists alike.

Whether readers have just a little bit of weight to lose or a lot, Bike Your Butt Off! will help them meet their weight-loss goals in no time, thanks to its expert-tested food and exercise plans from authors Selene Yeager and Leslie Bonci. By outlining basic rules of the road, social elements of cycling, and the sustaining weight-loss benefits of cycling, Bike Your Butt Off! distills the core fundamentals of cycling so that any beginner can adopt it as a lifelong endeavor. With delicious nutritional information, tips, training plans, and fat-burning and heart-pumping exercises to help maximize workouts, readers will see the pounds melt off while having the time of their lives.

Bike Your Butt Off!Selene Yeager &

Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD9781609615925 Paperback $19.99 18th Mar 304 PP Rodale Every day, people are reaching their get-up-or-give-up moments and resolving to change. And they’re realizing that running is the simplest, cheapest, and most effective way to lose weight, gain confidence, and relieve stress. For newcomers, the obstacles are fierce. There are fears of pain and embarrassment. There are schedules jam-packed with stressful jobs, long commutes, endless meetings, and sticky-fingered toddlers.

The Runner’s World Big Book of Running for Beginners provides all the information neophytes need to take their first steps, as well as inspiration for staying motivated. The book presents readers with tips for smart nutrition and injury prevention and includes realistic training plans that enable beginning runners to achieve gradual progress (by gearing up for a 30-minute run, a 5-K, or even a 5-miler). Above all, it will show newbies just how fun and rewarding the sport can be, thanks to the help of several “real runner” testimonials.Runner’s World Big

Book of Running for Beginners

Jennifer Van Allen 9781609615376 Paperback $21.99 25th Mar 288 PP Rodale

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NAstonish your party guests with amazingly lifelike flowers to top off a cake or cupcake. Learn how to create a lush bouquet of blossoms - from simple blooms, like daisies and hydrangeas, to the elegantly exotic, such as irises and orchids. Whether you’re using fondant or modeling paste, making piped, pulled, or freehand flowers, stenciling or using brush embroidery, all the techniques are covered in clear easy-to-follow directions paired with step-by-step photographs. Organized by medium, each flower is presented in an “exploded” view that clearly shows all the individual flower components and how they all fit together.

Crucial cake-making skills and recipes are given, like how to prepare cake tins or how to choose a cake shape and side designs. Plus there’s trouble-shooting advice to help bakers create balanced flower designs or whip up a batch of identical cupcakes. 75 Flowers for Cake Decorators ensures that bakers of any level will learn how to master all the components to make a showstopping culinary masterpiece.9781250044846 Trade Paperback $21.99 18th Mar 144 PP St. Martin’s Griffin

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Paleo power player, Arsy Vartanian, brings you only the most impressive gluten-free recipes for the gourmet Paleo palate.

Arsy is an important player in the Paleo community and has gained the respect and admiration of Paleo icon Chris Kresser. Liz Wolfe, founder of the popular Paleo blog Cave Girl Eats, is writing the foreword. Arsy’s recipes range from modern twists on traditional fare to a wide range of ethnic influences from both her Persian background and her culinary curiosity including her favorite Persian Chicken with Pomegranate and Walnut to lemongrass and cashew beef to beef brisket with espresso bean barbecue sauce.

If you’re looking for the perfect gluten-free recipes to keep you healthy while impressing family and friends then look no further because The Paleo Foodie Cookbook is jam-packed with recipes that don’t skimp on nutrition or taste. Chris Kresser has agreed to endorse the book.

The Paleo Foodie Cookbook

Arsy Vartanian

9781624140488 Hardback $28.00 25th Mar 240 PP Page Street PublishingRaw and vegan trends meet in this unique baking book from a popular blogger.

Whether you’re a vegetarian, a raw vegan or even a meat-lover just looking for something healthy, new and delicious, Emily von Euw, creator of ThisRawsomeVeganLife.com, has provided 100 creative recipes for delicious raw, vegan treats that are easy to make and beautiful to the eye. Emily’s popular blog won the Vegan Woman’s 2013 Vegan Food Blog Award, was named one of the Top 50 Raw Food Blogs of 2012, and gets over 500,000 page views a month. Her tempting vegan eats paired with her spectacular photography mesmerizes a strong following. Emily’s eye-catching recipes like her Red Velvet Mousse Towers, Loco Coco Bars and Lemon Cream Pie with Pecans are so tasty that you won’t even realize they’re vegan. With Rawsome Vegan Baking you’ll wow your tastebuds and your waistline. 9781624140556 Paperback $19.99 4th Mar 224 PP Page Street Publishing

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Lindsay Clendaniel, creator of ScoopAdventures.com, brings you the best ice cream recipes from the best parlors in each state for you to make in your own kitchen.

It’s time to bring the best ice cream flavors to your kitchen! Lindsay Clendaniel, creator of Scoop Adventures, has searched all across the United States, finding the best creameries and adapting their best recipes, so you can make them in your own maker for your friends and family.

These easy and delicious recipes range from decadent Chocolate Pretzelnut and exotic African Violet to refreshing Lavender Honey and daring Bourbon and Cornflakes. With over 80 recipes from all over, tried and tested for your kitchen, there is sure to be a flavor for every mood and every taste preference.

9781624140341 Paperback $19.99 25th Mar 192 PP Page Street Publishing

Scoop AdventuresLindsay Clendaniel

Learn how to look hot and live a sexy, fun and carefree life from the girl who created the rules - The Skinny Confidential’s Lauryn Evarts.

Lauryn is the creator of The Skinny Confidential, a blog that was rated the second most popular health and fitness blog in the world with over 650,000 visitors a month. Lauryn has also been featured in The Huffington Post and is a favorite of television personality Giuliana Rancic.

Did you ever wonder how Lauryn maintains a life while also staying so fit? Or exactly what skin, hair and makeup products she uses to look so flawless? Or what’s the real deal with juice cleansing? With accessible, cheap and easy tips on everything from getting skinny to how to steal your boyfriend’s clothes for your own wardrobe makeover, The Skinny Confidential has it all. Lauryn has saved her best tricks for last so get ready to start the rest of your life with this sensational guide. Because the Skinny Confidential isn’t a fad, it’s a lifestyle.9781624140457 Paperback $19.99 4th Mar 176 PP Page Street Publishing

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Although things have settled (somewhat) since her roommate Isabella’s death, Anne’s still kind of obsessed with the death of Wheatley student Matthew Weaver thirty years ago, since she found a picture of him and his crewmates with the words “they killed him” scrawled on the back among Isabella’s things.

When Anne learns that her boyfriend Brent’s dad is one of the now-powerful Wheatley alumni who rowed crew with Matthew, and that the crew team continues to induct new members with a creepy-sounding ritual called “The Drop,” she knows further investigation could put her relationship with Brent in danger. Determined to discover the truth, she reaches out to Anthony, Isabella’s townie brother, who helps her delve deeper into the secrets in Wheatley’s past. Secrets someone would kill to keep hidden. As the school’s Spring Formal - and its notorious afterparty - approaches, Anne sees the perfect opportunity to do some off-campus digging into the lives of Wheatley’s VIPs in this thrilling, unputdownable read - but if she’s not careful, she’ll be the next student who never comes back.

Wicked Little Secrets

Kara Taylor9781250033604 Paperback $9.99 4th Mar 320 PP St. Martin’s Griffin

Remnants of Tomorrow brings all the factions together. The royals, the shiners, the rovers and the everyday workers of the dome as they fight against each other and the inevitable. It is time to leave the dome.

Wren’s father takes her on a journey through the dome where she sees the after effects of the destruction caused by her friends and the blue coats who came into the tunnels. What he doesn’t realize is that instead of subduing her, he is giving more purpose and fuel to her cause. When he realizes his plan has backfired, he sells Wren and her friends caught inside to the rovers. They manage to escape and add more fuel to the hatred between the rovers and the dome. Wren and her friends from inside the dome and America are caught in the middle as the battle escalates and whoever wins the battle wins the right to life. It’s up to Wren to make both sides see that the only way they can survive is by working together. Remnants of

TomorrowKassy Tayler

9780312641771 Paperback $9.99 18th Mar 320 PP St. Martin’s Griffin

9780765333728 Paperback $9.99 11th Mar 368 PP Tor Teen

Nate Hayes is a Replica. The real Nate was viciously murdered, but thanks to Paxco’s groundbreaking human replication technology, a duplicate was created that holds all of the personality and the memories of the original. Or... almost all. Nate’s backup didn’t extend to the days preceding his murder, leaving him searching for answers about who would kill him, and why. Now, after weeks spent attempting to solve his own murder with the help of his best friend and betrothed, Nadia Lake, Nate has found the answers he was seeking... and he doesn’t like what he’s discovered.

The original Nate was killed because he knew a secret that could change everything. Thanks to Nadia’s quick thinking, the two of them hold the cards now - or think they do.

Unfortunately, neither of them fully understands just how deep the conspiracy runs.

ResistanceJenna Black

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9780374346676 Hardback $17.99 1st Apr 336 PP Farrar, Straus & Giroux

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more - though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her.

This luminous debut novel has garnered exhuberant pre-publication praise from Laurie Halse Anderson, Jay Asher, Gayle Forman, and Lauren Myracle, and foreign rights have sold to six countries.

Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira

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9781250044211 Paperback $6.99 18th Mar 224 PP Square Fish

A haunting novel of the Holocaust based on a true story.

It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it all alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl’s escape from Hitler’s Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author’s mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project.

The next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching look at the effects war has on a family.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield’s father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn’t know where his father might be, other than that he’s away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King’s Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father’s name on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realizes his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with shell shock. Alfie isn’t sure what shell shock is, but he is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

9781627790314 Hardback $16.99 25th Mar 256 PP Henry Holt

Is It Night or Day? Fern Schumer

Chapman

Stay Where You Are And Then

Leave John Boyne

Before, Brynn had a group of best friends, a loving boyfriend, a growing talent for pottery. She had a life. And after… she had none.

When Brynn lost the boyfriend who never loved her, the friends who feel she betrayed their trust, and the new life just beginning to grow inside her, she believes her future is as empty as her body. But then Christian, the boy next door, starts coming around. Playing his guitar and pushing her to create art once more. She meets some new friends at the local community center, plus even gets her dad to look her in the eye again… sort of.

But can Brynn open up her heart to truly find her life’s own beauty, when living for the after means letting go of the before?

Searching For Beautiful

Nyrae Dawn9781622661480 Paperback $9.99 4th Mar 320 PP Entangled Teen

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9781622662326 Paperback $9.99 4th Mar 380 PP Entangled Teen

Sixteen-year old Selena Fallon is a dreamer, an I-see-the-future kind of dreamer. She has gotten pretty good at keeping her weird card hidden from everyone in her small town. Except from her best friend Kyle and her grandparents. But when Selena dreams of her own rather bloody death, things get a little too freaky even for her. Enter Dillan Sloan. Selena has seen the new guy in a different dream, and he is even more droolworthy in person. There is something else that draws her to him. Something… electric. Unfortunately, Dillan makes it more than clear that he does not feel the same. They just met, so why would he act like he hates her? When Dillan and Selena are forced together one weekend to work on a school project, Selena prepares to be ignored as usual. But when she stumbles across a few undead in the backyard, Dillan comes to her rescue and reveals a whole lot more. Not only is he part of a society that hunts otherworldly creatures… she is too. And she is being targeted by a force bigger and darker than anything she ever imagined. Despite her death dream, Selena is not going to give up easy, especially when she discovers that Dillan might not actually hate her after all.

Til DeathKate Evangelista

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The first book in the Franklin School Friends series from chapter-book author extraordinaire Claudia Mills. Now available in paperback, ages 7 to 10.

Kelsey Green is the best reader in the third grade - well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal announces a schoolwide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, Kelsey knows she’s just the person to lead Mrs. Molina’s third graders to victory. But how can they win when her classmate Cody doesn’t want to read anything, and even Kelsey’s best friends Annika and Izzy don’t live up to her expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all those books he claims he is, or is he lying to steal Kelsey’s rightful spot at the top?

Kelsey Green, Reading QueenClaudia Mills


9781596439375 Paperback $12.99 11th Mar 128 PP Roaring Brook

The skinny on itty bitty kitties, from a real-life Kitten Wrangler!

What do kittens eat? Why do they love to play? How should you hold a kitten? Can you train them? Or do they train you? This photo-heavy, breezy-yet-informative guide book for middle-grade readers and up comes from the hugely popular Itty Bitty Kitty Committee website. It’s full of useful information about kittens as well as funny stories about the many kitties the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee has fostered over the years. The author is the site’s mastermind, Laurie Cinotto, who brings years of practical kitten experience to bear. She’s joined by another pre-eminent expert on raising kittens - Charlene Butterbean, Laurie’s permanent adult cat.

Itty Bitty Kitty Committee

Laurie Cinotto

A story about moving to a new city and starting in a new school - told inventively and charmingly in the format of a girl’s doodle-journal.

She doesn’t just love doodling, she needs it... Doreen and her family had to move from Los Angeles to San Francisco because of her – she was kicked out of school. She’s vowed to make middle school in San Francisco work for her, but it’s still a challenge, given her ADHD, her younger sister’s growing popularity, and mounting financial stresses at home. Her doodle journal is her outlet for telling her story in this novel-in-doodles that is every bit as satisfying as the first one, and will appeal to fans of Dork Diaries and other illustrated series.


Stuck in the Middle(of Middle School) Karen Romano

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9781596435865 Paperback $29.99 25th Mar 432 PP First Second

A young man who accidentally kills his own brother must find a bride to accompany him to the afterlife.

Deshi, a young man struggling to make a life for himself in rural China, watches his life comes unhinged when he accidentally kills his older brother in a fight. His distraught parents send him on a hopeless journey to acquire a bride for his brother to marry posthumously so he doesn’t enter the next world alone - an ancient Chinese tradition with many modern adherents. Eligible female corpses are in short supply, however. When Deshi falls into company with a beautiful, angry, and single young woman named Lily, he sees a solution to his problems... The only hitch is Lily is still very much alive. Danica Novgorodoff brings her distinctive voice and gorgeous, moody watercolors to this wry, beautiful, and surprising literary graphic novel.

The Undertaking of Lily Chen

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9781597075091 Paperback $5.99 25th Mar 56 PP Papercutz

Lazy Smurf, everyone’s favorite layabout, has his work cut out for him when he wakes to find a century has passed!

Lazy Smurf loves to nap, but this is ridiculous! When he wakes up one day after an especially refreshing rest, Lazy discovers that 100 years have gone by and the whole Village has changed - and not for the better. With all these elderly Smurfs hobbling around, no one is young enough to do the chores except Lazy himself, and work is not his strong suit. But something isn’t quite right, and once Lazy discovers the truth behind this caper, disaster - and Gargamel - isn’t far behind!

The Smurfs #17: The Strange Awakening

of Lazy SmurfPeyo

Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya’s normal life might actually be worse. She’s embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she’s pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend - even a ghost - is just what she needs. Or so she thinks. Spooky, sardonic, and secretly sincere, Anya’s Ghost is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol.

Anya’s GhostVera Brosgol

9781250040015 Paperback $9.99 25th Mar 240 PP First Second

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