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BookazineBits

August 25th, 2016

Releasing September 6th

The Red Bandanna: Welles Crowther, 9/11, and the Path to

Purpose by Tom Rinaldi (ISBN 9781594206771 $25.00) The inspirational story of Welles Crowther, whose decision, determination and sacrifice in the terror of 9/11 have inspired millions, and whose short life offers a lasting lesson on character, calling, and courage—in how we live, and in the legacy we choose to leave behind When Welles Crowther was a young boy in Nyack, NY, his father gave him a red handkerchief to keep in his back pocket, in case he ever needed it. He kept it with him on the way to church that day and nearly every day after. It was a fixture as he grew up, tucked in jeans or wrapped around his head as he played lacrosse for Boston College. The bandanna was a signature, long before it became a symbol. Tom Rinaldi’s The Red Bandanna is about a fearless choice, about the crucible of terror and the indomitable spirit to answer it. It travels Crowther’s path to purpose and the journey his family has been on in the days and years since. Examining one decision in the gravest situation, it celebrates the difference one life can make. It is the story of a new symbol for strength, and how a bandanna has become the red badge of courage for a new time.

The Nix by Nathan Hill (ISBN 9781101946619 $27.95) “The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America…. Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving

New York Times Book 9/4 People Magazine 9/5

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John Oliver Turns ‘The Kid Who Ran for President’ (ISBN 9780545442138 $6.99) into a Bestseller. Go HERE for the full article

The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence

Wright (ISBN 9780385352055 $28.95)

With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while researching The Looming Tower, as well as many that he’s written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include a portrait of the “man behind bin Laden,” Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already exuding a

feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006–11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in the disparate value of human lives. Other chapters examine al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of worldwide terror. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and the head of the intelligence community. The book ends with a devastating piece about the capture and slaying by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and our government’s failed response. On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, The Terror Years is at once a unifying recollection of the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, a study of how it has grown and metastasized, and, in the scary and moving epilogue, a cautionary tale of where terrorism might take us yet.

USA Today – review by Ray Locker 9/2

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Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter to

My Family by Ben Utecht (ISBN 9781501136603 $26.00) After five major concussions, NFL tight-end Ben Utecht of the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals is losing his memories. This is his powerful and emotional love letter to his wife and daughters—whom he someday may not recognize—and an inspiring message for all to live every moment fully.

Nationally Syndicated-TV/"700 Club," August 22 Fox-TV/"Fox & Friends," August 23 SiriusXM-Radio/"Bleacher Report Radio," August 23 CNBC-TV"On the Money," August 26

A new ‘Longmire’ mystery releases in September An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson (ISBN 9780525426943 $28.00) In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America’s first national monument, Devils Tower—to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur, and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry’s ’59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt’s granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won’t stop quoting, “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

On Trails by Robert Moor (ISBN 9781476739212 $25.00) From a brilliant new literary voice comes a groundbreaking exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from tiny ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.

PBS-TV/"Well Read," September 1

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The Problem with Me: And Other Essays About Making Trouble in

China Today by Han Han (ISBN 9781451660036 $24.00) Satirical essays from China’s most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today.

New York Times Book Review, September 4

Surrender, New York by Caleb Carr (ISBN 9780679455691

$30.00)

About the book - The author of the

classic #1 bestseller The Alienist delivers an edge-of-your-seat thriller starring a criminal psychologist as unconventional as he is brilliant. Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn’t mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation alongside his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They’re called “throwaways” because their parents have abandoned them, and the official response to their deaths seems equally callous. Trajan and Mike, armed only with their instincts, Jones’ unusual “pet,” and the help of a precocious neighborhood boy, fight for justice on behalf of the victims, but it soon puts them in a merciless killer’s crosshairs.

Michael Connelly Reviews Surrender, New York. Go HERE

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Releasing in September

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They

Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (ISBN 9781771642484 $24.95) A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the

extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other. In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group.

Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Wohlleben presents the science behind the secret and previously unknown life of trees and their communication abilities; he describes how these discoveries have informed his own practices in the forest around him.

TriStar has signed Michelle MacLaren to helm the feature film adaptation of

Kristin Hannah’s bestselling novel “The Nightingale (ISBN

9780312577223 $27.99).” Go HERE for the full article

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (ISBN 9781101912362

$16.00) Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in a new novel that brilliantly satirizes the corporate prison complex of the twenty-first century.

NPR – Science Friday – 8/26

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Anna Paquin has been tapped to star opposite Sarah Gadon and Zachary

Levi in Alias Grace (ISBN 9780385490443 $16.95). The six-hour

miniseries, inspired by the true story of convicted murderer Grace Marks and based on Margaret Atwood's novel, will be broadcast on Netflix and the CBC. Go HERE for the full article

Reese Witherspoon has re-teamed with Nicole Kidman to option the film rights to best-

selling novelist Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (ISBN

9781250069795 $26.99). For more on this go HERE

James Patterson Books in Chronological Order. Go HERE

HBO is developing a Perry Mason drama series to star Robert

Downey Jr. as the unorthodox investigator/defense attorney and be written by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto. Go HERE for the full article

Maybe it is time to start stocking up on those Erle Stanley Gardner titles. Make

sure to check out this week’s SHOWCASE

Writer Jayson Rothwell has been attached to adapt author Ken Follett’s

Code to Zero (ISBN 9780451204530 $7.99) as an international event

series. Rothwell will pen the screenplay for the drama, shifting the storyline from the Cold War era of the 1950s to today’s global war against terror.

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Just Released

New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943 (ISBN 9783836537117 $19.99) Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and “introduce America to Americans.” This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves—to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation. The images are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum of American rural life. They show us convicts, cotton workers, kids, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, and read their own testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their subjects, including Lange’s worn, weather-beaten and iconic Migrant Mother. What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past. The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence.

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In theaters

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace

(ISBN 9781496411068 $15.99) Carol Wallace great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace has taken the old-fashioned prose of this classic novel and breathed new life into it for today’s audience. The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How

Human Behavior Changes Online by Mary Aiken, PhD (ISBN 9780812997859 $28.00) A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behavior.

NPR - Diane Rehm Show – Interview – 8/25

Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise

Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children by Marjorie Ingall (ISBN 9780804141413 $25.00) In this funny, insightful look at the best practices of Jewish mothering (it’s more than just matzoh ball soup!), Marjorie Ingall’s Mamaleh Knows Best is Bringing Up Bebé crossed with The Blessing of a Skinned Knee. Ingall identifies the 10 key tenets of Jewish parenting, and then uses a blend of funny anecdotes, modern research, and ancient texts to show how anyone can teach those values at home.

New York Times Book Review – 8/28

Rob Franek of The Princeton Review will discuss The Best 381 Colleges, 2017 Edition (ISBN 9781101920060 $23.99 – Aug. 30th release) on

NBC’s The Today Show on Monday, August 30th. Franek will also be doing an ABC Radio Tour to promote the book the following day, August 31st.

London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones – Go HERE for

the full article

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The Seasoned Life: Food, Family, Faith, and the Joy of Eating Well

by Ayesha Curry (ISBN 9780316316330 $27.00) – 9/20/16 release The Steve Harvey Show – Ayesha will do a segment about the book – September 23 CBN’s “The 700 Club” – Interview on the book – Tape date 9/27 CBN’s “Studio 5” – Interview on the book – Tape date 9/27 Ebony – Recipe feature – October issue US Weekly – Page on book – September 19 OK! Magazine – Recipe feature – September 14 Forbes.com – Profile and interview – September 20 ABC’s “Good Morning America” on November 21 Women’s Health Magazine recipe feature in the September issue Health Magazine profile in October issue Woman’s Day recipe feature in October issue O, The Oprah Magazine has also confirmed coverage of Ayesha and THE SEASONED LIFE on their Mixing Bowl Page, September issue! Ayesha and her husband Stephen will launch the book with a taped and live story for ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “Nightline” – September 20 The Rachael Ray Show will interview Ayesha and show exclusive footage of her first look at the finished book! – September 21 People Magazine – Feature spread on hosting an outdoor brunch with ELLE Magazine – Coach of the Month profile – September issue People Magazine – Recipe feature in the Great Ideas section – September 19 Cooking Light – Beauty profile – September issue Essence – Four page feature with recipe – September issue

The Food Network announced that it has picked up a pilot of Ayesha

Curry’s cooking show tentatively called At Home with Ayesha. The pilot is being shot next week at the Curry’s home and the network is

very confident it will go to series!

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Get ready for a new dinosaur novel from Michael Crichton. Go HERE for the full story

TriStar Pictures, eOne, and the Mark Gordon Company are breathing new life isn’t C.S.

Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia” series as the three will co-produce “The Silver Chair.” Go HERE for the full story

A Little Thing Called Life: A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving

Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between by Linda Thompson (ISBN 9780062469748 $27.99) Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning songwriter, and actress, Linda Thompson, breaks her silence for the first time to share the extraordinary story of her life, career, and her epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars—Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner

Extra 8/29/16

Agatha Christie is having something of a purple patch. With Ben Affleck having

signed up to direct a film based on The Witness For The Prosecution and

Murder On The Orient Express, being prepped by Kenneth Branagh, both for

Fox, the BBC—which is currently shooting its own version of The Witness For The Prosecution with Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough—has now signed a deal for seven more adaptations of the late author's works.

The first novel under the pact is Ordeal By Innocence, which will be adapted by

Sara Phelps. Agatha Christie Productions (ACP) is working with Mammoth Screen on

the transfer. Other titles so far confirmed in the BBC deal include Death Comes As The End, a murder mystery set in ancient Egypt; and The ABC Murders, a race

against time to stop a serial killer who is operating across 1930s Britain. ACP, the production arm of Agatha Christie Ltd., will deliver the seven new shows—to be aired on BBC One—over the next four years.

Make sure to check out this week’s SHOWCASE for as many Agatha

Christie titles we could fit!

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Natalie Portman is eyeing the small screen and is set to star in the HBO

mystery miniseries “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (ISBN 9780142180822 $16.00).” For more on this go HERE

Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money,

and Power by Michael Kranish (ISBN 9781501155772 $28.00) Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who—despite broad skepticism—could be the next president of the United States. Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life are not well known. To discover Trump in full, The Washington Post assembled a team of award-winning reporters and researchers to delve into every aspect of Trump’s

improbable life, from his privileged upbringing in Queens to his astonishing 2016 rise to seize the Republican candidacy for president. Coauthored by Washington Post investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher, this comprehensive book documents Trump’s fascinating family roots, his aggressive efforts to make a name for himself in New York social circles, and his penchant for big bets—on real estate, branded businesses, and, ultimately, on himself. The authors, seasoned journalists who interviewed Trump for this book, scrutinize everything from his youthful alliance with the power broker Roy Cohn to his alleged dealings with organized crime and his controversial projects in New York City, Atlantic City, Florida, Scotland, and Azerbaijan. The authors examine Trump’s wealth, the evolution of his political beliefs, and his peculiar identity as a billionaire businessman, celebrity, global brand, television star, and now candidate for the most

powerful office in the world. Few individuals have ever roamed so widely through such diverse realms as real estate, sports, entertainment, and national politics. How has Trump’s life informed his bold statements on the economy, immigration, race, global trade, terrorism, and women? Drawn from in-depth reporting by The Washington Post, Trump Revealed is essential reading as the 2016 American presidential election looms.

CTV-TV/"Your Morning," August 25 C-SPAN-TV/"The Washington Journal," August 25

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20th Century Fox has picked up the film rights to Ben Mezrich’s currently in the works novel “Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History’s Most Iconic Creatures”. No word on a publication date yet.

For more on this go HERE

Releasing in October Gertie's Leap to Greatness by Kate Beasley,

Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (ISBN 9780374302610 $16.99 ) For fans of Three Times Lucky and The Penderwicks, this endearing new classic spins together sparkling humor, sizzle-pop writing, and a main character with Ramona Quimby's sass and smarts.

Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind. There's just one problem: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too. And there is simply not enough room at the top for the two of them.

Awaiting more copies, give us a call, send an e-mail or place your backorders via our web site

Make sure to check out our

HARRY POTTER SHOWCASE for easy ordering

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The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner (ISBN 9781481470742

$16.99) Sept. 13th release From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a laugh-out-loud funny and painstakingly real tale of friendship, furry creatures, and finding the place where you belong. Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her family and shipped off to her eighth boarding school, Alice would like a friend. And when she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, she finds one. But Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan who dwells deep in the woods. Most Bigfoots believe that people—NoFurs, as they call them—are dangerous, yet Millie is fascinated with the No-Fur world. She is convinced that humans will appreciate all the things about her that her Bigfoot tribe does not: her fearless nature, her lovely singing voice, and her desire to be a star. Alice swears to protect Millie’s secret. But a league of Bigfoot hunters is on their trail, led by a lonely kid named Jeremy. And in order to survive, Alice and Millie have to put their trust in each other—and have faith in themselves—above all else.

Time for Kids, September 1 Entertainment Weekly Author Feature, September 13 Parents Magazine, October issue CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," October 11

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IN STOCK

The Little Grumpy Cat that Wouldn't (ISBN

9780399553547 $4.99)

The most famous cat in the world stars in her very own Little Golden Book!

Grumpy Cat has 8 million Facebook followers, her own TV movie, and now…a Little Golden Book! In this story featuring an all-new iconic art style, Grumpy Cat’s friends and admirers try to get her to try new things and have fun, and each time she is even more resolved to say NO. In the end, she is right. Having fun is awful.

Releasing in September Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin, Rob Dunlavey (ISBN 9780553497823 $17.99) Fans of the classic picture book Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson (ISBN 9780763617103 $6.99) will adore this utterly simple picture book in which a baby owl goes off on his first adventure. With just three or four words per page, this story follows a baby owl one night as he leaves the safety of his nest (Home/Mama/Brother/Sister) and explores the starry world around him (Soar/Glide/Swoop/Swoosh). Inspired by reverso poetry, the words reverse in the middle when the baby owl is startled upon seeing his reflection in the pond (Owl/Sees/Owl). Afraid of it, little owl takes off toward home, soaring over farms and forests (Swoosh/Swoop/Glide/Soar) until he is finally safely home again (Sister/Brother/Mama/Home).

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