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February 4th, 2016 On the cover of the NYT Book Review for 2/7/16

Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney (ISBN 9780374113810

$26.00) The story of a young African American man in divided Berlin

Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of

Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back. An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city.

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (ISBN 9780545850568

$9.99) Behind the Scenes Featurette – Go HERE

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IN STOCK

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (ISBN

9780812997170 $27.00) In this allegorical three-part novel—quixotic quest story, ghost story, and contemporary realism—all set in Portugal (in Lisbon and in the fictional High Mountains of Portugal)—in the 17th century, at the turn of the 20th century, mid-20th century, and today—Yann Martel presents us with three intersecting narratives that explore our relationship with faith.

Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo Marchant

(ISBN 9780385348157 $26.00) A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind’s extraordinary ability to heal the body.

NPR Science Friday–Interview – 2/5 Washington Post – Running "5 Myths" piece – 2/7 Washington Post – Review – 2/7

Keira Knightley in Talks to Star in ‘Colette’ Biopic. Go HERE for the full article

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Film: Trumbo (ISBN 9781455564972 $15.99) - the man who defied the

witch-hunt If anyone could have used a laptop, it was Dalton Trumbo. The great screenwriter worked in a time before computers or even Tipp-Ex, and created ragged palimpsests of tagged together notes and pages that looked like something out of a rubbish skip. But using these arcane methods, he created scripts for such memorable films as Spartacus, Roman Holiday and The Brave One.

Go HERE for the full article

Releasing in March

The Secret Subway by Shana Corey, Illustrated by Red Nose Studio

(ISBN 9780375870712 $17.99) New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. That is, until Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, after fifty-eight days of drilling and painting and plastering, Beach unveiled his masterpiece—and throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track. The Secret Subway will wow readers, just as Beach’s underground train wowed riders over a century ago.

Glynn Turman (The Wire) will guest star in new OWN original series

Queen Sugar (ISBN 9780143126232 $16.00), as a patriarch and proud

father running a failing farm. Drama is based on the novel by Natalie Baszile

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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

by Richard Engel (ISBN 9781451635119 $27.00) Based on two decades of reporting, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent’s riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close—sometimes dangerously so.

Vanity Fair, February issue NBC-TV/"Today Show," February 11 NBC-TV/"Nightly News," February 11 MSNBC-TV/"Rachel Maddow Show," February 11 MSNBC-TV/"Morning Joe," February 12 HBO-TV/"RealTime with Bill Maher," February 12 MSNBC-TV/"Hardball," February 15 NPR-Radio/"Diane Rehm," February 16 MSNBC-TV/"Andrea Mitchell," February 16 CNBC-TV/"Power Lunch," February 17

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (ISBN 9780804137416 $26.00) A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society, from a promising new public voice at Princeton University.

TIME Magazine – "10 Questions" – 2/12

4 Great Books Adapted for the Screen by Their Own Authors – Go

HERE

The cast of Broadway hit Hamilton will appear via satellite at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, airing live from LA Monday, February 15 at 8pm. It’s the eighth time musical theater has been featured on the music awards show.

Alexander Hamilton (ISBN 9780143034759 $20.00)

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Sundance - Autism Doc ‘Life, Animated’ (ISBN 9781423180364

$26.99) Sells to The Orchard. For more on this go HERE

Youngblood by Matt Gallagher (ISBN 9781501105746 $26.00) The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it’s happening—through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands. “An urgent and deeply moving novel.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

WAMU-Radio/"Diane Rehm," February 23

FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story opened as the most-watched and highest-rated show on cable on Tuesday, with 5.1 million viewers and a 2.0 rating among A18-49.

The show is based on Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run of His Life: The

People v. O. J. Simpson (ISBN 9780812988543 $16.00)

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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue

Klebold, Introduction by Andrew Solomon (ISBN 9781101902752 $28.00) In A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold, for the first time, recounts, based on her recollections, her daily journals, and the difficult and harrowing writings and video recordings her son left behind, the days and months leading up to the tragic shooting at Columbine High School.

ABC-TV - Good Morning America – 2/12 ABC News – World News Tonight promotes Diane Sawyer Special which airs later that night - 2/12 Diane Sawyer ABC Prime Time Special-ABC News – 2/12

Releasing February 23rd

Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance by

Laura Poitras (ISBN 9780300217650 $45.00) A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and government power by writers, artists, and others

The filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, “war on terror,” drone program, Guantánamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency subcontractor who leaked classified information about government-sponsored surveillance. Her resulting documentary, Citizenfour, which won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2015, is the third film in her post-9/11 film trilogy. For this volume, Poitras has invited authors ranging from artists and novelists to technologists and academics to respond to the modern-day state of mass surveillance. Among them are the acclaimed author Dave Eggers, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, the writer and researcher

Kate Crawford, and Edward Snowden, to name but a few. Some contributors worked directly with Poitras and the archive of documents leaked by Snowden; others contributed fictional reinterpretations of spycraft. The result is a “how-to” guide for living in a society that collects extraordinary amounts of information on individuals. Questioning the role of surveillance and advocating for collective privacy are central tennets for Poitras, who has long engaged with and supported free-software technologists.

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Go HERE for the trailer for Me Before You (ISBN 9780143124542 $16.00)

In theaters June 2016.

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions

into Adulthood by Lisa Damour, Ph.D. (ISBN 9780553393057 $27.00) Finally, a book that tells parents what is PREDICTABLE and NORMAL about their teen daughters’ often worryingly extreme behavior, and provides CONCRETE ways to form a healthier, happier relationship with their girls.

CBS "This Morning" – Interview -2/9

IN STOCK

Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It by Grace Helbig

(ISBN 9781501120589 $19.99) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grace’s Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes a beautifully illustrated, tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in Grace Helbig’s trademark sweet and irreverent voice.

Marie Claire, February issue Cosmopolitan, February issue People, February 16 issue

Just released

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (ISBN

9781626566743 $17.95) New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today's EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004.

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This Was Not the Plan by Cristina Alger (ISBN 9781501103759

$26.00) From the acclaimed author of The Darlings comes an incisive, hilarious, and tender exploration of fatherhood, love, and family life through the story of a widower who attempts to become the father he didn’t know he could be.

Watch! Magazine, February issue Newsday, "What's New," February 7 issue Keep an eye out for original essays by Cristina Alger on The Daily Beast, Dujour Magazine, and BookPage!

On My Own by Diane Rehm (ISBN 9781101875285 $23.95) In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed “on her own,” coping with the inevitable practical issues and, more important, with the profoundly emotional ones. What to do, how to react, reaching out again into the world—struggling to create a new reality for herself while clinging to memories of the past. Her focus is on her own roller-coaster experiences, but she has also solicited the moving stories of such recently widowed friends as Roger Mudd and Susan Stamberg, which work to expose the reader to a remarkable range of reactions to the death of a spouse. John’s unnecessarily extended death—he begged to be helped to die—culminated in his taking matters into his own hands, simply refusing to take water, food, and medication. His heroic actions spurred Diane into becoming a kind of poster person for the “right to die” movement that is all too slowly taking shape in our country. With the brave determination that has characterized her whole life, she is finding a meaningful new way to contribute to the world. Her book—as practical as it is inspiring—will be a help and a comfort to the recently bereaved, and a beacon of hope about the possibilities that remain to us as we deal with our own approaching mortality.

USA Today – review by Sharon Peters – 2/10

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Releasing February 9th In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (ISBN 9781101875551 $26.95) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.

NPR - All Things Considered – interview with Ari Shapiro – 2/9

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United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the

Common Good by Cory Booker (ISBN 9781101965160 $27.00)

A rising United States Senator—widely recognized as the accessible and energetic new voice of politics—makes the case that the virtues of connection and compassion must guide our nation toward a brighter future.

New York Times Book Review – By the Book – 2/7

‘Indignation’ by Philip Roth (ISBN 9780307388919 $15.00) Glen Basner’s FilmNation has virtually sold out across the world on James Schamus’ directorial debut Indignation. The film, an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel about a middle class Jewish student from New Jersey attending an Ohio college in the 1950’s, debuted at Sundance to great reviews and a positive audience reaction. The film is also in official selection at the Berlin Film Festival in Panorama. Schamus, Anthony Bregman and actors Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon will be attending.

For the full article go HERE

Releasing in March

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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an

Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (ISBN 9781476716565 $27.00) A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, “the most brilliant voice on feminisism in the country” (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried and late-married women in Amerca who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation.

Vanity Fair, "Hollywood Issue," on stands February 4 New York Magazine, February 22 issue CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," February 29

The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and

the Life You Love by DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good (ISBN 9781501105296 $24.00) Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share about their courtship and marriage, and the key to their success—waiting. President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes all we can do is wait for “the one” to come into our lives. They spent years crossing paths but it wasn’t until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began.

Essence Magazine, February issue Ebony Magazine, February issue Nationally Syndicated-TV/"Meredith Vieira," February 9 Fox-TV/"The Real," February 9

GMA-TV/"700 Club," February 9 Nationally Syndicated-TV/"Hollywood Today Live," February 15

Beatrix Potter story Kitty-in-Boots discovered after 100 years. Go HERE for the full article

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Frances Hardinge’s ’The Lie Tree’ has been crowned the surprise winner of the £30,000 2015 Costa Book of the Year This is the first children's book to have won the award since Philip Pullman took the prize for his third novel in the Dark Materials trilogy The Amber Spyglass in 2001.

’The Lie Tree’ (ISBN 9781419718953 $17.95) is scheduled for release

here in the U.S. in May.

With the success of Empire of the Summer Moon (ISBN 9781416591061 $17.00) & The Heart of Everything That Is (ISBN 9781451654684 $17.00), you might want to stock this classic by

Zitkala-Sa, American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (ISBN 9780142437094

$16.00) One of the first Native American women to publish traditional stories derived from oral tribal legend was Zitkala-Sa. She was born at the Yankton Sioux Agency in South Dakota, from a white father and a Dakota Indian mother. Her writing was full of imagery and emotion and frequently harangued on the white oppression of Native Americans. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the

tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.

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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—From Goldwater to

the Tea Party and Beyond by E.J. Dionne Jr. (ISBN 9781476763798 $30.00) – Jan. 19 release From one of our most engaging political reporters and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics; the story of conservatism from the Goldwater 1960s to the present day Tea Party that has resulted in broken promises and an ideological purity that drives moderate Republicans away.

HBO-TV/"RealTime with Bill Maher," February 5

Uma Thurman, Alexandra Daddario Join Marjane Satrapi’s Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas (ISBN 9780804172080 $17.00). You can check out the full article HERE

FYI - Ken Kratz, the lawyer whose prosecution of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey was chronicled on Netflix’s wildly popular docu-series “Making a Murderer,” is writing a book about the case.

In the meantime get your orders in for ‘The Innocent Killer’ (ISBN

9781627223638 $16.95)

Showtime is developing the novel ‘Super Sad True Love Story’ (ISBN

9780812977868 $16.00) with Ben Stiller Directing. Go HERE for the full article

TriStar Lands Cartel Book ‘Wolf Boys’; Antoine Fuqua Attached to Direct – Go HERE for the full article Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (ISBN 9781501126543 $26.95) Sept 2016 release

Embankment Films has boarded the Wim Wenders-directed love story

Submergence (ISBN 9781566893190 $16.95) starring Alicia Vikander and

James McAvoy and based on J.M. Ledgard’s NY Times bestseller.

For more on this go HERE

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Releasing March 22nd Dimestore by Lee Smith (ISBN 9781616205027 $24.95) In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom, and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia—and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music, and her daddy’s dimestore. It was in that dimestore--listening to customers and inventing life histories for the store’s dolls--that she began to learn the craft of storytelling. Even though she adored Grundy, Smith’s formal education and travels took her far from Virginia, though her Appalachian upbringing never left her. Dimestore’s fifteen essays are crushingly honest, always wise, and superbly entertaining. Smith has created both a moving, personal portrait and a broader meditation on embracing one’s heritage. Hers is an inspiring story of the birth of a writer and a poignant look at a way of life that has all but vanished.

“You know how in Lee Smith’s fiction there’s always something so fresh, crazy, and loving? In Dimestore is the essence of Lee.” —Roy Blount Jr. “This memoir is Smith at her finest. There is not one false note in the book. This wonderful memoir—filled with tenderness, compassion, love, and humor—is highly recommended for fans of Smith’s fiction, lovers of Southern writing, and readers who are interested in the changes in small-town America.” —Library Journal (starred review)

Kevin Spacey has been set to star with Nicholas Hoult in Rebel In The Rye, the Black Label Media drama about the formative years of The Catcher In The Rye author J.D. Salinger. Empire exec producer Danny Strong is directing the script he adapted based on the Kenneth Slawenski

biography JD Salinger: A Life (ISBN 9780812982596 $17.00). Go

HERE for the full article.

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Robert Bolaños, 2666 (ISBN 9780312429218 $23.00 – Spanish edition

ISBN 9780307475954 $22.00) premieres next month at Chicago's Goodman Theater. It is scheduled to run from February 6 - March 13, 2016. Approximate running time… five hours with three intermissions

The Goodman Theatre Brings 2666 to Life – Go HERE

‘A Dog’s Purpose’ (ISBN 9780765330345 $14.99), movie based on

Bestselling Book to Unleash in 2017. Go HERE for the full article.

Oscar-nominated Bridge Of Spies producer Marc Platt has optioned Carla Buckley’s

novel The Deepest Secret (ISBN 9780553393736 $15.95)

For more go HERE

Medical procedural ‘Zoobiquity’ (ISBN 9780307477439 $15.95) lands

pilot order from Fox. For the full article, go HERE

United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown

Terrorists by Peter Bergen (ISBN 9780804139540 $28.00) In the wake of the attacks at Fort Hood, at the Boston marathon, and in Paris, here is a riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present.

New York Times Book Review — review – 2/7

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USAToday - Is 'Calendar Girl' the next 'Fifty Shades'? Go HERE for the full article

The first four books are now in our system and on order with the publisher. CALENDAR GIRL V01 (ISBN 9781943893034 $15.99) CALENDAR GIRL V02 (ISBN 9781943893041 $15.99) CALENDAR GIRL V03 (ISBN 9781943893058 $15.99) – Jan 26th release CALENDAR GIRL V04 (ISBN 9781943893065 $15.99) – Feb 12th release

Wallace Stegner’s critically acclaimed novel ‘Crossing To Safety’ (ISBN 9780375759314 $16.00), has been optioned. For the full article go

HERE

Go HERE for the 2016 Oscar nominee titles for all the major categories

Trailer for Stephen King’s ‘11.23.63’ (ISBN 9781451627299 $19.99).

Series premiers on HULU February 15th – Go HERE

AMC said its six-part miniseries The Night Manager (ISBN 9780399594007

$9.99) starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman — the first TV adaptation of a John

le Carré novel in more than 20 years — will kick off a new night of original programming on Tuesday, April 19.

Meet the Unknown Author of the Next Blockbuster Novel – go HERE for

the article

Lily & the Octopus (ISBN 9781501126222 $25.99) release June 9th

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Fox has acquired Joe Hill’s forthcoming novel The Fireman (ISBN

9780062200631 $28.99-May release), and has attached Louis Leterrier to direct. Go HERE for the full article

Based on ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by

Jonathan Evison (ISBN 9781616203153 $14.95)

Rob Burnett On ‘The Fundamentals of Caring’: “Once You Have Paul Rudd, You Have A Movie” - Go HERE for more

Looking for more franchise properties, Lionsgate has just acquired the

rights to the Magic Tree House book series and says it plans to develop

multiple live-action films for its Summit Entertainment label.

You can check out the full article HERE, and be sure to check today’s

SHOWCASE for all of the Magic Tree House titles

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