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The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

A Paperback Original Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers that tells the story of a chilling future where a 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism “The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie’s, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.” —The Independent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/15/2012FICTIONpb 9780062130808 $14.99 ($18.99)256 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose in the world, and now nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake. Some blame scientists, others see the hand of God, and still others claim that human arrogance and destructiveness are reaping their inevitable, just punishments. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary 16-year old girl living in extraordinary times. She wants her life to make a difference. But is she heroic by nature? Or, as her scientist father fears, is she simply impressionable, innocent, and incapable of understanding where her actions will lead? As the certainties of her childhood are ripped apart, Jessie begins to question her parents’ attitudes, behavior, and the very viability of the world they have bequeathed her. As everything she believes in begins to collapse, Jessie’s idealism and courage will drive her towards an ultimate test of heroism—one from which neither she, nor her world, will ever be the same again. Set in a world irreparably altered by an act of biological terrorism, The Testament of Jessie Lamb explores a young woman’s struggle not only to become independent of her parents, but to wield the potential she knows is inside her—the power to change the world.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 72Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Georges Borchardt

An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth PercerFor fans of Prep, Dead Poets Society, and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, an elegant and remarkably insightful coming-of-age debut, in which a young woman learns the limits of her power to save the people she loves with an underground Shakespeare Society at Wellesley at the heart of the novel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/1/2012Fiction Tr 9780062110961 $24.99 ($32.99)352 pages; 6 x 9

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From a young age, Naomi Feinstein believed that she could save the people she loved. Afraid of losing her parents—her father with his weak heart, her deeply depressed mother—she was determined to become a doctor. An outcast at school, Naomi loses herself in books and daydreams of Wellesley College. But when Teddy, her confidant and only friend, abruptly departs from her life, it’s the first devastating loss from which Naomi is not sure she can ever recover, even after her long-awaited acceptance letter to Wellesley arrives.

Yet Wellesley isn’t the bastion of solidarity and security Naomi had imagined. Amid hundreds of other young women she is consumed by loneliness—until the day she sees a girl fall into the freezing waters of a lake. The event marks Naomi’s introduction to Wellesley’s oldest honor society, the mysterious Shakespeare Society, defined by secret rituals and filled with unconventional, passionate students.

Within “Shakes,” Naomi begins to open up, reflecting a little less and living a little more. Detaching from the past, Naomi immerses herself in this exciting and liberating new world. But her happiness is soon clouded by a scandal with irrevocable consequences. Naomi has always tried to save the ones she loves, but part of growing up is learning that, sometimes, saving others is a matter of saving yourself.

An Uncommon Education is a compelling portrait of a young woman’s quest for greatness. Poignant and wise, it artfully captures the complicated ties of family and friendship, and the importance of learning to let go.

HarperSelling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Foundry Literary + Media LLC

Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael BoccacinoA William Morrow Paperback Original

Neil Gaiman meets Tim Burton in this debut—a Victorian gothic tale of the world beyond the living and the price you pay to save those you love. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 7/24/2012FICTIONpb 9780062122612 $14.99 ($18.99)320 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We bid you welcome to the House of Darkling…

When Nanny Prum, the nanny to the young Darrow boys, is found mysteriously murdered in the forest, Charlotte Markham, the recently hired governess, steps in to care for the children. During an outing in the forest, they find themselves crossing over into The Ending, the place for the things that cannot die, where Lily Darrow, the late mistress of Everton, has been waiting. She invites them into the ominous House of Darkling, a wondrous, dangerous place filled with enchantment, mystery and strange creatures that appear to be, but are not quite, human.

Through repeated visits with Lily, Charlotte and the boys discover the wonders of the House of Darkling, careful to keep the place and their mother’s existence a secret from their father, Henry Darrow, lest the spell linking the two worlds together be broken. But when the boys and their mother become trapped in the enchanted house, Charlotte has no choice but to confide everything to Henry, to whom she finds herself increasingly drawn. Together they search to find a way to travel back into The Ending, but when they learn the price demanded by the creatures who inhabit the netherworld, Charlotte and Henry must decide if the sacrifice is worth the danger.

Not since Coraline unlocked a door and discovered a distorted world through a mirror has the simple act of walking through a dense fog revealed such a fantastic journey that is so splendidly strange, frightening, and exhilarating.

William Morrow PaperbacksSelling Territory: W25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: L.Perkins Agency

The Art of War by Kelly Roman and Michael DeWeese

A Paperback Original

A stunning and gritty graphic novel integrating the iconic strategy text by Sun Tzu into a sweeping thriller set 20 years in the future, when Wall Street is militarized and China is the world’s dominant economy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 7/31/2012COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELSpb 9780062103949 $22.99 ($29.50)352 pages; 7 x 92-color throughout;

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------KR was sent to prison for a friendly fire incident which left his unit in tatters. When he gets out, nothing is the same, for upon his release he learns that his brother has been brutally murdered while serving as a financial analyst under the brilliant mogul Sun Tzu, a modern incarnation of the ancient master of war.

From the squalid, depressed wastes of New Jersey he heads into the modern Gomorrah that is Manhattan to infiltrate Sun Tzu’s organization and find out who killed his brother—and why. En route, he’ll intone the words and lessons of the ancient Sun Tzu, strategic principles that have guided him through every bloody battle, every surprise attack, and every hair’s-breadth escape during a life of danger. Using the unforgiving, ancient lessons of The Art of War, along with the skills and high-tech upgrades his Special Forces career has provided him, he’ll face down the Chinese government and confront Sun Tzu himself on his way to reach the shadowy financial guru known only as The Prince.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 18Selling Territory: USCOM20,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Foundry Literary + Media

Hosoi by Christian Hosoi

Tony Hawk meets Brian Welch in this tell-all from skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi—from being named the greatest all-time skater to bottoming out on drugs to finally finding redemption through God.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FICTIONpb 9780062103086 $14.99 ($18.99)320 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• A BESTSELLING BRAND: Hosoi’s skateboards have been prized in the skating world for decades.

• AUTHOR SPONSORS: Hosoi is currently sponsored by Vans Shoes and Quicksilver.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A professional skateboarder by 13, Christian Hosoi was at the top of the world before he was 20, engaged in the rivalry that would shape years of skating: Christian Hosoi vs. Tony Hawk. At the height of his celebrity in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Hosoi counted River Phoenix, Christian Slater, and Stephen Baldwin among his close friends. But the man who first got stoned at 8 also found himself smoking meth full time. And as Hawk walked away with every accolade, Hosoi faltered.Christian Hosoi hit bottom in January 2000, when he was arrested and con-victed for possession of methamphetamine. In Hosoi, he recounts in agonizing detail the crushing reality of his prison sentence, and the day he made the phone call that guided him toward Christianity—the faith that sustained him in prison and welcomed him into a new life when he was released nearly five years later.In 2006 he was the subject of a full-length documentary about his life called “Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi.” A 2008 reality TV show ran for a couple years on the Inspiration Network called “The Uprising” which followed his skateboarding ministry in L.A., and he won Gold in the Legends X-Games in both 2009 and 2010. The legend is back—and his life of commitment to family and to Christ is just getting started.

HarperOneCarton Qty: 24Selling Territory: USCOM50,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: HarperOne; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Sterling Lord Literistic

The Taken by Vicki PetterssonHarper Voyager Trade Paperback Original

New York Times Bestselling Author

The former Vegas showgirl and New York Times bestselling author of the Signs of the Zodiac series struts her stuff in this dark and twisting mystery featuring a fallen angel and a reporter—the first entry in a deliciously addictive new series that is a superb blend of noir mystery, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012Fantasypb 9780062064646 $13.99 ($17.99)432 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780061456794Neon Graveyard, The

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• Vicki Pettersson’s Sign of the Zodiac novels hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.

• With its compelling characters and fresh supernatural noir premise, The Taken will appeal to the fans who made Danielle Trussoni’s Angelogy and Lauren Kate’s Fallen Series bestsellers and will find fans who enjoy Jeaniene Frost’s sizzling romantic paranormal tales.

AUTHOR SOCIAL MEDIA• Official Author Website: www.VickiPettersson.com• Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/vicki.pettersson• Official Twitter Handle: twitter.com/#!/VickiPettersson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------He’s a fallen angel. She’s a rockabilly reporter. Together they must solve a deadly string of murders plaguing the mortal and the immortal worlds.

Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was over fifty years ago when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Now he’s a Centurion, an angel who assists other murdered souls through their journey to the afterlife. But while Shaw might be an angel … he’s no saint. Haunted by the mysterious events surrounding his own death, he seizes a chance to wreak some vengeance when he witnesses a deadly attack on journalist Katherine “Kit” Craig.

Joining forces, the unlikely avengers take to the streets, hunting a killer whose trail of bodies stretches across Las Vegas and into an immortal netherworld. It is a dangerous trek that lead them into the darkest corners of Sin City and into the heart of an evil conspiracy extending beyond the lights of the Strip that could destory them both.

But destruction isn’t the only threat Griffin faces. The closer her gets to Kit, the more he finds himself bewitched by her mortal charms. Can he resist falling under her spell? And does he want to?

Harper VoyagerCarton Qty: 48Selling Territory: W100,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio, UK, Translation: Harper Voyager; First Serial, Dramatic: Irene Godman Agency

Mud, Sweat & Tears by Bear Grylls#1 Sunday Times (London) Bestseller

The adventurer and mega-popular star of the hit survival series Man Vs. Wild takes fans to the wildest place yet—inside his own life

“Bear Gryllis is a veritable superhero. ... The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world’s harshest environments.” Hampton Sides, Outside magazine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/1/2012Memoir/OutdoorsTr 9780062124197 $26.99 ($34.99)416 pages; 6 x 93 8-page color photo inserts;

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• Man Vs. Wild is one of the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers in over 180 countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“I had a hunger to push myself, and I found out that I could dig very deep when I needed to. I don’t really know where or how this hunger came about, but I had it. I call it the ‘fire’. Maybe it was trying to seek an identity in this big world. Maybe it was frustration from my younger years. I don’t really know; but I realized that I was beginning to be able to do stuff that no one else at school could do, and it felt good.”—from Mud, Sweat, and Tears

Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on Britain’s Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn’t long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds night-climbing missions at Eton, the elite English boarding school he attended. As a teenager, he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster’s karate training camp in Japan. On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously grueling selection course for the British Special Forces to join SAS—a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance.

Then, in a horrific free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, Bear broke his back in three places. It was unclear whether he would ever walk again. However, only eighteen months later and defying doctors’ expectations, Bear became one of the youngest climbers ever to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. But this was just the beginning of his many extraordinary adventures . . .

Known and admired by millions as the star of the adventure series Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls has survived where few would dare to go. Now, for the first time, Bear tells the story of his action-packed life. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat, and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.

William MorrowCarton Qty: 24Selling Territory: USCOM100,000Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, Audio: William Morrow; UK, Translation, Dramatic: MF Management

Serpent’s Kiss by Melissa de la CruzThe powerful Beauchamp family, introduced in the New York Times bestselling Witches of East End, returns in The Serpent’s Kiss, with dizzying plot twists and the spell-binding magic that have made both Witches of East End and Melissa’s Blue Bloods series such enormous successes.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FictionTr 9781401323967 $23.99 ($0.00)224 pages; 6 1/8 X 9 1/4Age: 12-Model ISBN: 9781401323905Witches of East EndCarton Qty: 20Selling Territory: USCOM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• Witches of East End was a New York Times bestseller, and Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series has more than 3 million copies in print.

• As the Blue Bloods fans get older and start to move away from the YA section, they’ll naturally turn to Melissa’s adult series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Just as things have settled down in the off-the-map Long Island town of North Hampton for the magical Beauchamp family, everything gets turned upside down once more when Freya’s twin brother Fryr, or “Freddie” as he’s called now, returns from Limbo with shocking news—that it was none other than Freya’s fiancé, Killian Gardiner, who set up his downfall.

He begs Freya to keep his presence a secret, even from their own family, but somehow the irascible Freddie is still able to conduct many affairs with the town’s young lovelies from his self-imposed exile. Until he falls for the wrong girl.

While Freya tries to keep her brother from exacting revenge on the man she loves, Ingrid has her own problems. Her human boyfriend, Matt Noble, becomes entangled in a complicated investigation, and when the magical creatures at the center of it come to Ingrid for help, she has a difficult choice to make.

To top it off, a dead spirit is trying to make contact with Joanna—but does it mean to harm or warn the witches? All hell breaks loose at the family reunion over Thanksgiving, and much mayhem ensues, but when the culprit behind Freddie’s imprisonment is finally revealed, it may already be too late to staunch the poison that’s been released by the serpent’s kiss. The spells cast by the bestselling Witches of East End continue in this bewitching follow-up that Melissa de la Cruz’s many fans won’t want to miss.

The Innocents by Francesca SegalA smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment, a modern recasting of Edith Wharton’s classic The Age of Innocence, The Innocents is set among a close-knit community in which one young man’s pre-wedding panic illuminates the universal conflict between responsibility and passion.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/5/2012FictionTr 9781401341817 $25.99 ($0.00)288 pages; 6 1/8 X 9 1/4Carton Qty: 20Selling Territory: USOMXEUR------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• Francesca Segal has written for Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, and FT Magazine. She grew up in Temple Fortune, the North West London Jewish community where the novel is set.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old lawyer Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small suburb in North West London. He has been with Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune: she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her community—a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam’s role in a warm, inclusive family he loves—her grandmother Ziva, a Holocaust survivor who passes irreverent and sharp-witted judgment on the suburban preoccupations of Temple Fortune; her father, Lawrence, who is Adam’s boss and whom he idolizes; and her Israeli mother, Jaffa, who is as broad as her husband is tall and runs the family with energy and unquestioned authority.

But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel’s younger cousin, Ellie Schneider, moves home from New York she unsettles Adam more than he’d care to admit. Ellie—beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independent—offers a liberation that he hadn’t known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying close to home?

The first novel in what is destined to be a brilliant career, The Innocents is a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of The Age of Innocence, set in contemporary London’s tight-knit Jewish community.

One Shot At Forever by Chris BallardFriday Night Lights meets Hoosiers and Dead Poet’s Society in this inspirational story about an unlikely coach who leads a high-school baseball team and their small Illinois town to a season they’ll never forget.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/22/2012SportsTr 9781401324384 $24.99 ($0.00)272 pages; 6 1/8 X 9 1/48-page b/w insert; approx. 5 b/w photos in textCarton Qty: 20------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• One Shot at Forever extends a wildly popular article Ballard wrote for Sports Illustrated in June 2010. SI received more letters about the story than almost any other it ran that year.

• Similarly popular are books about how sports invigorates towns, such as Drape’s Our Boys, Dent’s Twelve Mighty Orphans, and Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When Lynn Sweet arrived in Macon, Illinois, in 1966, his presence was controversial. A hippie, dreamer, and intellectual in a small town still living in the Eisenhower era, Sweet made waves wherever he went, including the classroom where he taught high school English and the baseball field where he reluctantly signed up to become the new coach of the Macon Ironmen.Playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, sport-ing long hair, and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweet’s Ironmen defied convention and the odds. And in 1971—a time when a drought plagued Macon, Vietnam raged in the background, and there were no class distinctions in high school baseball—this group of overmatched boys emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the final, a distinction that still stands. There they would play a dramatic game against a Chicago powerhouse that would change their lives forever.Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard takes readers on this entertaining journey from Sweet’s arrival to the Ironmen’s improbable run to the state final, to the present day where Ballard returns to the 1971 Ironmen to ex-plore the effect the game had on their lives’ trajectories. In doing so, Ballard paints a memorable portrait of small town boys readers will immediately recognize—boys who race through cornfields on hot summer nights, who love baseball almost as much as they love pulling pranks, and who bond as teammates and friends during halcyon days when they stand, together, on the verge of manhood, not sure of what the future holds.Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that between a coach, a team, and a town.

The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay

From the author of the #1 international bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl, abandoned in post-Civil War New York City, who is forced to fend for herself in a world of poverty and treachery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/26/2012FictionTr 9780061140327 $25.99 (NCR)336 pages; 6 x 9Model ISBN: 9780061135859Birth House, The

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• The Virgin Cure was inspired by the experiences of her own great-great-grandmother, a pioneer in women’s medicine in nineteenth-century New York. Her story brings to light the intrepid steps taken by these forward-thinking women to protect the poor from the century’s most horrific diseases.

• Ami McKay has shadowed doctors and medical students; sleuthed around libraries, archives, and museums; and combed through newspapers, letters, and memoirs to create an accurate portrait of 1870s New York and the medi-cal practices of the period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a twelve-year-old girl “from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.”

Abandoned by her father and sold into servitude by her mother, Moth struggles to survive alone in the murky world of the Bowery, a wild and lawless enclave filled with thieves, beggars, sideshow freaks, and prostitutes. She eventually meets Miss Everett, the proprietor of an “Infant School,” a brothel that caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for “willing and clean” companions—desirable young virgins like Moth.

Moth also finds friendship with Dr. Sadie, a female physician struggling against the powerful forces of injustice, who teaches Moth to question and observe the world around her. The doctor hopes to protect Moth from falling prey to a terrible myth known as the “virgin cure”—the tragic belief that deflowering a “fresh maid” can heal the incurable and tainted—that has destroyed the lives of other Bowery girls.

Ignored by society and unprotected by the law, Moth dreams of independence. But there’s a high price to pay for freedom, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street.

HarperCarton Qty: 32Selling Territory: USOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper; First Serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Helen Heller Literary Agency

The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria

A Paperback Original An award-winning young filmmaker and writer’s funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between the American and Arab cultures.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 11/27/2012MEMOIRpb 9780061999758 $14.99 ($18.99)288 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Born to an American mother from Washington State and a Bedouin father from the State of Qatar, Sophia Al-Maria knew that the two sides of her family were very different. As a child she found escape in imaginary worlds of fantasy and sci-fi, which eventually turned into reality when she moved from the peaceful green valleys of the Pacific Northwest to the noisy bustle of her father’s family in Doha, Qatar, to attend school. Along the way she finds young love in the Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self discovery in the mountains of Sinai. Both a family saga and the search for an answer to the most personal of quests, The Girl Who Fell to Earth illuminates the common predicament of being a stranger among one’s relatives with both humor and poignancy, and in doing so heralds the arrival of an electric new talent.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 60Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Tibor Jones & Associates

Marvel Comics by Sean Howe

The defining, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered popular artistic entities in America’s history—Marvel Comics—and how it reshaped culture, creating a modern American mythology for millions of fans ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 10/9/2012Popular Culture/BusinessTr 9780061992100 $25.99 ($31.50)496 pages; 6 x 916-page color insert

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• This is the first time the unauthorized history of this fascinating and undeniably vital company has ever been told. Written by former Entertainment Weekly editor Sean Howe, this exhaustively researched, highly entertaining book is the first to explore the whole story of this iconic company, the people behind it, and the stories that have become integral to popular culture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company named Marvel Comics introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children’s hearts and sparked the imagination of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of half a century, Marvel’s epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

Interweaving history, anecdotes, and analysis, Sean Howe traces Marvel’s decades-long rise to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, revealing how it weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, legal battles, and the collapse of the comic book market. He shows how Marvel’s identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. He also introduces the men behind the magic, including self-made publisher Martin Goodman, energetic editor Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran and co-creator of many of the company’s marquee characters.

A story of fertile imaginations, lifelong friendships, action-packed fistfights, reformed criminals, unlikely alliances, and third-act betrayals that incorporates more than one hundred original interviews with Marvel insiders then and now, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is a gripping narrative of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.

HarperCarton Qty: 24Selling Territory: W35,000Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency

The Unseen by Katherine Webb

A William Morrow Paperback Original From the author of the international bestseller The Legacy comes a compelling tale of love, deception, and illusion set in early 1900s England.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/22/2012FICTIONpb 9780062077882 $14.99 ($16.99)464 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062077301Legacy, The

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------England, 1911. The Reverend Albert Canning, a vicar with a passion for spiritualism, leads a happy existence with his naive wife Hester in a sleepy Berkshire village. As summer dawns, their quiet lives are changed forever by two new arrivals. First comes Cat, the new maid: a free-spirited and disaffected young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law. Cat quickly finds a place for herself in the secret underbelly of local society as she plots her escape. Then comes Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby. A young man of magnetic charm and beauty, Robin soon becomes an object of fascination and desire. During a long spell of oppressive summer heat, the rectory becomes charged with ambition, love and jealousy; a mixture of emotions so powerful that it leads, ultimately, to murder.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 44Selling Territory: USCOM50,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Orion Publishing Group

The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois LeveenA William Morrow Paperback Original With the rich detail of Cold Mountain, the strong female bonds of The Help, and the untold history of The Warmth of Other Suns, comes a powerful debut novel about the secrets a woman keeps, and those she will risk everything to tell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/15/2012Fictionpb 9780062107909 $15.99 ($17.99)496 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• The real-life Mary Bowser was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in 1995. Her story has been featured in the New York Post and on NPR and PBS’s Now.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mary is a loving daughter, a quick-witted girl, and a slave to one of the wealthiest families in Richmond, Virginia. When Bet Van Lew, the outspoken daughter of the family that owns Mary, decides to send her to Philadelphia to be educated, Mary must leave her parents to seize her freedom.

Life in the North offers Mary a different kind of education than she ever expected. Carefully keeping the secrets of her own enslaved family, she joins the abolition movement to bring fugitive slaves to freedom. As the nation edges toward war, Mary defies Virginia law by returning to Richmond, vowing to care for her ailing father—and to fight for emancipation. Knowing that slaves are considered incapable of intelligence, she poses as a slave in the Confederate White House to spy on President Jefferson Davis. Together Mary and Bet risk their own lives to smuggle invaluable information to the Union commanders.

As illness and hunger ravage the city, Mary’s espionage leads her to deceive even those who are closest to her. Just when it seems all her dangerous gambles to end slavery will pay off, the death and destruction of the war take their greatest toll, and Mary discovers that everything comes at a cost—even freedom.

Based on a true story , written with immense heart, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an illuminating and inspiring tale of injustice and courage, friendship and war—and of one daring woman willing to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 36Selling Territory: USCOM75,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Markson Thoma Literary