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Nancy Grossman's untitled debut about a sixteen-year-old Amish girl who leaves her community for her rumspringa, uncovers family secrets, begins to date a forbidden non-Amish boy, questions the pleasures and restrictions of two entirely different ways of life, and must decide where her future lies.

Kristin Harmel's THE BLUE HOUR, in which a bakery owner discovers the truth about her grandmother's escape from France during WWII, a journey that takes her to a synagogue and a mosque in Paris, uncovers a long-hidden family secret, and leads her to a new love of her own.

David Oliver Cohen, Tanner Cohen, & Lara Schoenhals' WHITE GIRL PROBLEMS, a memoir by a fictitious 24-year old and author of the twitter feed @whitegrlproblem; a self-absorbed faux-memoir, based on her "problems" - ones we'd all like to have - like your father buying you a horse you hate or enduring a falling out with your personal shopper.

GO LIKE HELL author and Playboy editor A.J. Baime's THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY: The Fords, FDR, and How World War II Was Won, recounting the dramatic transformation of Detroit from "motortown" to the "arsenal of democracy," featuring the tragic hero Edsel Ford, who rebelled against his pacifist father, Henry Ford, to build the industrial miracle Willow Run, producing the B-24 Liberator bombers (at a rate of one per hour) - a crucial component in winning the war, and thereby creating his own legacy.

Entertainment Weekly writer Chris Nashawaty's CRAB MONSTERS, TEENAGE CAVEMEN, AND CANDY-STRIPE NURSES: Roger Corman, King of the B-movie, an oral history of the iconic director's career, in association with Corman, including remembrances from renown disciples such as Robert DeNiro, Sylvester Stallone, and Sandra Bullock, of their days in Corman's B-movie prep school, combined with thought-provoking criticism and exclusive film-set photos.

World-class rock-climber Steph Davis's LEARNING TO FLY, a transcendent account of an earth-bound athlete overcoming traumatic life change with her unlikely embrace of the aerial world of base-jumping, finding a new chance at love, and mastering human flight, as she rediscovers herself in the process.

Manda Collins's HOW TO DANCE WITH A DUKE, introducing three wallflower cousins who each must find a husband before the end of the social season; they set out to do so with a little help from a dance card purloined from the ton's most insufferable beauty.

NYT bestselling author Stephan Talty's AGENT GARBO: How a Brilliant and Eccentric Double Agent Tricked the Nazis and Saved D-Day, the little known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, whose intrinsic role in leading Hitler's Abwehr on a wild, several-year goose chase for the landing area of D-Day aided in the success of the famous mission and saved thousands of lives.

Drew Magary's THE POSTMORTAL, one man's account of what happens to humanity after a cure for aging is accidentally discovered and of his path to a job as an end specialist - a government contractor who euthanizes people who no longer want to live forever.

Nutrition and health guru behind the syndicated column the Diet Detective Dr. Charles Stuart Platkin's straightforward book using his "build-a-meal" program, providing thousands of choices from America's most popular brands: foods available at the local supermarket, frozen and ready-to-eat foods, casual dining restaurants, fast-food chains, and even the local convenience store all without cooking.

Paul Bogard's THE GEOGRAPHY OF NIGHT, a roaming tour of the night sky's wonders, discovering the value of darkness across a search for the darkest places we have left.

NYT bestselling author of JIM BROWN OUT OF BOUNDS and upcoming DA BEARS! Steve Delsohn's chronicling an oral history of the fabled Duke basketball program, which won the national championship last season.

Author of SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES Josie Brown's THE BABY PLANNER, in which a woman in a childless marriage channels her maternal instincts into helping her anxious pregnant clients prepare for motherhood, and in the process learns about love, marriage, and the true meaning of family.

Wine importer Roy Cloud's TO BURGUNDY AND BACK AGAIN, chronicling of his eventful first trip to the undiscovered vineyards of French wine country, with his French-speaking brother riding shotgun.

Dave Stockton's UNCONSCIOUS PUTTING, a golf instructional book by the coach of several top professional golfers including, most recently, Phil Mickelson, on how to solve putting problems by making putting an unconscious act instead of a conscious one, co-written with Matt Rudy.

Virna DePaul's NO HOLDING BACK, in which a cop goes undercover as a courtroom bailiff to investigate a judge and is reunited with an old love.

Real Clear Politics analyst Jay Cost's FROM PROGRESS TO PERFIDY: The Untold Story of How the Democratic Party Became a Threat to the American Republic, tracing the transformation of the Democratic Party into a modern-day Tammany Hall that "taxes Middle America to pay off its parasitical clients while hiding its true nature behind a smokescreen of idealist rhetoric."

Addison Fox's THE BACHELOR GAME, set in a small Alaskan town whose three matriarchs, in a not-so-secret ploy to get their grandsons happily married off, host an annual contest that teams the town's rugged bachelors with women from the Lower 48.

Melissa Bourbon's PLEATING FOR MERCY, the first in a new dressmaking series in which a woman opens a custom boutique in a small Texas town and solves a murder with the help of her great-grandmother, the shop's resident ghost.

Theresa Meyers's THE HUNTER, pitched as a sexy blend of Supernatural meets Wild Wild West and featuring three demon-slaying brothers destined to save the world.

Author of HEX HALL Rachel Hawkins's REBEL BELLE, about a high school Miss Popularity whose world changes when a funny thing happens on the way to the (Homecoming) coronation: she's recruited into the Paladins, a supernatural sect of bodyguards sworn to protect those who will play an important role in the future, and charged with saving her archnemesis even if it means sacrificing her place as queen bee.

Sports Illustrated journalist David Epstein's THE SPORTS GENOME, exploring what genetics reveals about athletic performance, and questioning the correlation between effort and excellence.

Author of Four Kings, George Kimball's MANLY ART: (They Can Run But They Can't Hide), a compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage, and analysis.

Author of WARRIOR ASCENDED Addison Fox's next two books in the Warriors of the Zodiac series, featuring warriors granted the powers of their astrological signs and charged with protecting humanity.

Rae Carson's debut THE PRINCESS AND THE GODSTONE, pitched in the vein of Kristin Cashore and Robin McKinley, in which a princess marked for an act of greatness is married off to a foreign king and swept into a world of courtly politics, dark magic, and war.

NYT sports columnist BILL PENNINGTON'S BIG BOOK OF GOLF, a lively and entertaining compendium of all things golf inspired by his weekly column "On Par."

Maureen Lipinski's debut ETHEREAL GIRL, in which a teenage ambassador to the Otherrealm attempts to give up her supernatural calling and pursue a normal high school life until she discovers the Otherrealm isn't through with her just yet.

VICE founder and "Godfather of hipsterdom" Gavin McInnes's THE DEATH OF COOL, a humorous chronicle of extreme-but-true stories including, punks bands on heroin, celebrity fist fights, and blackout threesomes -- spanning two decades of hard partying that built an underground multi-media empire.

MY LAST SUPPER author and photographer Melanie Dunea's MY LAST SUPPER: THE SECOND COURSE, featuring stunning and revealing images of 50 new chefs with descriptions of their ideal last meal.

Times-Picayune education reporter and Spencer fellow on education reporting Sarah Carr's CHARTER REVOLUTION, an examination of the growing charter school movement and how it changes our schools and communities, using post-Katrina New Orleans as a lens.

Author of SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES Josie Brown's EXTRACURRICULAR, in which long-held family secrets, a cheating scandal, and parents behaving badly at an exclusive private school threaten to unravel one couple's seemingly perfect life.

Investigative journalist and Schuster fellow Erin Siegal's FINDING FERNANDA: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Reunion in International Adoption, which follows an adoptive mother and a birth mother as they discover they're both searching for the same missing daughter.

MIT Professor of Literature Ina Lipkowitz's THE BARBARIAN APPETITE: Romans, Christians, Conquerors, & the Unlikely Culinary History of the English Language, tracing the stories behind five of our most everyday food words.

Tim Brady's TWELVE DESPERATE MILES, pitched as equal parts The Dirty Dozen and The African Queen, featuring a banana boat, a polyglot crew of civilians and prisoners, a huge payload of fuel and ammunition, a twelve-mile river and a heroic French harbor pilot, in the shadow of the US invasion of North Africa in WW II.

Swing expert Jim McLean's THE KING OF SWING: The Real Secrets Behind Ben Hogan's Perfect Golf Swing, using archival footage of Hogan's swing in 1948, showcasing one of the golf game's best teachers analyzing the culmination of one of the game's all time perfectionists at his peak.

Craig Robinson's FLIP FLOP FLYBALL, based on the web site www.flipflopflyball.com, a guide to the history and culture of baseball as told through infographics and illustrations, pitched as the Edward Tufte of baseball.

GQ staff writer Alex Pappademas's HERE COMES TOMORROW, featuring essays and insights into how comics, superheroes, science fiction, and other "nerdy" entertainment has become a dominant force in pop culture.

Editor of Slushpile.net Thomas Scott McKenzie's POWER CHORD: One Man's Ear Splitting Quest to Find his Guitar Heroes, a pilgrimage of Heavy Metal guitarists and the secret allure of the electric axe itself.

SI writer Jack McCallum's new book on "The Dream Team," the USA's legendary 1992 Olympic basketball champions, taking readers inside the team with new reflections from such memorable personalities as Charles Barkley and David Robinson, as well as stories about their raucous nights in Monte Carlo and the legendary closed-door practice that turned into the greatest pickup game of all time.

Gemma Halliday's debut DEADLY COOL, in which a sixteen-year-old finds out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with the president of the chastity club; when she goes to confront the cheaters, she finds the girl dead instead and now must solve the murder.

Virna De Paul's new series about a unique special ops team whose members include a shapeshifter, a wraith, and a vampire and the human female he's forbidden to love; on their first mission the team must recover an antidote needed to save the vampire race.

Kiera Stewart's debut FETCHING, in which a crew of middle school nobodies secretly use dog training techniques on their classmates to go from eighth-grade underdogs to leaders of the pack, only to discover being top dog isn't all they expected it to be.

Theresa Meyers's UNVEILING OF THE DAMNED and ENEMY OF THE DAMNED, offering a new take on the vampire mythology.

Michael Schofield's JANUARY FIRST: One Child's Battle with Schizophrenia, the story of the author's daughter, Jani, age seven who suffers from one of the worst cases of schizophrenia ever documented, and which causes her to hallucinate 95 percent of the time, begging the question of what is, for her, the essence of reality; some of her hundreds of imaginary friends urge her to violent acts, which demands extraordinary effort, sacrifice and faith on the part of her parents to keep Jani safe, happy, and their family together.

Phillips Exeter Academy History Professor and four-time author Michael Golay's LADY REPORTER IN HER CHEVY 'BLUETTE': Lorena Hickok's Journeys through America During the Great Depression, part travelogue and part narrative history, focusing on journalist Hickock's 18 month journey through America at the request of Harry Hopkins to discover the "human face" of the Great Depression, and providing the most detailed portrait yet of her intimate relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Unorthodox Texas Tech football coach (a former lawyer who has developed a potent offense) Mike Leach with ESPN journalist Bruce Feldman's SWING YOUR SWORD! And Other Weapons for Winning.

THAT FIRST SEASON author John Eisenberg's THE BATTLE FOR DALLAS, the story about the bitter rivalry between the startup Cowboys of the NFL and Texans of the AFL for football supremacy in Dallas in the early 1960's.

Seamus McGraw's PIPE DREAMS: How the Frantic Hunt For Natural Gas Is Transforming Small Town America, going inside the world of the Marcellus Play, the largest and most competitive gas field in the country, and using the key role players -- the farmers, the landmen, the gas barons, and the lobbyists -- to tell the story of the mining of his mother's farm in northeastern Pennsylvania, to Random House.

The author of THE EXECUTION OF WILLIE FRANCIS, Gilbert King's untitled book on Thurgood Marshall, exploring the fascinating but lesser known era in this hard-charging and charismatic lawyer's life before Brown vs. Board of Education, to Harper Studio.

Author of JOHN JAY: Founding Father Walter Stahr's NOBLE PURPOSES: The Life of William Henry Seward, a biography of Lincoln's most trusted advisor, considered among the most significant Secretaries of State in American history and responsible for the acquisition of Alaska, drawing on long-neglected sources, to Simon & Schuster.

LA Times journalist Jill Leovy's THE HOMICIDE REPORT: Black Men, Murder and America's Unseen Catastrophe - based in part on her groundbreaking "Homicide Report" project, reporting all 845 LA County murders last year - weaving together a kaleidoscopic narrative about a murder-wracked community in South Los Angeles with a new theory about race and America's homicide epidemic, to Spiegel & Grau.

This American Life contributor Rosie Schaap's collection DRINKING WITH MEN, an honest and irreverent account of a woman's experiences forging her identity in an an almost exclusively male world: her favorite bars, where she has enjoyed the company of artists and ironworkers, tugboat captains and taxi drivers, poets and businessmen, lawyers and soccer hooligans, to Riverhead.

Alexandra Cousteau's THE BLUE BOOK, honoring the legacy of her grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, an exploration of water ecosystems around the world and how they are interconnected and interdependent, as well as a poetic meditation on what it means to live on a beautiful, but threatened, blue planet, to Dutton.

Jason Zinoman's SHOCK VALUE, based on his recent Vanity Fair article, offering a definitive look at the golden age of the modern horror movie by examining the infamous directors who revolutionized the business, exploded taboos, and brought a new brand of intellectualism and politics to the genre, to Penguin Press.


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