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Dead Wake
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson
Publicist: Penny Simon  
865-675-1705 | psimon@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes 
the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th 
anniversary of the disaster.
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for 
Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared 
the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But 
the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds” and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed 
tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. 
He knew, moreover, that his ship—the fastest then in service—could outrun any threat. 
It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter 
and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour, mystery, 
and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller 
Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle to President Wilson, a man lost to grief, 
dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake 
captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.
AUTHOR BIO
ERIK LARSON is the author of four national bestsellers: In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White 
City, and Isaac’s Storm, which have collectively sold more than 5.5 million copies. His books have been published in 
fourteen countries.
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9780307408860
On Sale Date: 3/10/15
$28.00 
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History - Military - World War I

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Better Than Before
Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Gretchen Rubin
Publicist:Sarah Breivogel 
212-572-2722 | sbreivogel@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
From the author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers The Happiness Project and 
Happier at Home comes a book that tackles the question: How do we make good habits that  
are easy, effortless, and automatic?
Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives. Rubin provides an analytical and scientific framework from which 
to understand these habits—as well as change them for good. Infused with her compelling voice and funny stories, 
she illustrates the core principles of habit formation with dozens of strategies that she uses herself and tests out on 
others. In doing so, she discovers answers to questions such as:
-At times I’ve picked up a habit overnight, but at other times it’s taken years to develop. Why?
-Why do some people resist habits while others adopt them eagerly?
-I want to help my child/spouse/colleagues make a change. What can I do? 
-Why do I resist other people’s advice on how to change, even when I think they are right? 
-How do I make good habits convenient and easy?
Rubin provides tools to help readers better understand themselves, and presents a clear, practical menu of 
strategies so readers can take an individualized approach. She tackles each strategy herself and in doing so shows 
us the importance of knowing ourselves and our own habit tendencies. Armed with self-knowledge, we can pursue 
habits in ways that will truly work for us, not against us. Going to the gym can be as easy, effortless, and automatic 
as putting on a seatbelt. We can file expense reports, take time for fun, or pass up that piece of carrot cake without 
having to decide. With a foundation of good habits, we can build a life that reflects our values and goals.
If we change our habits, we change our lives.
AUTHOR BIO
GRETCHEN RUBIN is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, along 
with four other books. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
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9780385348614
On Sale Date: 3/17/15
$26.00 
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Self-Help - Personal Growth - General

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Spinster
A Life of One’s Own
Kate Bolick
Publicist: Rachel Rokicki 
212-782-8455 | rrokicki@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
An utterly frank and original memoir that brings alive the pleasures and possibilities of 
remaining a happily unmarried woman. 
 “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence, regardless of where 
she was raised or what religion she does or doesn’t practice.”
So begins Spinster, a revelatory book about the unbridled life of one unmarried woman. From the first pages 
of this lyrical, heartfelt, and thought-provoking memoir, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick draws us into 
the vibrant world she has made for herself. Vital to this private universe is a cast of pioneering women of the 
last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have lit the way for Kate and emboldened her at crucial 
personal junctures to remain single: poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, essayist Maeve Brennan, novelist Edith Wharton, 
journalist Neith Boyce, opera diva Ganna Walska, and social critic Charlotte Perkins Gilman. By connecting the dots 
between single women past and present, Kate reveals the long arc of slowly changing attitudes toward women and 
marriage, and shows us why, even today, the choice to remain single is a source of considerable debate and societal 
handwringing.
Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is the kind of slyly erudite, unreservedly candid work of 
memoir and broader cultural exploration that offers readers a way back into their own lives, a way of seeing those 
splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what 
they really are: open and free and our own to savor. The result is a spellbinding account that explores as no other 
book has the true meaning of a woman’s freedom.
AUTHOR BIO
KATE BOLICK is a contributing editor to The Atlantic. She was previously the executive editor of Domino magazine. 
She lives in New York.
Crown
9780385347136
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$26.00 
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Legend
A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret’s Heroic Mission to Rescue a  
Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Eric Blehm
Publicist: Penny Simon  
865-675-1705 | psimon@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
From the bestselling author of Fearless, the dramatic and unforgettable story of 
Roy Benavidez—a Green Beret in Vietnam who is known among special forces members today 
by a single word: “Legend.” Legend tells the heroic story of the 240th Assault Helicopter 
Company, and Benavidez’s nearly suicidal rescue mission that saved eight lives and won 
Benavidez the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In April 1968, a 12-man US Special Forces team entered the jungles of Cambodia on a covert mission to uncover 
evidence that communists were using the area as a major conduit for supplying the North Vietnamese army. Little 
did they know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed numerous enemy bases. They soon found 
themselves surrounded by enemy, low on ammunition, and using the bodies of their dead comrades as cover. 
Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret who had returned to the war after being badly injured during his first tour of duty 
in 1965, heard the distress call and climbed onboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone. What followed 
was one of the most daring one-man rescue missions in military history, in which Benevidez and the 240th Assault 
Helicopter Company rescued eight soldiers, while fending off heavy enemy fire and sustaining extensive injuries 
himself. On the way back to the base, Benevidez, shot and stabbed more than 30 times, was presumed dead. It was 
only when he was being zipped up in a body bag and he coughed up blood that they realized he was still alive. 
With extensive access to family members, former comrades, surviving members of the 240th Assault Helicopter 
Company, documents, and reports, bestselling author Eric Blehm has re-created the incredible story of Benavidez’s 
life, and of the inspiring events of that day, beginning with Roy’s poverty-stricken upbringing in Texas (orphaned at 
age seven, he was a migrant worker and a school drop-out). Legend is a fascinating lens through which to revisit the 
Vietnam War, through the incredible narrative of one of the military’s unsung heroes whose exploits and service 
resulted in the military’s highest honor.
AUTHOR BIO
ERIC BLEHM is the bestselling author of Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For, which recounts the harrowing 
story of the first Special Forces A-team to infiltrate Taliban-held southern Afghanistan weeks after 9/11. Both books 
were New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Last Season, winner of the National Outdoor Book 
Award, was named by Outside magazine as one of the 10 “greatest adventure biographies ever written.” Blehm lives 
in California with his wife and children.
Crown
9780804139519
On Sale Date: 4/28/15
$27.00 
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I Take You
A Novel
Eliza Kennedy
Publicist: Sarah Breivogel 
212-572-2722 | sbreivogel@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Brilliantly executed, hilarious, and driven by the irrepressible voice of its unforgettable heroine, 
this page-turning debut showcases one of the most engaging commercial voices since  
Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones.
Junior attorney Lily Wilder is six days from walking down the aisle but has absolutely no business getting married. 
Her fiancé, Will, is a sweet, intelligent, and loving man. She, however, is sassy, impulsive, and fond of a good drink(s). 
She is also unapologetic about her appetite for sex—definitely not your average blushing bride. Lily loves Will, but 
can she really go through with this? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights—
and days—of boozing it up with her best friend, Freddy, are an ever-present reminder of what she’ll be giving up 
come Saturday. Lily’s mother, grandmother, and a bevy of stepmothers join forces to try and stop what they feel is a 
disaster in the making, but Lily refuses to hear them out. She is determined to both wed her man and bed whom she 
pleases as she wraps up the final stages of planning in her Key West hometown.
Meanwhile, her job at a powerful Manhattan firm threatens to upend both her wedding and career—and a dark 
secret from her past resurfaces, thanks to the appearance of an old friend and the intervention of her disapproving 
future mother-in-law.
Unlike anything you’ve ever read before, this joyous and ribald debut introduces a fabulously self-assured 
protagonist whose choices usher in fresh messages about sexual politics. Lily and Will’s romantic destiny may hang 
in the balance, but one thing’s for sure—readers will find true love with I Take You.
AUTHOR BIO
ELIZA KENNEDY attended the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard 
Law Review. After graduation she clerked for a federal judge, then practiced litigation for several years at a 
prestigious Manhattan law firm. She lives in New York with her husband and son. This is her first novel.  
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9780553417821
On Sale Date: 5/5/15
$24.00 
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The Other Son
A Sophie Brinkmann Novel
Alexander Soderberg
Publicist: Rachel Rokicki 
212-782-8455 | rrokicki@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The exciting follow-up to The Andalucian Friend, a breakneck thriller that follows Sophie 
Brinkmann as she faces the consequences of joining Hector Guzman’s crime empire.
From the moment Hector Guzman entered a coma, Sophie Brinkmann has regretted joining his crime family. 
Hector’s right hand, Aron Geisler, is doing all he can to keep the sinking ship afloat and keep Sophie in their steely 
grip. But when Hector’s brother is murdered in Biarritz, Sophie gains the upper hand, and intends to use it. 
Sophie becomes a player in a game where the rules are constantly changing, where loyalty and friendship are 
rendered meaningless. In order to survive, she must look inward and find her inner darkness. If not, she will be 
swallowed whole by the forces closing in on her: vengeful mobsters, cunning detectives, charismatic arms dealers, 
and possibly her own son.
AUTHOR BIO
ALEXANDER SÖDERBERG has worked as a television screenwriter and lives in the countryside in the south of Sweden. 
The Other Son is his second novel. 
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9780770436087
On Sale Date: 7/21/15
$26.00 
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The Gracekeepers
A Novel
Kirsty Logan
Publicist: Dyana Messina 
212-572-2098 | dmessina@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
A lyrical and moving debut in the tradition 
of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood, 
introducing an original and commanding new 
voice in fiction.
As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, 
laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the 
depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled 
herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a 
long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North 
works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating 
troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who 
sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in 
exchange for sustenance.
In a world divided between those inhabiting the 
mainland (“landlockers”) and those who float on the 
sea (“damplings”), loneliness has become a way of life 
for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore 
brings change to both their lives—offering them a 
new understanding of the world they live in and the 
consequences of the past, while restoring hope in an 
unexpected future. 
Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The 
Gracekeepers tells a modern story of an irreparably 
changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and 
sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age.
AUTHOR BIO
KIRSTY LOGAN is an award-winning writer based in 
Scotland. She regularly performs her stories at events and 
festivals around the UK and Europe. The Gracekeepers is 
her debut novel.
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9780553446616
On Sale Date: 5/19/15
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Freedom’s Child
A Novel
Jax Miller
Publicist: Sarah Breivogel 
212-572-2722 | sbreivogel@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A propulsive, raucous thriller about a woman 
with a troubled past who breaks free of the 
witness-protection program in order to save 
her kidnapped daughter.
For eighteen years Freedom Oliver has lived in a small 
town in Oregon, working at a bar and drinking away her 
troubled past. Twenty years ago, Freedom was arrested 
for killing her husband and spent two years in jail (where 
she put her newborn daughter up for adoption) before 
being exonerated. She’s in witness protection now, to stay 
hidden from her dead husband’s psychotic family. With 
nothing to do but anonymously watch on Facebook as her 
kid grows up, she feels trapped, bored, and heartbroken.
And then one day she reads that her daughter is 
missing, possibly kidnapped. Freedom slips her handlers, 
gets on her motorcycle, and heads for Kentucky, where 
her daughter was raised. No longer protected by US 
marshals, she is targeted and tracked by her husband’s 
vengeful family, who are eager to make Freedom pay for 
his death.
With nothing left to lose, Freedom risks everything to 
make amends for a past that haunts her still.
AUTHOR BIO
JAX MILLER was born and raised in New York and currently 
lives in Ireland.
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9780804186803
On Sale Date: 6/2/15
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Unfair
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Adam Benforado
Publicist: Penny Simon 
865-675-1705 | psimon@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful 
psychological forces that undermine our 
criminal justice system—and affect us all.
Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is 
impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis 
of evidence, careful reasoning, and nuanced argument. 
But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the 
courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant’s taped 
confession, or a simple word choice or gesture during 
a cross-examination. In Unfair, law professor Adam 
Benforado shines a light on this troubling new research, 
showing, for example, that people with certain facial 
features receive longer sentences and that judges are 
far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. 
In fact, over the last two decades, psychologists and 
neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces 
that operate beyond our conscious awareness—and 
Benforado argues that until we address these hidden 
biases head-on, the social inequality we see now will only 
widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to 
exploit the weaknesses in our legal system. 
Weaving together historical examples, scientific 
studies, and compelling court cases—from the border 
collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who 
falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case—
Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold 
our values and protect society’s weakest members, 
convicting the innocent while letting dangerous criminals 
go free. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of 
the problem and proposes a wealth of reforms that could 
prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and 
equality before the law.
AUTHOR BIO
ADAM BENFORADO is an associate professor of law at 
Drexel University. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard 
Law School, he served as a federal appellate law clerk 
and an attorney at Jenner & Block. He has published 
numerous scholarly articles, and his op-eds and essays 
have appeared in a variety of publications including the 
Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer. 
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9780770437763
On Sale Date: 6/16/15
$26.00 
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The Library at Mount Char
Scott Hawkins
Publicist: Lauren Kuhn  
212-782-8637 | lkuhn@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
Neil Gaiman meets Joe Hill in this astonishingly 
original, terrifying, and darkly funny 
contemporary fantasy.
Carolyn’s not so different from the other human beings 
around her. She’s sure of it. She likes guacamole and 
cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. She 
even remembers what clothes are for. After all, she was a 
normal American herself, once. 
That was a long time ago, of course—before the time 
she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other 
children found themselves being raised by a man they 
learned to call Father. 
Father could do strange things. He could call light from 
darkness. Sometimes he raised the dead. And when he 
was disobeyed, the consequences were terrible. 
In the years since Father took her in, Carolyn hasn’t 
gotten out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings 
have been raised according to Father’s ancient Pelapi 
customs. They’ve studied the books in his library and 
learned some of the secrets behind his equally ancient 
power. Sometimes, they’ve wondered if their cruel tutor 
might secretly be God.
Now, Father is missing. And if God truly is dead, the 
only thing that matters is who will inherit his library—and 
with it, power over all of creation. 
As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to 
come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her. 
But Carolyn can win. She’s sure of it. What she doesn’t 
realize is that her victory may come at an unacceptable 
price—because in becoming God, she’s forgotten a great 
deal about being human.
AUTHOR BIO
SCOTT HAWKINS works as a software engineer for Intel. 
He and his wife live in Atlanta, where they spend much 
of their time playing Olympic-caliber fetch with their 
absurdly large pack of foster dogs.
Crown
9780553418606
On Sale Date: 6/16/15
$26.00 
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The Little Paris Bookshop
A Novel
Nina George
Publicist: Rachel Rokicki  
212-782-8455 | rrokicki@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The international bestseller filled with warmth 
and adventure, this novel is for book lovers and 
anyone who believes in the power of stories  
in people’s lives.
“A book is both doctor and medicine. It makes diagnoses 
and provides therapy. Bringing the right novels together 
with the appropriate people is the way I sell books.”
Monsieur Perdu is a literary apothecary. From his 
floating bookstore on the Seine, he prescribes novels 
as medicine for the hardships of life, using his intuitive 
feel for the exact book a reader needs. The only person 
he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself; he’s 
still haunted by heartbreak after his great love, Manon, 
disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has 
never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he 
departs with his book-barge to the south of France, 
hoping to make peace with his loss and find the end of 
the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author 
and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels down the river, 
dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the 
literary world can take the human soul on a journey to 
heal itself.
AUTHOR BIO
NINA GEORGE works as a journalist, writer, and 
storytelling teacher for young adults. George writes 
science thrillers, novels, feature articles, short stories, 
and columns. Das Lavendelzimmer (The Paris Little 
Bookshop) spent months on the bestseller lists in 
Germany in 2013 and 2014. Nina George is married to the 
writer Jens J. Kramer and lives in the University district of 
Hamburg.
Crown
9780553418774
On Sale Date: 6/23/15
$25.00 
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Vice President, Publicity Director,  
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The World Before Us 
A Novel
Aislinn Hunter
Publicist: Dyana Messina  
212-572-2098 | dmessina@penguinrandomhouse.com  
SUMMARY
In the tradition of A. S. Byatt’s Possession, a spellbinding, hauntingly poignant novel about the 
remarkable ties that bring our pasts to the present.
Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian 
asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare. She was babysitting a sweet young girl named Lily, 
and in one fleeting moment during their outdoor adventure, she lost her. The little girl was never found, leaving her 
family and Jane devastated. 
Twenty years later, Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As a 
final research project—an endeavor inspired in part by her painful past—Jane surveys the archives for information 
related to another missing person: a woman who disappeared some 125 years ago in the same woods where Lily was 
lost. As Jane pieces moments in history together, a compelling portrait of a fascinating group of people starts to 
unfurl. Inexplicably tied to the mysterious disappearance of long ago, Jane finds tender details of their lives at the 
country estate and in the asylum that are linked to her own presently heartbroken world, and their story from all 
those years ago may now help Jane find a way to move on. 
In riveting, beautiful prose, The World Before Us explores the powerful notion that history is a closely connected 
part of us—kept alive by the resonance of our daily choices—reminding us of the possibility that we are less alone 
today than we might think.
AUTHOR BIO
AISLINN HUNTER’s acclaimed collection of stories, What’s Left Us, was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the 
ReLit Prize. Her poetry, Into the Eary Hours, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and won the Gerald Lampert 
Award. Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia. The World Before Us is her US debut.
Hogarth
9780553418521
On Sale Date: 3/31/15
$15.00 
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Summer House with Swimming Pool 
A Novel
Herman Koch
Publicist: Dyana Messina 
212-572-2098 | dmessina@penguinrandomhouse.com  
SUMMARY
An instant New York Times bestseller, the blistering, compulsively readable new novel from 
Herman Koch, author of The Dinner.
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser 
needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly 
upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can’t hide from the truth forever. 
It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend 
a week at the Meier’s extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife, 
Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the group settles in for days 
of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations 
are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the 
circumstances surrounding Ralph’s later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer’s tragedy. 
Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international 
phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases 
Herman Koch at his finest.
AUTHOR BIO
HERMAN KOCH is the author of eight novels, including the international besteller The Dinner, and three collections of 
short stories. He currently lives in Amsterdam. 
Hogarth
9780804138833
On Sale Date: 4/28/15
$15.00 
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The Book of Strange New Things 
A Novel
Michel Faber
Publicist: Dyana Messina 
212-572-2098 | dmessina@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
The long-awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal 
and the White.
Peter—devoted pastor, dedicated missionary, and loving husband to his wife, Bea—has just accepted a demanding 
and perilous new job. He’s to travel to a new planet, Oasis, to work for a mysterious corporation called USIC. He’s 
tasked with reaching out to the indigenous race, to make sure they are as peaceful as they seem.
Resolutely devout and strengthened by his letters from Bea at home, Peter undertakes his job with complete 
focus. The Oasans are shockingly open to his teachings, but things start to unravel when Bea’s missives from Earth 
take a dark tone. Earth appears to be coming apart at the seams: Typhoons and earthquakes are devastating 
whole countries and governments are crumbling. Even the hospital where she works has ceased to function. Their 
unearthly divide is testing Peter and Bea’s relationship to a startling degree. 
Peter is thrown into crisis. USIC might be hiding its true motives in developing Oasis, and the Oasans themselves 
are frustratingly opaque. Bea’s desperate letters are only fomenting his doubt. Peter is suddenly faced with an 
impossible—and dangerous—decision: to follow his faith, or follow his heart. His life depends on it.
AUTHOR BIO
MICHEL FABER is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White, 
Under the Skin, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and several short story collections. Faber’s 
writing has appeared in Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Herald, among many 
other publications.
Hogarth
9780553418866
On Sale Date: 6/23/15
$17.00 
Trade Paperback
Fiction - Literary

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The Shore 
A Novel
Sara Taylor
Publicist: Annsley Rosner  
212-782-9740 | arosner@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
An ambitious, heartrending debut that traces 
the lives of women across multiple generations 
on a collection of small Southern islands, 
introducing a beautiful new voice in fiction.
Situated off the coast of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, the 
group of islands known as the Shore has been home to 
generations of fierce and resilient women. Sanctuary 
to some but nightmare to others, it’s a place they’ve 
inhabited, fled, and returned to for hundreds of years. 
From a half-Shawnee Indian’s bold choice to flee an 
abusive home only to find herself with a man who will one 
day try to kill her, to a brave young girl’s determination to 
protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages 
their family, to a lesson in summoning storm clouds 
to help end a drought, these women struggle against 
domestic violence, savage wilderness, and the corrosive 
effects of poverty and addiction to secure a sense of 
well-being for themselves and for those they love. 
Together their stories form a deeply affecting legacy 
of two barrier island families, illuminating 150 years of 
their many freedoms and constraints, heartbreaks, and 
pleasures. Conjuring a wisdom and beauty all its own, The 
Shore is a richly unique, stunning novel that will resonate 
with readers long after turning its final pages, establishing 
Sara Taylor as a promising new voice in fiction.
AUTHOR BIO
SARA TAYLOR is a product of rural Virginia and home 
education. Between secondary school and college, she 
painted houses, demonstrated open hearth cooking for 
museums, and opened a café. At just 24, she has already 
completed her MA and is currently working on a PhD.  
The Shore is her first novel.
Hogarth
9780553417739
On Sale Date: 5/26/15
$25.00 
Hardcover
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Tammy Blake
Vice President, Publicity Director, 
Crown Archetype, Harmony Books,  
and Three Rivers Press
212-572-2542  ·  tblake@penguinrandomhouse.com

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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling
Publicist: Tammy Blake 
212-572-2542 | tblake@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
From Mindy Kaling, the author of the mega-bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 
and creator and star of The Mindy Project, comes a highly anticipated second book of hilarious 
essays, opinions, concerns, and advice.
Since the publication of her much-loved first book, Mindy Kaling’s life has changed significantly. Back then, she 
played Kelly Kapoor, a side character on the popular series, The Office. Now Mindy is the creator, producer, writer, 
and star of her own TV show, The Mindy Project. She is, as she puts it, “a tiny bit famous,” the perks of which include 
being three assistants and two phones calls away from obtaining Bradley Cooper’s e-mail address and having 
convicts writing her fan mail from prison. She’s gone through some other major changes as well—she’s watched 
friends start their own families, and she’s grappled with her own balance of work and private life. Mindy turns the 
anxieties, the glamour, the heartache, and the celebrations of her second coming of age into a laugh-out-loud funny 
collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those 
who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bono, encountering Elmo, 
what kind of snacks they have at a Vogue photo shoot, and what you should carry in your purse when you go to the 
State Dinner honoring the president of France.
AUTHOR BIO
MINDY KALING is an Emmy-nominated writer and actress currently starring on FOX’s The Mindy Project. She formerly 
played Kelly Kapoor on NBC’s The Office. You can find her on Twitter (@mindykaling), or at her desk pretending to be 
writing a screenplay but actually online shopping with a memorized credit card number. She resides in Los Angeles.  
Her billing zip code is 90067.
Crown Archetype
9780804138147
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$25.00 
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The Matheny Manifesto
A Young Manager’s Old-School Look at Success—in 
Sports and in Life
Mike Matheny with Jerry Jenkins
Publicist: Tammy Blake 
212-572-2542 | tblake@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
Mike Matheny, manager of the St. Louis 
Cardinals, believes in a throwback brand 
of wisdom—character, humility, respect, 
discipline, and faith are his key tenets. When he 
wrote that down in a letter to the parents of his 
son’s little league team, his expression of values 
caused an immediate sensation.
Mike Matheny was just 41 and without professional 
managerial experience when he was named to succeed 
the legendary Tony LaRussa as skipper of the St. Louis 
Cardinals in 2012. In his first two seasons, Matheny led 
the Cards to the postseason twice. But people have taken 
notice of something else in Matheny’s life, and unlike 
baseball, its worth isn’t measured in day to day results. 
It’s all based on the letter he wrote a few years ago, which 
swept the Internet. That letter highlighted Matheny’s 
throwback values that a man’s word is his bond, authority 
should be respected, discipline and hardwork rewarded, 
spiritual faith cultivated, and humility considered a virtue. 
Those classic values form the basis for this book. 
AUTHOR BIOS
MIKE MATHENY is manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. He 
played 13 years as a catcher for four major league teams, 
winning four Gold Glove Awards. He and his wife, Kristin, 
have four sons and a daughter, all teenagers. 
JERRY B. JENKINS is a biographer and novelist with 
more than 70 million books sold and 20 New York Times 
bestsellers (7 that debuted at #1). He has written the 
as-told-to biographies of such sports luminaries as Hank 
Aaron, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, Orel Hershiser, Mike 
Singletary, Joe Gibbs, Meadowlark Lemon, and many 
others.
Crown Archetype
9780553446692
On Sale Date: 2/3/15
$24.00 
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Going Off Script 
How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and  
Clooney’s 32 On-Screen Rejections
Giuliana Rancic
Publicist: Ellen Folan 
212-782-8944 | efolan@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
A funny, warm, and inspiring memoir from E! 
News host, Fashion Police panelist, red-carpet 
correspondent, author, and reality show star 
Giuliana Rancic.
Giuliana Rancic is best known for interviewing A-listers 
on E! News and the red carpet, skewering their most 
questionable sartorial decisions on Fashion Police, and 
giving viewers a front-row seat to her marriage and home 
life on her reality show, Giuliana and Bill. She has also 
written two prescriptive books on love and marriage. 
Now, in her first memoir, the book fans have been waiting 
for, Giuliana really bares all—from her childhood as an 
Italian immigrant to her rise to the top of entertainment 
journalism (and all the amusing stories from working the 
celebrity beat) to never-before-revealed details of her 
struggles with infertility and breast cancer. In a voice 
that’s relatable, candid, poignant, and witty, Giuliana 
presents a book that will both entertain and inspire 
readers.
AUTHOR BIO
GIULIANA RANCIC (née DePandi) was born in Naples, Italy, 
and moved to the United States when she was seven. She 
is an anchor and a managing editor at E! Entertainment 
Television, a host of E! News, a red-carpet interviewer 
par excellence, the author of Think Like a Guy, and the 
coauthor of I Do, Now What? with her husband Bill Rancic. 
She also costars with Bill on the Style network’s hit reality 
show Giuliana & Bill.
Crown Archetype
9780553446654
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$26.00 
Hardcover
Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & 
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Gotta Give the People What 
They Want
Loose Balls, Body Slams, and Life in the NBA
Jalen Rose
Publicist: Ellen Folan  
212-782-8944 | efolan@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
Former NBA star and current ESPN 
commentator Jalen Rose dishes out his witty, 
biting observations and lets readers into the 
minds of basketball players on and off the 
court.
As a former member of the Michigan Wolverine’s “Fab 
Five” and a player in some of the Indiana Pacers’ best 
seasons, Rose is well-qualified to expose the inner 
workings of college basketball. His sharp tongue, quick 
wit, and irreverent sense of humor leave no subject 
untouched, from the ways players blow off steam on 
the road (champagning and campaigning) and what the 
groupie scene is like in various NBA cities, to what draft 
day is like and how race plays out in the locker room. 
Flagrant Fouls will also discuss trends and transitions 
within the game, including the rise and fall of the point 
guard and the end of the dominant center. Rose’s 
personal story is woven throughout the book and serves 
to illuminate his opinions on the larger world of celebrity 
and culture. 
AUTHOR BIO
JALEN ROSE was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and 
attended Southwestern High School and the University 
of Michigan. As the only team in Final Four history to 
start five freshmen, the Michigan Wolverines appeared in 
back-to-back NCAA Championship games. In 1994, Jalen 
was drafted in the first round by the Denver Nuggets. As 
a member of the Indiana Pacers, he appeared in three 
straight Eastern Conference finals and went to the NBA 
Finals in 2000. While many basketball stars make the 
transition to the small screen after they hang up their 
basketball kicks, Jalen made the bold leap in the midst of 
his NBA career in 2002, becoming a multifaceted reporter 
and on-air personality for Fox Sports Net’s famed  
Best Damn Sports Show Period. In 2000, Jalen established 
the Jalen Rose Foundation/Charitable Fund to create  
life-changing opportunities for underserved youth through 
the development of unique programs and the distribution 
of grants to qualified nonprofit organizations. 
Crown Archetype
9780804138901
On Sale Date: 4/28/15
$28.00 
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Vice President, Publicity Director,  
Crown, Hogarth, and Broadway
212-782-9740  ·  arosner@penguinrandomhouse.com

BROADWAY
BOOKS

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Under Magnolia
A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes
Publicist: Rebecca Welbourn 
212-782-9634 | rwelbourn@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in 
the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.
The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her 
childhood and adolescence in Fitzgerald, Georgia. From her years as a spirited, secretive girl, through her university 
studies—a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of 
travel—to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly re-creates the intense relationships of her past, 
recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated parents. Under Magnolia is a searingly honest, humorous, 
and moving ode to family and place, an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self-knowledge 
lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world, and then to a profound return home. 
AUTHOR BIO
In addition to her bestselling Tuscany memoirs, Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany, and Every Day in Tuscany, 
FRANCES MAYES is the author of the travel memoir A Year in the World; The Tuscan Sun Cookbook; the illustrated books 
In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home (with Edward Mayes); Swan, a novel; The Discovery of Poetry, a text for readers; 
and five books of poetry. She divides her time between homes in Italy and North Carolina.
Broadway Books
9780307885920
On Sale Date: 3/31/15
$15.00 
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Bittersweet
A Novel
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Publicist: Rachel Rokick 
212-782-8455 | rrokicki@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The cinematic, gothic, and already a New York Times bestseller, Bittersweet is a suspenseful and 
atmospheric novel that will keep readers riveted to the very end.
On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, 
the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her 
cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century. Mabel falls in love 
with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries 
across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: 
wealth, friendship, a boyfriend, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.
But as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows 
may have done to keep their power intact—and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must 
choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family’s dark 
secrets and make Ev’s world her own.
Beautifully mysterious and richly detailed, this page-turning novel is an enthralling read.
AUTHOR BIO
MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE is the author of Set Me Free and The Effects of Light. She lives in Brooklyn.
Broadway Books
9780804138581
On Sale Date: 4/28/15
$15.00
Trade Paperback
Fiction - Coming Of Age

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A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre; Afterword by John Le Carré
Publicist: Annsley Rosner 
212-782-9740 | arosner@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
The New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s offers a powerful new 
angle on the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s 
counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the 
enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The 
two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of 
wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a 
communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to 
Moscow—and not just Elliott’s words, for, in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus 
Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton’s and Elliott’s unwitting disclosures helped 
Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives 
to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect 
his cover, his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have 
devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left 
crippled in his wake.
Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-
before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre’s best book yet, a high-water mark in 
Cold War history telling.
AUTHOR BIO
BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of Double Cross, Operation 
Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also 
written and presented BBC documentaries of his work. 
Broadway Books
9780804136655
On Sale Date: 5/12/15
$16.00 
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2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas
A Novel
Marie-Helene Bertino
Publicist: Rebecca Welbourn  
212-782-9634 | rwelbourn@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
An enchanting and staggeringly original novel about one day in the lives of three 
unforgettable characters.
Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still 
mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn’t realize that on the 
eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day—and night—of her life. After bravely facing 
down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at school, Madeleine doggedly searches for Philadelphia’s legendary 
jazz club The Cat’s Pajamas, where she’s determined to make her onstage debut. On the same day, her fifth-grade 
teacher Sarina Greene, who’s just moved back to Philly after a divorce, is nervously looking forward to a dinner party 
that will reunite her with an old high school crush, afraid to hope that sparks might fly again. And across town at The 
Cat’s Pajamas, club owner Lorca discovers that his beloved haunt may have to close forever, unless someone can 
find a way to quickly raise the $30,000 that would save it.
As these three lost souls search for love, music, and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia, together 
they will discover life’s endless possibilities over the course of one magical night. A vivacious, charming, and moving 
debut, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas will capture your heart and have you laughing out loud.
AUTHOR BIO
MARIE-HELENE BERTINO is the author of Safe as Houses, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. An Emerging Writer 
Fellow at New York’s Center for Fiction, she has spent six years as an editor and writing instructor at One Story.  
A Philadelphia native, she currently lives in Brooklyn. 
Broadway Books
9780804140256
On Sale Date: 6/9/15
$15.00
Trade Paperback
Fiction - Literary

Kate Tyler
Vice President, Publicity Director, 
Clarkson Potter, Potter Style,  
and Potter Craft
212-212-2551  ·  ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com

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Brunch at Bobby’s
140 Recipes for the Best Part of the Weekend
Bobby Flay with Stephanie Banyas  
and Sally Jackson
Publicist: Kate Tyler 
212-572-2551 | ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com 
Publicist: Sean Boyles 
212-782-9003 |  sboyles@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Brunch is Bobby Flay’s favorite meal of the 
week—as fans of his restaurants and Cooking 
Channel show know—and here are 140 flavorful 
reasons why.
Known for his skills at the grill, since 2010 Bobby Flay 
has also been sharing his other passion with television 
viewers: Brunch. In Brunch @ Bobby’s, he includes recipes 
for his all-time favorite breakfasts. Starting with the 
lip-smacking cocktails we have come to expect from 
Bobby—along with spiked and virgin, hot and iced coffees 
and teas—he then works his way through eggs; pancakes, 
waffles, and french toast (including flavored syrups and 
spreads); pastries (a first for Bobby) and breads; salads 
and sandwiches; and side dishes all in signature fashion. 
Eggs Benedict heads to the Gulf Coast for an upgrade, 
served atop homemade johnnycakes and crab cakes with 
Old Bay hollandaise sauce. Pancakes get a double dose of 
chocolate before being drowned in salted caramel sauce. 
English popovers come stateside when made with cracked 
black pepper and Vermont cheddar. And salmon definitely 
benefits from a bright and crunchy Brussels sprout-apple 
slaw. Pull up a seat at the table, grab a glass, and enjoy the 
Sangria Sunrise! This is how Bobby does brunch.
AUTHOR BIO
BOBBY FLAY, a New York Times bestselling author, is the 
chef-owner of six fine-dining restaurants—including Mesa 
Grill, Bar Americain, Gato, and Bobby Flay’s Steak—and an 
expanding roster of Bobby’s Burger Palaces. He is the host 
of numerous popular cooking shows on Food Network—
from the Emmy-winning Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction 
to the Iron Chef America series, Throwdown! with Bobby 
Flay, and Food Network Star—as well as Brunch @ Bobby’s 
on Cooking Channel.
Clarkson Potter
9780385345897
On Sale Date: 3/24/15
$29.99
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Trisha’s Table
My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life
Trisha Yearwood with Beth Yearwood 
Bernard, Foreword by Garth Brooks
Publicist: Kate Tyler  
212-572-2551 | ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com
Publicist: Sean Boyles  
212-782-9003 |  sboyles@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Hotly anticipated, and full of healthy twists 
on comfort food classics, Trisha’s Table is 
bestselling cookbook author and country 
megastar Trisha Yearwood’s first cookbook 
since she debuted her wildly popular Food 
Network show Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.
Responding to an increased demand, Trisha shares how 
she has incorporated healthier cooking into her lifestyle 
without completely forgoing the induldgences she (and 
we) loves and craves. Trisha’s Table includes a balance of 
healthy versions of comfort food along with a smattering 
of indulgences. Whether slimmed down or “original,” 
Trisha’s recipes, such as Black Bean Quinoa, Slow-Cooker 
Georgia Pulled Pork BBQ, and Chicken Tortilla Casserole, 
are always delicious. Each of the more than 100 recipes 
will appeal to Trisha’s huge southern fan base, while her 
fresh outlook on food and life (and her TV exposure) will 
also bring a new audience to this book.
AUTHOR BIO
TRISHA YEARWOOD has recorded nine #1 songs and 
twelve albums, has won back-to-back Country Music 
Association Female Vocalist of the Year, and has three 
Grammys. Trisha’s Table will be her third cookbook. 
Her previous two cookbooks, Home Cooking with Trisha 
Yearwood and Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, 
were New York Times bestsellers and received widespread 
media attention, including Redbook (cover), Country 
Living, Good Morning America, The View, and The Rachael 
Ray Show. Trisha is married to megasuperstar Garth 
Brooks.
Clarkson Potter
9780804186155
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$29.99
Hardcover
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My Pantry
Alice Waters
Publicist: Kate Tyler 
212-572-2551 | ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
An entry-level introduction to Alice Waters’s 
philosophy of food and cooking, this sweet, 
petite collection of essays and recipes features 
charming pen-and-ink illustrations by her 
daughter, Fanny, and simple building-block 
ingredients for creating impromptu meals all 
year long.
In her most intimate and accessible cookbook to date, 
Alice Waters extends an invitation to her home kitchen, 
showing how she shops, cooks, and organizes her pantry 
to make delicious home-cooked meals quick, simple, 
and easy. Here she shares her recipes for the basics—
grains, sweet and savory preserves, cured meats and fish, 
pickles, and condiments—that can be made ahead and 
stored, then combined in dozens of flavorful ways. She 
encourages readers to make their own provisions from 
seasonal, organic, and healthful foods and to explore 
“the making of things,” so that artisanal specialties, from 
cheese to pickles, are easily within reach (and budget).
My Pantry is an empowering guide for a new generation 
of cooks looking to define their own aesthetics and 
explore a style of cooking that is both pragmatic and 
enlightened. The book is the perfect combination of 
timely message and a lovely, highly giftable package.
AUTHOR BIO
ALICE WATERS is the executive chef, founder, and 
owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, 
California. She founded the Edible Schoolyard and has 
received the French Legion of Honor, WSJ Magazine 
Humanitarian Innovator Award, and three James Beard 
Awards. Alice is Vice President of Slow Food International 
and the author of twelve books. Her most recent books 
are the bestsellers The Art of Simple Food II and 40 Years 
of Chez Panisse, and In the Green Kitchen. Chez Panisse 
was recently awarded 4 stars by the San Francisco 
Chronicle.
Clarkson Potter / Pam Krauss Books
9780804185288
On Sale Date: 4/14/15
$24.99
Hardcover
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A Bone to Pick
The Good and Bad News about Food, along with Wisdom, Insights, and Advice on Diets, Food Safety, 
GMOs, Policy, Farming, and More
Mark Bittman
Publicist: Kate Tyler  
212-572-2551 | ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com
Publicist: Anna Mintz  
212-572-6186 | amintz@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
For years Mark Bittman has taught us to cook better and more simply. Since 2011, as a New York 
Times opinion columnist, he has helped us cut through the noise and rhetoric of food politics 
to become better consumers and citizens, joining a pantheon of food influencers including 
Michael Pollan and Eric Schloss, who shape the way we talk about food.
Mark Bittman made headlines three years ago when it was revealed that, for the first time, the New York Times 
opinion page would feature a food writer to help us make sense of the tangled webs of food, health, environment, 
politics, and culture. As an opinion columnist, Mark has delighted us, enraged us, and inspired us to do more for 
ourselves and our world with the same no-nonsense style. In the tradition of his NYT bestselling Food Matters, this 
book collects the best of his columns, updated to reflect the latest research, and tied together with new material to 
give context and show how far we’ve come in just a few years. What emerges is a collection that shows us the story 
of who we are as a nation of cooks, eaters, and voters right now.
AUTHOR BIO
MARK BITTMAN is one of the country’s best-known and most widely respected food writers. His How to Cook 
Everything books, with one million copies in print, are a mainstay of the modern kitchen. Bittman writes for the 
opinion section of New York Times on food policy and cooking and is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine. 
His The Minimalist cooking show, based on his popular NYT column, can be seen on the Cooking Channel. VB6 
debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale.
Clarkson Potter / Pam Krauss Books
9780804186544
On Sale Date: 5/5/15
$26.00
Hardcover
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Soul Food Love
Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of 
Cooking in a Black Family
Alice Randall and Caroline Randall 
Williams
Publicist: Anna Mintz  
212-572-6186 | amintz@penguinrandomhouse.com 
SUMMARY
Four generations of cooking and eating in 
one black American family, as explored by 
a mother-daughter literary duo who are 
reclaiming and redefining soul food, with 
80 recipes to help everyone live longer and 
stronger.
In May 2012, bestselling author of The Wind Done Gone 
Alice Randall penned an op ed in the New York Times 
titled “Black Women and Fat,” chronicling her quest to 
be “the last fat black woman” in her family. Soul Food 
Love, written with her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, 
uses the authors’ fascinating family history to explore 
the often fraught relationship African American women 
have had with food; once a place of servitude, scarcity, 
and often violence, kitchens were reclaimed by black 
cooks in the late 20th century, only to become places of 
overabundance and overindulgence. With obesity rates 
skyrocketing in the African American community, Alice 
and Caroline advocate a powerful new way forward that 
honors their cultural and culinary heritage by translating 
recipes and traditions handed down by generations of 
black cooks into easy, affordable, and indulgent but 
healthful soul food dishes.
AUTHOR BIOS
ALICE RANDALL, a New York Times bestselling author 
novelist, teaches Soul Food, in Text, as Text at Vanderbilt 
University. She also writes country music, including Trisha 
Yearwood’s now classic “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American 
Girl).” Randall has been recognized by the National 
Institute of Health as a health champion and is Jamie 
Oliver’s Food Revolution Nashville ambassador. 
CAROLINE RANDALL WILLIAMS, an award-winning 
published poet, is pursuing her MFA at the University of 
Mississippi.
Clarkson Potter
9780804137935
On Sale Date: 2/3/15
$30.00
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My New Roots
Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season
Sarah Britton
Publicist: Erica Gelbard 
212-572-6182  | egelbard@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The eagerly anticipated debut cookbook from 
the wildly popular natural foods blogger Sarah 
Britton, who makes eating healthful, whole 
foods more enticing than ever before.
Sarah Britton’s approach to plant-based cuisine is 
about satisfaction—foods that satiate on a physical, 
emotional, and spiritual level—and making powerfully 
healthy foods simply irresistible. Sarah shows readers 
how to take this holistic whole foods approach in her 
exquisite blog, My New Roots, and now brings that same 
passion and sensibility to her debut cookbook. Here are 
100 vegetarian (and often vegan) recipes that are free 
of processed ingredients, including refined flours and 
sugars. Sarah simmers thinly sliced celery root until it 
mimics pasta for Butternut Squash Lasagna and whips up 
easy raw chocolate to make homemade chocolate-nut-
butter candy cups. Her recipes are not about sacrifice, 
deprivation, or labels—they are about enjoying delicious 
food that’s also good for you.
AUTHOR BIO
SARAH BRITTON is the acclaimed holistic nutritionist, 
writer, and photographer behind the popular healthy 
foods blog MyNewRoots.org. She has been featured in 
O, The Oprah Magazine, Bon Appétit, Saveur, and Whole 
Living, and has spoken at TedTalks and multiple nutrition 
seminars and workshops throughout North America and 
Europe. She has been invited to collaborate with  
Michelin-starred chefs throughout Europe and was asked 
to help design a special menu for NOMA’s Nordic Food 
Lab. She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and their 
newborn son.
Clarkson Potter
9780804185387
On Sale Date: 3/31/15
$29.99
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Milk Bar Life
Recipes & Stories
Christina Tosi, Author of Momofuku 
Milk Bar
Publicist: Erica Gelbard  
212-572-6182  | egelbard@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Go off the clock with the ladies of Momofuku 
Milk Bar as they bake one-bowl treats, cook 
one-pot wonders, and embrace simple, 
nostalgic—and often savory—recipes.
For anyone addicted to crack pie™, compost cookies, and 
cake truffles, here are their savory counterparts—such as 
pepperoni roll, bbq kale, and kimchi quesadillas—along 
with plenty of make-at-home sweets thrown in for good 
measure. Join Christina and her fellow “milk maids” as 
they cook their way through “weaknights,” sleepovers, 
road trips, and late-night snack attacks to make mind-
blowingly delicious meals with supermarket ingredients.
AUTHOR BIO
CHRISTINA TOSI is the pastry chef-owner of Momofuku 
Milk Bar, with locations in New York and Toronto, and 
the pastry chef of all of the four Momofuku restaurants 
in New York. Milk Bar has cookie mixes sold through 
Williams-Sonoma, a wedding cake department that bakes 
for clients such as John Legend and Chrissy Tiegen, and a 
line of “fashionably wholesome” cookies with Karlie Kloss 
and FEED called Karlie’s Kookies.
Clarkson Potter
9780770435103
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
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Infuse
Water, Spirit, Oil
Eric Prum and Josh Williams
Publicist: Anna Mintz  
212-572-6186 | amintz@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The companion book to Shake and to  
the soon-to-be-rolled-out Mason Infuser, 
Infuse is both an instructional manual and 
an idea book for infusing water, spirits, and 
oils with anything that’s fresh and flavorful—
from mellow cucumbers to fiery chiles; there 
are recipes, too, for what to make with the 
infusions. 
One can infuse any water, spirit, or oil with just about 
anything—and it’s never been more convenient than with 
the Mason Infuser, the authors’ follow-up to the Mason 
Shaker. The Mason Infuser is outfitted with a high-quality 
stainless-steel infuser cap. But you don’t need the 
product to enjoy this book. Any vessel with a tight seal will 
do. 
Infuse has the same cool, instructional design as its 
sister book, Shake, but it goes beyond alcohol to flavored 
waters and oils made with fresh ingredients that can later 
be used to prepare refreshments and condiments. The 
recipes include infused waters such as Overnight Chai 
and Ginger Lemongrass Coconut Water, spirits like Coffee 
Liqueur and Limoncello, and oils including Preserved 
Lemon and Garlic Confit Oil. There are recipes throughout 
that include the infusions in food and drink preparations.
AUTHOR BIOS
ERIC PRUM and JOSH WILLIAMS have been best friends 
since they were freshman roommates at the University 
of Virginia. A decade later, they are founding partners in 
W&P Design. In 2012 they launched a Kickstarter campaign 
to manufacture a mason jar cocktail shaker. Their $5k 
ask resulted in $75k of funding. The W&P product line 
includes more than fifteen bar items under the Mason 
Shaker brand, and by the end of the year their portfolio 
will include 35 items.
Clarkson Potter
9780804186766
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$25.00
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Straight Up Tasty
Meals, Memories, and Mouthfuls from My Travels
Adam Richman
Publicist: Erica Gelbard 
212-572-6182  | egelbard@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The lovable star of Man vs. Food and the 
forthcoming Food Fighters, who hilariously ate 
his way from coast to coast, now takes us into 
his home kitchen, with recipes as big and brash 
as his appetite.
Adam Richman has met his fair share of foodie challenges 
as the host of the Travel Channel’s most popular shows, 
Man v. Food and Best Sandwich in America, and sampling 
everything from unbearably spicy chicken wings to 
monstrously huge stromboli. So what does he serve up 
when he’s at the stove? These 150 recipes are the perfect 
blend of Adam’s experiences—featuring homemade 
versions of his favorite road treats (adapting a signature 
Philly sandwich into dumplings, or giving an Italian spin to 
the Twin Cities classic Juicy Lucy burger) as well as totally 
original recipes to punch up your everyday meals. (Just try 
his chocolate mole pudding with toasted pumpkin seeds 
or his poutine made with sweet potato fries, maple-glazed 
pork belly, and fresh burrata.) He brings in a few family 
favorites as well (a wild mushroom tart sprinkled with 
crunchy panko or his mom’s spinach pie), and shares the 
stories that inspired these meals in his warm, hilarious 
voice. Adam shows you how to pull out all the stops at 
the dinner table and serve up delicious dishes every time 
without having to hit the road.
AUTHOR BIO
ADAM RICHMAN grew up in the food mecca of New 
York City and even at a young age had a desire to taste 
it all. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the 
veteran of numerous roles on soaps, network shows, and 
regional theater, he came into his own as host of Man v. 
Food, which was an immediate and record-breaking hit 
for Discovery’s Travel Channel. He has since hosted its 
sequel, Man v. Food Nation, and Adam Richman’s Best 
Sandwich in America, and is the host of the upcoming 
NBC culinary game show Food Fighters. He appears often 
around the country and currently resides in  
Brooklyn, New York.
Clarkson Potter
9780385344487
On Sale Date: 5/12/15
$29.99
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Kate Tyler
Vice President, Publicity Director, 
Clarkson Potter, Potter Style,  
and Potter Craft
212-212-2551  ·  ktyler@penguinrandomhouse.com

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The Apartment Therapy 
Complete Home Book
Maxwell Ryan
Publicist: Anna Mintz 
212-572-6186 | amintz@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The first-ever complete home book from 
Apartment Therapy, featuring every aspect of 
design and decorating from floor plans to paint, 
specific rooms to style approaches, with the 
goal of setting up and living well in a place you 
love.
For decades, Terence Conran’s Essential House books 
were the everyman’s and everywoman’s bibles for creating 
a residence that satisfied all of our home needs. Now, 
Maxwell Ryan and the team behind Apartment Therapy 
offer a complete home book for the 21st century, walking 
readers through every aspect of setting up, decorating, 
and caring for a place they will love to return to and one 
that will evolve with you, your family, and your priorities.
From finding the right place (and doing a Move-in Cure 
when you get there!) to getting a good room-to-room flow 
to defining your style, from sprucing up floors and walls 
to choosing art and accessories, this book first teaches 
you how to set up your residence for everyday ease and 
enjoyment. 
Vibrantly photographed room chapters follow, drawn 
from 30 real-life homes, with in-depth tips and strategies 
for designing efficient entryways, comfortable living 
spaces, and even celebration-worthy outdoor spaces. 
Finally, guidance on maintenance—including both  
Year-Round and mini Home Cures and organization tips 
galore—will help you keep your home looking and feeling 
just right for years to come.
AUTHOR BIO
Part interior designer, part life coach, MAXWELL RYAN is 
the cofounder of the Apartment Therapy blog network—
which receives 21 million monthly page views. Frequently 
quoted in the shelter and mainstream press, Maxwell has 
been called a “Makeover Guru” by the New York Times. He 
is the author of Apartment Therapy, Apartment Therapy 
Presents, and Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool 
Spaces. He lives in New York.
Potter Style
9780770434458
On Sale Date: 5/19/15
$35.00
Hardcover
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Tammy Blake
Vice President, Publicity Director, 
Crown Archetype, Harmony Books,  
and Three Rivers Press
212-572-2542  ·  tblake@penguinrandomhouse.com

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Excuses
No More
Diet
Maria Kang
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The No More Excuses Diet
3 Days to Bust Any Excuse, 3 Weeks to Easy New Eating Habits, 3 Months to Total Transformation
Maria Kang
Publicist: Lauren Cook 
212-782-9486 | lcook@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The No More Excuses Diet is a structured diet and fitness plan that uses short-term goals to 
achieve big results. Readers learn how to balance their diets using a 30-30-30-10 scale, create 
a fitness plan to target a specific goal, and overcome the excuses that so often interfere with 
long-term results.
We all know that we should exercise and eat right, so why is it so hard to follow through? We make excuses for why 
we aren’t taking better care of ourselves, saying things like, “I’m too tired,” “I don’t have time,” or “I’m just not built 
to look that way.” But Maria Kang, the mother of three behind the viral “What’s Your Excuse?” mom photos, is here 
to say that the excuses stop now. 
It takes 3 days to break down an excuse, 3 weeks to develop a new habit, and 3 months to make a significant, 
lasting change to your life, and Maria Kang is here to make sure you get big results every step of the way. The 
first cycle of the program is S.P.E.E.D., which is about setting and executing ambitious goals. Maria uses a unique 
30% carbs, 30% protein, 30% fats, and 10% flex diet that readers will customize to their specific needs, and 
a combination of strength, cardio, and flexibility training to improve health and create a caloric deficit. Next 
comes S.T.R.I.V.E., where readers learn to identify the excuses that are holding them back and learn habit-shifting 
techniques to overcome any obstacle. Finally, the S.C.O.R.E. cycle is about celebrating the results and establishing 
new goals to sustain the new normal.
AUTHOR BIO
MARIA KANG is a wife, mother of three, business owner, and founder of the No Excuse Mom fitness group.
Harmony
9780553419672
On Sale Date: 3/10/15
$26.00
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Thrive
The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
Publicist: Penny Simon | 865-675-1705 | psimon@penguinrandomhouse.com
Publicist: Rebecca Marsh | 212-572-2544 | rmarsh@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The New York Times bestseller now in paperback, Thrive is a call to arms to redefine how we 
measure success in our work lives and personal lives. Beyond money and power, Arianna says, 
is the third metric: the importance of well-being, wisdom, and fulfillment. The third metric is 
creating a revolution in our lives, one that will be led by women as they reinvent what it means 
to be successful in the workplace—but that will ultimately affect us all, men and women alike. 
Thrive is a vital next step in the debate on women, success, and the workplace.
The principles behind Thrive came together in a commencement speech that Arianna Huffington gave to the 
graduating women at Smith College in the spring of 2013. The speech touched a nerve and was quickly followed 
by a major conference featuring Mika Brzezinski, Katie Couric, Candice Bergen, Dean Ornish, Valerie Jarrett, 
Alina Tugend, George Stephanopoulos, Jeff Skoll, John Mackey, Jill Abramson, and many others. The goal of the 
conference, which received international attention and acclaim, was to look beyond money and power to put 
forth a third metric in women’s (and men’s) lives. That third metric includes our health and well-being, our wisdom 
and sense of fulfillment, and our capacity to wonder and to give back. The way we currently define success leads 
to burnout, overwork, lack of sleep, and being hyperconnected to technology 24/7, to the detriment of our 
relationships, our families, our health, and even our careers. Our current definition of success is, as Arianna shows, 
literally killing us. It is unsustainable for women, for men, for our communities, our nation and our planet. The 
science is clear on the many ways we can reclaim our well-being and our lives. There is more to living a successful 
life than just achieving short-term career milestones and a corner office. Thrive is a comprehensive look at how 
America’s pursuit of happiness has gotten off track and a roadmap for the way forward.
AUTHOR BIO
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON is the cofounder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, one of 
the most trafficked sites online. She is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Third World America 
(2010, Crown), and Pigs at the Trough (2003, Crown).
Harmony
9780804140867
On Sale Date: 3/17/15
$14.99
Trade Paperback
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Beyond Willpower
The Secret Principle to Achieving Success  
in Life, Love, and Happiness
Alexander Loyd, Ph.D.
Publicist: Allison Judd  
212-782-9164 | ajudd@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A new book from the bestselling author of  
The Healing Code about how to finally get the 
life you want—and go from stress to success in 
just 40 days.
Did you know that most self-help programs that follow 
the standard success blueprint have a 97% failure rate? 
The truth is, the standard self-help mantra of tapping in 
to your willpower and using the power of positive thinking 
is actually a blueprint for failure. In Beyond Willpower, 
bestselling author and psychological counselor Alex Loyd, 
Ph.D., N.D. reveals the definitive self-help program to help 
you finally achieve the life you want and the success you 
deserve. Science has proven that stress is the primary 
source of virtually any problem —physical, spiritual, 
emotional, and even circumstantial. Loyd believes that 
we need to understand how love works in our bodies to 
combat stress. By harnessing love’s power and learning to 
love in the present moment, you can define your life goals 
and live mindfully in a state of peace. Beyond Willpower 
offers a revolutionary 40-day holistic program based on 
more than 25 years of clinical experience and rooted 
in science, ancient wisdom, and proven therapeutic 
techniques to remove personal obstacles that sabotage 
success. Using the program you will define your goals 
and hone in on want you really want in life—what really 
defines success for you. No matter how you define it—as 
wealth, career satisfactions, healing of health issues, or 
resolution of relationship problems—Beyond Willpower 
outlines a step-by step process for achieving that goal 
once and for all, quickly and for the long term.
AUTHOR BIO
ALEX LOYD, Ph.D., N.D., holds doctorates in psychology 
and naturopathic medicine. His 12-year search for a cure 
for his wife’s depression led to the discovery in 2001 of 
The Healing Code’s system to heal the source of virtually 
any physical, emotional, success, or relational issue. Since 
then his private practice has become the largest of its 
kind in the world.
Harmony
9781101902813
On Sale Date: 2/10/15
$27.00
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Living with Intent
My (Somewhat) Messy Journey to Purpose,  
Peace, and Joy
Mallika Chopra, founder and CEO 
of Intent.com
Publicist: Lauren Cook 
212-782-9486 | lcook@randomhouse.com
SUMMARY
When the busyness of life sidetracks you from 
living the way you intend, what can you do to 
get on the right track? If you are the founder of 
a lifestyle dot-com as well as the daughter of a 
famous healer, there’s all the more pressure to 
find out.
As a mom, wife, and social media entrepreneur, Mallika 
Chopra frequently wondered how she could possibly 
do one more thing. Like so many, she was taking lousy 
care of herself and having a difficult time finding richer 
meaning and purpose in each day, even though that was 
her business’s mission. Living with Intent is a practical yet 
deeply personal look at her year-long journey to discover 
some workable answers. Along the way, she sat down with 
Andrew Weil, Eckhart Tolle, Gretchen Rubin, Marianne 
Williamson, Daniel Siegel, and others, who shared their 
valuable input and insight. 
AUTHOR BIO
MALLIKA CHOPRA is the successful author of two previous 
gift books for parents, 100 Promises to My Baby and 100 
Questions from My Child. She is a busy mom of two, a 
successful entrepreneur, as well as the founder and 
CEO of Intent.com and Intentblog, a successful social 
media site and its sister blog. Chopra grew up in Lincoln, 
Massachusetts, and graduated from Concord Academy, 
Brown University, and the Kellogg School of Management.
Harmony
9780804139854
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$26.00
Hardcover
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Cassey Ho’s Hot Body 
Year-Round
The POP Pilates Plan to Get Slim, Eat Clean,  
and Live Happy Through Every Season
Cassey Ho, YouTube’s #1 Fitness  
Instructor and Creator of  
Blogilates.com
Publicist: Rebecca Marsh  
212-572-2544 | rmarsh@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
From fitness sensation and creator of wildly 
popular lifestyle site Blogilates.com Cassey Ho, 
a gorgeous, easy-to-use, and exciting diet and 
exercise plan.
The 27-year-old exercise dynamo Cassey Ho is known 
for her popular, exhilarating, and targeted “POP Pilates” 
workouts, which utilize Pilates moves into more upbeat 
sequences to keep practitioners engaged and active. 
Cassey’s empire, Blogilates.com, features her trademark 
5- and 10-minute routines like Bikini Body and Post-
Holiday Fat Burn, which target specific body parts for 
visible results. Hot Body Year-Round will finally bring 
together Cassey’s irresistible and inspiring personality, 
creative riffs on Pilates poses, and challenging sequences 
to the page. Because fitness goals differ throughout the 
calendar year—holiday eating and parties take a toll, while 
summer activities keep calories burning even outside the 
gym—the book is divided based on seasonal goals. 
Cassey’s workouts are incredibly effective at keeping 
women motivated and moving, and her rabid fanbase is 
a testament to the devotion of her fans. New material, 
never before featured on Blogilates.com, will set the 
book apart and make it a must-buy for Cassey’s followers. 
Cassey’s simple, seasonal recipes and eating tips will 
complement readers’ workout goals.
AUTHOR BIO
CASSEY HO is a fitness guru and online personality 
best known for her creative and exuberant exercises. 
Cassey is a certified Pilates and group fitness instructor, 
as well as the creator of POP Pilates, the founder/
writer of Blogilates.com, and the owner and designer of 
oGorgeous, her own line of yoga and gym bags that are 
functional and fashionable.
Harmony
9780804139045
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$18.00
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Kristin Casemore
Director of Publicity, Ten Speed Press, 
Watson-Guptill, and Amphoto
510-285-2944  ·  kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com

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The Sprouted Kitchen  
Bowl and Spoon
Simple and Inspired Whole Foods Recipes to Savor 
and Share
Sara Forte, Photography  
by Hugh Forte
Publicist: Kristin Casemore  
510- 285-2944 | kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
In this follow-up to her successful first book, 
The Sprouted Kitchen, blogger and author 
Sara Forte turns her attention to bowl food, 
which combines vegetables, whole grains, and 
lean proteins in one vessel to make a simple, 
complete, and nutritious meal.
When gathered together in a single bowl, ingredients 
nestle against each other in a unique marriage of flavor 
and texture. This is how beloved food blogger Sara Forte 
cooks everyday—creating sumptuous dishes colorful 
enough to serve guests, simple enough to eat with a 
spoon while sitting on the couch, and in amounts plentiful 
enough to have easy leftovers for lunch the next day. In 
this visually stunning collection of recipes that reflects 
a new and more healthy approach to quick and easy 
cooking, Sara features delicious ideas for every meal of 
the day, such as Roasted Butternut Squash, Lentils, Leeks, 
and Poached Eggs; Yellow Beets with Spicy Greens and 
Poppyseed Dressing; Turkey Meatballs in Tomato Broth; 
and Lemon Curd, Berries, and Graham Cracker Crumble.
AUTHOR BIO
SARA FORTE discovered her love for whole foods while 
working on an organic farm. Soon after, she launched the 
Sprouted Kitchen blog (SproutedKitchen.com) with her 
husband, Hugh. Sara’s work has been featured in InStyle, 
Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset, Fine Cooking,  
The Kitchn, Etsy, Food52, and EcoSalon, and the blog was a 
recent finalist in Saveur’s Best Food Blog Awards for Best 
Food Photography. 
Ten Speed Press
9781607746553
On Sale Date: 3/31/15
$27.00
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Food52 Genius Recipes
100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook
Kristen Miglore, Foreword by  
Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs
Publicist: Kristin Casemore  
510-285-2944 | kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
An essential collection of more than  
100 foolproof recipes from food luminaries 
such as Julia Child, Alice Waters, and David 
Chang—curated, introduced, and photographed 
by the team behind the leading food website 
Food52.
This debut title from Food52 Works, a new imprint from 
Ten Speed Press, draws from Food52’s James Beard 
Award-nominated Genius Recipes column, which features 
inventive recipes that rethink cooking tropes and, simply 
put, are nothing short of genius. In this inspired book 
for the modern cook, Food52’s executive editor, Kristen 
Miglore, combines new genius recipes, greatest hits from 
the column, and her own kitchen wisdom in a sleek, 
lushly illustrated package. Whether it’s fail-safe Fried 
Chicken from Michael Ruhlman or the imaginative Black 
Pepper Tofu from Yotam Ottolenghi, once you try these 
recipes, you’ll never need to go back to other versions. 
Plus with abundant how-to and finished dish photographs 
throughout, Genius Recipes is destined to become 
every home cook’s go-to reference for smart, enjoyable 
cooking. 
AUTHOR BIOS
KRISTEN MIGLORE is the executive editor at Food52.com. 
She has a master’s degree in Food Studies from New York 
University and a culinary degree from the Institute of 
Culinary Education. 
AMANDA HESSER is the cofounder and CEO of  
Food52.com and has been named one of the fifty most 
influential women in food by Gourmet. 
MERRILL STUBBS is the cofounder and editor in chief 
of Food52.com and has worked in the food industry for 
more than a decade. 
Ten Speed Press
9781607747970
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$35.00
Hardcover
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Franklin Barbecue
A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
Aaron Franklin with Jordan Mackay
Publicist: Kristin Casemore  
510-285-2944 | kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
A complete meat- and brisket-cooking 
education from the country’s most celebrated 
pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular 
Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue—winner of 
Texas Monthly’s coveted Best Barbecue Joint in 
Texas award.
In this hotly anticipated debut, Aaron Franklin shares 
the secrets behind his award-winning (and obsessed-
over) barbecue. More than just a recipe book, Franklin 
Barbecue is a master course in the fine art of meat 
smoking, Texas-style. With tips on how to source the very 
best beef; build or hack your backyard smoker; find and 
cure the right wood; and yes, step-by-step instructions 
for making Franklin’s legendary brisket, ribs, and all the 
fixins, Franklin Barbecue will be even more talked-about 
and acclaimed than Franklin’s menu items.
AUTHOR BIO
AARON FRANKLIN is one of the biggest, most-recognized 
names in barbecue and the wider food world. His 
restaurant has won every major barbecue award and has 
been in magazines ranging from GQ to Bon Appétit. The 
line to get into Franklin Barbecue is as long as ever, and 
the restaurant has sold out of brisket every day of its 
existence. Franklin makes regular TV appearances on  
BBQ Pitmasters, and will star in his own PBS program,  
BBQ with Franklin, in spring 2015. 
Ten Speed Press
9781607747208
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$29.99 
Hardcover
Cooking - Barbecue

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Cookie Love
60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary 
into the Extraordinary
Mindy Segal with Kate Leahy
Publicist: Lorraine Woodcheke 
510-285-2951 | lorraine.woodcheke@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
A new, edgier take on baking cookies, from 
a James Beard Award-winning chef and the 
owner of the popular Chicago restaurant,  
HotChocolate.
Mindy Segal is an up-and-coming chef and baker who’s 
serious about cookies and bars. In her first cookbook, 
Segal turns classic recipes into more elevated, fun 
interpretations of everyone’s favorite sweet treat. From 
Brown Butter with Hickory Smoked Bacon Chocolate Chip 
Cookies and Crème de Violet Snickerdoodles, to Citrus, 
Brown Butter, and Graham Cracker Shortbread with 
Framboise Preserves and Hibiscus Sugar Rugelach, Segal’s 
recipes are inspired and far from expected. This modern 
twist on a traditional favorite is the perfect addition to 
every baker’s bookshelf.
AUTHOR BIO
Pastry creator MINDY SEGAL specializes in contemporary 
American cuisine, putting a modern twist on traditional 
classics. The James Beard Foundation nominated her for 
Outstanding Pastry Chef in the country five years in a row, 
and she has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall 
Street Journal, Food & Wine, and O, the Oprah Magazine, 
as well as made appearances on television, including 
Today and the Food Network. Mindy is the proprietor of 
Chicago’s popular HotChocolate Restaurant and Dessert 
Bar.
Ten Speed Press
9781607746812
On Sale Date: 4/7/15
$24.99 
Hardcover
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A Modern Way to Eat
200+ Satisfying Vegetarian Recipes (That Will Make 
You Feel Amazing)
Anna Jones
Publicist Kristin Casemore 
510- 285-2944 | kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
A beautifully photographed and modern 
vegetarian cookbook packed with quick, 
healthy, and fresh recipes that explore the full 
breadth of vegetarian ingredients—grains, nuts, 
seeds, and seasonal vegetables—from Jamie 
Oliver’s London-based food stylist and writer 
Anna Jones.
How we want to eat is changing. More and more people 
cook without meat several nights a week and are 
constantly seeking to push the boundaries of their own 
vegetarian repertoire. At the same time, people want 
food that is a little lighter, healthier, and easier on our 
wallets, and that relies less on dairy and gluten. Based on 
how Anna likes to eat day to day—from a blueberry and 
amaranth porridge, to a quick autumn root panzanella, to 
a pistachio and squash galette—A Modern Way to Eat is a 
cookbook for how we want to eat now.
AUTHOR BIO
ANNA JONES is a cook, writer, and food stylist. She has 
worked with several well-known chefs—Yotam Ottolenghi, 
Henry and Tom Herbert (The Fabulous Baker Brothers), 
Sophie Dahl, Stevie Parle—and has cooked for British 
royalty and American presidents. She also helped Jamie 
Oliver create and grow his global food empire, styling, 
writing, and working behind the scenes. Jones’s work 
has appeared in the Telegraph, Observer Food Monthly, 
the Guardian, Jamie, and Delicious magazines. She lives, 
writes, and cooks in Hackney, East London.
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9781607748038
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The Violet Bakery 
Cookbook
Baking All Day on Wilton Way
Claire Ptak
Publicist: Lorraine Woodcheke  
510-285-2951 | lorraine.woodcheke@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
A design-forward cookbook for sweet and 
savory baked goods from London’s popular 
Violet Bakery that focuses on quality 
ingredients, seasonality, and taste (as opposed 
to science) as the keys to creating satisfying, 
delightful homemade pastries, tarts, sweets, 
and more.
 American chef and Chez Panisse alum Claire Ptak shares 
recipes and stories from her well-loved East London 
bakery in this beautiful, inspirational cookbook. As a 
gifted pastry chef with an artist’s eye (she is a former 
Vogue food stylist), Ptak’s approach to sweets is both 
aspirational and doable: her recipes are made with 
familiar and available ingredients and focus on simple 
flavors that satisfy the craving for something delicious 
and homemade. The heart of the book addresses the 
most important aspect of baking—flavor—and appeals 
to both experienced and occasional bakers. Organized 
from morning till night, Ptak’s recipes cover the baking 
spectrum: breakfast recipes such as Peach Crumb Buns 
and Braised Fennel, Olive, and Caper Bread Pudding, and 
treats for tea or dessert such as Ginger Molasses Cake 
with Apricot Cream, Passion Fruit Curd Tart, or Pistachio 
and Rosewater Cake, and are sure to satisfy any sweet 
palate.
AUTHOR BIO
CLAIRE PTAK worked as a pastry cook and later as a 
pastry chef for Alice Waters at Chez Panisse before 
moving to London with her husband. After working at 
many top restaurants in the city and photo styling for 
such Guardian food columnists as Jamie Oliver and 
Yotam Ottolenghi (including the eggplant dish on Plenty’s 
cover), Claire opened Violet Bakery in 2005, where she 
sells baked goods to a loyal and enthusiastic following. 
Her bakery has been featured in Edible Selby, Elle, Food 
& Wine, the New York Times, and Jamie, among other 
publications.
Ten Speed Press
9781607746713
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$27.99
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Kristin Casemore
Director of Publicity, Ten Speed Press, 
Watson-Guptill, and Amphoto
510-285-2944  ·  kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com

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The Realism Challenge
Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master 
of Hyperrealism
Mark Crilley
Publicist: Natalie Mulford 
510-285-2959 | natalie.mulford@tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
A captivating, step-by-step guide that teaches 
artists to draw and paint exact duplicates of 
common objects, rendered in the trompe l’oeil, 
hyperrealistic style of artist Mark Crilley’s 
popular YouTube video series.
With over 10 million views and growing, Mark Crilley’s 
“Realism Challenge” YouTube videos have an enormous 
worldwide legion of fans and have been featured on 
sites such as Yahoo News and Reddit. Now, for the first 
time, Crilley pulls back the curtain to reveal his artistic 
tricks and secret methods for creating these astonishing 
renderings. The Realism Challenge leads artists through 
Crilley’s use of pencil, watercolor, pastel, and gouache 
to produce lifelike, seemingly impossible drawings 
of common household objects like playing cards, 
crumpled paper, leaves, and seashells that look just like 
photographs. Each lesson builds off the previous, with 
sidebars covering specific techniques—such as rendering 
drop shadows, applying white highlights, and building 
from light to dark—that artists can master in order to 
conquer the Realism Challenge.
AUTHOR BIO
MARK CRILLEY is the author of Mastering Manga and 
Mastering Manga 2, as well as several manga novels, 
including the Akiko series, Miki Falls, the Billy Clikk novels, 
and Brody’s Ghost. Since being selected for Entertainment 
Weekly’s “It List” in 1998, Crilley has published nearly 
twenty books and developed a massive Internet following 
for his drawing demonstration videos, earning him a 
spot as one of the top 25 Most Subscribed to Gurus on 
YouTube. His books have been featured in USA Today, the 
New York Daily News, and Disney Adventures magazine, as 
well as on CNN Headline News.
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9780385346290
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Director of Publicity, Ten Speed Press, 
Watson-Guptill, and Amphoto
510-285-2944  ·  kristin.casemore@tenspeed.com

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Learning to See Creatively, 
Third Edition
Design, Color & Composition in Photography
Bryan Peterson
Publicist: Natalie Mulford | 510-285-2959| natalie.mulford@
tenspeed.com
SUMMARY
Completely revised and updated throughout, 
Bryan Peterson’s classic guide to creativity 
helps photographers visualize their work, and 
the world, in a whole new light by developing 
their photographic vision.
AUTHOR BIO
BRYAN PETERSON is a professional photographer, 
internationally known instructor, and founder of The 
Perfect Picture School of Photography at www.PPSOP.
com. He is also the best-selling author of Understanding 
Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Understanding 
Close-Up Photography, Understanding Digital Photography, 
Beyond Portraiture, and, most recently, Bryan Peterson’s 
Understanding Photography Field Guide. His trademark 
use of color and strong, graphic composition have 
garnered him many photographic awards, including 
the Art Director Club’s Gold Award and honors from 
Communication Arts and Print magazines. He currently 
splits his time between Chicago and France.
Amphoto Books
9781607748274
On Sale Date: 7/7/15
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Carisa Hays
Vice President,  
Executive Director of Publicity, 
The Crown Publishing Group
212-782-9277  ·  chays@penguinrandomhouse.com

C R O W N 
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Triggers
How Behavior Change Begins, How to Make It Meaningful, How to Make It Last
Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Publicist: Megan Perritt  
212-572-2543 | mperritt@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Bestselling author and one of the world’s foremost executive coaches, Marshall Goldsmith 
examines the emotional and psychological triggers that cause us to react and behave in certain 
preset, often inappropriate ways at work and in life. Triggers shows us how to break that cycle 
and enact meaningful change.
In Triggers, renown executive coach and psychologist Marshall Goldsmith discusses the emotional triggers that set 
off a reaction or a behavior in us that often works to our detriment. Do you find that at times you suddenly become 
defensive or enraged by an idle comment from a colleague? Or that your temper rises when another car cuts you 
off in traffic? Your reactions don’t occur in a vacuum. They are the result of emotional and psychological triggers 
that often happen only in specific settings—at meetings, or in competitive situations, or with a specific person who 
rubs you the wrong way, or when you feel under particular pressure. Being able to recognize those triggers and 
understand how the environment affects our behavior is key to controlling our responses and managing others at 
work and in life. Make no mistake—change is hard. And the starting point is the willingness to accept help, and the 
desire to change. This book will show you how.
Over the course of this book, Marshall explores the power of active questions to get us to take responsibility for 
our actions—and our failure to act. Questions such as “Did I do my best to make progress toward my goal?” and 
“Did I work hard at being fully engaged?” He discusses the importance of structure in effecting permanent change. 
Because, he points out, change is hard, and without a structure to keep us on track, we inevitably relapse and fall 
back.
Filled with illuminating stories from Marshall’s work with some of the most accomplished executives and leaders 
in America, Triggers shows readers how to achieve meaningful and sustained change that will allow us to open our 
imaginations and escape the rigidity of binary thinking.
AUTHOR BIO
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is the leading executive coach in the world, and the author of the bestsellers What Got You 
Here Won’t Get You There (2007) and Mojo (2010). He received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management. 
His client list is a who’s who of American CEOs. He and his wife live in San Diego. 
Crown Business 
9780804141239 
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Better and Faster
The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas
Jeremy Gutsche
Publicist: Megan Perritt  
212-572-2543 | mperritt@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
In Better and Faster, Jeremy Gutsche, founder 
and CEO of the world’s largest trend-hunting 
website, Trendhunter.com (which has more 
than 2 billion page views), shows how to quickly 
spot patterns that can yield life-changing 
business ideas.
Patterns surround us, but most people fail to make the 
key connections. They don’t recognize entrepreneurial 
ideas, gaps in service, or areas where it’s worth diverging 
from the mainstream. After studying 250,000 innovations, 
advising more than 300 brands, and interviewing over a 
thousand consumer insight directors and CEOs, Jeremy 
Gutsche, aided by his Trend Hunter team, is here to show 
readers how to find business ideas that will be powered 
by one, two, or sometimes dozens of trends. In particular, 
he’ll be revealing the six patterns of opportunity that 
drive success—Convergence, Divergence, Cyclicality, 
Redirection, Reduction, and Acceleration—and featuring 
hundreds of real-life “idea bonanzas” that have rich 
takeaway for anyone seeking to thrive as an entrepreneur, 
innovator, or investor.
AUTHOR BIO
JEREMY GUTSCHE, MBA, CFA, is an innovation expert, 
award-winning author, “one of the most sought-after 
keynote speakers on the planet,” and the founder of 
Trendhunter.com, the world’s most popular trend-
spotting website, which boasts more than 2 billion 
page views and over 3 million Facebook fans. Prior to 
founding Trend Hunter, Jeremy grew a $1 billion portfolio 
for Capital One, and today over 300 brands rely on his 
expertise, including Victoria’s Secret, Sony, Coca-Cola, 
IBM, Wells Fargo, and Hughes Aerospace.
Crown Business
9780385346542
On Sale Date: 3/17/15
$25.00
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Carisa Hays
Vice President,  
Executive Director of Publicity, 
The Crown Publishing Group
212-782-9277  ·  chays@penguinrandomhouse.com

C R O W N 
FORUM

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By the People
Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Charles Murray
Publicist: Megan Perritt  
212-572-2543 | mperritt@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A groundbreaking book by bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray that exposes 
the corruption of government regulation and charts a new course for restoring individual 
freedom and limited government in our daily affairs.
The American project is on the threshold of its third act. Act I was the nation’s founding, establishing protections of 
individual liberty; Act II began in the 20th century, when the welfare state was grafted onto the original conception 
of limited government. But Act II has proven unsustainable. Through legislative overreach and misguided court 
decisions that expanded the federal government’s scope, regulations originally intended to protect individuals have 
morphed into an unjust, tangled web that harms individuals and small businesses while serving special interests and 
the few who are wealthy enough to operate above the law by hiring good lawyers and accountants.
In By the People, Charles Murray shows how, through a resurgence in federalism (states’ rights), coordinated mass 
civil disobedience, and privately funded court cases in which the corruption of the regulatory process gets exposed 
and hamstrung, Americans can take back their individual liberty and restore the rule of law rightly understood; 
because the federal government isn’t an invincible foe against which we are powerless to resist. It consists of people 
working in offices who are answerable to us, the citizenry, and when the government oversteps its bounds, we, the 
people, must remind them who’s in charge.
AUTHOR BIO
CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 
1984 with his book Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), 
What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor’s 
degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from MIT. He lives with his wife in Burkittsville, Maryland.
Crown Forum
9780385346511
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$ 27. 0 0
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The Conservatarian 
Manifesto
Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the 
Right’s Future
Charles C. W. Cooke
Publicist: Megan Perritt  
212-572-2543 | mperritt@penguinrandomhouse.com
Publicist: Alexandra Knight  
212-572-2076 | aknight@penguinrandomhouse.com”
SUMMARY
A blueprint of action and ideology for the 
growing population of socially liberal, fiscally 
conservative young members of the political 
Right, from an up-and-coming National  
Review columnist
There is a underserved movement budding among young 
conservatives, in which fiscal responsibility and controlled 
government spending remain crucial tenets, but issues 
like gay marriage and drug control are approached 
with a libertarian bent. The ideas of this growing wave 
need a public, nuanced voice. The implications for 
the Republican party if this philosophy is more widely 
adopted may not only spur major change within the 
party, but could also revitalize its chances of claiming 
more power in our government. Author Charles Cooke 
has coined the term “conservatarian” for this group, and 
The Conservatarian Manifesto is his explanation of what 
defines this new breed of Republican, what they believe 
on every hot-button issue of our day, and how they can 
effect change within the GOP.
AUTHOR BIO
CHARLES COOKE is a writer at National Review and a 
graduate of the University of Oxford, at which he studied 
modern history and politics. His work has focused 
especially on Anglo-American history, British liberty, free 
speech, the Second Amendment, and American 
exceptionalism. Charles is the cohost of the Mad Dogs 
and Englishmen podcast, and has broadcast for HBO (Real 
Time with Bill Maher), BBC, MSNBC, Fox News, The Blaze, 
CNBC, CTV, ABC, Sun News, and CBS. In addition to 
National Review, his writing has also been published by 
the National Interest, the Washington Times, and the  
New York Post.
Crown Forum
9780804139724
On Sale Date: 3/24/15
$25.00
Hardcover
Political Science - Political Parties

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Beverly Rykerd
Publicity Manager,  
Waterbrook Multnomah
719-268-1935  ·  brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com

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PRESS

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I Tried Until I Almost Died
From Anxiety and Frustration to Rest and Relaxation
Sandra McCollom; Foreword by Dave and Joyce Meyer
Publicist: Beverly Rykerd  
719-268-1935 | brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
For anyone worn-out from trying to live up to high expectations, this refreshing book from the 
daughter of best selling author Joyce Meyer reveals how to live fully in the freedom of grace.
Although she became a Christian at the age of 8, Sandra lived many years under the common misconception that in 
order to please God, she had to follow religious rules and perform perfectly. Convinced she could never measure 
up to His expectations, she became consumed by anxiety, frustration, and stress. In this book, she reveals her 
transformational journey into grace and shows readers how to experience for themselves the freedom that comes in 
exchanging self-efforts for the power of Jesus at work in and through their lives.
AUTHOR BIO
SANDRA McCOLLOM is thrilled to be a wife and a mom of twin girls. Her passion is sharing about the life-
transforming power of God’s grace, helping others discover the freedom she found after experiencing a radical life 
transformation through God’s grace. 
WaterBrook Press
9781601425775
On Sale Date: 3/3/15
$14.99 
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Hiding in the Light
Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
Rifqa Bary
Publicist: Beverly Rykerd  
 719-268-1935 | brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The compelling personal story of a teenage girl who stood against her family’s faith to convert 
to Christianity and who gave up everything in her flight from religious persecution.
In 2009 the story broke in national media of a teenage girl who had run away from her Ohio home, claiming that her 
Muslim father had threatened to kill her for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Her parents denied the charges 
and fought to have her returned home, but she became a ward of the state, placed into foster care until she was 
emancipated at age 18. Today that girl is a young woman still living in an undisclosed location, still convinced her life 
is under threat—and still passionate about following Jesus, despite the risks.
AUTHOR BIO
RIFQA BARY is a passionate 22-year-old Muslim converted to Christianity and an engaging speaker. Her passions are 
prayer, studying the Bible, and serving the poor. She plans to pursue a degree in nursing to further her goal of aiding 
the poor and needy through international missions.
WaterBrook Press
9781601426963
On Sale Date: 5/19/15
$21.99
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Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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It’s Good to Be Queen
Becoming as Bold, Gracious, and Wise as the Queen of Sheba
Liz Curtis Higgs
Publicist: Beverly Rykerd  
719-268-1935 | brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Timeless biblical wisdom for modern women who aspire to please the King of kings.
When it comes to queens in the Bible, we know the good one, Queen Esther, and the bad one, Queen Jezebel. But 
what about the wise one, the Queen of Sheba? This wealthy royal from antiquity, who longed to observe for herself 
the wisdom of Solomon, offers a storehouse of treasures for her modern sisters, showing us how to seek after truth, 
ask the right questions, keep an open mind, give generously, and honor God above all.
AUTHOR BIO
LIZ CURTIS HIGGS is an award-winning speaker and the best selling author of more than 30 books, including  
The Girl’s Still Got It and the Bad Girls of the Bible series. Articles featuring Liz have appeared in more than 300 major 
newspapers and magazines, as well as on Salon.com, Beliefnet.com, Kyria.com, and many other websites. She has 
been interviewed on more than 700 radio and television stations, including guest appearances on PBS, A&E, MSNBC, 
NPR, CBC Canada, Focus on the Family, Life Today, Midday Connection, and Janet Parshall’s America. 
WaterBrook Press
9781400070039
On Sale Date: 7/21/15
$14.99
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The Pharaoh’s Daughter
A Treasures of the Nile Novel
Mesu Andrews
WaterBrook Multnomah Publicity  
719-268-1915 | publicity@waterbrookmultnomah.com
SUMMARY
Plunging readers into the tumult of ancient 
Egypt, this epic tale of Pharoah’s daughter—
sister to King Tut and the rescuer of the infant 
Moses—will appeal to readers of novels who 
adored Francine Rivers’s A Lineage of Grace or 
The Red Tent.
Scarred by memories of her mother’s death during 
childbirth, Anippe is terrified to give her husband Sebak 
the son he wants and deserves. When the Pharaoh orders 
Hebrew males murdered at birth, Anippe rescues a 
newborn from the Nile, believing the gods have answered 
her prayers for a son. But are the gods smiling or 
taunting? When Egypt’s wicked Vizier threatens to divide 
Egypt’s Two Lands, Anippe conceals her son’s heritage 
and hopes to place him in line for the throne. Could her 
handsome boy rule Egypt one day? Or will someone hear 
the Hebrews call Mehy Moses and destroy everything 
Anippe holds dear?
AUTHOR BIO
MESU ANDREWS’s deep understanding of and love for 
God’s Word brings the biblical world alive for her readers. 
Her first novel, Love Amid the Ashes (Revell, 2011), won the 
2012 ECPA Book of the Year for a Debut Author. Her three 
subsequent novels, Love’s Sacred Song, Love in a Broken 
Vessel, and The Shadow of Jezebel all released to great 
reader enthusiasm. Mesu lives in the Pacific Northwest 
with her husband, Roy.
WaterBrook Press
9781601425997
On Sale Date: 3/17/15
$9.99
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Unafraid
Trusting God in an Unsafe World
Susie Davis
Publicist: Beverly Rykerd 
719-268-1935 | brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Hope for any woman who longs to live unafraid 
and experience the beauty of God’s love in the 
midst of an often terrible and terrifying world.
In 1978, then-eighth-grader Susie Davis watched as a 
thirteen-year-old neighbor entered her classroom and 
shot the teacher. As a witness to one of the earliest 
school shootings in our nation, Susie brings a unique voice 
and personal context to the timeless issue of overcoming 
fear in a world where life is fragile. Her hardwon insights 
on how women can learn to trust God in the face of 
tragedy are needed more than ever in a nation rocked by 
senseless bombings and school shootings.
AUTHOR BIO
SUSIE DAVIS is an author, blogger, and speaker who has 
a passion for helping people find joy in their everyday 
lives. Susie is married to Will Davis Jr., the senior pastor 
of Austin Christian Fellowship, which they cofounded. 
Together they have three young adult children.
WaterBrook Press
9781601426390
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$14.99
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I’m Happy for You (Sort Of...
Not Really)
Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison
Kay Wills Wyma
Publicist: Lynette Kittle 
719-264-5661 | lkittle@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A challenge for anyone caught up in the 
constant pursuit of busyness and self-
promotion to choose instead a countercultural 
means of finding satisfaction exactly where they 
are.
Mother of five Kay Wyma has witnessed firsthand how 
constant comparison breeds a lack of contentment, 
sapping joy and peace from our kids, from our families, 
from our lives—forcing us to live at breakneck speed to 
avoid falling behind or missing out. In addition to exposing 
the problem of competitive living, Kay offers practical 
suggestions for how we can learn to measure our lives less 
by how fast we’re moving and more by how much we’re 
celebrating, in ourselves, our kids, and in others.
AUTHOR BIO
KAY WILLS WYMA is a mother of five children between the 
ages of 6 and 17. Before transitioning to the role of stay-
at-home mom, she held positions at the US Department 
of State, the White House, and Bank of America. More 
recently she has worked as a successful political  
fund-raiser and serves in leadership roles with various 
organizations. She earned a BA from Baylor University 
and an MIM from the American Graduate School of 
International Management. Happily married to Jon, she 
inspires other parents through her blog, which garners 
more than 10,000 unique views per month.
WaterBrook Press
9781601425959
On Sale Date: 5/5/15
$14.99
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Beverly Rykerd
Publicity Manager,  
Waterbrook Multnomah
719-268-1935  ·  brykerd@penguinrandomhouse.com

MULTNOMAH
BOOKS

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Finding Your Way Back  
to God
Five Awakenings for Your New Life
Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson
Publicist: Lynette Kittle 
719-264-5661 | lkittle@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
A guide to personal renewal for those who are 
searching for an authentic connection to God.
For two decades, the motto “helping people find their way 
back to God” has described the mission of Community 
Christian Church, founded by brothers Dave and Jon 
Ferguson. The most common obstacle to faith, the 
Fergusons propose, is overwhelmingly not believing in 
God—90 percent of Americans do, according to Gallup 
research. The problem is finding and connecting with the 
God we already believe in. Drawing on the  
well-known story of the Prodigal Son, the authors show 
how most people set out with good intentions, only to 
find themselves floundering in what he calls “spiritual 
amnesia.” They dare readers to engage in a 30-day wager 
with God by praying each day, “God, if you are real, make 
yourself real to me.” Then they lead readers through 
five crucial awakenings that move them from doubt and 
confusion to love, purpose, and meaning—and a personal 
relationship with God. 
AUTHOR BIOS
DAVE FERGUSON is Founding and Lead Pastor of 
Community Christian Church, an innovative multisite 
missional community. The church has grown from a few 
college friends to thousands meeting every weekend at 14 
locations throughout Chicago and has been recognized 
as one of the most influential churches in America. Dave 
and his wife, Sue, have three school-age children, and 
live in Naperville, IL. JON FERGUSON is a co-founder of 
Community Christian, a teaching pastor, and a leader 
in NewThing, a church planting network. He is currently 
helping to plant a Community campus in the Lincoln Park 
neighborhood of Chicago. With his brother Dave, he co-
authored three church leadership books: The Big Idea, 
Exponential, and Discover Your Mission Now. He and his 
wife, Lisa, have two children, Graham and Chloe.
Multnomah Books
9781601426086
On Sale Date: 3/3/15
$22.99
Hardcover 
Religion - Christian Life - Spiritual Growth
Finding Your Way Back to God DVD 
Multnomah Books
9781601426758
On Sale Date: 3/3/15
$25.99
Video 
Religion - Christian Life - Spiritual Growth
Finding Your Way Back to God Particpant’s Guide 
Multnomah Books 
9781601426734
On Sale Date: 3/3/15
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Jesus Was an Airborne 
Ranger
Find Your Purpose Following the Warrior Christ
John McDougall
WaterBrook Multnomah Publicity 
719-268-1915 | publicity@waterbrookmultnomah.com
SUMMARY
For those with military interests, the mission 
of Jesus portrayed as the Great Raid behind 
enemy lines.
In this fresh, exhilarating take on the story of redemption, 
Captain McDougall retells the life of Jesus, and the 
mission of his followers, as analogous to a Special Forces 
incursion behind enemy lines.
“For too long, our churches have portrayed Jesus as 
Wimp who is far too gentle to confront evil and much 
too tolerant to correct injustice,” declares McDougall. 
“Men are not inclined to follow this Sunday School Jesus. 
But there is a third alternative: to restore the long-lost 
concept of Christus Victor—Christ the Conqueror.”
Combat-seasoned and seminary trained, McDougall 
weaves stories from the front with biblical teaching as he 
reframes the gospel in terms that action-oriented readers 
will be drawn to, learn from, and be highly motivated to 
follow in their daily lives.
AUTHOR BIO
A West Point graduate, ordained minister, and combat-
decorated veteran of multiple tours in Iraq and 
Afghanistan in the elite Army Ranger corps, CAPTAIN 
JOHN MCDOUGALL currently serves the Special 
Operations community as chaplain of the 75th Ranger 
Regiment. On leave from active duty in 2006-2010, he 
earned his Master of Divinity degree from Multnomah 
Biblical Seminary. He and his wife, Briana, have three 
young children.
Multnomah Books
9781601426925
On Sale Date: 4/21/15
$14.99 
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Five Years in Heaven
The Unlikely Friendship that Answered Life’s Greatest Questions
John Schlimm
Publicist: Katie Moore  
719-268-1936 | kamoore@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
How do you get to heaven? The answer lies in this true story of one young man’s journey 
to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher—a compassionate, wise 
octogenarian nun.
By the time John Schlimm was 32 years old, the Harvard-trained educator had worked with the White House as well 
as in the country music industry. But his life had come to a standstill, lost in a whirl of questions about belonging, 
faith, rejection, and purpose. Schlimm decides to return to his small-town roots in search of a new beginning.
Returning home, John meets 88-year-old Sister Augustine, the beguiling self-taught artist-in-residence of the 
ceramic shop connected to the local convent. John is instantly bowled over by Sister’s quiet grace and vision, and 
before long, his weekly visits to Sister’s shop evolve into a master’s class in the meaning of life, love, and peace. In 
Five Years in Heaven, John shares the wisdom, humor, grace, and inspiration he experienced during his hundreds 
of visits with Sister Augustine, while he worked to turn this forgotten artist into a star and pillar of the community. 
While John puts Sister Augustine on the front page of newspapers, she directs him on the road to self-discovery 
and salvation. Five Years in Heaven reminds us that love can find you in the most unlikely of places, and the building 
blocks of peace and happiness are always within our reach.
AUTHOR BIO
JOHN EVANGELIST SCHLIMM II is a Harvard-trained educator, artist, and writer. He has traveled the country speaking 
about inspirational/motivational topics, cooking, entertaining, and public relations and has appeared on such 
national media outlets as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, NPR, Martha Stewart Living’s Everyday Food, and Fox & Friends. 
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The Catholic Advantage
Why Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faith-
ful
Bill Donohue
Publicist: Katie Moore  
719-268-1936 | kamoore@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
The controversial president of the Catholic 
League shows how the Church may be the 
best guide for achieving long-term health and 
happiness.
According to Bill Donohue, religious Americans are by 
far the healthiest and happiest of any segment of the 
population; this is true across religions. When compared 
to those who do not ascribe to religion, believers are 
significantly healthier and happier (they are also more 
likely to get to heaven). In his latest book, The Catholic 
Advantage, Donohue turns his attention to the ways 
Catholicism is experienced by believers. Here, he 
explores a simplified and practical way of looking at the 
faith, something he calls Common Sense Catholicism. 
Donohue shows how the application of beliefs, bonds and 
boundaries yields a life of health, happiness, and heaven. 
But this isn’t just his opinion: Donohue backs up his 
insights with new and challenging research.
AUTHOR BIO
DR. WILLIAM A. DONOHUE is the president and CEO of the 
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s 
largest Catholic civil rights organization. The publisher 
of the Catholic League journal, Catalyst, Bill is also an 
adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation and served 
for two decades on the board of directors of the National 
Association of Scholars. Winner of several teaching 
awards and many awards from the Catholic community, 
Bill has appeared on thousands of television and radio 
shows speaking about civil liberties and social issues.
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Between the Dark and the 
Daylight
Embracing the Contradictions of Life
Joan Chittister
Publicist: Katie Moore  
719-268-1936 | kamoore@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
From the beloved Benedictine nun, founder 
of Benetvision, and author of The Gift of Years 
comes a new inspirational guide for those 
trekking the messy terrain between joy and 
dark nights of the soul.
A part of the soul stirs at night, in the dark and soundless 
times of day, when our defenses are down and our 
daylight distractions no longer serve to protect us from 
ourselves. What we suppress in the light emerges clearly 
as questions about who we are and what we are doing in 
our lives. In her latest book, Sister Joan Chittister shines 
light on the inner confusions of our own age. Between 
the Dark and the Daylight offers simple, poignant, and 
practical meditations on how we can better understand 
God and ourselves when chaos surrounds us.
AUTHOR BIO
JOAN CHITTISTER is an internationally known author 
and lecturer, and the executive director of Benetvision, 
a resource and research center for contemporary 
spirituality. She is past president of the Conference of 
American Benedictine Prioresses and the Leadership 
Conference of Women Religious. Her books include 
The Gift of Years, The Breath of the Soul, Uncommon 
Gratitude, and Following the Path. She is a member of the 
Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Encountering Truth
Meeting God in the Every Day
Pope Francis, edited by Antonio 
Spadaro with a preface by Federico 
Lombardi
Publicist: Katie Moore  
719-268-1936 | kamoore@penguinrandomhouse.com
SUMMARY
Experience the morning homilies of Pope 
Francis and witness how he continues to 
change the life of the Catholic Church.
Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a 
brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in 
front of an audience that is always different: gardeners, 
office workers, nuns, and priests as well as a growing 
group of journalists. It is a set appointment, and in some 
ways a revolutionary innovation, where a Pope speaks 
to everyone, off the cuff, without any written text, as he 
would have done as a parish priest. Encountering Truth 
is a collection of highlights from these homilies from 
March 2013 to May 2014. Along with summaries by Radio 
Vaticana (who recorded and transcribed the homilies) 
and commentary by Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, these 
reflections provide moments of inspiration, simplicity, 
and a glimpse into the papal world very few ever get to 
experience. Includes a preface by Federico Lombardi, 
director of the Vatican’s press office.
AUTHOR BIO
POPE FRANCIS is the first Latin American to be elected to 
the chair of Peter. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. He 
served as head of the Society of Jesus in Argentina from 
1973 to 1979. In 1998 he became the archbishop of Buenos 
Aires, and in 2001 a cardinal. Following the resignation of 
his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, on February 28, 2013, 
the conclave elected Bergoglio, who chose the papal 
name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. 
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Author Index
Andrews, Mesu
Bary, Rifqa
Benforado, Adam
Bernard, Beth Yearwood
Bertino, Marie-Helene
Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda
Bittman, Mark
Blehm, Eric
Bolick, Kate
Britton, Sarah
Charan, Ram
Chittister, Joan
Chopra, Mallika
Cooke, Charles C. W.
Crilley, Mark
Curtis Higgs, Liz 
Davis, Susie
Donohue, Bill
Faber, Michel
Ferguson, Dave
Ferguson, Jon
Flay, Bobby
Forte, Hugh
Forte, Sara
Franklin, Aaron
George, Nina
Goldsmith, Marshall
Gutsche, Jeremy
Hawkins, Scott
Ho, Cassey
Hungton, Arianna
Hunter, Aislinn
Jenkins, Jerry
Jones, Anna
Kaling, Mindy
Kang, Maria
Kennedy, Eliza
Koch, Herman
Krauthammer, Charles
Larson, Erik
Leahy, Kate
Logan, Kirsty
Lombardi, Federico
Loyd, Alexander PhD
Macintyre, Ben
Mackay, Jordan
Maucci, Alissandra
Matheny, Mike
Mayes, Frances
McCollom, Sandra
McDougall, John
Miglore, Kristen
Miller, Jax
Murray, Charles
Peterson, Bryan
Pope Francis
Prum, Eric
Prak, Claire
Rancic, Giuliana
Randall, Alice
Randall Williams, Caroline
Reiter, Mark
Richman, Adam
Rose, Jalen
Rubin, Gretchen
Ryan, Maxwell
Schlimm, John
Segal, Mindy
Soderberg, Alexander
Spadaro, Antonio
Taylor, Sara
Tosi, Christina
Waters, Alice
Williams, Josh
Wills Wyma, Kay 
Yearwood, Trisha
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