Promotions - Title Listings - "New Publications, August 13, 2012"

Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle's bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with ghosts.

After an elderly man with encroaching Alzheimer's disease confesses to his home attendant that as a long-ago junkie and petty thief he killed his partner in crime, police from the NYPD reluctantly dig up the community garden where the body is supposed to be buried.

Building on the events of Hitler's War, West and East, and The Big Switch, this new novel explores the lives of simple soldiers and civilians, as well as great historic leaders, to postulate what might have happened had Chamberlain chosen not to appease Hitler.

When crime writer Julian Wells' body is found in a boat drifting on a pond, the question is not how he died, but why? This question first intrigues and then obsesses Philip Anders, Wells' best friend and the chief defender of both his moral and his literary legacies.

Weaving together true historical events with infamous conspiracy theories, The Empty Glass is a riveting, paranoiac thriller narrated by the young coroner who is among the first on a scene at Marilyn Monroe's bungalow when the actress is reported dead.

Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned and automated drone army.

Against Tom's judgment, he and his wife, Isabel, claim a baby, who has washed up on shore in a boat, as their own. When the baby is two, a rift begins to grow between the couple as they realize there is a woman out there desperate to find her lost baby.

Just before football playoffs begin, the town and team are thrown into shock when a teenage girl is found murdered. When details emerge that connect the crime to the beloved coach and his brother, the two are forced to unite to stop a killer.

A catastrophic earthquake ravages Afghanistan, and American troops rush to deliver aid, among them Afghan Air Force adviser Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson, and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold. The devastation facing them is like nothing they've ever seen—and it's about to get worse.

Here is a new historical novel that traces the lives of one Japanese-Canadian family during and after their internment in the 1940s.

Meg Langslow helps run Caerphilly's town fair while trying to solve a murder in the next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow Mystery series.

Bruno has come to Ireland to search for his roots. Addie is recovering from heartbreak while taking care of her father. When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike any they've previously felt, but soon tragedy will test them and their newfound love in ways they never imagined possible.

Inside this iconic Manhattan building, there is a world of luxury, glamour, and lust...where nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Norb Vonnegut offers this suspense thriller that takes readers inside the dangerous, high-rolling world of global finance.

Here is a hilariously cynical and often brutal novel skewering the world of investment banking, set in the heart of London high finance.

Wayne of Gotham is an original story featuring Batman as he investigates not only the events of surrounding his parents' murder but also the darkest secrets of his family's past.

To save the planet, two angels are required to answer one prayer: they must get two college acquaintances--both painfully shy and anti-social--to kiss.

This one-of-a-kind book will give vocal sensation Adele's millions of fans the answers to their questions about the newest pop legend.

Here is a fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative.

Here is the hilarious yet illuminating story of a heroically obsessive entrepreneur and his adventures in trying to bring products to Africa's poor in a mutually beneficial business model.

Certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of the secret life of America's most accomplished art forger.

Featuring exclusive interviews with former trainers at SeaWorld, as well as reports that document the range of orca-related deaths, injuries, and incidents behind SeaWorld's cheerful image, Death at SeaWorld is a revealing look at the true costs of holding the ocean's top predator in captivity.

Fatal Dive reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion as well as the U.S. Navy's shocking cover up of the submarine's baffling disappearance.

Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we know about the science of climate change; explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future; and lays out in practical terms what we can and cannot do to avoid further shifts.

Golden Opportunity is a collection of over two dozen profiles of people who launched their very successful careers with McDonald's. This book includes 12 key principles for success that led to such remarkable careers as Katie Kouric's and Jay Leno's.

In this indispensable reference, herbal expert Stephen Harrod Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores the value of herbal treatments, and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable herbs, noting for each one its antibiotic properties, methods for collection and preparation, dosages, potential side effects, contraindications, and alternatives.

Using real life stories and his own consulting experience, J.J. Luna shows you legal methods for protecting yourself from information predators and how to secure your bank accounts, business dealings, computer files, and even your home address.

Here is a very personal book about Bob Dylan: a man who has been entertaining, exasperating and fascinating us for more than half a century.

For the fiftieth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, here is a major and revelatory new biography by a leading feminist historian.

James Srodes offers an inside and sometimes scandalous portrait of the twelve young men and women who shaped the early progressive movement.

From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet-assassin, here is a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts of Queen Victoria.

Hali Felt offers this compelling portrait of one of the most interesting 'forgotten' women of the twentieth century--the scientist who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floor.

Three former CIA officers--the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior--share their techniques for spotting a lie.

From the author of the ground-breaking The Price of Privilege comes this essential toolbox for parents, filled with information, vital research, and exercises to help them raise happy, successful children.

Here is the dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war.

This book discusses the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time who did not resent taking a 'secondary position' to the role they played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history.

Join Fox, Bear, Pig, and Rabbit as they explore the world of apples in this fun-filled ABC book. Each letter of the alphabet showcases the many marvelous facts about apples for youngsters just learning their ABCs as well as offering lots more information for slightly older children.

In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division.

In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.

This book explains why so many species of animals are at risk of extinction and outlines steps readers can take to help share the world with tigers and all the other plants and animals on Earth.

After Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday, they fashion it into a man and it comes magically to life. But things spin out of control when the neighborhood bully, Marcus, steals a scrap of the cardboard to create creatures that promptly disobey his orders and multiply into an unruly army.

Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Greylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.

Sutton Mercer lived the high life until someone took it all away. Now Sutton watches from beyond the grave as her long-lost twin, Emma, tries to find Sutton's killer. Emma is crossing off suspects, but her own life is in danger as the murderer resorts to extreme measures to keep her quiet.

Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States military to begin training at the Pentagonal Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

Kids and parents alike will rejoice in this lively read-aloud picture book, as the main character runs into (and away from) a tiger over and over again as the plot gets sillier and sillier.

On his sixth birthday, Henry Alfred Grummorson, a descendant of King Arthur and would-be knight, sets out for adventure but neither dragon, nor cyclops, nor griffin is willing to engage in real battle. Desperate for a real fight, Henry seeks out the fearsome leviathan.

This book tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.

Jade has always trusted the authorities, but now she begins to question the very society in which she lives. Cat breeding is strictly controlled and cats are only for the rich in their private estates. But when beautiful, sleek Feela turns up in Jade's backyard, she cannot resist taking the cat in, even though it could cost her everything.

Penguin helps organize the annual talent show because he cannot identify his own gift, but when the show is over and the performers throw a party to show how much they appreciate Penguin's work, his aptitude becomes clear.

Angry at being downgraded to a dwarf planet by Earth scientists, Pluto travels through the solar system, asking other planets along the way for support, in hopes of regaining his planetary status.

Miss Lotta scales, a dragon also known as Miss Lotty the librarian, wants to retire from taking care of the school's library but will not willingly stand by and see her beloved books replaced by computers.

Zander's play brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda, one of the Cruisers, designs costumes that win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.

Follow along as a classroom of exuberant young kids explore art and the power of creativity in its most varied forms--painting, music, writing, cooking, performing...there's no end to where their imaginations can take them!

Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller, an Amish, leaves her close-knit family to spend the summer as a nanny in suburban Chicago. She can't imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own.