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ShakerA novelScott FrankThe tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the mostsuccessful screenwriters of the past twenty years--the tale of a hit man mistaken fora hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising numberof people who want him dead.Roy Cooper, a stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for various New Yorkcriminals, arrives in Los Angeles just as a powerful earthquake throws the city intochaos. Still, Roy is able to get his hit job done well. Except for one thing: amid thechaos, he can't find his car. Helplessly lost in North Hollywood, he stumbles upona jogger being beaten by four gangbangers, and, despite his best efforts, winds upin the middle of the fray. The jogger--a controversial mayoral candidate--ismurdered. Roy ends up hospitalized in critical condition and is lionized--mistakenas a hero--when a video of the fight goes viral. Enter Kelly Maguire, an LAPDdetective with an anger-management problem and an uneasy feeling about L.A.'snewest hero; Science, the teenage sociopath gangbanger/shooter who needs tokeep Roy quiet about what he's seen; Albert, Roy's onetime mentor and one of thescariest, creepiest characters in recent crime fiction; and myriad criminals,politicians, and cops who need Roy to disappear--preferably forever.ON SALE 1/26/2016KNOPFHARDCOVER978-0-385-35003-7 26.95/ 34.95Category: FictionBISAC 1: Fiction - Thrillers - CrimeBISAC 2: Fiction - CrimeBISAC 3: Fiction - UrbanPage Count: 352Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4Spine/Depth: 39/32Carton Count: 12Marketing and PublicityPublicist: Helen TobinMarketing Contact: Sara EagleNational Media Appearances, includingNPR and print featuresNational Online Interviews, Reviews, andLiterary Blog CoverageMystery PressFilm Press3-city Author Tour: Los Angeles, NewYork, and San FranciscoExtra Galleys with color coversAlso available as an eGalleyNational Print Advertising, including TheNew York Times Book ReviewOnline Advertising Campaign, includingNYTimes, LATimes, USAToday, EW.com,Variety, IMDB.com, RottenTomatoes.com,and moreComic Con PromotionEarly GoodReads GiveawayJacket Blowups AvailableFRANK'S COMMERCIAL CREDENTIALS: He is a filmmaker known for his ability to createcharacter-driven films that tell unique stories with complex narratives. His screenplaysinclude: The Wolverine, Marley & Me, Minority Report, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Malice, andLittle Man Tate. He also wrote and directed A Walk Among the Tombstones and TheLookout. He knows how to tell quality, commercial stories and that's what he does in thisfantastic novel.CONNECTIONS: Frank is extremely well connected. We should be able to get more publicitythan normal for a first novelist--and we will certainly get a ton of quotes from big namesto help our launch.SCOTT FRANK'S CONVERSION: He is now a novelist and we have already signed him up towrite a second thriller. He has the potential to turn into an every-two-year best seller forKnopf.About the Author/IllustratorAuthor Residence: New York, NYScott Frank was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Writers Guild Award for BestAdapted Screenplay for Get Shorty. He was nominated for an Academy Award for BestAdapted Screenplay and won a WGA Award for Out of Sight. His other screenplays includeLittle Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Minority Report, The Interpreter,Marley & Me, and The Wolverine. He wrote the screenplay for and made his directorial debutwith 2007's The Lookout, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.Most recently, Frank adapted and directed A Walk Among the Tombstones.RightsTerritories: US, Canada, open marketAudio: YesBritish: NoRestriction: US, Canada, Open MktComparative Titles by Other AuthorsGhostman/Hobbs, Roger/HCGhostman/Hobbs, Roger/TRGhostman (E-Bk)/Hobbs, Roger/ELBad Monkey/Hiaasen, Carl/HCBad Monkey (Ebk)/Hiaasen, Carl/ELSimple Plan, A/Smith, Scott/HCSimple Plan, A/Smith, Scott/TRSimple Plan, A/Smith, Scott/MMSimple Plan, A (Ebk)/Smith, Scott/ELReturn indicator: Full copies onlyBook Club: YesTranslation: NoAgency: THE WYLIE AGENCY 803072782729780307280398On rKnopfVintageVintageKnopfKnopfKnopfVintageVintage Mass MarketVintageReprint: Yes1st Serial: NoSpecial Markets:Agent:Price US/Can. 24.95/ 28.95 14.95/ 16.95 11.99/ 13.99 26.95/ 27.95 10.99/ 12.99 21.00/ 27.50 16.95/ 18.95 7.99/ 10.99 11.99/ 12.99

Blue LawsSelected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015Kevin YoungA rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of anextraordinary career, interspersed with "B sides" and outtakes from this prolific anduniversally acclaimed poet.Blue Laws gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from allnine of Kevin Young's previously published books of poetry and including anumber of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his stunning lyric debut(Most Way Home, 1995) and the amazing "double album" life of Jean-MichelBasquiat (2001, "remixed" for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted Jelly Roll:A Blues and his recent forays into adult grief and the joys of birth in DearDarkness and Book of Hours, this collection provides a grand tour of a poet whosepersonal poems and political poems are equally riveting. Together with wonderfulouttakes and previously unseen blues, the profoundly felt poems here of family,Southern food, and loss are of a piece with the depth of personal sensibility andhumanity found in his Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels or sequencessuch as "The Ballad of Jim Crow" and a new "Homage to Phillis Wheatley."A ONE MAN BAND: Kevin's strong sales, widely varied and accessible subject matter, andhis presence on the road and in the academy will bring more invitations than he canaccept, and plenty of reviews.ON SALE 2/2/2016KNOPFHARDCOVER978-0-385-35150-8 30.00/ 39.00Category: PoetryBISAC 1: Poetry - American - GeneralBISAC 2: Poetry - American - African AmericanBISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - FamilyPage Count: 608Trim Size: 6 x 9Spine/Depth: 57/32Carton Count: 12Marketing and PublicityPublicist: Josefine KalsNational Print FeaturesPoetry PressMusic PressSelect Author AppearancesPraise for Kevin Young:"Heartfelt bluntness rich with unfettered honesty."--Chicago Tribune"Young reminds us that freedom has not been realized for everyone, but his vigorous andappealing voice encourages the hope that we may come to understand and appreciate oneanother's perspectives and dialects."-- The New LeaderAbout the Author/IllustratorAuthor Residence: Decatur, GAAuthor Hometown: Lincoln, NebraskaKEVIN YOUNG is the author of nine previous books of poetry, including Book of Hours;Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award; andJelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of The HungryEar: Poems of Food & Drink, and seven other collections. His book, The Grey Album: On theBlackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times NotableBook and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and won the PENOpen Book Award. He is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writingand English and curator of both Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski PoetryLibrary at Emory University.RightsTerritories: WorldAudio: NoBritish: YesRestriction: WorldAuthor's Previous Titles (Sales Track)Book Of Hours/Young, Kevin/HCArdency/Young, Kevin/HCArdency/Young, Kevin/TRDear Darkness/Young, Kevin/HCDear Darkness/Young, Kevin/TRFor The Confederate Dead/Young, Kevin/HCFor The Confederate Dead/Young, Kevin/TRBlack Maria/Young, Kevin/HCReturn indicator: Full copies onlyBook Club: YesTranslation: YesAgency: LIPPINCOTT MASSIE MCQUILKIN 1400042098On KnopfKnopfKnopfKnopfKnopfKnopfKnopfReprint: Yes1st Serial: NoSpecial Markets:Agent: ROB MCQUILKINPrice US/Can. 26.95/ 31.00 27.95/ 32.00 19.95/ 23.95 26.95/ 32.00 18.00/ 21.00 24.95/ 30.00 18.00/ 24.00 24.95/ 34.95

The Firebrand and the First LadyPortrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and theStruggle for Social JusticePatricia Bell-ScottON SALE 2/2/2016KNOPFHARDCOVER978-0-679-44652-1 30.00/ 39.00Category: HistoryBISAC 1: History - United States - 20th CenturyBISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - PoliticalBISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - LGBTPage Count: 480Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4Spine/Depth: 51/32Carton Count: 12Format Description: HARDCOVERIllustrations: 59 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXTMarketing and PublicityPublicist: Jessica PurcellMarketing Contact: Katherine BurnsNational Media Appearances, includingPBS, C-SPAN, NPR, and print featuresCoverage in and on political, history, andnews sitesCoverage in and on African Americanpublications and sitesCoverage in and on GLBT publicationsand sitesWomen's magazine and blog coverageAuthor Tour, including Atlanta, Chicago,New York, and Washington, D.C.Extra GalleysAlso available as an eGalleyNational Print Advertising in The NewYork Review of BooksOnline Advertising Campaign, includingFacebook, targeting fans of Eleanor,Teddy, FDR, and pages of LGBT interest,among othersFacebook: Major promotion on EleanorRoosevelt, FDR, and Teddy Roosevelt fanpagesQuote card campaignAn important, groundbreaking book--two decades in work--that tells the story of theunlikely but history-changing twenty-eight-year bond forged between Pauli Murray(granddaughter of a mulatto slave, who, against all odds, as a lesbian black woman,became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) andEleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and humanrights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and thereforeFDR's, view of race and racism in America.It was a decades-long friendship--tender, moving, prodding,inspiring--sustained primarily through correspondence and characterized bybrutal honesty, mutual admiration, and respect, revealing the generational andpolitical differences each had to overcome in order to support one another's life.Of the two extraordinary women, one was at the center of world power; theother, an outsider ostracized by the color of her skin, fighting with heart, soul, andintellect to push the world forward (she did!) and to become the figure for changeshe knew she was meant to be; each alike in many ways: losing both parents aschildren, being reared by elderly kin; each a devoted Episcopalian with an abidingcompassion for the helpless; each possessed of boundless energy and fortitudeyet susceptible to low spirits and anxiety; each in a battle against shyness,learning to be outspoken; each at her best when engaged in meaningful,important work. And each in her own society sidelined as a woman, anddetermined to upend the centuries-old social constriction . . . A riveting portraitthat shows how their friendship deepened and endured in the face of enormoussocial barriers, and that makes clear how Pauli Murray, foremother of themodern-day black and feminist movements, crucially influenced EleanorRoosevelt's progressive stance on civil and human rights, challenging her to take astand for justice and freedom ("If some of our statements are bitter these days,"Pauli Murray wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt in a postscript from a 1942 letter, "youmust remember that truth is our only sword"), a book that reveals, as well, theprofound impact of Eleanor Roosevelt's friendship on the shape of Murray's life asan activist, lawyer, cofounder of the National Organization for Women, principalstrategist in the fight to preserve Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the firstAfrican American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.Groundbreaking history at its best. The first book to reveal how Eleanor Roosevelt's stanceon race and civil rights evolved and how, because of it, FDR's position on race was affected.The first book to portray this crucial, moving, and inspiring friendship.To write the book the author has seamlessly woven throughout the long-overlookedcorrespondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray--portions published here for thefirst time, as well as making use of Murray's published and unpublished writings, journals,and oral history.A major book for black, women's, and social justice studies.A groundbreaking book about being a black lesbian in the mid-twentieth century, and amajor contribution to lesbian black history. Pauli Murray's brave path, not only as a blackactivist, but as a black gay woman at a time (the late 1920s to the mid-1980s) whenlesbianism was not only anathema but being a black gay woman was considered a heresy.About the Author/IllustratorAuthor Residence: Athens, GAPatricia Bell-Scott, professor emerita of women's studies and family science at the Universityof Georgia, is a cofounder of the National Women's Studies Association, and co-foundingeditor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.RightsTerritories: US, Canada, open marketAudio: YesBritish: YesRestriction: US, Canada, Open MktAuthor's Previous Titles (Sales Track)Flatfooted Truths/Patricia Bell-Scott/HCLife Notes/Bell, Scott Patricia/TRBut Some of Us Are Brave/Patricia Bell-S Comparative Titles by Other AuthorsEleanor Roosevelt/Cook, Blanche Wiesen/H Eleanor Roosevelt:V1 1884-1933/Cook, Bla Eleanor Roosevelt/Cook, Blanche Wiesen/H Hissing Cousins/Peyser, Marc/HCImmortal Life Of Henrietta/Skloot, Rebec Immortal Life Of Henrietta/Skloot, Rebec Return indicator: Full copies onlyBook Club: YesTranslation: NoAgency: CHARLOTTE SHEEDY 8038553601197814000521729781400052189On sale05/981/9501/1993On sale7/993/934/923/152/103/11Reprint: Yes1st Serial: YesSpecial Markets:Agent:PublisherHenry HoltWW NortonFeminist Press at CUNYPublisherViking AdultPenguin BooksViking AdultNan A TaleseCrownBroadway BooksPrice US/Can. 22.00 12.00/ 15.99 19.95Price US/Can. 34.95/ 48.99 22.00/ 23.00 27.50/ 35.99 28.95/ 34.00 26.00/ 32.00 16.00/ 18.00

A Friend of Mr. LincolnA novelStephen HarriganThe author of The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait ofAbraham Lincoln during his Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity andhis ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his.It is Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. Abraham Lincoln is a circuit-riding lawyer,a member of the state legislature, a man of almost ungovernable ambition. To hisfriends he is also a beloved figure, by turns charmingly awkward andmesmerizingly self-possessed--a man of whom they expect big things. Amongthose friends are Joshua Speed, William Herndon, Stephen Douglas, and a fictionalpoet, Cage Weatherby, through whom we will come to know Lincoln in his twentiesand early thirties. Cage both admires and clashes with Lincoln, often questioninghis legal ethics. But he is by Lincoln's side as he slips back and forth between highspirits and soul-hollowing sadness and depression; and as he recovers from adisastrous courtship of one woman to marry the beautiful, capricious, politicallysavvy, Mary Todd. It is Mary who will bring some stability to Lincoln's life but whowill also trigger a conflict that sends the two men on very different paths into thefuture.ON SALE 2/2/2016KNOPFHARDCOVER978-0-307-70067-4 27.95/ 35.95Category: FictionBISAC 1: Fiction - HistoricalBISAC 2: Fiction - LiteraryBISAC 3: Fiction - BiographicalPage Count: 432Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4Spine/Depth: 43/32Carton Count: 12Marketing and PublicityPublicist: Gabrielle BrooksMarketing Contact: Sara EagleNational Media Appearances, includingNPR and print featuresNational Online Interviews, Reviews, andLiterary Blog CoverageCoverage in and on HistoryPublications and SitesAuthor Tour, including Austin, Chicago,Dallas, Houston, and Springfield, ILExtra Galleys with color coversAlso available as an eGalleyGoodreads giveaways; outreach toGoodreads fans who reviewed The Gatesof the AlamoPrint Advertising Campaign, includingthe Chicago Tribune and Texas MonthlyOnline Advertising Campaign, includingNYTimes, WashPost, LATimes,ChicagoTribune, WSJ, CNN, andFacebookAbraham Lincoln search term advertisingGoodreads Ask the AuthorBlogger outreachReading Group GuideJacket Blowups AvailableHARRIGAN RETURNS TO BEST-SELLING FORM: This is his first major historical novel sinceThe Gates of the Alamo (2000), which has sold nearly 200,000 copies in hardcover andpaper combined.LITTLE-KNOWN LINCOLN: A major novel which presents us with Lincoln close-up andpersonal in the years of his early manhood. Many little known incidents of Lincoln's life areportrayed, including the duel he almost fought, his participation in a poetry-writingsociety, his service in the Black Hawk War.THE FRONTIER: A powerful snapshot of a frontier city on the rise, filled with young men ofambition, many of whom would become, and remain, well-known.MARY TODD: A truly amazing portrait of the woman, of Lincoln's courtship of her, and ofthe early years of their seemingly fated marriage.ABRAHAM LINCOLN: This novel is aimed right at the perpetually huge audience for booksabout Lincoln. Two Lincoln scholars have already given it a thumbs up; more are reading it.About the Author/IllustratorAuthor Residence: Austin, TexasAuthor Hometown: Oklahoma City, OKStephen Harrigan is the author of nine previous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton, which among other awards wonthe James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Novel from the Society of AmericanHistorians. He is also a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a screenwriter who has writtenmany movies for television. He lives in Austin, Texas.RightsTerritories: US, Canada, open marketAudio: NoBritish: NoRestriction: US, Canada, Open MktAuthor's Previous Titles (Sales Track)Remember Ben Clayton/Harrigan, Stephen/H Remember Ben Clayton/Harrigan, Stephen/T Remember Ben Clayton (Ebk)/Harrigan, Ste Challenger Park/Harrigan, Stephen/HCChallenger Park/Harrigan, Stephen/TRChallenger Park (Ebk)/Harrigan, Stephen/ The Gates Of The Alamo/Harrigan, Stephen The Gates Of The Alamo/Harrigan, Stephen Return indicator: Full copies onlyBook Club: YesTranslation: NoAgency: INTERNATIONAL 06794471779780141000022On sale5/115/125/114/067/074/062/003/01Reprint: Yes1st Serial: NoSpecial Markets:Agent: antine BooksBallantine BooksKnopfPenguin BooksPrice US/Can. 26.95/ 31.00 16.95/ 19.95 12.99/ 13.99 24.95/ 34.95 15.00/ 18.00 11.99/ 13.99 25.00/ 38.00 17.00/ 18.00

On My OwnDiane RehmON SALE 2/2/2016KNOPFHARDCOVER978-1-101-87528-5 23.95/ 30.95Category: BiographyBISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - PersonalMemoirsBISAC 2: Self-Help - Death, Grief, BereavementBISAC 3: Family & Relationships - Death, Grief,BereavementPage Count: 176Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4Spine/Depth: 24/32Carton Count: 12Illustrations: FRONTISPIECE PHOTOMarketing and PublicityIn a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out aboutthe long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, andof her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.With John gone, Diane was indeed "on her own," coping with the inevitablepractical issues and, more important, with the profoundly emotional ones. What todo, how to react, how to reach out again into the world--struggling to create anew reality for herself while clinging to memories of the past. The focus is on herown roller-coaster experiences, but she has also solicited the moving stories ofsuch recently widowed friends as Roger Mudd and Susan Stamberg, which exposethe reader to a remarkable range of reactions to the death of a spouse.John's unnecessarily extended death--he begged to be helped todie--culminated in his taking matters into his own hands, simply refusing to takefood and medication until pneumonia claimed him. His heroic actions spurredDiane into becoming a kind of poster person for the Right to Die movement that isall too slowly taking shape in our country. With the brave determination that hascharacterized her whole life, she is finding a meaningful new way to contribute tothe world. Her book--as practical as it is inspiring--will be a help and a comfortto the recently bereaved, and a beacon of hope about the

KNOPF HARDCOVER 978--307-95896-9 35.00 Category: Biography BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Political BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Historical BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Women Page Count: 880 Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Carton Count: 8 Illustrations: 12 ILL IN TXT; 32 PP OF PHOTOS Marketing and Publicity Publicist: Jessica .