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**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.

Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-agedscientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in Londonwhen he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandishplan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr.Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd,catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work onit. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning toglorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel;interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, andinterview tran*s that deftly capture the absurdity ofbureaucratic dysfunction.With a wickedly wonderful cast ofcharacters--including a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldierand his intrepid fiancee, and Dr. Jones's own devilish wife--SalmonFishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero whodiscovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victimof political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.

From acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Chadwick comes a story ofhuge emotional power set against the road to Magna Carta and thefight to bring a tyrant king to heel. The privileged daughter ofone of the most powerful men in England, Mahelt Marshal's lifechanges dramatically when her father is suspected of treachery byKing John. Her brothers become hostages and Mahelt is married toHugh Bigod, heir to the earldom of Norfolk. Adapting to her newlife is hard, but Mahelt comes to love Hugh deeply; however,defying her father-in-law brings disgrace and heartbreak. When KingJohn sets out to subdue the Bigods, Mahelt faces a heartbreakingbattle, fearing neither she, nor her marriage, is likely to survivethe outcome ...Winner of the RNA Historical Novel Award 2011, TODEFY A KING is magnificent in scope and detail, with charactersthat leap off the page - this is historical fiction at itsfinest.

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning andperennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificentarray" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.WithRushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety ofsubstance and style and the consistent quality that readers havecome to expect" (Publishers Weekly). "We all live in and with andby stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom totell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories ofour culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the largersubject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor The BestAmerican Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER - ALLEGRAGOODMAN - A. M. HOMES - NICOLE KRAUSS - JONATHAN LETHEM - STEVENMILLHAUSER - DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN - ALICE MUNRO - GEORGE SAUNDERS -TOBIAS WOLFF - and others

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey aresuspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville'sinvestigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths.Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Seven years ago, James Raimes and his wife bought a countryhome on nine acres in upstate New York. In the tradition of theirfamily, who once owned a cottage named Fred, this larger propertybecame "Ginger." Inspired by the natural beauty of the land and adesire to learn how to be a gardener, Raimes found himself obsessedwith such questions as why gardeners keep moving plants around,what the names of the lawn grasses are, and how one can imposeorder in a garden and at the same time make it look natural. What,in fact, defines a garden? Gardening at Ginger is full of successesand failures, aches and pains, frustrations and delights. But morethan that, it's the story of a great discovery: as we try to shapea landscape to reflect who we are, we find that who we are has beenreshaped in the process.

Four friends come together in a hot contemporary erotic novelfrom the author of Chain Reaction. Meet the friends: Free spirited Jamie is not one to be tieddown—unless it’s in the bedroom. Caleb is Jamie’s sexuallyadventurous lover who has no desire to domesticate her. Mia isJamie’s naive friend whose sexual fulfillment has depended solelyon her first and only lover. Aidan thinks he knows what Mia wants.That’s because he’s the only man she’s ever gone to, to getit. This weekend, four best friends at the crossroads of theirrelationships have decided to do something different. But as sexualpartners shift, Jamie, Caleb, Mia, and Aidan will discover moreabout themselves and each other than they ever imagined.

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the mosttalked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much ofit is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now,"John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the earlystages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side ofParadise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God,Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Nightis the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and thestylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant youngpsychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband anddoctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not hisown, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise.A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical,expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, MabelDodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of"a mode

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard fortruth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies andghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the southof France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family,whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from agrandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble,long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before hewas even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed,a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue-the familybusiness-to its knees. Messud skillfully and inexorably describeshow the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling,can turn on us in a moment. It is a work of stunning power from awriter to watch.