Sex and Sensibility
0-446-19815-3
978-0-446-19815-8
$22.99 (in Canada: $26.50)
April 2008

Liza Donnelly, along with nine other hilarious cartoonists, comment in drawings and essays on the many humorous aspects of sex, love and gender in America today.

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The Film Club
0-446-19929-X
978-0-446-19929-2
$21.99 256 pages
5–1/2 x 8–1/4
May 2008

David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his 15-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent—but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing.

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The Pornography of Power
0-446-50527-7
978-0-444-50527-7
$24.99 (in Canada: $28.99)
June 2008

Robert Scheer examines the quiet expansion of our military presence throughout the world, our insane nuclear strategy, the immorality of corporations profiting in Iraq, and the arrogance of our foreign policy.

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My Name is Will
0-446-50885-3
978-0-446-50885-8
$23.99 (in Canada: $27.99)
July 2008

In Jess Winfield's endearing, wildly imaginative debut novel, struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of.

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The Lizard King
0-446-58095-3
978-0-446-58095-3
$24.99 (in Canada: $28.99)
August 2008

The Lizard King is Bryan Christy's evocative tour through the wild subculture of hunters, enthusiasts, and collectors willing to pay $175,000 for a rare white snake.

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Supreme Courtship
0-446-57982-3
978-0-446-57982-7
$24.99 (In Canada: $27.99)
September 2008

In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.

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Titanic's Last Secrets
0-446-58205-0
978-0-446-58205-6
$27.99 (In Canada: $30.99)
October 2008

Why did Titanic sink as quickly as she did? To answer that question, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler assemble a team of experts to conduct new forensic research, explore Titanic, and dive to the wreck of its sister ship, Britannic. Weaving their way through a labyrinth of clues, they discover a shocking historical cover-up.

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Giants
0-446-58009-0
978-0-446-58009-0
$30.00 (In Canada: $33.00)
November 2008

The first major biography to view two of the great leaders of the 19th century as self-made men, written by Harvard University professor John Stauffer, winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

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Make 'em Laugh
0-446-50531-5
978-0-446-50531-4
$45.00 (In Canada: $50.00)
December 2008

From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, Make 'em Laugh helps readers understand who we are as a nation, what we laugh at, and why.

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How to Live
0-446-19603-7
978-0-446-19603-1
$23.99 (In Canada: $26.99)
January 2009

In this witty guide for seekers of all ages, author Henry Alford searches out instant enlightenment through conversations with those who have lived long and lived well.

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The Waxman Report
0-446-51925-1
978-0-446-51925-0
$24.99 (In Canada: $27.99)
February 2009

In his first book, Waxman takes us inside the life of a politician to show readers how landmark legislation is crafted; how Congress really works. Despite prolonged periods of gridlock and partisan conflict, big things can still get done by our elected officials. Henry Waxman is the idea guide to how change can happen through the art of legislation.

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Coming Soon from TWELVE

AH-CHOO!  The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold By Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman's most recent book is Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. Her previous books include Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity and Notes from the Shore. A contributor to National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, and many other publications, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a 2004 NEA Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her articles and essays have been included in several anthologies, among them Best American Science Writing (2005), The Nature Reader (1996) and Best Nature Writing (1996). (Representation:  Melanie Jackson Literary Agency)

THE NEW SCIENCE OF PARENTING by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
#1 New York Times bestselling author Po Bronson has teamed with Ashley Merryman to write of the surprising, counterintuitive findings from cutting-edge research on child development. Their award-winning journalism, featured in New York magazine, Time and The Guardian, has attracted international attention. (Representation:  Curtis Brown Ltd.)

THE FEVER OF 1721: The Epidemic that Ignited the American Revolution by Stephen Coss
Stephen Coss is a journalist, screenwriter, and former advertising creative director, based in Madison Wisconsin, where he writes for Madison Magazine and business publications.  He first learned about Zabdiel Boylston's groundbreaking inoculation experiment from a "fact-a-day" calendar cube he received as a gift in the mid-1990s.  Intrigued by the significance of Boylston's experiment, he began researching the doctor, the procedure, and subsequently, the social, political, and religious milieus of 1721 Boston. (Representation:  David McCormick, McCormick Williams)

NONFICTION ON ALEX RODRIGUEZ by Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer won the Pulitzer Prize for Middle East reporting in 1979. His journalism has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of the bestselling Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life and the classic of modern American politics, What It Takes: The Way to the White House. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore. (Representation:  Philippa Brophy, Sterling Lord Literistic)

NONFICTION ON FDR AND THE SUPREME COURT by Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is the author of three books, Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (FSG, 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (FSG, 2003). In 2003 he was senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He is currently a professor at the NYU School of Law, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Representation:  Heather Schroder, ICM) 

THE LIAR IN YOUR LIFE By Robert S. Feldman
An expert on the phenomenon of deception, Robert S. Feldman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavior Sciences.  He has been a recipient of the College Outstanding Teacher Award and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science.  For more than 25 years, his research has examined lying and everyday deception.  His studies have been supported by grants from the US National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.  (Representation:  Gillian MacKenzie Agency)

BOTH SIDES NOW:  A Memoir By Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School.  He is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Award finalist and #1 bestseller, God Is Not Great; Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography; Letters to a Young Contrarian; and Why Orwell Matters. (Representation: Steve Wasserman, Kneerim and Williams)

SHADOW ZONE: The Story of Whales, a Secret Navy Sonar Program, and the Environmental Lawyer Who Exposed It by Josh Horwitz
Josh Horwitz is the co-author of two books of non-fiction, Wrestling with Angels and If I Get to Five, as well as a young adult novel and several children's books.  He is the co-founder of Living Planet Press, an environmental publisher, and  AuthorsOnline, a website featuring the homepages of award-winning and best-selling authors. (Representation:Gail Ross)

HOW WE CHOOSE  by Sheena Iyengar
For more than a decade, Columbia University professor Sheena Iyengar has studied the contrast between the perceptions and realities in the way choosers think and behave.  Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program, as well as by numerous businesses.  She received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2001, and in 2005 was invited to serve as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.  Some of her best-known work was cited in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which described her studies of speed-daters and consumers of varying brands of jam.  (Representation:  Tina Bennett, Janklow & Nesbit)

THE McMASTERS GUIDE TO HOMOCIDE: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is the two-time Edgar and two-time Tony Award-winning creator of novels, plays, mystery musicals and TV series such as Where the Truth Lies and Swing (fiction); The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Curtains (Broadway musicals); Accomplice and Say Goodnight, Gracie (Broadway plays); Remember WENN (the Emmy Award-winning TV "dramedy" series).  (Representation:  Heather Schroder, ICM)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Senator Edward M. Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate for 45 years. He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected President in 1960. Since then, Senator Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate.  (Representation:  Robert Barnett, Williams & Connolly)

A GOOD TALK: The Art of Conversation by Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker has been a part of America's life of letters for almost forty years. As a writer, he has met and talked to thousands of people about their work and their lives. He is widely read and well versed in psychological literature and practices and, as an editor at Random House, has had countless meetings and other exchanges with writers, agents, public figures, and ordinary people. He will be the editorial Producer and presenter of an Internet book project--conversations with writers and others about books--called TitlePage.tv and will also be teaching a course in narrative nonfiction at CUNY starting in February. (Representation:  Esther Newberg, ICM)

START-UP NATION: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle By Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Dan Senor has been a foreign policy advisor to the Bush Administration and was one of the longest-serving civilians for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.  In his business career, he has worked at the Carlyle Group, where he led an initiative to develop an Israel-focused investment strategy; he is a co-founder of Rosemont Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, for which he has traveled throughout the Arab world. Saul Singer is the editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post, for which he writes a weekly column, and the author of Confronting Jihad: Israel's Struggle and the World after 9/11.  For ten years, he served on U.S. congressional staffs, the last six working for Senator Connie Mack.  (Representation:  Ed Victor)

NONFICTION ON LATINO USA By Julia E. Sweig
Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow and director for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Her most recent book is Friendly Fire:  Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.  Her previous book, Inside the Cuban Revolution, won the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. (Representation: Esther Newberg, ICM).

THE LAST CHAMPION: William Francis Gibbs and the S.S. United States By Steven Ujifusa
Steven Ujifusa received a B.A. in history from Harvard University in 2001 and an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, where he began his research on William Gibbs, America's greatest naval architect, and his ship, the S.S. United States, the fastest in its day, which  he devoted his life to designing and building. (Representation:  David Kuhn).

P.T BARNUM:  The Greatest Showman By Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University.  His writing has been published in The New Yorker and the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting.  He is the author of Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, a New York Times Editors' choice book; Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, which received the Christopher Award; and co-author of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award.  (Representation:  Richard Abate, Endeavor)

SEVEN by Jacqueline Leo and Edward Burger
Jacqueline Leo founded and launched Child magazine in 1986. She later became Editor-in-Chief of Family Circle magazine and Editorial Director of the New York Times Women's Magazine special interest publications. She was Senior Producer and Editorial Director for ABC News' Good Morning America; Editorial Director for Consumer Reports magazine; and Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest. She is currently Senior Advisor for Business Development at iAmplify.com. Edward Burger is Professor of Mathematics at Williams College and the author of over 30 research articles and 12 books including Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas (W.W. Norton & Co). He is arguably one of the most watched mathematics professors in the world: He is the star of over 12 video series on mathematics produced for students and lifetime learners. He has also delivered over 400 lectures worldwide. (Representation: Laura Yorke and Carol Mann, Carol Mann Agency).





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Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
One of America's most hilarious novelists and the bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking returns with a biting comedy about generational warfare.
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God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#1 New York Times Bestseller!
Christopher Hitchens, hailed as "one of the most brilliant journalists of our time" (London Observer), takes on his biggest subject yet—the dangerous role of religion in the world.
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Hooked by Matt Richtel
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Hard Call by John McCain and Mark Salter
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