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The Velominati
The Rules
The Way of the Cycling Disciple
The Velominati embrace cycling as a way of life, as obsessed with style,
heritage, authenticity, and wisdom as with performance. This is their bible.
The Rules is an essential part of every cyclist’s kit—whether
you’re riding to work or training to be the next Bradley
Wiggins or Victoria Pendleton. Winning awards and gaining
millions of viewers, Velominati.com has become an online
cycling mecca. In 92 canonical rules, these masters of the
peloton share tips on gear, tell stories from cycling’s legend-
ary hardmen, and enforce the etiquette of the road—with a
healthy, often sinister sense of humor. Practical and motivat-
ing (Rule #12: the correct number of bikes to own is N + 1,
where N is the number of bikes currently owned), unflinch-
ing and authoritative (Rule #9: If you’re out riding in bad
weather, it means you are a badass. Period.), The Rules will
help readers find their cycling passion, whether it’s in high
alpine passes or tight velodrome races, in the garage before
the ride or in the bar afterward. Vive la Vie Velominatus.
THE VELOMINATI, or Keepers of the Cog, are founder
and main author Frank Strack (Seattle), Brett Kennedy (New
Zealand), Gianni Andrews (Hawaii), Marko Carlson (Minne-
sota), and Jim Thomson (Seattle). Their site, Velominati.com,
receives over two million views per month.
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Liel Leibovitz
A Broken Hallelujah
Rock ’n’ Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work.
At seventy-eight, decades after his contemporaries have
either died or turned into nostalgia acts, Leonard Cohen
is as popular as he’s ever been, with a chart-topping new
album and songs like “Hallelujah” gracing blockbuster movie
soundtracks. To understand the reasons behind Cohen’s
unlikely career surge is to understand what makes him one
of the more intriguing artists of our time, a powerful mix-
ture of spirituality, desire, compassion, and humor. Granted
access to Cohen’s private papers, Liel Leibovitz delivers a por-
trait that is as psychologically astute as it is philosophically
attuned, a look not only at the inner man but also at the
environments that shaped him, from the rock scene of New
York in the 1960s to the remote Zen monastery where Cohen
spent years later in life. Cohen, Leibovitz argues, succeeded
by staying true to his singular prophetic vision, a vision mil-
lions around the world find profoundly true.
LIEL LEIBOVITZ is a writer for Tab-
let magazine and teaches at New York
University. He is the coauthor of Fortu-
nate Sons, Lili Marlene, and The Chosen
Peoples, and he lives in New York City.
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Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Peggy McCracken
In Search of the Christian Buddha
How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
The fascinating account of how the story of the Buddha
was transformed into the legend of a Christian saint.
The tale of St. Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth
and kingdom to follow Jesus, was widely told and read in
the Middle Ages, translated into a dozen languages, and even
cited by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. Only in the
nineteenth century did scholars note the parallels between
the lives of Buddha and Josaphat. In Search of the Christian
Buddha traces the Buddha’s story from India to Persia to Jeru-
salem and then throughout Europe, as it was rewritten by
Muslim, Jewish, and Christian authors, illustrating its unsus-
pected integration into European culture. Through a compar-
ison of the tale’s various versions, this book reveals surprising
convergences and divergences—between Christianity and
Buddhism on subjects including the meaning of death, the
problem of desire, and the view of women.
DONALD S. LOPEZ JR. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished
University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the
University of Michigan. PEGGY McCRACKEN, the transla-
tor of Gui de Cambrai’s Barlaam and Josaphat, is a professor
of French at the University of Michigan.
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Territory W • ISBN 978-0-393-08915-8
5.5″ × 8.25″ • 224 pages • RELIGION
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Laura Brown
How to Write Anything
A Complete Guide
A practical guide to everything you’ll ever need to
write—at work, at school, and in your personal life.
You have a brand-new small business. How do
you use Twitter, LinkedIn, and your own Web
site to your advantage? It’s time to apply to college.
How can you write an essay that will stand out? The
mother of one of your coworkers has died. What’s
the best way to express your condolences? With
more than 200 how-to entries and easy-to-use exam-
ples organized into three comprehensive sections on
work, school, and personal life, How to Write Any-
thing covers a wide range of topics that make it an
essential guide for the whole family.
Grounded in a common-sense approach, friendly
and supportive, How to Write Anything is Internet-
savvy, with advice throughout about choosing the
most appropriate medium for your message: email
or pen and paper. How to Write Anything is at once
a how-to, a reference book, and a pioneering guide
for writing in a changing world.
LAURA BROWN is a writer and
writing coach with experience in
business and academic settings.
She holds a PhD in English and
comparative literature from Colum- en
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Akhil Sharma
Family Life
A Novel
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“Outstanding. . . . Every page is alive and surprising,
proof of [Sharma’s] huge, unique talent.”—David Sedaris
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merica to the newly immigrated Mishras
is everything they could have imag-
ined and more. When automatic glass
doors open before them, they feel that
surely they must have been mistaken
for somebody important. Then tragedy strikes. One of
the family’s two sons suffers an accident in a swimming
pool. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he
envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid
the ruins of his family’s new life. Heart-wrenching and
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darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn Mill
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between duty and his own survival.
AKHIL SHARMA is the author of An Obedient Father,
“Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. His writing has
immigrant experience with great empathy and a com- appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications.
plete lack of sentimentality.”—Ann Packer Granta has chosen him for their once-a-decade Best
Young American Novelists list. He lives in New York.
“It will cut your heart to pieces but it will also make you
rejoice.”—Gary Shteyngart
• First serial to The New Yorker
“A nearly perfect novel.”—Edmund White • 6-city author tour: New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, Boston, San Francisco
“Sharma is a rare master.”—Kiran Desai
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An Obedient Father
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Maxine Kumin
And Short the Season
Poems
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, a stunning collection
of poems that course with the rhythms of nature.
Ap oet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery,
Maxine Kumin is “unforgettable, indispensable” (Alicia
Ostriker, New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Sea-
son she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth.
Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend
myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence
and tenderness of humankind.
From “Whereof the Gift Is Small”
And short the season, first rubythroat
in the fading lilacs, alyssum in bloom,
a honeybee bumbling in the bleeding heart
on my gelding’s grave while beetles swarm
him underground. Wet feet, wet cuffs,
little flecks of buttercup on my sneaker toes,
bluets, violets crowding out the tufts
of rich new grass the horses nose
and nibble like sleepwalkers held fast—
brittle beauty—might this be the last?
MAXINE KUMIN has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Robert Frost Medal, among
other accolades. A former U.S. poet laureate, she lives in
Warner, New Hampshire.
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Territory M • ISBN 978-0-393-24100-6
5.5″ × 8.25″ • 112 pages • POETRY
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