Bloomsbury USA successes

Nanny McPhee, Christina Brand

A classic children’s character is back in print—and the inspiration for Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Angela Lansbury.

A New York Times bestseller
A Book Sense bestseller

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were forever having trouble with their numerous and incredibly naughty children . . . until the day Nurse Matilda entered their lives.

First published nearly fifty years ago, Nurse Matilda and its two companion books—Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital—have charmed readers ever since. Now the inspiration for the major motion picture Nanny McPhee, all three beloved books are available once again in deluxe hardcover and paperback omnibus editions. Each edition features the three complete and unabridged books by Christianna Brand, along with Edward Ardizzone’s charming black-and-white illustrations.

U.S!, Chris Bachelder

U.S.! is a playful, darkly comic novel that imagines the serial resurrection and assassination of tireless muckraker Upton Sinclair. In Chris Bachelder’s bizarre world, Sinclair is repeatedly brought back by beleaguered but optimistic leftists (whose refrain is “Hope and Shovels Forever”), and then gunned down (and once harpooned!) by those seeking fame, fortune, and American business as usual. As he grows more and more politically and culturally insignificant, Sinclair keeps writing his embarrassingly bad muckraking novels and keeps risking his life for the Socialist revolution, which is perpetually just around the corner.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert

An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor’s wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate façade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor’s son.

Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it’s been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come. Elizabeth Kolbert was a reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer covering politics for the New Yorker.

How to be a Good Dog, Gail Page

Bobo really wants to be a good dog. It’s just that being good takes so much effort. When his owner finally has enough and sends him packing, it’s silent Cat who misses him the most. Armed with a how-to book and quiet determination, Cat begins to instruct Bobo in proper dog etiquette. Shake, fetch, and roll over all go well. But can Cat really turn this incorrigible canine around?

Drenched in cotton-candy colors and brimming with whimsical details, Bobo proves a fact all dog lovers know: nobody can resist a good dog, even when he’s bad!

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