Celadon Books's Debut Titles

The Silent Patient by Alex Michealides ($26.99, 9781250301697, February 5, 2019). Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to a successful fashion photographer, with whom she shares a big house in a wealthy London neighborhood. Alicia's dreamy life ends when she shoots her husband five times in the face and falls forever silent. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who works with mute Alicia in a North London forensic unit. By treating his silent patient, Theo hopes to uncover why Alicia killed her husband. The Silent Patient is Alex Michealides's debut novel. He has also written the films The Devil You Know (2013) and The Brits Are Coming (2018). Michaelides was born in Cyprus to a Greek father and English mother.

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite ($26.99, 9781250311481, March 5, 2019). Gray is the new black, according to anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite. In This Chair Rocks, Applewhite walks readers through myths about and prejudices against aging, and where these misconceptions come from. Applewhite's ideal world embraces wrinkles and balding instead of spending billions of dollars a year to mask natural processes. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Playboy and on her blog, also called This Chair Rocks.

Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions by Patricia Marx, illustrated by Roz Chast ($20, 9781250301963, April 2, 2019). New Yorker writer Patricia Marx has never been able to forget her mother's witty one-liners. Now Marx's maternal wisdom is available in book form with illustrations by beloved New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast. Revel in enlightened phrases like: "If you feel guilty about throwing away leftovers, put them in the back of your refrigerator for five days and then throw them out." Or, "If you run out of food at your dinner party, the world will end." Why Don't You Write My Eulogy will be out in time for Mother's Day.

Wolfpack by Abby Wambach ($20, 9781250217707, April 16, 2019). Earlier this year, Olympic gold medalist and FIFA world cup champion Abby Wambach gave a commencement speech to Barnard College that went viral. Wambach's message for the women of Barnard was this: "We have never been Little Red Riding Hood. We are the wolves." Wolfpack, as with Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, expands a hopeful commencement message into a book about empowering women. Wolfpack, as its name suggests, advocates teamwork among women to succeed in what is often a dog-eat-dog world. Wambach is also the author of Forward: A Memoir.

Cape May: A Novel by Chip Cheek ($26.99, 9781250297150, April 30, 2019). In late September 1957, young newlyweds arrive in Cape May, N.J. Georgians Henry and Effie are surprised to find their honeymoon destination deserted. The couple are about to end the trip early when they encounter a wealthy playboy, his lover and his half-sister. Henry and Effie join this beguiling band on a romp around empty Cape May, complete with love, betrayal and a lot of gin. Chip Cheek's stories have appeared in the Harvard Review, among other journals and anthologies. This is his first novel and was selected as an Indies Introduce title.

Summer 2019 List

William & Harry: The Windsor Brothers by Danny Danziger ($26.99, 9781250307705, May 7, 2019). Historically speaking, brothers in the English royal family have had testy relationships: Richard II murdered Henry IV, King John paid to have his brother Richard the Lionheart imprisoned, and Prince Charles is cold toward younger brothers Andrew and Edward--all of which is why William and Harry's warm relationship is so striking. In William & Harry, Sunday Times columnist Danny Danziger chronicles how these sons of Princess Diana have formed a fraternal bond for the ages.

Folded Wisdom: Notes from Dad on Life, Love, and Growing Up by Joanna Guest ($20, 9781250207791, May 7, 2019). Every day for 15 years, Joanna Guest's father, an artist by training, sat down at the kitchen table with paper and markers to make colorful, hand-written notes. Each morning as she was growing up, Guest and her brother got a unique snippet of advice, guidance and fatherly love. Now more than 3,000 of these notes are collected in Folded Wisdom in their original illustrated glory. From simple word games for little kids to tracts on adolescent troubles, Joanna Guest's dad has advice for us all.

We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories by R.L. Maizes ($25, 9781250304070, July 23, 2019). Who doesn't love Anderson Cooper? This strikingly-titled book is the debut short story collection of fiction writer and essayist R.L. Maizes. We Love Anderson Cooper looks at characters made outcasts by their sexual orientation, race, religion or other identity. In one story, a young man seeks attention by coming out of the closet at his own bar mitzvah. In another story, a shunned painter learns to make living tattoos. Maizes's writing has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review and the New York Times, among other outlets.

The Whisper Man by Alex North ($26.99, 9781250317995, August 20, 2019). Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake need a new start. After the death of Tom's wife, Jake's mother, he moves them to the town of Featherbank. But this haven has a haunted past. Twenty years ago, serial killer Frank Carter abducted five people by whispering into their windows at night. When a young boy vanishes with all the hallmarks of the original Whisper Man, residents and police of Featherbank are forced to contend with another killer on the loose.

A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson ($26.99, 9781250204431, June 25, 2019). A 19-year-old girl stands accused of killing an older man. But how did Stella, a teenager from a well-regarded family, even know this shady businessman 15 years her senior? A Nearly Normal Family is a psychological thriller told through three perspectives: Stella's father, a pastor, Stella herself and Stella's mother, a criminal defense attorney. M.T. Edvardsson is a writer and teacher who lives in Sweden. A Nearly Normal Family is his debut novel.

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