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If form is missing, email [email protected] ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2013 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 A TALE for the TIME BEING RAGE Is BACK THE OFFICE of MercY RTU H OZEKI A DAM MANSBACH ARIEA L DJ NIKIAN In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there’s only “A gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a “If you think a future world without suffering would one escape from her aching loneliness and her class- vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graf- be a good thing, Ariel Djanikian will convince you to mates’ bullying. But first, she plans to document the fiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, reconsider in her impressive debut, The Office of life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun. funny, and thoroughly engaging writer.”—Tom Per- Mercy. Gripping, well plotted, and boasting a fasci- A Viking hardcover rotta, author of Little Children. nating setting, this utterly engrossing tale is March • 432 pp. • 978-0-670-02663-0 • $27.95 A Viking hardcover thoughtful and surprising.”—Deborah Harkness, Also available as a Penguin Audiobook January • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-02612-8 • $26.95 author of Shadow of Night and A Discovery of Witches. 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