ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2013 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 3 BLEEDING EDGE THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND THOMAS PYNCHON ELIZABETH GILBERT JOJO MOYES In the lull between the dot-com collapse and 9/11, The author ofEat, Pray, Love returns with a novel “Moyes has created a riveting depiction of a wartime Maxine Tarnow is just your average working mom in about that extraordinary moment in human history occupation that has mostly faded from memory. 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