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The House of Bilqis The Possession of Mr. Cave Azhar Abidi Matt Haig A haunting portrait of modern Pakistan in which aris- After the tragic deaths of his wife and son, Terence tocratic widow Bilquis mourns when her only son, Cave becomes increasingly paranoid about his sur- Samad, settles in Melbourne with his Australian wife. viving teen daughter’s safety—especially when she A Viking hardcover falls for the boy present at his son’s death. April • 224 pp. • 978-0-670-01941-0 • $24.95 A Viking hardcover March • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02056-0 • $24.95

Blonde Roots Bernardine Evaristo Provocatively reversing the history of the transat- lantic slave trade, this utterly original novel follows an Englishwoman who is kidnapped, enslaved, and taken to Great Ambossa. A Riverhead hardcover January • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-863-4 • $24.95 The Women T.C. Boyle With his trademark wit and invention, Boyle depicts the rule-breaking Frank Lloyd Wright through the voices of the four women who loved him. A Viking hardcover February • 464 pp. • 978-0-670-02041-6 • $27.95

The Angel Maker Stefan Frijs After an absence of nearly 20 years, Dr. Victor Hoppe returns to the village of Wolfheim with his three identical infant boys—all of whom share a disturb- ing disfigurement. A Penguin paperback original January • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-311309-6 • $15.00

Leaving Tangier Through Black Spruce Translated by Linda Coverdale Joseph Boyden The internationally hailed novelist portrays a Moroc- Across his hospital bed, Cree bush pilot Will Bird can brother and sister making new lives for themselves and his niece Annie reveal their secrets—the betrayal in Spain—and encountering seduction and betrayal. that cost Will his family and the disappearance of A Penguin paperback original Annie’s sister. April • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311465-9 • $14.00 A Viking hardcover Stern Men March • 448 pp. • 978-0-670-02057-7 • $26.95 Elizabeth Gilbert Water Ghosts A new edition of the debut novel from the author of Shawna Yang Ryan Eat, Pray, Love. A “wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing.”—USA Today. “A multilayered marvel of a book....The story [is] Through black spruce richly imagined and heart-rending. This first novel A Penguin paperback By Joseph Boyden March • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-311469-7 • $15.00 of grace and substance presages a notable literary Viking • 978-670-02057-7 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook career for Ryan.”—John Lescroart. 11 hours, 9 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314334-5 • $39.95 A Penguin Press hardcover April • 256 pp. • 978-1-59420-207-0 • $22.95 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner

 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing, email [email protected] The Book of Night Women Local Knowledge Marlon James Liza Gyllenhaal Already drawing comparisons to Toni Morrison’s Her first sale as a real-estate agent brings Maddie Beloved, this sweeping historical novel of Jamaican Alden a charismatic new friend. But glamorous Anne Young Adult slavery portrays a young woman born into bondage will shake up Maddie’s tidy marriage, forcing her with a dark power, which she will come to revere and and her husband to face a secret in their past. fear. An NAL Accent paperback original Look Both Ways A Riverhead hardcover January • 320 pp. • 978-0-452-22578-8 • $14.00 A Midnight Twins Novel February • 464 pp. • 978-1-59448-867-3 • $26.95 Jacquelyn Mitchard Also available as a Penguin Audiobook In the second installment of the trilogy, Meredith 16 hours, 14 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314440-3 • $39.95 and Mallory are finally able to see into the past— where they espy dangers close to home. A Penguin Young Readers hardcover April • 256 pp. • 978-1-59514-161-3 • $16.99

Sonata for Miriam Linda Olsson In the latest from the author of Astrid & Veronika, when The Piano Teacher composer Adam Anker learns his parents’ true fate Janice Y.K. Lee during WWII, he finally confronts the consequences of “One of the most insightful, elegant, and atmo- a choice he was forced to make 20 years ago. spheric novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Gary A Penguin paperback original Some of Tim’s Stories Shteyngart. “This wonderfully written, utterly capti- March • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311470-3 • $15.00 S. E. Hinton vating novel dazzles with its sharp-eyed renderings “Tales that are immediate and gripping; they engage of beau monde Hong Kong.”—Chang-rae Lee. readers and push them to fill in the empty spaces, A Viking hardcover A Boy’s Own Story Edmund White which are as thoughtfully crafted as the narra- January • 336 pp. • 978-0-670-02048-5 • $25.95 tives.”—School Library Journal. Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Semi-autobiographical, this classic was groundbreak- 10 hours, 8 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314441-0 • $39.95 ing in its portrayal of homosexuality. “[White] crossed A Penguin Young Readers paperback J.D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordi- April • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-241195-7 • $9.99 Miles from Nowhere nary novel.”— Book Review. A Penguin paperback Nami Mun In Too Deep March • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311484-0 • $14.00 An Elite Novel “A starkly beautiful book, shot through with grace Jennifer Banash and lit by an off-hand street poetry. Mun takes a cast of junkies and runaways and brings them fiercely The Fall of the Templars Small-town transplant Casey McCloy takes the Big and frankly to life.”—Peter Ho Davies. Robyn Young Apple by storm. She’s got the look, the attitude, and the man—but she’s not sure she likes herself A Riverhead hardcover Knight Templar Will Campbell returns from the January • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-854-2 • $21.95 Crusades to find that the Temple has forged an alli- anymore. ance with his enemy, King Edward of England, to A Berkley Jam paperback original January • 240 pp. • 978-0-425-22353-6 • $9.99 English wage war on his homeland, Scotland. A Dutton hardcover Wang Gang February • 480 pp. • 978-0-525-95068-4 • $25.95 Spring Breakup Translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan Stephanie Hale During the Cultural Revolution, a young boy dreams of life beyond China’s remote northwest. “The pure The Manual of Detection Aspen Brooks storms the Strip with her boyfriend, friendship between the teenage boy and his English Jedediah Berry her bff, and her bff’s bf. Then Miss Illinois goes teacher is movingly beautiful...I highly recommend When illustrious detective Travis Sivart goes miss- AWOL at the Miss Teen Queen Pageant, not to men- it.”—Mo Yan, author of Red Sorghum. ing, his unassuming clerk, Charles Unwin, catches tion her bff breaking up with her bf. A Viking hardcover the case—and discovers that Sivart’s greatest cases A Berkley Jam paperback original April • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02059-1 • $24.95 were solved incorrectly. March • 224 pp. • 978-0-425-22592-9 • $9.99 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Penguin Press hardcover 10 hours, 8 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314438-0 • $39.95 February • 320 pp. • 978-1-59420-211-7 • $25.95 In the Courts of the Sun Daemon The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund Brian D’Amato Daniel Suarez Jill Kargman In 2012, Mayan descendant Jed DeLanda employs a “The real deal—a scary look at what can go wrong as Already disenchanted with her life among the “hed- Mayan divination game to clean up in online trad- we depend increasingly on computer networks.”— gies” of the Upper West Side, Holly Talbott learns ing. But now his mentor wants him to travel back to Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org. “The best that her husband, the founder of Comet Capital, is A.D. 664 to investigate a “sacrifice game” mentioned author of tech fiction since Bruce Sterling and Neal cheating with a lanky young hipster. in a newly discovered Mayan codex. Stephenson.”—John Robb, author of Brave New War. A Dutton hardcover A Dutton hardcover A Dutton hardcover April • 272 pp. • 978-0-525-95098-1 • $25.95 March • 656 pp. • 978-0-525-95051-6 • $28.95 January • 368 pp. • 978-0-525-95111-7 • $26.95

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The Temptation of the Night Jasmine Lauren Willig Robert, duke of Dovedale, returns to his English estate to avenge the murder of his mentor during the 1803 Battle of Assaye—but is waylaid by Lady Charlotte Lansdowne. A Dutton hardcover February • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95096-7 • $25.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 14 hours, 11 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314422-9 • $39.95 The World in Half Cristina Henríquez Madame Bliss The prize-winning author of Come Together, Fall The Erotic Adventures of a Lady Apart tells the story of Miraflores, who travels to Charlotte Lovejoy Panama in search of the man—her unknown After being blissfully “ruined” as a maidservant on father—whose love might heal her dying mother. her master’s dining table, wanton 18th-century A Riverhead hardcover beauty Marianna Wren set off for King George’s April • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-855-9 • $25.95 London and all its bawdy temptations. A Signet Eclipse paperback original March • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-22597-9 • $14.00 The Secret Keeper Paul Harris While a war correspondent in Sierra Leone, Danny Mistress Shakespeare Kellerman enjoyed an affair with a beautiful but secre- Karen Harper tive American woman, Maria Tirado. Four years later, Betrothed to Will just days before he is forced to wed in the midst of a new life and relationship in London, the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery, Elizabe- The Courtesan’s Wager Danny receives a desperate dispatch from Maria. than beauty Anne Whateley recounts their passion- Claudia Dain A Dutton hardcover ate affair, which even Queen Elizabeth and her spy- When matchmaker Lady Dalby holds interviews for April • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-95102-5 • $25.95 masters could not destroy. the hand of Lady Amelia—dukes need only apply— A Putnam hardcover Lord Cranleigh shuns the proceedings. February • 432 pp. • 978-0-399-15545-1 • $24.95 A Berkley Sensation paperback original Believe Me February • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-22580-6 • $14.00 Nina Killham Astrophysicist and atheist Lucy has always encour- The Rose of Sebastopol aged her 13-year-old son Nic to ask questions. But Katharine McMahon Revealed now that he’s hanging out with devout Christians, In 1854, Mariella Lingwood travels from Victorian Kate Noble she doesn’t like the answers he’s getting. London to the war-ravaged Crimea in search of her The unrivaled beauty of the Season, Phillippa Ben- A Plume paperback original lost cousin, Rosa. In Sebastopol, she meets Rosa’s ning falls in with the Blue Raven, England’s most February • 304 pp. • 978-0-452-28976-5 • $15.00 dashing stepbrother—and finds that her past is tied famous spy. But when they give in to mutual desire, to his. the game turns deadly. A Putnam hardcover A Berkley Sensation paperback original Glamour March • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15546-8 • $24.95 March • 400 pp. • 978-0-425-22174-7 • $14.00 Louise Bagshawe Texan honey Sally, English rose Jane, and exotic Jordanian beauty Helen bonded in school, but two Grave Goods The Tory Widow of them became penniless thereafter. When all three A Mistress of the Art of Death Novel Christine Blevins come together to open a high-end department store, Ariana Franklin When the Sons of Liberty torch her late husband’s they meet a worse fate. When Glastonbury Abbey is torched in 1176, two business for printing Tory propaganda, the Widow A Plume paperback original skeletons are left behind. King Henry II summons Merrick comes face to face with an old—and fondly March • 432 pp. • 978-0-452-28942-0 • $14.00 Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, to remembered—acquaintance, ardent patriot Jack examine the bones, hoping they belong to Arthur Hampton. and Guinevere. A Berkley paperback original Signora da Vinci A Putnam hardcover April • 432 pp. • 978-0-425-22601-8 • $14.00 Robin Maxwell March • 400 pp. • 978-0-399-15544-4 • $25.95 In a small Italian village in 1452, 15-year-old Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Caterina gave birth to an illegitimate son. When he 13 hours, 11 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314412-0 • $39.95 was taken from her, no one could anticipate the dan- gerous scheme she would devise to protect the unusual boy, Leonardo. An NAL paperback original January • 416 pp. • 978-0-451-22580-1 • $14.00 One True Theory of Love East Hope Laura Fitzgerald Katharine Davis When single mom Meg falls for a handsome Iranian After her husband’s unexpected death, Caroline Hot Mail American who befriends her and her son over a cof- Wavelry seeks refuge in East Hope, Maine, where Janice Maynard feehouse chess game, she must enact her Hokey- used book shop owner Will Harmon is struggling to Jane has secretly desired Ethan for years. Now her Pokey Theory of Life—put her whole self in. put his old life behind him. stationery store is vandalized, and guess who comes An NAL paperback original An NAL Accent paperback original to the rescue? February • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-22588-7 • $14.00 February • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-22587-0 • $14.00 A Signet Eclipse paperback original January • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-22583-2 • $14.00

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Governor’s Mansion in Austin. January • 256 pp. • 978-0-399-15543-7 • $24.95 An Amy Einhorn/Putnam hardcover A Putnam hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook February • 464 pp. • 978-0-399-15534-5 • $24.95 April • 336 pp. • 978-0-399-15569-7 • $24.95 6 hours, 5 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314436-6 • $29.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 18 hours, 15 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314418-2 • $39.95 Black Ops Fairy Tale Blues A Presidential Agent Novel Tina Welling Luke’s Story W.E.B. Griffin On the night of her 26th wedding anniversary, Ann- The Jesus Chronicles After several covert U.S. intelligence assets go dead, ieLaurie McFall walks out and begins a six-month Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo retreat to reimagine a storybook ending that could Rising from Greek slave to university-educated phy- learns it’s merely a prelude to what’s about to come actually come true with her husband still her prince. sician, Luke encounters Saul of Tarsus. But Luke is out of the Kremlin. An NAL Accent paperback original skeptical when he hears tales about a man named A Putnam hardcover March • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-22594-8 • $14.00 Jesus going around healing people. January • 512 pp. • 978-0-399-15517-8 • $26.95 A Putnam hardcover Also available as an Audiobook February • 304 pp. • 978-0-399-15523-9 • $24.95 17 hours, 15 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314366-6 • $49.95 College Girl Also available in Penguin Audiobook Patricia Weitz 12.5 hours, 10 CDs, Unabridged • 978-0-14-314414-4 • $34.95 The Only True In this unsparing portrait of campus life, a college senior loses her virginity to the wrong guy and takes Genius in the Family extreme measures to reclaim her sense of self. Here Today, Gone to Maui Jennie Nash Carol Snow A Riverhead hardcover Shaken by the death of her famous photographer January • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-853-5 • $24.95 When her boyfriend invites Jane Shea to Maui for father and her rising envy of her painter daughter, the week, she frets about missing the flight or losing Claire helps prepare a retrospective of her father’s her luggage. She never dreamt that Jimmy would work—and discovers a hidden past. The Lost Hours disappear. A Berkley paperback original Karen White A Berkley paperback original February • 288 pp. • 978-0-425-22575-2 • $14.00 As a child, Piper Mills helped her grandfather bury a January • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-22563-9 • $14.00 box belonging to her grandmother. Upon his death, the grown-up Piper recovers the box and discovers A Year on Ladybug Farm the surprising history of her grandmother. Fragile Donna Ball Shiloh Walker An NAL Accent paperback original With their husbands gone and families grown, Cici, April • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-22649-5 • $14.00 Trading in his combat gear for hospital scrubs, Luke Lindsay, and Bridget tackle a home improvement Rafferty confronts a reality as heartbreaking—like project of epic proportions—a run-down mansion the abused children brought in by the pretty red- in the Shenandoah Valley with a ghostly inhabitant. Cry for Passion headed social worker, Devon Manning. 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The Stranger Hold Tight The Labyrinths of Eho, Book One By Harlan Coben Max Frei Dutton, 978-0-525-95060-8 Translated by Mary C. Gannon A Russian bestseller starring a character named Max Frei, a glutton and loafer who makes contact with a The Likeness parallel world, in which he is now known as the By Tana French “unequalled Sir Max.” Viking, 978-0-670-01886-4 An Overlook hardcover Dead or Alive April • 544 pp. • 978-1-59020-065-0 • $29.95 The Lazarus Project A Kevin Kerney Novel By Aleksander Hemon Michael McGarrity Endless Things Riverhead, 978-1-59448-988-4 When his horse-training partner is mowed down by The Aegypt Cycle, Book Four an escaped prisoner, the recently retired Santa Fe John Crowley police chief teams up with his half-Apache son, Lt. My Revolutions Istee, to track the killer. “A work of great erudition and deep humanity that is By Hari Kunzru as beautifully composed as any novel in my experi- Dutton, 978-0-452-29002-0 A Dutton hardcover January • 304 pp. • 978-0-525-95081-3 • $24.95 ence.”—The Washington Post Book World. An Overlook paperback January • 384 pp. • 978-1-59020-045-2 • $15.95 Child of the South Joanna Catherine Scott In Love with a Younger Man After the Civil War, long-suffering Eugenia Mae Cheryl Robinson Spotswood returns to Wilmington only to face racial hatred, until she is befriended by the most powerful Fortysomething Oleana Day has found the change Negro leader in the state senate. she needs in Matthew Harper. He’s smart, financially stable, and sexy—and 18 years younger. A Berkley paperback original April • 336 pp. • 978-0-425-22602-5 • $14.00 An NAL paperback original January • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-22582-5 • $14.00 Molesworth A sneak peak of the first chapters of Geoffrey Willans upcoming fiction books from Viking— Illustrated by Ronald Searle Without a Backward Glance includes such authors as Bich Minh Terror of St. Custards prep school, Nigel Molesworth Nguyen, Lev Grossman, Jane Berentson, records in his diary “the full lowdown on skools, By Kate Veitch Plume • 978-0-452-28947-5 swots, snekes, cads, prigs, bullies, headmasters, Tom Knox, Jeremy Duns, and Nick Laird. foopball, weeds, and various other chizzes—in fact THE LOT.” 275 illustrations. Library Journal’s To request this CD please email us at: An Overlook hardcover April • 416 pp. • 978-1-58567-969-0 • $26.95 Best Book Award librariansden@ us.penguingroup.com The Villa Golitsyn or visit: Piers Paul Read http://us.penguingroup.com/FOF “The characters are substantial and vivid...as if a story dreamed up by Eugene O’Neill had been dra- John Lescroart matized by John le Carré.”—The New York Times. The Suspect An Overlook hardcover Signet, 978-0-451-22276-3 February • 240 pp. • 978-1-58567-953-9 • $23.95 2008 Boucher Convention American Author Medal Awards Sima’s Undergarments And for devotees of mystery for Women and detective fiction Ilana Stanger-Ross Best Book of 2007 In a hidden bra shop serving an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, the arrival of a new From the American Best First Mystery Novel seamstress, a young Israeli, awakens the shopown- Author’s Association And The Anthony Award er’s sense of adventure. An Overlook hardcover And The Barry Award February • 304 pp. • 978-1-59020-089-6 • $24.95 From the fan-oriented Deadly Pleasures magazine Viking and Penguin Books Private Midnight Kris Saknussemm are proud to announce And The author of Zanesville follows Detective Birch Rit- the launch of a new ter into the seedy, sexy underbelly of life, where he The Macavity Award meets a mysterious woman whose business is shadows. VP BOOK CLUB From Mystery Readers An Overlook hardcover www.vpbookclub.com International March • 336 pp. • 978-1-59020-176-3 • $24.95 Guides, gossip, goods, and more In the Woods to enhance your reading... By Tana French Penguin, 978-0-14-311349-2 We hope to see you there!

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An Obsidian hardcover Batter Off Dead Bone by Bone January • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-22586-3 • $23.95 A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Carol O’Connell Tamar Myers Two teenage brothers go into the woods near Coven- A Darker Place When prodigious eater Minerva J. Jay is done in by try, CA, but only one comes back. Twenty years later, Jack Higgins a plate of fatal flapjacks at a church breakfast, Police older brother Oren returns to Coventry after a career Famous Russian writer Alexander Kurbsky makes Chief Chris Ackerman calls on Magdalena, even as an army investigator, just as younger brother elaborate plans with the “Prime Minister’s private though she has her own bun in the oven. Josh begins coming home...bone by bone. army” to “disappear” into the West. A real coup for An Obsidian Mysteries hardcover A Putnam hardcover the West—except Kurbsky’s intention is to infiltrate February • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-22592-4 • $22.95 January • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15514-7 • $24.95 British intelligence. A Putnam hardcover Murder, She Wrote The Long Fall February • 304 pp. • 978-0-399-15550-5 • $26.95 Madison Avenue Shoot The First Leonid McGill Mystery Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain Walter Mosley Miss Julia Delivers the Goods Jessica’s nephew, Grady, has invited her to New York Not above taking a shady job to make a buck, McGill Ann B. Ross City and even coaxed her into appearing in an ad. is an old-school P.I. working in a Manhattan that’s When Abbotsville falls victim to a heist, Miss Julia Then a widely reviled bigwig is found dead on set. gotten fancy all around him. knows just the man to solve the crime—investigator An Obsidian hardcover A Riverhead hardcover J. D. Pickens, who’s just skipped town, leaving Hazel April • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-22603-7 • $21.95 March • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-858-0 • $25.95 Marie pregnant with twins. 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