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Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2008 • Volume SEVENTEEN, Number 2

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction

Hold Tight The Beach House Harlan Coben Jane Green Tia and Mike Baye never imagine they’d spy on their When Nantucket’s crazy old woman in the rambling kids. But within days of installing a spy program on house atop the bluff finds her fortune dwindling, their 16-year-old son’s computer, they’re jolted by an she’s forced to rent out her rooms, filling the place anonymous message: “Just stay quiet and all safe.” with laughter, tears, and an unexpected visitor. A Dutton hardcover A Viking hardcover April • 400 pp. • 978-0-525-95060-8 • $26.95 June • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-01885-7 • $24.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook The Brief Wondrous Life The Divorce Party 12 hours, 10 CDs Unabridged • 978-0-14-314327-7 • $39.95 of Oscar Wao Laura Dave Junot Díaz On their 35th anniversary, the Huntingtons raise a Another Man’s Moccasins Riverhead, 978-1-594-48958-7 toast to...their divorce, even as they celebrate the A Walt Longmire Mystery impending marriage of their son and his fiancée. Craig Johnson “A wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that A Viking hardcover When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is May • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-01859-8 • $24.95 found in Wyoming, Sheriff Longmire notices the is so original it can only be described as similarities to the first homicide investigation he Mario Vargas Llosa meets ‘Star Trek’ meets Somebody Else’s Daughter caught 40 years earlier as a marine in Vietnam. David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West. A Viking hardcover Elizabeth Brundage June • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-01861-1 • $24.95 It is funny, street-smart and keenly ob- Adopted Willa has prospered with her adoptive, served….An extraordinarily vibrant book.” though mysterious, parents. But her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, can’t Painting by Numbers —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times live with himself without seeing her again. A Shades of Grey Novel A Viking hardcover Jasper Fforde July • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-01900-7 • $24.95 In a world where social order and destiny are dic- Also available as a Penguin Audiobook tated by the colors you can see, Eddie Russet, of the 13 hours, 10 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314346-8 • $39.95 low-level House of Red, becomes smitten with a Art in America Grey Nightseer from the dark side. Ron McLarty A Viking hardcover Bumbling Steven Kearney has penned thousands of The Secret Scripture pages, not a single one of which has ever been pub- Sebastian Barry July • 400 pp. • 978-0-670-01963-2 • $24.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook lished. But when he becomes playwright-in-resi- As her hundredth year draws near in the Roscom- 12 hours, 10 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314326-0 • $39.95 dence in Creedemore, Colorado, he conjures a play mon Mental Hospital, Roseanne McNulty begins to that brilliantly captures the town. record the events of her life. But her doctor uncovers A Viking hardcover a document written by a local priest that tells a very July • 496 pp. • 978-0-670-01895-6 • $25.95 different version. A Viking hardcover Please visit us online to see next June • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-01940-3 • $24.95 season’s library newsletter: www.penguin.com/library

 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing call (212) 366-2372. City of Thieves The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri The Island of Eternal Love David Benioff David Bajo Daína Chaviano During the siege of Leningrad, two condemned pris- Irma Arcuri vanishes, leaving behind her entire Translated by Andrea Labinger oners are given one chance to save their lives: find a library of 351 books, in which her longtime lover, Cut off from her Cuban family, history, and home, dozen eggs for a colonel to use in his daughter’s wed- mathematician Philip Mazyrk, begins to descry dis- Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in Miami’s Little Havana, ding cake. turbing clues to their affair and her disappearance. where an old woman’s spellbinding tale keeps her A Viking hardcover “A dazzling combination of love and sex and, yes, returning night after night. May • 272 pp. • 978-0-670-01870-3 • $24.95 mathematics, and David Bajo uses mirrors to make A Riverhead hardcover his magic. If you have ever opened a novel and found June • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-992-1 • $25.95 Pharmakon yourself ‘inside’ the story, you must read this book.”—Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child. Alive in Necropolis Dirk Wittenborn A Viking hardcover “Wittenborn has given us a haunting illustration of June • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-01929-8 • $25.95 Doug Dorst the Tolstoyan maxim that every unhappy family is Longtime cemetery for San Francisco, Colma, Cali- unique in its unhappiness, though in fact no one who fornia, is the home of rookie cop Michael Mercer, has ever been part of a family can fail to feel pangs of The Romanov Bride who obsesses about the fate of his predecessor, who recognition as they follow the saga of the Friedrich Robert Alexander became confused about whether he was policing the family across three tumultuous generations...An The murder of his wife by tsarist soldiers has turned living or the dead. ambitious and memorable novel.”—Jay McInerney. Pavel from a simple village man into a revolutionary. A Riverhead hardcover A Viking hardcover Now the fate of the last Romanov captured, the July • 400 pp. • 978-1-59448-987-7 • $24.95 August • 416 pp. • 978-0-670-01942-7 • $25.95 Grand Duchess Elisavyeta, rests in his hands. Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Viking hardcover 15 hours, 12 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314329-1 • $39.95 May • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-01881-9 • $24.95 The Glimmer Palace Beatrice Colin The illegitimate orphan of a cabaret performer, Lilly A Vengeful Longing The Cellist of Sarajevo Nelly Aphrodite rises from a Catholic orphanage in R. N. Morris Steven Galloway World War I Berlin to become one of the leading An apparently straightforward case leads investiga- “Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the silent-film stars in the Weimar Republic. tor Porfiry Petrovich into the hidden, squalid heart 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place. It A Riverhead hardcover of 1860’s St. Petersburg, Russia. is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to August • 400 pp. • 978-1-59448-985-3 • $24.95 A Penguin Press hardcover find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the Also available as a Penguin Audiobook June • 336 pp. • 978-1-59420-180-6 • $24.95 most unimaginable horrors.”—Khaled Hosseini. 13 hours, 11 CDs • Unabridged • 978-1-14-314321-5 • $39.95 A Riverhead hardcover The Map of the Creator May • 208 pp. • 978-1-59448-986-0 • $21.95 Cathedral of the Sea Emilio Calderón Ildefonso Falcones Translated by Katherine Silver The Lazarus Project This sweeping, mesmerizing fresco of love and In Fascist Italy, an architect and a librarian from Aleksandar Hemon betrayal in 4th-century Barcelona was Spain’s #1 Spain become entangled with an Italian prince in a The MacArthur Award–winning writer depicts a young bestseller for a year. “Falcones...has become Spain’s web of love and deceit involving a map whose secrets Eastern European immigrant to Chicago who becomes new Dan Brown.”—El Mundo. have the power to destroy them. obsessed with the murder a century ago of another A Dutton hardcover A Penguin Press hardcover young Eastern European immigrant. May • 612 pp. • 978-0-525-95048-6 • $26.95 July • 272 pp. • 978-1-59420-181-3 • $24.95 A Riverhead hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook May • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-988-4 • $24.95 23 hours, 18 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314293-5 • $39.95 Sweet Love Dragonfly Summer When broke, divorced, unemployed single mother Eva Rice Julie Mueller receives four cooking classes for In 1962, Cornwall teenager Tara Jupp sings at a Mother’s Day, she unwittingly gets a chance to win wedding, attracting the attention of the groom, a back her soul mate. top music impresario, who soon introduces her to A Dutton hardcover the chaos and urgency of pre-Beatles London. American Library June • 320 pp. • 978-0-525-95064-6 • $24.95 A Dutton hardcover June • 320 pp. • 978-0-525-95022-6 • $24.95 Association’s The Likeness 2008 Notable Books Tana French Collision A young woman is stabbed to death outside Dublin, Jeff Abbott her ID stating her name as Lexie Madison—the “Collision rockets into the suspense stratosphere Cheating at Canasta identity Detective Cassie Maddox used years ago in alongside the best works of Harlan Coben and Lee William Trevor an undercover operation. And the vic is a dead ringer Child.”—Joseph Finder. “The best evidence yet that Viking, 978-0-670-01837-6 for the detective. Abbott is one of the finest thriller writers working A Viking hardcover today.”—Harlan Coben. Five Skies July • 448 pp. • 978-0-670-01886-4 • $24.95 A Dutton hardcover Ron Carlson July • 320 pp. • 978-0-525-95028-8 • $24.95 Viking, 978-0-14-311346-1

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A Putnam/Marian Wood hardcover April • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-15475-1 • $24.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook More Than It Hurts You The Genius 8 hours, 7 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314322-2 • $29.95 Darin Strauss Jesse Kellerman “A prize-winning, front-cover-of-the-Times-Book- Ethan Muller is trying to make it as a dealer in the A Rather Curious Engagement Review type of story that’s sure to be one of the few cut-throat art world—and an elderly man disap- C. A. Belmond novels of this era to be remembered in thirty years... pears, leaving a treasure trove of original artwork in Freelancer-turned-heiress Penny Nichols and her Destined to be the most important popular novel his New York slum. boyfriend stumble upon another mystery on board a since The Corrections.”—Kevin Baker. A Putnam hardcover 1920s yacht on Lake Como, Italy. 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Resolution Robert B. Parker When Everett Hitch lands in the Old West town of Resolution, he takes a job as lookout at the Blackfoot Saloon—and quickly establishes a reputation as a man unafraid to stand up to the muscle from the The Mayor’s Tongue O’Malley copper mine. Comfort Food Nathaniel Rich A Putnam hardcover Kate Jacobs “I read The Mayor’s Tongue with ever-increasing June • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15504-8 • $25.95 On the verge of the big 5-0, Cooking with Gusto! per- delight, rooting with all my heart for the young pro- sonality Augusta “Gus” Simpson invites a select tagonist on his near-mythic quest. This is an ele- Without a Backward Glance group—including her prickly daughter, ex-son-in-law, gantly-structured, brilliantly-told novel, by turns Kate Veitch and television rival—to take an on-air cooking class. terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always “Warm and always honest, Veitch manages to cap- A Putnam hardcover generous and magical.”—Stephen King. ture the ebb and flow of sibling dynamics and illumi- May • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-15465-2 • $24.95 A Riverhead hardcover nate the mixed bag of emotions that comes with Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 11 hours, 9 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314316-1 • $39.95 April • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-990-7 • $24.95 family life.”—Vogue Australia. A Plume paperback original Blood Trail July • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-28947-5 • $14.00 Moscow Rules A Joe Pickett Novel Daniel Silva C. J. Box The Boxer and the Spy The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Rus- Wyoming game warden Pickett can hardly believe Robert B. Parker sia, where he learns that an arms dealer is about to the call on the radio: a hunter has been found strung deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to When an apparent suicide washes up on the shore of al-Qaeda. up, gutted, and flayed, as if her were the elk he was a New England town, 15-year-old Terry Novak decides pursuing. to do some investigating. A Putnam hardcover A Putnam hardcover July • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-15501-7 • $26.95 A Philomel hardcover May • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-15488-1 • $24.95 May • 210 pp. • 978-0-399-24775-0 • $17.99 Foreign Body Phantom Prey Death and Honor Robin Cook John Sandford An Honor Bound Novel UCLA med student Jennifer Hernandez investigates When a wealthy widow returns home to find blood W.E.B. Griffin and a series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals, everywhere and her daughter gone, she seeks out William E. Butterworth IV including that of her beloved grandmother. someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Dav- During WWII, OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan tasks A Putnam hardcover August • 464 pp. • 978-0-399-15502-4 • $25.95 enport, whose husband is a big deal with the police. former Marine pilot Cletus Frade with establishing A Putnam hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook an airline in Argentina as a pretext for infiltrating 13 hours, 11 CDs • Abridged • 978-0-14-314337-6 • $29.95 May • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-15500-0 • $26.95 the Nazis’ Operation Phoenix. Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Putnam hardcover 11 hours, 9 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314311-6 • $39.95 Suffer the Little Children 6 hours, 5 CDs • Abridged • 978-0-14-314312-3 • $29.95 June • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15498-0 • $26.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Donna Leon 21 hours, 17 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314310-9 • $39.95 “Terrific at providing, through its weary but engag- Killer View ing protagonist, a strong sense of the moral quanda- Ridley Pearson Tailspin ries inherent in Italian society and culture.”—San When a skier goes missing, Sun Valley Sheriff Walt An FBI Thriller Francisco Chronicle. Fleming assembles a search-and-rescue team. But by Catherine Coulter A Penguin paperback morning, one of his deputies will be dead and his May • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311361-4 • $7.99 Married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey best friend missing. Sherlock follow up on a Mayday from one of their A Putnam hardcover own in the mountains near Parlow, Kentucky. Chez Moi July • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15505-5 • $24.95 A Putnam hardcover Agnès Desarthe June • 432 pp. • 978-0-399-15503-1 • $25.95 Translated by Adriana Hunter The Front Short on cash and long on pain, 43-year-old Myriam Patricia Cornwell The Disorder of Longing decides to open a restaurant in a quiet Paris The cast of characters introduced in At Risk—Mas- Natasha Bauman neighborhood. sachusetts state investigator Win Garano, District In Victorian Boston, a controlling husband brings A Penguin paperback original Attorney Monique Lamont, and Garano’s grand- May • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311323-2 • $14.00 home a crate of orchids to his restless wife. Soon she is mother—become targets of the FRONT. forming alliances with the Brazilian orchid hunters A Putnam hardcover who work for her husband, angling to escape to Brazil. Church of the Dog May • 224 pp. • 978-0-399-15418-8 • $22.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Putnam hardcover Kaya McLaren 4.5 hours, 4 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314200-3 • $25.95 June • 384 pp. • 978-0-399-15495-9 • $24.95 In Oregon farm country, Edith and Earl McRae are ruefully looking down the barrel of their 50th anni- versary, when a mysterious woman with the power The Hell Screen Skeleton Lake Mike Doogan to mend long-broken fences shows up on their I. J. Parker ranch. Traveling to the bedside of his dying mother, Suga- Something about getting severely injured during his latest case gets detective Nik Kane thinking about A Penguin paperback wara Akitada chances upon a temple with a brilliantly June • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-311342-3 • $13.00 painted hell screen—and a murdered woman. his first case, cold now for 20 years—the execution of a bare-knuckled Anchorage cop. A Penguin paperback July • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303562-6 • $14.00 A Putnam hardcover August • 320 pp. • 978-0-399-15492-8 • $25.95

10 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing call (212) 366-2372. The Art of Keeping Secrets Patti Callahan Henry Annabelle has finally made peace with the loss of her beloved husband...until she finds out he wasn’t alone when he died. An NAL Accent paperback original June • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-22395-1 • $14.00

A Month of Summer Lisa Wingate When Rebecca Macklin learns that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, she must put aside old resentments. An NAL Accent paperback original July • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-22403-3 • $14.00

Tribute Falling Under Land of a Hundred Wonders Nora Roberts Danielle Younge-Ullman Lesley Kagen Former child star Cilla McGowan returns to the “Younge-Ullman redefines modern fiction with this Brain damaged in an accident that took both her Shenandoah Valley to restore her grandmother’s finely wrought, edgy debut. She is the best kind of parents, Gibby McGraw is now NQR (Not Quite farmhouse. But a cache of letters in the attic suggest new author—enormously talented and utterly Right), a real challenge for a fledgling reporter who’s that her grandmother’s overdose 30 years earlier unafraid.”—Kristy Kiernan. just discovered the dead body of the next governor of Kentucky. might have been more complicated. A Plume paperback original A Putnam hardcover August • 368 pp. • 978-0-452-28965-9 • $14.00 An NAL Accent paperback original July • 448 pp. • 978-0-399-15491-1 • $26.95 August • 320 pp. • 978-0-451-22409-5 • $14.00 House of Daughters This Night’s Foul Work Sarah-Kate Lynch Off the Menu Christine Son Fred Vargas After a lifetime caring for her brutish father and his Translated by Siân Reynolds Champagne vineyard, Clementine is the rightful Best friends and co-valedictorians in high school ten When two bodies are found in Paris’s Porte de la heir to his estate. But his will stipulates that she years ago, second-generation Asian Americans Chapelle, Commissaire Adamsberg is compelled to must share it with two half-sisters whom she hasn’t Whitney Lee, Hercules Huang, and Audrey Henley seek out Dr. Ariane, a pathologist with whom he seen in years. finally reveal to one another their darkest secrets. crossed paths 20 years ago. A Plume paperback original An NAL paperback original A Penguin paperback original August • 320 pp. • 978-0-452-28938-3 • $14.00 August • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-22417-0 • $14.00 June • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311359-1 • $14.00 Daemonomania Clubbed to Death The Amnesiac Book Three of the Aegypt Cycle A Dead-End Job Mystery Sam Taylor John Crowley Twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to Would-be historian Pierce Moffett moves to the Far- Helen Hawthorne’s deadbeat ex sails back into her England from his home in Amsterdam to exhume 3 away Hills, where he discovers a path into magic. “A life aboard the yacht of his new lady, known as the earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. “A ten- prophecy of America entering the authentic new Black Widow. The next day, the ex goes missing, but der triumph.”—The Telegraph (UK). age.”—Harold Bloom. Helen’s the one led off in cuffs. A Penguin paperback original An Overlook paperback An NAL Obsidian hardcover July • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-311340-9 • $14.00 May • 464 pp. • 978-1-59020-044-5 • $15.95 May • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-22394-4 • $21.95

A Hollywood Ending FATAL VOWS Cool Cache Robyn Sisman The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew A Tucker Sinclair Mystery Patricia Smiley American starlet Paige Carson lands in London, Peterson determined to prove her chops at Shakespeare. But Joseph Hosey Tucker Sinlcair and Associates have been hired by a she proves a nightmare for her new landlord, a The shocking true story story that’s become a new chocolate shop. But one night, Tucker finds the supercilious documentary filmmaker. national obsession—Drew Peterson and the myste- shop open, truffles tossed, and the cleaning woman lying next to a bloody green feather. A Plume paperback original rious murder and disappearance of his wives. May • 304 pp. • 978-0-452-28613-9 • $14.00 A NAL hardcover An NAL Obsidian hardcover July • 320 pp. • 978-0-451-22622-8 • $23.95 June • 304 pp. • 978-0-451-22401-9 • $23.95 The Ten Best Days of My Life Adena Halpern Love and Biology at the Center Mr. Monk Goes to Germany After an unfortunate encounter with a Mini Cooper, of the Universe 29-year-old Alexandra Dorenfield finds herself in Jennie Shortridge When Monk hits the OCD skids, he follows his shrink to Germany, where he catches a glimpse of a heaven, the seventh level, to be exact. Now she must When her husband cheats, Mira Serafino drives away man with six fingers—perhaps the man responsible prove she led a fulfilling life—or face demotion. with little money and no destination. Soon she’ll for his wife’s death. A Plume paperback original meet someone she’ll come to love: the new Mira. An NAL Obsidian hardcover June • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-28940-6 • $14.00 An NAL Accent paperback original July • 288 pp. • 978-0-451-22099-8 • $21.95 May • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-22388-3 • $14.00

Geek Abroad Death by Cashmere A Seaside Knitters Mystery Piper Banks Sally Goldenbaum E. M. Forster Award Miranda Bloom finally has a boyfriend at Orange Izzy Chambers raises the locals’ eyebrows when she Cove High. But when she visits her mother in Lon- rents the apartment above her shop to loose, hot- don over holiday break, a very cute British guy com- John Lanchester headed Angie Archer. But could any of them have plicates matters. wanted her dead? An NAL Jam paperback original Family Romance May • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-22393-7 • $9.99 An NAL Obsidian hardcover A Love Story August • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-22471-2 • $21.95 Penguin, 978-0-14-311295-2

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