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Penguin Classics Henderson the Rain King Collected Poetry Saul Bellow • Introduction by Adam Kirsch • John Donne • Edited by Christopher Ricks • 978-0-14-310548-0 • $16.00 • Jan 2013 • A Notes by Ilona Bell • 978-0-14-119157-7 • Death of a Hero twentieth-century literary masterpiece from $17.00 • Feb 2013 • A new collection of Donne’s Richard Aldington • Introduction by James H. the Nobel Prize winner. • “A kind of wildly verse, from the witty conceit of “The Flea” to Meredith • 978-0-14-310687-6 • $17.00 • Mar delirious dream made real by the force of the intense spirituality of his Divine Poems. 2013 • One of the great World War I antiwar Bellow’s rollicking prose and the offbeat inven- novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical. tiveness of his language.”—Chicago Tribune Demian • “An undervalued war novel treasure by a Hermann Hesse • Translated by Damion Searls pioneering 20th-century literary figure. The Collected Stories • Introduction by Ralph Freedman • Foreword quality of writing about the war should rank this Saul Bellow • Edited by Janis Bellow • Intro- by James Franco • 978-0-14-310678-4 • $15.00 novel among the classics about World War I duction by James Wood • 978-0-14-310725-5 • • Aug 2013 • A powerful new translation of the warfare and even for all time.”—James H. Meredith $20.00 • June 2013 • Stories from the Nobel Nobel Prize winner’s masterpiece of youthful Prize winner, including “What Kind of Day Did rebellion. • “The electrifying influence exercised The Divine Comedy: You Have?,” “Leaving the Yellow House,” and on a whole generation just after the First World Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso “By the St. Lawrence.” War by Demian... is unforgettable. With uncanny Dante Alighieri • Translated with Notes by Robin accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of Kirkpatrick • 978-0-14-310719-4 • $26.00 • A Prince of Swindlers the times and called forth grateful rapture from Mar 2013 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • Guy Boothby • Introduction by Gary Hoppen- a whole youthful generation who believed that Cover art by Eric Drooker • A stunning 3-in-1 stand • 978-0-14-310722-4 • $15.00 • June 2013 an interpreter of their innermost life had risen edition of one of the great works of Western litera- • One of literature’s first, greatest, and most from their own midst.”—Thomas Mann ture. • “The perfect balance of tightness and dastardly gentleman rogues finally joins the colloquialism... Likely to be the best modern Penguin Classics crime list. Come Along with Me: Classic Short version of Dante.”—Bernard O’Donoghue Stories and an Unfinished Novel Russian Magic Tales Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Laura Miller • Captains of the Sands from Pushkin to Platonov 978-0-14-310711-8 • $16.00 • Mar 2013 • A Jorge Amado • Translated by Gregory Rabassa Edited with an Introduction by Robert Chan- haunting and psychologically driven collection • Introduction by Colm Tóibín • dler • Translated by Robert Chandler and Eliza- that includes “The Lottery” and features sixteen 978-0-14-310635-7 • $16.00 • June 2013 • A beth Chandler with Sibelan Forrester, Anna short stories and three lectures Jackson delivered Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of Gunin, and Olga Meerson • Afterword by during her last years. • “Jackson was a bright, boys who live by their wits and daring in the Sibelan Forrester • 978-0-14-144223-5 • $18.00 crafty... very impressive maker of stories... slums of Bahia. • July 2013 • For fans of fairy tales and the Come Along With Me is a kind of memorial to literary supernatural: a unique collection of her... an engaging volume.”—Chicago Sun Times The Violent Land Russian short stories from the last 200 years. Jorge Amado • Translated by Samuel Putnam • Hangsaman Introduction by Alfred MacAdam • Pleasure Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Francine Prose • 978-0-14-310637-1 • $16.00 • June 2013 • An Gabriele D’Annunzio • Translated with a Fore- 978-0-14-310704-0 • $15.00 • July 2013 • Jack- exotic tale of greed, madness between two word and Notes by Lara Gochin Raffaelli • son’s second novel, loosely based on the real- powerful families over the cocoa-rich coast of Introduction by Alexander Stille • life disappearance of a Bennington College Bahia. • “A big brawling novel... Everything in 978-0-14-310674-6 • $17.00 • July 2013 • The sophomore in 1946. • “Alive, complex, and it is on an heroic scale...adventure, romance, first new English translation since the Victorian clear... The characters are true to themselves crime, and social injustice...passionate and era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality (and to life) with every breath they draw.”—The supremely moving.”—The New York Times and seduction. New York Times

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Road Through the Wall The Republic Poetry Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Ruth Franklin • Plato • Translated with an Introduction and 978-0-14-310705-7 • $16.00 • July 2013 • Notes by Christopher Rowe • Jackson’s first novel of suburban horror. 978-0-14-144243-3 • $13.00 • Jan 2013 • An The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi authoritative new translation of Plato’s founda- Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Edited and Trans- The Imitation of Christ tional work of Western philosophy. lated by Daniel Ladinsky with Nancy Owen Thomas à Kempis • Translated with Notes by Barton • Introduction by Daniel Ladinsky • Robert Jeffery • Introduction by Max von The Collected Poems 978-0-14-312161-9 • $16.00 • Available now • Habsburg • 978-0-14-119176-8 • $14.00 • May Marcel Proust • Edited with an Introduction Penguin • Rumi’s cherished and timeless 2013 • One of the best-loved books of Christi- and Notes by Harold Augenbraum • wisdom, uniquely interpreted and translated by anity after the Bible, now in a new translation. 978-0-14-310690-6 • $25.00 • Apr 2013 • renowned poet Daniel Ladinsky. • “Ladinsky is Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • A Dual- a master who will be remembered for finally The Jungle Books Language Edition with Parallel Text • The most bringing Hafiz alive in the West.”—Alexandra Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction complete volume of Proust’s poetry ever assem- Marks,The Christian Science Monitor and Notes by Kaori Nagai • Jan Montefiore, bled. Few of the poems collected here have ever Series Editor • 978-0-14-119665-7 • $11.00 • been published in book form or translated into David Shapiro: New and Selected Poems Aug 2013 • A new edition of Kipling’s best- English until now. David Shapiro • 978-1-4683-0336-0 • $17.95 • loved book. Jan 2013 • Overlook • The landmark collection Of the Social Contract by “the most intellectually sophisticated poet of The Portable Malcolm X Reader and Other Political Writings his generation.” (Leonard Lopate) • “David Edited by Manning Marable and Garrett Felber Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Translated by Quintin Shapiro’s poetry manifests a never-resting • 978-0-14-310694-4 • $22.00 • Feb 2013 • A Hoare • Notes by Christopher Bertram • mind.”—Harold Bloom new look at Malcolm X’s life and times 978-0-14-119175-1 • $11.00 • Jan 2013 • conceived by his Pulitzer Prize–winning biog- A lively new translation of Rousseau’s best- Countee Cullen: Collected Poems rapher and developed by his key researcher. known work, accompanied by additional polit- Edited by Major Jackson • ical writings. 978-1-59853-083-4 • $20.00 • May 2013 • The Pitching in a Pinch: Library of America • Some of Cullen’s works Baseball from the Inside Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man are widely known, but there are others that Christy Mathewson • Foreword by Chad Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul remain undiscovered. This volume restores to Harbach • Afterword by Red Smith • Fussell • 978-0-14-310715-6 • $16.00 • June print a body of work of singular intensity and 978-0-14-310724-8 • $15.00 • May 2013 • An 2013 • The first volume of Sassoon’s semi-auto- beauty. inside baseball memoir from the game’s first biographical George Sherston trilogy is an superstar. • “[Mathewson] gripped the imagi- account of his privileged childhood and his May Swenson: Collected Poems nation of a country that held a hundred million enlistment in the British Army. Edited by Langdon Hammer • people and held his grip with a firmer hold 978-1-59853-210-4 • $40.00 • Apr 2013 • The than any man of his day or time.”—Grantland Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Library of America • For her centennial, Rice, legendary sports writer and journalist Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul innovative and erotic poems of an American Fussell • 978-0-14-310716-3 • $15.00 • June original collected for the first time. Utopia 2013 • The second volume of Sassoon’s semi- Thomas More • Translated with an Introduc- autobiographical George Sherston trilogy. The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin tion by Dominic Baker-Smith • Edited by J. D. McClatchy • 978-1-59853-207-4 978-0-14-144232-7 • $12.00 • Jan 2013 • A Sherston’s Progress • $75.00 • Apr 2013 • Library of America • A major new translation of More’s popular work Siegfried Sassoon • Introduction by Paul definitive, career-spanning two-volume edition of philosophical fiction that explores theories Fussell • 978-0-14-310717-0 • $15.00 • June of the poems of the former U.S. Poet Laureate. behind war, politics, and freedom. 2013 • The final volume of Sassoon’s semi-auto- biographical George Sherston trilogy. Gossamurmur Down Second Avenue Anne Waldman • 978-0-14-312308-8 • $20.00 Es’kia Mphahlele • Foreword by Ngugi wa Botchan • Apr 2013 • Penguin • A meditation on Thiong’o • 978-0-14-310679-1 • $16.00 • Aug Natsume Soseki •Translated with an Introduc- identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy 2013 • A seminal memoir of life in apartheid tion by J. Cohn • 978-0-14-139188-5 • $15.00 • of imagination and for collective sanity in our South Africa—available for the first time in Apr 2013 • A hilarious and treasured tale about provocative yet precarious time. Penguin Classics. • “If Nelson Mandela is our a young man’s rebellion against “the system” in political star, Mphahlele was his literary equiv- a country school—new to Penguin Classics. Anatomy of Melancholy alent.”—The Star (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Other Poems Annals Robert Wrigley • 978-0-14-312307-1 • $18.00 Appointment in Samarra Tacitus • Translated and Introduced by Cynthia • Apr 2013 • Penguin • The award-winning John O’Hara • With a new Introduction by Damon • 978-0-14-045564-9 • $18.00 • Apr poet’s new collection means to examine our Charles McGrath • 978-0-14-310707-1 • $16.00 2013 • A compelling new translation of a vital world through the lens of melancholia. • May 2013 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • account of Roman history. Cover art by Neil Gower • Exclusive to Penguin Classics, an unflinching look at the dark side of De Profundis and Other Prison Writings the American dream—and a lasting testament Oscar Wilde • Edited with an Introduction by to the keen social intelligence of a major Amer- Colm Tóibín • 978-0-14-043990-8 • $14.00 • A ican writer. definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde’s best prison letters and poetry.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 US Fiction A Delicate Balance No One is Here Except All of Us Edward Albee • 978-1-4683-0337-7 • $14.95 • Ramona Ausubel • 978-1-59448-649-4 • $16.00 Feb 2013 • Overlook • New in PB • This • Feb 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • The story Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around a of an isolated Romanian village which tries to “Library of America wealthy middle-aged couple who have their save itself from WWII by starting the world releases make classics complacency shattered when their longtime over again from scratch, and the girl who is new again” friends appear at their doorstep. Claiming an determined to tell its story. • “Fantastical and encroaching, nameless “fear” has forced them ambitious . . . infused with faith in the power of —Dayton Daily News from their own home, these neighbors bring a storytelling.”—The New York Times Book firestorm of doubt, recrimination and Review • “An absorbing and unpredictable Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories ultimately solace, upsetting the “delicate novel that manages to encompass a wide Edited by Charles Baxter • balance” of the household. geographic and emotional range.... Ausubel’s 978-1-59853-204-3 • $35.00 • Jan 2013 • original voice combines fresh, clear observation The Library of America • An unprecedented The Darlings and Old testament grandeur.”—The New Yorker collection of the brilliant stories of an Cristina Alger • 978-0-14-312275-3 • $16.00 The Last Nude American master including Winesburg, Ohio • Jan 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Drawing on Ellis Avery • 978-1-59448-647-0 • $16.00 • Jan and a generous selection of stories left her unique insider’s perspective, Alger (a 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • A “compul- unpublished or uncollected at his death. former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier) sively readable” (The Washington Post) story of Philip Roth: Nemeses gives us a glimpse into the highest echelons of love, desire, and tragedy, about an artist and Edited by Ross Miller • 978-1-59853-199-2 New York society—and a fast-paced thriller. • her most famous muse in Paris. • “A remark- • $35.00 • Feb 2013 • The Library of “Utterly compelling... as knowing about family able novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost America • For the first time in one volume, as it is about money and social status.”—Jay Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering Roth’s haunting quartet of novels grappling McInerney, author of The Good Life of Tamara de Lempicka’s idiosyncratic and with the fate that awaits us all. • Includes: groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and What the Family Needed affecting story in its own right.”—Emily Barton, Nemesis. Steven Amsterdam • 978-1-59448-639-5 • author of Brookland • “A sly, sleekly written $26.95 • Mar 2013 • Riverhead • A family’s stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Philip Roth: Novels 2001-2007 superpowers bestow not instant salvation but Paris in the ‘20s.”—Alexander Chee, author of Edited by Ross Miller • 978-1-59853-198-5 the miracle of accepting who they are. • “Bril- Edinburgh • $35.00 • Feb 2013 • The Library of liant, unexpected, wide-ranging, and deeply The Glass Ocean America • Three tour de force novels from moving, the story of one family’s extraordinary— Roth’s late period: The Dying Animal, The and sometimes otherworldly—negotiation of Lori Baker • 978-1-594-20532-1 • $25.95 Plot Against America, and Exit Ghost. the very real hazards of life.”—Maile Meloy, • Aug 2013 • Penguin Press • “An adventure of author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It • dreamlike momentum and romantic intensity brought alive by a storyteller with uncanny “Amsterdam is a superhero and his power is to create stunningly crafted, heartbreaking stories access to the Victorians, not only to the closely- The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, that are as fun as they are brilliant. In this story woven texture of their days but also to the and The American Dream of a ‘super family,’ the greatest ability on display dangerous nocturnal fires being attended to in Edward Albee • 978-1-4683-0338-4 • $14.95 is Amsterdam’s own control of story, which their hearts”—Thomas Pynchon • “The Glass • Feb 2013 • Overlook • New in PB • Three clas- outshines the fantastic by being even more Ocean is that rarest of things, a historical novel, sics of 20th century American theater by the so.”—Mat Johnson, author of Pym or at least a novel set in history, that is also a distinguished playwright that tackle major work of art. Lori Baker is a captivating story- themes such as race relations, American family Hope: A Tragedy teller, and her prose has the flash and fire of life, and the essence of theater itself— each of Shalom Auslander • 978-1-59448-646-3 • molten glass.”—John Banville, author of which continue to resonate. • “One of the few $16.00 • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • The Sea genuinely great living American dramatists”— The acclaimed author gives us a novel about Ben Brantley, New York Times • “Ever since he trying to escape the past, literally and figura- Any Day Now broke into theater history 50 years ago... tively. • “Staggeringly nervy... Other fiction Terry Bisson • 978-1-4683-0334-6 • $15.95 • [Albee] has been throwing the abyss in our writers have gotten this fresh with Anne Frank. Mar 2013 • Overlook • New in PB • The story faces with exhilarating, articulate, and daring But they don’t get much funnier.”—The New of a small-town boy whose future is all mapped grown-up dazzle.”—Chicago Tribune York Times • “As funny as it is, the novel is also out. It travels as far as an isolated New Mexico a philosophical treatise, a response—ambiva- commune under threat from a national revolu- lent, irreverent, and almost certainly offensive tion, with Clay battling to find his place in the to some—to the question of whether art and new America—and hoping desperately to life are possible after the Holocaust, an exami- forget what happened back East with the girl he nation of how to ‘never forget’ without, as loved. • “An unsettling, funny, freaky reimag- Kugel’s infamous attic occupant puts it, ‘never ining of America, impeccably written, by one of shutting up about it.’”—Publishers Weekly, our most consistently interesting transgressors starred review of literary boundaries.”—Michael Chabon • “This is the best fiction about what’s called the Sixties ever written. If you were there then, this is where you were.”—John Crowley

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 Shadow on the Crown Learning to Stay Necessary Errors Patricia Bracewell • 978-0-670-02639-5 • Erin Celello • 978-0-451-23697-5 • $15.00 • Caleb Crain • 978-0-14-312241-8 • $16.00 • $27.95 • Feb 2013 • Viking • A novel of Feb 2013 • NAL • New in PB • A moving novel Aug 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A debut 11th-century England that follows newly about a marriage in crisis when a woman’s novel that captures the lives and romances of crowned Queen Emma during the first years of soldier husband comes home profoundly young expatriates in newly democratic Prague. her reign alongside King Athelred, as she navi- changed. • “[A] gem of a novel... For anyone • “Crain’s beautiful novel is a real feat of gates the politics of a court under constant who has wondered what happens behind closed memory and invention, which captures the threat of Viking attack. doors when a loved one comes home from feeling of being young, sensitive, and vaguely war.”—Lee Woodruff, co-author of In an but intensely ambitious better than anything I The Movement of Stars Instant • “A timely novel, but also a novel that know in recent fiction.”—Benjamin Kunkel, Amy Brill • 978-1-59448-744-6 • $27.95 • Apr speaks to the tides of any marriage, in peace- author of Indecision • “Necessary Errors offers 2013 • Riverhead • A love story set in 1845 time or at war.”—Joseph Monninger, author of an invaluable record of Prague at the beginning Nantucket, between a female astronomer and Margaret from Maine of the 1990s in a style that places it among the the unusual man who understands her dreams. great novels of Americans abroad. It’s The • “Nineteenth-century Nantucket feels wholly The Last Runaway Ambassadors for the generation that came of vivid in this novel, and the love story at its Tracy Chevalier • 978-0-525-95299-2 • $26.95 • age with the downfall of the Soviet Union.” heart blazes with real feeling and intensity.” Jan 2013 • Dutton • Making her first fictional —Marco Roth, author of The Scientists —Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife • foray into the American past, New York Times “A spectacular debut.”—Hannah Tinti, author bestselling author Tracy Chevalier travels along The Crooked Branch of The Good Thief the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the Jeanine Cummins • 978-0-451-23924-2 • principles, passions, and realities that fueled $15.00 • Mar 2013 • NAL • New in PB • A The Painted Girls this extraordinary freedom movement. moving story of two mothers, generations Cathy Marie Buchanan • 978-1-59448-624-1 • apart. $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • A heartrending Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker novel set in belle époque Paris and inspired by Jennifer Chiaverini • 978-0-525-95361-6 • Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer $26.95 • Jan 2013 • Dutton • The New York Ron Currie • 978-0-670-02534-3 • $26.95 • Feb Aged Fourteen. • “Beautiful and haunting. From Times-bestselling author illuminates the 2013 • Viking • A genre-bending work of the first page I was swept up and enchanted.” extraordinary friendship between Mary Todd fiction about a writer’s emotional struggles and —Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot • Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former the notion of what constitutes truth. • “Currie “Buchanan does a masterful job of inter- slave who won her freedom by the skill of her stays true to his gutsy, thoughtful, and uncon- weaving historical figures into her plot, but it is needle, and the friendship of the First Lady by ventional self in this brilliant meditation on the moving yet unsentimental portrait of family her devotion. life, death, truth, and imperfection.”—Jonathan love, of two sisters struggling to survive with Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of dignity, that makes this a must-read.” My Education Caregiving and West of Here • “Both a bril- —Kirkus, starred review Susan Choi • 978-0-670-02490-2 • $26.95 • July liantly constructed inquiry into the nature of 2013 • Viking • An intimately charged novel of reality and a soulful ode to the free-fall of Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love desire and disaster from the author of the obsessive love. These two spines intertwine ever Sarah Butler • 978-1-9420-533-0 • $16.99 • July critically acclaimed A Person of Interest by the more tightly until they fuse into a dazzling 2013 • Penguin Press • “Heartbreaking and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a question mark with no easy answers... Beau- hopeful, Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love Writer in Mid-Career. tiful.”—Kate Christensen, author of The Astral crisscrosses London in a layered search for and The Great Man father and daughters, family and home. For Forgotten Country anyone who has ever wondered where they Catherine Chung • 978-1-59448-652-4 • $16.00 The Book of Jonas belong, or to whom they belong—the answer • Mar 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • A prize- Steven Dau • 978-0-452-29897-2 • $16.00 • Mar can be found within Butler’s tender debut winning young writer debuts with a luminous 2013 • Plume • New in PB • A landmark work novel.”—Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The novel about a family whose bonds are tested by about the true cost of war. • “Rich with Language of Flowers a legacy of silence and sacrifice. • “This symbolism, marvelously descriptive in elegantly written, stunningly powerful, simply language... Dau’s novel offers deeply resonating Return to Oakpine masterful first novel should earn Chung many truths about war and culture, about family and Ron Carlson • 978-0-670-02507-7 • $25.95 • fans, especially among those who enjoy Amy loss that only art can reveal. A literary tour de July 2013 • Viking • A generous, tender look at Tan, Eugenia Kim, Lisa See, and Chang-Rae force.”—Kirkus, starred review • “That the friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a L e e .” — Booklist, starred review • “In this beau- human cost of war includes not only those who writer at the peak of his craft. • “Carlson’s tiful debut novel... Woven with tender reflec- die but those whose fate it is to live unhinged style—low-key, deliberate, reminiscent of both tions, sharp renderings of isolation, and beau- from all that they know is the truth at the heart early Hemingway and contemporary James tiful prose... Chung simultaneously shines light of The Book of Jonas... An utterly riveting Salter—can turn even a shipping list into a on the violence of Korean history, the chill of debut.”—Marisa Silver, author of Alone With poem.” —­The Washington Post • “Carlson’s American xenophobia, and the impossibility of You and The God of War depiction of his characters, like the landscape home in either country.”—Publishers Weekly, he puts them in, crackles with clarity.” starred review —The New York Times Book Review

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man From the Memoirs Anton DiSclafani • 978-1-59448-640-1 • $27.95 Nick Dybek • 978-1-59448-656-2 • $16.00 • of a Non-Enemy Combatant • June 2013 • Riverhead • A coming-of-age tale Apr 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • In this Alex Gilvarry • 978-0-14-312306-4 • $16.00 • of family secrets and girls’ school rituals, set in tense debut, an adolescent boy stumbles on a Jan 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • The story of the 1930’s South. • “I fell completely under the horrifying secret that reveals the bad things designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, spell of DiSclafani’s amazing first novel and was good people—maybe even his father­—will do New York glamour junkie, Guantánamo gripped by its lush and dreamy evocations of to salvage their way of life. • “A moral dilemma detainee. • “It’s rare for a novel to tread so fear- Southern decorum, family secrets, and of epic complexity. Dybek has created a lessly into the political and yet to emerge so boarding school rituals. DiSclafani is wildly superbly orchestrated and soulful drama of deeply funny and humane.”—Gary Shteyngart, talented, and this is a sexy, suspenseful, loyalty to family and an imperiled way of life author of Super Sad True Love Story and gorgeously written book.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, and the fathomless forces that make a good Absurdistan • “Sharply written and wryly witty, author of Prep man go bad.”—Booklist, starred review • touching on the sensitivities and paranoia of “Peopled with multidimensional characters and post-9/11 America.... Combining a Kafkaesque The Burn Palace featuring well-drawn settings. Dybek writes hero with a captivating ‘coming to New York’ Stephen Dobyns • 978-0-399-16087-5 • $27.95 well about family, about relationships and story, Gilvarry’s debut is a timely and touching • Feb 2013 • Blue Rider Press • A novel about a loyalty, about responsibility and community, triumph.”—Booklist small New England town beset by inexpli- and about all that passes from father to son.” cable—and perhaps supernatural—criminal —Kirkus Telling the Bees acts. • “Dobyns has always been good, but this Peggy Hesketh • 978-0-399-15905-3 • $26.95 book is authentically great. The characters are The Lost Prince • Mar 2013 • Putnam • An elderly beekeeper vivid originals, not a stereotype among them... Selden Edwards • 978-0-142-19679-3 • $16.00 • looks back on his quiet life, and the secrets of a If ever there was a novel that demonstrates why Aug 2013 • Plume • New in PB • From the woman he never truly knew. • “Wonderful.... this mode of entertainment remains healthy author of the New York Times bestselling novel The voice is so masterfully done, the mysteries and vital more that 150 years after Charles The Little Book, comes a novel about a love that of life and death so compellingly evoked.”— Dickens did his thing, The Burn Palace is that is capable of bridging unfathomable distances. Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen book. It is, simply put, the embodiment of why • “Edwards demonstrates his mastery in Book Club • “Poignant... Rich in detail, Hesketh we read stories.”—Steven King • “The latest blending together philosophy and art with the has crafted a thoughtful, compelling story of from the prolific Dobyns is by turns an affec- help of wonderful characters you fall in love loss and regret and the unforeseeable conse- tionate portrait of smalltown life, a terrifying with.”—Pat Conroy • “A powerful, intense and quences that come when the truth is finally supernatural thriller, and a sly horror fascinating read.”—Kirkus, starred review revealed.”—Gail Tsukiyama comedy… Dobyn’s tone, shifting from amused to sinister and back again, elevates the material The Age of Desire: A Novel East of Denver by buttressing the horror with pitch black Jennie Fields • 978-0-14-312328-6 • $16.00 • Gregory Hill • 978-0-142-19688-5 • $15.00 • humor. A tour de force.” Publishers Weekly, July 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • For fans of July 2013 • Plume • New in PB • A blistering starred review The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life chronicle of a father and son who ­find their of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love way together as their livelihood inexorably The Bartender’s Tale affair that threatened her closest friendship. • disappears. • “An eye for detail, an ear for Ivan Doig • 978-1-59448-735-4 • $27.95 • Aug “Fields bases her perceptive novel on Wharton’s dialogue, and a knack for storytelling distin- 2013 • Riverhead • A great American storyteller own diaries and letters... The Age of Desire guish this un­flinching novel of rural captures how the world becomes bigger and the sheds welcome light on the little-known private America.”—Publishers Weekly • “This is writing past becomes more complex in the last moments life of a famous woman and her closest rela- on par with that of top-flight black-comic of childhood. • “Highly textured and evocative… tionships in early-twentieth-century Europe novelists like Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter, and Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming and America.”—Booklist • “With astonishing it deserves to be read.”—Lev Grossman, author a man alongside a town and a bygone way of tenderness and immediacy, The Age of Desire of The Magician King life inching into the modern era.”—Publishers portrays the interwoven lives of Edith Wharton Weekly, starred review • “Doig expertly spins and Anna Bahlmann, her governess, secretary, You Are One of Them out [the] various narrative threads with his and close friend. By focusing on these two Elliott Holt • 978-1-59420-528-6 • $25.95 • usual gift for bringing history alive in the odys- women from vastly different backgrounds, June 2013 • Penguin Press • A haunting debut seys of marvelously thorny characters… Fields miraculously illuminates an entire novel set in 1980s Washington and 1990s Possibly the best novel yet by one of America’s era.”—Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light and Moscow, about the power of allegiance, the premier storytellers.”—Kirkus, starred review A Fierce Radiance mysteries of friendship, and the shape-shifting nature of truth. • “Elliott Holt is not just a Absolution promising writer, but a great writer. She’s Patrick Flanery • 978-1-59448-657-9 • $16.00 • young, and she’s a master. I was going to write Apr 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • A novel of that You Are One of Them could’ve been written big ideas about complicity, absolution, and the by an Alice Munro or a Susan Minot, but that elusive line between truth and self-perception, would be wrong. Because this book could only all propelled by two riveting, overlapping and have been written by Elliott Holt, whose unusual family stories. • “[An] uncommonly powerful new voice is her own.”—Darin thought-provoking first novel... rich and imagi- Strauss, author of Half a Life • “Holt’s ability to native... Flanery is an exceptionally gifted and unwind the dangerous power of secrets and to intelligent novelist and he is just getting blend fact and fiction, past and present, make started.”—Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker • for an evocative journey that circles around to “Flanery has talent to spare, and he’s a talent to illustrate how far we sometimes have to travel keep an eye on.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New in order to find the self that was there all along.” York Times Book Review —A.M. Homes, author of May We be Forgiven

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards The Good Lord Bird All I Did Was Shoot My Man Kristopher Jansma • 978-0-670-02600-5 • James McBride • 978-1-59448-634-0 • $27.95 Walter Mosley • 978-0-451-23916-7 • $15.00 • $26.95 • Mar 2013 • Viking • A debut about a • Aug 2013 • Riverhead • From the bestselling Feb 2013 • NAL • New in PB • The final install- young man’s quest to become a writer and the author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung ment in the New York Times bestselling series misadventures in life and love that take him comes a novel about identity and injustice, told featuring private investigator Leonid McGill. around the globe. • “A funhouse of a novel through the story of Little Onion, a young boy • “Complicated, savvy, and full of surprises.” about the outsized ambitions of authors and the born a slave who must pass as a woman to survive —Wall Street Journal • “An American literary sneaky power of storytelling. Jansma’s debut is as he joins John Brown’s anti-slavery crusade. treasure...a mystery novel that transcends the a whimsical round-the-world tour that recalls genre—a private-eye story for the new, uncer- Calvino, Millhauser and The Confidence Farewell, Dorothy Parker tain and constantly dangerous century.” Man.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at Ellen Meister • 978-0-399-15907-7 • $26.95 • —BookReporter.com the Lobster • “An eloquent, witty, and inventive Mar 2013 • Putnam • Infamous wit and wise- debut novel.... Jansma masterfully explores the acre Dorothy Parker is brought to life in this Me Before You ways in which we lie in order to grasp the most insightful novel—with her tongue as sharp as Jojo Moyes • 978-0-670-02660-9 • $27.95 • Jan inexplicable truths in art, life, and love.”—Mira ever. • “Meister’s wonderful novel delivers the 2013 • Viking • “When I finished this novel, I Bartok, author of The Memory Palace, winner wit, ingenuity and elegiac sass worthy of the didn’t want to review it: I wanted to reread it. of the National Book Critics Circle Award Algonquin Table’s most quoted member. Long Which might seem perverse if you know that live Dorothy Parker and her zingers, resur- for most of the last hundred pages I was Virgin Soul rected so winningly in these pages.”—Elinor dissolved in tears. Moyes, the writer who Judy Juanita • 978-0-670-02658-6 • $26.95 • Lipman, author of The Family Man produced this emotional typhoon, knows very Apr 2013 • Viking • “Virgin Soul is first class well that Me Before You, as British critical awesome, every page a crackling hungry flame. Margaret from Maine consensus affirms, ‘real weepy.’ And yet, unlike This novel about a young studious woman Joseph Monninger • 978-0-452-29868-2 • other novels that have achieved their mood- immersed in the black revolutionary experi- $16.00 • Jan 2013 • Plume • New in PB • A melting powers through calculated infusions of ence of 60’s Berkeley has a freshness and bright romance that explores the dilemmas faced by treacle...Moyes’s story provokes tears that are ardor that is rare in this lazy climate of Amer- those who serve our country—and the men redemptive, the opposite of gratuitous. Some ican fiction.”—Joy Williams, author of State of and women who love them. • “Monninger situations, she forces the reader to recognize, Grace • “Intense, riveting, spellbinding, this comes to writing with his five senses wide really are worth crying over... Moyes’s heroine, tour de force places the reader on the frontlines open.”—The New York Times Book Review if Lou can be so styled, may not be heroic; her of the 1960’s counter culture and the Black male counterpart may be nobody’s idea of a The Chaperone Power movement, one of the most turbulent leading man—and yet with Lou and Will she times in American history. More than a coming Laura Moriarty • 978-1-59463-143-6 • $16.00 • has created an affair to remember.”—The New of age novel, Virgin Soul is ultimately a medita- June 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • A story of York Times Book Review tion on love... The education of Geniece Hight- the woman who chaperoned an irreverent ower is rendered with deep insight by an Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and Cascade authentic talent with an authentic voice. the summer that would change them both. • Maryanne O’Hara • 978-0-14-312351-4 • Despite all the guns and violent rhetoric, Virgin “Captivating and wise... [An] inventive and $16.00 • May 2013 • Penguin • New in PB Soul is ultimately life affirming.”—Robert Alex- lovely Jazz Age story.”—Washington Post • During the 1930s in a small town fighting for ander, author of Servant of the People its survival, a conflicted new wife seeks to White Dog Fell From the Sky reconcile her artistic ambitions with the A Map of Tulsa Eleanor Morse • 978-0-670-02640-1 • $27.95 • binding promises she has made. • “Through the Benjamin Lytal • 978-0-14-242259-5 • $15.00 • Jan 2013 • Viking • Set in Botswana, this is a eyes of an artist yearning for a larger life-canvas Apr 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A debut novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for but constrained by a humdrum marriage in a novel of first love set against the art scene of admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge town careening toward destruction, we see the late-90s Tulsa by a former New Yorker editorial Danticat. • “A book of genuine intellect and failings of men and women in their tangled staffer. • “A remarkable novel. Lytal has written inspiration, superbly written, fascinating.”— relationships, each member of the cast strug- a glorious and exquisitely crafted work of art, Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab’s Wife • “Brutal and gling to find a fulfilling life.”—Susan Vreeland, one that poignantly brings to life all the joy and beautiful... Morse’s unflinching portrayals of author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue • “I felt utterly heartbreak of youth with compassion, grace, extremes of loyalty and cruelty make for an transported to 1930s Massachusetts; at the and wisdom.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The especially memorable novel.”—Publishers Weekly same time I was struck by how relevant Desde- Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears • “A wise, • Eleanor Morse captures the magic of the mona’s choices still are... Lovely, intelligent and moving, beautifully made novel about artistic African landscape and the terror and degradation deeply satisfying.”—Margot Livesey, author of ambitions in youth. The descriptive prose is a of life under apartheid.” —Oprah Magazine The House on Fortune Street marvel and the characters complex—touching and troublesome and unforgettable.” Emily, Alone —Christine Schutt, author of Prosperous Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-14-312049-0 • $15.00 Friends • Jan 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A sequel to the bestselling Wish You Were Here, O’Nan’s Freud’s Mistress novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman • grown children have long departed. • 978-0-399-16307-4 • $25.95 • July 2013 • Amy “Sprawling and virtuosic.”—The New York Einhorn Books • A novel inspired by the true- Times Book Review • “A bracingly unsenti- life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his mental, ruefully humorous, and unsparingly sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. candid novel about the emotional and physical travails of old age.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 A Tale for the Time Being The Other Typist Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures Ruth Ozeki • 978-0-670-02663-0 • $28.95 • Suzanne Rindell • 978-0-399-16146-9 • $25.95 Emma Straub • 978-1-59463-182-5 • $16.00 • Mar 2013 • Viking • When a Tokyo teenager’s • May 2013 • Amy Einhorn Books • Notes on a July 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • The widely diary washes up on the shores of a British Scandal meets The Talented Mr. Ripley: A female acclaimed story of a Midwestern girl who Columbian island, a mystery that spirals back typist at a NYPD station in 1922 becomes escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a in time beguiles and perplexes a blocked obsessed with the new woman in the typing movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. • novelist—and engages the deepest issues of our pool. • “This eerie and compelling debut is a “An engaging epic of a life that captures the time. • “Bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and riveting page-turner, narrated by a strangely bittersweetness of growing up, leaving home, heartbreaking, often on the same page... One of hypnotic yet dubious young woman.... Don’t and finding it again.”—Publishers Weekly • those novels that will renew your faith in litera- start this novel at night if you need your beauty “Straub’s deft hand is gentler than any tabloid ture.”—Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize- sleep—you’ll stay up to all hours devouring its artist could hope to be, and her addicting winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao pages.”—Alice la Plante, author of Turn of Mind portrayal of Laura’s life is one of a complicated • “A timeless story. Ozeki beautifully renders woman who cannot fully grasp her own power not only the devastation of the collision Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea but transcends her circumstances, nonethe- between man and the natural world, but also Morgan Callan Rogers • 978-0-452-29863-7 • less.”—Booklist the often miraculous results of it.”—Alice $16.00 • June 2013 • Plume • New in PB • A Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones debut set during the early 1960s amid the The Humanity Project • “The novel’s seamless web of language, meta- colorful characters and stark beauty of coastal Jean Thompson • 978-0-399-15871-1 • $26.95 • phor and meaning can’t be disentangled from Maine—introducing a feisty young heroine and Apr 2013 • Blue Rider Press • From The New its powerful emotional impact: These are char- her childhood forever altered by her mother’s York Times bestselling author, a new novel set acters we care for deeply, imparting vital life vanishment. • “A classic story of paradise lost, against the backdrop of current events and lessons through the magic of storytelling. this is a beautiful and wise coming-of-age story cultural calamity. The Humanity Project follows A masterpiece, pure and simple.”—Kirkus, set on the Maine coast, where grief—harsh as an eclectic cast of characters whose fates are starred review the granite shoreline—is suffered, solaced and drawn together by one woman’s unusual finan- survived.”—Beth Powning, author of The Sea cial experiment. Come in and Cover Me Captain’s Wife Gin Phillips • 978-1-59448-648-7 • $16.00 • Jan One Last Thing Before I Go 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • From the Temple of a Thousand Faces Jonathan Tropper • 978-0-14-219681-6 • acclaimed author of The Well and the Mine, a John Shors • 978-0-451-23917-4 • $16.00 • Feb $16.00 • June 2013 • Plume • New in PB • A love story set against a background of mystery 2013 • NAL • New in PB • An unforgettable heart-rending tale of one family’s struggle to and loss, where one woman’s grief has given her epic on a grand scale, set against one of the reconnect. • “Eminently quotable, hilariously a secret connection to the ghosts of the past. world’s most awe-inspiring creations—the funny, and emotionally draining, this arresting • “Phillips’s writing is... brimming with legendary temple of Angkor Wat. tour de force will entertain well after the book imagery... Her greatest talent is her ability to is done.”—Library Journal, starred review create the world of the story.”—The Washington Mary Coin Post • “With a sure hand... Phillips weaves this Marisa Silver • 978-0-399-16070-7 • $26.95 • Glow strand of the supernatural through a Mar 2013 • Blue Rider Press • In her decades- Jessica Maria Tuccelli • 978-0-14-312292-0 • compelling modern story of love and loss.” spanning new novel, the acclaimed author gives $16.00 • Mar 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • —The San Francisco Chronicle us a reimagining of the anonymous woman in A debut set in the Appalachian foothills of Dorothea Lange’s iconic Migrant Mother photo- Georgia—of mothers and daughters, history Above All Things graph. • “An extraordinarily compassionate and and mysticism, and the ties that bind. • “Full of Tanis Rideout • 978-0-399-16058-5 • $16.00 • wise novel... What emerges, in Silver’s nuanced, historical detail and tinged with mysticism... Feb 2013 • Amy Einhorn Books • “This vivid, resonant telling, is a poignant exploration of a Tuccelli’s novel brims with the love and fierce assured, and confident debut novel scales great single life that touches many others, and a loyalty that binds [its] disparate generations heights of obsession and desire, both on the powerful, moving portrait of America during together.”—Booklist • “Tuccelli has rendered a face of Mount Everest and in the loving bond the Great Depression.”—Meghan O’Rourke, novel of such precise honesty that it casts its between doomed explorer George Mallory and author of The Long Goodbye • “Marisa Silver own bright incandescence upon its readers. The his wife, Ruth.”—Publishers Weekly, starred renders the soul of an iconic image, giving it language is varied and musical throughout, and review • “The author has exhilaratingly imag- moving life. Mary Coin is a soaring work of the characters as recognizable as one’s family.” ined the British climber’s third and final imagination, dedication and history.”—Mona —Mark Spragg, author of An Unfinished Life attempt to reach the mountain’s summit in Simpson, author of My Hollywood and 1924 through extensive research and attention Anywhere But Here to detail, creating an atmosphere as authentic as in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air... Rideout has Falling to Earth written a superb addition to the fictional biog- Kate Southwood • 978-1-60945-091-5 • $16.00 raphy genre.”—Library Journal, starred review • Mar 2013 • Europa • New in PB • A revealing portrayal of survivor’s guilt and the frenzy of bereavement following a natural disaster, a meditation on family, and a depiction of Midwestern life in the 1920s.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 Thy Neighbor World Fiction A Small Fortune Norah Vincent • 978-0-14-312366-8 • $16.00 • Rosie Dastgir • 978-1-59463-151-1 • $16.00 • Aug 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Since his May 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • A debut parents’ violent deaths thirteen years ago, Nick The Neruda Case novel that explores the lives of an extended has been living alone, debauching himself into Roberto Ampuero • Translated by Carolina De Pakistani family. • “Touchingly elegant with a oblivion. Deranged by his relentless sorrow, he Robertis • 978-1-59463-147-4 • $16.00 • June sense of humor. Dastgir reminds us why stories begins spying on his neighbors. As he observes 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • Published in about the many different kinds of British Asian all the strange, sad, and terrifying things people English for the first time, an atmospheric, experiences continue to make for compelling do when they think no one is watching, Nick brilliant novel from an internationally best- reading. With characters so real that they defy begins to unravel the shocking truth about how selling literary star. • “The twists and turns of stereotypes, she cleverly and movingly demon- and why his parents died. • “At once a misan- the quest through Mexico City, Havana, East strates how haplessness and fallibility can thropic rant, a voyeuristic free for-all, and a Berlin, and La Paz deftly weave the personal bolster one’s humanity.”—Gautaum Malkani, philosophic thriller, Thy Neighbor is... a heady and the political in a doleful exploration of the author of Londonstani • “Among the strengths and wonderful read.” —Gary Shteyngart, ways in which romantic and revolutionary of [her] writing are the naturalistic flow of her author of Super Sad True Love Story ideals inevitably founder.”—The New Yorker • dialogue and her ear for the Yorkshire lilt... “A provocative depiction of Neruda, a man Particularly perceptive about first-generation Dead Stars reevaluating his marriages and love affairs and immigrants’ preoccupations with minute class Bruce Wagner • 978-0-14-219687-8 • $18.00 • feeling fresh remorse for having foresaken a signifiers.”—Times Literary Supplement Aug 2013 • Plume • New in PB • Wagner’s most hydrocephalic daughter to concentrate on his lavish translation yet of the national zeitgeist: poetry... Vivid.”—The Washington Post I, Hogarth post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashian world Michael Dean • 978-1-4683-0342-1 • $26.95 • of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where Swimming to Elba Jan 2013 • Overlook • The decadence and grit- reality-show triumph is the new American Silvia Avallone • Translated by Antony Shugaar tiness of eighteenth-century London come to narcotic. • “Written in hyper-hilarious, brilliant • 978-0-14-312365-1 • $16.00 • May 2013 • life in this amazing novel told in Hogarth’s voice. prose, [Dead Stars] renders an obsessive pop- Penguin • New in PB • A sexually explosive culture nightmare of surprising realism and novel about the power of friendship and the Broken Harbor light, illuminating the meanest corners of its stunted reality of life in a failing Italian indus- Tana French • 978-0-14-312330-9 • $16.00 • characters’—and our culture’s—desperation.” trial town chronicling the intense connection, May 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A damaged —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review • “A tragi- falling out, and reconciliation of two young hero, an unspeakable crime, and an intricately comic Hollywood epic: obscene, scandalous, girls. • “A galvanizing social novel, spacious and plotted mystery nestled in a timely examination heartbreaking. Best American novel I’ve read in strenuous, like a film that would have been of lives shattered by the global economic down- years.”—Bret Easton Ellis cosigned by Ken Loach and Gus Van Sant.” turn. • “French’s deft psychological thriller, —Libération (France) focusing on parallel stories of mentally ill The Interestings mothers and the tragedy of depression, offers a Meg Wolitzer • 978-1-59448-839-9 • $27.95 • Beggar’s Feast nuanced take on family relationships.”—Library Apr 2013 • Riverhead • A panoramic novel Randy Boyagoda • 978-0-670-06658-2 • $16.00 Journal about what becomes of early talent, and the • Available now • Pintail • New in PB • An epic role that envy can play even in close friend- story about family, pride, and ambition set on a Last Friends ships. • “Like Virginia Woolf in The Waves, gorgeous, troubled island caught between tradi- Jane Gardam • 978-1-60945-093-9 • $16.00 • Wolitzer gives us the full picture here, charting tion and modernity. • “Boyagoda, a sharp and Apr 2013 • Europa • New in PB • The third her characters’ lives from the self-dramatizing subtle writer, slips easily into many different installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends of adolescence, through the resignation of characters’ heads and their internal rhythms, will surprise and delight Gardam fans and middle age, to the attainment of a wisdom that and lyrical lines abound... A satirical feast.” appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait holds all the intensities of life in a single, —The Globe and Mail • “[Boyagoda’s narrative of a marriage equal to any in the English sustained chord, much like this book itself. The voice] is as lush as the tropical landscape of language. • “Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s Ceylon.”—National Post Her understanding of character and use of writing are extraordinary.”—Jeffrey Eugenides language are both remarkable.”—The Times Bitter Almonds (London) The Orphanmaster: Laurence Cossé • Translated by Alison A Novel of Early Manhattan Anderson • 978-1-60945-089-2 • $16.00 • Apr A Good American Jean Zimmerman • 978-0-14-312353-8 • 2013 • Europa • New in PB • From the author Alex George • 978-0-425-25317-5 • $16.00 • $16.00 • May 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A of A Novel Bookstore comes this story about Feb 2013 • Berkley • New in PB • A novel about love story wrapped around a murder mystery, friendship across racial and economic barriers being an outsider—in your country, in your set in seventeenth-century Manhattan. • “The set in contemporary Paris. hometown, and sometimes even in your own ideal historical mystery for readers who value family. • “Richly drawn, tragic, yet laced with the history as much as the mystery.”—Marilyn humor... a remarkable, multigenerational story Stasio, New York Times Book Review • “A of a German immigrant family struggling to sweeping novel of great and precise imaginative find roots.”—Beth Hoffman, author of Saving intelligence; it’s also the most entertaining and CeeCee Honeycutt believable historical novel I’ve read in years.” —Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 9 Moth Smoke Mohsin Hamid • 978-1-59448-660-9 • $16.00 • African Writers Available now • Riverhead • The debut novel In Penguin Global Paperback from the bestselling author that painted a thrilling portrait of Pakistan that feels as urgent Black Sunlight The Blind Fisherman and revealing as it did a decade ago. • “A brisk, Dambudzo Marechera • 978-0-14-302620-4 • Mia Couteau • 978-0-14-302692-1 • $17.95 • absorbing novel...inventive...trenchant... Hamid $17.95 • The stream-of-consciousness narrative A compilation of Mia Couto’s early short steers us from start to finish with assurance and of this cult novel traces the fortunes of a group stories that blend the unique history of care.”—Jhumpa Lahiri, The New York Times of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist- Mozambique with a magical realism that both Book Review • “The most impressive of his gifts capitalist opposition transcends and is inspired by the legacy of is the clear sightedness of his look at the power Portuguese colonialism and the subsequent structure of a society that has shifted from the As the Crow Flies civil war. old feudalism, based on birth, to the new Paki- Véronique Tadjo • 978-0-14-302622-8 • $17.95 stani feudalism based on wealth.” • The narrative weaves together a tapestry of A Question of Power —The New York Review of Books characters who are both nameless and faceless, Bessie Head • 978-0-14-352848-7 • $17.95 representing everyman and everywoman, to • In this semi-autobiographical novel, the How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia tell stories of parting and return, suffering, heroine born of an outlawed out-of-wedlock Mohsin Hamid • 978-1-59448-729-3 • $26.95 • healing and desire in a lyrical and moving union between a black man and a white Mar 2013 • Riverhead • A bold new tale of an exploration of the human heart. woman in South Africa is plagued by mental, impoverished boy’s quest for wealth and love, social and economic challenges. Her love for by an internationally acclaimed writer. • “This Neighbors: The Story of a Murder her own son and an American Peace Corps brilliantly structured, deeply felt book is Lília Momplé • 978-0-14-302621-1 • $17.95 volunteer help her to overcome. written with the confidence and bravura of a • Momplé gives us, in the drama of a few short man born to write. Hamid is at the peak of his hours, an insight into the consequence of Patchwork considerable powers here, and delivers a tightly Mozambique’s complex history. Ellen Banda-Aaku• 978-0-14-352753- 4 paced, preternaturally wise book about a thor- • $17.95 • A young girl’s attempts to come to oughly likable, thoroughly troubled striver in The Hattering of Silence terms with her own identity from the the messiest, most chaotic ring of the global Farida Karodia • 978-0-14-302647-1 • $17.95 patchwork of a life into which she was born to a economy. Completely unforgettable.”—Dave • The story of an eight-year-old child caught in single mother. Eggers • “Mohsin Hamid is one of the best war-torn Mozambique between the white colo- writers in the world, period. Only a master could nials and the local resistance. Karodia under- have written this propulsive tale of a striver mines traditional views of the role of women living on the knife’s edge, a noir Horatio Alger and the nature of resistance in this spirited story for our frenetic, violent times. The road to response to the brutalizing effects of war. filthy riches is nasty, brutish, and long, yet Hamid’s talent is such that we see the humanity in all this striving—indeed, on finishing this The Zenith Back to Delphi extraordinary book, one wonders if the striving might be the sincerest expression of our flawed, Duong Thu Huong • 978-0-14-312371-2 • Ioanna Karystiani • Translated by Konstantine fragile humanity.”—Ben Fountain $17.00 • Aug 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Matsoukas • 978-1-60945-090-8 • $17.00 • Mar From the most important Vietnamese author 2013 • Europa • New in PB • A return to the Long Time, No See writing today, an ambitious novel about the origins of Greek tragedy, a story about guilt and Dermot Healy • 978-0-14-312343-9 • $16.00 • thirst for absolute power told through a real yet innocence, about the monsters that lurk even July 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A novel larger-than-life historical figure. • “The Doctor in everyday life, and about the complex rela- about a remote coastal Irish community on the Zhivago of Vietnam, a book that explodes the tionship between mothers and their sons. • cusp of change. • “Funny, sad, wild, tender, sacred pieties of a Communist revolution by “Grim yet gorgeous...a modern Greek tragedy profound, brilliant... Ireland’s finest living looking at the cost that revolution exacted on about love foredoomed, family life as battle- novelist.”—Roddy Doyle • “Healy’s first novel individual lives and romances.”—The Boston field, the wisdom and wantonness of the in ten years is a triumphant return... A beau- Globe • “A resonant work of historical fiction... human heart and the implacable finality of the tiful account of one person’s acceptance of his offers rich detail and provocative insights.” hand of fate.”—Kirkus own quiet heroism.”—Library Journal —Booklist Mountains of the Moon And the Mountains Echoed The Dark Road I. J. Kay • 978-0-14-312345-3 • $16.00 • July Khaled Hosseini • 978-1-594-63176-4 • $28.95 Ma Jian • Translated by Flora Drew • 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A mystery and a • May 2013 • Riverhead • A novel by the author 978-1-59420-502-6 • $25.95 • June 2013 • tour-de-force about a young woman’s self- of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Penguin Press • A novel about the human cost creation in dramatic circumstances. • “Merci- Suns • A multigenerational-family story of China’s one-child policy through the lens of less and penetrating...difficult and disturbing... revolving around brothers and sisters, it is an one rural family on the run from its reach. unsentimental yet intensely moving.”—Dwight emotional, provocative, and unforgettable Garner, The New York Times • “An extraordi- novel about how we love, how we take care of nary and quite brilliant first novel... The writing one another, and how the choices we make is wonderfully inventive, encompassing grim resonate through generations. With profound reality and wild, romantic fantasy, and the true wisdom, insight, and compassion, Hosseini magic lies in the way the author manages to demonstrates once again his deeply felt under- present the fragments as a funny, charming, standing of the bonds that define us and shape beautiful whole.”—The Times (London) our lives—and of what it means to be human.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 10 The Looking Glass War The Threads of the Heart A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea John le Carré • 978-0-14-312259-3 • $16.00 Carole Martinez • Translated by Howard Curtis Dina Nayeri • 978-1-594-48704-0 • $27.95 • • Mar 2013 • Penguin • On the heels of the • 978-1-60945-087-8 • $17.00 • Jan 2013 • Feb 2013 • Riverhead • A moving novel set in hugely successful movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Europa • New in PB • Frasquita’s remarkable 1970s to 1990s Iran, about a girl who is saved Spy Penguin is proud to publish le Carré’s gift incites jealousy until she is hounded and from turmoil by her powerful imagination and fourth novel, his follow up to the mega-best- eventually banished from her home. Her exile obsession with Western culture. • “Pure magic: seller The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. • “ becomes a quest for a better life, for both lyrical, captivating, funny, and heartbreaking... A bitter, bleak, superlatively written novel. herself and her daughters, whom she hopes can Powerful storytelling kept me riveted from the ”—Publishers Weekly escape the fate of her family of sorcerers. • “If first page, but this is also a keenly intelligent Gabriel García Márquez and Carson McCullers investigation into the nature of narrative, the A Small Town in Germany had had a child together, and if that child had kaleidoscope of stories, dreams, and memories John le Carré • 978-0-14-312260-9 • $16.00 • inherited the poetic lyricism of the former and that define us, and how we create our own pasts Mar 2013 • Penguin • Le Carré’s fifth Cold War the fine sensibilities of the latter, she would and futures.”—Jean Kwok, author of Girl in espionage novel. • “Exciting, compulsively resemble Martinez.”—Buzz Litteraire • Translation • “Captivating. It reminds us how readable, and brilliantly plotted.”—The New “Martinez interrogates unflinchingly the storytelling can save our lives. A brilliant York Times • “Brilliant, unforgettable... A mystery of human relations, and the power debut.”—Michelle Huneven, author of Blame masterpiece.”—New Statesman games between men and women...she refuses to be trapped in ‘realism...she prefers poetry Life Form Drifting House and imagination.”—Evelyne De Martinis, Amélie Nothomb • Translated by Alison Krys Lee • 978-0-14-312293-7 • $15.00 • Jan 2013 Le Nouvel Observateur Anderson • 978-1-60945-088-5 • $15.00 • Feb • Penguin • New in PB • Set in Korea and the 2013 • Europa • New in PB • A surreal novel United States from the postwar era to contempo- The Wicked Girls about personality and philosophy, trauma and rary times, Lee’s fiction debut illuminates a Alex Marwood • 978-0-14-312386-6 • $16.00 • healing, solitude and human connection from people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of Aug 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Two women one of Europe’s most talked about authors. their collective past with the rewards and chal- convicted of murder as children find their new • “Her well-mannered prose, her clear and lenges of their present. • “What wonderful and adult identities threatened when a serial killer accomplished style, her aristocratic culture of a haunting worlds Lee illuminates—a goose for a in a rundown seaside town brings them bygone day... perhaps this is why she has goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by together, decades later. • “A brilliant explora- touched such a large audience in France, her husband’s infidelity—all facets of a Korea tion of the sins of the past colliding with the nostalgic for a time when French literature was and a Korean America made new by this mistakes of the present; really well-written, preeminent among the arts and in the world.” exciting writer’s entrancing vision.”—Janice Y. multi-faceted characters, who behave in ways —Boston Review K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher • “Sublime you wouldn’t expect them to... I really wish I’d debut collection... The limpid, naturalistic prose written it!”—Elizabeth Hayes, author of Into the The Memory of Love and the flawless internal logic of these stories Darkest Corner • “A psychological thriller Linda Olsson • 978-0-14-312243-2 • $15.00 are reminiscent of the best of Katherine Anne which jumps off the page, grabs you and takes • Mar 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A story of Porter and Carson McCullers.” you on a roller-coaster ride of emotions.” courage and survival set on New Zealand’s —Publishers Weekly, starred review —Bookseller North Island in which a Swedish doctor’s lonely life is changed when she rescues a small boy. Tiger Hills The Honey Thief • “It is the storytelling...that is most seductive, Sarita Mandanna • 978-0-670-06693-3 • $16.00 Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman with the right balance between the disclosure • Available now • Pintail • New in PB • A • 978-0-670-02648-7 • $26.95 • Apr 2013 • and holding back of information to keep us sweeping romantic novel set on a coffee planta- Viking • A fable set over the last 200 years in reading to the end—appreciating at every twist tion in southern India at the turn of the twen- Afghanistan, featuring ordinary people a writer delighting in her craft.”—Sunday Star tieth century that will appeal to fans of Arund- standing up to astonishing extremes. • “This Times (New Zealand) hati Roy. • “More than a love story... Tiger Hills dazzling narrative is full of wonders and unfa- explores the hazardous side of passion and the miliar magic, shadows and lightnings. The tales There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her shackling grip of memory once love has been it tells are fascinating in their ordinariness and Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself thwarted... An illuminating portrait of place their strangenss. The Honey Thief is simply Ludmilla Petrushevskaya • Selected and Trans- through six decades of social change.”—The New delightful to read on its own terms, but it also lated by Anna Summers • 978-0-14-312152-7 • York Times • “It is impossible to stop reading illuminates the real Afghanistan, that country $15.00 • Feb 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Mandanna’s spellbinding epic.”—Booklist, many great powers have proved keen to invade Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited starred review but rarely to understand.”—Thomas Keneally follow-up to the Russian writer’s New York author of Schindler’s List • “Here we see a Times bestselling scary fairy tales. • “Petrush- magical place, full of trials, certainly, but where evskaya’s short stories transform the mundane we can observe the triumph of the human into the near surreal, pausing only to wink at spirit... How good to see the enormously rich the absurdity of it all... Think Chekhov writing vein of Afghan traditional story-telling tapped from a female perspective, burnished by the rather than the usual catalogue of death and ennui of a soulless collectivist state, contem- destruction we read of in the papers.”—Saira plating the influence of culture and politics on Shah, Emmy-winning filmmaker of Death in love and relationships.”—Kirkus Gaza and author of The Storyteller’s Daughter

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 11 Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman Bruce Robinson • 978-1-4683-0330-8 • $15.95 ARDIS/OVERLOOK Russian literature • Feb 2013 • Overlook • New in PB • The coming-of-age tale of a thirteen-year-old who My Half Century Selected Prose and Poetry undertakes a quest to locate his grandfather’s Anna Akhmatova • Translated and Edited by Mikhail Kuzmin • Edited and Translated by legendary pornography collection, leading him Ronald Meyer • 978-1-4683-0157-1 • $25.00 • Michael Green • 978-1-4683-0152-6 • $19.95 to uncover secrets about the family that will Jan 2013 • This extensive collection includes • Feb 2013 • Presented in this essential collec- change him irrevocably. • “Never before has the Akhmatova’s personal letters, essays, diatribes tion are Kuzmin’s (known as the “Russian painful, knotty journey to maturity been against the Stalinist establishment, and Oscar Wilde”) progressive novel Wings, the depicted with such gusto.”—The New York encounters with fellow poets, conveying the first novel with homosexual themes to be Times Book Review • “A book I could read over closest thing to a self-portrait the elusive published in Russia; the play The Venetian and over again, a beautiful story told with such author ever allowed herself. • “A real achieve- Madcaps; thirteen short stories; and two dexterity and depth, it can be enjoyed for both ment.”—Robert P. Hughes, Washington Post major poetic cycles, including the acclaimed its imagination and its craft.”—Simon Pegg, Book World The Trout Breaks the Ice. • “Kuzmin holds one NPR’s All Things Considered of the first places among contemporary Russian The Crocodile poets. Only a few are blessed with such an Archipelago Fyodor Dostoevsky • Translated by S.D. amazing harmony of the whole, combined with Monique Roffey • 978-0-14-312256-2 • $16.00 Cioran • 978-1-4683-0154-0 • $11.95 • Feb free diversity of details.”—Nikolay Gumilev • June 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A 2013 • In this brief work, Dostoevsky reveals mesmerizing tale of a father and daughter’s his hatred of communism in an unusually Mahogany and Other Stories sailing adventure from Trinidad to the Galá- direct caricature: The “true story” follows a Boris Pilnyak • Translated by Vera T. Reck pagos Islands. • “A stirring narrative... Roffey civil servant who gets swallowed by a croco- and Michael Green • 978-1-4683-0153-3 • captures the impotence of man in the face of dile—but he survives, continuing to preach $17.95 • Jan 2013 • A valuable introduction to the extremes of nature quite superbly.”—Scot- socialist theories from within the beast’s belly. the author’s greatest works. land on Sunday • “Beautifully done. There’s a • “A lucid and stylish translation... evocative of Russian Romantic Prose warmth to it, an exuberance and a wisdom. It’s the wit and satire of the original; it is both funny, and sometimes bitingly poignant... One accurate and fluid.”—Dostoevsky Studies Edited by Carl R. Proffer • 978-1-4683-0151-9 of the most vivid and charming portraits of a • $19.95 • Jan 2013 • While Gogol and Lives in Transit: Contemporary Russian young child I can remember in years. A bril- Pushkin are the best known Russian Women’s Writing liant piece of storytelling.”—Andrew Miller, Romantic writers now, in the 1830s their author of Pure, winner of the Costa Book of the Edited by Helena Goscilo • 978-1-4683- popularity was equaled by the likes of Year Award 0155-7 • $25.00 • Feb 2013 • Featuring Marlinsky and Veltman, both of whom are twenty-five diverse writers from after the fall included in this well-rounded collection. Honor of the Soviet empire, Lives in Transit is a Includes Pushkin’s “The Shot,” Gogol’s “Viy,” Elif Shafak • 978-0-670-78483-7 • $26.95 • Mar collection of stories and poems that strive to and the first English translations of works by 2013 • Viking • A family saga that explores the make sense of the female experience. Several Somov, Lermontov, and Vladimir Sollogub. lives of Turkish immigrants in London in the remarkable poems round out an array of The Golovlyov Family late 1970s and how a brutal act of violence—an works Publishers Weekly calls “astonishing for honor killing—shatters and transforms their their lyrical imagery and wordplay, and for M.E. Saltykov • Translated by S.D. Cioran • lives. • “Shafak has woven with masterful care the breadth of their collective scope.” 978-1-4683-0156-4 • $13.95 • Feb 2013 • and compassion one immigrant family’s heart- Recognized as a classic since its first Russian breaking story.”—Sarah Blake, author of The publication in 1880, The Golovlyov Family Postmistress follows a family of landowners through three generations, resulting in a disquieting story of Ghana Must Go isolation and disintegration reminiscent of Taiye Selasi • 978-1-59420-449-4 • $25.95 • Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Mar 2013 • Penguin Press • Introducing a new novelist whose evocation of an unforgettable African family is testament to the transforma- tive power of unconditional love. • “Selasi is a Minotaur Narcopolis totally new and near perfect voice that spans Benjamin Tammuz • 978-1-60945-116-5 • Jeet Thayil • 978-0-14-312303-3 • $16.00 • continents and social stratum as effortlessly as $15.00 • May 2013 • Europa • New in PB • An Available now • Penguin • New in PB • A novel the insertion of an ellipsis or a dash... Ghana Israeli secret agent falls hopelessly in love with that charts the evolution of the great and Must Go is a big novel, elemental, meditative, a young English girl. Utilizing his network of broken metropolis of Bombay across three and mesmerizing.”—Sapphire • “With her shady contacts and his professional expertise, decades. • “Thayil takes Mumbai out of Bolly- perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, he takes control of her life without ever wood cliché and into an underworld that Selasi does more than merely renew our sense revealing his identity. • “A novel about the blends the best of Trainspotting with the wild of the African novel: she renews our sense of the expectations and compromises that humans comedy of Goya and the gorgeous yearnings of novel, period. An astonishing debut.”—Teju Cole create for themselves...very much in the Keats.”—Daljit Nagra, author of Look We Have • “Gorgeous. Reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri but manner of William Faulkner and Lawrence Coming to Dover! • “Thayil’s precision and with even greater warmth and vibrancy. Selasi’s Durrell.”—The New York Times • “With echoes economy distill what could be a sprawling and novel, driven by her eloquent prose, tells the of Kafka and Conrad... Tammuz has fashioned uneven saga into an elegant tapestry of a beau- powerful story of a family discovering what once a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of tifully observed characters and their complex held them together could make them whole character.”—Kirkus lives.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review again.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 12 The Sound of Things Falling Short Stories in Chinese: Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil: Marseilles, Juan Gabriel Vasquez • 978-1-59448-748-4 • New Parallel Text Noir Fiction, and the Mediterranean $26.95 • Aug 2013 • Riverhead • From an inter- Edited by John Balcom • 978-0-14-311835-0 • Jean-Claude Izzo • Translated by Howard Curtis national literary star, the Alfaguara Novel $20.00 • Apr 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A • 978-1-60945-115-8 • $15.00 • May 2013 • Prize-winning modern portrayal of the drug dual-language edition of Chinese stories- Europa • New in PB • Available for the first wars in Colombia told through the lens of a featuring many stories appearing in English for time in English. • A collection of personal Colombian family caught in the crosshairs. the first time. The perfect introduction to essays about the city Izzo loved, the sea to contemporary fiction from the world’s most which he belonged, and the literary movement Juliet in August spoken language, offering students of all levels that made him famous. • “Rich, ambitious, and Dianne Warren • 978-0-425-26100-2 • $16.00 the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of passionate.”—Washington Post • “Izzo provides • Apr 2013 • Berkley • New in PB • This debut contemporary literature without having another guided tour of the underbelly of novel unfolds over the course of just one night constantly to refer to a dictionary. The stories Marseilles (so extensive that it seems to and day. The stories of the people in the town are by both new and well-established writers swallow the whole city) that’s bracing in its wit of Juliet intersect and overlap as the entire spec- and range from a story by Li Rui about the and velocity.”—Kirkus, starred review trum of human comedy and heartbreak is honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story refracted through their little struggles and by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of Reading for My Life: deeper concerns. • “Brilliant…Touching upon a contemporary urban society. Complete with Writings, 1958-2008 deep vein of loneliness commonly borne, yet notes. John Leonard • Introduction by E. L. Doctorow revealing so many undercurrents and connec- • 978-0-14-312290-6 • $18.00 • Mar 2013 • tions among its characters.... Consider Warren Better Living Through Plastic Explosives Penguin • New in PB • A collection of Leon- as comparable to Carol Shields, Elizabeth Zsuzsi Gartner • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00 • ard’s most significant writings—spanning five Strout, and Alice Munro.”—Library Journal Available now • Pintail • New in PB • An orig- decades—from his earliest columns for the inal collection of contemporary fiction that will Harvard Crimson to his final essays for the New The Bellwether Revivals appeal to fans of Douglas Coupland, George York Review of Books. • “This greatest hits Benjamin Wood • 978-0-14-312334-7 • $16.00 Saunders, and David Foster Wallace. • “Gart- package doubles—and triples and scores—as a • June 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • A debut ner’s writing is dazzling, effortless, and clear as history of global culture and American litera- novel about the hypnotic influence of love, the a bell. She’s able to crystallize a cultural ture.”—Troy Patterson, The Slate Book Review beguiling allure of money, and the haunting moment in a way entirely her own that is both • “There was more than a touch of the poet in power of music. • “A stunningly good debut instantaneous and eternal.”—Douglas Coup- John Leonard, alongside the cheerful investi- novel, a thrilling story of music and its hold on land, author of Generation X • “[Gartner’s] gator... Let’s be grateful for this eloquent sample a group of young people’s minds and lives. undeniably original voice charges her stories of his writings.”—Phillip Lopate, The New York Wood writes with vigor, precision and inten- with irresistible verve.”—Publishers Weekly Times Book Review sity.”—Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo • “An accomplished novel... Multi- The Miniature Wife and Other Stories Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales themed and far reaching.”—The Guardian Manuel Gonzales • 978-1-59448-604-3 • $26.95 from the Twentieth Century (London) • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • In the tradition of Selected and Translated with an Introduction George Saunders and Aimee Bender, a debut that by Muireann Maguire • 978-1-4683-0348-3 • chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual $25.95 • Apr 2013 • Overlook • Ghost stories, phenomena. • “A marvel—a beautiful, hilarious supernatural thrillers, and other tales of the Short Stories / Essays and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony uncanny from Russia’s greatest writers. / Letters / Literary to the sublime powers of the imagination and Artful Criticism language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and grace all rolled into one.” Ali Smith • 978-1-59420-486-9 • $25.95 • Feb —Dinaw Mengestu • “Wrought with forceful 2013 • Penguin Press • In the tradition of John A Guide to Being Born clarity, Borgesian inventiveness, and enchanting, Berger’s Ways of Seeing and Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Smith melds Ramona Ausubel • 978-1-59448-795-8 • $26.95 devious wit—an unforgettable debut from a the tale and the essay into a new hybrid form, a • May 2013 • Riverhead • From the critically uniquely gifted writer.”—Wells Tower, author of joyful song and praise to the power of stories in acclaimed author of No One Is Here Except All Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned our lives. • “A soulful intellectual inquiry and Of Us comes a new collection that uses the reflection on life and art, artfully done.”—Kirkus world of the imagination to cut through to the The Safety of Objects: Stories A. M. Homes • 978-0-14-312270-8 • $15.00 • human condition. Battleborn Feb 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Originally Claire Vaye Watkins • 978-1-59448-825-2 • Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) published in 1990, the breakthrough first $25.95 • Aug 2013 • Riverhead • A blazing debut, Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee • collection of stories that established Homes as one of the most daring writers of her genera- set against the stark, tawdry, and hauntingly 978-0-670-02666-1 • $27.95 • Mar 2013 • beautiful landscapes of the West. • “Watkins tion. • “Enthralling.... Full of subversive humor Viking • The high-spirited correspondence writes with precision and care, the sentences and truth... original and stiletto sharp.”—The between New York Times bestselling author themselves as surprising as the events, the Washington Post Book World • “An unnerving Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, dialogue, and the spare description.... There is glimpse through the windows of other people’s giving great writers’ views on topics spanning great originality in these narratives.... But the lives. A.M. Homes is a provocative and from sports and philosophy to the nature of generosity and personal sacrifices of the people eloquent writer, and her vision of the way we friendship and love. are as universal as the stars at night.”—Publishers live now is anything but safe.”—Meg Wolitzer Weekly, starred review and boxed • “The book feels like a portrait of the human heart, famished for beauty and love, but finally and almost always wrecked by its own hungers.”—Paul Harding, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 13 Sci Fi / Fantasy There Is No Dog The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Meg Rosoff • 978-0-14-242384-4 • $8.99 • Mar Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV 2013 • Speak • New in PB • The award-winning David Corbett • 978-0-14-312157-2 • $17.00 • Lexicon author’s imaginative novel that stars God as a Feb 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Corbett Max Barry • 978-1-59420-538-5 • $26.00 • June teenage boy. • “Earns its place among the provides a blueprint to all the elements of char- 2013 • Penguin • A thriller about a secretive sharpest-witted tours de force of recent acterization— from initial inspiration to real- organization of “poets”—elite manipulators of memory.”—Kirkus, starred review • “Wildly ization—with special insights into the power of language who can bend others to their will—and inventive and laugh-out-loud funny.”—Booklist, secrets and contradictions, the embodiment of what happens when their most talented and starred review • “There’s no denying that Roso- roles, managing the “tyranny of motive,” and volatile member goes rogue. • “About as close as ff’s writing and sense of humor are a force of mastering crucial techniques required for you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: sear- nature.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review memorable dialogue and unforgettable scenes. ingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians • “An Out of the Easy Handling the Truth: absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of Ruta Sepetys • 978-0-399-25692-9 • $17.99 • On the Writing of Memoir compelling characters in an eerily credible Feb 2013 • Philomel • New in PB • The eagerly Beth Kephart • 978-1-592-40815-3 • $16.00 • parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out- anticipated follow-up from the New York Aug 2013 • Gotham • New in PB • In the tradi- loud humor.”—Chris Pavone, author of The Expats Times-bestselling author of Between Shades of tion of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, Kephart, a Gray. critically acclaimed National Book Award The Office of Mercy ­Finalist, shares inspiration and practical advice Ariel Djanikian • 978-0-670-02586-2 • $26.95 • Golden Boy for writing—and living with—memoir. Dec 2012 • Viking • A thrilling debut of a post- Tara Sullivan • 978-0-399-16112-4 • $16.99 • apocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger Games. June 2013 • Penguin Young Readers • New in Building Great Sentences: How to Write • “If you think a future world without suffering PB • The story of an unthinkable and underre- the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read would be a good thing, Djanikian will convince ported human rights tragedy. A Tanzanian Brooks Landon • 978-0-452-29860-6 • $16.00 • you to reconsider... Gripping, well plotted, and albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, Plume • New in PB • Based on one of the boasting a fascinating setting, this utterly engrossing hunted because of the color of his skin. Teaching Company’s bestselling courses, a tale is thoughtful and surprising.”—Deborah sentence-oriented approach to writing that Harkness, author of Shadow of Night • “Confronts Hand Me Down celebrates the sheer joy of language. us with a portrait of a smoothly heartless world Melanie Thorne • 978-0-452-29885-9 • $15.00 • that’s viscerally imagined, increasingly harrowing, Apr 2013 • Plume • New in PB • This semiauto- Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on and beautifully moving.”—Jim Shepard, author biographical debut centers around fourteen- How and Why They Do What They Do of Like You’d Understand, Anyway year-old Elizabeth Reid, who has spent her life Edited by Meredith Maran • 978-0-452- protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ 29815-6 • $16.00 • Feb 2013 • Plume • New in Titus Awakes cruel mistakes. Abandoned by her mother and PB • For aspiring authors, a collection of some Maeve Gilmore • Introduction by Brian Sibley • burdened by a bleak pact with a deceitful adult, of America’s most important literary voices, 978-1-4683-0060-4 • $15.95 • Apr 2013 • Over- Elizabeth is no longer sure she can save Jaime— each answering the question: Why do writers look • New in PB • Mervyn Peake’s Gormeng- or even herself. • “Like Janet Finch’s bestseller write? • Features Isabel Allende, David hast novels are widely acknowledged to be White Oleander... Difficult to read, but impos- Baldacci, Jennifer Egan, James Frey, Sue classic works of high fantasy, on par with Tolk- sible to put down.”—BookPage • “Thorne popu- Grafton, Sara Gruen, Kathryn Harrison, Gish ien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. When Peake died lates her pages with characters who are fasci- Jen, Sebastian Junger, Mary Karr, Michael in 1968, he left behind the tantalizing pages nating and sharply drawn. Failed by the adults Lewis, Armistead Maupin, Terry McMillan, and clues for the fourth and concluding book in her life and forced to be the grown-up when Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Susan Orlean, Ann in the series. Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake’s she should be experiencing first dates and foot- Patchett, Jodi Picoult, Jane Smiley, and Meg widow, wrote Titus Awakes, based on those ball games, Liz is a wise, wry, wonderful Wolitzer. pages left behind. • “A fascinating, intensely heroine.”—Kirkus personal homage.”—Los Angeles Times How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them Writing / Journalism Ben Yagoda • 978-1-59448-848-1 • $16.00 • Feb Young Adult / Language 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • From an acclaimed cultural and literary critic and word The Different Girl master, a lesson in how not to write bad (or A Reporter’s Farewells: badly) for students and language lovers. Gordon Dahlquist • 978-0-525-42597-7 • A Reporter’s Journey from $16.99 • Feb 2013 • Dutton Juvenile • New in Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring PB • Four nearly identical girls live on a desert Nahlah Ayed • 978-0-670-06909-5 • $30.00 • island. When a new girl suddenly and mysteri- Penguin Global • Born in Canada to immigrant ously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror parents, raised in Jordan as a Palestinian is held up to the life the girls have never before refugee, award-winning CBC reporter for the questioned. Middle East, Ayed offers a unique insiders’ perspective.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 14 Memoir / Biography JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: / Autobiography Transformation of a Man and the A True Story Emergence of a Great President Rebecca Dana • 978-0-399-15877-3 • $25.95 • Thurston Clarke • 978-1-59420-425-8 • $29.95 Feb 2013 • Amy Einhorn Books • Shalom Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: • Aug 2013 • Penguin Press • A revelatory, Auslander meets The Odd Couple meets Joan Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred Didion. • Dana’s life was going exactly the way Christopher Benfey • 978-0-14-312285-2 • days that asks what might have been. • “JFK’s Last she imagined when it was suddenly turned $16.00 • Mar 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • Hundred Days does a marvelous job of reliving upside down. She found herself homeless and This generational memoir follows one incred- Camelot’s fragile promise. Clarke is a masterful answering a Craigslist ad which moved her ible family to discover a unique craft tradition storyteller and able researcher. This book from the West Village to Crown Heights—the grounded in America’s vast natural landscape. • sings.”—Douglas Brinkley author of Cronkite largest Lubavitcher community in the US. “Revelatory... Benfey reclaims radiant swathes What follows is a coming-of-age story for of history... and celebrates serendipity, resil- Flip: The Inside Story of twenty-first century enlightened men and ience, and the refulgence of art.”—Booklist, TV’s First Black Superstar women everywhere. starred review • “Well wrought.... Part memoir, Kevin Cook • 978-0-670-02570-1 • $26.95 • Astonished: A Story of Evil, part family saga, part travelogue, part cultural Apr 2013 • Viking • Drawing on interviews with history, it takes readers on a peripatetic ramble family, friends, and celebrities, Cook delivers Blessings, Grace, and Solace across America and beyond.”—The New York the inspiring story of Clerow “Flip” Wilson, a Beverly Donofrio • 978-0-670-02575-6 • $25.95 Times Book Review complex man who broke the prime-time color • Mar 2013 • Viking • From the bestselling barrier, blazing a trail for generations of African author of Riding in Cars with Boys, a memoir Nine Years Under: Coming of Age American performers who followed him. about how an incident of profound violence— in an Inner City Funeral Home rape—can change one’s life, and radically trans- Sheri Booker • 978-1-592-40712-5 • $26.95 • Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey form the search for faith, healing, and identity. June 2013 • Gotham • A darkly comic coming- Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness • “Reading Donofrio’s memoir, Astonished, is, of-age memoir about the spoken word artist’s Alfredo Corchado • 978-1-59420-439-5 • in itself, an astonishing experience. She grap- nine years—beginning when she was just $27.95 • June 2013 • Penguin Press • “Midnight ples with her faith in ways and in words that fifteen years old­—working in a black funeral in Mexico is the story of a journalist’s dangerous startle, move, mesmerize, wrench, enliven, and home in Baltimore. and notable efforts to report on Mexico’s thrill the reader. It is a narrative composed of horrible drug wars. The book brings a special brutal honesty, tenderness, and an aching love She Left Me the Gun: clarity, the clarity of the personal and partic- for God.”—Sue Monk Kidd, author of The My Mother’s Life Before Me ular, to a very important and confusing subject, Secret Life of Bees Emma Brockes • 978-1-59420-459-3 • $26.95 • and it is in itself an absorbing story, marked by May 2013 • Penguin Press • A journalist strug- careful attention to fact and also by the author’s American Story: gles to unearth the story of her mother’s resil- deep love for his homeland. Mr. Corchado is A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People ience and secrecy following an unbelievable the kind of reporter and writer who revives Doing Extraordinary Things childhood trauma in South Africa. one’s faith in journalism.”—Tracy Kidder, Bob Dotson • 978-0-670-02605-0 • $26.95 • Pulitzer Prize winning author of Strength in HC • Apr 2013 • Viking • The host of the Today The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of What Remains • “Anyone who wants to learn Show ‘s popular segment shares his favorite Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition about Mexico on the inside, especially how the stories of ordinary Americans accomplishing Doreen Carvajal • 978-1-59448-739-2 • $26.95 United States affects it, illegally and legally, will extraordinary things. • “The details of their • Aug 2013 • Riverhead • The unexpected story learn much from this sharply perceptive and stories are all unique, but their effect is not— of an American journalist who uncovers her moving account.”—John Womack Jr., Robert they all inspire. —Publishers Weekly family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain. • Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American “Carvajal’s powerful prose is strong enough to History and Economics, Harvard University Bringing Up Bébé: hold these divergent story lines in a cohesive One American Mother Discovers and engaging narrative of self-discovery and Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable the Wisdom of French Parenting historical investigation.”—Publishers Weekly Founder of the Girl Scouts Pamela Druckerman • 978-0-14-312296-8 • (One of the Top 10 Memoirs) • “[Carvajal’s] Stacy A. Cordery • 978-0-14-312289-0 • $17.00 $16.00 • Jan 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • An exploration reveals the fascinating legacy of the • Feb 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • In this American journalist and mother in Paris inves- Jewish conversos... Her experiences not only accessible biography of the Girl Scouts’ intrepid tigates how French parents raise well-behaved reflect a heartfelt attempt to recapture a lost founder, Cordery paints a portrait of an children while having full adult lives. identity but also serve as a launching point for intriguing woman and a true pioneer whose a wider exploration of the repercussions of the work touched the lives of millions of girls and Inquisition.”—Booklist women around the world. • “Cordery gives us the unexpurgated life—one that...lends depth and color to the American Girl Scouts found- er’s story. Cordery uses a wealth of historical detail to animate both an era and the author’s ...subject”—The Wall Street Journal

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 15 Life After Death The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, The World’s Strongest Librarian: Damien Echols • 978-0-399-16020-2 • $17.00 Family, and the Stories We Inherit A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, • May 2013 • Blue Rider Press • New in PB • George Estreich • Afterword by Marcia Chil- Strength, and the Power of Family “Wrongfully Imprisoned...Echols draws on all dress • 978-0-399-16334-0 • $16.95 • Apr 2013 Josh Hanagarne • 978-1-592-40787-3 • $26.00 his wits and his unique view of humanity to • Tarcher • New in PB • Estreich tells his • May 2013 • Gotham • The story of how a survive eighteen years on death row. My admi- daughter’s story, reflecting on her inheritance— Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in ration for him, and the strength of his spirit, from the literal legacy of her genes, to the books and weight lifting. • “A sumptuous read, increases with every page.”—Peter Jackson, family history that precedes her, to the Victo- as funny, erudite, and energizing as a chat with Academy Award-winning director, producer rian physician John Langdon Down’s diagnostic a conversational intellectual, as engrossing and and screenwriter • “Echols is at heart a poet error of “Mongolian idiocy.” • “Wise and moving as a medical detective drama... The and mystic, and he has written not just a moving... Estreich writes with a poet’s eye and book leaves all of us who’ve read it feeling a quickie one-off book to capitalize on a lurid gift of language, weaving this personal journey little stronger and brighter ourselves.”—Martha news story, but rather a work of art that occa- into the larger history of his family.”—Kim Beck, author of Expecting Adam • “Just like the sionally bears a resemblance to the work of Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s library has every funny, beautiful, moving, wise Jean Genet. A voracious reader all his life, Daughter story you’d ever need in it, so too does this Echols vividly tells his story, from his impover- book. This is not just your ordinary memoir: it ished childhood in a series of shacks and Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners is a soaring, inspiring elegy to the small and big mobile homes to his emergence after half a life- of the World’s Great Metropolises; miracles of parenthood and friendship and time behind bars as a psychically scarred man A Memoir of Urban Exploration marriage and how they triumph over the not so rediscovering freedom in New York City.” Moses Gates • 978-1-58542-934-9 • $16.95 small challenges of life. It is a perfect, perfect —Kirkus Reviews, starred review • “[T]his is an • Mar 2013 • Tarcher • New in PB • In this gem of a read, unputdownable, unforgettable, eloquent, even bitterly lyrical, portrayal of how glimpse into the world of urban exploration, unmatchable.”—Pam Allyn, author of What to an innocent man can slip through the cracks of Gates describes his trespasses into some of the Read When the legal system and struggle to survive. most illustrious cities in the world, from Compelling and deeply moving, in the tradi- Argentina and Paris to Cairo and Moscow. The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad tion of Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking and • “Urban exploration with Gates makes for Lesley Hazleton • 978-1-59448-728-6 • $27.95 • Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song.” wildly entertaining reading.”—Publishers Jan 2013 • Riverhead • Drawing on early —Library Jounral, starred review Weekly eyewitness sources and on history, politics, reli- gion, and psychology, Hazleton tells the full Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, The Maid and the Queen: story of Muhammad, in all his complexity and Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East The Secret History of Joan of Arc vitality. • “Beautifully written... Respectfully to the Lower East Side Nancy Goldstone • 978-0-14-312282-1 • $16.00 humanizes the inimitable prophet of Islam and Rayya Elias • 978-0-670-78516-2 • $26.95 • Apr • Apr 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • The author sees him whole.”—Professor Cornel West, 2013 • Viking • “Rayya Elias’s life reads like of Four Queens offers a mesmerizing account of Union Theological Seminary, and Professor Huck Finn on heroin. Her story of fleeing Syria two extraordinary heroines who risked every- Emeritus, Princeton University • “Hazleton sets as a child, growing up in Detroit and spending thing for France. • “Compelling storytelling.”— her keen eye and her sculpted prose on one of her young adulthood trolling around the East Publishers Weekly • “Goldstone presents this the most fascinating and misunderstood figures Village is as American as they come, including dual biography of two fascinating medieval in history. What she uncovers is a complex yet as it does immigration, addiction and hard won women with the descriptive energy of a utterly relatable man whose personal trials and deliverance. Through it all Elias’s voice burns novel.”—Deirdre Donahue, USA Today triumphs changed the course of history.” fire hot and is completely engaging.”—Darcey —Reza Aslan, author of No God but God Steinke • “Rayya Elias’s twisted, devastating Lifesaving Lessons: memoir of a life lived on the margins can take Notes from an Accidental Mother Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen its rightful place alongside The Basketball Linda Greenlaw • 978-0-670-02517-6 • $26.95 • Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Diaries, Please Kill Me and Just Kids as a classic, Mar 2013 • Viking • Famed swordfish boat Kay Larson • 978-0-14-312347-7 • $18.00 • Aug blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC.”— captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle 2013 • Penguin • New in PB • The first biog- Craig Marks • “Rayya Elias’s recovery/coming with nature—a newly adopted teenage daughter. raphy of composer John Cage to show how his out/East Village memoir brutally and honestly work, and that of countless American artists, reminds us that replacing love with drugs keeps The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir was transformed by Zen Buddhism. • “Revela- a woman a child. The redemption here is in her Wenguang Huang • 978-1-594-48655-5 • tory... May not just be the best book written yet Syrian immigrant family.”—Sarah Schulman $16.00 • Apr 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • about John Cage; it’s probably also one of the Three generations of a family living under one most substantive-yet-readable entryways into roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an the nexus of 20th-century American art and entire society in this memoir of life in twen- the immortal qualities of Eastern thought.” tieth-century China. • “Ingenious...full of —Slate gravity, absurdity, and grief.”—Ha Jin, author of Waiting • “A trenchantly observed story that depicts the clash of traditional and modern Chinese culture with a powerful combination of sensitivity and mordant irony.”—Kirkus

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 16 A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage Bend, Not Break Who Was Dracula?: for the Restless and the Hopeful Fu Ping • 978-1-59184-552-2 • $26.95 • Jan Bram Stoker’s Trail of Blood Gideon Lewis-Kraus • 978-1-59463-149-8 • 2013 • Portfolio • The unbelievable story of a Jim Steinmeyer • 978-0-14-242188-8 • $26.95 • $16.00 • May 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • woman whose courage and resilience took her Apr 2013 • Tarcher • An acclaimed historian At loose ends, a brilliant young writer sets out from the horrors of Mao’s China to the top of sleuths out literature’s most famous vampire, on pilgrimage—our oldest excuse for escape. • the business world. China’s Cultural Revolution uncovering the source material—from folklore “A very honest, very smart, very moving book brought about the displacement of thousands and history to personas including Oscar Wilde about being young and rootless and even of children of merchants, bankers, college and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker’s wayward. With great compassion and zeal, professors, and others. In 1966, Ping Fu was bloody creation. Lewis-Kraus gets at the question: Why search one of these. As this fragile young girl comes of the world to solve the riddle of your own age in a communist work camp, a great mind God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a heart?”—Dave Eggers • “Thought-provoking emerges. • “There are few people in our world Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine and engaging in the style of Bruce Chatwin or who embody optimism like Ping Fu. She shows Victoria Sweet • 978-1-59448-654-8 • $16.00 • Paul Theroux, with ample sides of Thomas us how the human spirit can endure amazing Apr 2013 • Riverhead • New in PB • Caring for Merton and Augusten Burroughs.”—Kirkus hardship to find happiness, joy, and astounding a memorable array of patients over two decades success.”—Simon Sinek, author of Start with at an unusual hospital—the last almshouse in Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life Why • “From surviving the insanity of China’s the country­—a doctor’s sense of what it is to Melody Moezzi • 978-1-58333-468-3 • $26.00 • Cultural Revolution to the cutthroat antics of tend to the body and soul is transformed. • Aug 2013 • Avery • With candor and humor, a hi-tech venture capitalism, from low-life “Transcendent...a tour de force... Others have manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim outcast to billionaire dealer—it’s amazing to written about the relationship between time woman chronicles her experiences with both believe this all happened in one person’s life. and medical care...but the centuries of perspec- clinical and cultural bipolarity. The lessons Ping Fu has so artfully accumulated tive that Dr. Sweet brings infuse the point with are inspiring, heartening, educating, and enter- unforgettable clarity.”—The New York Times • I’ll Stand by You: One Woman’s Mission taining.”—Kevin Kelly, Wired; author of What “A most important book. It should be required to Heal the Children of the World Technology Wants reading for anyone interested in the ‘business’ Elissa Montanti with Jennifer Haupt • $16.00 • of healthcare—and especially those interested May 2013 • Plume • New in PB • The inspiring The Still Point of the Turning World in the humanity of healthcare.”—Oliver Sacks story of how one woman is changing the world, Emily Rapp • 978-1-59420-512-5 • $25.95 • one child at a time. • “An intriguing journey Mar 2013 • Penguin Press • A mother’s experi- Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True that begins with tragic loss and stretches across ence raising a terminally ill child and what it Treasure Island Ghost Story the rugged terrain of lawless hinterlands of teaches her about family, grief, and parenting. J. Maarten Troost • 978-1-592-40789-7 • $26.00 war-torn Bosnia to find a new life.”—Deborah • “A beautiful, searing exploration of the land- • June 2013 • Gotham • The author of The Sex Rodriguez, author of The Kabul Beauty School scape of grief and a profound meditation on Lives of Cannibals recounts his witty misadven- the meaning of life.”—Kirkus, starred review tures, following in the footsteps of an unlikely Rita Moreno: A Memoir • “This memoir of extraordinary tenderness idol, Robert Louis Stevenson. Rita Moreno • 978-0-451-41637-7 • $26.95 • and grace in the face of unimaginable loss is Mar 2013 • Celebra • The legendary film, tele- searingly beautiful in the way of a sacred text. My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, vision and stage performer shares her life story An unforgettable moral and artistic triumph.”— Strength, and What Makes a Family from a poor village in Puerto Rico to the streets Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion and Slow Zach Wahls • 978-1-59240-763-7 • $16.00 • of New York and the wilds of Hollywood. Motion Apr 2013 • Gotham • New in PB • A resounding testament to the power of family in Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets The Rules of Inheritance all forms and reassurance that there is no Carissa Phelps with Larkin Warren Claire Bidwell Smith • 978-0-452-29887-3 • wrong way to be who you are. • “This is a • 978-0-14-312333-0 • $16.00 • July 2013 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Plume • New in PB • wonderful book. You will love it. You will weep Penguin • New in PB • A story of redemption, A memoir about a young woman who loses her at times. It is an incredible demonstration of from a young girl who grew up on the streets family but finds herself in the process. • “A the power of real values.”—Jon Stewart, The but found the strength to succeed—and to brave and intelligent book about big loss and Daily Show become an advocate in her work against sex even bigger love. The gritty truth and hard won trafficking. • “A devastatingly honest grace in this beautiful memoir astonishes The Lost Daughter memoir.”—San Francisco Chronicle • me.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild • “Forget Mary Williams • 978-0-399-16086-8 • $26.95 • “Riveting.... A genuinely important book.” everything you think you know about grief. Apr 2013 • Blue Rider • A daughter of the Black —Kirkus Smith’s memoir is the most honest book I’ve Panther movement tells her remarkable life ever read about how loss unmoors, challenges story of being raised amid violence and and changes you, written in prose so exquisite poverty, adopted as a teenager by Jane Fonda, it could be poetry. Dazzlingly brave and abso- and finding her way back home. The Lost lutely true.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times Daughter is a chronicle of her journey back in bestselling author of Pictures of You time, an exploration of fractured family bonds, and a moving epic of self-discovery. • “I’ve been astonished at how natural, conversational and funny Mary Williams is on the page. Her story is incredible, an only-in-America epic, and I can’t wait to see it out in the world.” —Dave Eggers, author of What Is The What

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