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July 2019 New Releases JULY 2019 NEW RELEASES gale.com/thorndikepress CONTENTS ABOUT THIS CATALOG THORNDIKE PRESS SIMULTANEOUS STANDING ORDERS LARGE PRINT RELEASE TITLES Numbers appearing with titles Did you know that Thorndike indicate the Standing Order tier African-American ...................... 12 Press publishes more than 250 level. For Standing Order plan Basic .......................................... 3–4 Large Print titles simultaneously and tier descriptions, go to our Bill’s Bookshelf ............................. 8 with the original publisher’s website at gale.com/thorndike/ Biography and Memoir .............. 9 standard print edition each year? standingorders. Everyone can read Large Print, Christian Fiction ........................ 14 All Standing Order prices listed in so buy additional copies of those Christian Historical Fiction ....... 15 this catalog include discount. Not high-demand titles in a format all available in Canada. 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Mystery ........................................ 11 Mystery Sampler ........................ 17 Nonfiction ..................................... 9 Peer Picks ...................................... 8 Publisher's Showcase ................ 17 7 WAYS TO ORDER Reviewers’ Choice ....................... 7 • Postage-free order form available online at Romance .................................... 12 gale.com/thorndikepress/order Silhouette Romance ................. 18 Thriller ........................................ 10 • Visit gale.com/thorndikepress Western ...................................... 13 • Email [email protected] Wheeler Cozy Mystery .............. 10 Wheeler Hardcover ...................... 6 • Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 Wheeler Western ...................... 13 Women’s Fiction .......................... 7 • Fax 1.800.558.4676 Young Adult ................................. 4 • Contact your library sales consultant KENNEBEC LARGE PRINT gale.com/repfinder/thorndike Paperback Bestsellers .............. 19 • Explore availability through all major Relationship Reads ................... 19 wholesalers 2 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 Fax 1.800.558.4676 STANDING % 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,496. 25 OFF ORDER BASIC I UNDER CURRENTS Nora Roberts #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #1 TITLE In a perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, two children feel like prisoners of war. People see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. | 978-1-4328-6469-9 | $38.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 7/9/2019 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. THE SUMMER OF SUNSHINE THE SUMMER GUESTS AND MARGOT Mary Alice Monroe Susan Mallery NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #6 TITLE EDITOR’S CHOICE #2 TITLE Monroe’s heartwarming and evocative new The Baxter sisters come from a long line novel is about the bonds and beginnings of women with disastrous luck in love. But born from natural disasters, and how in the this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn worst of circumstances we discover what is disasters into destiny . important in life. | 978-1-4328-6652-5 | $37.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6721-8 | $36.99 U.S. Romance | Releases 7/3/2019 Women's Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. LOCK EVERY DOOR FLIGHT OR FRIGHT Riley Sager 17 TURBULENT TALES NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent Riley Sager’s latest heart-pounding thriller #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR follows Jules Larsen, a heartbroken and Stephen King, who hates to fly, presents broke young woman whose new job as tales about all the things that can go an apartment sitter at one of Manhattan’s horribly wrong when you’re six miles in most high-profile, glamorous and the air, hurtling through space at 500 mph, mysterious buildings may cost more than it pays. sealed in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. | 978-1-4328-6667-9 | $35.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6666-2 | $35.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. STONE MOTHERS RECURSION Erin Kelly Blake Crouch “Utterly engaging, terrifying, and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR unputdownable.” ― starred, Booklist “Reminiscent of the best and most fantastic works At seventeen, Marianne fled her home — by Philip K. Dick.” — Library Journal leaving behind her family, her boyfriend, NYC cop Barry Sutton investigates a and the body they buried. Thirty years devastating phenomenon dubbed False later, forced to return to help her sick Memory Syndrome, which drives its mother, she feels the past closing around her. victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. 978-1-4328-6669-3 | $33.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6715-7 | $33.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 6, 7 & 8. [email protected] gale.com/thorndikepress 3 STANDING % 25OFF ORDER BASIC I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,496. LIGHTS ALL NIGHT LONG Lydia Fitzpatrick "Beyond the brothers’ crystalline characterizations, Fitzpatrick gifts her intriguing debut with elegant prose, affecting images, and rich settings.”— starred,Booklist A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer. This rich tale about the pull of homes both native and adopted is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other. 978-1-4328-6664-8 | $31.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 | Available in Basic 6, 7 & 8. THE GREAT PRETENDERS AUNTIE POLDI AND Laura Kalpakian THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA The daughter of Hollywood royalty, An Auntie Poldi Adventure Roxanne Granville is used to getting Mario Giordano what she wants — even if she has to “Giordano gives his heroine's second outing as break the rules. But after a falling- much punch as her debut. Long may she reign.” out with her grandfather, a powerful — starred, Kirkus Reviews movie mogul, she has to face life on Prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi is ready her own for the first time. Roxanne bravely defies for some peace and quiet, interrupted by romantic convention. She won’t let men make all the rules, honor encounters with handsome Chief Inspector Montana. the blacklist as an agent, or let skin color determine Then she finds a body in a vineyard, tangles with the whom she loves. This riveting novel reminds us that Mafia, and yet again makes herself unpopular in the some things are worth fighting for. pursuit of justice. But once wine and murder mix, how could she possibly stay away? 978-1-4328-6684-6 | $30.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6662-4 | $30.99 NCR Women's Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 7 & 8. Available in Basic 8. STANDING % 24 hardcover titles each year for about $450. 25OFF ORDER YOUNG ADULT I 29 DATES DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY Melissa de la Cruz Adib Khorram #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WINNER OF THE WILLIAM C. MORRIS “A surefire hit wherever lighthearted romances DEBUT AWARD are popular.” — Kirkus Reviews “Will inspire reflection about identity and belonging.” — starred, School Library Journal Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are working with Seoul’s premiere Darius doesn’t think he’ll ever be enough, matchmaker to find the right boyfriend in America or in Iran. Then he met as a step toward ensuring Jisu’s success. By going on Sohrab. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this story is for the dates, Jisu can please her parents and find space to anyone who’s ever felt not good enough — then met a figure out her own dreams. Until they ship her off to a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay. private school in San Francisco. This unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA. 978-1-4328-6654-9 | $24.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6699-0 | $24.99 U.S. Young Adult General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Young Adult General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Young Adult 1 & 2. Available in Young Adult 2. 4 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 Fax 1.800.558.4676 STANDING % 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,496. 25 OFF ORDER CORE I TOM CLANCY ENEMY CONTACT BACKLASH: A Thriller A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel The Scot Harvath Series Mike Maden Brad Thor #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #5 TITLE EDITOR’S CHOICE #6 TITLE Jack Ryan Jr.’s race to stop an international Fearless men of honor have been known criminal conspiracy becomes intertwined throughout history: Spartan, Viking, with the final request of an old friend. Samurai. Today, one man is all three. And two days ago, Scot Harvath was crossed — badly. | 978-1-4328-6566-5 | $37.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6653-2 | $37.99 U.S.
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