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ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2007 • Volume SIXTEEN, Number 2 A THOUSanD SPLENDID SUNS GIRLS OF RIYADH LUNCHEON OF THE BOatING PARTY KHALED HOSSEINI RAJAA ALSANEA SUSAN VREELAND Born a generation apart, Mariam and Laila Immediately banned in Saudi Arabia upon its Renoir narrates this imaginative tour de force, are two women brought jarringly together by 2005 Arabic release, this tale of four young bringing to life his famous painting of his war, by loss, and by fate. Hosseini, the author women navigating the narrow straits between friends on a café terrasse along the Seine near of the acclaimed bestseller The Kite Runner, desire and Islamic tradition has since been cel- Paris. “The figures stroll from Renoir’s paint- shows how a woman’s love for her family can ebrated across the Middle East and beyond. ing and into the pages of Vreeland’s new novel move her to heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and A Penguin Press hardcover with all the vibrancy and elegance of the canvas that in the end it is love that is often the key July 320 pp. 978-1-59420-121-9 $24.95 itself. A marvelous evocation that brings a to survival. “A powerful, harrowing depiction Also available as a Penguin Audiobook painting—and an entire age—beautifully to of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of 8 hours, 7 CDs Unabridged 978-0-14-314214-0 $39.95 life.”—Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome. the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient A Viking hardcover characters.”—Publishers Weekly (starred). ALWAYS May 304 pp. 978-0-670-03854-1 $25.95 A Riverhead hardcover NICOLA GRIFFITH Also available as a Penguin Audiobook May 336 pp. 978-1-57322-471-0 $25.95 Aud Torvingen—contemporary fiction’s 15 hours, 12 CDs Unabridged toughest, most emotionally complicated noir 978-0-14-314210-2 $39.95 hero—returns to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire. THE LaST SUMMER (OF YOU anD ME) A Riverhead hardcover ANN BRASHARES May 464 pp. 978-1-59448-935-8 $26.95 Set on Fire Island, the author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series brings us a story AMONG OtHER THINGS, of a beach-community friendship triangle I’VE TAKEN UP SMOKING between two sisters and a young man they’ve AOIBHEANN SWEENEY grown up with—and what happens one sum- Raised by her brilliant, troubled father on a mer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a tiny island off the coast of Maine, Miranda sudden illness, and a deep secret all collide to sets off for New York upon graduation—and launch the friends into adulthood. discovers the fog of mystery left there by her A Riverhead hardcover father decades ago. June 320 pp. 978-1-59448-917-4 $24.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Penguin Press hardcover 10 hours, 8 CDs Unabridged July 208 pp. 978-1-59420-130-1 $23.95 978-0-14314-241-6 $34.95 SaLT THE CHESS MaCHINE JEREMY PAGE ROBERT LÖHR THE SECRETS OF A FIRE KING In the summer of 1945 in Norfolk, England, Based on a true story, the riveting histori- KIM EDWARDS Goose rescues a German soldier and brings cal adventure of a legendary invention—the The first short-story collection from the author him home. Nine months later, he vanishes, Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess-playing of the bestselling The Memory Keeper’s Daugh- leaving behind a new born daughter. “Stun- automaton—and the lives touched by its dark ter. Edwards explores those who exist on the ningly good. Captures the landscapes with a powers. “Löhr’s historical novel is an exciting fringes of society: a fire-eater, an American and truly deft, water-colorist’s touch. His ear for story, splendidly entertaining and with a great his Korean war bride, a trapeze artist, among Norfolk cadence is extremely acute.”—Rose deal to say—about men and women who rise others. “Impeccable, a treasure….Edward’s Tremain, author of Restoration. above their limitations and surpass themselves, brilliance is evident in the way she constructs a A Viking hardcover and about the entire spectrum of human pas- July 256 pp. 978-0-670-03868-8 $24.95 story.”—Chicago Tribune. sions.”—Neue Westfälische (Germany). A Penguin paperback A Penguin Press hardcover July 256 pp. 978-0-14-311230-3 $14.00 July 336 pp. 978-1-59420-126-4 $24.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 10 hours, 8 CDs Unabridged 978-0-14-314263-8 $29.95 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing call (212) 366-2372. THE CRIME WRITER GREGG HURWITZ Successful crime novelist Drew Danner awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head—and no memory of being found over his ex-fiancée’s body with a bloody knife. “Hurwitz knows how to write a thriller!”—Michael Connelly. A Viking hardcover July 320 pp. 978-0-670-06321-5 $24.95 GOD IS DEAD RON CURRIE, JR. In a satire worthy of Swift, God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan. Her death in the Darfur desert leaves the world utterly transformed, yet eerily familiar. FIVE SKIES A Viking hardcover MaRION ZIMMER BRADLEY’s RON CARLSON July 208 pp. 978-0-670-03867-1 $21.95 RaVENS OF AVALON The eminent short-story writer offers his first DIANA L. PAXSON novel in 30 years—three men confront their RED ROVER The epic journey of Celtic princess Boudica and respective pasts when they gather high in the DEIRDRE MCNAMER priestess Lhiannon in the wake of the Roman Rocky Mountains for a construction project After growing up together in Montana, three conquest of Britain gives rise to the Forest that is to last the summer. friends become embroiled in World War II, with House. A Viking hardcover one apparently committing suicide in its after- A Viking hardcover May 256 pp. 978-0-670-03850-3 $23.95 math. Decades later, a chance meeting of the August 400 pp. 978-0-670-03870-1 $25.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook other two illuminates the truth of their friend’s 7.5 hours, 6 CDs Unabridged death. “McNamer’s novel is vividly observed CHRISTOPHEr’s GHOSTS 978-0-14-314231-7 $29.95 and original....This is ‘the novel as story-tell- A Paul Christopher Novel ing.’ And it is of a very high order.”—Richard CHARLES MCCARRY NEW BEDLAM Ford. Across the blood-soaked stage of 20th-century BILL FLANAGAN A Viking hardcover Europe, Christopher edges toward the final When Bobby Kahn, network TV’s boy-wonder August 224 pp. 978-0-670-06350-5 $24.95 confrontation with his mortal enemy—and programming executive, gets fired, he conde- one he thought he’d conquered, his past. scends to run a declining family cable dynasty An Overlook hardcover in the cozy town of New Bedlam, Rhode Island. May 272 pp. 978-1-58567-914-0 $25.00 A Penguin Press hardcover August 368 pp. 978-1-59420-050-2 $24.95 THE SISTER A Novel of Emily Dickinson IN THE WOODS PAOLA KAUFMANN TANA FRENCH Based on authentic Dickinson family docu- Witness to a horrifying crime as a boy, Rob ments, the life and loves of the enigmatic Ryan is now a detective on the Dublin Murder poet are imaginatively reconstructed as seen Squad, his past a secret—until a girl is found through the eyes of her younger sister Lavinia. murdered in the same woods. “This is classic, An Overlook hardcover cinematic suspense. I read it with sweaty palms May 280 pp. 978-1-58567-951-5 $24.95 and a racing heart.”—Lisa Dierbeck, author of One Pill Makes You Smaller. FIELDS OF ASPHODEL A Viking hardcover TITO PERDUE May 464 pp. 978-0-670-03860-2 $24.95 “America’s Lost Literary Genius” (New York Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Press) reemerges with a new tale about Leland 18 hours, 15 CDs Unabridged 978-0-14-314218-8 $39.95 Pefley, who had hoped that death would bring THURSDAY NEXT an end to things. Instead, he wakes up in a very JASPER FFORDE bad place, but with the chance to track down SECOND CHanCE When Sherlock Homes is killed at the Rheinback his beloved late wife. JANE GREEN Falls and Miss Marple in a car wreck, Thursday An Overlook hardcover When a member of an old band of school realizes there’s a killer on the loose in the July 272 pp. 978-1-58567-871-6 $24.95 chums unexpectedly dies, the remaining Bookworld. friends reunite for the first time since their A Viking hardcover THREE CaVE MOUntaIN school days and find that their lives have been August 400 pp. 978-0-670-03871-8 $24.95 PER OLOV ENQUIST changed in unforeseen ways. Translated from the A Viking hardcover June 288 pp. 978-0-670-03857-2 $24.95 Swedish by Tiina Nunnally Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Illustrations by Stina Wirsén 12 hours, 10 CDs Unabridged In the acclaimed author’s first foray into chil- 978-0-14-314217-1 $39.95 One Community dren’s literature, Mina wakes up one night with City Read a crocodile bite on her bum. And only Grandpa LULU MEETS GOD anD DOUBTS HIM realizes that this requires a dangerous journey FOR NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY up Three Cave Mountain.