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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 2013 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2 AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING THE DARK ROAD KHALED HOSSEINI CAMP FOR GIRLS MA JIAN The bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thou- ANTON DISCLAFANI Translated by Flora Drew sand Splendid Suns returns with a new novel about “I fell completely under the spell of Anton DiScla- From one of world literature’s most courageous how we love, how we take care of one another, and fani’s amazing first novel and was gripped by its lush voices comes a novel about the human cost of Chi- how the choices we make resonate through genera- and dreamy evocations of Southern decorum, family na’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural tions. “Captivating and affecting...Hosseini traces secrets, and boarding school rituals.”—Curtis Sit- family on the run from its reach. the traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, tenfeld, author of Prep. A Penguin Press Hardcover and illness in the intricately interconnected, heart- A Riverhead hardcover June • 384 pp. • 978-1-59420-502-6 • $25.95 breaking, and transcendent lives of his vibrantly June • 400 pp. • 978-1-59448-640-1 • $27.95 realized characters to create a grand and encompass- Also available as a Penguin Audiobook VIRGIN SOUL ing tree of life.”—Booklist, starred review. Digital only, 12.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-162091-5 • $39.95 JUDY JUANITA A Riverhead hardcover May • 416 pp. • 978-1-59463-176-4 • $28.95 “Virgin Soul is first-class awesome, every page a THE BOOKMAN’S TALE crackling hungry flame. This novel about a young A Novel of Obsession studious woman immersed in the black revolution- THE OTHER TYPIST CHARLIE LOVETT ary experience of 60’s Berkeley has a freshness and SUZANNE RINDELL A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian book- bright ardor that is rare in this lazy climate of “This eerie and compelling debut is a riveting page- seller’s search through the works of Shakespeare American fiction.”—Joy Williams, author of State of turner, narrated by a strangely hypnotic yet dubious and time for his lost love. “Lovett has crafted a grip- Grace. young woman who works as a typist for the NYPD in ping literary mystery that is compulsively readable A Viking hardcover the 1920s....You’ll stay up to all hours devouring its until the thrilling end...for fans of Geraldine May • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02658-6 • $26.95 pages.”—Alice LaPlante, author of Turn of Mind. Brooks’s People of the Book, Shakespeare aficionados, An Amy Einhorn hardcover and bibliophiles.”—Library Journal, starred review. May • 368 pp. • 978-0-399-16146-9 • $25.95 A Viking hardcover THE WIDOW WALTZ June • 368 pp. • 978-0-670-02647-0 • $27.95 SALLY KOSLOW “Koslow gives us a portrait of female fortitude and LEXICON reinvention in her tale of how fifty-something Geor- MAX BARRY TEN THINGS I’VE gia must start again from ‘Go’ after her luxurious “About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral LEARNT ABOUT LOVE Manhattan life implodes overnight. Reading a thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast SARAH BUTLER Koslow novel is like eating a top-of-the-line gourmet as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of A bold debut novel examines the unlikely bond truffle.”—Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us. his mind on Snow Crash.”—Lev Grossman, author of between a rootless daughter summoned home to A Viking hardcover The Magicians. her dying father’s bedside and a homeless man on a June • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-02564-0 • $27.95 A Penguin Press hardcover mission to find the child he’s never met but always June • 384 pp. • 978-1-59420-538-5 • $26.95 loved. Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Penguin Press hardcover Digital only, 12 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-162032-8 • $39.95 July • 320 pp. • 978-1-59420-533-0 • $26.95 3 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing, email [email protected] LOOKING FOR ME THE TALE OF RAW HEAD ARCHIPELAGO BETH HOFFMAN AND BLOODY BONES MONIQUE ROFFEY The author ofSaving CeeCee Honeycutt portrays Teddi JACK WOLF After a devastating flood, a father and daughter Overman, whose graciously-appointed antiques shop “There is no doubting the talent, I might even say embark on a sea voyage that takes them far from in Charleston has never alleviated the haunting brilliance, of the author, Jack Wolf....I simply cannot their Caribbean island home as they sail through memory of her brother’s mysterious disappearance. imagine whence came the idea for such a beautifully archipelagos, meeting with the challenges of the A Pamela Dorman hardcover bizarre story....A deeply original and startling natural world. June • 368 pp. • 978-0-670-02583-1 • $27.95 read.”—S. J. Bolton, author of Blood Harvest. A Penguin paperback original Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Penguin paperback original June • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-312256-2 • $16.00 11.5 hours, 9 CDs • Unabridged • $39.95 • 978-1-61176-170-2 April • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-312382-8 • $16.00 Digital • 978-1-10-162014-4 THE LAST CAMELLIA BEAUTIFUL FOOLS SARAH JIO THE GLASS OCEAN The Last Affair of Zelda and When the last surviving specimen of a camellia LORI BAKER Scott Fitzgerald plant is secreted away on an English country estate, “An adventure of dreamlike momentum and roman- R. CLIFTON SPARGO amateur American botanist Flora is contracted by an tic intensity, brought alive by a storyteller with In an attempt to fuse together their fractured mar- international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the uncanny access to the Victorians, not only to the riage, Scott arranges a trip to a Cuban beach resort. property and acquire the coveted bloom. closely-woven texture of their days but also to the But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape A Plume paperback original dangerous nocturnal fires being attended to in their the dangerous intensity of their relationship. June • 320 pp. • 978-0-452-29839-2 • $15.00 hearts.”—Thomas Pynchon. An Overlook hardcover A Penguin Press hardcover May • 368 pp. • 978-1-4683-0492-3 • $26.95 August • 352 pp. • 978-1-59420-536-1 • $25.95 RACE ACROSS THE SKY DEREK SHERMAN MALAVITA Two estranged brothers—an ultramarathon runner THE CLEANER OF CHARTRES TONINO BENACQUISTA and a biotechnology rep—reunite and push past the SALLEY VICKERS Ex-goodfella Fred Blake is relocated by the FBI to a limits of their endurance in a race to save a baby’s Agnès Morel is a quiet presence in the small French small town in Normandy, France—when an impris- life. town of Chartres, where she can be found cleaning oned mobster gets wind of his whereabouts. A Plume paperback original the famed medieval cathedral each morning. Yet no A Penguin paperback original August • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-29906-1 • $16.00 one suspects the dark secret she is hiding. July • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-312385-9 • $15.00 A Viking hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook CALL ME ZELDA July • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-78567-4 • $26.95 Digital only, 8.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-161984-1 • $29.95 ERIKA ROBUCK NECESSARY ERRORS From the author of Hemingway’s Girl comes a richly RETURN TO OAKPINE imagined tale of Zelda Fitzgerald’s love, longing, and RON CARLSON CALEB CRAIN struggle against ever-threatening insanity. The American original portrays four men as they “Offers an invaluable record of Prague at the begin- An NAL paperback original reunite in Oakpine, Wyoming, where they formed a ning of the 1990s in a style that places it among the May • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-23992-1 • $16.00 close-knit bond as boys three decades earlier. great novels of Americans abroad. It’s The Ambassa- dors for the generation that came of age with the A Viking hardcover THE MANGO BRIDE July • 272 pp. • 978-0-670-02507-7 • $25.95 downfall of the Soviet Union.”—Marco Roth, author of The Scientists. MARIVI SOLIVEN A Penguin paperback original The fates of two Filipina immigrants—one a family BREATHLESS August • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-312241-8 • $16.00 outcast, the other a mail-order bride—collide in ANNE SWÄRD Berkeley, California, around a long-held secret. Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner HOTSHOT An NAL Accent paperback original Just 6 when she met 13-year-old Lukas, the adult Lo May • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-23984-6 • $15.00 now travels from Berlin to Copenhagen to New York, JULIE GARWOOD from tryst to tryst, blaming the outside world for Peyton Lockhart and her sisters inherit Bishop’s tearing her and Lukas apart. Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort. But their THE LOVE WARS L. ALISON HELLER A Viking hardcover contentious cousins, as well as a powerful group of August • 288 pp. • 978-0-670-02654-8 • $25.95 land developers, have been eyeing the coveted Haunted by an incident from her past, matrimonial beachfront property. lawyer Molly Grant resolves to help Fern Walker A Dutton hardcover win her custody case...without her bosses finding THE LEMON ORCHARD August • 368 pp. • 978-0-525-95301-2 • $26.95 out. LUANNE RICE An NAL paperback original In the five years since Julia last visited her aunt’s PASTORS’ WIVES May • 352 pp.