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Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2014 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2 ROUTE TO: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ __________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2014 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2 EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU MAMBO IN CHINATOWN ONE PLUS ONE CELESTE NG JEAN KWOK JOJO MOYES “Ng tells a story weighted by death and grief From the bestselling author of Girl in Transla- The bestselling author of Me Before You returns that is vital in all the essential ways; these char- tion, a novel about a young woman torn with another contemporary opposites-attract acters betray and love blindly and are needy and between her family duties in Chinatown and love story, in which a single mom with a dys- accuse and forgive....At the same time, her story her escape into the world of ballroom dancing. functional family stumbles upon an unlikely is also about what it means to live in two worlds A Riverhead hardcover knight: the obnoxious tech millionaire whose at the same time, to be Asian and American, an July • 368 pp. • 978-1-59463-200-6 • $27.95 vacation home she happens to clean. insider and an outsider, and Ng writes about all Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Pamela Dorman hardcover this and more with terrific nuance.”—Jesmyn Digital only, 11.5 hours • 978-0-698-15382-0 • $39.95 July • 384 pp. • 978-0-525-42658-5 • $27.95 Ward, National Book Award–winning author Also available as a Penguin Audiobook of Salvage the Bones. THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE 10 CDs, 12.5 hours • 978-1-61176-273-0 • $39.95 A Penguin Press hardcover REBECCA MAKKAI Digital • 978-0-698-16290-7 June • 304 pp. • 978-1-59420-571-2 • $26.95 The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with the tale of a historic estate that once THE LOTUS AND THE STORM THE INVENTION OF EXILE housed an arts colony—and the husband of LAN CAO VANESSA MANKO the estate’s heir who desperately needs the Former South Vietnamese commander Minh “A voice for the years to come....It is an colony files to get his stalled academic career left his homeland with his daughter, Mai, after unflinching portrait of how our lives are struc- back on track. the war. Now, Mai discovers a series of devas- tured around the complications of geography, A Viking hardcover tating truths about what really happened to beauty, and chance, and, at its core, it is a story July • 336 pp. • 978-0-525-42668-4 • $26.95 her family during those years. about those who live in the double shadows of Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Viking hardcover home and history.”—Colum McCann, author Digital only, 11 hours • 978-0-698-16235-8 • $39.95 August • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-01692-1 • $27.95 of Transatlantic. A Penguin Press hardcover LAST STORIES AND WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICITY August • 304 pp. • 978-1-59420-588-0 • $26.95 OTHER STORIES CHRISTINA NICHOL WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN “A wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel THE KEILLOR READER In the celebrated author’s collection of linked that tackles cultural clashes with satirical GARRISON KEILLOR ghost stories, a Bohemian farmer’s dead wife hilarity. I haven’t read a first novel this prom- This volume brings together the full range of returns to him at a gruesome price, while a ising since The Confederacy of Dunces.”—Jill the beloved writer’s work, from Prairie Home homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper Ciment, author of Heroic Measures. Companion monologues and New Yorker stories cutouts of ancient heroes. An Overlook hardcover to pieces never before published. 7 b/w photos. A Viking hardcover June • 336 pp. • 978-1-4683-0686-6 • $26.95 A Viking hardcover July • 704 pp. • 978-0-670-01597-9 • $36.00 May • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-02058-4 • $27.95 3 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to PENGUIN GROUP (USA). If form is missing, email [email protected] SHIRLEY THE LAST MAGAZINE THE SCENIC ROUTE SUSAN SCARF MERRELL MICHAEL HASTINGS DEVAN SIPHER Fred and Rose Nemser, a graduate student and Discovered in his files after his tragic death in Austin Gittleman and Naomi Bloom seem to his pregnant wife, move into writer Shirley 2013, the debut novel by the author of The have nothing in common. But that doesn’t Jackson’s home on the Bennington campus in Operators follows a young journalist named stop Austin from falling head over heels for the summer of 1964. With her husband teach- Michael M. Hastings, a 22-year- old intern at her when they reconnect at a mutual friend’s ing all day, Rose forms an unlikely friendship The Magazine, who will stop at nothing to turn wedding. Only falling hard doesn’t guarantee with the unpredictable Shirley. his internship into a full-time position. happily ever after. A Blue Rider Press hardcover A Blue Rider Press hardcover An NAL paperback original June • 272 pp. • 978-0-399-16645-7 • $25.95 June • 352 pp. • 978-0-399-16994-6 • $26.95 June • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-23966-2 • $15.00 EM AND THE BIG HOOM GOODNIGHT JUNE THE NEVER NEVER SISTERS JERRY PINTO SARAH JIO L. ALISON HELLER “This is a world of magnified and dark emotion A suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the For a self-proclaimed relationship expert, Paige ...a rare, brilliant book.”—Kiran Desai, author “great green room” of the children’s classic knows very little about the people in her life. of The Inheritance of Loss. “Beautiful...One of Goodnight Moon might have come to be—by Her marriage is on the rocks and her sister the very best books to come out of India in a the author of the bestselling Blackberry reappears after a twenty-year absence. As she long, long time.”—Salman Rushdie, author of Winter. digs deeper into her husband’s work troubles Midnight’s Children. A Plume paperback original and long-held family secrets, Paige grapples A Penguin paperback original May • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-218021-1 • $16.00 with her biggest challenge yet: Is it worth risk- July • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-312476-4 • $16.00 ing your most precious relationships in order THE ACCIDENTAL BOOK CLUB to find yourself? An NAL paperback original MARINE PARK JENNIFER SCOTT June • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-41624-7 • $15.00 Stories Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, MARK CHIUSANO but when her family starts unraveling—and IT COMES IN WAVES “In clean, honed prose, Mark Chiusano gives her teen granddaughter, Bailey, comes to stay ERIKA MARKS us an intimate tour of a neighborhood of with her—she turns to her fledgling club for Brooklyn not offered up in fiction before.... comfort and support. For competitive surfer Claire Patton, the waves of South Carolina’s Folly Beach once Startling and affecting....Impeccable. Marine An NAL Accent paperback original Park is a debut worth a reader’s close atten- May • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-41882-1 • $15.00 held the promise of a bright, loving future— tion.”—Amy Hempel, author of The Collected until her fiancé broke the news that he and Stories of Amy Hempel. Claire’s best friend were in love and expecting CURE FOR THE COMMON a child. A Penguin paperback original BREAKUP August • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-312460-3 • $15.00 An NAL Accent paperback original BETH KENDRICK July • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-41886-9 • $15.00 When just-jilted Summer Benson heads to LENA FINKLE’S MAGIC BARREL Black Dog Bay—“the best place in America to BEST SUPPORTING ROLE A Graphic Novel bounce back from your breakup”—she is wel- SUE MARGOLIS comed by Dutch Jansen, the rugged, stoic ANYA ULINICH When her gambling addict husband dies, mayor who is the opposite of her type. The author of the universally praised novel Sarah Green is left penniless and with two Petropolis portrays 37-year-old Lena, who, An NAL paperback original children to raise. But then Sarah’s aunt wills after 15 years of marriage, embarks on a string May • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-46585-6 • $15.00 her a failing lingerie shop. Suddenly, Sarah of online dates and receives a brutally eye- finds herself falling for the man she hires to opening education in love, sex, and loss, while A LONG TIME GONE renovate the boutique and entering a presti- raising her two teenage daughters. KAREN WHITE gious lingerie competition. A Penguin paperback original Fleeing a broken marriage and hoping to find An NAL paperback original August • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-312524-2 • $16.00 solace with the grandmother who raised her, July • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-24013-2 • $15.00 Vivien returns home to the Mississippi Delta. IRIS AND RUBY But when a storm uncovers the remains of a BAREFOOT BEACH ROSIE THOMAS long-dead woman buried near the house, TOBY DEVENS Vivien resolves to uncover the secrets of her Eighty-two-year-old Iris’s quiet and claustro- Every summer, longtime friends Nora, Margo, family history. phobic Cairo house is suddenly disturbed by and Emine meet at Nanticoke Beach, Mary- the unexpected arrival of her troubled grand- An NAL hardcover land, to rekindle friendships. But this year, the daughter, Ruby, who has run away from Eng- June • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-24046-0 • $25.95 challenges of the three friends’ lives invade land to seek solace with the grandmother she their summer escape.
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