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For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development Library Collection and Acquisitions In Managers For Newsletter Publication Advance N 375 HUDSON A PENGUIN PENGUIN GROUP (USA) CADEMIC EW YORK, G Advance Publication Newsletter M ROU N ARKETING For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development S Y 10014-3657 TREET P (uSa) BOOKS DUE: JanUary, FebrUary, March, april 2010 • VOlume NINETEEn, Number 1 D E P ARTMENT “Gilbert’s prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit, and colloquial exuber- ance that is close to irresistible.” —The New York Times Book Review SEE INSIDE FOR MORE TITLES COMING SOON FROM PENGUIN GROUP (USA)! STATEN ISLAND, NY STATEN PERMIT NO. 169 U.S. POSTAGE PRSRT-STD PAID PENGUIN GROUP (uSa) 375 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014-3657 TELEphONE (212) 366-2377 FAX (212) 366-2666 WWW.PENGUIN.COM January 2010 Dear Librarian: Welcome to the Winter 2010 edition of PENGUIN GROUP (USA)’s Advance Publication Newsletter. The newsletter includes late-breaking reviews, news of award-winners, up-to-date information on prices, and book descriptions for our January through April titles. We hope you will take some time to review the many new books included here. As usual, the newsletter is divided into subject categories to route each section to your appropriate acquisitions and collection development specialists. Some highlights: • Viking is proud to announce Summertime, a brillant new work of fiction from Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee, while our new imprint, Amy Einhorn, is excited to publish the historical fiction title The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. (see Fiction). In addition, make sure to check out our Mysteries/Thrillers and Science Fiction/Fantasy sections for all the latest titles from Harlan Coben, John Lescroart, Walter Mosley, and T. J. Parker. • Penguin Classics offers new translations of Celestina, a racy and irreverent 16th-centurey Spanish tragicomedy; The Real Story of Ah-Q from Lu Xun, the father of Chinese literature; and the father of Japanese fiction Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro and Sanshirō. (see Literature) • Ira Berlin offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries in The Making of African America. (see History & Biography). Also, please see our Memoir page, which includes Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert’s sequel to her bestselling Eat, Pray, Love. • Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of 100 million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper in The Next Hundred Million. (see Current Events & Politics) • Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City’s first forensic scientists to discover a fascinat- ing Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder in The Poisoner’s Handbook. (see Science, Education & Reference) • David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. is back with a completely revised and updated edition of Anticancer. (see Psychology, Health & Spirituality) • The End of Wall Street by business journalist Roger Lowenstein explores the roots of the mortgage bubble and the collapse of Wall Street. (see Business & Management) • Enjoy watching the World Series this fall? You can relive the glory in the off season by reading Mark Kurlansky’s Eastern Stars, an in-depth look at the small town in the Dominican Republic where many of MLB’s stars hail from. (see Performing Arts & Popular Culture) Please enjoy our newsletter and order through your regular supplier or via the direct order form enclosed. In addition, you may peruse the newsletter online, and sign up for an email alert each time it goes live on our library site, www.penguin.com/library. Regards, Alan S. Walker Vice-President, Academic & Library Sales 2 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] ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: JanUary, FEBrUary, March, april 2010 • VOlUME ninETEEn, nUMBEr 1 SUmmertIME THE SUrrenDereD RemarKable CreatUres J. M. COETZEE ChAng-rAE LEE TRACY ChEVALIER The Nobel laureate offers a revelatory tale about a Thirty years ago in a Korean orphanage, the lives of Struck by lightning as a baby, fossil hunter Mary young English biographer researching a book about a native girl and a young GI collided. Now, half a Anning soon learns that she has “the eye”—the abil- the late South African writer...John Coetzee. world away, June Han and Hector Brennan are ity to find what no one else can see. But her gift goes A Viking hardcover reunited by the shocking acts of love and violence unappreciated, even persecuted, in an England January • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02138-3 • $25.95 that bind them. dominated by blinkered men. A Riverhead hardcover A Dutton hardcover WILD CHILD March • 528 pp. • 978-1-59448-976-1 • $26.95 January • 320 pp. • 978-0-525-95145-2 • $26.95 And Other Stories T. C. BOYLE THE FOrtY RUles OF LOVE SHADes OF GreY Nature is the dominant player in many of these 14 A Novel of Rumi JASPER FFORDE stories, whether in the form of the catastrophic ELIF SHAFAK Although most of the world appears grey to Eddie mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his humanity As housewife Ella Rubenstein reviews a manuscript Russet of the House of Red, he is content with his (“La Conchita”) or the fires that howl through a Cali- about Rumi’s encounter with his spiritual mentor, limitations. Until he meets Jane, a Grey Nightseer fornia canyon (“Ash Monday”). she suspects that its author has similarly come to set from the unlit side of the village, who challenges A Viking hardcover her free. him to question the status quo. January • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02142-0 • $25.95 A Viking hardcover A Viking hardcover February • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-02145-1 • $25.95 January • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-01963-2 • $25.95 Imperfect BIRDS Also available as an Audiobook ANNE LAMOTT THE LINE 13.5 hours/11 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314326-0 • $39.95 At 17, Rosie Fergusson is everything her mother, OLGA GRUSHIN Elizabeth, hoped she could be. But now Elizabeth In the follow-up to The Dream Life of Sukhanov, one AN EDUcatION begins to encounter the many evils that pull on our of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists depicts a A Screenplay children. disparate gaggle of strangers in Moscow becoming a NICK HORNBY A Riverhead hardcover clutch of friends as they wait for a famous exiled In the shooting script to the author’s award-winning April • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448-751-4 • $25.95 composer to return and conduct his last symphony. film, a 16-year-old girl is swept up by a much older Also available as an Audiobook A Putnam/Marian Wood hardcover suitor, who replaces her traditional education with 10 hours, 8 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314536-3 • $39.95 April • 304 pp. • 978-0-399-15616-8 • $25.95 his own version. A Riverhead paperback original THE MeltIng SeasON A ThreaD OF SKY Available Now • 208 pp. • 978-1-59448-453-7 • $14.00 JAMI ATTENBERG DEANNA FEI Heading West with a suitcase full of cash that isn’t In the wake of her husband’s accidental death, Irene hers—and a crush of problems that most assuredly Shen plans a tour of mainland China, reuniting 3 are—Catherine Madison lands in Vegas, where she generations of women—her 3 daughters, her distant forms surprising new friendships that compel her to sister, and her 80-year-old mother—in a desperate reveal her secrets. attempt to heal her fractured family. A Riverhead hardcover A Penguin Press hardcover January • 304 pp. • 978-1-59448-896-2 • $25.95 April • 352 pp. • 978-1-59420-249-0 • $24.95 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] Dear Strangers SAVIng CeeCee HONEYCUtt THE POstmIstress MEG MULLINS BETH HOFFMAN SARAH BLAKE While 7-year-old Oliver Finley and his family eagerly “CeeCee is a sweet, perceptive girl with a troubled “The romantic, harrowing…story of radio journalist anticipate the arrival of the baby boy they’ve family, and this story of the summer that transforms Frankie Bard (appalled yet intoxicated by tragedy as adopted, Dr. Finley drops dead. Two decades later her life is rich with hard truths and charm. This book no character I’ve ever read before) is the fictional Oliver finds the brother he never had. “This novel is unfolds like a lush southern garden, blooming with communiqué readers have waited for.”—Howard a wonder: compelling, surprising, and peopled by vivid characters, beauty, and surprises.”—Kim Norman, author of The Bird Artist. “A beautifully vividly drawn and original characters who remind us Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. written, thought-provoking novel that I’m telling that the most powerful stories can be the ones we A Viking/Pamela Dorman hardcover everyone I know to read.”—Kathryn Stockett, tell ourselves.”—Ann Packer, author of The Dive from January • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02139-0 • $25.95 author of The Help. Clausen’s Pier. Also available as an Audiobook A Putnam/Amy Einhorn hardcover A Viking hardcover 10 hours, 8 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314554-7 • $39.95 February • 336 pp. • 978-0-399-15619-9 • $25.95 February • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-02143-7 • $25.95 Also available as an Audiobook THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUmbers 11 hours, 9 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314544-8 • $39.99 AngelOLOGY PAOLO GIORDANO DANIELLE TRUSSONI “A delicately nuanced meditation on the nature of THE BUtterflIes “A clever, fast-paced thriller with a strong sense of loneliness.