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Fiction M-A 05 Route to: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) ADVANCE PUBLICATION INTERRUPTION OF EVERYTHING NEWSLETTER Volume Fourteen • Number Two Terry McMillan For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development With this new novel, McMillan tackles the fault lines of midlife and family life and reminds us once again of the redeeming power of friendship. 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June 208 pp. A Viking hardcover 1-59420-048-3 $22.95 May 352 pp. 0-670-03431-2 $29.95 SNAKES AND EARRINGS Hitomi Kanehara THE RIGHT MADNESS Translated by David Karashima HITLER’S PEACE James Crumley An international bestseller, the riveting Philip Kerr The “leather-tough poet of the crime story of a young girl’s descent through A stunning World War II “what-if” novel” brings back Montana private the dark and disturbing underbelly of thriller in which the fate of Europe— eye C. W. Sughrue, who no sooner Tokyo. “Kanehara's debut novel, and its remaining 3 million Jews— agrees to help his psychiatrist friend published in Japan in 2003, resembles hangs in the balance. “Boasts plot track down stolen psychoanalysis files its protoganist, Lui. 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