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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. Books Due: A Viking hardcover May July 384 pp. June 0-670-03144-5 $25.95 Fiction July Also available as a August Penguin Audiobook 2005 12 hours, 10 CDs Unabridged 0-14-280027-9 $39.95 6 hours, 5 CDs Abridged PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC./Library Marketing/375 Hudson St./New York, NY 10014-3657 0-14-280026-0 $29.95

THREE-DAY ROAD HOUSE OF THIEVES Joseph Boyden Kaui Hart Hemmings A haunting debut novel in which two With unsentimental insight and young Cree Indians become infantry straightforward prose, Hemmings snipers in the trenches of World War I. reveals the complex forces that bind “Friendship is riven with resentment family members together in love and and war is stripped of glory in this hate in these unique stories of upper- remarkable, wrenching novel, the class Hawaiian families. work of a gifted storyteller.”— A Penguin Press hardcover Publishers Weekly. 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. It is slim, graceful, twists that will keep readers' heads than the main suspects start dying. impatient, sad, unflinching in the face spinning even after they've put it “[C.W.] stands out in a genre on the of pain.”—Library Journal. down.”—Publishers Weekly. verge of being taken over by reformed A Dutton hardcover A Putnam / Marian Wood hardcover drunks and socially responsible May 120 pp. May 464 pp. adults.”—Booklist. 0-525-94889-9 $16.95 0-399-15269-5 $26.95 A Viking hardcover May 304 pp. FREDDY AND FREDERICKA CAPTAIN ALATRISTE 0-670-03406-1 $24.95 Mark Helprin Arturo Pérez-Reverte On the eve of ascending the British Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden THE INNOCENT throne, Freddy and Fredericka The author of The Club Dumas begins Harlan Coben undertake a tour of the United States. here a series of historical novels Nine years after his release from Amid the collisions of their royal featuring a 17th-century Spanish soldier, prison, Matt Hunter is about to settle assumptions with their life on the retired from the army after suffering a down with his pregnant wife in a new road, they acquire the dignity and wound in the Thirty Years’ War, who home. Then he gets a shocking video humility required of great monarchs leads the life of a swordsman-for-hire call from his wife’s phone, and the and learn to love each other. in Madrid. unraveling begins. “The definitive A Penguin Press hardcover A Putnam hardcover Coben novel.”—Library Journal. “His July 624 pp. May 320 pp. best book to date.”—Publishers Weekly. 1-59420-054-8 $27.95 0-399-15275-X $23.95 “First-rate.”—Booklist. Also available as a A Dutton hardcover Penguin Audiobook May 352 pp. 7 hours, 6 CDs Unabridged 0-525-94874-0 $26.95 0-14-305764-2 $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. MARKER Robin Cook New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are back, confronting a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. A Putnam hardcover May 480 pp. 0-399-15293-8 $25.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 16 hours, 14 CDs Unabridged THE WONDER SPOT A LONG WAY DOWN 0-14-305773-1 $39.95 Melissa Bank Nick Hornby The author of The Girls’ Guide to In four distinct first-person voices, LEGENDS Hunting and Fishing returns with Hornby brings together four people ANOVEL OF DISSIMULATION a first novel in which a compelling on the roof of London’s Topper’s Robert Littell outsider witnesses the life cycle of House on New Year’s Eve: a former Can Martin Odum, a CIA field agent a family—the Applebaums of TV talk show host, a musician, a turned private detective, trust the Surrey, Pennsylvania—evolve teenage girl, and a mother. young Russian woman who engages over two decades. A Riverhead hardcover him to find her brother-in-law? A Viking hardcover June 352 pp. An Overlook hardcover June 368 pp. 1-57322-302-6 $24.95 May 386 pp. 0-670-03411-8 $24.95 Also available as a 1-58567-696-9 $25.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Penguin Audiobook 21 hours, 18 CDs Unabridged OUT OF RANGE 11 hours, 10 CDs Unabridged 0-14-305760-X $39.95 AJOE PICKETT NOVEL 0-14-305765-0 $39.95 C. J. Box THE HILL ROAD “In the crowded field of crime THE PORTRAIT Patrick O’Keefe fiction, Box has quickly established Iain Pears In these linked novellas of the Irish farm himself as an original voice.... He is An influential art critic at the turn of country, a dairy farmer unwittingly fresh, captivating, and has something the century journeys from London to falls for the younger sister of a woman to say.”—Michael Connelly. a remote island off the Brittany coast, he once cruelly jilted, and a young man A Putnam hardcover to sit for a portrait painted by his old recalls the tragic story of his spinster May 336 pp. friend, a gifted artist living in self- aunt’s great love. 0-399-15291-1 $24.95 imposed exile. “A true tour- A Viking hardcover de-force....An extraordinary work.” July 240 pp. DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS —Library Journal. 0-670-03398-7 $23.95 ABENNI HARPER MYSTERY A Riverhead hardcover Earlene Fowler May 192 pp. ANY WEDNESDAY I’M YOURS Benni finds herself “volunteered” to 1-57322-298-4 $19.95 Mayra Santos-Febres take over a children’s play already in Also available as a As San Juan comes to life after dark, rehearsal at her church. But the Penguin Audiobook the author takes readers behind the production comes to a halt when 6 hours, 5 Cds Unabridged doors of a motel on the border of she discovers the badly beaten body 0-14-305750-2 $29.95 nowhere and into the lives of four of the church handyman right in loners on the edge. front of the altar. FIRE SALE A Riverhead paperback original A Berkley Prime Crime hardcover A V. I. WARSHAWSKI NOVEL July 320 pp. May 320 pp. Sara Paretsky 1-59448-001-X $14.00 0-425-20249-6 $23.95 “What’s particularly amazing about the Warshawski books is that, unlike POLAR SHIFT LAST WITNESS many other long-running series, these ANOVEL FROM THE NUMA FILES Jilliane Hoffman mysteries have grown richer and Clive Cussler When Miami cops start falling while more ambitious with age.”— with Paul Kemprecos on patrol, agent Dominick Falconetti Washington Post Book World. The charismatic leader of an heads up a task force to investigate. A Putnam hardcover antiglobalization group plans to But when evidence points to a drug June 432 pp. give the world’s industrialized connection, it reinforces Dominick’s 0-399-15279-2 $25.95 nations a small jolt by triggering suspicions that the cops were dirty. a polar shift, then reversing it. “She combines the gruesome DIANA LIVELY IS FALLING DOWN Problem is, it cannot be reversed. precision of Patricia Cornwell, the Sheila Curran A Putnam hardcover courtroom savvy of Linda Fairstein When she follows her husband’s job September 416 pp. and the Miami setting of Edna from England to the Arizona desert, 0-399-15271-7 $26.95 Buchanan to produce an unsettling Diana Lively has her life pulled out from Also available as a tale.”—Publishers Weekly. under her—and that’s a good thing. Penguin Audiobook A Putnam hardcover A Berkley paperback original 6 hours, 5 CDs Abridged May 352 pp. May 320 pp. 0-14-305768-5 $29.95 0-399-15245-8 $24.95 0-425-20242-9 $13.00 13 hours, 12 CDs Unabridged Also available as a 0-14-305769-3 $39.95 Penguin Audiobook 11 hours, 9 CDs Unabridged 0-14-305720-0 $39.95

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction ORIGIN IN DEATH Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb In 2059 New York City, as scientists work to expand the limits of technology, Detective Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son. A Putnam hardcover July 400 pp. 0-399-15289-X $24.95 Also available as an Adobe Ebook 0-7865-5773-7 $24.95

SUPERSTITION Karen Robards PAWLEYS ISLAND HELL IS ALWAYS TODAY Sparks fly between a police chief and ALOWCOUNTRY TALE Jack Higgins a reporter on Pawleys Island, South Dorothea Benton Frank On the streets of London, Detective Carolina, who are thrown together When Becca Sims wanders into the Sergeant Nick Miller pursues a light- when a brutal killer comes out of seaside Gallery Valentine hoping to sell heavyweight boxer-turned-expert-cat- hiding after fifteen years. some of her watercolors, she has no idea burglar who has busted out of prison. A Putnam hardcover her life is about to be transformed by A Berkley paperback original April 384 pp. the gallery’s owner and his best friend. May 304 pp. 0-399-15280-6 $24.95 A Berkley hardcover 0-425-20286-0 $7.99 July 320 pp. 0-425-20271-2 $24.95 AN AMERICAN SPY Christopher Hyde THE BALLROOM During World War II, war ON MAGNOLIA STREET correspondent Jane Todd explores a Sharon Owens royal scandal, a Nazi conspiracy, and Johnny “Hollywood” Hogan owns the the lure of treason in a world at war. ballroom on Magnolia Street, where the A Signet paperback original twinkling lights and soft music help May 400 pp. the denizens of Belfast find just what 0-451-21489-7 $7.99 they’re looking for. A Putnam paperback original July 336 pp. 0-399-15286-5 $15.00

THE SOUND OF US FIRST LOVE Sarah Willis Adrienne Sharp Alice Marlowe is a single, middle-aged Adam and Sandra are lovers who sign-language interpreter who has belong to rival ballet corps in 1980’s imaginary conversations with her New York. When Sandra catches the dead twin brother. Then a late-night eye of ailing ballet master George phone call brings a scared 6-year-old Balanchine, she is forced to decide girl into her life. which love comes first. A Berkley Signature hardcover A Riverhead hardcover June 336 pp. June 304 pp. 0-425-20302-6 $23.95 1-57322-310-7 $24.95

SCRATCH THE SURFACE THE BIG OVER EASY PRINCE OF DARKNESS ACAT LOVER’S MYSTERY ANURSERY CRIME AMEDIEVAL MYSTERY Susan Conant Jasper Fforde Sharon Kay Penman A new series—and species—from the Taking a break from classic literature, An urgent summons from his former award-winning author of the Dog the author burrows into the seedy lover brings Justin de Quincy, who Lover’s mysteries. “There’s not a cat- underbelly of nursery crimes, as serves Eleanor of Aquitaine, to Paris, writer around with Conant’s wit and Detective Jack Spratt and his assistant only to find that the Lady Claudine, in breezy sophistication.”—Kirkus Reviews. Mary Mary investigate the death of fact, is acting on behalf of his nemesis, A Berkley Prime Crime hardcover Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III. Prince John. June 288 pp. A Viking hardcover A Putnam / Marian Wood hardcover 0-425-20259-3 $22.95 July 400 pp. April 336 pp. 0-670-03423-1 $24.95 0-399-15256-3 $24.95 THE AMERICANS THE KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES THE WOODSMAN’S DAUGHTER THE GIRL SHE LEFT BEHIND Volume VIII Gwyn Hyman Rubio Karen Brichoux John Jakes After the success of Icy Sparks, an When Katherine Earle returns to Silver New Introduction by the author Oprah’s Book Club pick, Rubio Creek, Montana, she’s pulled back The legendary series concludes with returns with the story of Dalia, the into ancient family intrigues, leaving Gideon Kent in failing health and his brassy eldest daughter of a shrewd her a choice between the woman she’s heirs unready to uphold the family turpentine farmer in 1800’s southern become and the girl she left behind. legacy of service when their country Georgia, strives to make a better life An NAL paperback original needs them most. for herself—but the sins of the father July 336 pp. A Signet paperback come to the surface. 0-451-21521-4 $12.95 May 816 pp. A Viking hardcover 0-451-21490-0 $7.99 August 400 pp. 0-670-03321-9 $24.95

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction GOOD NIGHT, HENRY HOUR OF THE CAT LIE BY MOONLIGHT Jennifer Olds Peter Quinn Amanda Quick On a horse ranch in the sun-drenched On the eve of World War II, “just A thrilling historical romance set in late hills of Southern California, Mel Brown another little murder” in New York Victorian England, in which Concordia and her family must face their past City draws two vastly different men— Glade conspires to help the four before they can move into the future. an American detective and a German orphaned young ladies she was hired to An NAL Accent paperback original admiral—into the Gathering Storm. teach to escape from Aldwick Castle. July 352 pp. An Overlook hardcover A Putnam hardcover 0-451-21518-4 $12.95 June 448 pp. June 400 pp. 1-58567-597-0 $25.95 0-399-15288-1 $24.95 THE SECRET LIVES Also available as an Adobe Ebook OF THE SUSHI CLUB SOLO 0-7865-5604-8 $24.95 Christy Yorke Emily Barr For years, four friends have been Dissatisfied with her artistically shallow YELLOW telling their secrets over sushi. But career, “lite” classical musician Evie Janni Visman when struggling novelist Alice finally Silverman escapes across the Atlantic A Vertigo-like spiral of secrets and writes a bestseller, the other three are to New York, but her problems in betrayals begin to seep through Stella’s horrified to see their lives in its pages. London make the journey with her. impeccably ordered London flat. A Berkley Signature A Plume paperback original “Beautifully crafted and intriguing to paperback original June 304 pp. the very last word.”—TimeOut London. August 352 pp. 0-452-28536-4 $13.00 A Viking hardcover 0-425-20275-5 $14.00 June 192 pp. THE THING ABOUT JANE SPRING 0-670-03402-9 $22.95 ROMANTIC FICTION Sharon Krum Melanie La’Brooy Sex and the City meets Pillow Talk THE WIVES OF BATH A clutch of friends copes with the rigors when a tough career woman takes a Wendy Holden of modern life: psychotic roommates, cue from Doris Day and gets in touch A birthing class in Bath, England, lethal window treatments, pet hams, with her feminine side. brings together two sets of expectant and mistaken identities. “If you love A Viking hardcover parents who couldn’t be more different. Friends, you will love Romantic July 288 pp. A Plume paperback original Fiction.”—Julia London. 0-670-03417-7 $21.95 May 368 pp. A Berkley paperback original 0-452-28589-5 $14.00 July 320 pp. TRIAL BY FIRE 0-425-20264-X $13.00 AJOSEPH ANTONELLI NOVEL THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE D. W. Buffa Rennie Airth THE TOWN THAT When married district attorney Daphne On the eve of World War II, former CAME A-COURTIN’ McMillan is murdered, Antonelli’s inspector John Madden leads a quiet Ronda Rich new partner, Julian Sinclair, is accused life in rural England with his family, Folks around Dexter, Georgia, where of killing her in a fit of jealous rage. until a young village girl is savagely Abby Houston grew up, say the A Putnam hardcover murdered. Along with his former obituary-writer-turned-bestselling- April 368 pp. colleagues at Scotland Yard, he will have author is the luckiest woman alive. 0-399-15281-4 $24.95 to enlist the help of the German police. But her mama says, “Lucky in life A Viking hardcover means unlucky in love.” BLACK FLY SEASON July 288 pp. A Berkley hardcover Giles Blunt 0-670-89996-8 $24.95 May 320 pp. A beautiful young woman stumbles into 0-425-20258-5 $22.95 a rough Algonquin Bay tavern with THE MEMORY KEEPER’S black fly bites—and a bullet in her brain. DAUGHTER THE YOGA MAMAS A Putnam / Marian Wood hardcover Kim Edwards Katherine Stewart June 352 pp. Amid a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David “Fresh, funny and insightful... 0-399-15255-5 $25.95 Henry is forced to deliver his own explores how friendship, love and twins. When he sees that the latter has new motherhood make us all more SHOCK WAVE Down’s syndrome, he surreptitiously flexible.”—Alison Pace. James O. Born asks the nurse to take the girl to an A Berkley paperback original FDLE agent Bill Tasker teams up again institution. But she decides to raise July 320 pp. with the FBI on a case involving a stolen her as her own... 0-425-20263-1 $14.00 Stinger missile and a certain gentleman A Viking hardcover who likes to see things blow up. July 400 pp. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING A Putnam hardcover 0-670-03416-9 $24.95 Rona Jaffe April 304 pp. A new edition of the iconic 1958 0-399-15263-6 $24.95 COVER THE BUTTER bestseller of ambitious career girls in Carrie Kabak New York City. “A classic of its kind. DARK HOUSE “An extraordinary novel. It is poignant, The dialogue is real, the people are real. Theresa Monsour sensitive, funny, and original, and it It has the shock of authenticity.”— Police detective Paris Murphy tracks fairly sings with life. I felt myself Saturday Review. an unholy pair: a sexually driven dissolve into it!”—Jeanne Ray. A Penguin paperback university professor Serene Ransom A Dutton hardcover June 448 pp. and highly manipulable bartender June 352 pp. 0-14-303529-0 $14.00 Catch Clancy. 0-525-94876-7 $23.95 A Putnam hardcover May 304 pp. 0-399-15290-3 $25.95

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction PANIC CARPE DEMON Jeff Abbott ADVENTURES OF A An emotionally charged thriller about DEMON-HUNTING SOCCER MOM family secrets and one man’s determi- Julie Kenner nation to take back his stolen life. “This book, as crammed with events as A Dutton hardcover any suburban mom’s calendar, shows July 304 pp. you what would happen if Buffy got 0-525-94904-6 $23.95 married and kept her past a secret.” —Charlaine Harris. WARRIOR QUEEN A Berkley paperback original THE STORY OF BOUDICA, CELTIC QUEEN June 320 pp. Alan Gold 0-425-20252-6 $14.00 The sweeping epic of a flame-haired woman who dared to challenge the vicious might of the Roman Empire. THE DEATH COLLECTORS An NAL paperback original Jack Kerley June 384 pp. A prostitute’s murder recalls the work 0-451-21525-7 $14.00 of a Mansonesque gang more than thirty years ago, leading homicide detectives THE TEA-OLIVE Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus BIRD WATCHING SOCIETY into the shocking world of the Death Augusta Trobaugh Collectors, who spend vast sums The women of a small town’s birding collecting serial-killer memorabilia. society conspire to eliminate the A Dutton hardcover husband of one of their members in July 320 pp. this delightful black comedy. 0-525-94877-5 $24.95 A Dutton hardcover July 304 pp. PICTURE ME ROLLIN’ 0-525-94879-1 $23.95 Black Artemis THE TALE OF HOLLY HOW Moved by the poetry and passion of BLACK ROSE THE COTTAGE TALES OF BEATRIX POTTER Tupac Shakur, a female ex-con plans Nora Roberts Susan Wittig Albert to play it straight. But her lover, Jesus, Roz is a woman of independent means Everyone in the sleepy village of intends to bring her back into his game. who thinks love is all in the past—but Sawrey, England, has a good word to An NAL paperback original she’s about to be taken by surprise. say about local shepherd Ben Hornby. June 304 pp. A Jove paperback original But then Beatrix finds him dead in the 0-451-21513-3 $12.95 June 384 pp. meadow one day. 0-515-13865-7 $7.99 A Berkley Prime Crime hardcover WHERE THE RIVER RUNS Also available as an Adobe Ebook July 320 pp. Patti Callahan Henry 0-7865-5614-5 $7.99 0-425-20274-7 $23.95 Years after losing her boyfriend in a tragic fire, Meridy Dresden must THE COLOR OF LIGHT KILLER SWELL return to the South Carolina Low Karen White ANOAH BRADDOCK NOVEL Country and face a decision that While growing up on Pawleys Island, Jeff Shelby may destroy everything she’s worked South Carolina, Jillian’s best friend, When Marilyn Crier call surfer-cum- so hard to protect. Lauren, disappeared. Returning many private investigator Braddock, she An NAL Accent paperback original years later, Jillian teams up with doesn’t mention that she despised May 256 pp. Lauren’s former boyfriend to uncover him when he dated her daughter 0-451-21505-2 $12.95 the mystery—and their feelings for years ago. But now Kate is missing... each other. A Dutton hardcover COOKING FOR MR. RIGHT An NAL Accent paperback original July 304 pp. Susan Volland June 288 pp. 0-525-94880-5 $23.95 “If you have an appetite for love and 0-451-21511-7 $12.95 laughter, you’re in luck! Volland delivers ALMOST DOESN’T COUNT a delicious main course of fast-paced fun KILLING RAIN Electa Rome Parks served family style.”—Liz Maverick. Barry Eisler When Mercedes unexpectedly meets An NAL paperback original Torn between his past as a soldier and the Mr. Right on a visit home to South August 240 pp. his vocation as a killer, John Rain hopes Georgia, she quickly has to get herself 0-451-21524-9 $12.95 to use his fearsome talents in the service together to deal with what he’s doing of something good, atoning for all the to her life—and with what he’s hiding JUST PEACHY lives he has already taken. about his own. Jill Winters A Putnam hardcover An NAL paperback original Finding a boyfriend is the last thing June 320 pp. August 240 pp. on Peach Kelley’s mind—until she 0-399-15284-9 $24.95 0-451-21515-X $12.95 joins forces with the new network administrator when one of their NICE GIRLS FINISH FIRST GENEVIEVE coworkers mysteriously disappears. Alesia Holliday Eric Jerome Dickey An NAL paperback original After Kirby Green fires her entire staff, A good man loves his wife, Genevieve, May 336 pp. her boss issues a bet: if Kirby can get but finds himself drawn against his 0-451-21506-0 $12.95 someone to call her nice, she can take that best intentions into an affair—with his long-awaited dream vacation to Italy. wife’s sister. Thousands of popular Penguin Group A Berkley Sensation paperback original A Dutton hardcover titles are available to your library July 320 pp. May 304 pp. patrons in ADOBE EBOOK 0-425-20405-7 $13.00 0-525-94878-3 $24.95 format via NetLibrary. Order at www.NetLibrary.com

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction THE CRADLE ROBBERS AMOMMY TRACK MYSTERY Ayelet Waldman The “mother-of-two Nancy Drew” tracks the mysterious whereabouts of a missing infant to a widespread, top- secret puzzle that’s nothing to play with. A Berkley Prime Crime hardcover August 224 pp. 0-425-20284-4 $23.95

ALIBI Stephen M. Murphy In Manchester, New Hampshire, THE KING OF KINGS COUNTY lawyer Dutch Francis, known for THE LYNNE TRUSS TREASURY Whitney Terrell defending DWIs, takes the case of a Lynne Truss Terrell’s debut novel, The Huntsmen, troubled young man accused of killing Before her bestselling Eats, Shoots & earned him comparisons to “Faulkner, the local high school football star. Leaves, Truss was known in the UK as Conrad and Melville” (The Chicago A Jove paperback original a critically acclaimed novelist and Tribune). He returns with another May 384 pp. columnist. This omnibus volume intimate portrait of the life of Kansas City. 0-515-13946-7 $7.50 makes available for the first time in the When the surburban empire built by his U.S. her three comic novels and her father becomes an urban nightmare, APPALOOSA riotous Making the Cat Laugh columns. Jack Acheson must confront his father’s Robert B. Parker A Gotham paperback original legacy, and his own complicity. When itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole July 624 pp. A Viking hardcover and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa 1-592-40136-8 $17.50 August 368 pp. in the 1800’s West, they find a small, 0-670-03425-8 $24.95 dusty town suffering at the hands of FISHING WITH MY FATHER renegade rancher Randall Bragg. ALITERARY COMPANION 98 REASONS FOR BEING A Putnam hardcover Edited by Peter Kaminsky Clare Dudman June 320 pp. Compelling tales from a wide range of When a reticent Jewish girl is admitted 0-399-15277-6 $24.95 fishing enthusiasts about how simply to the town asylum in 1850’s Frankfurt, catching a fish brought them closer to Dr. Heinrich Hoffman begins to uncover the men in their lives. his own buried truths. A Chamberlain Bros. paperback A Viking hardcover May 224 pp. July 352 pp. 1-59609-146-0 $9.95 0-670-03424-X $25.95

BOOKS FOR THE TEEN AGE 2005

The folllowing Penguin Group (USA) adult titles have been selected for inclusion on The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2005. This list, now in its seventy-sixth year of publication, selects the best of the previous year’s publishing for teenagers, 12 to 18 years old.

FINDING CARUSO LOST IN A GOOD BOOK WIDE AWAKE Kim Barnes, Berkley, 0-425-19393-4 Jasper Fforde, Penguin, 0-14-200403-0 Diana Winston, Perigee, 0-399-52897-0

FURY BEACH ME AND ORSON WELLES NO HORIZON IS SO FAR Ray Edinger, Berkley, 0-425-19603-6 Robert Kaplow, Penguin, 0-14-303522-3 Live Arnesen and Ann Brancroft, Penguin, 0-14-303424-3 A KISS FROM MADDALENA BITCHES, BIMBOS, Christopher Castellani, AND BALLBREAKERS GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW Berkley, 0-425-19642-9 The Guerrilla Girls, Lian Hearn, Riverhead, 1-59448-003-6 Penguin, 0-14-200101-5 THE MUSHROOM MAN THE KITE RUNNER Sophie Powell, Berkley, 0-425-19413-2 HORNET FLIGHT Khaled Hosseini, Ken Follett, Signet 0-451-21074-3 Riverhead, 1-59448-000-1 FIREBIRDS Sharyn November, ST. URSULA'S GIRLS MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA Firebird, 0-14-240230-2 AGAINST THE ATOMIC BOMB James McBride, Valerie Hurley, Plume, 0-452-28569-0 Riverhead, 1-57322-971-7 STRANGER INSIDE Steven Krane, DAW, 0-7564-0128-3 THE LOOKS BOOK DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE Esther Drill, Rebecca Odes & Heather ZZ Packer, Riverhead, 1-57322-378-6 EXILE'S HONOR McDonald, Penguin, 0-14-200211-9 Mercedes Lackey, DAW, 0-7564-0113-5 NAPOLEON'S BUTTON SINGULAR INTIMACIES Penny Le Courteur and Jay Burreson, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER Danielle Ofri, Penguin, 0-14-200438-3 Tarcher, 1-58542-331-9 Chris Crowe, Dial, 0-8037-2804-2 ALL OVER CREATION MAISIE DOBBS SUNSHINE Ruth Ozeki, Penguin, 0-14-200389-1 Jacqueline Winspear, Robin McKinley, Jove, 0-515-13881-9 Penguin, 0-14-200433-2 YOU LOOK TOO YOUNG THE BOUNTY TO BE A MOM Caroline Alexander, Deborah Davis, Perigee, 0-399-52976-4 Penguin, 0-14-200469-3

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction THE GREAT SILENT AFTERBURN GRANDMOTHER GATHERING S. L. Viehl ASTORY FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS When the Allied League of Worlds SHE CAN’T SAVE THE WORLD gathers for a peace summit on K-2, Sharon Mehdi Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora of One day two grandmothers walk to the the Bio Rescue team is assigned to the local park and stand silently for hours. daughter of one of the ambassadors— Their simple action of peace reverberates who hides a deadly secret. throughout the world until there is no A Roc hardcover fighting anywhere that day. 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IN MEMORIAM

SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005)

“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”—from Bellow’s Nobel lecture, 1976

1976 Nobel Laureate in Literature Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Humboldt’s Gift Winner of the National Book Award—in 1954 for The Adventures of Augie March, in 1965 for Herzog, and in 1971 for Mr. Sammler’s Planet

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