Ben Loory, Author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day “An Impossible-To-Put-Down, One- Of-A-Kind Novel

G PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2015 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 “A Great American Novel in the fullest sense of the term. Everything you want a book to be.”—Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day “An impossible-to-put-down, one- of-a-kind novel. The prose is beautiful, the characters are unique and memorable, and the plot is surprising at every turn. I have never read a book quite like this—and neither, I’ll bet, have you.”—Rob Roberge, author of The Cost of Living SEE INSIDE FOR MORE TITLES COMING SOON FROM PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP! PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP 375 HUDSON ST., NEW YORK, NY 10014-3657 PHONE (212) 366-2377 WWW.PENGUIN.COM May 2015 Dear Librarian: Welcome to the Summer 2015 edition of Penguin Publishing Group’s Advance Publication Newsletter. This newsletter includes late-breaking reviews, news of award-winners, up-to-date price information, and book descriptions for May through August titles. We hope you will take some time to review the new books included here. As usual, the newsletter is divided into subject categories in order to route each section to your appropriate acquisitions and collection development specialists. Some highlights: • In The Last Bookaneer, Matthew Pearl crafts a swashbuckling 1890s adventure tale about a literary pirate who follows a dying Robert Louis Stevenson to the island of Samoa in order to steal his final manuscript (see Fiction). Fans of Craig Johnson’s Longmire series won’t want to miss Dry Bones, in which the beloved Wyoming sheriff takes on a case involving a valuable dinosaur skeleton (see Mysteries/Thrillers), and fantasy readers looking for a dose of magical futurism should look no further than Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix, a prequel to her highly acclaimed novel, Who Fears Death (see Science Fiction/Fantasy). • A charming, slyly comic novel of romantic longing, Brenda Bowen’s The Enchanted April, first published in 1922, tells the story of four women who rent a property on the Italian Riviera—and soon experience unexpected transformations (see Literature). • Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, Nagasaki by Susan Southard is a powerful, unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of survivors (see History & Biography). Don’t forget to visit our Memoir page! • HBO’s documentary The Jinx put Robert Durst, who was recently arrested in New Orleans, back in the headlines. Matt Birkbeck, the first reporter to access Durst’s NYPD files, tells all in A Deadly Secret, an authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey (see Current Events & Politics). • Citing a national climate in which most Americans deny evolution, Jerry A. Coyne explains why science and religion are compatible in Faith Vs. Fact (see Science, Education, & Reference). • In Anxious, leading neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux discusses the range of anxiety disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy (see Psychology, Spirituality, & Health). • Geoff Colvin’s Humans Are Underrated takes an extensive look at essential, difficult-to-quantify human skills—such as empathy, social sensitivity, storytelling, humor, relationship formation, and creativity—that cannot be replaced by technology (see Business & Management). • What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? Journalist Stephen Witt answers in How Music Got Free, a history of digital music piracy (see Performing Arts & Popular Culture). Please enjoy our newsletter and order through your regular supplier or via the direct order form enclosed. You may peruse the newsletter online and sign up for an email alert each time it goes live on our site, www.penguin.com/library. Regards, Alan S. Walker Vice President, Academic and Library Sales 2 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin Publishing Group. If form is missing, email [email protected]. ROUTE TO: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ __________________________ PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP __________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2015 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 THE LAST BOOKANEER KITCHENS OF THE THE GIRL WHO SLEPT WITH GOD MATTHEW PEARL GREAT MIDWEST VAL BRELINSKI “In the days before e-books, self-publishing, J. RYAN STRADAL The seemingly perfect world of a religious fam- and fan fiction, publishing was an even riskier “A big-hearted, funny, and class-transcending ily is upended when their devout daughter undertaking—or so Pearl makes an entertain- pleasure. It’s also both a structural and empa- returns from a missionary trip to Mexico and ing case for in his latest, ingenious literary thetic tour de force, stepping across worlds in discovers she’s pregnant with—she believes— caper....A loving testament to the enduring the American Midwest, and demonstrating the child of God. power of paper books.”—Publishers Weekly. with an enviable tenderness and ingenuity the A Viking hardcover A Penguin Press hardcover tug of war between our freedom to pursue our August • 384 pp. • 978-0-525-42742-1 • $28.95 May • 400 pp. • 978-1-59420-492-0 • $27.95 passions and our obligations to those we Also available as a Penguin Audiobook Also available as a Penguin Audiobook love.”—Jim Shepard, author of Like You’d Digital only, 12 hours • 978-0-698-40257-7 • $40.00 10 CDs, 12 hours • 978-1-61176-426-0 • $45.00 Understand, Anyway. 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It is a MARIAN KEYES ance, which make the novel thoroughly enjoy- bittersweet lesson in learning to recognize After recovering from a serious illness, Stella able.”—Ha Jin, author of Waiting. love.”—Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Sweeney finds out that her neurologist has A Pamela Dorman hardcover Tribes of Hattie. compiled and self-published a memoir about May • 352 pp. • 978-0-525-42740-7 • $27.95 A Penguin Press hardcover her illness. So she relocates to New York City Also available as a Penguin Audiobook June • 304 pp. • 978-1-59420-595-8 • $25.95 to pursue a career as a newly minted self-help Digital only, 10 hours • 978-0-698-40408-3 • $40.00 memoirist. EILEEN A Viking hardcover IN THE LANGUAGE OF MIRACLES OTTESSA MOSHFEGH June • 384 pp. • 978-0-525-42925-8 • $27.95 RAJIA HASSIB A lonely young woman working in a boys’ Emigrating from Egypt, Samir and Nagla prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled MUSIC FOR WARTIME Al-Menshawy were determined to live the into a very strange crime, in a mordant, har- REBECCA MAKKAI American dream. But when a devastating turn rowing story of obsession and suspense by one These wide-ranging and deeply moving sto- of events leaves their eldest son and the neigh- of the brightest new voices in fiction. ries—some inspired by her family history— bors’ daughter dead, all their years of success A Penguin Press hardcover will delight the many fans of this acclaimed begin to unravel. August • 224 pp. • 978-1-59420-662-7 • $25.95 writer, as well as readers of Lorrie Moore, Jim A Viking hardcover Shepard, and Karen Russell. July • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-42813-8 • $26.95 A Viking hardcover July • 256 pp. • 978-0-525-42669-1 • $26.95 3 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin Publishing Group. If form is missing, email [email protected]. Fiction ENCHANTED AUGUST ANA OF CALIFORNIA SWEET FORGIVENESS BRENDA BOWEN ANDI TERAN LORI NELSON SPIELMAN “As lovely and salty as an afternoon on an For an orphan from East L.A., the farms of Hannah Farr is a popular daytime television island in Maine. Brenda Bowen writes with Northern California might as well be another host with a charismatic boyfriend. But just as humor and with love about the spell cast on planet, but Ana Cortez knows this is her last a rival station comes calling, Hannah’s ratings the unsuspecting by a cottage by the sea. And chance. To her surprise, she enjoys farm life. take a dangerous dip—and her friend insists her endearing characters wind up, at summer’s But when a misunderstanding stirs up trouble, that the problem extends to her personal life. end, with something even more precious than can Ana put things right again? A Plume paperback original lobster: a second chance.”—Jennifer Finney A Penguin paperback original June • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-751676-3 • $16.00 Boylan, author of She’s Not There. July • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-312649-2 • $16.00 A Pamela Dorman hardcover OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS June • 288 pp. • 978-0-525-42905-0 • $27.95 THE LIFE AND DEATH SHANNON MAHIN Also available as a Penguin Audiobook OF SOPHIE STARK “Hilarious, poignant, sharply observed...at 7 CDs, 8 hours • 978-1-61176-436-9 • $35.00 ANNA NORTH Digital • 978-0-698-40299-7 once a caricature of Hollywood and a searingly Told in a chorus of voices belonging to those accurate portrayal of life inside tinseltown.

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