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TITLE: 8.5 x 11 SPINE: 0.25 PLUME GOTHAM BOOKS AVERY PORTFOLIO SENTINEL OVERLOOK FALL 2011 PLUMEPLUME OVERLOOK Members of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. A Pearson Company 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 www.penguin.com PLUME ISBN : 9783001178022 GOTHAM BOOKS AVERY PORTFOLIO SENTINEL OVERLOOK Cover illustration by Willie Real September -- December 2011 “If you have a heart, this book will show you how to share it.” —Jason Alexander, actor and Big Sunday volunteer “If you have a heart, this book will show you how to share it.” —JASON ALEXANDER, actor, and Big Sunday volunteer David t. levinson EVERYONE HELPS, everyone helps, everyone Wins EVERYONE WINS how absolutely anyone can Pitch in, help out, Give back, and Make the World a better Place the numbers speak for themselves. last year, americorps’ applications How Absolutely jumped from 300,000 to 400,000; 45% of retirees volunteer, and 38% of Anyone Can employed professionals want to give back. but many would-be volunteers have Pitch In, Help Out, no idea where to start—and wonder if they really can make a difference. Give Back, and Make the World David levinson, the founder of big sunday,* draws on more than fi fteen years a Better Place of experience to share both traditional and offbeat ways to get involved. Just want to write a check? Great: here’s how to make sure the money goes DAVID T. LEVINSON directly to the cause. Worried about going to an unfamiliar neighborhood? founder of BIG SUNDAY there are thousands of places to pitch in. frank, relatable, and funny, Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins shows individuals and organizations how to contribute as 978-0-452-29738-8 • U.S. $16.00 / $18.50 CAN. much—or as little—as they want. Self-Help 5 5/16” x 8” • 272 pages “An invaluable resource for those contemplating new forays into Rights: E00 Pub History: Hudson Street Press HC, 978-1-59463-072-9 volunteerism.” —Publishers Weekly Also available as an e-book On sale: 5/3/11 “A gold mine. This is a great starting point for businesses, families, religious groups, retirees, and job seekers wanting to perform some kind of community service.” —Library Journal ■ *big sunday is the largest regional nonprofit in the country with more than 50,000 volunteers across california ■ National Review and Feature Attention ■ on-sale to coincide with this year’s big sunday events ■ Local Author Events on May 14th and 15th, 2011 ■ www.bigsunday.org sUGGesteD oRDeR david t. levinson is the founder and director of big sunday. named best nonprofi t leader in california by former governor arnold schwarzenegger Photo © Izzie Levinson and californiavolunteers, levinson lives in los angeles. M ay • P l U M e PLUME table of contents Plume May . .inside front cover August . 2 September . 4 October . 16 November . 24 December . 34 Gotham Books . 42 Avery . 60 Portfolio . 72 Sentinel . 85 Overlook . 86 Order Info . 110 Index . 112 PLUME stay a novel allie larkin ■■ Stay appeared at #8 on the Wall Street a l l i e l a r k i n Journal’s spotlight romance bestseller list 978-0-452-29712-8 • U.S. $15.00 / $17.50 CAN. Fiction 5 5/16” x 8” • 320 pages Rights: W00 Pub History: Dutton HC, 978-0-525-95171-1 Also available as an e-book On sale: 7/26/11 “So sweet, so funny, so doggone delightful.” —CLAIRE COOK, bestselling author of BEST STAGED PLANS ■■National Review and Feature Attention and MUST LOVE DOGS ■■Online Reading Group Guide ■■Blog Campaign With a great new cover for the ■■www.allielarkinwrites.com paperback edition! ■■www.thegreenists.com allie larkin lives in Rochester, new york, with her husband and their two German shepherds, argo and 2 stella. this is her fi rst novel. Photo © Jeremy Larkin a U G U s t • P l U M e PLUME “Stay is so sweet, so funny, so doggone delightful. Buy it! Read it! Share it with your dog!” —Claire Cook, bestselling author of Best Staged Plans and Must Love Dogs An irresistible story about friendship, loss, healing, and “A feel-good debut.” —People love, Stay will resonate with anyone who’s ever grappled with a broken heart. “Stay has everything … humor, heart—and, endearingly, buckets of dog slobber.” Savannah “Van” Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke —Miami Herald since their first day of college. But six years later, Van is standing behind her best friend Janie as maid of honor as “Gilmore Girls meets Marley & Me in this Janie marries the only man Van has ever loved. After the funny and compelling debut.” —Library Journal wedding, a heartbroken Van impulsively orders a German shepherd puppy over the Internet. But the pocket-sized puppy she’s expecting turns out to be a quirky hundred- pound beast. Van is at the end of her rope—until she realizes that this slobbering giant will always be loyal to her. She affectionately names the dog Joe, and together they learn that sometimes life needs to get more complicated before it gets better. I clicked from one site to another and then, I saw him. He was a shaggy ball of fur. Jet black, except for a small pink tongue hanging out of his mouth. His head was tipped to one side like he was listening to something intently. I took another long slurp of my Kool-Aid and vodka. I couldn’t just decide I wanted a dog and order one off the Internet. It was crazy. Crazy! But I couldn’t stop staring at the puppy. It was like one of those paintings where the eyes follow you everywhere. From every angle, I felt like that dog was looking at me. sUGGESTED oRDeR 3 a ugu s t • P l UM e PLUME Pretty a novel PLUME ORIGINAL Jillian lauren ■■ Some Girls spent 5 weeks on the New author of the New York Times York Times bestseller list bestseller SOME GIRLS ■■ Jillian Lauren’s writing has appeared in Flaunt magazine, Opium magazine, The Chiron Review, and in the anthology, My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories pretty 978-0-452-29734-0 • U.S. $15.00 / $17.50 CAN. A N O V E L Fiction 5 5/16” x 8” • 288 pages Rights: E00 First Serial, Audio: Plume Agent: Linda Chester Literary Agency Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book J I L L I A N On sale: 8/30/11 ■■12-copy Floor Display, 978-0-452-29451-6, LAUREN U.S. $180.00 / $210.00 CAN. ■■National Author Appearances ■■National TV ■■National Review and Feature Attention ■■Online Reviews and Features ■■Online Promotions ■■Print and Online Advertising Jillian lauren is the author of some girls the New York Times bestseller Some 978-0-452-29631-2, $15.00 Girls and has an Mfa from antioch University. she lives in los angeles with her son and husband, Weezer 4 bass player, scott shriner. PhotoAustinYoung © s e P t e M b e R • P l U M e PLUME A powerful debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls Jillian Lauren’s breathtakingly honest memoir, Praise for Pretty: Some Girls, earned both critical praise and outstanding “Utterly riveting. Jillian Lauren renders the sales. In Pretty, Lauren delivers on her promise as a taste and feel of wretched excess—be it sex, drugs, food, or Los Angeles—with a “natural storyteller” (Los Angeles Weekly) with an savage veracity and style all her own. She electrifying novel about a broken girl looking to be saved. is the real deal.” —Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight Everything seemed simple when Aaron, Bebe’s musician Praise for Some Girls: boyfriend, promised that they’d start a new life in San “Incredibly engaging. Lauren is a gifted Francisco. But now Aaron is dead—killed in a fatal car writer—full of ease, humor and grace.” crash that she survived—and Bebe is stuck in LA. As she —Portland Mercury tries to piece her life back together with the help of her “Too good to read just once.” —Miami Herald makeshift family of friends from the halfway house where “Lauren is a natural storyteller. She has she’s in recovery for addiction and from her beauty school, a gift for metaphor, an eye for the odd she finds salvation in unexpected places. detail.” —LA Weekly When you’re from somewhere else, you think there’s a promise to California. I don’t know if it’s some cellular thing—like your ancestors in the wagon train only made it as far as Ohio and you’re completing the journey—or if it’s the Beach Boys or the Beat poets or Baywatch. You get in that car pointing west and you think the answer is at the end of the road. You really do. But here I am at the continent’s edge, jagged and final, and there is no West left to go to and I still don’t have what I want. sUGGESTED oRDeR 5 s e P t e M b e R • P l UM e PLUME slow love how i lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and found happiness Dominique browning ■■ Dominique Browning has written for The DOMINIQUE BROWNING New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, “Not only an elegant and meditative O, and Food & Wine, among many writer but a pungently witty one... ” —The New York Times others Book Review ■■ For readers of How Starbucks Saved My Life and Eat, Pray, Love 978-0-452-29750-0 • U.S.