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ALONE TOGETHER BY TEDDY GETTY GASTON In this unflinching, page-turning memoir Teddy Getty Gaston, now nearly 100 years old, tells the glamorous, often painful, story of her life with the enigmatic oil tycoon John Paul Getty. He swept her off her feet, mentored her, married her, fathered her child, and then abandoned her for the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

Gaston brings her lively wit and tremendous compassion to bear on this nuanced portrait of a difficult man. The richest man in the world at the time, he was unusually stingy. Though he was terrifically charismatic in person, he was neglectful from a distance, and could never put his family ahead of his work. Nevertheless, Teddy remained steadfastly his friend until he died in 1976. This is a remarkable look at the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of the century’s most intriguing couples.

ISBN 13: 9780062219718 On sale: 9/1/2013 $16.99 20K E-Book: 9780062219732 THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT BY AMY TAN Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who has honed her ability to become any man’s fantasy since her start as a “Virgin Courtesan” at the age of twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves effortlessly between the east and the west. But her talents belie her private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for a home in the world. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain of her father’s identity, Violet’s quest to truly love and be loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity-- and the loss of her own daughter.

Lucia, a willful and wild American woman who was once herself the proprietress of Shanghai’s most exclusive courtesan house, nurses her own secret wounds, which she first sustained when, as a teenager, she fell in love with a Chinese painter and followed him from San Francisco to Shanghai. Her search for penance and redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet’s daughter, and will undo all that Violet believed she knew about her mother.

Spanning fifty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazement sweeps the reader along a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, the legacies of traumas, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, returning readers to the ISBN 13: 9780062107312 compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. On Sale: 11/5/2013 With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up $29.99 a story of the inheritance of love, its mysteries and senses, its 750K illusions and truths. E-Book: 9780062107336

AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD BY LAURA LIPPMAN A brilliant new stand alone novel from New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman.

She is the first person he will come looking for.

Heloise thought she was safe. The convicted murderer she helped put behind bars is on death row and she has rebuilt her life in a small, tightknit, suburban community where the people don’t ask too many questions about her past. But suddenly the security she’s worked so hard to establish is gone. Val’s seemingly airtight conviction is overturned and he’s freed from prison.

Getting revenge on the woman who put him in jail isn’t Val’s only reason for coming to find her. Because Heloise is hiding a secret. Val is her former pimp. And the suburban madam is not ready for all to be revealed.

And that’s not all. There’s another between Heloise and her pimp. She is also the mother of his son. What lengths won’t Heloise go to in order to protect her son and the life she’s built for him?

ISBN 13: 9780061706875 On sale: 8/14/2013 $16.99 150K E-Book: 9780062201614 WE ARE WATER BY WALLY LAMB

As her wedding day approaches, Annie Oh finds herself one morning staring at a bed covered in Vera Wang wedding dresses, at the mercy of hopes and fears about the momentous change on the horizon. This is not Annie’s first walk down the aisle. She has just emerged from a twenty-seven year marriage to Orion Oh, which produced three children, twins Andrew and Ariane and daughter Marisa. Annie has been trying to reach her ex-husband, as she wants to make sure that he is all right. Orion, a psychologist with a crippling need to help others, keeps assuring everyone that he is fine. But how can he be? Annie, a self-taught artist, is about to marry a woman named Viveca, the sophisticated and seductive art dealer who understands her work and has helped make her enormously successful.

The Oh children have different responses to their mother’s upcoming wedding and her new partner. But when Viveca, who specializes in outsider art, discovers a painting by Josephus Jones, a self-taught African American artist of the 1950’s and ‘60’s, in the Oh family home in Three Rivers, Connecticut, the already difficult relationship between Orion, Annie, and Viveca becomes even more fraught. Jones’s canvases, and the story of his prematurely shortened life, come to play an unexpected role in the life of the Oh family. On the very day of the wedding, as its members struggle ISBN 13: 9780061941023 with their new roles in the reshaped family landscape, secrets are On Sale: 10/29/2013 shared and shocking truths come to light. $29.99 500K A sweeping epic novel from one of America’s most beloved writers, E-Book: 9780062199027 We Are Water pulls you into the emotional center of each richly drawn character. THE SUPREME MACARONI COMPANY BY ADRIANA TRIGIANI

For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This historic business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the school teacher turned shoemaker, to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a complex past . . . and a secret.

A piece of surprising news is revealed at The Feast of the Seven Fishes when Valentine and Gianluca join her extended family on a fateful Christmas Eve. Now faced with life-altering choices, Valentine remembers the wise words that inspired her in the early days of her beloved Angelini Shoe Company: “A person who can build a pair of shoes can do just about anything.” The proud, passionate Valentine is going to fight for everything she wants and savor all she deserves-the bitter and the sweetness of life itself.

Romantic and poignant, told with humor and warmth, and bursting with a cast of endearing characters, The Supreme Macaroni Company is a sumptuous feast of delights: a portrait of a woman and the man she loves, her passion for craftsmanship, and the sacrifices it takes to build and sustain a family business while keeping love and laughter at the center of everything.

ISBN 13: 9780062136589 On Sale: 11/5/2013 $25.99 150K E-Book: 9780062136602 SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY BY JOSHILYN JACKSON

Shandi Pierce fell hard for William Ashe almost the first minute she saw him in a gas station minimart and landed bang in the middle of a love story - but it wasn’t her own.

It seems like an ordinary hot summer day. Single mom Shandi Pierce, her three-year-old son Natty, and her best friend Walcott stop for gas at a Circle K. While Walcott fills the tank, Shandi and Natty go inside the store for a cold drink. Shandi is in line, eyeing a hot blond guy, when the door opens and a stumpy man with a baseball cap pulled low over his forehead walks in. In his hand is a rusty, old silver pistol.

Minutes later there’s been a shooting, and everyone in the store is on the floor, taken hostage. All of these strangers are carrying secrets that will cause their lives to intersect in a most surprising way.

ISBN 13: 9780062105653 On Sale: 11/19/2013 $26.99 150K E-Book: 9780062105677 SENSE & SENSIBILITY BY JOANNA TROLLOPE

When Fanny Dashwood descends on Norland Park with her Polish nanny and her mood boards, Belle Dashwood’s three daughters— Elinor, Marianne and Margaret—must face the reality of life without their father, their home, or their money.

As they come to terms with life without the status of their country house, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are also confronted by the cold hard realities of a world where sometimes people’s attitudes can change as drastically as your circumstances.

With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Reimagining Sense & Sensibility in a fresh, elegant new light, she spins the novel’s romance, bonnets and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming- of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change…

ISBN 13: 9780062200464 On sale: 10/29/2013 $25.99 25K E-Book: 9780062200488 HELP FOR THE HAUNTED BY JOHN SEARLES It begins with a call in the middle of snowy February evening. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon occupation, helping “haunted souls” find peace. And yet, something in Sylvie senses that this call is different than the rest, especially when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of town. Once there, her parents disappear, one after the other, behind the church’s red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car. Not long after, she drifts off to sleep only to wake to the sound of gunfire.

Nearly a year later, we meet Sylvie again struggling with the loss of her parents, and living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened the previous winter.

As the story moves back and forth in time, through the years leading up to the crime and the months following, the ever inquisitive and tender-hearted Sylvie pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night, as she comes to terms with her family’s past and uncovers secrets that have haunted them for years.

Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works with the compelling quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, Help for the ISBN 13: 9780060779634 Haunted is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and On sale: 9/17/2013 wholly original world. From the very first page, it takes readers on a $26.99 captivating journey, told in the heartbreakingly resonant voice of a 75K young heroine who is determined to discover the truth about her E-Book: 9780062199430 family and what went wrong one snowy winter night.

AFTER HER BY JOYCE MAYNARD

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters comes a new novel of family, friendship, and suspense.

Rachel and her younger sister, Patty, were always best friends; even more so following their parents’ bitter divorce. Together, they roam the backyards and nature trails of their suburban northern California neighborhood, seeking escape from their small, rundown house and their sad, lonely mother. They worship their father, the handsome and charming chief homicide detective for Marin County. But when someone begins to murder young women on the mountain behind their house, Detective Torricelli bans them from playing there and their innocent childhood life is changed forever.

ISBN 13: 9780062257390 On sale: 8/20/2013 $25.99 75K E-Book: 9780062257413 THE TILTED WORLD BY TOM FRANKLIN & BETH ANN FENNELLY

The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger, they unexpectedly find an abandoned baby boy at a crime scene.

An orphan raised by nuns, Ingersoll is determined to find the infant a home, a search that leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A lonely woman married too young to a charming and sometimes violent philanderer, Dixie Clay has lost her only child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she’s the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the missing agents. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows he is the enemy and must not be trusted.

Then a deadly new peril arises, endangering them all. A saboteur, hired by rich New Orleans bankers eager to protect their city, is ISBN 13: 9780062069184 planning to dynamite the levee and flood Hobnob, where the river On sale: 10/1/2013 bends precariously. Now, with time running out, Ingersoll, Ham, and $25.99 Dixie Clay must make desperate choices, choices that will radically 100K transform their lives—if they survive. E-Book: 9780062069207

LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND BY PAULETTE JILES

On a hot, dry day a four-year-old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned . . .

The world’s population has exploded, water is scarce and comes at a premium, people and places have been stripped of their individuality, and government-controlled radio and television are the only sources of news and entertainment. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages and foster families, she is renamed Nadia Stepan and learns to don new personas as needed. She also learns to escape into the world of her imagination, a verdant place of freedom and adventure—things she is able to conjure thanks to the old, neglected books she read as a child.

When an opportunity presents itself, she risks her life to escape to the legendary North where, she’s heard, Lighthouse Island may be found, a long-ago vacation spot where she is certain she will find her parents. Along the way she meets and falls in love with James Orotov—a brilliant, wealthy young map maker who is physically crippled—and together they embark on an odyssey that will change the course of the world.

ISBN 13: 9780062232502 On sale: 10/8/2013 $26.99 50K E-Book: 9780062232526 THE WHOLE GOLDEN WORLD BY KRISTINA RIGGLE

To the outside Dinah and Joe have a perfect family-three lovely children, a beautiful home, and a café that’s the local teen hang- out. But their world is rocked when it’s discovered that their oldest daughter, teenage Morgan, is having an affair with her married teacher, TJ Hill.

Their town rocks with the scandal. When the case goes to trial, the family is torn further apart when Morgan sides not with her parents as a manipulated teenage girl, but with TJ himself--as a woman who loves a 30-year-old man.

Told from the perspectives of Morgan, Dinah, and TJ’s wife, Rain, this is an unforgettable story that fully explores the surprising, even shocking, events that change the lives of two families.

ISBN 13: 9780062206459 On Sale: 11/5/2013 $14.99 50K E-Book: 9780062206466 THE PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET BY PAMELA MINGLE

With warmth, wit, and infinite charm Pamela Mingle brings to the page Pride and Prejudice’s reserved and awkward Mary Bennet and proves that there is always room for another Austin spin-off when it’s this good.

For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule. With a notable absence of the social graces, she has been an embarrassment to her family on more than one occasion. But lately, Mary has changed. She’s matured and attained a respectable, if somewhat unpolished, decorum. But her peace and contentment are shattered when her sister Lydia turns up-very pregnant and separated from Wickham. Mary and Kitty are bustled off to stay with Jane and her husband. It is there that Mary meets Henry Walsh, whose attentions confound her. Unschooled in the game of love, her heart and her future are at risk. Is she worthy of love or should she take the safer path? In her journey of self- acceptance, she discovers the answer.

ISBN 13: 9780062274243 On sale: 11/26/2013 $14.99 40K E-Book: 9780062274250 THE ABSENCE OF MERCY BY JOHN BURLEY

Just west of the Ohio River, lies the peaceful town of Wintersville. Safe from the crime and congestion of city life, it is the perfect place to raise a family . . . or so they thought.

Life as the town medical examiner is relatively unhurried for Dr. Ben Stevenson. With only a smattering of cases here and there— car accident victims, death by natural causes—he has plenty of time to spend with his loving wife and two sons. That is until a teenager’s body is discovered in the woods and Ben, as the only coroner in the area, is assigned to the case. But as the increasingly animalistic attacks continue, the case challenges Ben in ways he never suspects.

With its eerie portrait of suburban life and nerve-fraying plot twists, this is psychological suspense at its best—an extraordinary debut that challenges as much as it thrills.

ISBN 13: 9780062227379 On sale: 11/19/2013 $14.99 25K E-Book: 9780062227393 SWIMMING IN THE MOON BY PAMELA SCHOENEWALDT

Lucia D’Angelo knows her voice will never be as beautiful as her mother’s. It will never match the soaring range, peaking and plummeting as surely as the moods of the woman who raised her. It won’t astonish a crowd or move them to tears…but her words will.

In 1904, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her mother Theresa are servants in the Naples home of a grand count and countess. There in between scrubbing floors and polishing silver, Theresa soothes their employers with song. Until one terrible moment sends mother and daughter fleeing the household and Italy.

Bound for the heart of America, they trade in all they know for the icy lake winds of Cleveland, leaving behind their palazzo for a bustling boarding house of other immigrant workers. In America, Lucia can go to school, and Theresa finds the glittering stage of vaudeville. But as the years pass, the shadow of Theresa’s violent mood swings threaten to overtake the life they have created, Lucia finds her own stage, giving voice to the people who have given her a home, and mother and daughter struggle to maintain their bond, when roles become irrevocably reversed.

ISBN 13: 9780062202239 On sale: 9/3/2013 $14.99 50K E-Book: 9780062202246 LEAVING HAVEN BY KATHLEEN MCCLEARY

It is a story only possible with the help of modern medicine.

Georgia is desperate to be pregnant. After her daughter was born, she experiences a series of miscarriages. Desperate for a baby, she jumps at the chance when her best friend offers to donate an egg. She is blissfully happy once she is pregnant with the son she’s always dreamed of. Until the day she realizes that her husband and her best friend are having an affair. And she’s carrying their child…

Alice is unhappy with her life. Her husband ignores her and her daughter is being bullied. She is happy to help her best friend - donating an egg at this point in her life feels as simple as donating blood. But as her discontent at home increases, John, her best friend’s husband becomes a shoulder to lean on. Soon, she’s in love and they’re having an illicit affair. And she wants nothing more than to be a mother to the child who is the perfect mix of her DNA and her lover’s…

When Georgia gives birth, she abandons the baby at the hospital, only to change her mind the next day when her sister shows up with him. But that is enough of an opening for Alice. Suddenly, these former best friends are fighting the battle of their lives. And it is up to the courts to decide who has more of a claim on the child. ISBN 13: 9780062106261 On Sale: 10/1/2013 $14.99 75K E-Book: 9780062106254