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ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JULY 2018 Camp Valor Scott McEwen and Hof Williams A young adult thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper Valor: great courage in the face of danger When Wyatt gets framed for a friend’s crime, he thinks his life is over. But then a mysterious stranger visits him in jail with an unusual proposal: spend three months in a secret government camp and have a ten-year prison sentence wiped clean. Wyatt agrees, and finds himself in a world beyond his wildest dreams, with teenagers like him flying drones, defusing bombs, and jumping out of YOUNG ADULT FICTION / helicopters. This is no ordinary camp. Camp Valor is a secret training ground for THRILLERS & SUSPENSE teenage government agents, filled with juvenile offenders—badasses who don’t St. Martin's Griffin | 7/10/2018 play by the rules—who desperately need a second chance. If they can prove 9781250088246 | $18.99 / $24.99 Can. themselves over their three month stay and survive Hell Week, they will enter Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 the ranks of the most esteemed soldiers in the United States military. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W But some enemies of the United States have gotten wind of Camp Valor, and Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press they will do everything in their power to find out its secrets. Suddenly Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice, and find the bravery to protect Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250088970 their country. PRAISE MARKETING "Camp Valor nails today's dangerous Dark net World on so many levels. Teaching National Print Publicity our kids a defensive skill set to live in today's threat environment is not only Online Publicity National Advertising smart, it may well be crucial to their very survival. Gritty, real, and raw, McEwen Facebook Preorder and Shop Now once again takes his characters to places others are unwilling or unable to venture. Advertising Read it, then give it to your kids to read it!" —Rob O'Neill, Former Senior Chief, Email Marketing Campaign Early Online Reader Reviews US Navy SEAL; New York Times Bestselling Author of The Operator: Firing The School Library Campaign Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years As A SEAL Team Warrior Blog Outreach Campaign Social Media Campaign Giveaways at Key School & Library SCOTT MCEWEN is the author of many books and the co-author of #1 New York Times bestseller Conventions, including ALA and NCTE American Sniper, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into over Influencer Campaign Targeting Summer twenty languages. American Sniper, the movie, starring Bradley Cooper, and directed by Clint Camps Eastwood, was the number one movie in the United States for that year, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one. He lives in San Diego, California, where he began writing while practicing law. 2 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN SEPTEMBER 2018 The Vengeance of Mothers The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel Jim Fergus The stunning sequel to the awarding-winning novel One Thousand White Women. 9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God FICTION / HISTORICAL in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother’s vengeance... St. Martin's Griffin | 9/4/2018 9781250093431 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press was for one thousand white women to be given as brides in exchange for three Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press (excluding France) hundred horses. Mostly fallen women, the brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many fell in love with the Cheyennes spouses Other Available Formats: and had children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250093424 Ebook ISBN: 9781250093448 Audio ISBN: 9781427289452 The Vengeance of Mothers explores what happens to the bonds between wives Audio ISBN: 9781427289469 and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable." Jim Fergus brings to light a time and place and fills it with unforgettable characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate to even today. MARKETING Online Publicity Online Advertising PRAISE Online Book Club Promotions "It's a gripping tale, a history lesson infused with both sadness at the violence Reading Group Gold Selection Discussion Guide Available Online perpetuated against the Cheyenne and awe at the endurance of this remarkable Email Marketing Campaign group of women." —Booklist, starred review Author website: jimfergus.com "Fans of One Thousand White Women will not be disappointed with this sequel: the intricately-plotted narrative—which takes the form of the wives’ journal entries ALSO AVAILABLE —offers a vivid and emotionally rich account of a little-known episode in One Thousand White Women: The Journals American history." —Arizona Daily Star of May Dodd 2/1999 | 9780312199432 "Fans looking for adventure during the time of the Oregon Trail will find...thrills." Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. —Publisher's Weekly JIM FERGUS is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers. He is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books. Jim divides his time between southern Arizona, northern Colorado, and France. 3 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN AUGUST 2018 The Stolen Marriage A Novel Diane Chamberlain From perennial bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a compelling historical novel. In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships of World War II. Tess’s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she’s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, St. Martin's Griffin | 8/14/2018 treating her with suspicion and disdain, especially after one of the town’s 9781250087287 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident and Tess is blamed. Tess suspects Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W people are whispering about her as she adjusts to her new life. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone and adrift, Tess Subrights: UK Rights: Writers House Translation Rights: Writers House turns to the one person who seems to understand her, a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he’s letting on. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250087270 Ebook ISBN: 9781250087294 When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town, the townspeople band together Audio ISBN: 9781427289391 to build a polio hospital. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry’s wishes Audio ISBN: 9781427289407 and begins to work at the hospital, finding meaning in nursing the young victims. Yet at home, Henry’s actions grow more alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle her husband’s MARKETING mysterious behavior and save her own life? Online Publicity Online advertising Book Club Promotion Campaign PRAISE Special Backlist Offers Available “A multilayered, poignant novel...Reminiscent of a Sarah Dessen or Sharon Creech Reading Group Gold Selection Discussion Guide Available Online novel, Pretending to Dance proves that a coming-of-age story can happen at any Email Marketing Campaign time in your life.” —Booklist Author Website: /dianechamberlain.com Author Facebook: /Diane.Chamberlain.Readers.Page (23k “A page turner...Chamberlain’s poignant, well-rounded character sketches lift followers) Pretending to Dance well above the norm.” —Wilmington Star News Author Twitter: @D_Chamberlain “A story of redemption, paranoia, and the power of shared bonds, The Silent Sister is a powerful and thrilling novel…Tautly paced and emotionally driven.” ALSO AVAILABLE —Booklist Pretending to Dance: A Novel 10/2016 | 9781250105011 DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole. The Silent Sister: A Novel 10/2015 | 9781250074355 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. 4 MINOTAUR BOOKS AUGUST 2018 Blackout An Ari Thor Thriller Ragnar Jonasson A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer. "Easily the best yet. Beautifully written and elegantly paced with a plot that only gradually becomes visible." —The Guardian, UK on Blackout "The ending is a satisfying surprise. But what really makes Nightblind stand out is its vivid cast of characters, whose fears, ambitions, rivalries, and longings are movingly universal." —Oprah.com on Nightblind FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / INTERNATIONAL MYSTERY & CRIME "A chiller of a thriller whose style and pace are influenced by Jonasson’s Minotaur Books | 8/28/2018 admiration for Agatha Christie.