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3 umber EIGHTEEN, N EIGHTEEN, ume l O , CNN John Blake John — Advance Publication Newsletter Publication Advance Development Library Collection and Acquisitions In Managers For V • 2009 DECEMBER NOVEMBER, OCTOBER, SEPTEMBER, DUE: BOOKS PENGUIN GROUP (USA) “Mortenson’s “Mortenson’s books, that premise bombs,not the are best weapons against extremist and groups enemy the real that is a new is ignorance, light of hope in a of turmoil.” place SEE INSIDE FOR MORE TITLES COMING SOON FROM PENGUIN GROUP (USA)! GROUP PENGUIN FROM SOON COMING TITLES MORE FOR INSIDE SEE PENGUIN GROUP (uSa) PRSRT-STD ACADEMIC MARKETING DEPARTMENT U.S. POSTAGE 375 HUDSON STREET NEW YORK, NY 10014-3657 PAID STATEN ISLAND, NY PERMIT NO. 169 Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development PENGUIN GROUP (uSa) 375 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014-3657 TELEphONE (212) 366-2377 FAX (212) 366-2666 WWW.PENGUIN.COM September 2009 Dear Librarian: Welcome to the Fall 2009 edition of PENGUIN GROUP (USA)’s Advance Publication Newsletter. The newsletter includes late-breaking reviews, news of award-winners, up-to-date information on prices, and book descriptions for our September through December titles. We hope you will take some time to review the many new books included here. As usual, the newsletter is divided into subject categories to route each section to your appropriate acquisitions and collection development specialists. Some highlights: • Juliet, Naked is a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love (see Fiction). In addition, make sure to check out our Mysteries/Thrillers and Science Fiction/ Fantasy sections for all the latest titles from Nora Roberts, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, and Mercedes Lackey. • Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles is a groundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer’s vision of the tragedy of war. And don’t miss our new Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions! (see Literature) • Why in the aftermath of a disaster do people suddenly become altruistic and brave? Award-winning environmental author Rebecca Solnit discusses this phenomenon in A Paradise Built in Hell. (see History & Biography). In addition, please see our Memoir page opposite this section, which includes the new Sue Monk Kidd autobiography of her trip through Europe with her daughter, Traveling with Pomegranates. • Greg Mortenson continues the story in Three Cups of Tea with Stones Into Schools, chronicling his efforts to promote peace through education. Also, in The Audacity to Win the architect of the Obama campaign—David Plouffe—reveals how it all happened—and how it will revolutionize politics. (see Current Events & Politics) • One of America’s most celebrated educators, Rafe Esquith, teaches parents how to create extraordinary children in Lighting Their Fires. (see Science, Education & Reference) • A Whole New Mind author Daniel H. Pink’s Drive is a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work. (see Psychology, Health & Spirituality) • In Googled Ken Auletta examines the outsized influence Google has had on the changing media landscape. (see Business & Management) • From the ultimate team—basketball superstar LeBron James and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger— Shooting Stars is a poignant tale of the power of teamwork to transform lives. Also, David Byrne, the former lead singer of the Talking Heads, presents his idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world’s cities in Bicycle Diaries. (see Performing Arts & Popular Culture) Please enjoy our newsletter and order through your regular supplier or via the direct order form enclosed. In addition, you may peruse the newsletter online, and sign up for an email alert each time it goes live on our library site, www.penguin.com/ library. Regards, Alan S. Walker Senior Director, Academic & Library Sales 2 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing, email [email protected] ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers In Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOvEMBER, DECEMBER 2009 • vOlUME EIGHTEEN, NUMBER 3 JULIet, NAKED PIlgrIMS THE IslanD at the NICK HORNBY A Wobegon Romance END OF the WOrlD Languishing in rural Pennsylvania, washed-up musi- GARRISON KEILLOR SAM TAYLOR cian Tucker Crowe finds hope among the ruins of his Margie Krebsbach proposes a trip to Rome, hoping to How far will a father go to protect his children? “A career: his young son and an acoustic version of his get her husband Carl to resume his spousal obligations powerful mystery story, but also a carefully observed greatest album. in bed. But her nemesis, the mayor of Lake Wobegon book about the underbelly of family life.”—The A Riverhead hardcover (and Carl’s sister) threatens to join them. Observer (London). September • 352 pp. • 978-1-59448-887-0 • $25.95 A Viking hardcover A Penguin paperback original Also available as a Penguin Audiobook September • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02109-3 • $25.95 September • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311625-7 • $14.00 9 hours, 7 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314490-8 • $29.95 A CHRIstmas BLIZZarD THE END LOVE anD SUmmer A Novella SALVATORE SCIBONA WILLIAM TREVOR GARRISON KEILLOR “Possibly the only novel I’ve ever read that legiti- Ellie Dillahan, an orphan girl from Ireland, weds a The perfect stocking-stuffer: a whimsical novella mately deserves to be called Bellovian. And that’s no man scarred by tragedy. Their cloistered life unravels about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler stranded in small claim.”—Kenyon Review. when she meets Florian Kilderry, a young photogra- his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. A Riverhead paperback pher preparing to leave Ireland. A Viking hardcover October • 336 pp. • 978-1-59448-405-6 • $16.00 A Viking hardcover November • 192 pp. • 978-0-670-02136-9 • $21.95 September • 240 pp. • 978-0-670-02123-9 • $25.95 THE WROng MOther THE Rags OF TIME SOphIE HANNAH It Feels SO GOOD When I STOP MAUREEN HOWARD “What makes this book quite so gripping is Hannah’s JOE PERNICE The concluding volume in an elegant quartet based utter fearlessness as a writer. In her expert hands, all A hilarious debut novel about a modern Everyman on the seasons captures an aging, ailing Manhattan the little annoyances…of everyday life are trans- struggling to learn how to love. “A hard-boiled slacker writer, whose daily strolls through Central Park formed…into the raw material of pure terror.” chronicle of heartbreak and self-renewal, as smart as summon up remembrances of her friendships and —Tana French, author of In the Woods. it is funny, written in one of the most arresting voices fiction. A Penguin paperback original I’ve come across in a long time.”—Tom Perotta, A Viking hardcover October • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-311630-1 • $15.00 author of Little Children. October • 272 pp. • 978-0-670-02132-1 • $26.95 A Riverhead hardcover Available now • 272 pp. • 978-1-59448-874-0 • $25.95 FamILY ALBUM A THOUsanD SplenDID SUns PENELOPE LIVELY Illustrated Edition All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for KhALED HOSSEINI her six children. 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A Viking Young Readers hardcover Available now • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-01183-4 • $17.99 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 10 hours, 8 CDs • Unabridged • 978-0-14-314505-9 • $39.95 FIre The Prequel to Graceling THIS Is Where I LeaVE YOU DragON HOUSE KRISTIN CASHORE JONATHAN TROppER JOHN SHORS Young Nash clings to the throne in King City, while When the patriarch of the Foxman family dies, the “I loved this book and cared deeply about the charac- rebel lords amass to unseat him. surviving members submit to his dying request: to ters brought to life by Shors’ clear sensitivity to the A Dial Books for Young Readers hardcover spend the week following the funeral together. In the plight of the unseen and unwanted in Vietnam.” October • 400 pp. • 978-0-8037-3461-6 • $17.99 same house. Like a real family. —Elizabeth Flock, author of Me & Emma. A Dutton hardcover An NAL paperback original IMPOssIble Available now • 352 pp. • 978-0-525-95127-8 • $25.95 September • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-22785-0 • $15.00 NANCY WERLIN “The well-drawn characters and subtle hints of magic VelVA Jean Learns TO DrIVE RemeDIes early on allow readers to enter willingly into the JENNIFER NIVEN KATE LEDGER world of fantasy.”—Library Journal (starred). An Appalachian girl moves to Nashville, dreaming of “Ledger explores the margins of science and marriage A Penguin Young Readers paperback singing in the Opry. “Takes us far into this soaring, with a surgeon’s precision and a magician’s sleight of Available now • 400 pp.