ROUTE TO: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ __________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2014 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1 THE CRANE WIFE THE INVENTION OF WINGS PIONEER GIRL PATRICK NESS SUE MONK KIDD BICH MINH NGUYEN “When George and his daughter, with their The author ofThe Secret Life of Bees “hits her “I love how the Little House legend takes a seemingly ordinary quirks and heartbreaks, stride and avoids sentimental revisionism wild detour into contemporary life in Pioneer are befriended by an enigmatic woman, art, with this historical novel about the relation- Girl. Bich Minh Nguyen’s wonderfully imag- beauty, and myth become living forces in their ship between a slave and the daughter of slave ined literary history gets to the truth about lives. This poignant novel echoes with the owners in antebellum Charleston.”—Kirkus mothers, daughters, frontiers, and the mean- longings and sorrows of the ages.”—Eowy Reviews. An Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick. ing of home.”—Wendy McClure, author of The Ivey, author of The Snow Child. A Viking hardcover Wilder Life. A Penguin Press hardcover January • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-02478-0 • $27.95 A Viking hardcover January • 320 pp. • 978-1-59420-547-7 • $26.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook February • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-02509-1 • $26.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook 10 CDs, 12.5 hours • 978-1-61176-252-5 • $39.95 Digital only, 8 hours • 978-0-698-14942-7 • $39.95 Digital • 978-0-698-15183-3 THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT Stories REDEPLOYMENT THE GUTS APRIL WILDER PHIL KLAY RODDY DOYLE In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim “As we try to understand the human costs of In this poignant follow-up to the author’s Shepard, this short-story debut signals a bold yet another foreign conflict, Phil Klay brings beloved debut novel The Commitments, Jimmy new voice and delivers the kind of insanely us the stories of the American combatants, Rabbitte reconnects with his past, most nota- incisive moments only a master of the human told in a distinct, new, and powerful voice.”— bly Commitments guitarist Liam “Outspan” condition can conjure. 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But decades A Novel of Wuthering Heights steady hand.”—Beth Hoffman, author ofSav - later, when she learns that her brother is being SUSAN M. WYLER held in a county jail for a shocking crime, she is ing CeeCee Honeycutt. “Wyler’s contemporary take on a classic love forced to wonder: is it her job to save her A Pamela Dorman hardcover story is utterly beguiling. Solsbury Hill is a brother? February • 384 pp. • 978-0-670-02613-5 • $27.95 gorgeously well-written tale of a fraught love Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Riverhead hardcover affair that takes you from New York to the wild Digital only, 12.5 hours • 978-0-698-14940-3 • $39.95 April • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-603-6 • $27.95 gothic setting of the Yorkshire moors.”—Fiona Neill, author of What the Nanny Saw. 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Few writers can match him gag for gag; fewer still can match his effortless cre- THE SWAN GONDOLA ation of a fully realized fictional universe....A STEAL THE NORTH TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT HEATHER BRITTAIN BERGSTROM welcome return to form.”—The Telegraph (UK). A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two When her mother sends shy, sheltered sixteen- A Europa Editions paperback original lovers, set against the scandalous burlesques, January • 160 pp. • 978-1-60945-181-3 • $15.00 year-old Emmy to eastern Washington to an midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the aunt and uncle she never knew she had, she 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. knows she has come home among the rugged A Riverhead hardcover landscape of coulees and scablands. A spar- February • 384 pp. • 978-1-59448-609-8 • $27.95 Please sign up online to receive kling debut novel set on the edge of an Indian an email alert when a new reservation. A Viking hardcover library newsletter is available: April • 336 pp.