HarperCollinsPublishers Highlights from our Fall 2011 List Kayleigh George Virginia Stanley Annie Mazes Senior Marketing Associate Marketing Director Marketing Associate [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Visit us on the web at: Library Love Fest www.librarylovefest.com and The Roaring 20s: Quarterlife Lit for the Twentysomething Set www.roaring20s.typepad.com For more information on these titles visit: www.harpercollinscatalogs.com Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Fiction Drawn to Dom, a confident and artistic Deborah Lawrenson studied English at Author Residence: Kent, United wealthy older man she barely knows, Cambridge University, and has worked Kingdom and Provence, France Deborah Lawrenson bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirl- as a journalist for various publications in The Lantern wind affair that offers a new life and a new England, including the Daily Mail, the Mail ISBN 13: 9780062049698 home. But with autumn’s arrival the days be- on Sunday, and Woman’s Journal magazine. gin to cool as does Dom. An evocative and She and her family spend as much time as On Sale: 8/9/2011 sensuous tale of romantic and psychological possible at a crumbling hamlet in Provence, $25.99 suspense set against an exquisite landscape, France, the setting for The Lantern. The 100K The Lantern is a gripping story of past and Lantern is her first novel to be published in present, love and jealousy, secrets and lies. the United States. 40 years ago, Richard Forthrast fled to Neal Stephenson is the author of Anathem, Author Residence: Seattle, WA Canada to avoid the draft, and got rich smug- the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Neal Stephenson gling marijuana. He became addicted to an Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The Reamde online fantasy game about world domination System of the World) as well as Cryptonomi- ISBN 13: 9780061977961 which allowed him to launder his ill-gotten con, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and gains and begin his own computer gaming Zodiac. On Sale: 9/20/2011 company. But, the line between fantasy and $35 reality becomes dangerously blurred when 250K a young man accidently triggers a virtual war—and Richard is caught at the center. Known only as The Kid, a young man must One of America’s most prestigious fiction Author Residence: Upstate New Russell Banks rebuild his life in the wake of incarceration writers, Russell Banks is president of the York and Miami, FL Lost Memory of Skin for sexual offenses. In this provocative International Parliament of Writers and a new novel, Banks probes the zeitgeist of a member of the American Academy of Arts ISBN 13: 9780061857638 troubled society where zero tolerance has and Letters. His work has been translated On Sale: 9/27/2011 erased any hope of compassion and where into twenty languages and has received $25.99 isolating the offender has perhaps created a numerous international prizes and awards. new kind of victim. 50K Pen, Will and Cat shared a remarkable Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times Author Residence: Wilmington, DE friendship in college until it abruptly ended bestselling author and award-winning Marisa de los Santos and they went their separate ways. Now, six poet with a Ph.D. in literature and creative Falling Together years later, Cat desperately reaches out for writing. Her past books include Belong to ISBN 13: 9780061670879 help. The girls’ reunion sends the friends on Me and Love Walked In. a journey across the world... a journey that On Sale: 10/4/2011 will change everything. An emotionally pre- $25.99 cise novel about friendship, family and love. 250K Following the mayhem in Sandman Slim and Richard Kadrey has published five novels, Author Residence: San Francisco, CA Kill the Dead, Stark returns for another har- including Sandman Slim, Butcher Bird, Richard Kadrey rowing, supernatural mission. Lucifer is back and Metrophage, as well as more than fifty Aloha from Hell in Heaven, God’s on vacation, and an insane stories. He has been immortalized as an ISBN 13: 9780061714320 killer prepares to mount a war. Stark must action figure, and his short story“Goodbye return to Hell to follow his suidical plan that Houston Street, Goodbye,” was nominated On Sale:10/18/2011 includes rescuing his long-lost love, stop- for a British Science Fiction Association $23.99 ping an insane serial killer, and preventing Award. 30K Heaven and Hell from completely destroying the other—or being destroyed. HarperCollinsPublishers 1 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Fiction Caroline Preston Preston pulls from her own extraordinary Caroline Preston is the author of three Author Residence: Charlottesville, VA collection of vintage ephemera to create the previous novels, Jackie by Josie (a New York The Scrapbook of first ever scrapbook novel, transporting us Times Notable Book), Lucy Crocker 2.0, and Frankie Pratt back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian Gatsby’s Girl. She has worked as an archivist ISBN 13: 9780061966903 culture of the 1920s and introducing us at the Peabody/ Essex Museum and Harvard to an unforgettable heroine: the spirited, University. She is married to the writer On Sale: 10/25/2011 ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt as she Christopher Tilghman. $25.99 travels the world, searching for meaning in 40K life, only to discover it in the one place she hadn’t thought to look — home. Tim Dorsey offers the perfect antidote for all Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Author Residence: Tampa, FL those sappy feel-good holiday stories with Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is Tim Dorsey this zany blockbuster extravaganza in which the author of thirteen novels: Electric Bar- When Elves Attack his wonderfully deranged Floridaphile serial racuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, ISBN 13: 9780062092847 killer, Serge Storm, delivers his special brand Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big of Christmas Cheer. Bamboo, Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead On Sale: 10/25/2011 Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish $16.99 Twist, The Stingray Shuffle, Cadillac Beach, 75K and Torpedo Juice. The marvelous land of Oz is knotted with Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author Author Residence: Boston, MA Gregory Maguire social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, Out of Oz under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion including Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion ISBN 13: 9780060548940 is on the run from the law. And look who’s Among Men. Wicked, now a beloved classic, knocking at the door...Dorothy. Amid all is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award- On Sale: 11/1/2011 this chaos, Elphaba’s granddaughter, the winning Broadway musical of the same $26.99 tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a name. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, 400K Witch, has come of age. Now, Rain will take and culture both at home and abroad. up her broom in an Oz wracked by war. Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO First Novel Tom Violet has failed, once again, to have Matthew Norman has an MFA from George Author Residence: Baltimore, MD sex with his wife. And that’s not the worst Mason University, and is an advertising Matthew Norman of it. Pushed to the brink, Tom decides to copywriter. He lives with his wife and Domestic Violets take things in an entirely different direction daughter. ISBN 13: 9780062065117 by enacting a series of truly stupid plans for revenge and self-improvement that, of On Sale: 8/9/2011 course, go completely haywire. An in-house $14.99 favorite recommended for readers of Tom 75K Perrotta and Jonathan Tropper. HarperCollinsPublishers 2 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Trade Paperback Following the death of their grandmother, Katherine Webb studied History at Durham Author Residence: Berkshire, sisters Erica and Beth return to Storton University, has spent time living in London England Katherine Webb Manor where they spent their childhood and Venice, and now lives in Berkshire, Eng- The Legacy summers. As they begin to sort through their land. Having worked as a waitress, au pair, ISBN 13: 9780062077301 grandmother’s belongings, memories come personal assistant, potter, bookbinder, library flooding back including those concerning assistant, and formal housekeeper at a manor On Sale: 8/30/2011 their cousin Henry, whose disappearance house, she now writes full time. $14.99 tore the family apart. As past and present 60K converge, the sisters must come to terms with betrayal and a heartbreaking legacy. The third book in the Detective Kubu mys- Stanley Trollip received his PhD from Author Residence: Johannesburg, Michael Stanley tery series, Death of the Mantis concerns the the University of Illinois in Educational South Africa Death of the Mantis murder of a fractious ranger named Monzo. Psychology in 1976. He has held professor- His body is found surrounded by three ships studying how to improve teaching and ISBN 13: 9780062000378 Bushmen. Were they trying to help or were learning through the use of computers. On Sale: 9/6/2011 they the murderers? As more murders occur, Michael Sears taught Mathematics and $14.99 Kubu journeys deep into Botswana to find Computer Science in Johannesburg, and the truth. An authentic and original look at has worked at Anglo American, a major 25K modern-day Africa, a juxtaposition of tribal international mining house associated with culture, lingering racism, and colonialism. the diamond giant De Beers. When Sylvie Bates-McAllister, a recently- Sara Shepard graduated from New York Author Residence: Philadelphia, PA widowed mother of two, receives a phone University and has an MFA in Creative Writ- Sara Shepard call from the prestigious school founded by ing from Brooklyn College.