ROUTE TO: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ __________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST 2014 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2 EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU MAMBO IN CHINATOWN ONE PLUS ONE CELESTE NG JEAN KWOK JOJO MOYES “Ng tells a story weighted by death and grief From the bestselling author of Girl in Transla- The bestselling author of Me Before You returns that is vital in all the essential ways; these char- tion, a novel about a young woman torn with another contemporary opposites-attract acters betray and love blindly and are needy and between her family duties in Chinatown and love story, in which a single mom with a dys- accuse and forgive....At the same time, her story her escape into the world of ballroom dancing. functional family stumbles upon an unlikely is also about what it means to live in two worlds A Riverhead hardcover knight: the obnoxious tech millionaire whose at the same time, to be Asian and American, an July • 368 pp. • 978-1-59463-200-6 • $27.95 vacation home she happens to clean. insider and an outsider, and Ng writes about all Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Pamela Dorman hardcover this and more with terrific nuance.”—Jesmyn Digital only, 11.5 hours • 978-0-698-15382-0 • $39.95 July • 384 pp. • 978-0-525-42658-5 • $27.95 Ward, National Book Award–winning author Also available as a Penguin Audiobook of Salvage the Bones. 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