MLS Fiction SS 2010 6 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel by Child, Lee (Author) FP 400,000. A bus accident lands Reacher in a small South Dakota town, where a single witness is the only hope that police have to convict a brutal crime ring. In a place where no one can be trusted, one cop puts his faith in Reacher. Reacher is enlisted to protect the witness against all comers. The clock is ticking. The zero hour is approaching - and Lee Child gives his millions of fans an ending that will be talked about all summer long. Genre: FICTION SUSPENSE Price: $34.00 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Random House Publishing Group ISBN-13: 9780385340588 Pages: 400 Pub. Date: May 2010 9th Judgment by Patterson, James (Author); Paetro, Maxine (Author) FP 1.25 MILLION. In this 9th book in the Women's Murder Club series, coauthored by Maxine Paetro, a deranged killer is targeting women and children. Before Lindsay and her friends in the Club can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line - but is it enough to save San Francisco? This series is the bestselling new detective series of the past decade, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. Genre: FICTION MYSTERY & DETECTIVE WOMEN SLEUTHS Price: $34.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Little Brown & Company ISBN-13: 9780316036276 Pages: 448 Pub. Date: April 2010 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Grahame-Smith, Seth (Author) FP 200,000. Abraham Lincoln battles vampires in the new novel from the author of the surprise NEW YORK TIMES bestseller PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. His valiant, bloody fight against the undead was all but lost to history, until Grahame-Smith stumbled upon THE SECRET JOURNAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Using the journal as his guide, Seth reconstructs Lincoln's life story and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. You don't know Abe. Honest. With 20 B&W photos. Genre: FICTION HORROR Price: $26.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 9780446563086 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: March 2010 After the Darkness by Sheldon, Sidney (Author); Bagshawe, Tilly (Author) Note: The correct title is SIDNEY SHELDON'S AFTER THE DARKNESS. FP 200,000. One day, a respected financial superstar goes sailing from his Nantucket estate and never comes home. When his abandoned yacht is found far out at sea, the police investigation reveals his death was no accident. The famous investor was involved in some sort of spectacular fraud and was about to be exposed by someone close to him. A classic tale of love and betrayal, following the bestseller SIDNEY SHELDON'S MISTRESS OF THE GAME. Genre: FICTION MYSTERY & DETECTIVE GENERAL Price: $33.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN-13: 9780061728303 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: May 2010 Page: 1 www.whitehots.com MLS Fiction SS 2010 A Allies by Golden, Christie (Author); FP 100,000. A secret revealed with a blast from the past...in the 5th novel of the Fate of the Jedi series (nine books in all) - a thrilling story arc for fans of the Legacy of the Force series, the Dark Lords of the Sith, and the most popular characters in STAR WARS: Luke, Han, and Leia! Genre: FICTION SCIENCE FICTION GENERAL Price: $32.00 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Random House Publishing Group ISBN-13: 9780345509147 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: May 2010 Almost Dead by Gavron, Assaf (Author) Eitan Enoch - nicknamed "Croc" - is a thirty-something Tel Aviv yuppie whose life is turned upside down after he survives four separate suicide bomb attacks. He becomes a (reluctant) media celebrity. To the Israeli resistance, he is "The Man They Couldn't Kill!" So, of course, the Palestinian terrorists who have been organizing the attacks feel he must be taken out. Assaf Gavron has published five novels in Israel. Original TPB. Genre: Price: $18.99 Form: Trade Paper Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited ISBN-13: 9781554686797 Pages: 288 Pub. Date: April 2010 Ape House by Gruen, Sara (Author) FP 30,000 (Can.) Sara Gruen's WATER FOR ELEPHANTS has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Now Gruen has moved from a circus elephant, to a family of bonobo apes, whose kidnapping from a language laboratory and mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about the relations between apes and humans, and humans' relationships to each other. Author tour: Toronto. Sara Gruen is a Canadian, now living in western North Carolina. Genre: FICTION GENERAL Price: $29.95 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited ISBN-13: 9780385664448 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: September 2010 Ark, The: A Novel by Morrison, Boyd (Author) FP 150,000. Archaeologist Dilara Kenner seeks out former combat engineer Tyler Locke to help her uncover the secret behind her father's disappearance and the secret behind the artifact from Noah's Ark that he had been searching for. As the pictures begins to come into focus, they realize they have just seven days to find the Ark before its secret is used to wipe out civilization once again. With a chilling premise, Morrison combines all the best elements of a blockbuster thriller with an intelligent and fascinating exploration of the Old Testament's great mysteries. Genre: FICTION SUSPENSE Price: $32.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 9781439181799 Pages: 432 Pub. Date: May 2010 Page: 2 www.whitehots.com MLS Fiction SS 2010 A As Husbands Go: A Novel by Isaacs, Susan (Author) FP 125,000. Jonah Gersten, M.D. is a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, a loving husband and doting dad to his four- year-old triplets. When his murdered body is found in the Upper East Side apartment of second-rate "escort" Dorinda Dillon, his wife Susie is overwhelmed with questions left unanswered. With help from her tough- talking grandma from Miami, she takes on her snooty in-laws, her husband's partners, the NYPD, and the DA, as she tries to prove that her wonderful life with Jonah was not a lie. A rare mix of wit, social satire, and suspense from the critically acclaimed author of PAST PERFECT. Genre: AMERICAN LITERATURE Price: $29.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 9781416573012 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: July 2010 Backseat Saints by Jackson, Joshilyn (Author) FP 100,000. Ro Grandee is trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. She submits, until fate introduces her to an airport gypsy who shares her past and knows her future. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti, Ro (now reemerged as Rose Mae Lolly) unearths a host of family secrets. What she discovers will force her to choose between being a victim or a survivor. Rose is a returning character from GODS IN ALABAMA. Genre: FICTION FAMILY LIFE Price: $29.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 9780446582346 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: June 2010 Beachcombers: A Novel by Thayer, Nancy (Author) FP 50,000. Reunited for the summer, four sisters start Nantucket Mermaids - a company providing an eclectic range of services for the island's wealthy residents. Over the course of a busy summer, they work, gossip, and, of course, squabble. In the twilight of summer, all four women have changed - transformations that surprise themselves and each other. Nancy Thayer's Nantucket-set novels, including THE SUMMER HOUSE, have become staples for summer beach reads. Genre: FICTION GENERAL Price: $29.95 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Random House Publishing Group ISBN-13: 9780345518286 Pages: 384 Pub. Date: June 2010 Bear, The by Salvatore, R. A. (Author) FP 80,000. In this new adventure set in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author R.A. Salvatore's popular world of Corona, allies and battle lines become entangled, motives grow indistinguishable as old friends become enemies and old enemies become allies. Genre: Price: $33.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC ISBN-13: 9780765317919 Pages: 416 Pub. Date: August 2010 Page: 3 www.whitehots.com MLS Fiction SS 2010 B Beatrice and Virgil by Martel, Yann (Author) FP 60,000 (CAN.) A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as they lived, with skill and dedication - among them a howler monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice. A great book for book clubs - it asks a lot of questions about violence, kindness and the power of stories to change us. Yann Martel is the award-winning author of four previous books, the most recent of which is "WHAT IS STEPHEN HARPER READING?" Yann lives in Saskatoon. Genre: AMERICAN LITERATURE Price: $29.95 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Knopf Canada ISBN-13: 9780307398772 Pages: 224 Pub. Date: April 2010 Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Hijuelos, Óscar (Author) FP 100,000. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE is a contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning classic, a novel that still captures the imagination 20 years after its publication. And now, in BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL, Oscar Hijuelos returns to the story, but tells it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria. Genre: Price: $33.99 Form: Trade Cloth Publisher: Hyperion Press ISBN-13: 9781401323349 Pages: 352 Pub. Date: June 2010 Betrayal by Tanenbaum, Robert K. (Author); FP 75,000. Note: The correct title is BETRAYED. New York District Attorney Butch Karp is trying to convict Sharif Jabbar, the imam of a Harlem mosque, for his part in the diabolical attack on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the brutal stabbing death of heroic Miriam Juma, who tried to stop his evil plot.