RHPG_HCTP_Summer09_DD.qxp:Document 3 10/25/08 1:36 AM Page 1 THE RANDOM HOUSE RANDOM MODERN LIBRARY HOUSE RANDOM HOUSE TRADE PAPERBACKS PUBLISHING BALLANTINE BOOKS VILLARD DEL REY GROUP RANDOM HOUSE ONE WORLD HARDCOVERS MODERN LIBRARY PRESIDIO PRESS RANDOM HOUSE ESPN BOOKS TRADE PAPERBACKS BALLANTINE BOOKS AND TRADE VILLARD DEL REY PAPERBACKS The Random House Publishing Group HARDCOVER AND TRADE PAPERBACK CATALOG ONE WORLD PRESIDIO PRESS ESPN BOOKS SUMMER SUMMER 009 2009 THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP www.randomhouse.com 2 RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 1 RANDOM H OUSE H ARDCOVERS 3 M ODERN L IBRARY H ARDCOVERS 2 5 A ND T RADE PAPERBACKS B ALLANTINE B OOKS H ARDCOVERS 3 3 A ND E SPN B OOKS H ARDCOVERS A ND T RADE PAPERBACKS D EL R EY H ARDCOVERS 6 3 D EL R EY T RADE PAPERBACKS 7 5 V ILLARD A ND P RESIDIO P RESS H ARDCOVERS 9 3 V ILLARD A ND O NE WORLD T RADE PAPERBACKS 9 9 R ANDOM H OUSE R EADER’S C IRCLE 1 1 1 R ANDOM H OUSE T RADE PAPERBACKS 1 1 7 B ALLANTINE B OOKS T RADE PAPERBACKS 1 4 5 P ROMOTIONAL O PPORTUNITIES 1 7 3 S UBRIGHTS, AUDIO/LARGE P R I N T, 1 8 3 I NDEX, O RDERING I N F O R M AT I O N RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 2 RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 3 RANDOM H OUSE H ARDCOVERS RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 4 SPRING 2009 DROP-IN TITLE The New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club delivers his most ambitious, suspenseful novel yet— a dangerous quest to discover the ending to Charles Dickens’s unfinished final work The Last Dickens A Novel MATTHEW PEARL Boston, 1870:When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await Dickens’s unfinished novel. But when Daniel’s body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer. Danger and intrigue abound on his seaward journey, especially once Osgood chooses Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s sister, to help him find the manuscript and clear her brother’s name.As they attempt to uncover Dickens’s final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves entangled in a sinister plot that takes them from the fancy auction houses of London to the dark hearts of opium dens.They soon realize that understanding Dickens’s lost ending is a RANDOM HOUSE matter of life and death, and the hidden key to stopping a HC • Fiction murderous mastermind. 978-1-4000-6656-8 $25.00/$28.95 • 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 • 384 pp. Praise for The Poe Shadow: “Confirms Matthew Pearl’s position at the very forefront MARKETING of contemporary novelists.” —Caleb Carr Publicity: National review attention; Author tour (Boston, New York, MATTHEW PEARL is the NewYorkTimes bestselling Pittsburgh, Iowa City, Madison, WI, author of The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club, which Scottsdale, San Francisco, Seattle) have been published in forty countries around the world. National print bestseller advertising A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Online: Banner ad campaign; Treasure hunt he has taught literature at Harvard University and Website: MatthewPearl.com Emerson College. Pearl lives in Cambridge, Promotion: Easels (978-0-8129-4043-5) Massachusetts. and shelftalkers (978-0-8129-4044-2) Library marketing RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO AVAILABLE (SEE PAGES 194-195) PREVIOUS TITLE The Poe Shadow, Random House hardcover 978-1-4000-6103-7 (5/06); Random House Trade Paperbacks 978-0-8129-7012-8 (7/07) 4 ONALE S M ARCH 1 7 RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 5 The bestselling author of The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and The Year of Pleasures returns with a wonderful novel about a woman, a daughter, and a surprising change in life Home Safe A Novel ELIZABETH BERG Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Helen Ames and of her twenty-seven- year-old daughter Tessa.Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and loyal husband had been leading a double life.The Ames’s had saved money for a happy retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals—spent by Helen’s husband before he died.What could he possibly have been doing? And what is Helen to do now? Why does Helen’s daughter object to her mother’s applying for a job—and why doesn’t Tessa meet a nice man and get married? What Helen’s husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory—and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change. Praise for Elizabeth Berg: RANDOM HOUSE “Elizabeth Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully HC • Fiction in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, 978-1-4000-6511-0 the remarkable in the everyday.” —The Boston Globe $25.00/$28.95C • 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 224 pp. ELIZABETH BERG is the author of eighteen novels, ten MARKETING of which are bestsellers, and has more than 1.5 million Publicity: National review attention; books in print. Her novels include The Day I Ate Author tour (Boston, Chicago/Milwaukee, Whatever I Wanted, The Art of Mending, TheYear of Minneapolis, Kansas City, Portland, OR, Pleasures, We Are All Welcome Here, The Handmaid and the San Francisco) Carpenter, Dream WhenYou’re Feeling Blue, and others. Her National print bestseller advertising novel, Open House, was an Oprah’s Book Club selection Online: Discussion guide; in 2000. Berg lives near Chicago, Illinois. Outreach to book clubs Website: Elizabeth-Berg.net RANDOM HOUSE AUDIOD AN LARGE PRINT AVAILABLE Promotion: Ten-market consumer giveaway (SEE PAGES 194-195) of The Year of Pleasures featuring an excerpt from Home Safe TIE-IN TITLE Library marketing Elizabeth Berg’s The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted PREVIOUS TITLES will be published by Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, Random in May 2009 (see page 153) House hardcover 978-1-4000-6509-7 (4/08) The Year of Pleasures, Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 978-0-8129-7099-9 (4/06) 5 ONALE S A PRIL 2 8 RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 6 A heartbreaking, beautifully-crafted debut novel about friendship, loyalty, and growing up—tracing a dying woman’s final vacation with her family at a lavish New England resort Hello Goodbye A Novel EMILY CHENOWETH The summer after Abby Hansen’s first year of college, several months after doctors find a malignant tumor in her mother Helen’s brain, she and her parents drive to northern New Hampshire to say goodbye to a lifetime of friends. During a single week at a historic resort, the family welcomes a small procession of visitors, and shares with them the pathos and heartache of Helen’s imminent passing. As the week progresses, the Hansens and their guests deal with Helen’s illness in varied, sometimes surprising ways, and Abby, drawn to the youthful, mischievous staff of the hotel, is torn between her duties to her family and the pleasures and temptations of her new life as an adult. For all involved, the occasion unexpectedly becomes one of awakening rather than farewell, as they discover how life inevitably blossoms in the face of death. RANDOM HOUSE “[Chenoweth has] uncanny memories for the tenderest HC • Fiction details of teenage emotions, mixed with impossibly 978-1-4000-6517-2 sharp but sympathetic powers of retrospection.” $24.00/$28.00C • 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 288 pp. —The New York Times, on Chenoweth’s essay in the anthology The Friend Who Got Away MARKETING EMILY CHENOWETH is a former fiction editor of Publicity: National review and feature attention; Publishers Weekly. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Local author promotion (Portland, OR) Bookforum, and People, among other publications. She lives Online: Discussion guide; Outreach to book in Portland, Oregon. clubs and literary blogs Library marketing 6 ONALE S M AY 5 RHPG_Cat_SUMMER09_sect1_LSAA.qxp:Layout 1 11/2/08 8:55 AM Page 7 Ay delightfull witty and informative book for fans of Patricia T. O’Conner’s previous bestseller Woe Is I and other popular books on language, like Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Elements of Style Origins of the Specious Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language PATRICIA T. O’CONNERND A STEWART KELLERMAN Do the British really speak better English than Americans do? Why don’t French women wear brassières? Does “ain’t” deserve its bad rep? Should “niche” rhyme with “quiche”? Not so fast—the answers may surprise you! In this fascinating book, the authors cover the whole nine yards (another source of lore!) and debunk myths that have bamboozled word-loving fans of their popular blog, books, and broadcasts. Prepare to change your mind about where words come from and where they’re going. Yesterday’s blooper could be tomorrow’s bon mot. Here’s a delightful primer on the eccentricities of the ever- changing, endlessly entertaining English language. Praise for Woe Is I: “Lighthearted and funny .