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The Rathbones
Janice Clark
HC: 978-0-385-53693-6 eBook: 978-0-385-53694-3 CD: 978-0-804-14839-9 AD: 978-0-804-14840-5
Doubleday | 50,000 August 6, 2013
Night Film
Marisha Pessl
HC: 978-1-4000-6788-6 eBook: 978-0-679-64391-3 CD: 978-0-307-93267-9 AD: 978-0-307-93268-6
Random House | 200,000 August 20, 2013
Pierre Lematre
HC: 978-1-62365-000-1 eBook: 978-1-62365-001-8 MacLehose Press | 150,000
September 3, 2013
Alex
A literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's gothic debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous seafaring dynasty.
The critically acclaimed author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics returns with a brilliant, breathtakingly suspenseful literary thriller, Night Film.
In this gripping, fiendishly plotted Crown | 100,000 September 10, 2013 detective novel set in Paris, Alex Prvost is kidnapped, savagely beaten, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink's and suspended from the ceiling of an landmark work of narrative nonfiction abandoned industrial building in a recreates the world of a hospital ravaged wooden cage and she is running out by post-Katrina floodwaters and examines of time. the central question of what doctors and other caregivers owe their patients in the best, and worst, of circumstances.
Anabel Hernndez
HC: 978-1-78168-073-5 eBook: 978-1-781-68248-7
Verso | 15,000 September 10, 2013
Narcoland
A Beautiful Truth
Colin McAdam
HC: 978-1-61695-315-7 eBook: 978-1-616-95316-4
Soho Press | 50,000 September 17, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful new novel set in Depression-era Seattle, a mother and son story, about love, hope, and the power of forgiveness.
Courageous journalist speaks truth to the power of Mexico's drug cartels and the corrupt politicians and corporations that enable them.
A dramatic, moving and utterly original novel about chimpazees and humans. Set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity for survival.
A celebrated food writer captures the flavors of the Soviet experience in a sweeping, tragicomic, multigenerational memoir that brilliantly illuminates the history and culture of a vanished empire.
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Provence, 1970
Luke Barr
HC: 978-0-307-71834-1 eBook: 978-0-770-43331-4 CD: 978-0-804-14885-6 AD: 978-0-804-14886-3
Clarkson Potter | 80,000 October 22, 2013
Mother, Mother
Koren Zailckas
HC: 978-0-385-34723-5 eBook: 978-0-385-34724-2 AD: 978-0-804-14924-2
Crown | 75,000 September 17, 2013
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
HC: 978-0-307-26574-6 eBook: 978-0-385-35040-2 CD: 978-0-385-36742-4 AD: 978-0-385-36743-1
Knopf | 350,000
For fans of M.F.K. Fisher's classic The Art of Eating, Julia Child's My Life in France, and Patti Smith's Just Kids, Luke Barr, the grandnephew of Fisher, tells the dramatic story of friendships and rivalries, when Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and other culinary icons gathered in Provence in 1970 and debated the future of American cuisine.
The chilling debut novel by Koren September 24, 2013 Zailckas, author of the iconic New Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely From an award-winning author and York Times bestselling brilliant woman haunted by her past; a screenwriter: set in Germany during memoir Smashed. country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer the tumultuous year following the end Prize winner Lahiri gives us a powerful of WWII, the profoundly moving story novelset in both India and America of two families, one house, and love that explores the price of idealism and a grown from hate. love that can last long past death.
Jennifer duBois
HC: 978-0-8129-9586-2 eBook: 978-0-812-99587-9 CD: 978-0-804-16487-0 AD: 978-0-804-16488-7
Random House | 50,000 October 1, 2013
Cartwheel
Book of Ages
Jill Lepore
HC: 978-0-307-95834-1 eBook: 978-0-307-95835-8
Knopf | 60,000 October 1, 2013
Laurence Maslon
HC: 978-0-385-34858-4 eBook: 978-0-385-34859-1 AD: 978-0-804-12855-1
Crown Archetype | 75,000 October 1, 2013
Superheroes!
Loss of Innocence
For fans of Emma Donoghue, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, comes a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, whose Published to tie in with a PBSobscurity and poverty were matched documentary series, this book will only by her brother's fame and wealth explore the 70-year history of the but who, like him, was a passionate superheroes that have captured the reader, a gifted writer, and a shrewd imagination for generations. political commentator.
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.
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Summerland
Longbourn
Jo Baker
HC: 978-0-385-35123-2 eBook: 978-0-385-35124-9 CD: 978-0-804-14942-6 AD: 978-0-804-14943-3
Knopf | 150,000 October 8, 2013
Anne Quatrano is poised to become the Ina Garten of Southern cooking. This is the only major entertaining cookbook to satisfy fans of Southern foodreaders of Hugh Acheson's A New Turn in the South, Frank Stitt's My Southern Table, Virginia Willis's Bon Appetit, Y'all, and The Lee Bros. Cookbook.
A wonderfully entertaining pastiche of a 19th century ghost story in which Charles Dickens himself makes a cameo appearance. Think Wilkie Collins meets Henry James. Perfect for readers of ghost stories, 19thcentury British thrillers, or those who simply want a delicious, witty, scare.
A brilliantly imagined, below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a story of the romance, intrigue, and drama among the servants of the Bennet household, and an illuminating glimpse of working-class lives in Regency England.
A riveting psychological thriller in the tradition of Before I Go to Sleep and Memento that introduces P. D. Viner as a master of suspense.
Butter Baked Goods is a gorgeously illustrated cookbook, packed full of delicious recipes for irresistible baking that you will want to make, time and time again. These are recipes for the classics, rich in the nostalgic flavors of your childhood.
For fans of AMC's The Walking Dead, Max Brooks, and all things zombies, the crazy-clever creators of Fifty Shades of Chicken hack a new parody cookbook filled with snacks for every occasion, tips for cooking under duress, and a love story that will send ripples down your spine.
The next big Batman epic from rising star writer Scott Snyder who pulls in Batman's partners in crimefighting, including Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, and more.
From a coauthor of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of traditions and formalities and found ways to modernize China, exposing its culture to western political ideas and technology.
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The Aviators
Winston Groom
HC: 978-1-4262-1156-0 eBook: 978-1-426-21157-7
National Geographic | 60,000 November 5, 2013
Gary Shteyngart
HC: 978-0-679-64375-3 eBook: 978-0-812-99533-6
Random House | 75,000 January 7, 2014
Little Failure
Tells the saga of three extraordinary aviatorsCharles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle and how they redefined heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage.
The New York Times bestselling novelist and fan favorite turns to memoir in a hilarious, candid, and deeply poignant account of his life so far. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey, and Dave Eggers.
In the spirit of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Super Sad True Love Story, a debut novel about an intergalactic pizza delivery hotline employee who starts getting calls from Marco Polo.
From the bestselling author of Loving Frank comes a new novel that tells the story of the passionate, turbulent relationship between Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wildtempered American wife, Fanny.
My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead
Crown | 50,000 January 28, 2014
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
HC: 978-0-385-35081-5 eBook: 978-0-385-35102-7
Knopf | 50,000 January 28, 2014
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
HC: 978-0-345-53978-6 eBook: 978-0-345-53979-3
Del Rey | 50,000 February 18, 2014
HC: 978-0-307-98476-0 eBook: 978-0-307-98478-4 A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth Middlemarchand fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill, and Jennifer Egan.
From the author of the bestselling memoirs The Middle Place and Lift comes a compelling new memoir. This is a story about growing up and stepping up, but most of all, it's about the great adventure of motherhood. Great book club selection.
Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the readability and excitement of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and the best of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Red Rising is the story of a society in a desolate future, riven by class conflict and shaken by the tremors of an impending revolution.
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Vienna Nocturne
Vivien Shotwell
HC: 978-0-345-53637-2 eBook: 978-0-345-53639-6 CD: 978-0-804-12842-1 AD: 978-0-804-12843-8
Ballantine Books | 50,000 February 25, 2014
Burning Sky
Lori Benton
TR: 978-0-307-73147-0 eBook: 978-0-307-73148-7
WaterBrook Press | 15,000 August 6, 2013
Forever Friday
Timothy Lewis
TR: 978-0-307-73221-7 eBook: 978-0-307-73222-4
WaterBrook Press | 30,000 September 3, 2013
From the bestselling author of The Dressmaker comes the warm-hearted and enthralling saga of a bold young woman caught between two worlds the vibrant camaraderie of factory life and a budding romance with the mill owner's son affordsas the murder of her best friend sends shocks through the town.
Set in Vienna, London, and Italy, this debut novel is an aching, exhilarating love story between Wolfgang Mozart and a young English soprano named Anna Storace, based on one of the greatest stars of the day, for whom the composer wrote some of his most beautiful songs.
Appealing to readers of Liz Curtis Higgs and Laura Frantz, this remarkable Revolutionary-set debut novel is a stellar mix of quality writing, strong appeal for romance readers, and faith-infused story. Perfect for those who enjoy "frontier" fiction, fans of the show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Angela Elwell Hunt's Ronoake series.
Ideal for readers of Nicholas Sparks, Forever Friday is the heartwarming and captivating tale of an unlikely couple, a weekly gift of devotion, and a heartbroken man longing to discover the secret to lasting marriage.
Margaret Atwood
HC: 978-0-385-52878-8 eBook: 978-0-385-53783-4 CD: 978-0-385-36740-0 AD: 978-0-385-36741-7
Nan A. Talese | 50,000 September 3, 2013
MaddAddam
One Summer
Bill Bryson
HC: 978-0-7679-1940-1 eBooks: 978-0-385-53782-7 CD: 978-0-804-12735-6 AD: 978-0-804-12736-3
Doubleday | 400,000 October 1, 2013
Bryson retells the story of 1927, a Bringing together characters from fascinating narrative featuring such Fans of Downton Abbey, Jane Eyre, and Oryx and Crake and The Year of the outsized American heroes as Charles author Julie Klassen will fall in love with Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert this romance set in Edwardian England. Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction Hoover, Al Capone, and Calvin Coolidge. It When Julia Foster, a spirited young trilogy confirms the ultimate was the year Americans attempted and woman and former missionary becomes endurance of humanity, community, accomplished outsized things and came of a governess, she catches the eye of and love. age in a big, brawling manner. What a Highland Hall owner, Sir William country. What a summer. Ramsey.
Bridget Jones, the iconic character who sold 15 million books worldwide, inspired a major motion picture franchise, and became beloved as a Chardonnay-swilling everywoman, is back in this hotly anticipated third installment.
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Sycamore Row
John Grisham
HC: 978-0-385-53713-1 eBook: 978-0-385-53792-6 CD: 978-0-385-36649-6 AD: 978-0-385-36650-2
Doubleday | 1,500,000 October 22, 2013
The tale of The Wolf Gift continues . . . Anne Rice brings us once again to the rugged coastline of Northern California to further explore the unearthly education of her transformed Man Wolf.
The suspense never rests when A In this powerful and intimate memoir, The bestselling author of Queen Bees Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the the beloved bestselling author of The and Wannabes, a groundbreaking book good fight once again. Prince of Tides and his father, the about teenage girls, now turns to boys, inspiration for The Great Santini, find explaining what they're really going some common ground at long last. through, and helping parents form stronger connections with their sons.
SECRET Shared
L. Marie Adeline
TR: 978-0-8041-3686-0 eBook: 978-0-804-13687-7 AD: 978-0-804-12847-6
Broadway Books | 30,000 October 15, 2013
Aimless Love
Billy Collins
HC: 978-0-679-64405-7 eBook: 978-0-812-98465-1 CD: 978-0-385-36641-0 AD: 978-0-385-36642-7
Random House | 40,000 October 22, 2013
HC: 978-0-307-88720-7 eBook: 978-0-307-88722-1 An illuminating examination of how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents and pointed the way to America's rise as a world power. For readers of This Republic of Suffering and A World on Fire.
The second book in a sexy and sophisticated series of erotica, with a twist: women control their fantasies and men will do anything to satisfy them.
Highclere Castle has a new resident, the daughter-in-law of Lady Almina, an American beauty from New York and a descendant of famous American families.
The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the twotime Poet Laureate of the United States. Aimless Love gives the reader an opportunity to assess the rich scope of Collins' gifts.
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Takedown Twenty
Janet Evanovich
HC: 978-0-345-54288-5 eBook: 978-0-345-54290-8 CD: 978-0-385-36678-6 AD: 978-0-385-36679-3
Bantam | 800,000 November 11, 2013
Innocence
Dean Koontz
HC: 978-0-553-80803-2 eBook: 978-0-345-53965-6
Bantam | 400,000 January 7, 2014
Andrew's Brain
E. L. Doctorow
HC: 978-1-4000-6881-4 eBook: 978-0-812-99504-6 CD: 978-0-804-12777-6 AD: 978-0-804-12778-3
Random House | 150,000
An irresistible new comic mystery from the bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf. A funloving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years.
The much-anticipated 20th book in the #1 bestselling Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
A riveting novel of suspense from January 14, 2014 bestselling author Dean Koontz, unlike The author of Ragtime, World's Fair, anything he's ever written before. Set in Billy Bathgate, and The March takes us a city of secrets, narrated by an on a radical trip into the life and mind of enigmatic, irresistible protagonist, and a manhis marriages, mistakes, suffused with atmosphere, heart, dreamsas he thinks about how to make mystery, romance, and unexpected sense of his life, and times. twists, Innocence is an utterly fresh, stand alone novel.
BZRK Reloaded
Michael Grant
HC: 978-1-60684-394-9 eBook: 978-1-606-84395-6
EgmontUSA | 50,000 October 8, 2013
Jean-Christophe Valtat
HC: 978-1-61219-141-6 eBook: 978-1-612-19142-3
Melville House 25,000 October 15, 2013
Luminous Chaos
Anna Quindlen, the New York Times bestselling author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Rise and Shine, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, returns with a new novel a love story, and the deeply satisfying story of the changing dimensions of a woman's life.
The second book in the steampunk The newest ground-breaking series The wait is nearly overClaire and adventure series The Mysteries of from New York Times bestselling Jamies story continues in the next New Venice set in Paris. Contains rich author Michael Grant continues. thrilling book in Diana Gabaldons historical details of soirees at Filled with sci-fi tech and bestselling Outlander series. Written Mallarm's house, drinking absinthe breathtaking macro/micro scenes, in My Own Hearts Blood follows BZRK Reloaded is sure to thrill fans of with Proust, trying to wrestle secrets Gabaldons characters through out of mesmerists, and making fun of Gone, Orson Scott Card, and the revolutionary Philadelphia and onto the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower . Transformers films. the battlefields, as Jamie makes a The Guardian called the series a dramatic return to Claires side. "magnificent achievement.
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Hollow City
Ransom Riggs
HC: 978-1-59474-612-3 eBook: 978-1-594-74620-8
Quirk Books | 250,000 January 14, 2014
A Well-Tempered Heart
Jan-Philipp Sendker
Other Press | 50,000 January 21, 2014
TR: 978-1-59051-640-9 eBook: 978-1-590-51641-6 Jan-Philipp Sendker continues the story of Julia Win in her search for love and the gentle people of Burma. Publishers Weekly called The Art of Hearing Heartbeats An epic narrative that requires...a large box of tissues and Library Journal said, Sweetly tragic.
HC: 978-1-936975-79-2 eBook: 978-1-619-88898-2 Archie's new hardcover art book is a beautifully-designed celebration of over 70 years of the funniest, most classic and iconic Archie Comics covers, fashioned to appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, including Americana fans, pop culture aficionados and comic book fans alike.
The long-awaited sequel to the mega Hugo Marston must figure out what bestseller Miss Peregrines Home for lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise Peculiar Children arrives with a whole new adventure and 50 eerie all-new is revealed and claims another life. photographs! For mystery readers, Francophiles, fans of Lee Child, Harlan Coben, and Cara Black.
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