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Book Club
Titles 2013
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ALONE TOGETHER
BY TEDDY GETTY GASTON In this unflinching, page-turning memoir Teddy Getty Gaston, now
nearly 100 years old, tells the glamorous, often painful, story of her
life with the enigmatic oil tycoon John Paul Getty. He swept her off
her feet, mentored her, married her, fathered her child, and then
abandoned her for the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
Gaston brings her lively wit and tremendous compassion to bear on
this nuanced portrait of a difficult man. The richest man in the world
at the time, he was unusually stingy. Though he was terrifically
charismatic in person, he was neglectful from a distance, and could
never put his family ahead of his work. Nevertheless, Teddy
remained steadfastly his friend until he died in 1976. This is a
remarkable look at the twentieth century from the vantage point of
one of the century’s most intriguing couples.
ISBN 13: 9780062219718
On sale: 9/1/2013
$16.99
20K
E-Book: 9780062219732
THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT
BY AMY TAN Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a
beautiful and intelligent woman who has honed her ability to
become any man’s fantasy since her start as a “Virgin Courtesan”
at the age of twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves
effortlessly between the east and the west. But her talents belie her
private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for
a home in the world. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and
uncertain of her father’s identity, Violet’s quest to truly love and be
loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity--
and the loss of her own daughter.
Lucia, a willful and wild American woman who was once herself the
proprietress of Shanghai’s most exclusive courtesan house, nurses
her own secret wounds, which she first sustained when, as a
teenager, she fell in love with a Chinese painter and followed him
from San Francisco to Shanghai. Her search for penance and
redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet’s
daughter, and will undo all that Violet believed she knew about her
mother.
Spanning fifty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazement
sweeps the reader along a deeply moving narrative of family
secrets, the legacies of traumas, and the profound connections
between mothers and daughters, returning readers to the
compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club.
With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up
a story of the inheritance of love, its mysteries and senses, its
illusions and truths.
ISBN 13: 9780062107312
On Sale: 11/5/2013
$29.99
750K
E-Book: 9780062107336
AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
BY LAURA LIPPMAN A brilliant new stand alone novel from New York Times Bestselling
author Laura Lippman.
She is the first person he will come looking for.
Heloise thought she was safe. The convicted murderer she helped
put behind bars is on death row and she has rebuilt her life in a
small, tightknit, suburban community where the people don’t ask
too many questions about her past. But suddenly the security she’s
worked so hard to establish is gone. Val’s seemingly airtight
conviction is overturned and he’s freed from prison.
Getting revenge on the woman who put him in jail isn’t Val’s only
reason for coming to find her. Because Heloise is hiding a secret.
Val is her former pimp. And the suburban madam is not ready for
all to be revealed.
And that’s not all. There’s another between Heloise and her pimp.
She is also the mother of his son. What lengths won’t Heloise go to
in order to protect her son and the life she’s built for him?
ISBN 13: 9780061706875
On sale: 8/14/2013
$16.99
150K
E-Book: 9780062201614
WE ARE WATER
BY WALLY LAMB As her wedding day approaches, Annie Oh finds herself one
morning staring at a bed covered in Vera Wang wedding dresses,
at the mercy of hopes and fears about the momentous change on
the horizon. This is not Annie’s first walk down the aisle. She has
just emerged from a twenty-seven year marriage to Orion Oh,
which produced three children, twins Andrew and Ariane and
daughter Marisa. Annie has been trying to reach her ex-husband,
as she wants to make sure that he is all right. Orion, a psychologist
with a crippling need to help others, keeps assuring everyone that
he is fine. But how can he be? Annie, a self-taught artist, is about
to marry a woman named Viveca, the sophisticated and seductive
art dealer who understands her work and has helped make her
enormously successful.
The Oh children have different responses to their mother’s
upcoming wedding and her new partner. But when Viveca, who
specializes in outsider art, discovers a painting by Josephus Jones,
a self-taught African American artist of the 1950’s and ‘60’s, in the
Oh family home in Three Rivers, Connecticut, the already difficult
relationship between Orion, Annie, and Viveca becomes even more
fraught. Jones’s canvases, and the story of his prematurely
shortened life, come to play an unexpected role in the life of the Oh
family. On the very day of the wedding, as its members struggle
with their new roles in the reshaped family landscape, secrets are
shared and shocking truths come to light.
A sweeping epic novel from one of America’s most beloved writers,
We Are Water pulls you into the emotional center of each richly
drawn character.
ISBN 13: 9780061941023
On Sale: 10/29/2013
$29.99
500K
E-Book: 9780062199027
THE SUPREME MACARONI COMPANY
BY ADRIANA TRIGIANI For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in
Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli
& Son in Tuscany. This historic business partnership provides the
twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the school teacher turned
shoemaker, to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a
complex past . . . and a secret.
A piece of surprising news is revealed at The Feast of the Seven
Fishes when Valentine and Gianluca join her extended family on a
fateful Christmas Eve. Now faced with life-altering choices,
Valentine remembers the wise words that inspired her in the early
days of her beloved Angelini Shoe Company: “A person who can
build a pair of shoes can do just about anything.” The proud,
passionate Valentine is going to fight for everything she wants and
savor all she deserves-the bitter and the sweetness of life itself.
Romantic and poignant, told with humor and warmth, and bursting
with a cast of endearing characters, The Supreme Macaroni
Company is a sumptuous feast of delights: a portrait of a woman
and the man she loves, her passion for craftsmanship, and the
sacrifices it takes to build and sustain a family business while
keeping love and laughter at the center of everything.
ISBN 13: 9780062136589
On Sale: 11/5/2013
$25.99
150K
E-Book: 9780062136602
SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY
BY JOSHILYN JACKSON
Shandi Pierce fell hard for William Ashe almost the first minute she
saw him in a gas station minimart and landed bang in the middle of
a love story - but it wasn’t her own.
It seems like an ordinary hot summer day. Single mom Shandi
Pierce, her three-year-old son Natty, and her best friend Walcott
stop for gas at a Circle K. While Walcott fills the tank, Shandi and
Natty go inside the store for a cold drink. Shandi is in line, eyeing a
hot blond guy, when the door opens and a stumpy man with a
baseball cap pulled low over his forehead walks in. In his hand is a
rusty, old silver pistol.
Minutes later there’s been a shooting, and everyone in the store is
on the floor, taken hostage. All of these strangers are carrying
secrets that will cause their lives to intersect in a most surprising
way.
ISBN 13: 9780062105653
On Sale: 11/19/2013
$26.99
150K
E-Book: 9780062105677
SENSE & SENSIBILITY
BY JOANNA TROLLOPE
When Fanny Dashwood descends on Norland Park with her Polish
nanny and her mood boards, Belle Dashwood’s three daughters—
Elinor, Marianne and Margaret—must face the reality of life without
their father, their home, or their money.
As they come to terms with life without the status of their country
house, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are
also confronted by the cold hard realities of a world where
sometimes people’s attitudes can change as drastically as your
circumstances.
With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye
on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Reimagining Sense
& Sensibility in a fresh, elegant new light, she spins the novel’s
romance, bonnets and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-
of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around.
For when it comes to money, some things never change…
ISBN 13: 9780062200464
On sale: 10/29/2013
$25.99
25K
E-Book: 9780062200488
HELP FOR THE HAUNTED
BY JOHN SEARLES It begins with a call in the middle of snowy February evening. Lying
in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the
phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have
received, since her mother and father have an uncommon
occupation, helping “haunted souls” find peace. And yet, something
in Sylvie senses that this call is different than the rest, especially
when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of town.
Once there, her parents disappear, one after the other, behind the
church’s red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car. Not long after,
she drifts off to sleep only to wake to the sound of gunfire.
Nearly a year later, we meet Sylvie again struggling with the loss of
her parents, and living in the care of her older sister, who may be to
blame for what happened the previous winter.
As the story moves back and forth in time, through the years
leading up to the crime and the months following, the ever
inquisitive and tender-hearted Sylvie pursues the mystery, moving
closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night, as she comes
to terms with her family’s past and uncovers secrets that have
haunted them for years.
Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works with the
compelling quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, Help for the
Haunted is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and
wholly original world. From the very first page, it takes readers on a
captivating journey, told in the heartbreakingly resonant voice of a
young heroine who is determined to discover the truth about her
family and what went wrong one snowy winter night.
ISBN 13: 9780060779634
On sale: 9/17/2013
$26.99
75K
E-Book: 9780062199430
AFTER HER
BY JOYCE MAYNARD From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The
Good Daughters comes a new novel of family, friendship, and
suspense.
Rachel and her younger sister, Patty, were always best friends;
even more so following their parents’ bitter divorce. Together, they
roam the backyards and nature trails of their suburban northern
California neighborhood, seeking escape from their small, rundown
house and their sad, lonely mother. They worship their father, the
handsome and charming chief homicide detective for Marin County.
But when someone begins to murder young women on the
mountain behind their house, Detective Torricelli bans them from
playing there and their innocent childhood life is changed forever.
ISBN 13: 9780062257390
On sale: 8/20/2013
$25.99
75K
E-Book: 9780062257413
THE TILTED WORLD BY TOM FRANKLIN &
BETH ANN FENNELLY The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river
threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, including
federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson.
Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the
disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local
bootlegger, they unexpectedly find an abandoned baby boy at a
crime scene.
An orphan raised by nuns, Ingersoll is determined to find the infant
a home, a search that leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A lonely
woman married too young to a charming and sometimes violent
philanderer, Dixie Clay has lost her only child to illness and is
powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the
moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each
other. He has no idea that she’s the best bootlegger in the county
and may be connected to the missing agents. And while he seems
kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows he is the enemy and must not be
trusted.
Then a deadly new peril arises, endangering them all. A saboteur,
hired by rich New Orleans bankers eager to protect their city, is
planning to dynamite the levee and flood Hobnob, where the river
bends precariously. Now, with time running out, Ingersoll, Ham, and
Dixie Clay must make desperate choices, choices that will radically
transform their lives—if they survive.
ISBN 13: 9780062069184
On sale: 10/1/2013
$25.99
100K
E-Book: 9780062069207
LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND
BY PAULETTE JILES On a hot, dry day a four-year-old girl named Raisa was taken out
into a busy street by her parents and abandoned . . .
The world’s population has exploded, water is scarce and comes at
a premium, people and places have been stripped of their
individuality, and government-controlled radio and television are the
only sources of news and entertainment. As young Raisa is passed
among orphanages and foster families, she is renamed Nadia
Stepan and learns to don new personas as needed. She also
learns to escape into the world of her imagination, a verdant place
of freedom and adventure—things she is able to conjure thanks to
the old, neglected books she read as a child.
When an opportunity presents itself, she risks her life to escape to
the legendary North where, she’s heard, Lighthouse Island may be
found, a long-ago vacation spot where she is certain she will find
her parents. Along the way she meets and falls in love with James
Orotov—a brilliant, wealthy young map maker who is physically
crippled—and together they embark on an odyssey that will change
the course of the world.
ISBN 13: 9780062232502
On sale: 10/8/2013
$26.99
50K
E-Book: 9780062232526
THE WHOLE GOLDEN WORLD
BY KRISTINA RIGGLE
To the outside Dinah and Joe have a perfect family-three lovely
children, a beautiful home, and a café that’s the local teen hang-
out. But their world is rocked when it’s discovered that their oldest
daughter, teenage Morgan, is having an affair with her married
teacher, TJ Hill.
Their town rocks with the scandal. When the case goes to trial, the
family is torn further apart when Morgan sides not with her parents
as a manipulated teenage girl, but with TJ himself--as a woman
who loves a 30-year-old man.
Told from the perspectives of Morgan, Dinah, and TJ’s wife, Rain,
this is an unforgettable story that fully explores the surprising, even
shocking, events that change the lives of two families.
ISBN 13: 9780062206459
On Sale: 11/5/2013
$14.99
50K
E-Book: 9780062206466
THE PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET
BY PAMELA MINGLE With warmth, wit, and infinite charm Pamela Mingle brings to the
page Pride and Prejudice’s reserved and awkward Mary Bennet
and proves that there is always room for another Austin spin-off
when it’s this good.
For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule.
With a notable absence of the social graces, she has been an
embarrassment to her family on more than one occasion. But
lately, Mary has changed. She’s matured and attained a
respectable, if somewhat unpolished, decorum. But her peace and
contentment are shattered when her sister Lydia turns up-very
pregnant and separated from Wickham. Mary and Kitty are bustled
off to stay with Jane and her husband. It is there that Mary meets
Henry Walsh, whose attentions confound her. Unschooled in the
game of love, her heart and her future are at risk. Is she worthy of
love or should she take the safer path? In her journey of self-
acceptance, she discovers the answer.
ISBN 13: 9780062274243
On sale: 11/26/2013
$14.99
40K
E-Book: 9780062274250
THE ABSENCE OF MERCY
BY JOHN BURLEY Just west of the Ohio River, lies the peaceful town of Wintersville.
Safe from the crime and congestion of city life, it is the perfect
place to raise a family . . . or so they thought.
Life as the town medical examiner is relatively unhurried for Dr.
Ben Stevenson. With only a smattering of cases here and there—
car accident victims, death by natural causes—he has plenty of
time to spend with his loving wife and two sons. That is until a
teenager’s body is discovered in the woods and Ben, as the only
coroner in the area, is assigned to the case. But as the increasingly
animalistic attacks continue, the case challenges Ben in ways he
never suspects.
With its eerie portrait of suburban life and nerve-fraying plot twists,
this is psychological suspense at its best—an extraordinary debut
that challenges as much as it thrills.
ISBN 13: 9780062227379
On sale: 11/19/2013
$14.99
25K
E-Book: 9780062227393
SWIMMING IN THE MOON BY PAMELA SCHOENEWALDT Lucia D’Angelo knows her voice will never be as beautiful as her
mother’s. It will never match the soaring range, peaking and
plummeting as surely as the moods of the woman who raised her.
It won’t astonish a crowd or move them to tears…but her words
will.
In 1904, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her mother Theresa are
servants in the Naples home of a grand count and countess. There
in between scrubbing floors and polishing silver, Theresa soothes
their employers with song. Until one terrible moment sends mother
and daughter fleeing the household and Italy.
Bound for the heart of America, they trade in all they know for the
icy lake winds of Cleveland, leaving behind their palazzo for a
bustling boarding house of other immigrant workers. In America,
Lucia can go to school, and Theresa finds the glittering stage of
vaudeville. But as the years pass, the shadow of Theresa’s violent
mood swings threaten to overtake the life they have created, Lucia
finds her own stage, giving voice to the people who have given her
a home, and mother and daughter struggle to maintain their bond,
when roles become irrevocably reversed.
ISBN 13: 9780062202239
On sale: 9/3/2013
$14.99
50K
E-Book: 9780062202246
LEAVING HAVEN
BY KATHLEEN MCCLEARY It is a story only possible with the help of modern medicine.
Georgia is desperate to be pregnant. After her daughter was born,
she experiences a series of miscarriages. Desperate for a baby,
she jumps at the chance when her best friend offers to donate an
egg. She is blissfully happy once she is pregnant with the son she’s
always dreamed of. Until the day she realizes that her husband and
her best friend are having an affair. And she’s carrying their child…
Alice is unhappy with her life. Her husband ignores her and her
daughter is being bullied. She is happy to help her best friend -
donating an egg at this point in her life feels as simple as donating
blood. But as her discontent at home increases, John, her best
friend’s husband becomes a shoulder to lean on. Soon, she’s in
love and they’re having an illicit affair. And she wants nothing more
than to be a mother to the child who is the perfect mix of her DNA
and her lover’s…
When Georgia gives birth, she abandons the baby at the hospital,
only to change her mind the next day when her sister shows up
with him. But that is enough of an opening for Alice. Suddenly,
these former best friends are fighting the battle of their lives. And it
is up to the courts to decide who has more of a claim on the child.
ISBN 13: 9780062106261
On Sale: 10/1/2013
$14.99
75K
E-Book: 9780062106254