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JAMES MCBRIDEThe Good Lord BirdIn this moving exploration of identity and survival, a young slave joins John Brown’s abolition-ist crusade—and must pass as a girl to survive.“McBride—with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize character-ization that made his memoir The Color of Water an instant classic—pulls off his portrait [of John Brown] masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page....For all his play, McBride studiously honors history, perhaps more than many previous portraits of Brown have done.”—Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 480 PAGES • 978-1-59463-278-5 • $16.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

SUE MONK KIDDThe Invention of WingsHetty “Handful” yearns for life beyond the walls of the wealthy Grimké household, where she works as an urban slave in early 19th-century Charleston. When the Grimké’s daughter Sarah turns eleven, she is given ten-year-old Handful, whom she secretly teaches to read.“Alternating between Sarah’s and Handful’s contrasting perspectives on their oddly conjoined worlds allows Kidd to...explore the troubled terrain that lies between white and black women in a slaveholding society.”—The Washington PostPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 384 PAGES • 978-0-14-312170-1 • $17.00

CHANG-RAE LEEOn Such a Full Sea“The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch the Obama administration watching us. Lee’s unsettling new novel…arrives from that same fright-ening realm of total oversight and pinched individuality. But it’s a subtler, quieter affair, more surreal than horrifying....A brilliant, deeply unnerving portrait.”—The Washington Post“Not just a fully realized, time-jumping narrative of an audacious young girl in search of lost loved ones, but an exploration of the meaning and function of narrative.”—Chicago TribuneRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 432 PAGES • 978-1-59463-289-1 • $16.00

LAN CAOThe Lotus and the StormForty years after the fall of Saigon, former South Vietnamese commander Minh and his daugh-ter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese community in Virginia. As Mai unlocks truths about her family’s wartime torment, Minh reflects on a past that has never ceased to haunt him. “Part beautiful family saga, part coming-of-age story, part love story, but above all a searing indictment of the American campaign in Vietnam and its incalculable toll on generations past and future….Powerful.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-0-14-312761-1 • $17.00

ALINA BRONSKYJust Call Me SuperheroTranslated by Tim MohrIn this atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, 17-year-old Marek attends a support group for young people with physical disabilities after an attack by a Rottweiler leaves his face gross-ly disfigured. Marek is dismissive of other group members until he meets—and falls in love with—a beautiful wheelchair-bound woman. “By exploring what happens when one’s public face is literally gone, Bronsky thoughtfully asks what constitutes one’s fundamental identity….[Her] warmth, humor, and sharp observational eye combine to make this coming-of-age tale a rich, affecting read.”—Kirkus EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-229-2 • $16.00

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PHIL KLAY Redeployment“Klay—a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq during the surge—gives the civilian reader a visceral feeling for what it is like to be a soldier in a combat zone, and what it is like to return home, still reeling from the dislocations of war. Gritty, unsparing and fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was experienced, day by day.”—The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

HELEN OYEYEMI Boy, Snow, Bird“By transforming ‘Snow White’ into a tale that hinges on race and cultural ideas about beauty—the danger of mirrors indeed—Oyeyemi finds a new, raw power in the classic. In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters, and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world….[Oyeyemi] elegantly and inventively turns a classic fairy tale inside out.”—Los Angeles TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463340-9 • $16.00

J. M. COETZEE The Childhood of JesusCoetzee returns with a tender, eerie, allegorical novel about a boy who, separated from his mother, finds himself a passenger on a boat bound for a new land. Told largely through dia-logue, this novel of ideas weaves a tender, compelling narrative and explores themes of child-hood and destiny.“Plunges us at once into a mysterious and dreamlike terrain….A Kafka-inspired parable of the quest for meaning itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review “This cryptic, mythic, haunting fable—ranks among J. M. Coetzee’s best.”—Chicago TribunePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $16.00

KHALED HOSSEINIAnd the Mountains Echoed The bestselling author of The Kite Runner takes us around the globe, from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, in a novel about how we love, how we care for one another, and how choices we make resonate through generations.“[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet….[It] grapples with many of the same themes that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between parents and children, and the ways the past can haunt the present. And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism....A deeply affecting choral work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-59463-238-9 • $16.00

NAJAF MAZARI and ROBERT HILLMAN The Honey ThiefDerived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, this mesmerizing novel of the Hazara people portrays their endurance despite political oppression and an unforgiving landscape. With lyrical wit and profound simplicity, these magical stories reveal an Afghani-stan of greater richness and humanity than is conveyed in headlines—a country of astonishing extremes where bloodshed and brotherhood exist side by side.“Simply delightful to read on its own terms, but it also illuminates the real Afghanistan, that country many great powers have proved keen to invade but rarely to understand.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s ListPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312539-6 • $16.00

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CELESTE NGEverything I Never Told YouWhen the 16-year-old daughter of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio is found dead, the delicate balancing act that has kept the family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront secrets that have pulled them apart. A moving story of family, histo-ry, and the meaning of home, this gripping page-turner and sensitive family portrait explores cultural divisions and familial rifts. “A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation’s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders—and in the heads—of the next.”—San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-0-14-312755-0 • $16.00

TIMOTHY LANE Rules for Becoming a LegendA comic, tender novel about a half-white, half-Japanese high school basketball prodigy who must wrestle against his small town’s outsized expectations and a curse that has haunted his family for generations. “Follows in the footsteps of many bildungsroman novels: The Catcher in the Rye, of course; and two recent examples, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, leap to mind….[Jimmy] is suffering from being bullied…from having an inconsistent father; and most deeply from the deaths of his sister, and later, his brother and mother….We leave the nov-el reflecting on our own personal tragedies—we all have them—and Jimmy’s odyssey stands as a metaphor for the rollercoaster of life.”—Philadelphia Review of Books PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312691-1 • $16.00

ANDI TERANAna of CaliforniaIn the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, this captivating coming-of-age novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez, who has just blown her last chance with a foster family, leaves East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, but in time, she comes to love working on the farm. But when she inadvertently stirs up trouble, Ana is afraid she has ruined her only chance to find belonging. PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-14-312649-2 • $16.00AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

AMY BELDING BROWNFlight of the SparrowA Novel of Early AmericaEven before Indians captured her, Mary Rowlandson found herself at odds with her Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed and her children lost, she has been sold into the service of a woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the struggle between English settlers and native people. Yet to her surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open way of life. Based on the true nar-rative of Mary Rowlandson, this evocative tale transports us to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1676 and explores themes of freedom, faith, and acceptance.NAL PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-451-46669-3 • $15.00

J. L. WITTERICK My Mother’s SecretA Novel Based on a True Holocaust StoryThis heroic tale follows the lives of two Jewish families and a German defector, all of whom were sheltered from the Nazis within a tiny home in Sokal, Poland. Inspired by the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa and her daughter Helena, who rescued 15 Jews during World War II, My Mother’s Secret serves as a powerful reminder of authentic but rare models of courage: out of over 6,000 Jews from Sokal, only 30 survived, and half were saved by Franciszka and Helena. BERKLEY PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-0-425-27481-1 • $14.00

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JAMES MCBRIDEThe Good Lord BirdIn this moving exploration of identity and survival, a young slave joins John Brown’s abolition-ist crusade—and must pass as a girl to survive.“McBride—with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize character-ization that made his memoir The Color of Water an instant classic—pulls off his portrait [of John Brown] masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page....For all his play, McBride studiously honors history, perhaps more than many previous portraits of Brown have done.”—Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 480 PAGES • 978-1-59463-278-5 • $16.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

SUE MONK KIDDThe Invention of WingsHetty “Handful” yearns for life beyond the walls of the wealthy Grimké household, where she works as an urban slave in early 19th-century Charleston. When the Grimké’s daughter Sarah turns eleven, she is given ten-year-old Handful, whom she secretly teaches to read.“Alternating between Sarah’s and Handful’s contrasting perspectives on their oddly conjoined worlds allows Kidd to...explore the troubled terrain that lies between white and black women in a slaveholding society.”—The Washington PostPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 384 PAGES • 978-0-14-312170-1 • $17.00

CHANG-RAE LEEOn Such a Full Sea“The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch the Obama administration watching us. Lee’s unsettling new novel…arrives from that same fright-ening realm of total oversight and pinched individuality. But it’s a subtler, quieter affair, more surreal than horrifying....A brilliant, deeply unnerving portrait.”—The Washington Post“Not just a fully realized, time-jumping narrative of an audacious young girl in search of lost loved ones, but an exploration of the meaning and function of narrative.”—Chicago TribuneRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 432 PAGES • 978-1-59463-289-1 • $16.00

LAN CAOThe Lotus and the StormForty years after the fall of Saigon, former South Vietnamese commander Minh and his daugh-ter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese community in Virginia. As Mai unlocks truths about her family’s wartime torment, Minh reflects on a past that has never ceased to haunt him. “Part beautiful family saga, part coming-of-age story, part love story, but above all a searing indictment of the American campaign in Vietnam and its incalculable toll on generations past and future….Powerful.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-0-14-312761-1 • $17.00

ALINA BRONSKYJust Call Me SuperheroTranslated by Tim MohrIn this atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, 17-year-old Marek attends a support group for young people with physical disabilities after an attack by a Rottweiler leaves his face gross-ly disfigured. Marek is dismissive of other group members until he meets—and falls in love with—a beautiful wheelchair-bound woman. “By exploring what happens when one’s public face is literally gone, Bronsky thoughtfully asks what constitutes one’s fundamental identity….[Her] warmth, humor, and sharp observational eye combine to make this coming-of-age tale a rich, affecting read.”—Kirkus EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-229-2 • $16.00

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PHIL KLAY Redeployment“Klay—a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq during the surge—gives the civilian reader a visceral feeling for what it is like to be a soldier in a combat zone, and what it is like to return home, still reeling from the dislocations of war. Gritty, unsparing and fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was experienced, day by day.”—The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

HELEN OYEYEMI Boy, Snow, Bird“By transforming ‘Snow White’ into a tale that hinges on race and cultural ideas about beauty—the danger of mirrors indeed—Oyeyemi finds a new, raw power in the classic. In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters, and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world….[Oyeyemi] elegantly and inventively turns a classic fairy tale inside out.”—Los Angeles TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463340-9 • $16.00

J. M. COETZEE The Childhood of JesusCoetzee returns with a tender, eerie, allegorical novel about a boy who, separated from his mother, finds himself a passenger on a boat bound for a new land. Told largely through dia-logue, this novel of ideas weaves a tender, compelling narrative and explores themes of child-hood and destiny.“Plunges us at once into a mysterious and dreamlike terrain….A Kafka-inspired parable of the quest for meaning itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review “This cryptic, mythic, haunting fable—ranks among J. M. Coetzee’s best.”—Chicago TribunePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $16.00

KHALED HOSSEINIAnd the Mountains Echoed The bestselling author of The Kite Runner takes us around the globe, from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, in a novel about how we love, how we care for one another, and how choices we make resonate through generations.“[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet….[It] grapples with many of the same themes that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between parents and children, and the ways the past can haunt the present. And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism....A deeply affecting choral work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-59463-238-9 • $16.00

NAJAF MAZARI and ROBERT HILLMAN The Honey ThiefDerived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, this mesmerizing novel of the Hazara people portrays their endurance despite political oppression and an unforgiving landscape. With lyrical wit and profound simplicity, these magical stories reveal an Afghani-stan of greater richness and humanity than is conveyed in headlines—a country of astonishing extremes where bloodshed and brotherhood exist side by side.“Simply delightful to read on its own terms, but it also illuminates the real Afghanistan, that country many great powers have proved keen to invade but rarely to understand.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s ListPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312539-6 • $16.00

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CELESTE NGEverything I Never Told YouWhen the 16-year-old daughter of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio is found dead, the delicate balancing act that has kept the family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront secrets that have pulled them apart. A moving story of family, histo-ry, and the meaning of home, this gripping page-turner and sensitive family portrait explores cultural divisions and familial rifts. “A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation’s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders—and in the heads—of the next.”—San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-0-14-312755-0 • $16.00

TIMOTHY LANE Rules for Becoming a LegendA comic, tender novel about a half-white, half-Japanese high school basketball prodigy who must wrestle against his small town’s outsized expectations and a curse that has haunted his family for generations. “Follows in the footsteps of many bildungsroman novels: The Catcher in the Rye, of course; and two recent examples, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, leap to mind….[Jimmy] is suffering from being bullied…from having an inconsistent father; and most deeply from the deaths of his sister, and later, his brother and mother….We leave the nov-el reflecting on our own personal tragedies—we all have them—and Jimmy’s odyssey stands as a metaphor for the rollercoaster of life.”—Philadelphia Review of Books PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312691-1 • $16.00

ANDI TERANAna of CaliforniaIn the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, this captivating coming-of-age novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez, who has just blown her last chance with a foster family, leaves East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, but in time, she comes to love working on the farm. But when she inadvertently stirs up trouble, Ana is afraid she has ruined her only chance to find belonging. PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-14-312649-2 • $16.00AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

AMY BELDING BROWNFlight of the SparrowA Novel of Early AmericaEven before Indians captured her, Mary Rowlandson found herself at odds with her Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed and her children lost, she has been sold into the service of a woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the struggle between English settlers and native people. Yet to her surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open way of life. Based on the true nar-rative of Mary Rowlandson, this evocative tale transports us to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1676 and explores themes of freedom, faith, and acceptance.NAL PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-451-46669-3 • $15.00

J. L. WITTERICK My Mother’s SecretA Novel Based on a True Holocaust StoryThis heroic tale follows the lives of two Jewish families and a German defector, all of whom were sheltered from the Nazis within a tiny home in Sokal, Poland. Inspired by the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa and her daughter Helena, who rescued 15 Jews during World War II, My Mother’s Secret serves as a powerful reminder of authentic but rare models of courage: out of over 6,000 Jews from Sokal, only 30 survived, and half were saved by Franciszka and Helena. BERKLEY PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-0-425-27481-1 • $14.00

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JAMES MCBRIDEThe Good Lord BirdIn this moving exploration of identity and survival, a young slave joins John Brown’s abolition-ist crusade—and must pass as a girl to survive.“McBride—with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize character-ization that made his memoir The Color of Water an instant classic—pulls off his portrait [of John Brown] masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page....For all his play, McBride studiously honors history, perhaps more than many previous portraits of Brown have done.”—Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 480 PAGES • 978-1-59463-278-5 • $16.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

SUE MONK KIDDThe Invention of WingsHetty “Handful” yearns for life beyond the walls of the wealthy Grimké household, where she works as an urban slave in early 19th-century Charleston. When the Grimké’s daughter Sarah turns eleven, she is given ten-year-old Handful, whom she secretly teaches to read.“Alternating between Sarah’s and Handful’s contrasting perspectives on their oddly conjoined worlds allows Kidd to...explore the troubled terrain that lies between white and black women in a slaveholding society.”—The Washington PostPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 384 PAGES • 978-0-14-312170-1 • $17.00

CHANG-RAE LEEOn Such a Full Sea“The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch the Obama administration watching us. Lee’s unsettling new novel…arrives from that same fright-ening realm of total oversight and pinched individuality. But it’s a subtler, quieter affair, more surreal than horrifying....A brilliant, deeply unnerving portrait.”—The Washington Post“Not just a fully realized, time-jumping narrative of an audacious young girl in search of lost loved ones, but an exploration of the meaning and function of narrative.”—Chicago TribuneRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 432 PAGES • 978-1-59463-289-1 • $16.00

LAN CAOThe Lotus and the StormForty years after the fall of Saigon, former South Vietnamese commander Minh and his daugh-ter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese community in Virginia. As Mai unlocks truths about her family’s wartime torment, Minh reflects on a past that has never ceased to haunt him. “Part beautiful family saga, part coming-of-age story, part love story, but above all a searing indictment of the American campaign in Vietnam and its incalculable toll on generations past and future….Powerful.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-0-14-312761-1 • $17.00

ALINA BRONSKYJust Call Me SuperheroTranslated by Tim MohrIn this atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, 17-year-old Marek attends a support group for young people with physical disabilities after an attack by a Rottweiler leaves his face gross-ly disfigured. Marek is dismissive of other group members until he meets—and falls in love with—a beautiful wheelchair-bound woman. “By exploring what happens when one’s public face is literally gone, Bronsky thoughtfully asks what constitutes one’s fundamental identity….[Her] warmth, humor, and sharp observational eye combine to make this coming-of-age tale a rich, affecting read.”—Kirkus EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-229-2 • $16.00

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PHIL KLAY Redeployment“Klay—a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq during the surge—gives the civilian reader a visceral feeling for what it is like to be a soldier in a combat zone, and what it is like to return home, still reeling from the dislocations of war. Gritty, unsparing and fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was experienced, day by day.”—The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

HELEN OYEYEMI Boy, Snow, Bird“By transforming ‘Snow White’ into a tale that hinges on race and cultural ideas about beauty—the danger of mirrors indeed—Oyeyemi finds a new, raw power in the classic. In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters, and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world….[Oyeyemi] elegantly and inventively turns a classic fairy tale inside out.”—Los Angeles TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463340-9 • $16.00

J. M. COETZEE The Childhood of JesusCoetzee returns with a tender, eerie, allegorical novel about a boy who, separated from his mother, finds himself a passenger on a boat bound for a new land. Told largely through dia-logue, this novel of ideas weaves a tender, compelling narrative and explores themes of child-hood and destiny.“Plunges us at once into a mysterious and dreamlike terrain….A Kafka-inspired parable of the quest for meaning itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review “This cryptic, mythic, haunting fable—ranks among J. M. Coetzee’s best.”—Chicago TribunePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $16.00

KHALED HOSSEINIAnd the Mountains Echoed The bestselling author of The Kite Runner takes us around the globe, from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, in a novel about how we love, how we care for one another, and how choices we make resonate through generations.“[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet….[It] grapples with many of the same themes that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between parents and children, and the ways the past can haunt the present. And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism....A deeply affecting choral work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-59463-238-9 • $16.00

NAJAF MAZARI and ROBERT HILLMAN The Honey ThiefDerived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, this mesmerizing novel of the Hazara people portrays their endurance despite political oppression and an unforgiving landscape. With lyrical wit and profound simplicity, these magical stories reveal an Afghani-stan of greater richness and humanity than is conveyed in headlines—a country of astonishing extremes where bloodshed and brotherhood exist side by side.“Simply delightful to read on its own terms, but it also illuminates the real Afghanistan, that country many great powers have proved keen to invade but rarely to understand.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s ListPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312539-6 • $16.00

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CELESTE NGEverything I Never Told YouWhen the 16-year-old daughter of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio is found dead, the delicate balancing act that has kept the family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront secrets that have pulled them apart. A moving story of family, histo-ry, and the meaning of home, this gripping page-turner and sensitive family portrait explores cultural divisions and familial rifts. “A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation’s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders—and in the heads—of the next.”—San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-0-14-312755-0 • $16.00

TIMOTHY LANE Rules for Becoming a LegendA comic, tender novel about a half-white, half-Japanese high school basketball prodigy who must wrestle against his small town’s outsized expectations and a curse that has haunted his family for generations. “Follows in the footsteps of many bildungsroman novels: The Catcher in the Rye, of course; and two recent examples, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, leap to mind….[Jimmy] is suffering from being bullied…from having an inconsistent father; and most deeply from the deaths of his sister, and later, his brother and mother….We leave the nov-el reflecting on our own personal tragedies—we all have them—and Jimmy’s odyssey stands as a metaphor for the rollercoaster of life.”—Philadelphia Review of Books PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312691-1 • $16.00

ANDI TERANAna of CaliforniaIn the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, this captivating coming-of-age novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez, who has just blown her last chance with a foster family, leaves East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, but in time, she comes to love working on the farm. But when she inadvertently stirs up trouble, Ana is afraid she has ruined her only chance to find belonging. PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-14-312649-2 • $16.00AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

AMY BELDING BROWNFlight of the SparrowA Novel of Early AmericaEven before Indians captured her, Mary Rowlandson found herself at odds with her Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed and her children lost, she has been sold into the service of a woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the struggle between English settlers and native people. Yet to her surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open way of life. Based on the true nar-rative of Mary Rowlandson, this evocative tale transports us to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1676 and explores themes of freedom, faith, and acceptance.NAL PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-451-46669-3 • $15.00

J. L. WITTERICK My Mother’s SecretA Novel Based on a True Holocaust StoryThis heroic tale follows the lives of two Jewish families and a German defector, all of whom were sheltered from the Nazis within a tiny home in Sokal, Poland. Inspired by the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa and her daughter Helena, who rescued 15 Jews during World War II, My Mother’s Secret serves as a powerful reminder of authentic but rare models of courage: out of over 6,000 Jews from Sokal, only 30 survived, and half were saved by Franciszka and Helena. BERKLEY PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-0-425-27481-1 • $14.00

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JAMES MCBRIDEThe Good Lord BirdIn this moving exploration of identity and survival, a young slave joins John Brown’s abolition-ist crusade—and must pass as a girl to survive.“McBride—with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize character-ization that made his memoir The Color of Water an instant classic—pulls off his portrait [of John Brown] masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page....For all his play, McBride studiously honors history, perhaps more than many previous portraits of Brown have done.”—Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 480 PAGES • 978-1-59463-278-5 • $16.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

SUE MONK KIDDThe Invention of WingsHetty “Handful” yearns for life beyond the walls of the wealthy Grimké household, where she works as an urban slave in early 19th-century Charleston. When the Grimké’s daughter Sarah turns eleven, she is given ten-year-old Handful, whom she secretly teaches to read.“Alternating between Sarah’s and Handful’s contrasting perspectives on their oddly conjoined worlds allows Kidd to...explore the troubled terrain that lies between white and black women in a slaveholding society.”—The Washington PostPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 384 PAGES • 978-0-14-312170-1 • $17.00

CHANG-RAE LEEOn Such a Full Sea“The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch the Obama administration watching us. Lee’s unsettling new novel…arrives from that same fright-ening realm of total oversight and pinched individuality. But it’s a subtler, quieter affair, more surreal than horrifying....A brilliant, deeply unnerving portrait.”—The Washington Post“Not just a fully realized, time-jumping narrative of an audacious young girl in search of lost loved ones, but an exploration of the meaning and function of narrative.”—Chicago TribuneRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 432 PAGES • 978-1-59463-289-1 • $16.00

LAN CAOThe Lotus and the StormForty years after the fall of Saigon, former South Vietnamese commander Minh and his daugh-ter Mai live in a close-knit Vietnamese community in Virginia. As Mai unlocks truths about her family’s wartime torment, Minh reflects on a past that has never ceased to haunt him. “Part beautiful family saga, part coming-of-age story, part love story, but above all a searing indictment of the American campaign in Vietnam and its incalculable toll on generations past and future….Powerful.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-0-14-312761-1 • $17.00

ALINA BRONSKYJust Call Me SuperheroTranslated by Tim MohrIn this atmospheric evocation of modern Berlin, 17-year-old Marek attends a support group for young people with physical disabilities after an attack by a Rottweiler leaves his face gross-ly disfigured. Marek is dismissive of other group members until he meets—and falls in love with—a beautiful wheelchair-bound woman. “By exploring what happens when one’s public face is literally gone, Bronsky thoughtfully asks what constitutes one’s fundamental identity….[Her] warmth, humor, and sharp observational eye combine to make this coming-of-age tale a rich, affecting read.”—Kirkus EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-229-2 • $16.00

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PHIL KLAY Redeployment“Klay—a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq during the surge—gives the civilian reader a visceral feeling for what it is like to be a soldier in a combat zone, and what it is like to return home, still reeling from the dislocations of war. Gritty, unsparing and fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was experienced, day by day.”—The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

HELEN OYEYEMI Boy, Snow, Bird“By transforming ‘Snow White’ into a tale that hinges on race and cultural ideas about beauty—the danger of mirrors indeed—Oyeyemi finds a new, raw power in the classic. In her hands, the story is about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters, lost sisters, and the impossibility of seeing oneself or being seen in a brutally racist world….[Oyeyemi] elegantly and inventively turns a classic fairy tale inside out.”—Los Angeles TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463340-9 • $16.00

J. M. COETZEE The Childhood of JesusCoetzee returns with a tender, eerie, allegorical novel about a boy who, separated from his mother, finds himself a passenger on a boat bound for a new land. Told largely through dia-logue, this novel of ideas weaves a tender, compelling narrative and explores themes of child-hood and destiny.“Plunges us at once into a mysterious and dreamlike terrain….A Kafka-inspired parable of the quest for meaning itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review “This cryptic, mythic, haunting fable—ranks among J. M. Coetzee’s best.”—Chicago TribunePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $16.00

KHALED HOSSEINIAnd the Mountains Echoed The bestselling author of The Kite Runner takes us around the globe, from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, in a novel about how we love, how we care for one another, and how choices we make resonate through generations.“[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet….[It] grapples with many of the same themes that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between parents and children, and the ways the past can haunt the present. And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism....A deeply affecting choral work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-59463-238-9 • $16.00

NAJAF MAZARI and ROBERT HILLMAN The Honey ThiefDerived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, this mesmerizing novel of the Hazara people portrays their endurance despite political oppression and an unforgiving landscape. With lyrical wit and profound simplicity, these magical stories reveal an Afghani-stan of greater richness and humanity than is conveyed in headlines—a country of astonishing extremes where bloodshed and brotherhood exist side by side.“Simply delightful to read on its own terms, but it also illuminates the real Afghanistan, that country many great powers have proved keen to invade but rarely to understand.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s ListPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312539-6 • $16.00

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CELESTE NGEverything I Never Told YouWhen the 16-year-old daughter of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio is found dead, the delicate balancing act that has kept the family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront secrets that have pulled them apart. A moving story of family, histo-ry, and the meaning of home, this gripping page-turner and sensitive family portrait explores cultural divisions and familial rifts. “A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation’s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders—and in the heads—of the next.”—San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-0-14-312755-0 • $16.00

TIMOTHY LANE Rules for Becoming a LegendA comic, tender novel about a half-white, half-Japanese high school basketball prodigy who must wrestle against his small town’s outsized expectations and a curse that has haunted his family for generations. “Follows in the footsteps of many bildungsroman novels: The Catcher in the Rye, of course; and two recent examples, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, leap to mind….[Jimmy] is suffering from being bullied…from having an inconsistent father; and most deeply from the deaths of his sister, and later, his brother and mother….We leave the nov-el reflecting on our own personal tragedies—we all have them—and Jimmy’s odyssey stands as a metaphor for the rollercoaster of life.”—Philadelphia Review of Books PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312691-1 • $16.00

ANDI TERANAna of CaliforniaIn the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, this captivating coming-of-age novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez, who has just blown her last chance with a foster family, leaves East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, but in time, she comes to love working on the farm. But when she inadvertently stirs up trouble, Ana is afraid she has ruined her only chance to find belonging. PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-14-312649-2 • $16.00AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

AMY BELDING BROWNFlight of the SparrowA Novel of Early AmericaEven before Indians captured her, Mary Rowlandson found herself at odds with her Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed and her children lost, she has been sold into the service of a woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the struggle between English settlers and native people. Yet to her surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open way of life. Based on the true nar-rative of Mary Rowlandson, this evocative tale transports us to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1676 and explores themes of freedom, faith, and acceptance.NAL PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-451-46669-3 • $15.00

J. L. WITTERICK My Mother’s SecretA Novel Based on a True Holocaust StoryThis heroic tale follows the lives of two Jewish families and a German defector, all of whom were sheltered from the Nazis within a tiny home in Sokal, Poland. Inspired by the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa and her daughter Helena, who rescued 15 Jews during World War II, My Mother’s Secret serves as a powerful reminder of authentic but rare models of courage: out of over 6,000 Jews from Sokal, only 30 survived, and half were saved by Franciszka and Helena. BERKLEY PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-0-425-27481-1 • $14.00

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PHILIP PULLMANFairy Tales from the Brothers GrimmA New English Version“[A] pitch-perfect retelling….Reminds us that the stories have lost none of their relevance or racing energy, even 200 years after they were written down.”—Maria Tatar, Harvard University“All of [Pullman’s] gifts, including his prose eloquence and his endless high Romantic imagina-tion, are manifested in this marvelous retelling.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-0-14-310729-3 • $18.00

FRANZ XAVER VON SCHÖNWERTHThe Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy TalesEdited with a Foreword by Erika Eichenseer Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Maria TatarIllustrated by Engelbert SüssFor the first time, Schönwerth’s Bavarian fairy tales—lost until a few years ago when his man-uscripts were discovered in a German municipal archive—are available in English. Recorded with minimal literary embellishment, these more than seventy stories bring us closer to the oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted and revolutionize our understanding of the genre. “[This] new collection of German folk stories…challenges preconceptions about many of the most commonly known fairytales….Many of the stories centre around surprisingly emancipat-ed female characters.”—The Guardian (UK) PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310742-2 • $17.00

LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky and Other NonsenseCollected PoemsEdited with an Introduction by Gillian Beer Celebrates the full range of Carroll’s verse—his nonsense, parodies, burlesques, and more.“An elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll’s poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic.”—The Times Literary SupplementPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PAGES • 978-0-14-119278-9 • $17.00

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’OThe River Between50th Anniversary EditionIntroduction by Uzodinma IwealaThis eye-opening novel explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement, lucidly capturing the drama of a people whose world has been overturned. “Beautifully compact….It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism.”—Uzodinma Iweala, from the IntroductionPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 176 PAGES • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015: DEVIL ON THE CROSS • PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 978-0-14-310736-1 • $16.00

APOLLONIUS OF RHODESJason and the ArgonautsTranslated by Aaron PoochigianIntroduction and Notes by Benjamin Acosta-HughesThe only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage in quest of the Golden Fleece—now in a new verse translation. Written in the 3rd century B.C., this story of the Greek hero combines the fantastic and the real and engages with traditions of science, astronomy, medicine, and magic. “At every turn, Poochigian…improves on every English-language translation of the Argonauti-ca that’s come before him.”—Open Letters MonthlyPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-310686-9 • $15.00

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VANESSA MANKOThe Invention of Exile“The story of a man stranded by history in a strange land, torn away by politics and para-noia from the people he loves, exiled and trapped behind an invisible frontier he dares not cross. Manko ranges expertly between Russia, the USA, and Mexico to weave her absorbing tale of emigration, deportation, desperation, paranoia, and finally, improbably, love. The novel reminds one, at times, of Kafka, Ondaatje, and even, in its powerful evo-cation of marooned isolation, Robinson Crusoe….Brilliant.”—Salman Rushdie“Rich in history….An achingly painful and all too relevant meditation on what can hap-pen to identity when human beings are crammed inside an unforgiving container of pol-itics, bureaucracy, and fear.”—The Boston GlobePENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-1-59420-588-0 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312768-0 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JULY 2015

RENÉ STEINKEFriendswoodFriendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oilrigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and high school football games. When an industrial leak kills and sickens residents, the tragic event pulls on the common thread that runs through the community. This layered, propulsive, psychologically complex story traces the fates of four families as they confront catastrophe, grief, love, lust, ambition, anxiety, and regret. “Does a near-perfect job capturing the feel not just of the titular city but of southeast Texas as a whole….One of the most interesting novels to be set in the Lone Star State in quite a while.”—NPR RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 368 PAGES • 978-1-59463-251-8 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 416 PAGES • 978-1-59463-383-6 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE MAY 2015

ROSS RITCHELLThe KnifeWritten by a former soldier, this 21st-century American war novel takes us into the lone-ly, ambivalent world of military life in Afghanipakiraqistan—the name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where U.S. Special Forces operate with little outside attention.“A nerve-jangling war novel…[Ritchell] uses personal experience to write a novel that paints war as a complicated, exhausting, gut-wrenching ordeal….In 2014, the short sto-ries in Phil Klay’s Redeployment were heralded as some of the most authentic wartime writing in our ever-changing post-9/11 world. In 2015, The Knife, another literary mas-terpiece, deserves the same praise.”—Chicago TribuneBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17340-0 • $25.95

JACQUELINE WOODSONBrown Girl DreamingRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each line provides a glimpse into the soul of a child searching for a place in the world. Woodson’s poetry also reflects her joy at finding her voice through writing despite childhood struggles with reading.NANCY PAULSEN HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-0-399-25251-8 • $16.99NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEWBERRY HONOR BOOK

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LAURA LANE McNEALDollbabyWhen Ibby’s father dies in the summer of 1964, her mother leaves her in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother Fannie, who often ends up in the local asylum. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook Queenie and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby take it upon themselves to ini-tiate Ibby into the traditions and dark secrets of the South—secrets involving her own family’s tragic history. In the tradition of The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time. PAMELA DORMAN HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-0-67001-473-6 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312749-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

MO YANFrogTranslated by Howard GoldblattThe author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major work since winning the Nobel Prize: a sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s contentious one-child policy. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. VIKING HARDCOVER • 480 PAGES • 978-0-525-42798-8 • $27.95

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER and LYNN MELNICK, editors Please Excuse This Poem100 New Poets for the Next GenerationIntroduction by Carolyn ForchéFeaturing one hundred acclaimed younger poets from diverse backgrounds and points of view, Please Excuse This Poem tackles a startling range of subjects in various poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke;” sharing the tender mo-ments at the start of a love affair: this work changes the way we experience the genre. Features an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché. VIKING YOUNG READERS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-670-01479-8 • $16.99

JEAN THOMPSONThe WitchAnd Other Tales Re-ToldIn this captivating new collection, Thompson takes the classic fairy tale and brings it into the modern age with eight short stories that capture the magic and horror of everyday life. “[A] series of exuberantly imaginative riffs on traditional folk and fairy tales….They offer all the chills and suspense embedded in those ancient pinnacles, gorges and deep, dark woods....[A] spirited, provocative collection.”—San Francisco ChronicleBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17058-4 • $25.95PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-751698-5 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2015

YELENA AKHTIORSKAYAPanic in a SuitcaseIn this exploration of the fall of communism and the rise of globalization, the Nasmertovs, who left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, quickly find that the divide between the old world and the new is far from clear-cut. While the older generation looks forward, the family’s youngest, Frida, can only look back. “The book succeeds, phenomenally, at presenting the immigrant duality….A rewarding biog-raphy of displacement, where those left behind are often as disconnected as those who flee for an elusive better life elsewhere.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 320 PAGES • 978-1-59463-214-3 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-159463-382-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015

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PHILIP PULLMANFairy Tales from the Brothers GrimmA New English Version“[A] pitch-perfect retelling….Reminds us that the stories have lost none of their relevance or racing energy, even 200 years after they were written down.”—Maria Tatar, Harvard University“All of [Pullman’s] gifts, including his prose eloquence and his endless high Romantic imagina-tion, are manifested in this marvelous retelling.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-0-14-310729-3 • $18.00

FRANZ XAVER VON SCHÖNWERTHThe Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy TalesEdited with a Foreword by Erika Eichenseer Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Maria TatarIllustrated by Engelbert SüssFor the first time, Schönwerth’s Bavarian fairy tales—lost until a few years ago when his man-uscripts were discovered in a German municipal archive—are available in English. Recorded with minimal literary embellishment, these more than seventy stories bring us closer to the oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted and revolutionize our understanding of the genre. “[This] new collection of German folk stories…challenges preconceptions about many of the most commonly known fairytales….Many of the stories centre around surprisingly emancipat-ed female characters.”—The Guardian (UK) PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310742-2 • $17.00

LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky and Other NonsenseCollected PoemsEdited with an Introduction by Gillian Beer Celebrates the full range of Carroll’s verse—his nonsense, parodies, burlesques, and more.“An elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll’s poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic.”—The Times Literary SupplementPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PAGES • 978-0-14-119278-9 • $17.00

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’OThe River Between50th Anniversary EditionIntroduction by Uzodinma IwealaThis eye-opening novel explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement, lucidly capturing the drama of a people whose world has been overturned. “Beautifully compact….It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism.”—Uzodinma Iweala, from the IntroductionPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 176 PAGES • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015: DEVIL ON THE CROSS • PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 978-0-14-310736-1 • $16.00

APOLLONIUS OF RHODESJason and the ArgonautsTranslated by Aaron PoochigianIntroduction and Notes by Benjamin Acosta-HughesThe only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage in quest of the Golden Fleece—now in a new verse translation. Written in the 3rd century B.C., this story of the Greek hero combines the fantastic and the real and engages with traditions of science, astronomy, medicine, and magic. “At every turn, Poochigian…improves on every English-language translation of the Argonauti-ca that’s come before him.”—Open Letters MonthlyPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-310686-9 • $15.00

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VANESSA MANKOThe Invention of Exile“The story of a man stranded by history in a strange land, torn away by politics and para-noia from the people he loves, exiled and trapped behind an invisible frontier he dares not cross. Manko ranges expertly between Russia, the USA, and Mexico to weave her absorbing tale of emigration, deportation, desperation, paranoia, and finally, improbably, love. The novel reminds one, at times, of Kafka, Ondaatje, and even, in its powerful evo-cation of marooned isolation, Robinson Crusoe….Brilliant.”—Salman Rushdie“Rich in history….An achingly painful and all too relevant meditation on what can hap-pen to identity when human beings are crammed inside an unforgiving container of pol-itics, bureaucracy, and fear.”—The Boston GlobePENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-1-59420-588-0 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312768-0 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JULY 2015

RENÉ STEINKEFriendswoodFriendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oilrigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and high school football games. When an industrial leak kills and sickens residents, the tragic event pulls on the common thread that runs through the community. This layered, propulsive, psychologically complex story traces the fates of four families as they confront catastrophe, grief, love, lust, ambition, anxiety, and regret. “Does a near-perfect job capturing the feel not just of the titular city but of southeast Texas as a whole….One of the most interesting novels to be set in the Lone Star State in quite a while.”—NPR RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 368 PAGES • 978-1-59463-251-8 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 416 PAGES • 978-1-59463-383-6 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE MAY 2015

ROSS RITCHELLThe KnifeWritten by a former soldier, this 21st-century American war novel takes us into the lone-ly, ambivalent world of military life in Afghanipakiraqistan—the name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where U.S. Special Forces operate with little outside attention.“A nerve-jangling war novel…[Ritchell] uses personal experience to write a novel that paints war as a complicated, exhausting, gut-wrenching ordeal….In 2014, the short sto-ries in Phil Klay’s Redeployment were heralded as some of the most authentic wartime writing in our ever-changing post-9/11 world. In 2015, The Knife, another literary mas-terpiece, deserves the same praise.”—Chicago TribuneBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17340-0 • $25.95

JACQUELINE WOODSONBrown Girl DreamingRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each line provides a glimpse into the soul of a child searching for a place in the world. Woodson’s poetry also reflects her joy at finding her voice through writing despite childhood struggles with reading.NANCY PAULSEN HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-0-399-25251-8 • $16.99NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEWBERRY HONOR BOOK

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LAURA LANE McNEALDollbabyWhen Ibby’s father dies in the summer of 1964, her mother leaves her in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother Fannie, who often ends up in the local asylum. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook Queenie and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby take it upon themselves to ini-tiate Ibby into the traditions and dark secrets of the South—secrets involving her own family’s tragic history. In the tradition of The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time. PAMELA DORMAN HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-0-67001-473-6 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312749-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

MO YANFrogTranslated by Howard GoldblattThe author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major work since winning the Nobel Prize: a sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s contentious one-child policy. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. VIKING HARDCOVER • 480 PAGES • 978-0-525-42798-8 • $27.95

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER and LYNN MELNICK, editors Please Excuse This Poem100 New Poets for the Next GenerationIntroduction by Carolyn ForchéFeaturing one hundred acclaimed younger poets from diverse backgrounds and points of view, Please Excuse This Poem tackles a startling range of subjects in various poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke;” sharing the tender mo-ments at the start of a love affair: this work changes the way we experience the genre. Features an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché. VIKING YOUNG READERS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-670-01479-8 • $16.99

JEAN THOMPSONThe WitchAnd Other Tales Re-ToldIn this captivating new collection, Thompson takes the classic fairy tale and brings it into the modern age with eight short stories that capture the magic and horror of everyday life. “[A] series of exuberantly imaginative riffs on traditional folk and fairy tales….They offer all the chills and suspense embedded in those ancient pinnacles, gorges and deep, dark woods....[A] spirited, provocative collection.”—San Francisco ChronicleBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17058-4 • $25.95PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-751698-5 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2015

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JACQUELINE WOODSONBrown Girl DreamingRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each line provides a glimpse into the soul of a child searching for a place in the world. Woodson’s poetry also reflects her joy at finding her voice through writing despite childhood struggles with reading.NANCY PAULSEN HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-0-399-25251-8 • $16.99NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEWBERRY HONOR BOOK

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LAURA LANE McNEALDollbabyWhen Ibby’s father dies in the summer of 1964, her mother leaves her in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother Fannie, who often ends up in the local asylum. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook Queenie and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby take it upon themselves to ini-tiate Ibby into the traditions and dark secrets of the South—secrets involving her own family’s tragic history. In the tradition of The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time. PAMELA DORMAN HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-0-67001-473-6 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312749-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

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BRETT FLETCHER LAUER and LYNN MELNICK, editors Please Excuse This Poem100 New Poets for the Next GenerationIntroduction by Carolyn ForchéFeaturing one hundred acclaimed younger poets from diverse backgrounds and points of view, Please Excuse This Poem tackles a startling range of subjects in various poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke;” sharing the tender mo-ments at the start of a love affair: this work changes the way we experience the genre. Features an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché. VIKING YOUNG READERS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-670-01479-8 • $16.99

JEAN THOMPSONThe WitchAnd Other Tales Re-ToldIn this captivating new collection, Thompson takes the classic fairy tale and brings it into the modern age with eight short stories that capture the magic and horror of everyday life. “[A] series of exuberantly imaginative riffs on traditional folk and fairy tales….They offer all the chills and suspense embedded in those ancient pinnacles, gorges and deep, dark woods....[A] spirited, provocative collection.”—San Francisco ChronicleBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17058-4 • $25.95PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-751698-5 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2015

YELENA AKHTIORSKAYAPanic in a SuitcaseIn this exploration of the fall of communism and the rise of globalization, the Nasmertovs, who left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, quickly find that the divide between the old world and the new is far from clear-cut. While the older generation looks forward, the family’s youngest, Frida, can only look back. “The book succeeds, phenomenally, at presenting the immigrant duality….A rewarding biog-raphy of displacement, where those left behind are often as disconnected as those who flee for an elusive better life elsewhere.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 320 PAGES • 978-1-59463-214-3 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-159463-382-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015

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PHILIP PULLMANFairy Tales from the Brothers GrimmA New English Version“[A] pitch-perfect retelling….Reminds us that the stories have lost none of their relevance or racing energy, even 200 years after they were written down.”—Maria Tatar, Harvard University“All of [Pullman’s] gifts, including his prose eloquence and his endless high Romantic imagina-tion, are manifested in this marvelous retelling.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-0-14-310729-3 • $18.00

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LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky and Other NonsenseCollected PoemsEdited with an Introduction by Gillian Beer Celebrates the full range of Carroll’s verse—his nonsense, parodies, burlesques, and more.“An elegant volume, likely to delight enthusiasts, while introducing Lewis Carroll’s poetry to a younger readership. The poems are set out chronologically following a generous, thoughtful introduction from the esteemed Cambridge critic.”—The Times Literary SupplementPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PAGES • 978-0-14-119278-9 • $17.00

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’OThe River Between50th Anniversary EditionIntroduction by Uzodinma IwealaThis eye-opening novel explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement, lucidly capturing the drama of a people whose world has been overturned. “Beautifully compact….It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism.”—Uzodinma Iweala, from the IntroductionPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 176 PAGES • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015: DEVIL ON THE CROSS • PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 978-0-14-310736-1 • $16.00

APOLLONIUS OF RHODESJason and the ArgonautsTranslated by Aaron PoochigianIntroduction and Notes by Benjamin Acosta-HughesThe only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage in quest of the Golden Fleece—now in a new verse translation. Written in the 3rd century B.C., this story of the Greek hero combines the fantastic and the real and engages with traditions of science, astronomy, medicine, and magic. “At every turn, Poochigian…improves on every English-language translation of the Argonauti-ca that’s come before him.”—Open Letters MonthlyPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-310686-9 • $15.00

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VANESSA MANKOThe Invention of Exile“The story of a man stranded by history in a strange land, torn away by politics and para-noia from the people he loves, exiled and trapped behind an invisible frontier he dares not cross. Manko ranges expertly between Russia, the USA, and Mexico to weave her absorbing tale of emigration, deportation, desperation, paranoia, and finally, improbably, love. The novel reminds one, at times, of Kafka, Ondaatje, and even, in its powerful evo-cation of marooned isolation, Robinson Crusoe….Brilliant.”—Salman Rushdie“Rich in history….An achingly painful and all too relevant meditation on what can hap-pen to identity when human beings are crammed inside an unforgiving container of pol-itics, bureaucracy, and fear.”—The Boston GlobePENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-1-59420-588-0 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-312768-0 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JULY 2015

RENÉ STEINKEFriendswoodFriendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, oilrigs on the horizon, hurricane weather, and high school football games. When an industrial leak kills and sickens residents, the tragic event pulls on the common thread that runs through the community. This layered, propulsive, psychologically complex story traces the fates of four families as they confront catastrophe, grief, love, lust, ambition, anxiety, and regret. “Does a near-perfect job capturing the feel not just of the titular city but of southeast Texas as a whole….One of the most interesting novels to be set in the Lone Star State in quite a while.”—NPR RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 368 PAGES • 978-1-59463-251-8 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 416 PAGES • 978-1-59463-383-6 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE MAY 2015

ROSS RITCHELLThe KnifeWritten by a former soldier, this 21st-century American war novel takes us into the lone-ly, ambivalent world of military life in Afghanipakiraqistan—the name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where U.S. Special Forces operate with little outside attention.“A nerve-jangling war novel…[Ritchell] uses personal experience to write a novel that paints war as a complicated, exhausting, gut-wrenching ordeal….In 2014, the short sto-ries in Phil Klay’s Redeployment were heralded as some of the most authentic wartime writing in our ever-changing post-9/11 world. In 2015, The Knife, another literary mas-terpiece, deserves the same praise.”—Chicago TribuneBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17340-0 • $25.95

JACQUELINE WOODSONBrown Girl DreamingRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each line provides a glimpse into the soul of a child searching for a place in the world. Woodson’s poetry also reflects her joy at finding her voice through writing despite childhood struggles with reading.NANCY PAULSEN HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-0-399-25251-8 • $16.99NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEWBERRY HONOR BOOK

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LAURA LANE McNEALDollbabyWhen Ibby’s father dies in the summer of 1964, her mother leaves her in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother Fannie, who often ends up in the local asylum. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook Queenie and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby take it upon themselves to ini-tiate Ibby into the traditions and dark secrets of the South—secrets involving her own family’s tragic history. In the tradition of The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time. PAMELA DORMAN HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-0-67001-473-6 • $26.95PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-312749-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2015

MO YANFrogTranslated by Howard GoldblattThe author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major work since winning the Nobel Prize: a sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s contentious one-child policy. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. VIKING HARDCOVER • 480 PAGES • 978-0-525-42798-8 • $27.95

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER and LYNN MELNICK, editors Please Excuse This Poem100 New Poets for the Next GenerationIntroduction by Carolyn ForchéFeaturing one hundred acclaimed younger poets from diverse backgrounds and points of view, Please Excuse This Poem tackles a startling range of subjects in various poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke;” sharing the tender mo-ments at the start of a love affair: this work changes the way we experience the genre. Features an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché. VIKING YOUNG READERS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-670-01479-8 • $16.99

JEAN THOMPSONThe WitchAnd Other Tales Re-ToldIn this captivating new collection, Thompson takes the classic fairy tale and brings it into the modern age with eight short stories that capture the magic and horror of everyday life. “[A] series of exuberantly imaginative riffs on traditional folk and fairy tales….They offer all the chills and suspense embedded in those ancient pinnacles, gorges and deep, dark woods....[A] spirited, provocative collection.”—San Francisco ChronicleBLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-17058-4 • $25.95PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-751698-5 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2015

YELENA AKHTIORSKAYAPanic in a SuitcaseIn this exploration of the fall of communism and the rise of globalization, the Nasmertovs, who left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, quickly find that the divide between the old world and the new is far from clear-cut. While the older generation looks forward, the family’s youngest, Frida, can only look back. “The book succeeds, phenomenally, at presenting the immigrant duality….A rewarding biog-raphy of displacement, where those left behind are often as disconnected as those who flee for an elusive better life elsewhere.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 320 PAGES • 978-1-59463-214-3 • $27.95RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 320 PAGES • 978-159463-382-9 • $16.00PAPERBACK AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015

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