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Extra Virgin Gabriele Corcos & Debi Mazar HC: 978-0-385-34605-4 eBook: 978-0-385-34606-1 Clarkson Potter | 50,000 May 6, 2014 From actress Debi Mazar and her husband, Gabriele Corcos, comes their debut cookbook, which shares their passion for Tuscan food and living with home cooks everywhere. Through the Deep Waters Kim Vogel Sawyer HC: 978-0-307-73129-6 eBook: 978-0-307-73130-2 WaterBrook Press | 50,000 May 6, 2014 With her trademark realistic characters, rich historical settings, and strong redemptive storytelling, Kim Vogel Sawyer weaves a tale of a young woman looking for a fresh start—and finding a remarkable love. The Girl in the Road Monica Byrne HC: 978-0-8041-3884-0 eBook: 978-0-8041-3885-7 AD: 978-0-8041-6623-2 Crown | 80,000 May 20, 2014 Stunningly original and wildly inventive, The Girl in the Road melds the influences of Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and Erin Morgenstern for a dazzling debut. The Word Exchange Alena Graedon HC: 978-0-385-53765-0 eBook: 978-0-385-53766-7 Doubleday | 50,000 April 8, 2014 A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word. The Painter Peter Heller HC: 978-0-385-35209-3 eBook: 978-0-385-35208-6 CD: 978-0-8041-9045-9 AD: 978-0-8041-9046-6 Knopf | 75,000 May 6, 2014 The celebrated author of the ALA Notable Book The Dog Stars returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Bittersweet Miranda Beverly-Whittemore HC: 978-0-8041-3856-7 eBook: 978-0-8041-3857-4 AD: 978-0-8041-9200-2 Crown | 50,000 May 13, 2013 Cinematic, gothic, and with literary echoes of Donna Tartt, Kate Morton, and J. Courtney Sullivan, Bittersweet is a suspenseful and atmospheric novel that will keep readers riveted to the very end. The Secret World of Oil Ken Silverstein HC: 978-1-78168-137-4 eBook: 978-1-78168-193-0 Verso | 60,000 May 13, 2014 Investigative exposé of the corrupt, violent, and shadowy industry that delivers 2 billion metric tons of the world's vital fluid. The Good Spy Kai Bird HC: 978-0-307-88975-1 eBook: 978-0-307-88977-5 CD: 978-0-8041-6649-2 AD: 978-0-8041-6650-8 Crown | 100,000 May 20, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of America's most important spy in the Middle East. Random House Library Marketing Royal Book Brunch Spring and Summer 2014 Titles What Will You Read Next? Request eGalleys from Our Book Buzz: TinyUrl.com/PLAeGalleyRequest

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  • Extra Virgin Gabriele Corcos & Debi Mazar

    HC: 978-0-385-34605-4 eBook: 978-0-385-34606-1

    Clarkson Potter | 50,000 May 6, 2014

    From actress Debi Mazar and her husband, Gabriele Corcos, comes their

    debut cookbook, which shares their passion for Tuscan food and living

    with home cooks everywhere.

    Through the Deep Waters Kim Vogel Sawyer

    HC: 978-0-307-73129-6 eBook: 978-0-307-73130-2 WaterBrook Press | 50,000

    May 6, 2014 With her trademark realistic

    characters, rich historical settings, and strong redemptive storytelling, Kim Vogel Sawyer weaves a tale of a

    young woman looking for a fresh startand finding a remarkable love.

    The Girl in the Road Monica Byrne

    HC: 978-0-8041-3884-0 eBook: 978-0-8041-3885-7

    AD: 978-0-8041-6623-2 Crown | 80,000 May 20, 2014

    Stunningly original and wildly inventive, The Girl in the Road melds

    the influences of Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and Erin Morgenstern

    for a dazzling debut.

    The Word Exchange Alena Graedon

    HC: 978-0-385-53765-0 eBook: 978-0-385-53766-7

    Doubleday | 50,000 April 8, 2014

    A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is

    a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of

    technology and the power of the printed word.

    The Painter Peter Heller

    HC: 978-0-385-35209-3 eBook: 978-0-385-35208-6

    CD: 978-0-8041-9045-9 AD: 978-0-8041-9046-6

    Knopf | 75,000 May 6, 2014

    The celebrated author of the ALA Notable Book The

    Dog Stars returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second

    novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

    Bittersweet Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

    HC: 978-0-8041-3856-7 eBook: 978-0-8041-3857-4

    AD: 978-0-8041-9200-2 Crown | 50,000 May 13, 2013

    Cinematic, gothic, and with literary echoes of Donna Tartt, Kate Morton, and J. Courtney Sullivan, Bittersweet

    is a suspenseful and atmospheric novel that will keep readers riveted to

    the very end.

    The Secret World of Oil Ken Silverstein

    HC: 978-1-78168-137-4 eBook: 978-1-78168-193-0

    Verso | 60,000 May 13, 2014

    Investigative expos of the corrupt, violent, and shadowy industry that delivers 2 billion metric tons of the

    world's vital fluid.

    The Good Spy Kai Bird

    HC: 978-0-307-88975-1 eBook: 978-0-307-88977-5

    CD: 978-0-8041-6649-2 AD: 978-0-8041-6650-8

    Crown | 100,000 May 20, 2014

    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the

    remarkable life and death of America's most important spy in the

    Middle East.

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  • The Girl Who Played with Fire Denise Mina

    HC: 978-1-4012-3757-8 Vertigo | 100,000

    May 3, 2014 Stieg Larrson's second book in his #1

    international thriller sensation is adapted into graphic novel form.

    The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

    Tom Rachman HC: 978-0-679-64365-4

    eBook: 978-0-812-99572-5 CD: 978-0-804-16459-7 AD: 978-0-804-16460-3 The Dial Press | 75,000

    May 10, 2014 The New York Times bestselling author of The Imperfectionists

    returns with a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a bookseller who

    travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.

    The Zhivago Affair Peter Finn and Petra Couve

    HC: 978-0-307-90800-1 eBook: 978-0-307-90801-8

    Pantheon | 35,000 June 17, 2014

    The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story of how a

    forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and

    West.

    I Love You More Jennifer Murphy

    HC: 978-0-385-53855-8 eBook: 978-0-385-53856-5

    Doubleday | 35,000 June 17, 2014

    One man, three wives, the perfect murder. A scintillating novel of

    betrayal and conspiracy.

    Summer House with Swimming Pool

    Herman Koch HC: 978-0-8041-3882-6

    eBook: 978-0-8041-3882-6 Hogarth | 150,000

    June 3, 2014 The blistering and addictive new

    novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner. When a medical mistake goes horribly wrong and Ralph Meier,

    a famous actor, winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser is forced to conceal

    the error from his patients and family.

    The Book of Unknown Americans

    Cristina Henrquez HC: 978-0-385-35084-6

    eBook: 978-0-385-35085-3 CD: 978-0-804-19144-9 AD: 978-0-804-19145-6

    Knopf | 75,000 June 3, 2014

    A heartbreaking page-turner that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl:

    teenagers of immigrant families.

    China Dolls Lisa See

    HC: 978-0-8129-9289-2 eBook: 978-0-6796-4416-3

    CD: 978-0-3853-9417-8 AD: 978-0-3853-9418-5 Random House | 75,000

    June 3, 2014 An exciting new novel set in the "Chop

    Suey Circuit" of San Francisco right before World War II, from the beloved bestselling author of Snowflower and

    the Secret Fan and Shanghai Girls.

    The Quick Lauren Owen

    HC: 978-0-8129-9327-1 eBook: 978-0-6796-4505-4

    CD: 978-0-804-16549-5 AD: 978-0-804-16550-1

    Random House | 100,000 June 17, 2014

    An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up

    the magic and menace of Victorian London. Perfect for fans of

    Erin Morgenstern and Elizabeth Kostova.

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  • William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return

    Ian Doescher HC: 978-1-59474-713-7

    eBook: 978-1-59474-714-4 Quirk Books | 250,000

    July 1, 2014 The exciting conclusion to the New

    York Times bestselling Elizabethan/sci-fi mashup series of

    Shakespearean Star Wars adaptations.

    Eden in Winter Richard North Patterson

    HC: 978-1-62365-148-0 eBook: 978-1-62365-148-0

    Quercus | 150,000 July 1, 2014

    Number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson, author

    of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness, returns with the dramatic

    conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes

    the story begun in Fall from Grace and Loss of Innocence.

    The Girls from Corona del Mar

    Rufi Thorpe HC: 978-0-385-35196-6

    eBook: 978-0-385-35197-3 CD: 978-0-804-19140-1 AD: 978-0-804-19141-8

    Knopf | 75,000 July 8, 2014

    A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in youth and how

    these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance,

    either break or sustain.

    Herbie's Game (Junior Bender #4)

    Timothy Hallinan HC: 978-1-61695-429-1

    eBook: 978-1-61695-430-7 Soho Crime | 50,000

    July 15, 2014 LA burglar (and begrudging private

    investigator) Junior Bender learns that his burglaring mentor has been

    murderedas well as a growing list of his underworld friends and foes. Junior has extra incentive to figure out who is

    behind it, because his own name is probably on that list somewhere, too.

    Evergreen Rebecca Rasmussen HC: 978-0-385-35099-0

    eBook: 978-0-385-35100-3 Knopf | 40,000 July 15, 2014

    From the celebrated author of The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered and emotionally charged novel that

    spans generations, telling the story of two siblings, raised apart, attempting

    to share a life.

    Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Chris Bohjalian

    HC: 978-0-385-53483-3 eBook: 978-0-385-53484-0

    CD: 978-0-307-91748-5 AD: 978-0-307-91749-2

    Doubleday | 150,000 July 8, 2014

    A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage

    runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.

    The Black Hour Lori Rader-Day

    TR: 978-1-61614-885-0 eBook: 978-1-61614-886-7

    Seventh Street Books | 45,000 July 8, 2014

    For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a

    research topicuntil a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot

    himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her

    class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she

    can't let go: Why?

    Life Drawing Robin Black

    HC: 978-1-4000-6856-2 eBook: 978-0-8129-9603-6

    AD: 978-0-8041-9102-9 Random House | 25,000

    July 15, 2014 A "heart-stopping, jaw dropping,

    magnificent" (Karen Russell), "riveting" (Alice Sebold) first novel

    about marriage, adultery, art, and the underlying violence and desires of life,

    for readers of Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro.

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  • The Wolf Lorenzo Carcaterra HC: 978-0-345-48394-2

    eBook: 978-0-804-17729-0 AD: 978-0-553-39996-7

    Ballantine Books | 50,000 July 15, 2014

    In this action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers, a mob boss has

    only one desirerevenge against the terrorists who killed his wife and

    daughters.

    A Spy Among Friends Ben Macintyre

    HC: 978-0-8041-3663-1 eBook: 978-0-8041-3664-8

    CD: 978-0-5533-9790-1 Crown | 150,000

    July 29, 2014 Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's

    most ambitious work to date presents the definitive telling of the most legendary spy story of the 20th

    century.

    The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

    Adele Griffin HC: 978-1-61695-360-7

    eBook: 978-1-61695-361-4 Soho Teen | 50,000

    August 12, 2014 In this ingenious fictional take on the celebrity bio, 17-year-old graffiti artist and media sensation Addison Stone has apparently committed suicide.

    Everyone in her life has something to say about it, and each testimony

    contains a piece of the puzzle behind her tragic death.

    The Mill River Redemption

    Darcie Chan HC: 978-0-345-53823-9

    eBook: 978-0-345-54156-7 CD: 978-0-804-19329-0 AD: 978-0-804-19330-6

    Ballantine Books | 40,000 August 26, 2014

    From the New York Times bestselling self-published author of The Mill

    River Recluse, comes a second heartwarming and poignant never-before-published novel, set in the

    fictional town of Mill River.

    Leaving Time Jodi Picoult

    HC: 978-0-345-54492-6 eBook: 978-0-345-54493-3

    CD: 978-0-804-12903-9 AD: 978-0-804-14765-1

    Ballantine Books | 500,000 October 14, 2014

    From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping story of a daughter searching for her missing mothera deeply moving,

    gripping, and intelligent page turner.

    Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson

    HC: 978-0-8129-9452-0 eBook: 978-0-8129-9453-7

    Spiegel & Grau | 30,000 October 21, 2014

    From one of the country's most visionary legal thinkers, social justice advocates, and MacArthur "genius," this is an intimate and unforgettable

    narrative journey into the broken American criminal justice system.

    2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino HC: 978-0-8041-4023-2

    eBook: 978-0-804-14024-9 CD: 978-0-804-19215-6 AD: 978-0-804-19216-3

    Crown | 70,000 August 5, 2014

    A sparkling, enchanting, and moving debut novel featuring three lost souls

    search for love, music, and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia.

    World of Trouble Ben H. Winters

    TR: 978-1-59474-685-7 eBook: 978-1-59474-686-4

    Quirk Books | 50,000 July 15, 2014

    The third and final installment in the Edgar Award-winning "pre-

    apocalyptic" Last Policeman series featuring detective Hank Palace. With

    the doomsday asteroid looming, it's clear that there's more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon,

    and it's up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs outfor everyone.

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  • Lean In: For Graduates Sheryl Sandberg

    HC: 978-0-385-35367-0 eBook: 978-0-385-35386-1

    CD: 978-0-553-54449-7 AD: 978-0-553-54450-3

    Knopf | 150,000 April 8, 2014

    Updated exclusively for graduates just entering the workforce, this

    extraordinary edition of Lean In includes six additional chapters from experts offering advice on finding and

    getting the most out of a first job.

    Congratulations, by the way

    George Saunders HC: 978-0-8129-9627-2

    eBook: 978-0-8129-9628-9 AD: 978-0-8041-9302-3

    Random House | 100,000 April 22, 2014

    A powerful and inspiring meditation on kindness from the bestselling

    author of Tenth of December, based on his hugely popular commencement

    address, in a beautiful and giftable package.

    Delicious! Ruth Reichl

    HC: 978-1-4000-6962-0 eBook: 978-0-679-60461-7

    CD: 978-0-385-39346-1 AD: 978-0-385-39347-8

    Random House | 150,000 May 6, 2014

    The bestselling author of Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples celebrates how food defines us in her

    dazzling fiction debuta novel of sisters, family ties, and embracing

    your true gifts.

    The Noble Hustle Colson Whitehead

    HC: 978-0-385-53705-6 eBook: 978-0-385-53706-3

    AD: 978-0-804-19112-8 Doubleday | 50,000

    May 6, 2014 In The Noble Hustle Colson

    Whitehead does for participatory journalism what he did for zombie

    novels in Zone One: Take one literary genius, add $10,000 and a seat at the

    World Series of Poker, and stir.

    The Son Jo Nesb

    HC: 978-0-385-35137-9 eBook: 978-0-385-35138-6

    CD: 978-0-553-39784-0 AD: 978-0-553-39785-7

    Knopf | 150,000 May 13, 2014

    The author of the internationally bestselling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set

    amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission

    of brutal revenge.

    The Arsonist Sue Miller

    HC: 978-0-307-59479-2 eBook: 978-0-385-35170-6

    CD: 978-0-307-87603-4 AD: 978-0-307-87604-1

    Knopf | 100,000 June 24, 2014

    From the bestselling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator's Wife, a

    superb new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist

    begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New

    England town.

    The One & Only Emily Giffin

    HC: 978-0-345-54688-3 eBook: 978-0-345-54689-0

    CD: 978-0-804-12758-5 AD: 978-0-804-12759-2

    Ballantine Books | 400,000 May 20, 2014

    The New York Times bestselling author of Where We Belong,

    Something Borrowed, and Baby Proof delivers an extraordinary new novel about love, loss, and the ties

    that bind.

    Written in My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon

    HC: 978-0-385-34443-2 eBook: 978-0-440-24644-2 Delacorte Press | 500,000

    May 10,2014 Continuing the Outlander saga,

    readers follow Gabaldon's beloved characters through revolutionary Philadelphiaas Jamie makes a

    dramatic return to Claire's side, a new army sweeps the city, and romance

    and violence brew.

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  • The VB6 Cookbook Mark Bittman

    HC: 978-0-385-34482-1 eBook: 978-0-385-34483-8 Clarkson Potter | 125,000

    May 6, 2014 Following up on his bestselling diet plan, VB6, the incomparable Mark Bittman delivers a full cookbook of

    recipes designed to help you eat vegan every day before 6:00 p.m.and

    deliciously all of the time.

    Man on the Run Tom Doyle

    HC: 978-0-8041-7914-0 eBook: 978-0-8041-7915-7 Ballantine Books | 25,000

    June 17, 2014 The little known, agonizing decade in

    Paul McCartney's life, starting with his personal crisis following the Beatles'

    split, his reclusive, hippie life-style with his new family, the awkward

    beginnings of his start-up band, Wings, and his drinking, drugs and arrests.

    Two Soldiers Roslund & Hellstrom HC: 978-1-62365-135-0

    eBook: 978-1-62365-136-7 Quercus | 75,000 June 10, 2014

    The latest DCI Ewert Grens thriller, from the bestselling Swedish thriller duo, exploring Sweden's burgeoning

    network of child gangs.

    The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature

    Edited by Russ Kick TR: 978-1-60980-530-2

    Seven Stories Press | 35,000 November 4, 2014

    In this follow-up volume to the lauded Graphic Canon series, master

    anthologist Russ Kick shows adults everywhere that great children's

    literature is great literature, period. And that it's not just for children.

    Brunette Ambition Lea Michele

    HC: 978-0-8041-3907-6 eBook: 978-0-8041-3908-3

    CD: 978-0-8041-9391-7 Crown Archetype | 150,000

    May 13, 2014 The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, self-esteem, career,

    and more in an illustrated book that's part memoir, part how-to, and part

    style-guide.

    Afterlife with Archie Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - Author, Francesco Francavilla - Illustrator

    TR: 978-1-61988-908-8 Archie Comics | 120,000

    May 13, 2014 Afterlife with Archie takes the Archie

    universe in a new and exciting direction, placing the iconic Archie cast of

    characters in a dark and wickedly twisted horror comic book setting! Written by

    Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King's The Stand [Marvel], Glee, Carrie [2013], and the forthcoming live-action Archie movie).

    Sergeant Stubby Ann Bausum

    HC: 978-1-4262-1310-6 eBook: 978-1-4262-1311-3

    National Geographic | 25,000 May 13, 2014

    For those who loved the New York Times bestseller Rin Tin Tin comes

    the memorable story of Sergeant StubbyWorld War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend

    never before told and timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of

    World War I.

    Under Magnolia Frances Mayes

    HC: 978-0-307-88591-3 eBook: 978-0-307-88593-7

    CD: 978-0-8041-4860-3 AD: 978-0-8041-4861-0

    Crown | 80,000 April 1, 2014

    The bestselling author whose memoirs of her life in Tuscany have become cherished classics turns her

    attention to the place that first shaped her: the American South of her

    childhood.

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