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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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