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Prayers for the Stolen

Jennifer Clement
HC: 978-0-8041-3878-9 eBook: 978-0-8041-3879-6 Hogarth | 40,000 February 11, 2014 The dazzling and tremendously moving American debut novel about a young girl's life in rural Mexico, in the shadow of the drug wars.

The Martian
Andy Weir
HC: 978-0-8041-3902-1 eBook: 978-0-8041-3903-8 Crown | 60,000 February 11, 2014 Apollo 13 meets Castaway in this grippingly detailed, brilliantly ingenious man-vs-nature survival thrillerset on the surface of Mars.

The Accident
Chris Pavone

The Lost Sisterhood

Anne Fortier

HC: 978-0-385-34845-4 HC: 978-0-345-53622-8 eBook: 978-0-385-34846-1 eBook: 978-0-345-53623-5 CD: 978-0-804-16599-0 CD: 978-0-385-35995-5 AD: 978-0-804-16600-3 AD: 978-0-385-35996-2 Crown | 100,000 Ballantine Books | 35,000 March 4, 2014 March 11, 2014 From the author of the New York New York Times bestselling author Times bestselling and Edgar AwardAnne Fortier (Juliet) returns with a winning The Expats, an elegant and thrilling novel that will forever alter our riveting espionage thriller about spies, idea of one of mankind's oldest myths secrets, and the devastating power of the Amazonsand a young modernthe truth. day scholar who thinks they might not be such a myth after all.

The Weight of Blood

Laura McHugh

The Divorce Papers

Susan Rieger

The Harlem Hellfighters

Max Brooks Illustrated by Caanan White
TR: 978-0-307-46497-2 Broadway Books | 150,000 April 1, 2014 From the bestselling author of World War Z, a fictionalized retelling of the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic WWI black regimentthe Harlem Hellfighters.

New Life, No Instructions

Gail Caldwell
HC: 978-1-4000-6954-5 eBook: 978-0-6796-0442-6 CD: 978-0-804-19087-9 AD: 978-0-804-19088-6 Random House | 35,000 April 1, 2014 For readers of Anne Lamott, Kelly Corrigan and Mary Karr, a moving, exquisitely written memoir about how life can begin again when we least expect it, by the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Let's Take the Long Way Home.

HC: 978-0-8041-3744-7 HC: 978-0-8129-9520-6 eBook: 978-0-8041-3745-4 eBook: 978-0-812-99521-3 CD: 978-0-8041-6635-5 AD: 978-0-804-19152-4 AD: 978-0-8041-6636-2 Spiegel & Grau | 100,000 Crown | 70,000 March 11, 2014 March 18, 2014 For fans of Gillian Flynn and Daniel Woodrell, a dark, gripping debut A sparkling, laugh-out-loud debut novel of literary suspense about two romantic comedy, told via e-mails, mysterious disappearances, a letters, transcripts, and articles, with a generation apart, and the meaning of sharp and charming take on divorce familythe sacrifices we make, the through the eyes of an endearingly secrets we keep, and the lengths we cynical young law associate. will go to protect the ones we love.

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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 Shadow Queen

Sandra Gulland
HC: 978-0-385-53752-0 eBook: 978-0-385-53753-7 Doubleday | 40,000 April 8, 2014 A spellbinding historical novel about a young woman who rises to become the confidante to the most powerful, provocative, and dangerous woman in the 17th-century French Court: the mistress of the charismatic Sun King.

Maggie Shipstead
HC: 978-0-307-96290-4 eBook: 978-0-307-96291-1 CD: 978-0-804-16561-7 AD: 978-0-804-16562-4 Knopf | 75,000 April 8, 2014 From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the passionate, political world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.

Astonish Me

Cynthia Bond
HC: 978-0-8041-3909-0 eBook: 978-0-8041-3910-6 CD: 978-0-8041-6591-4 AD: 978-0-8041-6592-1 Hogarth | 60,000 April 29, 2014 The unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy herthis beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Ruby

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Diane Keaton
HC: 978-0-8129-9426-1 eBook: 978-0-8129-9427-8 CD: 978-0-8041-6587-7 AD: 978-0-8041-6588-4 Random House | 200,000 April 29, 2014 From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton, a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, that old frenemy the mirror, and how in the end you just have to do it your own way.

The Garden of Burning Sand

Corban Addison
HC: 978-1-623-65129-9 eBook: 978-1-623-65130-5 Quercus | 100,000 May, 6, 2014 The exotic appeal and emotional power of A Thousand Splendid Suns crossed with the narrative drive of a riveting thriller.

Place, Not Race

Sheryll Cashin
HC: 978-0-8070-8614-8 eBook: 978-0-8070-8615-5 Beacon Press | 25,000 May 6, 2014 From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action.

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 breakout bestseller The Dog Stars returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

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Delicious!
Ruth Reichl

HC: 978-1-4262-1310-6 HC: 978-1-4000-6962-0 HC: 978-0-8041-3856-7 eBook: 978-1-4262-1311-3 TR: 978-1-61988-908-8 eBook: 978-0-679-60461-7 eBook: 978-0-8041-3857-4 National Geographic | 25,000 Archie Comics | 120,000 CD: 978-0-385-39346-1 AD: 978-0-8041-9200-2 May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 AD: 978-0-385-39347-8 Crown | 50,000 For those who loved the New York Random House | 150,000 May 13, 2013 Afterlife with Archie takes the Archie Times bestseller Rin Tin Tin comes May 6, 2014 Cinematic, gothic, and with literary universe in a new and exciting direction, the memorable story of Sergeant The bestselling author of Tender at echoes of Donna Tartt, Kate Morton, placing the iconic Archie cast of StubbyWorld War I dog veteran, the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples characters in a dark and wickedly twisted and J. Courtney Sullivan, Bittersweet decorated war hero, American icon, celebrates how food defines us in her is a suspenseful and atmospheric horror comic book setting! Written by and above all, man's best friend dazzling fiction debuta novel of novel that will keep readers riveted to Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King's The Stand never before told and timed to sisters, family ties, and embracing the very end. [Marvel], Glee, Carrie [2013], and the coincide with the 100th anniversary of your true gifts. forthcoming live-action Archie movie). World War I.

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Sergeant Stubby
Ann Bausum

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Bittersweet

Joseph Boyden
HC: 978-0-385-35073-0 eBook: 978-0-385-35074-7 Knopf | 50,000 May 13, 2014 History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of convertsthe defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic.

The Orenda

Jack of Spies
David Downing
HC: 978-1-61695-268-6 eBook: 978-1-61695-269-3 Soho Crime | 60,000 May 13, 2014 Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman who moonlights as a spy for His Majesty's Navy in 1913, takes readers on an epic adventure across the worldChina, San Francisco, New York, Mexico, England, Ireland, and beyondon the eve of World War I.

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 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.

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.

The Quick

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.

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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?

The Ugly Renaissance

Alexander Lee
HC: 978-0-385-53659-2 eBook: 978-0-385-53660-8 CD: 978-0-8041-9114-2 AD: 978-0-8041-9115-9 Doubleday | 40,000 July 10, 2014 A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the amazing cultural innovations of the Italian Renaissance.

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.

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 "preapocalyptic" 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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One More Thing

B. J. Novak
HC: 978-0-385-35183-6 eBook: 978-0-385-35184-3 CD: 978-0-804-16475-7 AD: 978-0-804-16476-4 Knopf | 150,000 February 4, 2014 An entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut collection that signals the arrival of a welcome new voice in American fiction. For fans for George Saunders and David Sedaris.

The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon
HC: 978-0-385-53849-7 eBook: 978-0-385-53850-3 CD: 978-0-804-16517-4 AD: 978-0-804-16518-1 Doubleday | 75,000 February 11, 2014

And the Dark Sacred Night

Julia Glass
HC: 978-0-307-37793-7 eBook: 978-0-307-90863-6 CD: 978-0-449-01135-5 AD: 978-0-449-01136-2 Pantheon | 75,000 April 1, 2014

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 New York Times bestselling author of The award-winning author on her best subjectfamily secretsin the story of Promise Not to Tell returns with a a middle-aged man who searches for simmering literary thriller about ghostly his father, upending relationships secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . beyond his own and changing forever the way he fits into the world he sometimes too unbreakable. thought he knew so well.

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 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

The Deepest Secret

Carla Buckley
HC: 978-0-345-53524-5 eBook: 978-0-345-53966-3 CD: 978-0-804-19203-3 AD: 978-0-804-19204-0 Bantam | 100,000 February 4, 2014 A riveting family drama perfect for readers of Defending Jacob and The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which explores the power of the secrets people keepthe darker, hidden facets of our lives.

Glitter and Glue

Kelly Corrigan
HC: 978-0-345-53283-1 eBook: 978-0-345-53284-8 CD: 978-0-385-39288-4 AD: 978-0-385-39289-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 February 11, 2014 From the author of the bestselling memoirs The Middle Place and Lift comes a compelling new memoir. This is a story about growing up and stepping up, but most of all, it's about the great adventure of motherhood. A perfect book club selection.

The author of the internationally From the bestselling author of While I bestselling Harry Hole series now gives Was Gone and The Senator's Wife, a us an electrifying stand-alone novel set superb new novel about a family and a amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, community tested when an arsonist from which one very unusual young man begins setting fire to the homes of the is about to propel himself into a mission summer people in a small New of brutal revenge. England town.

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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 makes her debut with an extraordinary new novel about love, loss, and the ties that bind.

McCarthyisms
Jenny McCarthy
HC: 978-0-553-39086-5 eBook: 978-0-553-39087-2 CD: 978-0-553-39861-8 AD: 978-0-553-39862-5 Ballantine Books | 100,000 May 6, 2014 The ingredients to and instructions for getting the most out of lifecomplete with outrageously funny personal stories and sisterly advice by the lovably goofy and outspoken author of multiple New York Times bestsellers and co-host of ABC's The View.

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.

Karin Slaughter
HC: 978-0-345-54749-1 eBook: 978-0-345-54751-4 Delacorte Press | 200,000 June 24,2014 The critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling master of suspense delivers her first stand alone novel, a thrilling tale of crime and struggle set in Atlanta in the mid-1970s.

Cop Town

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan
HC: 978-1-58642-224-0 eBook: 978-1-586-42225-7 Steerforth | 20,000 March 4, 2014 A stunning debut novel that captures the madness and anguish of Ireland's recent economic boom, bubble and collapse. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Award.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying

Carol Leifer
HC: 978-1-59474-677-2 eBook: 978-1-59474-682-6 Quirk Books | 50,000 April 1, 2014 A book of stories and advice for women on getting ahead in the entertainment business and beyond from comedienne Carol Leifer, former "Seinfeld" writer and veteran stand-up comic.

Hinterkind Vol. 1
Ian Edginton
TR: 978-1-4012-4518-4 Vertigo | 40,000 April 8,2014

Songs Only You Know

Sean Madigan Hoen

HC: 978-1-61695-336-2 eBook: 978-1-61695-337-9 Soho Press | 40,000 April 15, 2014 A sweeping epic of a post-apocalyptic Reminiscent of Tobias Wolff's This world in which humans have been Boy's Life and Darin Strauss's Half A pushed to the edge of extinction by Life, Songs Only You Know is a the creatures of fantasy and fable. staggering memoir about a once "normal" Irish Catholic family falling to pieces amidst drug addiction and suicide. A family destroyed, and a son saved by sheer will and determinationand by the music he plays in his hardcore band.

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The Last Time I Saw You

Eleanor Moran
TR: 978-1-62365-133-6 eBook: 978-1-62365-134-3 Quercus | 35,000 April 22,2014 A touching story of lost friendship, intense rivalry, and dark secrets. When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from university has been killed in a car crash in New York, her life is turned upside down.

Lawrence Block
TR: 978-1-78329-057-4 eBook: 978-1-78116-778-6 Hard Case Crime | 5,000 May 20, 2014 Available for the first time in 50 years, Borderline is a brutal south-of-theborder crime story by the bestselling author of A Walk Among the Tombstones.

Borderline

Under Magnolia HC: 978-0-8041-3675-4 Frances Mayes eBook: 978-0-804-13676-1 HC: 978-0-307-88591-3 CD: 978-0-804-14927-3 eBook: 978-0-307-88593-7 AD: 978-0-804-14928-0 CD: 978-0-8041-4860-3 Crown | 100,000 AD: 978-0-8041-4861-0 February 18, 2014 Crown | 80,000 Six years after her surprising defeat in April 1, 2014 the 2008 Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton has reemerged as a more The bestselling author whose powerful and influential figure, a memoirs of her life in Tuscany have formidable stateswoman and the become cherished classics turns her presumed front-runner for the 2016 attention to the place that first shaped presidential nomination, marking one of her: the American South of her the great political comebacks in history. childhood.

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Timothy F. Geithner
HC: 978-0-8041-3859-8 eBook: 978-0-8041-3860-4 CD: 978-0-8041-6553-2 AD: 978-0-8041-6554-9 Crown | 250,000 May 6, 2014 Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's behind-the-scenes account of the American response to the global financial crisis.

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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.

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.

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.

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