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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.

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.

Extra Virgin

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.

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.

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.

Bittersweet

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.

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.

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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

Summer House with Swimming Pool

Herman Koch

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Denise Mina

China Dolls
Lisa See

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 A heartbreaking page-turner that The Dinner. When a medical mistake gives voice to millions of Americans as goes horribly wrong and Ralph Meier, it tells the story of the love between a a famous actor, winds up dead, Dr. Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl: Marc Schlosser is forced to conceal teenagers of immigrant families. the error from his patients and family.

HC: 978-0-8129-9289-2 eBook: 978-0-6796-4416-3 HC: 978-1-4012-3757-8 CD: 978-0-3853-9417-8 Vertigo | 100,000 AD: 978-0-3853-9418-5 May 3, 2014 Random House | 75,000 Stieg Larrson's second book in his #1 June 3, 2014 international thriller sensation is An exciting new novel set in the "Chop adapted into graphic novel form. 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 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.

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.

The Zhivago Affair

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.

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.

The Quick

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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.

Richard North Patterson

Eden in Winter

HC: 978-1-62365-148-0 Chris Bohjalian eBook: 978-1-62365-148-0 HC: 978-0-385-53483-3 Quercus | 150,000 eBook: 978-0-385-53484-0 July 1, 2014 CD: 978-0-307-91748-5 Number one New York Times bestselling AD: 978-0-307-91749-2 author Richard North Patterson, author Doubleday | 150,000 of more than twenty novels, July 8, 2014 including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness, returns with the dramatic A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in moving novel narrated by a teenage Winter, the final volume that completes runaway, from the bestselling author of the story begun in Fall from Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls. Grace and Loss of Innocence.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

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 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.

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.

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

Rebecca Rasmussen
HC: 978-0-385-35099-0 eBook: 978-0-385-35100-3 Knopf | 40,000 July 15, 2014

Evergreen

From the celebrated author of The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered LA burglar (and begrudging private investigator) Junior Bender learns that and emotionally charged novel that spans generations, telling the story of his burglaring mentor has been murderedas well as a growing list of two siblings, raised apart, attempting to share a life. 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.

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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 earthshattering revelation on the horizon, and it's up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs outfor everyone.

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.

The Wolf

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.

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.

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 neverbefore-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.

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.

Just Mercy

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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.

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

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

In The Noble Hustle Colson The author of the internationally From the bestselling author of While I Whitehead does for participatory bestselling Harry Hole series now gives Was Gone and The Senator's Wife, a journalism what he did for zombie us an electrifying stand-alone novel set superb new novel about a family and a novels in Zone One: Take one literary amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, community tested when an arsonist genius, add $10,000 and a seat at the from which one very unusual young man begins setting fire to the homes of the World Series of Poker, and stir. is about to propel himself into a mission summer people in a small New of brutal revenge. England town.

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 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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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.

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.

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

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 The star of the hit show Glee shares Paul McCartney's life, starting with his her experiences and insider tips on personal crisis following the Beatles' beauty, fashion, self-esteem, career, split, his reclusive, hippie life-style with and more in an illustrated book that's his new family, the awkward part memoir, part how-to, and part beginnings of his start-up band, Wings, style-guide. and his drinking, drugs and arrests.

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.

Roslund & Hellstrom

HC: 978-1-62365-135-0 eBook: 978-1-62365-136-7 Quercus | 75,000 June 10, 2014

Two Soldiers

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - Author, Francesco Francavilla - Illustrator

TR: 978-1-61988-908-8 Archie Comics | 120,000 May 13, 2014

Afterlife with Archie

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

The latest DCI Ewert Grens thriller, Afterlife with Archie takes the Archie In this follow-up volume to the lauded from the bestselling Swedish thriller universe in a new and exciting direction, Graphic Canon series, master duo, exploring Sweden's burgeoning placing the iconic Archie cast of anthologist Russ Kick shows adults network of child gangs. characters in a dark and wickedly twisted everywhere that great children's horror comic book setting! Written by literature is great literature, period. Aguirre-Sacasa (Stephen King's The Stand And that it's not just for children. [Marvel], Glee, Carrie [2013], and the forthcoming live-action Archie movie).

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