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The Most Important Titles of the Fall 2012 Season. Hand Selected for Librarians
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Chris Bohjalian
The SandcaSTle GirlS
Bohjalian relies on his Armenian heritage to deliver a book that is tailor-made or grops. The story goes back-and-orth in time between a modern day novelist exploring her amily’shistory, and the story o Elizabeth Endicott, a yong woman rom Massachsetts who jorneys to Syria with her ather to help the Armenian people who are sering nimaginablehorrors in the desert. This is not an easy book to read, Bohjalian does not gloss over theatrocities, bt he manages to oer moments o hope and hmanity throghot. I am stillthinking abot it weeks later.
978-0-385-53479-6 | $25.95/$28.95C | 100,000 | Doubleday | HC | July
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Mark Z. Danielewski
The FiFTy yearSword
The bestselling athoro
House o Leaves
has crated a powerllycreepy novella—aghost story orgrownp readers. Atan East Texas ranchhose, ve orphans come to hear a storyabot a qest or a horrid weapon. As theowner o a mysterios box settles into acrios tale o revenge, the children growmore captivated, even as we grow more araid that a new crime mayawait them all. A mst or any Danielewski an!
978-0-307-90772-1 | $23.95/$26.95C | 60,000 | Pantheon | HC | October
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Dustin Thomason
12.21:
A Novel
From the co-athor o the mega-bestseller
The Rule o Four
comes a riveting newthriller centeredarond December 21,2012—the day theancient Maya calendarpredicts the world will end. Vince Flynncalls
12.21
“the most exciting novel o its kind since the days o MichaelCrichton .”
978-0-385-34140-0 | $27.00/$29.95C | 50,000The Dial Press | HC | August
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Geek MoM:
Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Momsand Their 21stCentury Families
My nesting instinct haspretty mch centeredarond stockpilingparenting books, nosrprise there! From video games to
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978-0-8230-8592-7 | $19.99/$23.99C | 20,000 | Potter Craft | TR | October
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Steig Larsson
The Girl wiThThe draGonTaTToo Book 1
A new way toall in love with StiegLarsson! Vertigo willpblish ocial graphicnovel adaptations startingin Fall 2012 with
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
.Each book in the“Millennim Trilogy” will be adapted intotwo hardcover graphic novel volmes.
978-1-4012-3557-4 l $19.99/$23.99C l 250,000 lVertigo l HC l November
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Emily Colin
The MeMory ThieF:
A Novel
When Madeleine’s hsband is killedclimbing Mont McKinley, she can onlythink o his promise to retrn to her andtheir son. Across the contry, NicholasSllivan wakes rom a motorcycle crashwith his memory wiped clean, and re-placed with dreams o a woman and ave-year-old boy. One man’s promisedrives this tale o love lost and ond.
978-0-345-53039-4 | $15.00/$18.00C | 40,000 | Ballantine Books | TR | August
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Kim Fay
The Map oF loSTMeMorieS:
A Novel
1925 Shanghai: the international trea-sre-hnting scene is a man’s world.Bt, Irene Blm may be on the brink o the greatest archaeological discovery o the centry. She possesses a map be-lieved to lead to scrolls that chronicle thehistory o Cambodia’s ancient Khmercivilization.
978-0-345-53134-6 | $26.00/$31.00C | 30,000 |Ballantine Books | HC | August
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Juliet
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Rebecca Harrington
penelope
When Penelope arrives on the Harvardcamps, everyone is overwhelmed andoverworked and the dorm room “pre-game” sessions never lead to a real game.When Penelope nds hersel roped into aprodction o Cams’s
Caligula
, she beginsto worry that her entire college experience isstarting to resemble an absrdist play.
978-0-307-95031-4 | $14.95/$17.95C | 35,000 | Vintage | August |
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978-0-307-95033-8
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Peter Heller
The doG STarS
Hig srvived the f that killed everyone heknows. In his 1956 Cessna, he fies theperimeter o the aireld or sneaks o tothe montains to sh and pretend thatthings are the way they sed to be. Btwhen a random transmission somehowbeams throgh his radio, the voice ignitesa hope deep inside him that a better lieexists beyond the airport.
978-0-307-95994-2 | $24.95/$27.95C | 60,000Knopf | HC | August |
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The Road
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Vincent Lam
The headMaSTer’SwaGer
A highly sspensel and deeply aect-ing debt novel set against the trmoil o the Vietnam War rom the internationallybestselling athor o
Bloodletting &Miraculous Cures
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978-0-307-98646-7 | $25.00 | 40,000Hogarth | HC | August
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Kathleen Alcott
The danGerS oF proxiMal alphaBeTS:
A Novel
An emotional, deeply layered love storythat explores the dynamics o amilywhen it dees bloodlines and societalconventions.
978-1-59051-529-7 l $14.95/$17.95C l 10,000Other Press l TR l September |
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Harry Bingham
TalkinG To The dead:
A Novel
Welsh Detective Fiona Griths is on thecsp o breaking her rst big case. Agresome doble-mrder initially seemslike an open-and-sht drg deal. Bt,why was a millionaire’s credit card ondat the scene? Fiona mst ntangle aconspiracy that draws her deeper into aworld where rles don’t apply.
978-0-345-53373-9 | $26.00 | 40,000Delacorte Press | HC | September
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Shani Boianjiu
The people oF Forever are noT aFraid
The story o three girls who join theIsraeli Deense Forces at eighteen,where they experience a typical comingo age at the same time as preparing orthe ever-present threat o war.
978-0-307-95595-1 | $24.00 | 50,000Hogarth | HC | September
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Richard E. Gropp
Bad GlaSS
Something has happened in Spokane. The military has locked down the city.Distrbing images seep onto the Internet,spreading criosity and panic. Dean Walker,an aspiring photographer, sneaks into thecity in search o ame, bt what he ndswill change him in nimaginable ways.
978-0-345-53393-7 | $15.00/$18.00C | 15,000Del Rey | TR | September |
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science Fiction
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Timothy L. O’Brien
The lincoln conSpiracy:
A Novel
A nation is shattered by its president’smrder. Two diaries reveal the conspiracy. And, a detective is determined to bringthe trth to light. This gripping historicalthriller poses the qestion: What i theplot to assassinate Lincoln was moresinister than we ever imagined?
978-0-345-49677-5 | $26.00/$31.00C | 30,000Ballantine Books | HC | September
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Andrew Porter
in BeTween dayS
The Harding amily is teetering on thebrink. Elson—once one o Hoston’smost promising architects—is recentlydivorced rom his wie o thirty years. Their grown son, Richard, is still living athome: driving his mother’s minivan, work-ing at a local coee shop. Bt whenChloe Harding gets kicked ot o her EastCoast college, the Hardings’ lives beginto nravel.
978-0-307-27351-2 | $24.95/$28.95C | 30,000 | Knopf | HC | September
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978-0-307-96107-5
literary Fiction
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Netherland
by Joseph O’Neill
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Ben Masters
nouGhTieS:
A Novel
Ben Masters has written a thoroghlymodern coming-o-age story ll o style, heart, and hmor. Eliot Lamb—orall his mastery o literary theory, post-modern novels, and classic poetry—isgoing to be dragged into adlt lie,whether he likes it or not.
978-0-307-95566-1 | $23.00/$26.95C | 25,000Hogarth | HC | October |
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literary Fiction
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Skippy Dies
meets David Nicholls’s
One Day
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Oxford, England
Juliann Garey
Too BriGhT To hear Tooloud To See
Takes s inside the restless mind, ravagedheart, and angished sol o Greyson Todd. A sccessl Hollywood stdioexective leaves his wie and yongdaghter and or a decade travels theworld giving ree reign to the bipolardisorder he’s been orced to keep hid-den or almost 20 years.
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New York, Rome, Israel, Santiago
Maryka Biaggio
parlor GaMeS:
A Novel
A sweeping historical novel abot MayDgas, a beatil con-artist whosetrn-o-the-centry escapades take herarond the world as she’s doggedlyprsed by a Pinkerton detective.
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Elizabeth Black
The drowninG houSe:
A Novel
Photographer Clare Portereld’s marriageis coming apart de to a amily tragedy.When she receives an invitation todirect an exhibition in her hometown o Galveston,TX she jmps at the chanceto escape her grie and reconnect withthe island she hasn’t seen in years.
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Ayana Mathis
The Twelve TriBeS oFhaTTie
In 1923, seventeen-year-old Hattie Shep-herd fees Georgia or Philadelphia, where,thogh her rst two babies die becaseshe can’t aord medicine, she keepsnine children alive with collard greens,old sothern remedies, and sheer love. Their trials are the trials on which thehistory o America was orged, a tribteto the resilience o the hman spirit.
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