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The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

A Paperback Original Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers that tells the story of a chilling future where a 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism “The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie’s, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.” —The Independent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/15/2012FICTIONpb 9780062130808 $14.99 ($18.99)256 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• The Testament of Jessie Lamb was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose in the world, and now nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake. Some blame scientists, others see the hand of God, and still others claim that human arrogance and destructiveness are reaping their inevitable, just punishments. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary 16-year old girl living in extraordinary times. She wants her life to make a difference. But is she heroic by nature? Or, as her scientist father fears, is she simply impressionable, innocent, and incapable of understanding where her actions will lead? As the certainties of her childhood are ripped apart, Jessie begins to question her parents’ attitudes, behavior, and the very viability of the world they have bequeathed her. As everything she believes in begins to collapse, Jessie’s idealism and courage will drive her towards an ultimate test of heroism—one from which neither she, nor her world, will ever be the same again. Set in a world irreparably altered by an act of biological terrorism, The Testament of Jessie Lamb explores a young woman’s struggle not only to become independent of her parents, but to wield the potential she knows is inside her—the power to change the world.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 72Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Georges Borchardt

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman

The events of a single night shatter a family’s sense of security and identity in this provocative and deeply affecting domestic drama in the tradition of Lionel Shriver and Sue Miller—a brilliantly observed portrait of modern life and the underlying truths we take for granted

“This Beautiful Life isn’t just an intimate look at family breaking down under intense pressure; it’s also a sharp and unsparing indictment of a culture in search of scapegoats. In this timely and provocative novel, Helen Schulman maps out the contours of a contemporary American nightmare.” —Tom Perrotta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 2/7/2012Fictionpb 9780062024398 $13.99 ($17.99)256 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062024381This Beautiful Life------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When the Bergamots move from a comfortable upstate college town to New York City, they’re not quite sure how they’ll adapt—or what to make of the strange new world of well-to-do Manhattan. Soon, though, Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large New York university, and Liz, who has traded in her academic career to oversee the lives of their children, is hectically ferrying young Coco around town. Fifteen-year-old Jake is gratefully taken into the fold by a group of friends at Wildwood, an elite private day school. But the upper-class cocoon in which they have enveloped themselves is ripped apart when Jake wakes up one morning after an unchaperoned party and finds an email in his in-box from an eighth-grade admirer. Attached is a sexually explicit video she has made for him. Shocked, stunned, maybe a little proud, and scared—a jumble of adolescent emotion—he forwards the video to a friend, who then for-wards it to a friend. Within hours, it’s gone viral, all over the school, the city, the world. The ensuing scandal threatens to shatter the Bergamots’ sense of security and identity, and, ultimately, their happiness. They are a good family faced with bad choices, and how they choose to react, individually and at one another’s behest, places everything they hold dear in jeopardy. This Beautiful Life is a devastating exploration of the blurring boundaries of privacy and the fragility of self, a clear-eyed portrait of modern life that will have readers debating their assumptions about family, morality, and the sacrifices and choices we make in the name of love.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 72Selling Territory: USCOM60,000PUBLISHING HISTORYHarper (hc) 9780062024381

Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum

An aspiring chef’s moving account of finding her way—in the kitchen and beyond—after a tragic accident destroys her sense of smell

“Molly Birnbaum writes with great curiosity and depth, reawakening in us all the sense of taste that we take for granted.”—Amanda Hesser, author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sale: 5/29/2012 Memoir pb 9780061915321 $14.99 ($18.99) 320 pages; 5 5/16 x 8 Model ISBN: 9780061915314 Season to Taste------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------At twenty-two, just out of college, Molly Birnbaum was looking forward to attending the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and fulfilling her dream of becoming a chef. But her dream was cut short when she was hit by a car, an accident that left her with a fractured skull, a broken pelvis, and a shredded knee. It also destroyed her sense of smell—an essential ability for a cook. Devastated, Birnbaum sank into a depression.

Season to Taste is the story of what came next: how she picked herself up and set off on a grand, entertaining quest in the hopes of learning to smell again. Writing with good cheer and great charm, she explores the science of olfaction, pheromones, and Proust’s madeleine; meets leading experts, including the writer Oliver Sacks, scientist Stuart Firestein, and perfumer Christophe Laudamiel; and visits a pioneering New Jersey flavor lab, eats at Grant Achatz’s legendary Chicago restaurant Alinea, and enrolls at a renowned perfume school in the South of France, all in an effort to understand and overcome her condition—and, ultimately, begin to cook again.

Ecco Selling Territory: W 15,000

The Girl Below by Bianca Zander

A William Morrow Paperback Original

In this haunting debut novel, a young woman finds herself slipping back into her childhood to solve the mysteries of her dysfunctional family, along with the very idea of herself and her place in the world

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/19/2012FICTIONpb 9780062108166 $14.99 ($18.99)336 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. After ten years in New Zealand, she has returned to London only to find herself more alone than ever before. But a chance visit with Peggy, an old family friend, who still lives in the building in which Suki grew up leads Suki to believe she has discovered a way to reconnect with the life she left ten years before. As she becomes more and more involved with Peggy’s family, Suki finds that she is mysteriously slipping back in time to one night, a party her parents threwin their garden, and an incident that took place in a long-unused air raid shelter there. Set in both Suki’s past and her present, The Girl Below is a whirlwind of mystery, intrigue, and self-discovery.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 56Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Foundry

Beach Colors by Shelley Noble

A William Morrow Paperback Original

A beautiful, fun, and sandy story, perfect for fans of Jane Green and Kristin Hannah------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FICTIONpb 9780062103086 $14.99 ($18.99)320 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------While Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised “M Atelier” collection at New York City’s Fashion Week, her husband of thirteen years cleaned out their bank account and disappeared. A week later the bank foreclosed on her apartment and business. Suddenly broke, betrayed, and humiliated, Margaux returns home to the small, coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut, where she once knew love, joy and family—three things she’s lost on her climb to fame. Margaux just wants to be left alone, but friends and family have different plans. Encouraged by her widowed mother, challenged by her two closest childhood friends, and bullied by a displaced Brooklyn hairdresser, Margaux begins to design a new line of clothes, determined to get back in the game.

Nick Prescott left his job as a college professor to return home to care for his nephew Connor, taking the role of interim police chief in Crescent Cove while he tries to sort out Connor’s troubles after the loss of his father, Nick’s brother, in Iraq. Just when he is finally settling in to his new role, he stops Margaux for speeding on her way into town. Nick recognizes her immediately; she was one of the bright spots of his boyhood; the beautiful girl who summered at the beach and never noticed the “townie” boy who looked forward to seeing her return each year. But he’s no longer a boy, and he’s no longer content to love her from afar. Margaux is too vulnerable to let Nick and Connor into her life, but through Connor’s eyes, she rediscovers the beauty of the shore and finds a forgotten place in her heart that wants to love again.

When a chance to return to New York as a top designer threatens her new found happiness, Margaux must make the most important decision of her life. Does she have the strength to let go of the past and grasp an uncertain future? Can two people who have so little in common find a way to become a family?

William Morrow PaperbacksSelling Territory: W25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio, UK, Translation: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Marsal Lyon Literary Agency

We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane

A Paperback Original

A funny and moving debut novel that follows four generations of an American family, all living under one roof, as each member confronts a moment of crisis—all told through a unique and unforgettable voice “Crane has a distinctive and eccentric voice that is consistent and riveting.” —New York Times Book Review

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FICTIONpb 9780062099471 $14.99 ($18.99)304 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• We Only Know So Much will include a P.S. section featuring insights, inter-views, and more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We know the Copeland family is in crisis. The question is—do they know it too?

As the novel opens, Jean, the family’s emotionally numbed mother, has taken a secret lover—only to lose him to suicide. Her husband, Gordon, is unaware of her betrayal, distracted by the fear that he’s losing his own prized asset—his mind. Daughter Priscilla (don’t get us started) is probably up in her room right now talking at her friends about clothes, or boys, or the other inane subjects that bluster through her nineteen-year-old brain. (She’s been a total pill since birth; now her biggest career goal is extending her annoying reach to all of America through reality TV.) Nine-year-old Otis—named for the elevator company, but known to his sister as “Freak” or “Baby Freak”—is falling in love for the first time, without parental guidance. At the back of the Copeland house, grandfather Theodore is in the early throes of Parkinson’s disease. (And he’s more or less fine with the whole matter, as long as they continue to let him walk the damn dog alone.) And Vivian, the family’s ninety-eight-year-old great-grandmother, is a razor-sharp grande dame who suffers no foolishness from anyone; yet she harbors secret dreams of her own.

With empathy, humor, and emotional wisdom, Elizabeth Crane offers the unforgettable story of what one family finds when they go looking for meaning inall the wrong places.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 72Selling Territory: USCOM30,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency

When We Argued All Night by Alice Mattison

A Paperback Original

From bestselling and award-winning author Alice Mattison comes a breathtaking new novel following two best friends from Brooklyn, and exploring the way in which the world and their lives change over the course of the 20th century ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FICTIONpb 9780062120373 $14.99 ($18.99)416 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780061430558Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• When We Argued All Night will include a P.S. section featuring insights, interviews, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From World War II to the McCarthy-Era witch hunts, from early relationships to tumultuous marriages, from families growing to friends growing apart, When We Argued All Night follows the lives of two boyhood friends—and, eventually, their children and grandchildren—as their lives twist and turn over the course of the twentieth century. Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramovitz have been best friends since they met in elementary school in East Brooklyn in 1919. Seventeen years later, Europe is on the brink of war, New York is in the grip of the Great Depression, and the two friends, now twenty-six years old, find themselves stuck and unsure about their futures. They hitchhike up to the Adirondacks for a weekend at Harold’s friend’s cabin and are surprised by the arrival of two young women planning to stay there as well. Though at the time the weekend seems relatively unremarkable—aside from their awkward interactions with the girls—it marks a turning point for Harold and Artie, the moment when their real adult lives begin to take shape. Though they will not always remain the best of friends, Harold and Artie are constantly drawn back to each other for support when things get tough, especially in the in the 1960s, when Artie’s daughter Brenda experiences her own coming of age in a story with parallels to her father’s and Harold’s—their politics, troubles, ambitions, and successes. The novel, sweeping in its scope, takes the reader where life takes its characters, illuminating the ways in which Harold and Artie and their wives, children, and families change and remain the same over more than 75 years.

Harper PerennialCarton Qty: 40Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Zoe Pagnamenta Agency

The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann

A dazzling debut, full of opulent period detail, set during Stockholm’s Golden Age that brilliantly interweaves history, romance, and intrigue, in which one man’s fortune holds the key to a nation’s precarious fate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/26/2012Fiction Tr 9780061995347 $25.99 ($33.99)432 pages; 6 x 919 pieces of b&w art;

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• The Octavo is a form of fortune telling that is an invention of the novel, using antique German playing cards to illustrate the spreads of Emil and Mrs. Sparrow. The cards are beautiful and intricate, the perfect match for the text.

• Foreign rights have been sold in heated auctions in Holland, Germany, Italy, Brazil, the UK, Spain and Norway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Excise and Customs in Stockholm of 1791. He is a true man of The Town—drinker, card player, and contented bachelor. Until one evening, when Mrs. Sophia Sparrow, proprietor of an exclusive gaming parlor and fortune teller, shares with him a vision she has had—a golden path that will lead to love and connection for Emil. She offers to lay an Octavo for him, a spread of cards that augur the eight individuals who can help him realize this vision—if he can find them. Emil begins his search, intrigued by the puzzle of his Octavo and the good fortune Mrs. Sparrow’s vision portends. But when Mrs. Sparrow wins a mysterious folding fan in a card game, the Octavo’s deeper powers are revealed. No longer just a game of the heart, collecting his Eight is now crucial to pulling his country back from the crumbling precipice of rebellion and chaos.

Set against the luminous backdrop of late 18th century Stockholm, as the winds of revolution rage through the great capitals of Europe, The Stockholm Octavo brings together a collection of characters both fictional and historical whose lives tangle in political conspiracy, love, and magic in a breathtaking debut that will leave readers spellbound.

EccoCarton Qty: 28Selling Territory: USCOM25,000Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: McCormick & Williams Literary Agency

Arranged by Catherine McKenzie

A William Morrow Paperback Original

Every single one of Anne Blythe’s relationships has ended in disaster, so when fate leads her to the doorstep of a highly secretive arranged-marriage agency, she decides to take a chance.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/15/2012FICTIONpb 9780062115393 $14.99 (NCR)416 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062115355Spin

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• William Morrow paperbacks will publish Catherine McKenzie’s first book, Spin, in February 2012, followed by Arranged in May, and her third book, Forgotten, in Fall 2012. Each book will promote the upcoming titles, making sure that readers get hooked on this fresh and fun new voice.

• Both Spin and Arranged hit the Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller lists at #15 and #10, respectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, good friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share it with, however, she just can’t seem to get it right.

After yet another relationship ends, Anne comes across a business card for what she thinks is a dating service, and she pockets it just in case. When her best friend, Sarah, announces she’s engaged, Anne can’t help feeling envious. On an impulse, she decides to give the service a try because maybe she could use a little assistance in finding the right man. But Anne soon discovers the company isn’t a dating service; it’s an exclusive, and pricey, arranged marriage service. She initially rejects the idea, but the more she thinks about it—and the company’s success rate—the more it appeals to her. After all, arranged marriages are the norm for millions of women around the world, so why wouldn’t it work for her?

A few months later, Anne is travelling to a Mexican resort, where in one short weekend she will meet and marry Jack. And against all odds, everything seems to be working out....

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 44Selling Territory: USOM50,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Park Literary Group

I, Iago by Nicole Galland

A William Morrow Paperback Original

From the author of The Fool’s Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello in which the “true” motivations of literature’s greatest villain, Iago, are revealed.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 4/24/2012FICTIONpb 9780062026873 $14.99 ($18.99)384 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780060841805Crossed

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Everyone knows Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of friendship and betrayal, love and jealousy: Othello. But the real story lies deep in the culture and biases of Venice and the childhood of a young man named Iago who could not escape his status as “runt of the litter” in his family nor his “distasteful” tendencies toward honesty that made him a social outcast.

In Nicole Galland’s I, Iago we follow Iago from his childhood days playing pranks with young, naive Roderigo to falling in love with Emilia to betraying his closest friends and family, sealing his fate as one of the most notorious villains of all time.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 48Selling Territory: USCOM30,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Darhansoff & Verrill

Safe Within by Jean Reynolds Page

A William Morrow Paperback Original

Acclaimed novelist Jean Reynolds Page delivers a story of unanticipated family ties, and the hope, forgiveness, and sometimes just plain tolerance it takes to hold a family together.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/12/2012FICTIONpb 9780061876943 $14.99 ($18.99)416 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780061876929Leaving Before It’s Over

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elaine and Carson Forsythe have come back to Lowfield, NC, to live in Elaine’s childhood home, the Tree House. This cabin nestled high in the oak trees beside a lovely North Carolina lake is Carson’s favorite place, so this is where they have come. Because Carson only has weeks, maybe days, to live.

In this setting, Elaine must begin to negotiate the changes life holds without Carson, as she ushers herself and their grown son Mick through their coming, unbearable loss. But she hasn’t planned for the arrival of Carson’s mother, Greta, who hasn’t spoken to Elaine in twenty-five years. Greta, who sets loose a neighbor’s herd of Alpaca because they have “evil eyes.” Greta, who believes that strange blue lights will hold Carson near to her when the time comes for him to leave the world. Greta, who believes that Mick is not really Carson’s son....

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 44Selling Territory: USCOM20,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Writers House

In the Bag by Kate Klise

A William Morrow Paperback Original

The Parent Trap meets You’ve Got Mail in this fun new novel. Told from the perspectives of two single parents and their two teenage children, In the Bag explores the old-fashioned art of flirtation in a modern world, where falling in love can be as risky as checking a bag on an international flight.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/1/2012FICTIONpb 9780062108050 $14.99 ($18.99)320 pages; 5 x 7 1/8ephemera art throughout;

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A successful chef and single mother, Daisy Sprinkle, is on vacation with her teenage daughter, Coco, who picks up the wrong duffle bag at the airport. That situation is not improved by the note Daisy finds tucked into her carry-on, apparently from the man in 13-C. Daisy is in no mood for secret admirer notes or dinner dates. Or even men, for that matter. Andrew doesn’t know what possessed him to do something like that. Hitting on strange women on airplanes is definitely not his typical style. But there was something about the woman in 6-B that could not be ignored. Of course, now he has no time to think about her, since his son Webb seems to have made off with a budding fashionista’s luggage.

Determined to make the best of a bad situation, Daisy cooks up a plan to calm her daughter’s panic over the lost bag with a week of fabulous food, shopping, and museum hopping. Andrew is busy working on his latest project and hoping Webb finds enough to entertain himself. Little do they know the teens are making their own plan. . . one that will ultimately reunite Ms. 6-B and Mr. 13-C.

William Morrow PaperbacksSelling Territory: W25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio, UK: William Morrow Paperbacks; Translation, Dramatic: Michael Siegel & Associates

The Unseen by Katherine Webb

A William Morrow Paperback Original

From the author of the international bestseller The Legacy comes a compelling tale of love, deception, and illusion set in early 1900s England.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 5/22/2012FICTIONpb 9780062077882 $14.99 ($18.99)464 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062077301Legacy, The

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------England, 1911. The Reverend Albert Canning, a vicar with a passion for spiritualism, leads a happy existence with his naive wife Hester in a sleepy Berkshire village. As summer dawns, their quiet lives are changed forever by two new arrivals. First comes Cat, the new maid: a free-spirited and disaffected young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law. Cat quickly finds a place for herself in the secret underbelly of local society as she plots her escape. Then comes Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby. A young man of magnetic charm and beauty, Robin soon becomes an object of fascination and desire. During a long spell of oppressive summer heat, the rectorybecomes charged with ambition, love and jealousy; a mixture of emotions so powerful that it leads, ultimately, to murder.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 44Selling Territory: USOM50,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Orion Publishing Group

And Laughter Fell from the Sky by Jyotsna Sreenivasan

A William Morrow Paperback Original

A stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and pressures of their culture and their families.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/19/2012FICTIONpb 9780062105769 $14.99 ($18.99)336 pages; 5 5/16 x 8

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Beautiful, sophisticated Rasika has always tried to play the role of dutiful daughter. Even though she has a career that allows her to be financially independent, she still lives at home and knows she will someday marry an appropriate suitor her family will pick out. With her twenty-sixth birthday fast approaching—the age her horoscopes ordain she must find a husband—she agrees to an arranged marriage, all while trying to hide from her family her occasional dalliances with other men.

Abhay is everything an Indian-American son shouldn’t be. Smart, curious, and ridden with angst, he spent his post-college year in a commune, only to leave and hop from various dead-end jobs, brooding about his inability to find what he wants to do with his life.

Old family friends, Rasika and Abhay seem to have nothing in common, and yet when the two reconnect by chance, sparks immediately fly. Abhay loves Rasika, but he knows her family would never approve. Rasika knows she has feelings for Abhay, but can she turn her back on the family rules she has always tried so hard to live by? The search to find answers takes Abhay and Rasika out of their native Ohio, to Oregon and India, where, in the process of trying to find themselves, they find that what they have together might just be something worth fighting for.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 56Selling Territory: USCOM30,000Subsidiary Rights: Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Brick House Literary Agents

Miss Me When I’m Gone by Emily Arsenault

A William Morrow Paperback Original

A brand new mystery from the author of the critically acclaimed Broken Teaglass and In Search of the Rose Notes.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 7/31/2012FICTIONpb 9780062103109 $14.99 ($18.99)320 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062012326In Search of the Rose Notes

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eliza Waters is most famous for her book Tammyland—a “honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love,” a memoir about her divorce and her admiration for Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton. When Eliza dies falling on a set of stone steps outside of a library, everyone thinks it was an accident or a botched mugging. Jamie, Eliza’s best friend from college, certainly has no reason to suspect foul play. That is, until she becomes Eliza’s literary executor. Eliza’s latest manuscript is much darker than Tammyland—ostensibly about her favorite classic male country singers, it’s really about a murder in her family that haunted her childhood. From beyond the grave, Eliza’s writing opens up a sinister new world, and suddenly, Eliza’s death seems suspicious—and then Jamie finds herself in danger as well...

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 60Selling Territory: W40,000Subsidiary Rights: serial, Audio, UK: William Morrow Paperbacks; Translation, Dramatic: Laura Langlie

A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary

A William Morrow Paperback Original

From the critically acclaimed author of House and Home comes a beautiful and heart-warming novel about one woman’s drastic measure to keep her family safe.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 7/24/2012FICTIONpb 9780062106230 $14.99 ($18.99)304 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9781401341046House and Home

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When Susannah Delaney decides her over-scheduled East Coast kids have had enough, she takes them to remote and rustic Sounder Island to live for a year. She hopes their perfect, simple life on the island—with no electricity, no internet, and a one-room schoolhouse—will show herchildren the truth about what is really important. There she meets Betty Pavalak, who has come to Sounder for her own reasons. Betty and Susannah both harbor secrets that have haunted their lives. Susannah soon discovers that a simpler life doesn’t mean love and family are any simpler. But she can’t begin to imagine how Sounder—and Betty— will change her forever.

William Morrow PaperbacksSelling Territory: W25,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio, UK: William Morrow Paperbacks; Translation, Dramatic: Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency

The Thread by Victoria Hislop

A Paperback Original

An epic, beautiful novel from the international bestselling author of The Island, following the intertwining lives of two lovers in a tempestuous Greek city over the course of the turbulent 20th century.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 7/10/2012FICTIONpb 9780062135582 $14.99 (NCR)400 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780061715419Return, The

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will change forever this city, as war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people.

Five years later, young Katerina escapes to Greece when her home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she finds herself on a boat to an unknown destination.

For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina become entwined, with each other and with the story of the city itself. Through their eyes, we experience the changing landscape of Thessaloniki, the persecution of its people, Nazi collaboration, civil war, and economic collapse.

Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears the life story of his grandparents for the first time and realizes he has a decision to make. For many decades, his grandparents have looked after the memories and treasures of people who have been forcibly driven from their beloved city. Should he become their new custodian? Should he stay or should he go? The Thread is a sweeping, beautiful story of love and friendship, and the choices that we make when loyalties are challenged.

Harper PaperbacksCarton Qty: 48Selling Territory: USOM75,000PUBLISHING HISTORYHeadline Review (hc) 9780755377732Subsidiary Rights: Audio: Harper Paperbacks; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Melanie Jackson Agency

Keepsake by Kristina Riggle

William Morrow Paperback Original

In her latest novel, Kristina Riggle explores that most complicated ofrelationships, as two sisters deal with the very different paths their lives have taken.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 6/26/2012FICTIONpb 9780062003072 $14.99 ($18.99)352 pages; 5 5/16 x 8Model ISBN: 9780062003041Things We Didn’t Say

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Trish isn’t perfect. She’s divorced, raising two kids—of course her house isn’t pristine. So she doesn’t always get around to putting away the laundry, or cleaning up the kitchen. She’s got everything under control, just like her mother did. Until the day her son gets hurt, Child Protective Services comes calling, and Trish’s precarious world finally begins to tip over.

The last thing Trish wants—or expects—is her sister Mary’s help. Mary, whose house is spotless and perfectly arranged. Mary, who walked away from their mother to live somewhere else—just like Trish’s oldest child has done. Mary, who shampoos her carpet to deal with a single speck of mud. Working together to get Trish’s home into liveable shape, the sisters are soon uncovering more than just junk as years of secrets, pain, and obses-sions are brought to light.

William Morrow PaperbacksCarton Qty: 52Selling Territory: USCOM40,000Subsidiary Rights: First serial: William Morrow Paperbacks; Audio, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Nelson Literary

City Girl, Country Vet by Cathy Woodman

A Voice Trade Paperback Original

Emily Giffin meets James Herriott in this charming and original tale of adventure, mishap, and romance centered around a vet’s practice in the English countryside.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Sale: 9/4/2012Fictionpb 9781401341718 $14.99 ($0.00)384 pages; 5 3/16 x 8Age: 12-

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• City Girl, Country Vet has all the cheeky appeal of the very best UK chick lit, with a fresh, fun milieu. Cathy Woodman was a small animal vet before she turned to writing fiction, which gives the book rich detail and authenticity when it comes to offering up heartwarming pet stories and heart tugging medical scenarios—fans of Animal ER will eat this up.

• This is the first of three books in the Otter House Vet series, and was a UK bestseller. The first two books in the series have sold more than 150,000 copies in the UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------London veterinarian Maz Harwood has learned the hard way that love and work don’t mix. So when Emma, her best friend from vet school, asks her to look after her practice in the English countryside for six months, Maz decides that is just the change of scenery she needs. But country life is trickier than she thought it would be.

It was one thing to trade her smart heels for wellies; it’s another to deal with unwelcoming locals, an intense rivalry with another local vet practice, and worse yet, the realization that her friend’s practice needs as much healing as Maz’s own broken heart. Things get even more complicated when she meets her rival’s dashing son, who is totally unsuitable as a prospect. . . or is he? Can Maz win over the locals, save the lives of her patients, keep Emma’s practice from going under. . . and find love again? Cathy Woodman, a fresh new voice in women’s fiction, has written a warm, breezy romantic comedy that makes for the perfect relaxing summer read.

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