June 2010
HARDCOVER
American Music by Jane Mendelsohn
June 1st Alfred A. Knopf 9780307272669
From the author of I Was Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generations—told in Jane Mendelsohn’s distinctive mesmerizing style.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
June 1st Doubleday 9780385501125
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language” (San Francisco Chronicle).
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
June 8th Alfred A. Knopf 9780307592835
Egan’s spellbinding new work circles Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young worker he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, but the reader does, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs from the 1970s to a postwar future.
To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition by Harper Lee
June 8th Harper 9780061743528
50th Anniversary: Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this compassionate, dramatic, deeply moving, regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
June 8th Ballantine Books 9780345504968
“Every so often a novel-reader’s novel comes along: an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Summer is the perfect time for such books, and this year readers can enjoy the gift of Justin Cronin’s The Passage. Read 15 pages, and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears.” ---Stephen King
Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne
June 10th Center Street 9781599952970
Kevin Alan Milne, author of The Paper Bag Christmas and The Nine Lessons, delivers a sweet story about finding love and proving that happiness is not just a myth.
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
June 14th Little, Brown 9780316054676
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative --- lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written --- from which you simply cannot look away.
After the Fall by Kylie Ladd
June 15th Doubleday 9780385532815
After the Fall peers into the souls of two young, devoted couples betrayed by the one thing they thought was secure and faultless: their friendship. Told in a kaleidoscope of first-person voices, this is an unsettling, morally complex read about the secret longings we all harbor and what happens when the unexpected becomes inevitable.
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer
June 15th Ballantine Books 9780345518286
Beautifully written, powerfully felt, full of both abundant joy and heart-wrenching sorrow, Beachcombers is an extraordinary novel that centers on the bittersweet reunion of three captivating, very different sisters on Nantucket over one gorgeous, exhilarating summer.
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
June 15th Doubleday 9780385527699
From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past.
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
June 21st Reagan Arthur Books 9780316077583
The charming, captivating love story of a couple making a new life --- and their wildest dreams --- come true.
The Lovers by Vendela Vida
June 22nd Ecco 9780060828394
“A spare and haunting meditation on how travel can bring us full circle back to the place from which we should have started. I read it over two days and dreamed about it the second night.” - Francine Prose, author of Goldengrove
Inside Out by Barry Eisler
June 29th Ballantine Books 9780345505101
A fierce and intelligent thriller for fans of Lee Child and Vince Flynn, from former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler. This is Eisler's most action-packed and politically charged thriller yet.
PAPERBACK
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
June 1st Harper Perennial 9780061924361
An imaginative, fascinating novel about one of the most enduringly popular and romantic figures of the First World War --- the radical, handsome young poet Rupert Brooke.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
June 1st Berkley Trade 9780425232200
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
June 1st Harper Perennial 9780061351631
The emotional, incredible true story of a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places --- the last leper colony in the continental United States.
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
June 1st NAL Trade 9780451229489
A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950s by the author of the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven.
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
June 3rd Grand Central Publishing 9780446178433
Brown University sophomore Kevin Roose takes a semester abroad at Reverend Jerry Falwell's fundamentalist Baptist college, Liberty University, now for the first time in paperback.
Alibi by Teri Woods
June 8th Grand Central Publishing 9780446581707
New York Times bestselling author Teri Woods' brings a tale about a botched robbery that leaves one man standing to take the fall. Now he must come up with a plausible alibi to keep from going to prison.
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
June 8th Back Bay Books 9780316043908
One couple's secrets cast six friends adrift...
The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen
June 8th Harper Perennial 9780061875977
Delilah Blue has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since she moved from Toronto to Los Angeles when she was 8-years-old and her father told her that her mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and desperate to become an artist like her long lost mother, Delilah decides to try nude modeling at the Los Angeles Art Institute, where she can’t afford the classes but figures she can learn while listening to the professors as the students draw her.
Her only real companion in life is her father, a dapper single salesman. But as he’s entered his mid-50s, his personality seems to be changing. He forgets simple tasks and is often disoriented, signs that he is going through early-onset Alzheimer’s. The disease presents just as Delilah’s long-estranged mother, who Delilah always believed abandoned the family, re-enters the scene with a young daughter in tow and reveals a secret about their past that will irrevocably change their lives. Delilah must decide if her mother is the selfish woman she’s always assumed left her behind or whether somewhere deep inside her father’s memory is the truth behind the family’s separation.
April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
June 10th Grand Central Publishing 9780446540605
This sexy and often heartbreaking novel tells the story of April and Oliver, two inseparable childhood friends whose existences again collide with the sudden death of April's younger brother.
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
June 16th Back Bay Books 9780316025263
This brilliant, ebullient, and timely road novel about a young Mexican woman's journey north to America is "a wondrous yarn in the hands of a terrific storyteller" (Seattle Times).
Chasing Lilacs by Carla Stewart
June 17th FaithWords 9780446556552
Debut author Carla Stewart stirs heartstrings in this powerful novel about a girl searching for the truth about her mother's love.
The Secrets of Newberry by Victor McGlothin
June 21st Grand Central Publishing 9780446178136
Will the bonds of family keep strong when murder, deception, and lies threaten to tear them apart? Two men find out in this intriguing saga set in 1950s Louisiana by Essence bestselling author Victor McGlothin.
Good Things I Wish You by Tess Callahan
June 22nd Harper Perennial 9780061239953
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances --- one historical, the other modern-day --- separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.
The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri
June 22nd Harper Perennial 9780061772467
In this “charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch” (Joanne Harris), a young woman journeys to Ireland to mend a broken heart, and helps a group of local lacemakers change their lives --- and her own.
Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
June 29th Harper Perennial 9780061859472
A profound and entertaining meditation on love and money, Emily Tedrowe’s exceptional debut novel depicts the shockwaves set in motion by the sudden marriage of one middle-class family’s 78-year-old matriarch to a wealthy outsider --- in a union that will scandalize the community, divide their families, and create several surprising alliances.
Lit by Mary Karr
June 29th Harper Perennial 9780060596996
In Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her New York Times bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry, Mary Karr chronicles her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. A recollection of her struggle to come to terms with her Christian faith after years as an agnostic that explores the relationship between spirituality and substance abuse and depression, Lit is also about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live.
American Music by Jane Mendelsohn
June 1st Alfred A. Knopf 9780307272669
From the author of I Was Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generations—told in Jane Mendelsohn’s distinctive mesmerizing style.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
June 1st Doubleday 9780385501125
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language” (San Francisco Chronicle).
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
June 8th Alfred A. Knopf 9780307592835
Egan’s spellbinding new work circles Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young worker he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, but the reader does, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs from the 1970s to a postwar future.
To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition by Harper Lee
June 8th Harper 9780061743528
50th Anniversary: Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this compassionate, dramatic, deeply moving, regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
June 8th Ballantine Books 9780345504968
“Every so often a novel-reader’s novel comes along: an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Summer is the perfect time for such books, and this year readers can enjoy the gift of Justin Cronin’s The Passage. Read 15 pages, and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears.” ---Stephen King
Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne
June 10th Center Street 9781599952970
Kevin Alan Milne, author of The Paper Bag Christmas and The Nine Lessons, delivers a sweet story about finding love and proving that happiness is not just a myth.
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
June 14th Little, Brown 9780316054676
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative --- lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written --- from which you simply cannot look away.
After the Fall by Kylie Ladd
June 15th Doubleday 9780385532815
After the Fall peers into the souls of two young, devoted couples betrayed by the one thing they thought was secure and faultless: their friendship. Told in a kaleidoscope of first-person voices, this is an unsettling, morally complex read about the secret longings we all harbor and what happens when the unexpected becomes inevitable.
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer
June 15th Ballantine Books 9780345518286
Beautifully written, powerfully felt, full of both abundant joy and heart-wrenching sorrow, Beachcombers is an extraordinary novel that centers on the bittersweet reunion of three captivating, very different sisters on Nantucket over one gorgeous, exhilarating summer.
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
June 15th Doubleday 9780385527699
From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past.
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
June 21st Reagan Arthur Books 9780316077583
The charming, captivating love story of a couple making a new life --- and their wildest dreams --- come true.
The Lovers by Vendela Vida
June 22nd Ecco 9780060828394
“A spare and haunting meditation on how travel can bring us full circle back to the place from which we should have started. I read it over two days and dreamed about it the second night.” - Francine Prose, author of Goldengrove
Inside Out by Barry Eisler
June 29th Ballantine Books 9780345505101
A fierce and intelligent thriller for fans of Lee Child and Vince Flynn, from former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler. This is Eisler's most action-packed and politically charged thriller yet.
PAPERBACK
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
June 1st Harper Perennial 9780061924361
An imaginative, fascinating novel about one of the most enduringly popular and romantic figures of the First World War --- the radical, handsome young poet Rupert Brooke.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
June 1st Berkley Trade 9780425232200
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
June 1st Harper Perennial 9780061351631
The emotional, incredible true story of a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places --- the last leper colony in the continental United States.
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
June 1st NAL Trade 9780451229489
A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950s by the author of the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven.
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
June 3rd Grand Central Publishing 9780446178433
Brown University sophomore Kevin Roose takes a semester abroad at Reverend Jerry Falwell's fundamentalist Baptist college, Liberty University, now for the first time in paperback.
Alibi by Teri Woods
June 8th Grand Central Publishing 9780446581707
New York Times bestselling author Teri Woods' brings a tale about a botched robbery that leaves one man standing to take the fall. Now he must come up with a plausible alibi to keep from going to prison.
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
June 8th Back Bay Books 9780316043908
One couple's secrets cast six friends adrift...
The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen
June 8th Harper Perennial 9780061875977
Delilah Blue has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since she moved from Toronto to Los Angeles when she was 8-years-old and her father told her that her mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and desperate to become an artist like her long lost mother, Delilah decides to try nude modeling at the Los Angeles Art Institute, where she can’t afford the classes but figures she can learn while listening to the professors as the students draw her.
Her only real companion in life is her father, a dapper single salesman. But as he’s entered his mid-50s, his personality seems to be changing. He forgets simple tasks and is often disoriented, signs that he is going through early-onset Alzheimer’s. The disease presents just as Delilah’s long-estranged mother, who Delilah always believed abandoned the family, re-enters the scene with a young daughter in tow and reveals a secret about their past that will irrevocably change their lives. Delilah must decide if her mother is the selfish woman she’s always assumed left her behind or whether somewhere deep inside her father’s memory is the truth behind the family’s separation.
April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
June 10th Grand Central Publishing 9780446540605
This sexy and often heartbreaking novel tells the story of April and Oliver, two inseparable childhood friends whose existences again collide with the sudden death of April's younger brother.
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
June 16th Back Bay Books 9780316025263
This brilliant, ebullient, and timely road novel about a young Mexican woman's journey north to America is "a wondrous yarn in the hands of a terrific storyteller" (Seattle Times).
Chasing Lilacs by Carla Stewart
June 17th FaithWords 9780446556552
Debut author Carla Stewart stirs heartstrings in this powerful novel about a girl searching for the truth about her mother's love.
The Secrets of Newberry by Victor McGlothin
June 21st Grand Central Publishing 9780446178136
Will the bonds of family keep strong when murder, deception, and lies threaten to tear them apart? Two men find out in this intriguing saga set in 1950s Louisiana by Essence bestselling author Victor McGlothin.
Good Things I Wish You by Tess Callahan
June 22nd Harper Perennial 9780061239953
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances --- one historical, the other modern-day --- separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.
The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri
June 22nd Harper Perennial 9780061772467
In this “charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch” (Joanne Harris), a young woman journeys to Ireland to mend a broken heart, and helps a group of local lacemakers change their lives --- and her own.
Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
June 29th Harper Perennial 9780061859472
A profound and entertaining meditation on love and money, Emily Tedrowe’s exceptional debut novel depicts the shockwaves set in motion by the sudden marriage of one middle-class family’s 78-year-old matriarch to a wealthy outsider --- in a union that will scandalize the community, divide their families, and create several surprising alliances.
Lit by Mary Karr
June 29th Harper Perennial 9780060596996
In Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her New York Times bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry, Mary Karr chronicles her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. A recollection of her struggle to come to terms with her Christian faith after years as an agnostic that explores the relationship between spirituality and substance abuse and depression, Lit is also about getting drunk and getting sober, becoming a mother by letting go of a mother, and learning to write by learning to live.
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