May 2010
HARDCOVER
Reckless by Andrew Gross
May 1st William Morrow 9780061655951
Investigator Ty Hauck looks into the murder of an upper middle class family in Connecticut and uncovers a frightening financial conspiracy in this new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Don't Look Twice.
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
May 4th Alfred A. Knopf 9781400041169
Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel since the publication of her best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it.
Private Life by Jane Smiley
May 4th Alfred A. Knopf 9781400040605
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
May 4th NAL Hardcover 9780451229861
It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on in this hilarious memoir.
On Folly Beach by Karen White
May 4th NAL Trade 9780451229212
The latest Southern novel from the acclaimed bestselling and award-winning author of The Memory Water.
One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Guest
May 4th Ecco 9780061685170
"I read this book in one sitting....Heartbreakingly funny, pitilessly honest, [this] is above all a quiet and bold and loving work of art that renders beautifully what it means to live. You must read this book.” – Brett Lott, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi
May 7th The Overlook Press 9781590203293
Katie Arnoldi (Chemical Pink, The Wentworths) writes with authority, informed by her own extensive and revelatory fieldwork --- including hikes into active cartel-run marijuana grow-sites --- in this novel about the death of surf culture, human trafficking, drug cartels, and the environmental devastation caused by illegal pot farms on public lands.
The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
May 11th Ecco 9780061923937
“Glenn Taylor’s plain-spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel’s inspired Working. [This is] a novel of stirring clarity and power, [and] speaks unforgettably from a half century ago to issues still unresolved in American life...a hymn to the human heart.” — Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite
Spent by Avis Cardella
May 14th Little, Brown 9780316035606
A former model's shocking and visceral literary memoir about the shopping addiction that almost destroyed her.
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
May 17th Reagan Arthur Books 9780316074339
A dazzling, breathtaking debut novel about the startling reverberations of a high-school scandal.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by Marlena DeBlasi
May 18th Ballantine Books 9780345507341
Marlena de Blasi, the acclaimed author of such delectable memoirs as A Thousand Days in Venice and That Summer in Sicily, now brings her luminous prose to the world of fiction with this remarkable debut novel. Set against the backdrop of Europe as it moves inexorably toward World War II, Amandine follows a young orphan’s journey in search of her heritage.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C. W. Gortner
May 25th Ballantine Books 9780345501868
To some she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family’s throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power.
PAPERBACK
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
May 3rd Grand Central Publishing 9780446402415
Tom Rob Smith --- the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly) --- returns with an intense, suspenseful novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . .
A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
May 4th Back Bay Books 978031602071
The new novel about the fragility of a young marriage from one of our greatest chroniclers of the mysteries of the human heart.
Sometimes Mine by Martha Moody
May 4th Riverhead Trade 9781594484681
From the author of the runaway bestseller Best Friends comes an engaging new novel of love, loss, and enduring friendship.
The Threadbare Heart by Jennie Nash
May 4th Berkley Trade 9780425234105
Somehow it comforts Lauren to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He, too, didn’t survive the devastating fire. As she negotiates her way through grief, mourning both the tangible and intangible. Now, it’s up to Lauren to understand what she could still gain even when it seems that everything is lost.
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends by Giulia Melucci
May 5th Grand Central Publishing 9780446534413
From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.
Try to Remember by Iris Gomez
May 5th Grand Central Publishing 9780446556194
Something is happening to Gabriela's father. One minute he is calm, the next his temper rages out of control. And now his increasingly erratic behavior has cost him another job, jeopardizing the family. While her father slips deeper into darkness, Gabi's mother slips deeper into denial. Gabi is left alone to help her father. If she can't, her family could lose everything-and risk being deported from the country they've worked so hard to make their home.
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad
May 11th Ecco 9780061766787
“I couldn’t stop reading this thrilling memoir. Why do we sometimes feel most alive when we are risking our lives? Ollestad answers this question with a heart-stopping adventure…a love story that fearlessly explores the bond between a father and son and what it means to lead a life without limits.” — Susan Cheever
By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
May 18th Other Press 9781590513521
The fast-paced and penetrating story of the Spanish conversos during the Inquisition, caught between two faiths and two identities. In this story of love, God, faith, and torture, 15-century Spain comes to dazzling, engrossing life.
The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry
May 25th Picador 9780312429665
Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is disgraced, middle-aged, and overly fond of the bottle and of his young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece, a legendary Madonna by the Italian master Giovanni Bellini. A Victorian diary that draws Robert Browning into the painting’s mystery might provide the key.
Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
May 25th St. Martin's Griffin 9780312624149
From the author of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful The Borgia Bride and I, Mona Lisa comes an irresistible novel of France's most flamboyant queen. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother in law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
The Embers by Hyatt Bass
May 25th Picador 9780312429711
A once-charmed family is forced to confront the devastating tragedy that struck it years ago in this fiercely tender tale of betrayal and reconciliation.
Life Without Summer by Lynne Griffin
May 25th St. Martin's Griffin 9780312599546
The story of a mother who has just lost her four year old daughter in a hit and run accident and the grief counselor who tries to help her to put her life back together.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
May 25th Alfred A. Knopf 9780307269997
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy.
This Wicked World by Richard Lange
May 27th Back Bay Books 9780316018791
Elmore Leonard meets Denis Johnson in this explosive first novel set on the dark side of Southern California.
Reckless by Andrew Gross
May 1st William Morrow 9780061655951
Investigator Ty Hauck looks into the murder of an upper middle class family in Connecticut and uncovers a frightening financial conspiracy in this new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Don't Look Twice.
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
May 4th Alfred A. Knopf 9781400041169
Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel since the publication of her best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it.
Private Life by Jane Smiley
May 4th Alfred A. Knopf 9781400040605
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
May 4th NAL Hardcover 9780451229861
It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on in this hilarious memoir.
On Folly Beach by Karen White
May 4th NAL Trade 9780451229212
The latest Southern novel from the acclaimed bestselling and award-winning author of The Memory Water.
One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Guest
May 4th Ecco 9780061685170
"I read this book in one sitting....Heartbreakingly funny, pitilessly honest, [this] is above all a quiet and bold and loving work of art that renders beautifully what it means to live. You must read this book.” – Brett Lott, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi
May 7th The Overlook Press 9781590203293
Katie Arnoldi (Chemical Pink, The Wentworths) writes with authority, informed by her own extensive and revelatory fieldwork --- including hikes into active cartel-run marijuana grow-sites --- in this novel about the death of surf culture, human trafficking, drug cartels, and the environmental devastation caused by illegal pot farms on public lands.
The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
May 11th Ecco 9780061923937
“Glenn Taylor’s plain-spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel’s inspired Working. [This is] a novel of stirring clarity and power, [and] speaks unforgettably from a half century ago to issues still unresolved in American life...a hymn to the human heart.” — Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite
Spent by Avis Cardella
May 14th Little, Brown 9780316035606
A former model's shocking and visceral literary memoir about the shopping addiction that almost destroyed her.
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
May 17th Reagan Arthur Books 9780316074339
A dazzling, breathtaking debut novel about the startling reverberations of a high-school scandal.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by Marlena DeBlasi
May 18th Ballantine Books 9780345507341
Marlena de Blasi, the acclaimed author of such delectable memoirs as A Thousand Days in Venice and That Summer in Sicily, now brings her luminous prose to the world of fiction with this remarkable debut novel. Set against the backdrop of Europe as it moves inexorably toward World War II, Amandine follows a young orphan’s journey in search of her heritage.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C. W. Gortner
May 25th Ballantine Books 9780345501868
To some she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter into the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family’s throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power.
PAPERBACK
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
May 3rd Grand Central Publishing 9780446402415
Tom Rob Smith --- the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly) --- returns with an intense, suspenseful novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . .
A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
May 4th Back Bay Books 978031602071
The new novel about the fragility of a young marriage from one of our greatest chroniclers of the mysteries of the human heart.
Sometimes Mine by Martha Moody
May 4th Riverhead Trade 9781594484681
From the author of the runaway bestseller Best Friends comes an engaging new novel of love, loss, and enduring friendship.
The Threadbare Heart by Jennie Nash
May 4th Berkley Trade 9780425234105
Somehow it comforts Lauren to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He, too, didn’t survive the devastating fire. As she negotiates her way through grief, mourning both the tangible and intangible. Now, it’s up to Lauren to understand what she could still gain even when it seems that everything is lost.
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends by Giulia Melucci
May 5th Grand Central Publishing 9780446534413
From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.
Try to Remember by Iris Gomez
May 5th Grand Central Publishing 9780446556194
Something is happening to Gabriela's father. One minute he is calm, the next his temper rages out of control. And now his increasingly erratic behavior has cost him another job, jeopardizing the family. While her father slips deeper into darkness, Gabi's mother slips deeper into denial. Gabi is left alone to help her father. If she can't, her family could lose everything-and risk being deported from the country they've worked so hard to make their home.
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad
May 11th Ecco 9780061766787
“I couldn’t stop reading this thrilling memoir. Why do we sometimes feel most alive when we are risking our lives? Ollestad answers this question with a heart-stopping adventure…a love story that fearlessly explores the bond between a father and son and what it means to lead a life without limits.” — Susan Cheever
By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
May 18th Other Press 9781590513521
The fast-paced and penetrating story of the Spanish conversos during the Inquisition, caught between two faiths and two identities. In this story of love, God, faith, and torture, 15-century Spain comes to dazzling, engrossing life.
The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry
May 25th Picador 9780312429665
Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is disgraced, middle-aged, and overly fond of the bottle and of his young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece, a legendary Madonna by the Italian master Giovanni Bellini. A Victorian diary that draws Robert Browning into the painting’s mystery might provide the key.
Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
May 25th St. Martin's Griffin 9780312624149
From the author of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful The Borgia Bride and I, Mona Lisa comes an irresistible novel of France's most flamboyant queen. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother in law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
The Embers by Hyatt Bass
May 25th Picador 9780312429711
A once-charmed family is forced to confront the devastating tragedy that struck it years ago in this fiercely tender tale of betrayal and reconciliation.
Life Without Summer by Lynne Griffin
May 25th St. Martin's Griffin 9780312599546
The story of a mother who has just lost her four year old daughter in a hit and run accident and the grief counselor who tries to help her to put her life back together.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
May 25th Alfred A. Knopf 9780307269997
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy.
This Wicked World by Richard Lange
May 27th Back Bay Books 9780316018791
Elmore Leonard meets Denis Johnson in this explosive first novel set on the dark side of Southern California.
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