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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Cantoras
How To
Christy Lefteri
Carolina De Robertis
Randall Munroe
HC: 978-1-9848-2121-8 eBook: 978-0-593-12816-9 AD: 978-0-593-14765-8 Ballantine Books | 50,000 August 27, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-52169-3 eBook: 978-0-525-52170-9 AD: 978-0-593-14900-3 Knopf | 25,000 September 3, 2019
HC:978-0-525-53709-0 eBook: 978-0-525-53710-6 AD: 978-0-525-63569-7 Riverhead Books | 250,000 September 3, 2019
This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.
From the, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer.
Ice Cold Heart
A Single Thread
Breathe
P. J. Tracy
Tracy Chevalier
Imani Perry
Lara Prescott
HC: 978-1-64385-132-7 eBook: 978-1-64385-133-4 Crooked Lane Books | 60,000 September 10, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-55824-8 eBook: 978-0-525-55825-5 AD:978-0-593-14919-5 CD: 978-0-593-14916-4 Viking | 100,000 September 17, 2019
HC: 978-0-8070-7655-2 eBook: 978-0-8070-7656-9 AD: 978-0-8070-8120-4 Beacon Press | 30,000 September 17, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-65615-9 eBook: 978-0-525-65616-6 AD: 978-1-9848-8593-7 Knopf | 200,000 September 17, 2019
Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth join Grace MacBride and Monkeewrench to uncover a dark and ugly conspiracy that reaches deep into the safety of homes in this latest electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy.
An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier.
How to Fight Anti-Semitism Bari Weiss HC: 978-0-593-13605-8 eBook: 978-0-593-13606-5 AD: 978-0-593-16296-5 Crown | 100,000 September 3, 2019 The prescient New York Times writer exposes the alarming rise of anti-semitism in this country—and explains what all Americans can do to defeat it.
The Secrets We Kept
Red at the Bone
The Water Dancer
Blowout
Fair Play
Jacqueline Woodson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Rachel Maddow
Eve Rodsky
HC: 978-0-525-53527-0 eBook: 978-0-525-53529-4 AD: 978-0-593-14707-8 CD: 978-0-593-14704-7 LP: 978-0-593-15225-6 Riverhead Books | 125,000 September 17, 2019
HC: 978-0-399-59059-7 eBook: 978-0-399-59060-3 AD: 978-0-525-49487-4 One World | 150,000 September 24, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-57547-4 eBook: 978-0-525-57549-8 AD: 978-1-9848-4675-4 CD: 978-1-9848-4672-3 LP: 978-0-593-15345-1 Crown | 250,000 October 1, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-54193-6 eBook: 978-0-525-54195-0 AD: 978-0-593-10711-9 CD: 978-0-593-10708-9 LP: 978-0-593-15233-1 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 200,000 October 1, 2019
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming.
In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award– winning author of Between the World and Me, brings home the most intimate evil of enslavement: the cleaving and separation of families.
The Emmy Award–winning host offers a dark, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry.
A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long—from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women.
The Remaking
The Giver of Stars
Life Undercover
Running with Sherman
Clay McLeod Chapman
Jojo Moyes
Amaryllis Fox
Christopher McDougall
HC: 978-1-68369-153-2 eBook: 978-1-68369-154-9 Quirk Books | 75,000 October 8, 2019
HC: 978-0-399-56248-8 eBook: 978-0-399-56250-1 AD: 978-0-525-53022-0 CD: 978-0-525-53019-0 LP: 978-0-593-15226-3 Pamela Dorman Books | 350,000 October 8, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-65497-1 eBook: 978-0-525-65498-8 AD: 978-0-525-63946-6 Knopf | 200,000 October 15, 2019
HC: 978-1-5247-3236-3 eBook: 978-1-5247-3237-0 AD: 978-1-5247-7879-8 Knopf | 100,000 October 29, 2019
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.
The Ring meets Scream in this terrifying, wickedly fun, and totally meta supernatural thriller about a true-crime tale that takes on a life of its own every 20 years.
Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey—based on the true story of The Horseback Librarians of Kentucky.
Olive, Again
One Day
Before and After
Elizabeth Strout
Gene Weingarten
Lisa Wingate and Judy Christie
HC: 978-0-8129-9654-8 eBook: 978-0-8129-9655-5 AD: 978-0-593-14737-5 CD: 978-0-593-14734-4 Random House | 200,000 October 15, 2019
HC: 978-0-399-16666-2 eBook: 978-0-698-13559-8 AD: 978-0-593-14675-0 Blue Rider Press | 50,000 October 22, 2019
HC: 978-0-593-13014-8 eBook: 978-0-593-13015-5 AD: 978-0-593-16436-5 Ballantine Books | 50,000 October 22, 2019
Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed—and all that hasn't—in the last three decades.
The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours, and were reunited with birth family members as a result of the novel's wide reach.
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett and Link's Book of Mythicality, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the darkness at the heart of their Southern town.
Cover Not Final
Cover Not Final
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers.
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2
HC: 978-0-385-54121-3 eBook: 978-0-385-54122-0 AD: 978-0-7352-0790-5 LP: 978-0-593-10648-8 Doubleday | 500,000 November 5, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-57337-1 eBook: 978-0-525-57339-5 AD: 978-1-9848-2818-7 Crown | 100,000 November 19, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world— a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
Robert Lacey
The official companion to the second and third seasons of the Emmy-winning Netflix drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring additional historical background, expert commentary, and beautifully reproduced images.
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek HC: 978-1-9848-2213-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2215-4 Crown | 150,000 October 29, 2019
NVK
Meg and Jo
Temple Drake
Virginia Kantra
TR: 978-1-59051-935-6 eBook: 978-1-59051-936-3 Other Press | 75,000 November 26, 2019
TR: 978-0-593-10034-9 eBook: 978-0-593-10035-6 AD: 978-0-593-16734-2 Berkley | 75,000 December 3, 2019
Set in the otherworldly megalopolis that is today's Shanghai, Temple Drake's suspenseful first novel blends the gothic, the erotic, and the supernatural as it charts an intense and dangerous affair.
From New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra comes a heartwarming modern novel inspired by the timeless classic Little Women.
Reputation Sara Shepard
999
Such a Fun Age
Mr. Nobody
Heather Dune Macadam
Kiley Reid
Catherine Steadman
TR: 978-1-5247-4290-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-4291-1 AD: 978-0-593-16481-5 Dutton | 75,000 December 3, 2019
HC: 978-0-8065-3936-2 eBook: 978-0-8065-3938-6 Citadel | 10,000 December 31, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-54190-5 eBook: 978-0-525-54192-9 AD: 978-0-593-10707-2 LP: 978-0-593-15237-9 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 150,000 January 7, 2020
HC: 978-1-5247-9768-3 eBook: 978-1-5247-9769-0 AD:978-1-9848-9025-2 CD: 978-1-9848-9022-1 LP: 978-1-9848-9064-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 July 7, 2020
In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.
Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees, 999 is an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.
A striking debut novel—a pageturning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
A psychiatrist treating a man with no identity or memory discovers that her patient knows far more about her past than his own in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water.
How Quickly She Disappears
Dear Edward
A Long Petal of the Sea
Ann Napolitano
Isabel Allende
Charles Yu
Raymond Fleischmann
HC: 978-1-9848-5478-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-5479-7 AD: 978-0-593-15098-6 The Dial Press | 150,000 January 14, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-2015-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2016-7 AD: 978-0-593-16798-4 CD: 978-0-593-16796-0 LP: 978-0-593-17205-6 Ballantine Books | 150,000 January 21, 2020
HC: 978-0-307-90719-6 eBook: 978-0-307-90720-2 AD: 978-0-593-14872-3 Pantheon | 50,000 January 28, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-0517-1 eBook: 978-1-9848-0519-5 AD: 978-0-593-15112-9 Berkley | 150,000 January 14, 2020 The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family.
After losing everything, a young boy discovers there are still reasons for hope in this luminous, life-affirming novel, perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.
Interior Chinatown
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Future Bestsellers
The Girl Who Lived Twice
The Testaments
Country Music
The Ride of a Lifetime
Margaret Atwood
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Robert Iger with Joel Lovell
David Lagercrantz
HC: 978-0-385-54378-1 eBook: 978-0-385-54379-8 AD: 978-0-525-59048-4 CD: 978-0-525-59045-3 LP: 978-0-593-14909-6 Nan A Talese | 500,000 September 10, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-52054-2 eBook: 978-0-525-52055-9 AD: 978-0-525-58887-0 CD: 978-0-525-58884-9 Knopf | 300,000 September 10, 2019
HC: 978-0-399-59209-6 eBook: 978-0-399-59210-2 AD: 978-0-525-49935-0 CD: 978-0-525-49932-9 LP: 978-0-593-17098-4 Random House | 200,000 September 23, 2019
Royal Holiday
Grand Union
The Body
Edison
Jasmine Guillory
Zadie Smith
Bill Bryson
Edmund Morris
HC: 978-1-9848-0221-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-0222-4 AD: 978-0-593-15162-4 Berkley | 100,000 October 1, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-55899-6 eBook: 978-0-525-55900-9 AD: 978-0-593-10759-1 LP: 978-0-593-15220-1 Penguin Press | 150,000 October 8, 2019
HC: 978-0-385-53930-2 eBook: 978-0-385-53931-9 AD: 978-0-14-752694-6 CD: 978-0-14-752691-5 LP: 978-0-593-10629-7 Doubleday | 250,000 October 15, 2019
HC: 978-0-8129-9311-0 eBook: 978-0-679-64465-1 AD: 978-0-593-14747-4 CD: 978-0-593-15367-3 Random House | 250,000 October 22, 2019
HC: 978-0-451-49434-4 eBook: 978-0-451-49435-1 AD: 978-1-5247-0904-4 CD: 978-1-5247-0901-3 LP: 978-0-593-16813-4 Knopf | 300,000 August 27, 2019
The Beautiful Ones
Long Bright River
Prince
Liz Moore
HC: 978-0-399-58965-2 eBook: 978-0-399-58966-9 AD: 978-0-593-16865-3 Spiegel & Grau | 200,000 October 29, 2019
HC: 978-0-525-54067-0 eBook: 978-0-525-54069-4 AD: 978-0-593-14691-0 CD: 978-0-593-14688-0 Riverhead | 75,000 January 7, 2020
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