Fall 2018 Librarian Open Book Buzz Handout

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Open Book Fall 2018 #PRHOpenBook

Cosmos Possible Worlds

Dead Men's Trousers

Ann Druyan; Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Irvine Welsh

HC: 978-1-4262-1908-5 eBook: 978-1-4262-1909-2 National Geographic | 250,000 Febraury 19, 2019 This all-new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's international bestseller Cosmos takes readers to worlds only now emerging with the advent of new technologies.

HC: 978-1-61219-755-5 eBook: 978-1-61219-756-2 Melville House | 50,000 February 26, 2019 A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York Times called “blisteringly funny."

Madame Fourcade's Secret War

Daisy Jones & The Six

Lynne Olson HC: 978-0-8129-9476-6 eBook: 978-0-8129-9477-3 AD: 978-1-9848-8518-0 Random House | 75,000 March 5, 2019

HC: 978-1-5247-9862-8 eBook: 978-1-5247-9863-5 AD: 978-1-9848-4532-0 CD: 978-1-9848-4531-3 LP: 978-1-9848-9225-6 Ballantine Books | 100,000 March 5, 2019

The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island.

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. For fans of Almost Famous and readers of Emma Straub.

Outer Order, Inner Calm

The Volunteer

Era of Ignition

Gretchen Rubin

Salvatore Scibona

Amber Tamblyn

HC: 978-1-9848-2280-2 eBook: 978-1-9848-2281-9 AD: 978-1-9848-4662-4 Harmony | 75,000 March 5, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-55852-1 eBook: 978-0-525-55853-8 AD: 978-1-9848-3894-0 Penguin Press | 50,000 March 5, 2019

HC: 978-1-9848-2298-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-2300-7 AD: 978-1-9848-4336-4 Crown Archetype | 100,000 March 5, 2019

In the latest work by bestselling author of The Four Tendencies, Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work.

A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government.

A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Tomorrow There Will Be Sun Dana Reinhardt HC: 978-0-525-55796-8 eBook: 978-0-525-55797-5 AD: 978-1-9848-4243-5 Pamela Dorman Books | 25,000 March 12, 2019 A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to this smart, absorbing story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrong.


Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Rajeev Balasubramanyam HC: 978-0-525-51138-0 eBook: 978-0-525-51139-7 AD: 978-1-9848-4090-5 The Dial Press | 50,000 March 26, 2019 Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bicycle hit-and-run—but so much more than the sum of his parts. Follow this completely infuriating, utterly charming professor as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted Robert Hillman HC: 978-0-525-53592-8 eBook: 978-0-525-53593-5 AD: 978-1-9848-4034-9 Putnam | 50,000 April 9, 2019 A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.

My Lovely Wife

Our Planet

The Editor

Samantha Downing

Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, and Fred Pearce

Steven Rowley

HC: 978-0-451-49172-5 eBook: 978-0-451-49174-9 AD: 978-1-9848-4683-9 Berkley | 75,000 March 26, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-58154-0 eBook: 978-0-399-58155-7 Ten Speed Press| 100,000 April 2, 2019

Dexter meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting.

A striking photographic companion to the eight-part Netflix series from the team that brought us Planet Earth and The Blue Planet, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed.

HC: 978-0-525-53796-0 eBook: 978-0-525-53797-7 AD: 978-1-9848-3962-6 CD: 978-1-9848-3961-9 Putnam | 50,000 April 2, 2019 From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny, poignant, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever—both as a writer and a son.

Lost Roses

Better with Books

Martha Hall Kelly

Melissa Hart

Julie Orringer

HC: 978-1-5247-9637-2 eBook: 978-1-5247-9638-9 AD: 978-1-9848-4540-5 CD: 978-1-9848-4539-9 LP: 978-1-9848-8621-7 Ballantine Books | 250,000 April 9, 2019

TR: 978-1-63217-227-3 eBook: 978-1-63217-228-0 Sasquatch Books | 50,000 April 23, 2019

HC: 978-0-307-95940-9 eBook: 978-0-307-95941-6 LP: 978-1-9848-9220-1 Knopf | 75,000 May 7, 2019

The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, under the shadow of World War I.

Needed now more than ever: a parenting handbook that includes 500 current and diverse recommendations for fiction and memoir for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them.

The Flight Portfolio

The long-awaited new work from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.


Once More We Saw Stars

The Map of Knowledge

Chris Pavone

Jayson Greene

Violet Moller

Melanie Benjamin

HC: 978-1-5247-6150-9 eBook: 978-1-5247-6152-3 AD: 978-1-9848-4528-3 CD: 978-1-9848-4527-6 LP: 978-1-9848-4677-8 Crown | 100,000 May 7, 2019

HC: 978-1-5247-3353-7 eBook: 978-1-5247-3354-4 AD: 978-1-9848-4028-8 CD: 978-1-9848-4027-1 LP: 978-1-9848-8620-0 Knopf | 150,000 May 14, 2019

HC: 978-0-385-54176-3 eBook: 978-0-385-54177-0 AD: 978-1-9848-9163-1 Doubleday | 50,000 May 14, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-18224-2 eBook: 978-0-399-18225-9 AD: 978-0-525-49275-7 CD: 978-0-525-49274-0 Delacorte Press | 50,000 May 21, 2019

Kate Moore from The Expats is back in the latest pulsepounding thriller from New York Times bestseller Chris Pavone, set in Paris over the course of one day.

For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief.

After the fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance—an exciting debut history.

Disappearing Earth

More Than Enough

The Long Flight Home

Julia Phillips

Elaine Welteroth

Alan Hlad

HC: 978-0-525-52041-2 eBook: 978-0-525-52042-9 AD: 978-0-525-52996-5 LP: 978-1-9848-9222-5 Knopf | 125,000 May 21, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-56158-3 eBook: 978-0-525-56159-0 AD: 978-1-9848-8941-6 Viking | 75,000 May 28, 2019

HC: 978-1-4967-2167-9 eBook: 978-1-4967-2169-3 A John Scognamiglio Book | 35,000 June 25, 2019

The Paris Diversion

The kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.

A memoir from the revolutionary editor credited with bringing social consciousness to the pages of Teen Vogue and an inspiring exploration of what it means to be enough.

Set among the London Blitz of World War II, when British Services enlisted the aid of over 200,000 homing pigeons to carry messages across enemy lines, The Long Flight Home is a bittersweet tale of courage, soulmates, and sacrifice. It's the story of an almost-love affair between two people brought together, and then driven apart by war.

Mistress of the Ritz

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary reallife American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue.

The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo HC: 978-0-385-54425-2 eBook: 978-0-385-54426-9 AD: 978-0-525-64369-2 Doubleday | 100,000 June 25, 2019 A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple—still madly in love after forty years—recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built.


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