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Love and Ruin

The Language of Kindness

The Mirage Factory

Tin Man

Paula McLain

Christie Watson

Gary Krist

Sarah Winman

HC: 978-1-101-96738-6 eBook: 978-1-101-96740-9 AD: 978-0-525-63484-3 CD: 978-0-525-63483-6 LP: 978-0-525-63723-3 Ballantine Books | 250,000 May 1, 2018

HC: 978-1-5247-6163-9 eBook: 978-1-5247-6165-3 AD: 978-0-525-63551-2 Tim Duggan Books | 75,000 May 8, 2018

HC: 978-0-451-49638-6 eBook: 978-0-451-49640-9 AD: 978-0-525-52654-4 CD: 978-0-525-52653-7 Crown | 50,000 May 15, 2018

HC: 978-0-7352-1872-7 eBook: 978-0-7352-1875-8 AD: 978-0-525-59083-5 LP: 978-0-525-63188-0 Putnam | 100,000 May 15, 2018

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his marriage to Martha Gellhorn—one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century.

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Five Days at a Memorial, a moving, lyrical, beautifully written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched.

A vivid account of the creation of modern Los Angeles, a city born from the fantasies of strongwilled visionaries, from bestselling author and masterful storyteller Gary Krist.

From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man.

The High Season

Star of the North

Small Country

Florida

Judy Blundell

D. B. John

GaĂŤl Faye

Lauren Groff

HC: 978-0-525-50871-7 eBook: 978-0-525-50872-4 AD: 978-0-525-52426-7 LP: 978-0-525-63456-0 Random House | 150,000 May 22, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-57329-6 eBook: 978-0-525-57330-2 AD: 978-0-525-63488-1 CD: 978-0-525-63487-4 LP: 978-0-525-63478-2 Crown | 150,000 May 22, 2018

HC: 978-1-5247-5987-2 eBook: 978-1-5247-5989-6 AD: 978-0-525-63360-0 Hogarth | 50,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-1-59463-451-2 eBook: 978-0-698-40514-1 AD: 978-0-525-62612-1 LP: 978-0-525-63196-5 Riverhead | 100,000 June 5, 2018

In a beach town overrun with vacationers and newly colonized by socialites, one woman goes to extreme lengths when the life she loves is upended.

A propulsive thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance.

Already an international sensation and prize-winning bestseller in France, an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood, and a shattered homeland.

The bold new book from the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.


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Death Notice

Strange Stars

There There

Zhou Haohui

Jason Heller

Tommy Orange

Claudia Renton

HC: 978-0-385-54332-3 eBook: 978-0-385-54333-0 AD: 978-0-525-63282-5 Doubleday | 60,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-1-61219-697-8 eBook: 978-1-61219-698-5 Melville | 50,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-52037-5 eBook: 978-0-525-52038-2 AD: 978-0-525-63559-8 CD: 978-0-525-63558-1 LP: 978-0-525-63301-3 Knopf | 125,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-1-101-87429-5 eBook: 978-1-101-87430-1 AD: 978-0-525-63510-9 Knopf | 40,000 June 5, 2018

An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-andmouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbø, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema.

A Hugo Award-winner explores the massive influence that science fiction has had on popular music, particularly on David Bowie and the heady, experimental 1970s scene

A relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.

Those Wild Wyndhams

A dazzling portrait of the beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, who were at the center of cultural and political life in lateVictorian/Edwardian, and their opulent, privileged world.

In the Restaurant

Never Anyone But You

A Place for Us

The Book of Essie

Christoph Ribbat

Rupert Thomson

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Meghan MacLean Weir

HC: 978-1-78227-308-0 eBook: 978-1-78227-310-3 Pushkin Press | 10,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-1-59051-913-4 eBook: 978-1-59051-914-1 Other Press | 25,000 June 5, 2018

HC: 978-1-5247-6355-8 eBook: 978-1-5247-6357-2 AD: 978-0-525-63348-8 SJP for Hogarth | 60,000 June 12, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-52031-3 eBook: 978-0-525-52032-0 AD: 978-0-525-52924-8 Knopf | 75,000 June 12, 2018

The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from eighteenth-century Paris to El Bulli.

The gripping true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour-de-force in this novel that recreates the Surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two World Wars with a singular vividness and intimacy.

A masterful portrait of a family caught between two cultures, and a resonant story of faith, tradition, identity, and belonging from a gifted young storyteller.

A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.


What the Eyes Don't See Mona Hanna-Attisha HC: 978-0-399-59083-2 eBook: 978-0-399-59084-9 AD: 978-0-525-49263-4 CD: 978-0-525-49262-7 LP: 978-0-525-59059-0 One World | 60,000 June 19, 2018 By the heroic pediatrician who rallied a community, the powerful first-hand account of the Flint water crisis, the signature environmental disaster of our time.

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder Dianne Freeman HC: 978-1-4967-1687-3 eBook: 978-1-4967-1689-7 Kensington | 25,000 June 26, 2018 With some romantic undertones, this historical mystery hits all the high notes: elites behaving badly, historical intrigue, and female independence. Perfect for fans of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Jane Austen alike.

Baby's First Felony John Straley HC: 978-1-61695-878-7 eBook: 978-1-61695-879-4 Soho Crime | 75,000 July 3, 2018 Shamus Award-winner and critical darling John Straley returns to his beloved Cecil Younger series, set in Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect locals.

From the Corner of the Oval Beck Dorey-Stein HC: 978-0-525-50912-7 eBook: 978-0-525-50913-4 AD: 978-0-525-63657-1 LP: 978-0-525-63744-8 Spiegel & Grau | 75,000 July 10, 2018 The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world.

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Spinning Silver Naomi Novik HC: 978-0-399-18098-9 eBook: 978-0-399-18100-9 AD: 978-0-525-53100-5 Del Rey | 50,000 July 10, 2018 A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.

Clock Dance Anne Tyler HC: 978-0-525-52122-8 eBook: 978-0-525-52123-5 AD: 978-0-525-63346-4 CD: 978-0-525-63345-7 Knopf | 250,000 July 10, 2018 A bewitching new novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.

The Con Artist

Kill the Farm Boy

Fred Van Lente

Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson

TR: 978-1-68369-034-4 eBook: 978-1-68369-035-1 Quirk Books | 75,000 July 10, 2018 There's murder at San Diego Comic Con in this entertaining summer read featuring illustrations in classic comic book style from a Marvel / DC Comics veteran Fred Van Lente, author of Ten Dead Comedians.

HC: 978-1-5247-9774-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-9775-1 AD: 978-0-525-59367-6 Del Rey | 40,000 July 17, 2018 The start of a magical, witty new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett and The Princess Bride, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles and the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Phasma.


The Death of Truth Michiko Kakutani

We're Doomed. Now What?

Mary B: A Novel

Believe Me

Katherine J. Chen

JP Delaney

TR: 978-1-61695-936-4 eBook: 978-1-61695-937-1 Soho Press | 75,000 July 17,2018

HC: 978-0-399-59221-8 eBook: 978-0-399-59223-2 AD: 978-0-525-63140-8 LP: 978-0-525-63181-1 Random House | 25,000 July 24, 2018

An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and harrowing honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.

HC: 978-1-101-96631-0 eBook: 978-1-101-96632-7 AD: 978-0-525-63315-0 CD: 978-0-525-63314-3 LP: 978-0-525-63316-7 Ballantine Books | 250,000 July 24, 2018

The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice takes center stage in a fresh retelling of this classic novel.

The Story of a Marriage

Ghosted

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Geir Gulliksen

Rosie Walsh

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Jack Ford

HC: 978-1-5247-5967-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-5969-8 AD: 978-0-525-63364-8 Hogarth | 40,000 July 24, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-52277-5 eBook: 978-0-525-52278-2 AD: 978-0-525-63072-2 CD: 978-0-525-63126-2 LP: 978-0-525-63191-0 Pamela Dorman Books | 200,000 July 24,2018

HC: 978-0-385-54272-2 eBook: 978-0-385-54273-9 AD: 978-0-525-63264-1 Doubleday | 50,000 July 31, 2018

HC: 978-1-4967-1309-4 eBook: 978-1-4967-1311-7 Kensington | 25,000 July 31, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-57482-8 eBook: 978-0-525-57484-2 AD: 978-0-525-63502-4 Tim Duggan Books | 75,000 July 17, 2018 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic and former New York Times book critic comes a stirring and incisive manifesto on America's retreat from reason.

A dramatic and devastating portrait of the dissolution of a marriage—written with brutal and lyrical precision, and nominated for the Nordic Prize.

Roy Scranton

Six perfect days. Then he disappeared. A love story with a secret at its heart.

In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation.

Chariot on the Mountain

Based on little-known true In the vein of Isabel Allende and events, this astonishing account Gabriel García Márquez, a from Emmy and Peabody awardmesmerizing debut set against winning journalist Jack Ford the backdrop of the devastating vividly recreates a treacherous violence of 1990's Colombia journey toward freedom, a time about a sheltered young girl and when the traditions of the Old a teenage maid who strike an South still thrived—and is a unlikely friendship that testament to determination, threatens to undo them both. friendship, and courage.


Immigrant, Montana

Our House

Amitava Kumar

Louise Candlish

HC: 978-0-525-52075-7 eBook: 978-0-525-52076-4 AD: 978-0-525-63514-7 Knopf | 50,000 July 31, 2018

HC: 978-0-451-48911-1 eBook: 978-0-451-48912-8 AD: 978-0-525-59593-9 Berkley | 75,000 August 7, 2018

A remarkable novel— reminiscent of Teju Cole, W. G. Sebald, John Berger—about a young new immigrant to the United States in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love.

From an internationally acclaimed author, a disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home.

The Masterpiece

Good Luck with That

Fiona Davis

Kristan Higgins

HC: 978-1-5247-4295-9 eBook: 978-1-5247-4296-6 AD: 978-0-525-63118-7 LP: 978-0-525-63296-2 Dutton | 75,000 August 7, 2018

TR: 978-0-451-48939-5 eBook: 978-0-451-48941-8 Berkley | 100,000 August 7, 2018

In her latest captivating novel, nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them.

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Cherry

Vox

Mimi Swartz

Nico Walker

Christina Dalcher

HC: 978-0-8041-3800-0 eBook: 978-0-8041-3801-7 AD: 978-0-525-63536-9 Crown | 75,000 August 7, 2018

HC: 978-0-525-52013-9 eBook: 978-0-525-52014-6 AD: 978-0-525-63512-3 Knopf | 50,000 August 14, 2018

HC: 978-0-440-00078-5 eBook: 978-0-440-00082-2 AD: 978-0-525-64375-3 Dutton | 75,000 August 21, 2018

Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, following pioneering heart surgeon O. H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn.

Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.

Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.

New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins is beloved for her heartfelt novels filled with humor and wisdom. Now, in her newest novel, Good Luck With That, she tackles an issue every woman deals with: body image and selfacceptance.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Hank Green HC: 978-1-5247-4344-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-4345-1 AD: 978-0-525-64181-0 CD: 978-0-525-64180-3 Dutton | 250,000 September 25, 2018 In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green—co-creator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined.


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