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January 2012
HARDCOVER
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
January 3, 2012 | Harper | 9780061938344
Laleh, Kavita, Armaiti and Nishta were best friends in their Bombay college days, but they have since drifted apart. When Armaiti, now in the United States, is diagnosed with cancer, the four reunite and discover the lasting power of friendship.
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
January 9, 2012 | Little, Brown and Company | 9780316183314
Hayat Shah is a young Pakistani American in love for the first time. Mina is Hayat's mother's oldest friend from Pakistan. When Mina begins dating a man, Hayat is confused by his feelings of betrayal. His growing passions force him to question all that he has come to believe is true.
Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio
January 10, 2012 | Gallery Books | 9781439187678
Rose-Marie Terenzio was John F. Kennedy Jr’s personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. Here, she recounts the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and Kennedy.
The Living End: A Family Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving by Robert Leleux
January 17, 2012 | St. Martin's Press | 9780312621247
When Robert Leleux’s grandmother JoAnn began exhibiting signs of Alzheimer’s, she’d been estranged from her daughter for decades. Alzheimer’s caused her to loser most of her memories, but she also forgot her old anger, and finally reached out to her daughter.
Heft by Liz Moore
January 23, 2012 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393081503
Former academic Arthur Opp hasn't left his Brooklyn home in a decade. In Yonkers, 17-year-old Kel navigates life as a poor kid in a rich school. Kel’s mother, Charlene, is a former student of Arthur’s, and calls him with a plea for help after two decades of silence.
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
January 24, 2012 | Harper | 9780062064226
The resonant story of a young woman’s struggle to take charge of her own future, THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY is a modern take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic, JANE EYRE.
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
January 31, 2012 | St. Martin's Press | 9780312577209
From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all. But after 12 years together, the couple has lost their way. Then the Iraq war starts, and an unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart.
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Tuesday Night Miracles by Kris Radish
January 3, 2012 | Bantam | 9780553384765
Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in her anger management class. All have reached a crossroads, and Dr. Bayer has an unconventional plan to steer them on the right track.
Little Girl Gone by Drusilla Campbell
January 31, 2012 | Grand Central Publishing | 9780446535793
Madora was 17, headed for trouble, when Willis rescued her. She ran away with him and for five years they have lived alone, in near isolation. But after Willis kidnaps a pregnant teenager and imprisons her in a trailer behind the house, Madora is torn between love and her sense of right and wrong.
The Sometimes Daughter by Sherri Wood Emmons
January 31, 2012 | Kensington | 9780758253255
Judy Webster’s mother, Cassie, is a beautiful, flawed flower-child. But as Cassie's husband gradually abandons '60s ideals in favor of a steady life, their marriage crumbles. When Cassie moves to an ashram in India, Judy is grief-stricken. And when she returns, Judy must decide what place Cassie claims in her life.
February 2012
HARDCOVER
A Good American by Alex George
February 7, 2012 | Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam | 9780399157592
When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother in 1904, where better to go than America, the land of the new? By chance, they find themselves in Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together.
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
February 7, 2012 | Knopf | 9780307599476
Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. He applies for a job as tutor to the son of Europe’s leading hotelier, and soon finds his life transformed as he in turn transforms the lives of those around him.
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
February 14, 2012 | The Dial Press | 9780385342063
Poppy is about to marry her ideal man. But then she loses her engagement ring and her phone in a hotel fire drill. When she finds a phone in a trash can, she takes it --- but the phone’s owner wants it back, and the two begin an unpredictable exchange.
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
February 14, 2012 | St. Martin's Press | 9780312593308
Paris, France: 1860s: hundreds of houses are being razed, and Rose Bazelet is determined to fight the destruction of her family home. But when she begins to write letters to her beloved late husband, she is forced to come to terms with a long-buried secret.
Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood by Charlotte Silver
February 16, 2012 | Riverhead Hardcover | 9781594488153
In this memoir, Charlotte Silver recalls her childhood growing up in her glamorous mother’s Harvard Square restaurant. When the restaurant nears financial collapse, Charlotte realizes the sacrifices her mother has made in running a kitchen while raising a family.
Sonoma Rose: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
February 21, 2012 | Dutton Adult | 9780525952640
As the nation grapples with Prohibition, an act of violence shatters Rosa Barclay's resolve to maintain her family’s increasingly dangerous existence in Southern California. She flees with the children to the mesa where she last saw her beloved mother alive.
The Healing by Jonathan Odell
February 21, 2012 | Nan A. Talese | 9780385534673
As a newborn slave child, Granada was taken in by the unstable wife of a plantation owner. Seventy-five years later, she is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care.
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
February 21, 2012 | Random House | 9781400066575
At the close of the Civil War, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology form a secret society that is determined to find the truth behind a recent string of commercial disasters.
Watergate by Thomas Mallon
February 21, 2012 | Pantheon | 9780307378729
Through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now, Thomas Mallon retells the story of the Watergate scandal, suggesting answers to some of the incident’s greatest unsolved mysteries.
Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir by Kambri Crews
February 28, 2012 | Villard | 9780345516022
In this powerful memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to reconcile it to her present life --- one in which her father is serving a 20-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
February 28, 2012 | Atria/Emily Bestler Books | 9781439102749
Edward Warren has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
December 2011
HARDCOVER
The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
December 6, 2011 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 9780547577456
Anita Desai ruminates on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life’s expectations and its realities in three novellas. Set in India in the not-too-distant past, the stories’ dramas illuminate the ways in which Indian culture can nourish or suffocate.
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
December 6, 2011 | Pantheon | 9780307379184
In the eighth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's Isabel Dalhousie series, our inquisitive heroine helps a new friend discover the identity of her father.
The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters by Jeffrey Zaslow
December 27, 2011 | Gotham | 9781592406616
For thousands of women, Becker's Bridal in Fowler, Michigan is the site of some of the most important moments of their lives. Illuminating the poignant aspects of a woman's journey to the altar, The Maguc Room tells the stories of a diverse group of memorable women on the brink of commitment.
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All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
December 27, 2011 | William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780062081605
Evocative, sweeping, yet intimate historical fiction, Jepson’s novel transports us to a China on the brink of revolution, and witnesses this colorful, tumultuous world through the eyes of a woman forced into a life not of her choosing and driven to seek a bitter revenge.
More Than Words Can Say by Robert Barclay
December 27, 2011 | William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780062041197
Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's cottage in the Adirondacks --- a serene getaway that had been mysteriously closed up decades ago. This is no simple bequest, however, because when Chelsea finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected --- and they have the power to upend her own life.
November 2011
HARDCOVER
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
November 1, 2011 | Knopf | 9780307267672
In her first book since The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion has now written with stunning frankness about her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as thoughts and fears about having children and about growing old.
Lost December by Richard Paul Evans
November 1, 2011 | Simon & Schuster | 9781451628005
After squandering his million-dollar trust, Luke Crisp is suddenly broke and too ashamed to return home. Only through the kindness of a stranger --- and a woman's love --- does he recall the early lessons of his life. But it may be too late to save his father's company, which was turned over to a heartless man with no scruples.
The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
November 1, 2011 | Dutton Adult | 9780525952428
Sarah McClure arrived at Elm Creek Manor as a newlywed, never suspecting that her quilting lessons would inspire a successful and enduring business. The Wedding Quilt opens as the wedding day of her daughter approaches.
Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner
November 7, 2011 | Little, Brown and Company | 9780316129398
Covering four generations of the Popper family of Chicago, Peter Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us.
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
November 8, 2011 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 9780547577531
Umberto Eco tells the story of a secret agent who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent.
The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
November 8, 2011 | St. Martin's Press | 9780312542702
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, Bertie Fisher and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other --- with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong.
The Time In Between by Maria Duenas
November 8, 2011 | Atria | 9781451616880
At 12, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. By her early 20s she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew.
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly
November 15, 2011 | Scribner | 9781451661064
From one of the most admired and beloved couples in recent American history, Gabby is an extraordinarily moving story of public service, risk-taking, romance --- and the journey toward recovery.
Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea
November 28, 2011 | Little, Brown and Company | 9780316154864
After the bloody Tomochic rebellion, Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and ""Saint of Cabora,"" flees with her father to Arizona. But their plans are derailed when she once again is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution.
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The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
November 1, 2011 | Harper Perennial | 9780061715631
In his highly anticipated new novel, Dennis Cooper tells the story of a man who secretly influences his son to commit a grisly act.
Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees
November 1, 2011 | Harper Perennial | 9780062015860
Award-winning author Matt Rees takes readers to 18th-century Austria, where Mozart's estranged sister stumbles into a world of ambition, conspiracy and immortal music while attempting to uncover the truth about her brother's suspicious death.
Proof of Heaven by Mary Curran Hackett
November 1, 2011 | William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780062079985
Seven-year-old Colm knows he is sick and not getting better. When he reveals his dying wish --- to meet the father who abandoned him --- Colm and his family embark on an emotional quest and come face-to-face with their biggest uncertainties about life and death.
The Printmaker's Daughter by Katherine Govier
November 22, 2011 | Harper Perennial | 9780062000361
This evocative tale of 19th-century Tokyo tells of one of the world's great unknown artists: Oei, the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
October 2011
HARDCOVER
Fiction Ruined My Family: A Memoir by Jeanne Darst
September 29, 2011 | Riverhead Hardcover | 9781594488146
Jeanne Darst has written an entertaining memoir of a family haunted by its own myths and its obsessive idolization of the literary life.
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
October 4, 2011 | Scribner | 9781451617474
In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic historical event, Alice Hoffman weaves a tale of four extraordinary women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.
Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
October 4, 2011 | William Morrow | 9780061670879
A remarkable friendship ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion. This launches three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past.
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
October 4, 2011 | A Marian Wood Book/Putnam | 9780399157851
Sharon Kay Penman has written a powerful story about the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine --- Richard, Coeur de Lion --- set against the rich textures of the Holy Land.
The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea by John Moynihan
October 4, 2011 | Spiegel & Grau | 9780812982435
An honestly written story of a boy's coming into manhood at sea, The Voyage of the Rose City is a taut, thrilling tale of the adventure of a lifetime.
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
October 11, 2011 | Grand Central Publishing | 9780446547659
When two former high school sweethearts are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
October 11, 2011 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374203054
As Madeleine, an English major, tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes.
Ed King by David Guterson
October 18, 2011 | Knopf | 9780307271068
In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary, makes the biggest error of his life --- he sleeps with Diane, his children's au pair. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in motion a tragedy of epic proportions.
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
October 18, 2011 | Touchstone | 9781416563709
Philippa Gregory weaves witchcraft, passion and adventure into the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses.
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker
October 18, 2011 | Simon & Schuster | 9781451627541
An award-winning journalist sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives --- and his own.
Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
October 18, 2011 | Pantheon | 9780307379764
The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the 20th century: the Rape of Nanjing.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
October 25, 2011 | Knopf | 9780307593313
Here is Haruki Murakami's long-awaited magnum opus, in which he gives us his hypnotically addictive, mind-bending ode to George Orwell's 1984.
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
October 25, 2011 | Ecco | 9780061966903
From the author of Jackie Bye Josie comes a visually stunning, full-color novel told in the form of a scrapbook --- using a kaleidoscopic array of vintage memorabilia --- set in the burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s.
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Shards by Ismet Prcic
October 4, 2011 | Grove Press | 9780802170811
Ismet Prcic's debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California.
Everything We Ever Wanted by Sara Shepard
October 11, 2011 | Harper Paperbacks | 9780062080066
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series comes a new adult novel set in Philadelphia where one phone call about a scandal causes a ripple effect though a family, unlocking years of secrets.
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