Fiction:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Written by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Read more >

Pygmy

Written by Chuck Palahniuk

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95

The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.


“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”

Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful...

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Olive Kitteridge
Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Strout

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician... Read more >

Death Angel
A Novel
Written by Linda Howard

Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $7.99

In Linda Howard’s gifted hands, second chances, unexpected romance, and unrelenting action combine into a riveting new novel of suspense. In Death Angel, bad girls can wake up and trust their hearts, bad guys can fight for what’s right . . . and dying just might be the only way to... Read more >

Home Safe
A Novel
Written by Elizabeth Berg

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $25.00

In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her... Read more >

Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg
Life and Other Calamities
Written by Kathie Lee Gifford

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $22.00

As one of America’s most recognized faces, Kathie Lee Gifford has been a part of our morning routine for more years than she cares to count. And that’s why it may come as a surprise to hear that there are still sides of this fiftysomething (!) devoted mother and dedicated television... Read more >

Dark Places
A Novel
Written by Gillian Flynn

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.00

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.


Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but... Read more >

Shopaholic & Baby

Written by Sophie Kinsella

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $7.99

With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print, Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new Shopaholic novel!

Becky’s life is blooming! She’s working at London’s newest big store, The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is... Read more >

Traitor to the Crown: The Patriot Witch

Written by C.C. Finlay

Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $7.99

The year is 1775. On the surface, Proctor Brown appears to be an ordinary young man working the family farm in New England. He is a minuteman, a member of the local militia, determined to defend the rights of the colonies. Yet Proctor is so much more. Magic is in his... Read more >

Sunnyside

Written by Glen David Gold

Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $26.95

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war... Read more >