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Page 1: Big Hits for Book Groups

Email us! [email protected] Have feedback?

Big Hits for Book Groups! Fall 2011

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Randomhouselibrary.com

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@RHLibrary

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POETRY AFTER 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets

Edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie

Merians

978-0-385-52122-2

HC

6/14/2011

$25.00 $28.95

Random House

Haiku is meta

For this one. But it will ne’er

Stack up to what’s here.

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BEFORE EVER AFTER

Samantha Sotto

978-0-307-71987-4

HC

8/2/2011

$23.00/$25.95C

Crown

Husband: dead or not?

Not, Paolo? Then where is he?

One way to find out.

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TO THE END OF THE LAND: A Novel

David Grossman

978-0-307-47640-1

TR (forthcoming)

8/9/2011

$22.95

Vintage

Hiding from the mail,

Israeli Scheherazade

Keeps her son alive.

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LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME: A Memoir of

Friendship

Gail Caldwell

978-0-8129-7911-4

TR

8/9/2011

$14.00/$16.00C

Random House

A perfect friendship

At an inconvenient time

Is better than none.

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THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC

Julie Otsuka

978-0-307-70000-1

HC

8/23/2011

$22.00/$25.00C

Knopf

The boat to San Fran.

Disembarkation. Marriage.

Worries in between.

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BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE

Juliet Grey

978-0-345-52386-0

TR

8/9/2011

$15.00/$17.00C

Ballantine

Not always regal—

Little Marie Antoinette—

But always trouble.

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THE TOWER, THE ZOO AND THE TORTOISE

Julia Stewart

978-0-307-47691-3

TR

8/23/2011

$25.00/NCR

The Dial Press

Get back here, penguins!!

A Queen’s menagerie leaves

No time for romance.

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JANE AUSTEN MADE ME DO IT: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

Laurel Ann Nattress

978-0-345-52496-6

TR

10/11/2011

$15.00/$17.00C

Ballantine

Through their own stories,

Meet every writerly girl’s

Literary crush.

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MY NAME IS VICTORIA: The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity

Victoria Donda

978-1-59051-404-7

TR

10/18/2011

$15.95/$17.95C

Other Press

Dictatorship lives

In an identity farce.

What’s in a name? Lots.

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THE METROPOLIS CASE

Matthew Gallaway

978-0-307-46343-2

TR

11/8/2011

$15.00/$17.00C

Broadway

Tristan and Isolde:

For four, its echoes bound

Through the centuries

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EVOLUTION

Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu

978-1-60980-368-1

HC

11/15/2011

$45.00/$51.00C

Seven Stories

This photographer

Is just over the moon for

What’s under the hood.

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THE BIRD SISTERS

Rebecca Rasmussen

978-0-307-71797-9

TR

12/20/2011

$14.00/$16.00C

Broadway

Small-town Wisconsin

Where two sisters fix fauna

With wings and without.