HBG International – May & June 2011 – Hardcover & Trade Paperback Preview
Look‐Alikes Seek‐and‐ Search Puzzles
Love in Mid Air
Joan Steiner
July 2011 PB $13.99 9780446540438 Fiction Grand Central World
July 2011 PB $7.99 9780316074070 PB NF PIC LB Young Readers World A Look‐Alikes activity book with over 900 everyday objects to find and activities such as Spot‐the‐Differences, Brainteasers, Find‐and‐Match and more! To search for Look‐Alikes, you need not roam.They're all around you‐‐right here at home.Start in the bedroom where you lay your head.Is it a pillow . . . or is it bread?The more you look, the more you see here in Look‐Alike Land!
Kim Wright
Now available in trade paperback. As she approaches forty, a woman struggles to find a new kind of happiness in this sexy and surprising debut novel. A chance encounter with a stranger in an airplane sends Elyse Bearden into an emotional tailspin. Suddenly, Elyse is willing to risk her seemingly perfect life for a life of passion. It will take an extraordinary leap of faith for Elyse to find—and follow—her own path to happiness.
The Messenger of Athens
Paris to Die For
Anne Zouroudi
Maxine Kenneth
July 2011 PB $14.99 9780316069915 Fiction Little, Brown Open Market, Excluding Europe
July 2011 PB $13.99 9780446567411 Fiction Grand Central World
Greece has long held a tradition of mystery, intrigue and the supernatural but in Anne Zouroudi's MESSANGER OF ATHENS, the mystery takes a new turn as the body of a young woman is discovered. Hermes Diaktoros sets out to uncover the truths buried underneath the community's surface and ultimately the true fate of the young woman. Before long, he's uncovering a tale of passion corruption and murder that entangles many of the island's residents. But, without realizing it, Hermes is becoming part of that same web bringing in his own mystery. Who has sent him to Thiminos? And how does he know of dramas played out decades ago?
Rich Boy Sharon Pomerantz July 2011 PB $14.99 9780446563192 Fiction Twelve Open Market
Now available in trade paperback, RICH BOY, a sweeping, Gatsby‐ esque portrait of class, sex, money and love. Robert grew up as a poor Jewish boy but, upon entering an elite New England university, he gains access to the highest social circles in Manhattan. But a chance encounter with a beautiful girl from the old neighborhood—and the forgotten life she reawakens—threatens to unravel his carefully constructed new identity.
James Bond meets Charade in this glamorous spy novel about Jackie Kennedy's fictitious adventures as an unofficial CIA agent in Paris in 1951, when she was 22‐year‐old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. Before Jackie married John F. Kennedy, she was the CIA's newest, most stylish field operative. In PARIS TO DIE FOR, Jackie becomes tangled in a web of intrigue and international espionage that sends her headlong into a life of danger she never anticipated during her life as a pampered debutante. Inspired by an authentic letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jacqueline stating that she is going to work for the CIA.
U Cn Spl Btr: Spelling Tips for Life Beyond Texting Dr. Laurie E. Rozakis July 2011 PB $10.95 9780806528854 Reference Citadel Press World
Will i c u? (Will I see you?) R U there? (Are you there?) Thanks to the miracle of blackberries and text messaging, people are forgetting how to spell. Meet Dr. Laurie E. Rozakis—professor, best‐selling author, English expert, and reformed terrible speller. Having corrected the many errors of her ways, she has a mission: to convert even the world’s worst English speller into an incredible spelling machine.
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