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Advanced Publication Newsletter (APN)
For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development
September 2011
Dear Librarian:
Welcome to the Fall 2011 edition of Penguin Group (USA)'s Advance Publication Newsletter. The newsletter includes late-breaking reviews, news of award-winners, up-to-date information on prices, and book descriptions for our September through December titles. We hope you will take some time to review the many new books included here.
As usual, the newsletter is divided into subject categories in order to route each section to your appropriate acquisitions and collection development specialists.
Some highlights:
- Since its publication in 2003, nearly seven million readers have discovered The Kite Runnerwhere a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers. Now, in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation, Khaled Hosseini brings his compelling story to a new generation of readers. (see Fiction). In addition, make sure to check out our Mysteries/Thrillers and Science Fiction/Fantasy sections.
- Sixteenth-century poet Luis de Góngora's The Solitudes is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. (see Literature)
- The Penguin Press is proud to publish Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin's biography of the tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, while Viking is publishing Columbus, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer by Laurence Bergreen. (see History & Biography). Don't forget to visit our Memoir page!
- Daniel Yergin's The Quest is an essential, overarching narrative of global energythe principal engine of geopolitcal and economic change. (see Current Events & Politics)
- The Digital Divide is a definitive work on the perils and promise of the social media revolution that collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators. (see Science, Education & Reference)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature is bestselling author Steven Pinker's controversial history of violence which asks the question: are we living in the most peaceful time in the world's history? (see Psychology, Health & Spirituality)
- It's Not About You by Bob Burg and John David Mann is a new parable about leadership and the power of positive persuasion. (see Business & Management)
- Penguin is happy to announce the addition of a new imprint, Blue Rider Press, and their inaugural acquisitions: Goodnight iPad, a children's book for adults, and The New New Rules, a book of political riffs that serves up a savagely funny set of rules for preserving sanity in an insane world from Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time. (see Performing Arts & Popular Culture)
Download the complete catalog here.
Please enjoy our newsletter and order through your regular supplier or via the direct order form enclosed. In addition, you may peruse the newsletter online, and sign up for an email alert each time it goes live on our library site, www.penguin.com/library.
Regards,
Alan S. Walker
Vice-President, Academic & Library Sales
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