ALGONQUIN BOOKS
A Miracle of Catfish (Mar., $24.95) by Larry Brown focuses on four men and a boy whose lives crisscross over the course of a year.
Coal Black Horse (Apr., $22.95) by Robert Olmstead depicts a boy's journey from innocence to adulthood during the Civil War. 50,000 first printing. 10-city author tour.
ALLISON BUSBY (dist. by IPM)
Crooked Pieces (Aug., $25.95) by Sarah Grazebrook portrays historic figures such as the Pankhurst women and other suffragists.
ALYSON
The Beloved Son (June, $24.95) by Jay Quinn recounts what happens when responsibility outweighs love.
AMERICAN UNIV. IN CAIRO PRESS (dist. by IPM)
Dreams of Departure (Mar., $19.95) by Naguib Mahfouz, trans. by Raymond Stock, gathers poetic prose vignettes by the late Egyptian Nobel laureate.
ATRIA
Nineteen Minutes (Mar., $26) by Jodi Picoult considers the effect of a school shooting on a small town. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
The Unquiet (May, $25.95) by John Connolly follows a psychiatrist turned private detective. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Someone to Love (July, $25.95) by Jude Deveraux presents a man dealing with his fiancée's suicide and a haunted house.
BALLANTINE
Obsession (Apr., $26.95) by Jonathan Kellerman. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis try to solve a crime that occurred many years earlier. Ad/promo.
Up Close and Dangerous (June, $25.95) by Linda Howard combines action, suspense and romance. Ad/promo.
The Bright Side of Disaster (July, $23.95) by Katherine Center. When her future husband leaves her, a young woman must face the challenges of single motherhood.
BANTAM
The Edge of Winter (Mar., $24) by Luanne Rice follows a mother and daughter who move to Rhode Island's South Country. 275,000 first printing.
The Good Guy (June, $27) by Dean Koontz centers on an ordinary man mistaken for a hired killer who is in league with the police. 600,000 first printing.
What Matters Most (July, $24) by Luanne Rice. Sister Bernadette Sullivan must confront many changes in her position as Mother Superior of the Star of the Sea Academy. 200,000 first printing.
BEAUTIFUL BOOKS (dist. by IPM)
The Last Good Man (Mar., $27) by Patience Swift. The life of a man living on the Cornish coast is altered when a child washes up on the shore.
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS
The Cure (May, $25) by Varley O'Connor discusses a family both bound together and torn apart by a young son's polio.
BERKLEY SENSATION
Undead and Uneasy (June, $23.95) by MaryJanice Davidson is the sixth in the series featuring vampire queen Betsy Taylor.
BLOOMSBURY
Austenland (June, $21.95) by Shannon Hale. A modern New Yorker is so obsessed with Mr. Darcy that her real-life dates pale in comparison. 75,000 first printing. 5-city author tour.
BROADWAY BOOKS
Momzillas (Apr., $22.95) by Jill Kargman surveys the swank Manhattan scene of competitive and wealthy women who throw all their resources into being full-time moms.
BUNIM BANNIGAN (dist. by Ingram)
Baldwin Street (Apr., $23) by Alvin Rakoff sets a boy's coming-of-age against the Jewish community in Kensington Market in 1930s Toronto.
CARROLL GRAF
Chaos (June, $21.95) by Edmund White includes one novella, about a man living on the edge in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, and two long stories that explore aspects of aging, romance and sex.
COWLEY PUBLICATIONS
Valentine: A Love Story (Mar., $19.95) by Chet Raymo draws on traditional ideas about St. Valentine and sets his story against the Roman Empire of Claudius II. $20,000 ad/promo.
CROWN/SHAYE AREHEART
Sister Mine (Mar., $23) by Tawni O'Dell. The author of Back Roadsdescribes the life of a cab driver in a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Lost Men (June, $23) by Brian Leung. Long-held family secrets are revealed when a father and son struggle to reconnect after a 20-year estrangement.
DAFINA
Sweeter than Honey (Aug., $24) by Mary B. Morrison follows a successful 30-year-old businesswoman who can't seem to make relationships work.
DELACORTE
Sisters (Mar., $27) by Danielle Steel describes one year in the life of four sisters living in Manhattan. 775,000 first printing. DBC, LG, BOMC alternate.
Simply Magic (Apr., $22) by Mary Balogh features a young woman and a nobleman whose passion seems too magical to be true. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Bungalow 2 (July, $27) by Danielle Steel traces a woman's journey from suburban mom to screenwriter. 750,000 first printing. DBC, LG, BOMC alternate.
DIAL
Shopaholic and Baby (Mar., $24) by Sophie Kinsella. This latest entry in the bestselling series centers on Becky Brandon as she prepares to give birth to her first baby. 400,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
DOUBLEDAY
Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey (May, $24.95) by Chuck Palahniuk. The author of Fight Clubprovokes with a tale of twists and turns. 125,000 first printing. Author tour.
The Dark River: Book Two of the Fourth Realm (July, $24.95) by John Twelve Hawks follows the characters from The Traveleracross four continents. 125,000 first printing.
DOUBLEDAY/NAN A. TALESE
On Chesil Beach (June, $22) by Ian McEwan. The unexpressed misunderstandings of two young lovers in 1960s England produce far-reaching consequences. 200,000 first printing.
DUTTON
Burning Bright (Mar., $24.95) by Tracy Chevalier. The author of Girl with a Pearl Earringvisits William Blake's London. Author tour.
Sleeping with Strangers (Apr., $24.95) by Eric Jerome Dickey introduces a bad-boy hit man named Gideon who's pursued by three women. Author tour.
The Woods (May, $26.95) by Harlen Coben looks back from a distance of two decades at the murder and disappearance of four teenagers at summer camp. Author tour.
ECCO
The Gravedigger's Daughter (June, $26.95) by Joyce Carol Oates portrays a young woman struggling for survival in post-WWII America. 100,000 first printing. Author tour.
EVERYMANS LIBRARY
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Mar., $26.95) by Naguib Mahfouz presents an omnibus edition of the late Nobel laureate's Cairo Trilogy.
FARRAR, STRAUS GIROUX
The Savage Detectives (Apr., $27) by Roberto Bolaño, trans. by Natasha Wimmer, follows two men on the run who are tracking an obscure poet.
The Religion: Book One of the Tannhauser Trilogy (May, $26) by Tim Willocks. Tannhauser accompanies a lady to Malta to find her son during the Holy War of 1565. Ad/promo.Author tour.
The Broken Shore (June, $25) by Peter Temple. A big-city detective gets caught up in a small Australian town's murder investigation. Ad/promo.
FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY
Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily (July, $19.95) by Maria Messina, trans. by Elise Magistro, collects the stories of a 20th-century Sicilian writer.
FORGE
People of the Nightland (Mar., $27.95) by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. The Wolf Dreamer has a vision that the world is about to end. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Lost Constitution (July, $24.95) by William Martin searches history to find a lost draft of the Constitution, landing finally at Boston's Fenway Park. 175,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Category 7 (July, $24.95) by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson. A rogue weather scientist creates a catastrophic hurricane and aims it straight at New York City. 150,000 first printing.
GRAYWOLF
Out Stealing Horses (June, $18) by Per Petterson, trans. by Anne Born. A joyride on borrowed horses ends with an incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for two boys. Author tour.
GROVE PRESS
Winterton Blue (Mar., $24) by Trezza Azzopardi testifies to the staying power of family and memory.
The Unknown Terrorist (May, $24) by Richard Flanagan portrays a society driven by terror. 50,000 first printing. 8-city author tour.
HARCOURT
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Apr., $22) by Mohsin Hamid focuses on a young Pakistani man in Manhattan who must decide where his allegiance lies after 9/11. Ad/promo.
HARLEQUIN/HQN
Lawman (June, $24.95) by Diana Palmer follows an FBI agent who moves to a small town that hides secrets.
A Wanted Man: A Stone Creek Novel (July, $24.95) by Linda Lael Miller features two people running from dangerous secrets.
HARPER SAN FRANCISCO
Life's Golden Ticket (May, $19.95) by Brendon Burchard imagines an enchanted amusement park. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
HARPERCOLLINS
The Post-Birthday World (Mar., $25.95) by Lionel Shriver. The Orange Prize—winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevinoffers a psychological take on love and volition. 150,000 first printing.
The Yiddish Policeman's Union (May, $26.95) by Michael Chabon. The Pulitzer Prize—winning author presents, says the publisher, a "monumental work of imagination." 250,000 first printing.
The Witch of Portobello (May, $24.95) by Paulo Coelho describes an adopted woman's spiritual and sensual awakening. 75,000 first printing.Michael Tolliver Lives (July, $25.95) by Armistead Maupin. "Mouse" Tolliver of the Tales of the Cityseries returns for one day in the 21st century. 150,000 first printing.
HOST PUBLICATIONS
Potato Tree (Mar., $25) by James Sallis collects short fiction by the author of the Lew Griffinseries. Author tour.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The Last Empress (Mar., $25) by Anchee Min presents a woman presiding over the last decades of the Ch'ing dynasty. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
The Visible World (Apr., $24) by Mark Slouka explores a son's attempt to understand his mother's past.
HYPERION
The Second Objective (May, $24.95) by Mark Frost fictionalizes the true story of a German operation during WWII. 75,000 first printing.
Sammy's House (July, $24.95) by Kristin Gore returns inside the Beltway with the protagonist of Sammy's Hill. 125,000 first printing.
The Rest of Her Life (Aug., $23.95) by Laura Moriarty relates the consequences of a moment of carelessness. 100,000 first printing.
HYPERION/VOICE
Life's a Beach (Aug., $23.95) by Claire Cook focuses on two grown-up sisters who fight like cats and dogs. 75,000 first printing.
INTERLINK
Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees (Mar., $24.95) by Ersi Sotiropoulos, trans. by Peter Green. Told in four voices, the novel focuses on Lia, a young woman who lies dying in an Athens hospital that's surrounded by bitter orange trees
KENSINGTON
The Assassin (Mar., $24) by Andrew Britton describes post-9/11 New York as a madman plans to unleash a weapon.
Absolute Fear (Apr., $19.95) by Lisa Jackson visits a crumbling asylum that is the setting for horrific crimes.
Up Close and Personal (Aug., $24) by Fern Michaels explores the dynamics of one family and the transforming power of love.
KNOPF
Whitethorn Woods (Mar., $25.95) by Maeve Binchy. Father Flynn is drawn into the conflict over the fate of St. Ann's Well, which is slated for destruction. 400,000 first printing. Advertising.
A Far Country (Mar., $24) by Daniel Mason chronicles a young girl's search for her brother. 150,000 first printing. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
Divisadero (June, $25) by Michael Ondaatje traces the lives of two sisters and a young man who formed a makeshift family driven apart by violence. 200,000 first printing. Advertising. 11-city author tour.
New England White (July, $26.95) by Stephen L. Carter. A murder shatters a New England university town. 300,000 first printing. Advertising. 14-city author tour.
LITTLE, BROWN
Body Surfing (Apr., $25.99) by Anita Shreve follows a young widow and the two brothers she meets one New England summer. Advertising.
North River (June, $25.99) by Pete Hamill. A doctor in 1930s New York finds his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep. Advertising. 5-city author tour.
LIVINGSTON PRESS (dist. by Consortium)
Parcheesi Blues (Mar.; $26, paper $15.95) by Thomas Beltzer takes place in Memphis on Elvis's birthday.
...and the angels sang (Mar.; $25, paper $14.95) by John Simms Jeter melds international pharmaceutical concerns with memories of a first love.
LONG RIVER PRESS
Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories (Apr., $18.95) by Shouhua Qi collects 14 stories of contemporary Chinese society. Author tour.
MACADAM/CAGE
All Will Be Revealed (Mar., $24) by Robert Anthony Siegel depicts the love affair between a wheelchair-bound photographer and a widowed medium in 19th-century New York. Author tour.
MCPHERSON CO.
The Maps of the Storms (July, $24.95) by George Robert Minkoff is the second volume in the In the Land of Whispers trilogy.
MERCER UNIV. PRESS
Down Town (June, $25) by Ferrol Sams introduces piano-playing, poetry-loving Buster Holcombe, a lawyer in a Georgia town after the end of the Civil War.
MIRA
Back on Blossom Street (May, $24.95) by Debbie Macomber introduces a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street.
MONKFISH
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning (Apr., $24.95) by Elizabeth Cunningham follows the Celtic Magdalen's life from birth in the Land of Women to Druid college, where she meets and loves Jesus.
MORROW
The Land of Mango Sunsets (May, $24.95) by Dorothea Benton Frank narrates the story of a woman and her chosen family.
Innocent as Sin (June, $24.95) by Elizabeth Lowell. Rand McCee must work with banker Kayla Shaw to stop the Siberian, the murderer of McCee's twin brother.
The Burnt House (Aug., $25.95) by Faye Kellerman presents the next novel starring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus.
NAL PRAISE
Redemption (Mar., $22.95) by Jacquelin Thomas examines the lives of an actress and her televangelist husband, who is lured to the dark side of Hollywood.
NEW PRESS
Depths (Apr., $26.95) by Henning Mankell, trans. by Laurie Thompson. In this WWII novel, a naval engineer is haunted by the presence of a woman he meets off the coast of Sweden.
W.W. NORTON
Body of Lies (Apr., $24.95) by David Ignatius spins a tale of counterterrorism.
OTHER PRESS
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness (Apr., $24.95) by Sheila Kohler is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an 18th-century French aristocrat. Author tour.
OVERLOOK
Sister Teresa: A Novel of the Woman Who Became Spain's Most Beloved Saint (Mar., $24.95) by Barbara Mujica brings to life one of the Hispanic world's most important figures.
PANTHEON
The Rope Walk (May, $24) by Carrie Brown evokes a crucial summer in the life of a young New England girl. Advertising. 5-city author tour.
PENGUIN PRESS
Girls of Riyadh (May, $24.95) by Rajaa Alsanea spins a tale of four young women attempting to navigate the world of upper-class Saudi women. 7-city author tour.
PERMANENT PRESS
The Baby Lottery (June, $26) by Kathryn Trueblood examines the decision of one of five friends in their late 30s to have a second trimester abortion.
POCKET BOOKS
The Devil Who Tamed Her (June, $25.00) by Joanna Lindsey continues the saga of characters introduced in The Heir.
PUTNAM
Fresh Disasters (Apr., $25.95) by Stuart Woods focuses on a lawyer working for a con man who becomes embroiled in the New York Mafia underworld. Advertising. Author tour.
Invisible Prey (May, $26.95) by John Sandford is the latest entry starring rugged investigator Lucas Davenport. Advertising.
The Navigator (June, $26.95) by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos chronicles the latest adventures of the NUMA Special Assignments Team. Advertising.
Double Take (June, $25.95) by Catherine Coulter mixes murder, deceit and suspense in an FBI thriller. Advertising.
High Noon (July, $26.95) by Nora Roberts. A woman walks fearlessly into danger, but summons the courage to let love into her life. Advertising.
RANDOM HOUSE
Angelica (Apr., $24.95) by Arthur Phillips combines psychological puzzles, a Victorian ghost story and a murder mystery in the tale of a woman who fears her husband's intentions. 11-city author tour.
Peony and the Interrupted Dream (Aug., $23.95) by Lisa See. The author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fancovers new territory.
Dream When You're Feeling Blue (May, $24.95) by Elizabeth Berg discusses the strength of family, the horrors of WWII and love against all odds.
RIVERHEAD
A Thousand Splendid Suns (May, $25.95) by Khaled Hosseini. The author of The Kite Runnerchronicles 30 years of Afghan history in a story of family, friendship, faith and salvation.
Little Stalker (May, $24.95) by Jennifer Belle examines voyeurism, obsession and relationships—both real and imaginary.
The Office of Desire (Aug., $24.95) by Martha Moody looks at the fragile relationships among five very different people thrown together in a small medical office.
SCRIBNER
Falling Man (June, $26) by Don DeLillo traces the way the events of 9/11 kindled and rekindled relationships. 150,000 first printing.
Laced (Apr., $24) by Carol Higgins Clark sees a honeymoon interrupted by the emergence of frightening facts about the newlyweds' ancestors. 200,000 first printing.
Bones to Ashes (Aug., $25.95) by Kathy Reichs involves the investigation of two young girls' deaths and the disappearance of three others. 350,000 first printing.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Greed (Apr., $24.95) by Elfriede Jelinek is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria.
SHOEMAKER HOARD
A Little Bit Ruined (Apr., $25) by Patty Friedmann serves up a complex brew of romance, plastic surgery and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
SOFT SKULL PRESS
Jamestown (Mar., $25) by Matthew Sharpe retells the Jamestown Colony story with a fantastical and dystopian edge. Author tour.
STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
Wang in Love and Bondage (Mar., $25) by Wang Xiaobo, trans. by Hongling Zhang and Jason Sommer, collects three novellas from a 20th-century Chinese writer.
ST. MARTIN'S
Lean Mean Thirteen (June, $26.95) by Janet Evanovich. In this 13th Stephanie Plum caper, the intrepid heroine finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious and hottest chase yet. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Cat O'Nine Tales (June, $27.95) by Jeffrey Archer. Some of this collection's 12 stories were inspired by the two years the author spent in prison; includes illutrations by Ronald Searle. Ad/promo.
Drop Dead Beautiful (Apr., $24.95) by Jackie Collins. An old enemy resurfaces just as Lucky Santangelo struggles to regain her power position in Las Vegas. Ad/promo. Author tour.
ST. MARTINS/THOMAS DUNNE
Pearl Harbor (May, $25.95) by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen launches a series set in the Pacific theater of WWII. 200,000 first printing. Author tour.The Quest (May, $27.95) by Wilbur Smith returns to ancient Egypt. 225,000 first printing. Ad/promo.The Gatecrasher (July, $19.95) by Madeleine Wickham. Stunning Fleur Daxeny hopes to meet a rich widower at his wife's funeral. (Wickham writes the Shopaholic novels under the name Sophie Kinsella.) 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
TOUCHSTONE
Notting Hell (Apr., $25) by Rachel Johnson looks at "the haves and have-yachts" as they interact at a communal garden in a wealthy neighborhood.
TRUMPETER (dist. by Random House)
Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence (Apr., $19.95) by David Guy. An aging Zen master and his student take a trip to Cambridge, Mass., to confront love, death, mentoring and muffins. 25,000 first printing.
TWELVE
Boomsday (Apr., $24.99) by Christopher Buckley. Generational warfare ensues when a blogger proposes that boomers kill themselves by age 75 as a solution to Social Security debt.
TYNDALE HOUSE
Kingdom Come (Apr., $25.99) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. The last entry in the Left Behind series presents the final conflict as Jesus establishes his kingdom on earth.
UNBRIDLED BOOKS
Lost Son (June, $25.95) by M. Allen Cunningham describes the great loves that defined the life of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Author tour.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Because a Fire Was in My Head (Apr., $24.95) by Lynn Stegner follows troubled Kate Riley from her upbringing on the Canadian Plains through her search for identity.
UNIV. OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
Some of Tim's Stories (Apr., $19.95) by S.E. Hinton collects 14 stories of adults trapped in lives of missed connections and opportunities.
UNIV. OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Golpes bajos/Low Blows: Instantáneas/Snapshots (Mar., $24.95) by Alicia Borinsky, trans. by Cola Franzen and Borinsky, features bilingual short stories about violence, corruption and love in Buenos Aires.
VIKING
Luncheon of the Boating Party (May, $25.95) by Susan Vreeland delves into this Renoir masterpiece, which depicts a gathering of the artist's friends. Ad/promo. 11-city author tour.
Consequences (June, $24.95) by Penelope Lively follows the relationship of a British couple from pre-WWII days into the '60s.
Second Chance (June, $23.95) by Jane Green. A group of friends are reunited for the first time since school after one of them dies. Ad/promo.
WARNER BOOKS
Simple Genius (May, $26.99) by David Baldacci is the bestselling author's latest thriller. Ad/promo.
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction (June, $25.99) by Eric Van Lustbader continues the saga of Jason Bourne as he attempts to rescue his only friend in the CIA. Ad/promo.
How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls (July, $19.99) by Zoey Dean stars 17-year-old orphaned twins whose high-style living is threatened by a decree from their grandmother. Ad/promo.
Still Summer (Aug., $24.99) by Jacquelyn Mitchard relates the adventures of three high school friends who decades later reunite for a luxury Caribbean cruise. Ad/promo.
YMAA PUBLICATION CENTER
The Cutting Season (June, $21.95) by Arthur Rosenfeld utilizes the traditions of the Asian martial arts novel in an American setting.
