Atria
The House at Riverton (Apr., $24.95) by Kate Morton. In 1999, a 98-year-old woman who served a wealthy family in the early 20th century looks back on their lives and a mysterious secret. Ad/promo.
Center Street
The Adventures of Slim & Howdy (May, $29.99) by Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn. These country superstars create their fictional alter egos.
Crown/Shaye Areheart
Three Girls and Their Brother (Mar., $23.95) by Theresa Rebeck. Life in the Heller household is changed forever when a photo of the three sisters runs in the New Yorker. 60,000 first printing.
Dial
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (July, $22) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A young woman writer in 1946 London changes the course of her life when she forms an unexpected attachment to an eccentric book club. 75,000 first printing.
Dutton
Cathedral of the Sea (Apr., $26.95) by Ildefonso Falcones sets a story of friendship against the backdrop of medieval Barcelona.
Ecco
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (June, $26.95) by Daniel Wroblewski captures the primal alliance between man and animal in this family wilderness adventure. 75,000 first printing. Author tour.
Feminist Press
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Zubaida’s Window: A Novel of Iraqi Exile (May, $19.95) by Iqbal Al-Qazwini devises a fictional narrative of an Iraqi exile watching her country’s destruction on TV.
Fulcrum
If Every Month Were June (May; $24.95, paper $14.95) by Tony Bender traces Hooter Pridley’s comedic trip across the West to find his ideal woman.
Grand Central Publishing
Child 44 (May, $24.99) by Tom Rob Smith. A prominent State Security officer in Stalin’s Russia must find a murderer in order to save his reputation—and his life.
Grove Press
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Apr., $24) by Sasa Stanisic, trans. by Anthea Bell, ponders one boy’s survival during the war in Bosnia.
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. (Aug., $24) by Sanyika Shakur. The former imprisoned L.A. gang member fictionalizes the violent underworld of gangster life.
Hanging Loose Press
The Trapeze Diaries (Apr., $26) by Marie Carter. A story of trapeze artistry through a young woman’s journey from Edinburgh to New York.
Houghton Mifflin
Dear American Airlines (June, $22) by Jonathan Miles. A letter of complaint from a stranded airline passenger turns into a lament for a life gone awry. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 14-city author tour.
Lyons Press
Wide-eyed in Washington (July, $24.95) by Nicole Sexton exposes the underpinnings of power, prestige and wealth in this fictional account of a Republican über-fund-raiser.
MacAdam/Cage
Salvage (Mar., $24) by Jane Kotapish. After witnessing a horrific subway accident, a woman abandons her New York City life and settles in rural Virginia. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Northwestern Univ. Press
Blind Speed (May, $21.95) by Josh Barkan traces Paul Berger’s journey through the myths and identities of the American heartland.
Riverhead
The Mayor’s Tongue (Apr., $24.95) by Nathaniel Rich is a tale of literary obsession and imagination that follows two men from New York to northern Italy. 75,000 first printing.
Touchstone
Sun Going Down (May, $26) by Jack Todd spans 80 years of American history and the life of the Paint family.
Unbridled Books
Hallam’s War (May, $25.95) by Elizabeth Payne Rosen centers around a Confederate field officer and the love that sustained him. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Univ. of Nevada Press
Little Lost River (Mar., $25) by Pamela Johnston. In 1980s Boise, Idaho, two women’s lives are transformed when they come together in the wake of tragedy.
Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace Books
The End of the World Book (Mar., $26.95) by Alistair McCartney reimagines the story of the world and one man’s life as they hurtle toward the future.
Weinstein Books
The Gift of Rain (May, $23.95) by Tan Twan Eng follows a young man’s decades-long journey through the horrors of war. Ad/promo.
