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THE UNCANNY X-MEN: AN ORIGIN STORY

Disney is shaking up the YPG Little Big Mouth Children’s/YA list in February with a mailing of THE UNCANNY X-MEN: AN ORIGIN STORY, the explosive, action-packed origin of the well-known Marvel Super Hero team, the X-Men.

Based on the original comic books, Uncanny X-Men begins when Professor X is just a child, when he was simply Charles, who realizes he is different from the other kids but is not quite sure why. Soon he learns about his mutant ability as well as people who hate mutants because they feel threatened by their powers. Despite the hatred Charles encounters, he still has a dream for humans and mutants to live together in peace. Sworn to protect a world that fears them, an extraordinary band of mutants including Cyclops, Wolverine, and Storm join Professor X to fulfill his dream and rid the world of violence against man . . . or mutant. This storybook features 48 pages of stunning artwork. Other origin storybooks in the series include The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Courageous Captain America, and more.

Please contact the Disney Publishing Publicity team (DPW.Publicity@disney.com) with your thoughts and feedback. Thanks, Disney!

WHITE HORSE by Alex Adams

Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) is piquing the interest of the YPG Little Big Mouth Mystery/Thriller list with a mesmerizing February mailing of Alex Adam’s WHITE HORSE.

White Horse is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road crossed with Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. In it, Alex Adams tells the story of Zoe, a seemingly ordinary woman living an ordinary life who is forced to make extraordinary choices. As everyone around Zoe begins to disappear, and the president of the United States announces that humans are no longer a viable species, Zoe must make her way across the world to Greece to find the father of her unborn child against the backdrop of a shockingly changed world. A debut novel and first in a trilogy, White Horse is a story of what happens when there’s a distinct “Then” and “Now”; when we must struggle to retain our very humanity when hope seems all but lost.

Email atriafeedback@simonandschuster.com with your thoughts and comments and visit www.atria-books.com, www.facebook.com/AtriaBooks, or follow http://twitter.com/AtriaBooks for more info. Thanks, Atria!

HORTEN’S MIRACULOUS MECHANISMS by Lissa Evans

Sterling Children’s Books is delighting the YPG Children’s and YA Little Big Mouth list this February with middle-grade novel HORTEN’S MIRACULOUS MECHANISMS by Lissa Evans.

As if being small and having S. Horten as his name isn’t bad enough, ten-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends. But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart is swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony—a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth—and Tony’s marvelous, long-lost workshop. In order to find the place, Stuart must believe the unbelievable while dodging the annoyingly prying eyes of his triplet neighbors, April, May, and June and avoiding his weird parents. A perfectly paced and smartly written page-turner, Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms gives readers clues to follow, puzzles to solve, and will undoubtedly enchant middle-grade readers and YPG readers alike.

Email Katie Connors (kconnors@sterlingpublishing.com) with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Sterling!

THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE by Stephen Gallagher

YPG’s Mystery/Thriller Little Big Mouth list is about to be haunted by a Crown Publishers mailing of ARCs of THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE by Stephen Gallagher this February.

Sebastian Becker lives in England. From a basement office in London’s notorious Bethlehem Hospital, he investigates wealthy eccentrics whose dubious mental health may render them unable to manage their own affairs. His arrival in the rural countryside to interview rich landowner Sir Owain Lancaster, whose sanity has been in question since a disastrous scientific adventure in the Amazon killed his family and colleagues, coincides with the disappearance of two young local girls. When the children are found slain, Lancaster claims that the same dark forces that devastated his family have followed him home. It is not the first time that children have come to harm in this town. Becker must determine whether Lancaster is insane and a murderer, or if some even more sinister agency is at work. From dank asylums to the lush and treacherous Amazon, through the makeshift studios of the early film industry and a traveling fair of freaks and illusions, Becker’s search for answers brings him face to face with madmen and monsters, both imagined and real. Confronting immense danger in his hunt for the truth, he will explore murder, tragedy, and the tempestuous depths of his own mind.

Email Katie Conneally (kconneally@randomhouse.com) with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Crown Publishers!

THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith

Get excited, because a select mailing from Crown Publishers is about to hit our YPG Little Big Mouth Fiction list this February!

A hurricane sweeps the Gulf of Mexico and, in the backcountry of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the interest of the enigmatic Directorate of the Extremely Improbable. Their fascination with this random event sets into motion a madcap caper that will bring together a hilarious cast of characters, including an eccentric mathematician, last heard of investigating the physics of free will; a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to America with a ring in his pocket and hope in his heart; and a member of the Directorate with no capacity for imagination. What ensues is a chaotic chase across a fully realized, hyper-real America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and conspiracy. THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE is a lively, boisterous debut that heralds the arrival of a major new talent.

Email Katie Conneally (kconneally@randomhouse.com) with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Crown Publishers!

CHOPSTICKS by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral

Get ready to fall in love. Penguin Young Readers Group is doing a February mailing of CHOPSTICKS by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral to the YPG Little Big Mouth Young Adult list!

Glory is a piano prodigy. After her mother died, she retreated into her music. Her father raised her with the goal of playing sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall and across the globe. Brilliant and lonely, Glory is drawn to Frank, who moves in next door. She loses herself in his paintings and drawings, mix CDs and late-night IM conversations. Soon, Frank becomes both her connection to the world and her escape from reality. Before long Glory is unable to play anything but the song “Chopsticks”; F and G notes moving together and farther apart. Now, Glory has disappeared. But nothing is what is seems. And we must decide what is real, what is imagined, and what has been madness all along. “Reading Chopsticks is like watching people kiss in the street: it’s private, it’s beautiful, it’s lonely, it’s wild, it’s secret, it’s everywhere and you can’t look away” (Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up).

Chopsticks is a book, an app, a website, a love story, and a collage of original drawings, objects, text, sound, and video. Email YRMarketing@us.penguingroup.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Penguin!

THE CATASTROPHIC HISTORY OF YOU AND ME by Jess Rothenberg

Last year the author of THE CATASTROPHIC HISTORY OF YOU AND ME, Jess Rothenberg, was a YPG member who worked in editorial at Razorbill, and now Penguin Young Readers Group is sharing the love with a February mailing of her book to the YPG Little Big Mouth Young Adult list!

Brie’s life ends at sixteen: Her boyfriend tells her he doesn’t love her, and the news breaks her heart—literally. But now that she’s D&G (dead and gone), Brie is about to discover that love is way more complicated than she ever imagined. Back in Half Moon Bay, her family has begun to unravel. Her best friend has been keeping a secret about Jacob, the boy Brie loved and lost—and the truth behind his shattering betrayal. And then there’s Patrick, Brie’s mysterious new guide and resident Lost Soul…who just might hold the key to her forever after. With Patrick’s help, Brie will have to pass through the five stages of grief before she’s ready to move on. But how do you begin again, when your heart is still in pieces?

Email YRMarketing@us.penguingroup.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Penguin Young Readers Group!

THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER by Rod Rees

The YPG Little Big Mouth Young Adult list is getting the chills this February with a William Morrow/HarperCollins mailing of haunting dystopian steampunk novel THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER by Rod Rees.

The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first installment in a gripping, brilliantly imagined series about a virtual world dominated by history’s most terrifying villains, and the one young woman who will risk everything to stop them. In the year 2018, the Demi-Monde is the most sophisticated, complex, and unpredictable computer simulation ever created, devised specifically to train soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare. Its thirty million inhabitants are ruled by cyber-duplicates of some of history’s cruelest tyrants: a fanatical Nazi butcher, Stalin’s arch executioner, the torture-loving Grand Inquisitor, and the Reign of Terror’s bloodthirsty mastermind. But something has gone horribly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the U.S. president’s daughter, Norma, has been lured into this terrifying shadow world, only to be trapped there. Her last hope of rescue is 18-year-old jazz singer Ella Thomas. But when Ella infiltrates the Demi-Monde, she soon discovers the walls containing the evils of this simulated environment are dissolving—and the Real World is in far more danger than anyone knows. “If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees’s The Demi-Monde: Winter.”—Book Reporter.com

Click here for more info. Email Kimberly Chocolaad at kimberly.chocolaad@harpercollins.com with questions and comments. Thanks, HarperCollins!

EMBRACE by Jessica Shirvington

Sourcebooks Fire is sending a scintillating new YA title to our YPG Little Big Mouth list this February. EMBRACE by Jessica Shirvington, starts with a whisper: “It’s time for you to know who you are…”

Violet Eden dreads her seventeenth birthday. After all, it’s hard to get too excited about the day that marks the anniversary of your mother’s death. As if that wasn’t enough, disturbing dreams haunt her sleep and leave her with very real injuries, and there’s a dark tattoo weaving its way up her arms that wasn’t there before. Violet is determined to get some answers, but nothing could have prepared her for the truth. The guy she thought she could fall in love with has been keeping his identity a secret: he’s only half-human—oh, and same goes for her. A centuries-old battle between fallen angels and the protectors of humanity has chosen its new warrior. It’s a fight Violet doesn’t want, but she lives her life by two rules: don’t run and don’t quit. When angels seek vengeance and humans are the warriors, you could do a lot worse than betting on Violet Eden…

Visit www.embracetheseries.com for more info on the series, and email fellow YPG member Aubrey Poole (aubrey.poole@sourcebooks.com) with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Sourcebooks!

172 HOURS ON THE MOON by Johan Harstad

The YPG Little Big Mouth YA list is getting ARCs this week from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, in a book by Norwegian author Johan Harstad called 172 HOURS ON THE MOON (2008 Brage Prize, Children’s Literature).

It’s been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. But three teenagers are about to change that—and their lives—forever. Mia knows this will be her punk band’s ticket to fame and fortune. Midori believes it’s her way out of her restrictive lifestyle in Japan. Antoine just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime…but little do they know that something sinister is waiting for them on the dark side of the moon. And in the black vastness of space, no one is coming to save them.

Email KidsMarketing.Generic@hbgusa.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers!

THE DRUNK DIET: HOW I LOST 40 POUNDS… WASTED by Lüc Carl

Just in time for the holidays, St. Martin’s Press is giving a fantastic gift to the YPG Little Big Mouth Non-fiction list: THE DRUNK DIET: How I Lost 40 Pounds…Wasted by Lüc Carl.

This memoir is a beer-soaked tale of a long-haired, leather-clad rock ’n roll party-maker who transformed a whiskey-and-5:00AM-cheeseburger lifestyle into a wildly successful weight-loss regime. Three years ago, Lüc Carl was a chubby rock ’n roller with a penchant for partying and Chinese food, but the long, late hours and the barfly life had made him forty-pounds overweight and completely out of shape. After reading countless fitness books and being told time and again that it’s impossible to lose weight while drinking alcohol, he decided to take matters into his own hands. (He could give up the cheeseburgers, the cigarettes, the soda, but don’t take away his booze!) Full of charismatic wit and insane stories about his life, The Drunk Diet is a mix of memoir and advice: laugh and be inspired while he takes you along on his hilarious journey to become healthier and fitter while having a good time, ALL the time.

Email Brittney Kleinfelter with your thoughts and comments (brittney.kleinfelter@stmartins.com). Thanks, St. Martin’s Press!

CINDER by Marissa Meyer

The YPG Little Big Mouth YA list got a treat this November 2011 with a mailing of CINDER, the first novel in The Lundar Chronicles by debut author Marissa Meyer, and the biggest book ever published at Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group).

Cinder is a fresh, fierce take on Cinderella that is a little bit fairy tale, little bit Terminator, and totally original. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

Become a fan at https://www.facebook.com/lunarchronicles. Email Ksenia Winnicki (ksenia.winnicki@macmillan.com) with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Feiwel and Friends!

PASSION AND PURPOSE by John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia

YPG’s Little Big Mouth Business list is getting a rare treat with a November mailing of Passion And Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders from the Harvard Business Review.

In Passion and Purpose, dozens of recent Harvard Business School MBAs share powerful, candid accounts of their success and setbacks, personal dilemmas, and reflections on what they have learned in just a short time out in the world. Written by John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia, with a foreword by Bill George, the book presents the vivid stories of experiences, from launching start-ups in Boston to taking on the family business in India; from teaching debate in the Arabian Gulf to helping rebuild war-torn Rwanda; from striving for gender equality in the workplace to helping people bring their “whole selves” to work. PASSION AND PURPOSE delivers a “crowd sourced” look at leadership from young leaders who are finding passion and purpose in their profession and reimagining the future of business and leadership.

Email Nina Nocciolino (nnocciolino@hbr.org) with your thoughts and comments.

SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi

YPG’s YA Little Big Mouth List is about to get an adrenaline shot, courtesy of HarperCollins, with an October mailing of SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi.

No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans on her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost forever. In this electrifying debut filled with pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as the Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as the X-Men. HarperCollins is thrilled to be sharing advanced copies of this compelling read with the YPG.

After reading, email editor Tara Weikum at tara.weikum@harpercollins.com with your thoughts, comments, and reviews!

THE PROBABILITY OF MIRACLES by Wendy Wunder

Months ahead of its publication date, the YPG Little Big Mouth list for Young Adult titles got advanced readers copies of Penguin Young Readers Group’s THE PROBABILITY OF MIRACLES by Wendy Wunder.

After exhausting every medical outlet, Cam knows that her cancer has made the hope of a normal life not an option. But just when she’s ready to throw in the towel, her mother picks the whole family up and moves them cross-country to Promise, Maine, a place known for its mystical healing powers and very good looking boys. Cam, a die-hard non-believer, isn’t buying it no matter how hard her family tries. But the longer she spends in Promise, the more Cam learns to believe in many things she never used to – including herself.

Email YRMarketing@us.penguingroup.com with your thoughts and comments and don’t forget to check out the Probability of Miracles on Facebook: Facebook.com/ProbabilityofMiracles. Thanks, Penguin!

NEGROPEDIA by Patrice Evans

The YPG’s Little Big Mouth Non-fiction list is cracking open copies of NEGROPEDIA by Patrice Evans this September, courtesy of Three Rivers Press at Random House.

Evans is The Assimilated Negro, a hyperobservant, savagely pop-savvy instigator bent on pranking the crap out of our modern racial discourse. Since the debut of his popular “Ghetto Pass” column for Gawker.com, Evans has been the rare voice capable of speaking to junkies for both White Castle and Colson Whitehead with equal insight and aplomb. His first book, NEGROPEDIA, is a wide-ranging, deeply idiosyncratic tour through the tricky racial landscape of the Obama era, aimed at pop-culture consumers at the intersecting fan bases of South Park and Chappelle’s Show, Scott Pilgrim and The Boondocks. Whether deconstructing Lil Wayne’s “no homo hypocrisy,” outlining the all-important Clair Huxtable code for finding a mate, or assessing Susan Sontag’s street cred, Evans provides a stream of daring outsider anthropology.

Email Jonathan Lazzara at jlazzara@randomhouse.com with your thoughts, deep feelings, and angry tirades! Thanks, Three Rivers Press!

THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach

Batter’s up for the YPG Little Big Mouth Fiction list with Hachette Book Group’s August mailing of THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for the big leagues. Then a routine throw goes disastrously off course and the fates of five people are upended. Henry’s life purpose is called into question and his roommate, teammate, team captain, college president, and president’s daughter all find themselves facing new challenges. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, they each must confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets and help one another to discover their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about the bonds of family and friendship and love, and about the commitment—to oneself and to others.

Contact marketing@hbgusa.com with your reviews and comments. Thank you, Hachette, for using our Little Big Mouth list!

ENVY by Gregg Olsen

In an August mailing from Sterling’s Splinter imprint, the Young Adult Little Big Mouth list got a chilling new book called ENVY, the first in Gregg Olsen’s Empty Coffin series.

Envy opens with the tragic and mysterious death of the twins’ old friend, Katelyn. Hayley and Taylor aren’t convinced that Katelyn committed suicide, as her death had been deemed by the medical examiner, and they are determined to find out what really happened to her. As they investigate, they stumble upon a dark truth that is far more disturbing than they ever could have imagined, and they uncover a long-held and spine-chilling secret about their own past in the process. Based on a shocking true crime about cyber-bullying and populated with quirky teens that YA readers will totally relate to, Envy takes readers to the edge—and then right over it.

For more information, visit www.emptycoffinseries.com.

HOT PROPERTY by Michele, Samantha and Sabrina Kleier

YPG’s Little Big Mouth Women’s List got a jolt of excitement in August with a HarperCollins mailing of HOT PROPERTY by Michele, Samantha and Sabrina Kleier.

The stars of HGTV’s Selling New York let fans step inside the high-profile world of Manhattan real estate in a wild and one-of-a-kind novel of stormy egos, sumptuous homes, and staggering fame and fortune: HOT PROPERTY. Michele Kleier and her daughters Sabrina and Samantha are no strangers to the high-stakes Manhattan market, with clients that have included Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Katie Couric, Barbra Streisand, Diane Keaton, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino. Now, in HOT PROPERTY, the irrepressible first ladies of New York City real estate offer an inside look at what it takes to manage a successful real estate business, find love, and build a family—and all the razor-sharp humor and drama in between.

Email Danielle.Plafsky@harpercollins.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, HarperCollins!

A BEAUTIFUL DARK by Jocelyn Davies

As an exciting offshoot of our traditional Little Big Mouth mailings, HarperCollins is doing a July tweetstakes giveaway of 25 advanced copies of A Beautiful Dark, a fantastic new YA title by debut author (and fellow young New York City publishing professional!) Jocelyn Davies. Each galley will be signed by the author. Follow us on Twitter (@YoungtoPub) to win copy of the book.

Two enigmatic strangers are following Skye’s every move, and she has no idea why. In getting to know the two boys, she learns more about her past and faces a choice that will irrevocably change her future. Will she choose the power of the Dark, the power of the Light . . . or has the choice already been made for her? A Beautiful Dark is a captivating young adult angel romance, perfect for fans of Fallen and Hush, Hush.

Email editor Karen Chaplin (karen.chaplin@harpercollins.com) with your reviews and comments. Thanks, HarperCollins, for supporting YPG!

EVE by Anna Carey

This July, YPG’s Young Adult Little Big Mouth list is getting a taste of the next big title from HarperCollins: EVE by Anna Carey.

THE HUNGER GAMES meets THE HANDMAID’S TALE in EVE, a thrilling dystopian adventure set sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth’s population. Evocative, romantic, and at times terrifying, this is the powerful first novel in an exciting new trilogy.

After reading EVE, email editor Sarah Landis (sarah.landis@harpercollins.com) with your reviews and comments.

THE MISTRESS’S REVENGE by Tamar Cohen

YPG’s Little Big Mouth women’s list got a deliciously sinister June mailing of ARCs for Simon & Schuster’s novel THE MISTRESS’S REVENGE by debut author Tamar Cohen.

When her five-year affair with the sexy television personality Clive Gooding abruptly ends, Sally Islip is devastated. But with Sally, Clive has made one fundamental mistake: he has chosen someone who has less to lose than he has, and Sally will have her revenge—no matter what the cost. Her mental state gradually unraveling, Sally stalks Clive online and off, keeping him on an agonizing knife-edge of fear of exposure. In return, he mobilizes his underworld contacts against her. How far is he prepared to go to silence the woman he once loved? What form will Sally’s obsessive revenge eventually take? Who actually has final control, and who will end up losing everything?

Fatal Attraction set in the era of Facebook, The Mistress’s Revenge is fiery passionate, engrossing, unsettling, manipulative, and graphic—in short, the perfect summer read. Visit www.mistressrevenge.com for more information, and email Claire Kelley at Claire.Kelley@simonandschuster.com with your thoughts and questions.

ALONG THE WATCHTOWER by Constance Squires

Penguin showed YPG the love this June! Our Little Big Mouth lists for Fiction and Women’s Fiction got advanced copies of ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, a debut novel by Constance Squires.

Set against the closing years of the Cold War, ALONG THE WATCHTOWER introduces the family of Army Major Collins, as told through the eyes of Lucinda Collins—the vibrant, headstrong eldest daughter. In spare, heart-wrenchingly beautiful prose, Squires offers us a rare glimpse into the experiences and sacrifices of an American military family—a powerful story that reveals what it really means to fight for the things we believe in and to defend the ones we love.

Email your thoughts and comments to Angela Januzzi at Angela.Januzzi@us.penguingroup.com. Thanks, Penguin!

A YOUNG WIFE: A NOVEL by Pam Lewis

In a June mailing from Simon & Schuster, YPG’s Little Big Mouth list for Women’s Fiction received advanced copies of A YOUNG WIFE by Pam Lewis.

Based on her own grandmother’s story, Pam Lewis’ A YOUNG WIFE is nothing short of epic. It follows fifteen-year-old Minke Van Aisma from her meager beginnings in 19th-century Amsterdam when she is sent to care for a dying women. Her fate is forever changed when her employer—a wealthy man with a questionable history—proposes marriage. We follow her unforgettable journey across three continents—from a life of opulence in Amsterdam, to rough living on the Argentine coast, to fighting poverty as an immigrant in New York City. She is forced to leave behind a kidnapped son in Argentina, but sets upon the arduous task of struggling to find the child and taking revenge on the people who orchestrated his abduction. This tale of love, betrayal, and redemption is a journey that no reader will forget.

Email your questions or feedback to marketing@simonandschuster.com.

THIS BURNS MY HEART: A NOVEL by Samuel Park

YPG Little Big Mouth Women’s Fiction list had a good month in June! Simon & Schuster sent out advanced copies of a lovely novel by Samuel Park to this list.

Set two decades after the Korean War, THIS BURNS MY HEART introduces an unforgettable heroine: Soo-Ja Choi. Beautiful and ambitious, Soo-Ja struggles to find happiness in a country where wives have no rights and mothers own nothing, where love remains elusive, and the only way to survive is to remember the lessons taught by the four tenets of Confucian tradition: perseverance, strength, loyalty, and grace. Those are the lessons that Soo-Ja must remember as she charts an ill-advised marriage, living in a household with her conniving in-laws. Through it all, Soo-Ja longs for her true love, the elusive doctor Yul, whose path Soo-Ja seems destined to cross again and again.

Email your questions or feedback to marketing@simonandschuster.com.

FRENCH LESSONS by Ellen Sussman

The YPG Little Big Mouth list for Women’s Fiction received a new title from Random House Publishing Group this June: FRENCH LESSONS by Ellen Sussman.

Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world. As they meet with their French tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.

Email RHPG@randomhouse.com, subject line “French Lessons,” with questions or feedback. Thanks for sharing with YPG, Random House!

TIGER’S QUEST by Colleen Houck

Splinter, an imprint of Sterling Children’s Books, did a May mailing to the YPG Little Big Mouth list of TIGER’S QUEST, the second book in Colleen Houck’s exciting trilogy.

The saga continues as Kelsey Hayes returns to Oregon, heartbroken and alone, and tries to pick up the pieces of her life and become an ordinary college student. But how can she forget about the dark secrets hidden in the jungles of India—and Ren, the tiger-prince she loved and left behind? When danger suddenly puts Ren in peril, Kelsey has no choice but to embark on another Indian quest, this time with Ren’s bad-boy brother, Kishan. Kelsey and Kishan must overcome impossible challenges to save Ren and find the second sacred gift of Durga’s prophecy. As the unlikely duo grows closer, Kelsey unlocks powers that could put her on the path to her destiny and bring an end to the Tiger’s curse. But time is running out. Ren’s life hangs in the balance—and so does the truth within Kelsey’s heart.

For more information on the series, please visit www.tigerscursebook.com. Email Meaghan Finnerty (mfinnerty@sterlingpublishing.com) with questions or feedback.

WAITING FOR SPRING by R.J. Keller

AmazonEncore continued to show our YPG Little Big Mouth Women’s list the love, with a second May mailing: a provocative, literary novel by R.J. Keller called WAITING FOR SPRING.

When a divorcee abandons her hometown for a small town in Maine, she discovers a world of kindred spirits that forces her to face the mistakes of the past in order to finally move forward. In this evocative novel, the protagonist, Tess Dyer—a woman who lives for art and love—gets the second chance that so many of us dream about. WAITING FOR SPRING is a dramatic debut novel that takes readers beyond the lighthouses and rocky beaches tourists visit and drops them instead into a rural Maine town where everyone must face their struggles with stubbornness and humor.

Email your thoughts and comments to encore-pr@amazon.com. Thanks again, AmazonEncore!

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR by John Le Carré

As part of its “Summer of Le Carré,” Penguin Books (USA) tapped YPG’s Mystery and Fiction lists in May for a YPG Little Big Mouth mailing of OUR KIND OF TRAITOR by John Le Carré. This novel, selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, reveals Le Carré’s acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies.

In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua where they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world’s number one money-launderer. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service who need their help. Their acquiescence will lead them on a precarious journey through Paris to a safe house in Switzerland, helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the City of London, the government, and competing factions of the British Secret Service.

For more information, please visit www.johnlecarre.com. Email questions or feedback to Shannon Twomey (Shannon.Twomey@us.penguingroup.com). Thanks for using our list, Penguin!

BETWEEN by Jessica Warman

Fasten your seatbelts, YPG Children’s/YA Little Big Mouthers, because thanks to a May mailing of Bloomsbury’s (Walker Books for Young Readers) new novel BETWEEN by Jessica Warman, you’re in for an exciting ride!

Elizabeth Valchar—pretty, popular, and perfect—wakes up the morning after her eighteenth birthday party on her family’s yacht, where she’d been celebrating with her six closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, what she finds will change everything she thought she knew about her life, her friends, and what lies in between. As Liz begins to unravel the circumstances surrounding her birthday night, she will find that no one around her, least of all Liz herself, was perfect—or innocent. Critically acclaimed author Jessica Warman brings readers along on a roller-coaster ride of a mystery, one that is also a heartbreaking character study, a touching romance, and ultimately a hopeful tale of redemption, love, and letting go.

Send feedback or questions to editor Stacy Cantor Abrams at Stacy.Abrams@bloomsbury.com, and visit the author at www.jessicawarman.com.

WHY I LOVE SINGLEHOOD by Elisa Lorello and Sarah Girrell

To those of you on the YPG Little Big Mouth Women’s List, you can thank AmazonEncore for a fun new beach read, because WHY I LOVE SINGLEHOOD by Elisa Lorello and Sarah Girrell that came to you in a May mailing.

Eva Perino is single and proud of it. Owner of The Grounds, a coffee shop nestled in the heart of a college town, thirty-something Eva cherishes her comfortable life filled with quirky friends, a fun job, and no significant other. In fact, she’s so content to be on her own that she started a blog about it: “Why I Love Singlehood.” Yet when she hears the news of her ex-boyfriend’s engagement, her confidence in her single status takes a surprisingly hard hit. So begins Eva’s clumsy (and occasionally uproarious) search for love as she secretly joins an online dating site, tries her hand at speed-dating, and breaks her own rule by getting involved with one of The Grounds’ regulars. Soon Eva is forced to figure out exactly who—or what—is the true love of her life. Sparkling with warmth and wit, Why I Love Singlehood is a charming and insightful must-read for anyone—single or otherwise—who has ever been stymied by love.

Email your thoughts and comments to encore-pr@amazon.com. Thanks, AmazonEncore!

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP by S. J. Watson

YPG’s Mystery/Thriller Little Big Mouth list got ready for some restless dreams in May, courtesy of HarperCollins’ May mailing! In BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, a disturbing psychological thriller by debut novelist S. J. Watson, we follow amnesiac Christine as she desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is…and who she can trust.

Every morning, Christine awakens beside a stranger in an unfamiliar bed, and every morning the man patiently explains that he is Ben, her husband, that she is forty-seven years old, and that an accident long ago damaged her ability to remember. In place of memories, Christine has a handful of pictures, a whiteboard in the kitchen, and a journal hidden in a closet. Inside the journal’s pages, the damaged woman has begun meticulously recording her daily events—sessions with her neuroscientist Dr. Nash, snippets of information that Ben shares, flashes of her former self that briefly, miraculously appear. But as the pages accumulate, inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions that Christine is determined to find answers to. And the more she pieces together the shards of her broken life, the closer she gets to the truth…and the more terrifying and deadly it is.

Email Danielle Plafsky (Danielle.Plafsky@harpercollins.com) with questions or feedback. And whether you’re on our list or not, visit http://www.facebook.com/beforeigotosleep.us to start reading the book now. Thank you, HarperCollins!

YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD by Emma Forrest

Other Press has rocked the YPG Little Big Mouth Women’s Literature list with a new memoir by Emma Forrest called YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD.

Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, British journalist Emma Forrest was twenty-two and living in New York City when she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, patient and optimistic psychiatrist, Dr. R. Over the next decade, Dr. R. became her friend, her mentor and her life raft. Intensely moving, pervasively honest and disarmingly droll, YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD (publication date: May 3, 2011) is the memoir of this time in young Emma Forrest’s life; it is a dazzling and devastating journey through obsessive love and heartbreak, self-destruction and self-discovery; and it is a love song to the psychiatrist who helped lift her from the wreckage that was her life. In a voice unlike any other, full of wit and wisdom, Emma Forrest explores breakdown and mania, but also the beauty of love—and the heartbreak of loss.

Email your thoughts and feedback to Sarah Reidy at sreidy@otherpress.com.com. Thank you, Other Press, for using our list!

THE MOMENT by Douglas Kennedy

The YPG Women’s Fiction list was delighted to receive Advanced Reading Copies of an April 2011 Little Big Mouth mailing of THE MOMENT by Douglas Kennedy from Atria Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster).

When Mr. Kennedy was honored to speak at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, he described THE MOMENT in the following words: “To love is always to engage with the possibility of loss. No one ever escapes that conundrum. As Thomas says towards the end of the novel: “We are what has happened to us.” And what has happened to us is always bound up in that very profound human need for love. Which is why a love story, like the one I have just written, is always a story about the proverbial ‘heart of the matter’: all our needs and aspirations and desires and wants and fears. Everything that we have found. Everything that we have lost. Lost and found. Found and lost. That is truly the story of our lives.”

Share your comments about this love story with atriafeedback@simonandschuster.com.

A COURTESAN’S GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR MAN
By Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan

YPG is steaming up! St. Martin’s Press sent out a Little Big Mouth mailing this April to our Women’s Fiction list that was guaranteed to sweep our readers away—across continents, centuries, and bedrooms. A COURTESAN’S GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR MAN by bestselling authors Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan won’t be in stores until May 24, 2011, but YPG got a sneak peak.

Regency London’s most celebrated courtesan, The Blackbird, was a woman before her time—uninhibited, financially independent, and free to live by her own rules. Schooled in the sensual arts by the one man she loved the most, she recorded every wicked detail in her diaries. Centuries later, when Boston museum curator Piper Chase-Pierpont unearths The Blackbird’s steamy memoirs, she’s aroused and challenged by what she finds. Could the courtesan’s diaries be used as a modern girl’s guide to finding love and empowerment? One curious curator—and one very lucky man—are about to find out!

Send your questions or feedback to Eileen Rothschild at eileen.rothschild@stmartins.com.

WARM BODIES: A NOVEL by Isaac Marion

This April, Atria Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) sent YPG members from our Little Big Mouth Fiction list copies of WARM BODIES: A NOVEL by Isaac Marion. This debut novel has already been optioned for film by Summit Entertainment (the producers of Twilight) with Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man and MTV’s Skins) slated to star.

He’s a young man with an existential crisis. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. His ability to connect with the outside world is limited to a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. A chance meal gives R the opportunity to begin an awkward and strangely sweet romance with Julie, his victim’s human girlfriend. His decision to protect Julie has consequences for his fellow Dead and perhaps the whole lifeless world. Terrifying, romantic, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies explores what happens when the cold heart of a zombie is tempted by the warmth of human love, doing nothing short of completely reinventing the zombie genre in the process.

Sink your teeth into Warm Bodies (available on April 26, 2011), and send your comments to Hillary Tisman at atriafeedback@simonandschuster.com. Author blog: http://burningbuilding.blogspot.com/
Author twitter: @isaacinspace.

HALF A LIFE by Darin Strauss

Random House used YPG’s nonfiction Little Big Mouth list for a special Facebook giveaway and March mailing of HALF A LIFE, a memoir by the acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, HALF A LIFE is a searing look at a tragedy that just as easily could have happened to you or me. In his last month of high school, just after turning eighteen, Strauss was behind the wheel of his father’s Oldsmobile, driving with friends—having “thoughts of mini-golf, another thought of maybe just going to the beach.” Then out of the blue: a collision results in the death of a bicycling classmate that shadows the rest of his life. In spare and piercing prose, Darin Strauss explores loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and acceptance—and the result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force.

ABANDON by Meg Cabot

As part of a February Little Big Mouth mailing, YPG members watched their inboxes for ABANDON, the latest YA novel from bestselling author Meg Cabot, and nothing like we’ve seen from her before. ABANDON is a modern-day retelling of the myth of Persephone, darkly reimagined, from Point (an imprint of Scholastic).

Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what it’s like to die, because she’s done it before. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can’t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she’s never alone…because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. But now she’s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid. Only she can’t. Because even here, he finds her. That’s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he’s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn’t exactly heaven, yet she can’t stay away…especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most. But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.

She didn’t fall into his world. She was taken.

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/abandonbooks and www.megcabot.com/abandon. Send questions or feedback to abandon@scholastic.com
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I TOTALLY MEANT TO DO THAT by Jane Borden

February brought YPG’s Little Big Mouth list for Women’s Fiction a real treat: I TOTALLY MEANT TO DO THAT by Jane Borden, from Broadway Paperbacks (an imprint of Random House).

Ever wonder what happens when a debutante from North Carolina moves to the Big Apple? After a genteel Southern upbringing in Greensboro, boarding school in Virginia, and college in Chapel Hill, Jane Borden struck out on her own for New York City. She fell instantly in love, but had a hard time getting the city to love her back. I TOTALLY MEANT TO DO THAT is a memoir of Borden’s transformation from Southern belle to Brooklyn hipster to something in between, and is also a love letter to the two homes she wanted and between which she ultimately had to choose. In this essay collection, she explores the fine line she walks between both identities and reveals the odd and hilarious culture clash between two very different worlds, the South and New York City, as she recounts her time spent as a secret-shopper helping to locate knockoff handbags in Chinatown, the summer she attended seven Southern weddings, the night she ended up watching two men wrestle in a dominatrix’s apartment under the Williamsburg Bridge, and much more.

Send your questions or feedback to Justina Batchelor at jbatchelor@randomhouse.com.

THE LOTUS EATERS by Tatjana Soli

In December 2010, St. Martin’s Press utilized the Little Big Mouth list to send copies of THE LOTUS EATERS by debut novelist Tatjana Soli to interested YPG members.

Soli spent ten years researching and writing this story of an American female photojournalist in Vietnam who is obsessed with the war and unable to quit the country that captivates her. The novel opens on April 28, 1975 with photographer Helen Adams running through the streets of Saigon toward the American Embassy alongside legendary photographer Sam Darrow’s Vietnamese assistant, desperate to reach the helicopters that can rescue them as the city falls. From there, the narrative goes back in time to tell the story of Helen’s twelve years in Vietnam, torn between two men, and her dangerous obsession with the violence of battle.

DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth

Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, rocked the 2010 holidays for YPG’s Little Big Mouth list for Young Adult fiction by sending out ARCs of DIVERGENT by debut writer Veronica Roth.

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. When Beatrice must decide between staying with her family and being who she really is, she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. DIVERGENT follows Beatrice through the highly competitive initiation that follows, as she struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choices they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences, and all the while, Beatrice holds onto a secret that may mean death.

Send questions or feedback to editor Molly O’Neill at molly.oneill@harpercollins.com or tweet her (@molly_oneill).

FALLING IN LOVE WITH ENGLISH BOYS by Melissa Jensen

In an early December 2010 mailing, Puffin Books (an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group) sent FALLING IN LOVE WITH ENGLISH BOYS by Melissa Jensen to our Little Big Mouth list. Here’s a synopsis:

Modern-day American teen Catherine Vernon is reluctantly spending the summer in London, bored out of her mind. Her boredom, however, is cut short when she stumbles upon the 1815 diary of Katherine Percival. When Cat meets William Percival (the dreamy descendant of Katherine), things begin to get very interesting indeed. Told as half carriage-and-ball gown Regency-era romance and half modern-day London chick lit in the vein of Bridget Jones, the book follows both women as they fall in love with English boys…and learn a little about life in the process.

ATTACHMENTS by Rainbow Rowell

A December 2010 YPG Big Mouth mailing from Penguin arrived just in time for the holidays, the Perfect-Take-A-Break-From-Work-Reading-Because-It’s-The-Holidays Book: ATTACHMENTS by Rainbow Rowell.

Let’s face it—we’ve all sent a few questionable, off-color, or even downright inappropriate emails to friends at work. But what if your company has hired someone to read and monitor your email?

This is the unfortunate job of Rainbow Rowell’s unconventional hero in her heart-warming and hilarious debut ATTACHMENTS (April 2011). Lincoln is an Internet security officer at a newspaper, paid to read and report emails that the company’s system flags as inappropriate. Beth and Jennifer, best friends and coworkers at The Courier, don’t bother censoring their written exchanges, so their emails often end up in Lincoln’s inbox. But instead of turning them in, he’s captivated by their witty and revealing conversations, and he begins to fall for Beth. Suddenly Lincoln finds himself in an awkward situation—how do you tell someone you love them when you’ve never even met?

For more information about ATTACHMENTS, check out its website: www.rainbowrowell.com

Send your feedback on ATTACHMENTS to Katherine Burns at Katherine.Burns@us.penguingroup.com.

LITTLE PRINCES by Conor Grennan

In a massive November 2010 mailing to our Little Big Mouth lists for Nonfiction, Travel, Current Affairs/Politics, Business, and Women’s Literature, William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) shared LITTLE PRINCES: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan with YPG members.

LITTLE PRINCES is a memoir about a young man who, at the start of his around-the-world trip, volunteered for three months at an orphanage in Nepal and was transformed by the experience. He quickly learned that the children were not actually parentless—they were trafficked. Yearning to help, Conor started Next Generation Nepal, a non-profit dedicated to reuniting trafficked children with their birth parents. Along the way, he met the love of his life (now his wife), made lifetime friends, climbed the Himalayas, and went through business school, but his true journey all began in a Third World orphanage.

For more information, check out www.harpercollins.com/ConorGrennan. Send questions or feedback to Tavia Kowalchuk at tavia.kowalchuk@harpercollins.com or connect with the author directly on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cgrennan.

TIGER’S CURSE by Colleen Houck

A mid-November 2010 Little Big Mouth mailing to YPG members interested in Young Adult fiction focused on TIGER’S CURSE by Colleen Houck. Following articles about the launch of Sterling Children’s Books’ new Splinter imprint in Publisher’s Weekly, GalleyCat, and ShelfAwareness, Sterling used YPG’s list to promote an exciting upcoming title.

TIGER’S CURSE is the first in a multi-book fantasy/romance series, with the second and third books to be published in June and November of 2011. In this story of love and adventure, Kelsey Hayes is an orphan who graduates high school and begins working at a circus. There, she meets a very mysterious tiger named Ren who is actually a human prince under a 300-year old curse. Torn between fear and desire, Kelsey is the only one able to break the curse, and together the pair braves a perilous quest halfway around the world in India.

For more information on the series, please visit www.tigerscursebook.com. Email Katie Connors (kconnors@sterlingpublishing.com) with questions or feedback.

THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN by Adam Langer

The July 2010 mailing was Adam Langer’s The Thieves of Manhattan, a comic literary thriller about a fake memoir and a down-on-his luck writer who becomes embroiled in an elaborate confidence game to scam the publishing world. For more information, visit Adam Langer’s website or Random House’s book page.