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RAINY DAY KIDS
WENTZ, PETE
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Based heavily on Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s own tumultuous life, Rainy Day Kids is about a singer
named Pete. Pete is touring with a band, struggling to understand who he is, where he’s been, and what he’s
become. He vacillates between the highs of being recognized as an international sex symbol and the aching
hopelessness he feels when he is alone. After the death of his longtime ex-girlfriend, Pete grieves deeply and
soon embarks on a path of self-destruction, including an attempt to take his own life. With profound creativity and
clarity, he discloses his darkest fears and reflects on his memorable moments, including his first kiss and his first
fistfight. Pete Wentz’s own journey to success has not been without pain, and now readers will experience the
same emotional intensity that have made several million fans of his lyrics.
FICTION/MUSIC 1ST PRINTING 100,000
GALLERY 240 PAGES
9781416567820
$27.99 HC
JANUARY 2013
RAPTURE
WARD, J.R.
By the author of The Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 250,000
NAL 512 PAGES
9780451238016 SERIES: FALLEN ANGELS
$29.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
THE RAPTURE OF THE NERDS
DOCTOROW, CORY & STROSS, CHARLES
Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion
hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well.
Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog
the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. The splintery
metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds
sometimes wander…and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically
disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would
ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.
So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected
arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw,
a misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an
itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.
SCIENCE FICTION 1ST PRINTING 40,000
TOR 352 PAGES
9780765329103
$28.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
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