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CROSSING ON THE PARIS
GYNTHER, DANA
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
The year is 1921. Three women set out on the impressive Paris ocean liner on a journey from Paris to New York.
Julie Vernet is a young French woman from a working class family who has just gotten her first job as a crew
worker on the ship. Escaping her small town and the memory of war, she longs for adventure on the high seas...
Constance Stone is a young American wife and mother who has traveled to Paris to rescue her bohemian sister,
Faith, who steadfastly refuses to return to America and settle down. Constance returns home to New York,
having failed at the duty her father asked of her... Vera Sinclair, a rich, ex-patriate American is leaving France
after thirty-one years to live out her remaining time home in America. Over the course of the transatlantic
voyage, she reflects on her colorful life and looks forward to a quiet retirement. While each of these women
come from different walks of life, their paths cross while at sea in a series of chance encounters. The powerful
impact these disparate lives have on one another make for a magnificent and unforgettable read.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
GALLERY 384 PAGES
9781451678239
$17.00 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2012
CROWN OF VENGEANCE
LACKEY, MERCEDES
By the author of the Collegium Chronicles and the Elemental Masters series.
FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 75,000
TOR 608 PAGES
9780765324382 SERIES: DRAGON PROPHECY
$31.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
THE CURSING MOMMY'S BOOK OF DAYS
FRAZIER, IAN
Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier’s uproarious first novel, The Cursing
Mommy’s Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile
imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother
of two boys, twelve and nine—trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the
home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between
Phyllis Diller’s and Sylvia Plath’s: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses
of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 50,000
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX 256 PAGES
9780374133184
$26.50 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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