New Releases—fiction“Fearless and utterly unputdownable.”—Jennifer GilmoreRead by Tavia GilbertCategory: FictionRunning Time: 9 hrs 30 min - UnabridgedPaperback: 09/18/<strong>2012</strong> (35,000 Mariner)Territory: US and CanadaOn Sale Date: 12/24/<strong>2012</strong>Trade 9781452611372 7 Audio CDs $34.99Library 9781452641379 7 Audio CDs $71.99MP3 9781452661377 1 MP3-CD $24.99Ashley Prentice Norton is a graduateof Exeter, Georgetown, and theCreative Writing Program at New YorkUniversity. The Chocolate Money is herfirst novel.Author’s Residence: New YorkTavia Gilbert, a multiple Audie Award nominee andAudioFile Earphones and Parents’ Choice Award–winning producer, narrator, and writer, has appearedon stage and in film. She has narrated nearly 150multicast and solo voice audiobooks.Ashley Prentice NortonThe Chocolate MoneyA NovelThis delicious, decadent, and addictive tale explores therelationship between Babs Ballentyne, an impossiblyrich chocolate heiress, and her sensitive, bookish youngdaughter, Bettina.Set in 1980s Chicago and on the East Coast, this electricdebut chronicles the relationship between an impossiblyrich chocolate heiress, Babs Ballentyne, and her sensitiveand bookish young daughter, Bettina. Babs plays by no one’srules: naked Christmas cards, lavish theme parties with lewdinstallations at her Lake Shore Drive penthouse, nocturnalvisits from her married lover, who “admires her centerfold”while his wife sleeps at their nearby home.Bettina wants nothing more than to win her mother’saffection and approval, both of which prove elusive. Whenshe escapes to an elite New Hampshire prep school, Bettinafinds that her unorthodox upbringing makes it difficult tofit in with her peers, one of whom happens to be the sonof Babs’s lover. As she struggles to forge an identity apartfrom her mother, Bettina walks a fine line between selfpreservationand self-destruction.Marketing• Mommie Dearest, Prep, and 50 Shades of Gray all rolledinto one• Author is the great-great-granddaughter of John D.Rockefeller• Author tour, including Chicago, New York, Boston• Author’s Web site: www.ashleyprenticenorton.comPraise for The chocolate money“A novel to make you laugh, cringe, and appreciate yourmother.” —O, the Oprah Magazine“[Norton] writes fearlessly, and the results are compelling.[Listening to] this novel is like watching a train speedtoward you, and you’re paralyzed on the tracks.” —Booklist“A dark tale of maternal sadism, twisted sex, and selfdestruction.Norton is a fearless writer.” —James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning“Not since Mommy Dearest has there been a transcriptionof a complex mother-daughter relationship as powerful.” —Isabel Gillies, author of A Year and Six SecondsxviFor more titles, please visit us online.
New Releases—fictionBestselling author of the ZombieFallout seriesMark TufoIndian Hill 3ConquestBook Three in the Indian Hill SeriesIn the third book in Mark Tufo’s popular science fictionseries, Mike Talbot joins forces with an unlikely allianceto save mankind.And so the end begins . . .Mike joins forces with an unlikely alliance in a desperateattempt to head off humanity’s mass extinction.Marketing• Tufo is active in social media• Author’s Web site: www.marktufo.comPraise for mark tufo“Mark Tufo is my new favorite sci-fi author.” —John Ramsey Miller, author of The Last FamilyRead by Sean RunnetteCategory: Science FictionRunning Time: 13 hrs - UnabridgedPaperback: 05/16/<strong>2012</strong> (CreateSpace)Territory: World EnglishOn Sale Date: 12/03/<strong>2012</strong>Trade 9781452609607 11 Audio CDs $44.99Library 9781452639604 11 Audio CDs $90.99MP3 9781452659602 2 MP3-CDs $29.99Mark Tufo is the author of several books,including Indian Hill, Indian Hill 2:Reckoning, and Timothy. A graduate ofthe University of Massachusetts Amherst,he is a former member of the U.S.Marine Corp.Author’s residence: MaineSean Runnette, a multiple AudioFile Earphones Awardwinner, has produced several Audie Award–winning audiobooks.He is a member of the American RepertoryTheater company, and his television and film appearancesinclude Two If by Sea, Copland, Sex and the City,Law and Order, and Third Watch.Also By mark tufoIndian Hill SeriesIndian Hill:Book OneISBN 13: 9781452609584zombie fallout SeriesZombie Fallout:Book OneISBN 13: 9781452607092Zombie Fallout 3:The End:Book ThreeISBN 13: 9781452607115Zombie Fallout 4: TheEnd Has Come andGone: Book FourISBN 13: 9781452607122Indian Hill 2:Book TwoISBN 13: 9781452609591Zombie Fallout 2: APlague Upon YourFamily: Book TwoISBN 13: 9781452607108Zombie Fallout 3.5:Dr. Hugh Mann:Book 3.5ISBN 13: 9781452608341Zombie Fallout5: Alive in a DeadWorld: Book FiveISBN 13: 9781452608327www.tantorlibrary.com | 877.782.6867xvii