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COOK, ROBIN
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia
Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies
and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the
chance to clear her head, Pia takes a job at Nanobots, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology
insititute in the picturesque foothills of the Rockies. Nanobots is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of
molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots with the ability to gobble
up viruses and bacteria. But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. She's warned by her boss not to
investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the
seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a
corporate jogging path, suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon
Nanobot's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the
twenty-first century—a treatment option for millions—or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 150,000
PUTNAM 432 PAGES
9780399160820
$28.50 HC
JANUARY 2013
AUDIO DISC
9781611761092 ($42.00, UNABRIDGED)
NEW YORK DRAWINGS
TOMINE, ADRIAN
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore
owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as
they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass. Adrian Tomine’s illustrations and comics have been
appearing for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of The New Yorker. Instantly recognizable for
their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of The New Yorker’s
readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore
owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as
they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
DRAWN & QUARTERLY 176 PAGES
9781770460874
$12.50 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
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