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CHABON, MICHAEL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, long-time
friends, bandmates and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the sketchy yet
freewheeling borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Archy and his wife, Gwen, are expecting their first baby; Nat
and Aviva have a teenaged son, Julius. Cranky, flawed and loving each otherwith all the fierceness we've come
to expect of Chabon characters, Archy and Nat have worked to construct lives and livelihoods that have a
groove, looking to connect across barriers of race and class, and clinging to a sense of order and security
through their stubbornly old-school ways. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fourth-richest black man
in America, announces plans to construct his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby neglected stretch of
Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. What they don't
know is that Goode's announcement marks the climax of a decades-old secret history, encompassing a forgotten
crime of the Black Panther era, the tragedy of Archy's own deadbeat father - a long-faded Blaxploitation star -
and the perpetual shining failure of American optimism about race.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 300,000
HARPER COLLINS 384 PAGES
9781554682072
$31.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION AUDIO DISC
9780062201454 ($35.99) 9780062205780 ($53.99)
TEN DAYS
GILSDORF, JANET
A mother's strength knows no bounds ...
FICTION
KENSINGTON 352 PAGES
9780758269447
$16.95 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2012
THE THIEVES OF LEGEND
DOETSCH, RICHARD
The next ingenious thriller in the Thieves series after The Thieves of Darkness—reformed thief Michael St.
Pierre and his crew must steal two artifacts that once combined, hold the answer to one of history’s greatest
mysteries.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
ATRIA 352 PAGES
9781416598985
$28.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
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