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THIS CASE IS GOING TO KILL ME
BORNIKOVA, PHILLIPA
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power—our modern world, but twisted.
Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven
Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks,” and contend among themselves to affiliate with the
powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other
women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires, werewolves, and elves—or, on occasion,
to live at the Seelie Court.
URBAN FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 25,000
TOR 320 PAGES
9780765333896
$28.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
TRADE PAPER EDITION
9780765326829 ($16.99)
THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER
DIAZ, JUNOT
The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the
infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion,
the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the
crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that
intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that
the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in
turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than
erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and
that “love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.”
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 175,000
RIVERHEAD 240 PAGES
9781594487361
$28.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
AUDIO DISC
9781611761108 ($28.50)
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