April 6, 2010
THIS SEASON AT THE GERNERT COMPANY

Sarah Blake's THE POSTMISTRESS spent 8 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, debuting at number 8.

Fiona McFarlane's story "Mycenae" was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Zoetrope.

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was a New York Times bestseller as well as a bestseller in France.

Gayle Forman's IF I STAY was selected as a finalist for the Indies Choice Award for Young Adult fiction.

Spring 2010 Publications:
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, WENCH (HarperCollins/Amistad, January 5)
Mark Mills, THE INFORMATION OFFICER (Random House, February 2)
Sarah Blake, THE POSTMISTRESS (Putnam/Amy Einhorn, February 9)
Peter Straub, A DARK MATTER (Doubleday, February 9)
Olen Steinhauer, THE TOURIST paperback (Minotaur, February 16)
Emma Span, 90% OF THE GAME IS HALF MENTAL (Villard, March 16, 2010)
Willy Vlautin, LEAN ON PETE (Harper Perennial, April 13)
Michael Harvey, THE THIRD RAIL (Knopf, April 20)
James Huston, MARINE ONE paperback (St. Martin's, April 27)
Manny Howard, MY EMPIRE OF DIRT (Scribner, April 27)
Will Leitch, ARE WE WINNING? (Hyperion, May 4)
James P. Othmer, ADLAND paperback (Anchor, May 4)
James Huston, FALCON SEVEN (St. Martin’s, May 11
Alyssa Sheinmel, A DIFFERENT KINGDOM (Knopf, May 11)
Olen Steinhauer, THE NEAREST EXIT (St. Martin’s, May 11)
Carin Clevidence, THE HOUSE ON SALT HAY ROAD (FSG, May 25)
John Grisham, THEODORE BOONE: KID LAWYER (Penguin Young Readers, May 25)

Fall 2009 Publications:
Caryl Phillips, IN THE FALLING SNOW (Knopf, September 1)
Gitty Daneshvari, SCHOOL OF FEAR (Little, Brown Young Readers, September 1)
Pseudonymous Bosch, THIS BOOK IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU (Little, Brown Young Readers, September 1)
Pseudonymous Bosch, IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE paperback (Little, Brown Young Readers, September 1)
David Elliot, JEREMY CABBAGE paperback (Yearling, September 8)
Jim Othmer, ADLAND (Doubleday, September 15)
John Grisham, THE ASSOCIATE paperback (Dell, September 22)
Margaret Carroll, RIPTIDE (Avon, September 29)
Natalie Standiford, HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT (Scholastic, October 1)
John Freeman, THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL (Scribner, October 20)
Mark Lamster, MASTER OF SHADOWS (Nan A. Talese, October 20)
Ingrid Abramovitch, RESTORING A HOUSE IN THE CITY (Artisan, October 22)
John Grisham, FORD COUNTY (Doubleday, November 3)
Roy Williams, HARD WORK (Algonquin, November 3)
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Little, Brown, December 1)
Matthew Flaming, KINGDOM OF OHIO (Putnam/Amy Einhorn, December 31)

Books we have read recently, purely as fans, and highly recommend:
INNOCENT, Scott Turow
THE ASK, Sam Lipsyte
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, Colum McCann
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: MY YEAR IN A WOMEN’S PRISON, Piper Kerman
RUNNING WITH BUFFALOES, Chris Lear
TIME AND AGAIN, Jack Finney