September 1, 2009
THIS SEASON AT THE GERNERT COMPANY

Grant Wahl's THE BECKHAM EXPERIMENT debuted at number 9 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List.

Gayle Forman's IF I STAY was an international bestseller, hitting the bestseller lists in the US, UK and France.

Margaret Carroll’s A DARK LOVE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which lauded its "tight prose and excellent pacing" to create a "tense first thriller."

Kirstin Allio’s story "Clothed, Female Figure" will be included in the 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.

Toby Barlow won two American Library Association (ALA) awards for SHARP TEETH.

Pseudonymous Bosch's THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET has been shortlisted for the Bedfordshire Children's Book of the Year Award.

Joe Pernice, of the Pernice Brothers, released an eponymous companion record for his debut novel, IT FEELS SO GOOD WHEN I STOP (Riverhead, August).

John Freeman's full-page opinion piece – adapted from his forthcoming book THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL – ran in the August 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal.

J. Saunders Elmore was interviewed in USA Today about THE AMATEUR AMERICAN.

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)

Summer 2009 Publications:
Mark Mills, THE INFORMATION OFFICER (HarperCollins UK, April 30)
Jim Huston, MARINE ONE (St. Martin’s, May 12)
Larry Doyle, I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER movie release (June 9)
Cristina Nehring, A VINDICATION OF LOVE (HarperCollins, June 16)
Ian MacKenzie, CITY OF STRANGERS (Penguin, June 30)
David Levien, WHERE THE DEAD LAY (July 7)
Mary Guterson, GONE TO THE DOGS (St. Martin’s, July 7)
Mike Lawson, HOUSE SECRETS (Grove, July 8)
Michael Harvey, THE FIFTH FLOOR paperback (Vintage Crime, July 14)
Grant Wahl, THE BECKHAM EXPERIMENT (Crown, July 14)
Anna Winger, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE paperback (Riverhead, August 4)
J. Saunders Elmore, THE AMATEUR AMERICAN (Crown, August 4)
Margaret Carroll, A DARK LOVE paperback (Morrow, August 25)
Stewart O’Nan SONGS FOR THE MISSING paperback (Penguin, August 25)

Books we have read recently, purely as fans, and highly recommend:
MORAL DISORDER & OTHER STORIES, Margaret Atwood
ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT, Michael Dobbs
CITY OF THIEVES, David Benioff
SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin
WINNICOTT, Adam Phillips
EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck