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Fiction

E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)
ISBN# 0375506713, Publicist: Jennifer Jones, 212-572-8763, jmjones@randomhouse.com

Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)
ISBN# 0375421459, Publicist: Katie Freeman, 212-572-2685, kfreeman@randomhouse.com

Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
ISBN# 0374278644, Publicist: Jeff Seroy, 212-206-5326, jseroy@fsgbooks.com

Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)
ISBN# 0688176941, Publicist: Debbie Stier, 212-207-7788, debbie.stier@harpercollins.com

William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
ISBN# 0670033928, Publicist: Paul Slovak, 212-366-2219, paul.slovak@us.penguingroup.com

Nonfiction

Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
ISBN# 0374219737, Publicist: Jeff Seroy, 212-206-5326, jseroy@fsgbooks.com

Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin)
ISBN # 0618446966, Publicist: Lori Glazer, 212-420-5840, lori_glazer@hmco.com

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf)
ISBN# 140004314x, Nicholas Latimer, 212-572-2106, nlatimer@randomhouse.com

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books/Henry Holt),
ISBN# 0805076824, Publicist: Claire Mckinney, 646-307-5241, claire.mckinney@hholt.com

Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)
ISBN# 0618104690, Publicist: Lori Glazer, 212-420-5840, lori_glazer@hmco.com

Poetry

John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco)
ISBN# 0060765291, Publicist: Info coming soon.

Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
ISBN# 0374269734, Publicist: Jeff Seroy, 212-206-5326, jseroy@fsgbooks.com

Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005
(Louisiana State University Press)
ISBN# 0807130478, Publicist: Barbara Outland, 225-578-8282, boutlan@lsu.edu

W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
ISBN# 1556592183, Publicist: Joseph Bednarik, 360-385-4925 x109, joseph@coppercanyonpress.org

Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)
ISBN# 0912592540, Publicist: Stephen Haven, 419-289-5979, shaven@ashland.edu

Young People's Literature

Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)
ISBN# 0375831436, Publicist: Shanta Small, 212-782-9677, ssmall@randomhouse.com

Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam)
ISBN# 0399237836, Publicist: Derry Wilkens, 212-414-3671, derry.wilkens@us.penguingroup.com

Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum)
ISBN# 0689847890, Publicist: Kimberly Lauber, 212-698-2713, kimberly.lauber@simonandschuster.com

Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest)
ISBN# 006058291x, Publicist: Audra Boltion, 212-261-6791, audra.boltion@harpercollins.com

Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)
ISBN# 0152051139, Publicist: Kia Neri, 619-699-6534, kneri@harcourt.com