On Sale Next Week: Clive Cussler's New Underwater Adventure

by Charlotte Abbott, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 5/29/2007

You can taste summer in the titles arriving next week, especially in the major laydowns for Clive Cussler’s latest collaboration with Paul Kemprecos and Ann Brashares’s first adult novel.

[c] = children’s titles

H = PW starred review

June 5

The Navigator by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95). 650,000 copies.

The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares (Riverhead, $24.95). 600,000 copies.

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader (Warner, $25.99). 400,000 copies.

The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). 300,000 copies.

Spare Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam, $24.95). 250,000 copies.

The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley, $25.95). 225,000 copies.

Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule (Free Press, $26). 200,000 copies.

[c]Peek-a-Baby by Karen Katz (Little Simon, $6.99). 200,000 copies.

H On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Doubleday/Talese, $22). 200,000 copies.

Grace Will Lead Me Home by Robin Givens (Miramax, $23.95). 150,000 copies.

Dedication by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (Atria, $24). 100,000 copies.

This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood by Jack Valenti (Harmony, $25.95). 100,000 copies.

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption by John Perkins (Dutton, $25.95).

June 6

F5: Devastation, Survival and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine (Miramax, $25.95). 150,000 copies.

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound by Mick Brown (Knopf, $26.95). 60,000 copies.

Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas by Rick Moody (Little, Brown, $23.99). 30,000 copies.

For a complete listing of major titles on sale between now and December 30, 2007, go to PW’s exclusive online calendar (http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA381847.html?display=feature)