FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Grecian packs in almost more plot than a body can stand, but he presents with fine precision the gray and gritty atmosphere of late-Victorian England."
Scotland Yard inspector Walter Day, first introduced in Grecian's
The Yard (2012), returns to help solve a murder or two in the Black Country of the Midlands.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A good beach read, set in a beach town."
A fast-paced novel about the enduring friendship of three young women who spent their summers in Avalon on the Jersey shore before dispersing across the country.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation."
A Hong Kong–based executive suggests that the dreaded Chinese juggernaut has a few cracks in its armor.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 21, 2013
"While the information is solid and simply presented, and the photos are eye-catching, the layout gets in the way of clarity. Stick with Kingfisher's Baby Animals series for zoology in board-book form. (Board book. 3-4)"
This introduction to zoology features a cover of layered, bubble-shaped pages of various sizes, each with an image of a zoo animal peeking through.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 21, 2013
"Grab your blankets and sunscreen now: This is an ideal summer beach book. (Romance. 13 & up)"
An unlikely young couple finds true love during summer break--but can it withstand their different lives?
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A difficult, unsettling and ultimately disappointing critique of the American worldview."
"[E]xceptionalism is a national impediment America can no longer afford," declares journalist Smith (
Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post–Western World, 2010, etc.) in this challenge to Americans' view of themselves.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A charmingly conversational tale of devotion--to each other and to the science and art of medicine."
Two brothers, both doctors, reflect on a remarkable journey from their childhood in newly independent India to their success and renown in Obama's America.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"An interminable slog with pauses for Fenwick (Innocent Blood, 2008, etc.) to reconnect with his kids, lust over Octavia and bicker with police superiors."
FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Less engaging than Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (2012), but still a sharp portrait of scholarly rivalries that makes room for a riff on jazz in a Mozart score and a grim reminder of East and West Germany as the wall was going up."
Six loosely connected stories featuring that mid-20th-century Cambridge sleuth Canon Chambers.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Bulawayo crafts a moving and open-eyed coming-of-age story."
A loosely concatenated novel in which Darling, the main character and narrator of the story, moves from her traditional life in Zimbabwe to a much less traditional one in the States.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"The stories spill from Hosseini's bountiful imagination, but they compete against each other, denying the novel a catalyst; the result is a bloated, unwieldy work."
After two stellar novels set (mostly) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini's third tacks among Afghanistan, California, France and Greece to explore the effect of the Afghan diaspora on identity.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Unfortunately, just when the motifs of cognitive dissonance and self-deception are about to deliver a fitting climax, the piece resolves with an anodyne coda of unearned redemption."
Kalotay's soulful second novel chronicles the collateral damage three classical musicians inflict on the people who love them.
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