CHILDREN'S
Released: June 15, 2013
"The plot is hardly ever credible, but readers will be too scared to notice. And the best horror stories don't need to make any more sense than a dream--or a nightmare. (Horror. 9-12)"
Some kids have been waiting their entire lives for a book about a floating eyeball, even if they didn't know it. This is that book.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"A clever history of how the Tudors ushered England into the medieval age, illustrating the broad influence they exerted both then and now."
Lipscomb (Early Modern History/Univ. of East Anglia;
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, 2009) combines her credentials as historian/TV presenter/author to give us a thorough history/guided tour of the Tudors.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"Laymon moves us dazzlingly (and sometimes bewilderingly) from 1964 to 1985 to 2013 and incorporates themes of prejudice, confusion and love rooted in an emphatically post-Katrina world."
INDIE
Released: June 15, 2013
"An impressive collection brimming with originality."
Editor Berman (
Wilde Stories 2012, etc.) compiles an eerie, moving volume of gay-themed speculative fiction.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"A thoroughly enjoyable book from a historian's historian who can write for the masses."
The story of William the Conqueror's invasion of England is hardly new, but the situations that prompted it on both sides of the English Channel have never been told in so much depth.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"In a style that methodically builds suspense, Smith delivers the story of a hero able to rise to the challenge in the face of escalating troubles."
Set in 1930, a former soldier must leave his quiet farm life in the outskirts of Soviet-controlled Ukraine to find his kidnapped niece.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 14, 2013
"For those fascinated by Irish history, but probably not many more. (Historical fiction. 9-14)"
This middle-grade historical novel set in Ireland during the mid-17th century is low on character and a little muddled in story but offers lots of history.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2013
"Duplessis' string of lovers was sufficiently fascinating to become the basis of books, plays and Verdi's opera. As a chronicle of French life, Kavanagh's book is great fun; as biography, it's scattered."
Intelligent Life contributing editor Kavanagh (
Nureyev: The Life, 2007, etc.) attempts to sort out the biography of the short-lived Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis (1824–1847).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 14, 2013
"Just as dreadful as the first book. (Paranormal romance. 14 & up)"
The turgid adventures of a half-breed vampire and the human girl who loves him continue (
Black City, 2012).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"Certain hokum for skeptics, but the more open-minded will savor this chillingly convincing testimonial."
Prolific Irish author and lecturer Brennan's (
Magic & Mysticism in Tibet, 2010, etc.) lifelong fascination with psychic phenomena fuels this comprehensive analysis of potential supernatural influences on history.
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INDIE
Released: June 13, 2013
"An occasionally muddled, overambitious foray into an X-Men–like universe."
Kids the system has given up on acquire power of their own in Thompson's (
The Anarchists, 2012, etc.) YA debut sci-fi thriller, the first in a series set among students at an alternative high school.
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FICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"A beautifully written, at times lyrical, study of a disintegrating community. Roy, author of the Edgar Award-winning mystery Bent Road (2011), tackles similar themes here with equally successful results."
