NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A competent but light-hitting account of a pivotal summer."
Former professional baseball player and current sports journalist Colton (
No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life, 2010, etc.) returns with an account of the 1964 season of the racially integrated Birmingham Barons of the Southern League.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"De Kretser negotiates the fragmentation of her major characters with aplomb as well as with an aggressive but rhapsodic prose style."
Two travelers--a man from Sri Lanka and a woman from Australia--ultimately meet up as both their lives and their narratives intertwine.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A fine exploration of growing up, weathering heartbreak and picking oneself up over and over."
A teenage girl endures fire, flood and the loss of her parents in this bracing, oddly uplifting debut.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A highly selective chronicle of elaborate eleventh-hour heroics by unconventional thinkers and men of action."
An instructive series of portraits of five military outsiders called in to turn defeat into victory.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Although inventive, the plot holds little appeal for readers who've never been interested in attending Comic-Con."
Readers who haven't indulged in comic books since Archie and Jughead first strolled the halls of Riverdale High may find it difficult to relate to Palwick's (
Brief Visits, 2012, etc.) newest novel, a mixture of the serious and the absurd.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Long's narrative is full of trite observations, but her appealing story and quirky characters provide a pleasant few hours' worth of diversion."
Long (
Christmas Confessions, 2008, etc.) adds another feel-good romance/self-revelation novel to her resume.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A tear-jerker."
A mystery and a love story told from the alternating perspectives of Libby, her husband, Jack, and Jack's first, now-deceased wife, Eve, after Libby discovers Eve's hidden diaries.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Military buffs will give this high marks; general readers may find it hard to relate to the author's relentlessly macho ethos, but they will find it hard not to admire his fierce dedication."
Memoirs from members of Special Forces tend to mix combat fireworks with a leavening of modesty, but O'Neal, writing with veteran co-author Fisher (with Tom Coughlin:
Earn the Right to Win, 2013, etc.), dispenses with the modesty at no great cost.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Hiccups aside, a mostly valuable compendium of irrational thinking, with a handful of blanket corrective maneuvers."
A waggish, cautionary compilation of pitfalls associated with systematic cognitive errors, from novelist Dobelli.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A daughter's tender tribute to a remarkable mother."
Philanthropist and environmental activist Daly writes about her spiritual search as she shared her mother's courageous 4-year battle with the ravages of pancreatic cancer.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An enjoyable argument that speaks to the paper lover in all of us."
With a playfulness that begins with the title, this "elegy" to paper is instead a celebration of its essential, ubiquitous role in society, culture and life itself.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"The small-scale mysteries thrown Davis' way have more charm than the finale, which gets confusing in its complexity."
A jackpot job turns into snake eyes when a casino investigator gets caught in a case of mistaken identity.
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