CHILDREN'S
Released: June 18, 2013
"The beginning of a trilogy, this tale is valuable for both its recounting of a historical tragedy and its immersive Choctaw perspective. (Historical fiction. 8-12)"
A 10-year-old Choctaw boy recounts the beginnings of the forced resettlement of his people from their Mississippi-area homelands in 1830.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 18, 2013
"High-stakes science, portrayed in one of the scarier entries in this bar-setting series. (glossary, notes, bibliography, index) (Nonfiction. 10-14)"
Rusch (
Mighty Mars Rovers, 2012) cranks up the pressure as she portrays scientists whose work requires getting
entirely too close to active or soon-to-be-active volcanoes.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A skillfully written novel of manners, with quiet domestic drama spiced with fine comic moments. The payoff is priceless, too."
A sometimes-brooding but always sympathetic novel, by prize-winning British writer O'Farrell, of a family's struggles to overlook the many reasons why they should avoid each other's glances and phone calls.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Hilarious to, at worst, mildly amusing glimpses of a comic genius at play. Even the pigeon would agree."
Twenty years of doodles collected in a coffee-table volume, offering a well from which Willems has indeed drawn more than the importunate pigeon starring in many of his seemingly artless, improbably successful children's books.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Amiable international intrigue that's less James Bond than Matt Helm."
The chronicler of Stephanie Plum (
Notorious Nineteen, 2012, etc.) teams up with screenwriter Goldberg (
Mr. Monk Goes to Germany, 2008, etc.) to kick off a lighthearted new series pairing an FBI agent with the con artist who's been her chronic prey.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The author delivers a romantic, action-packed plot that is imaginative and emotionally textured."
Discovering she can't touch anyone without potentially killing them, a young woman goes on the run and meets a mysterious man who harbors a few life-changing secrets of his own.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Doubly moving in light of Relin's own untimely death."
The tortuous route of two intrepid eye doctors, one Nepalese, one American, in their journey to eradicate preventable blindness in the Himalayas.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The fifth in the series (Breaking Silence, 2011, etc.) continues to provide details on the Amish way of life along with a fast-paced mystery that will leave readers stunned."
CHILDREN'S
Released: June 18, 2013
"The best thing about this book? Its reassuring look back at all the things the happy and successful students have enjoyed about kindergarten--equally valuable at the beginning and the end of the school year. (Picture book. 3-5)"
On graduation day, a patient teacher leads her class through a guessing game about what has been the best thing about kindergarten.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An installment enhanced by Lee's smooth, competent writing."
This third volume in the Books of Mortals series, a collaboration between Christian writer Dekker and his partner, Lee, continues the tale of an alternative universe with an allegorical flavor.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A weird, operatic coming-of-age fantasy streaked with sexuality, pain and heroism; perhaps the awkward arrival of a new voice."
When her best friend, a talking sea monster, disappears, Lilly must embark on a sequence of self-sacrificing quests to release him, starting with the removal of her reproductive organs.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The best of these stories create an atmosphere of whimsy and menace."
This collection of short fiction interrogates the conventions of storytelling and obliterates the norms of psychological realism.
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