NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"You'll still need an anatomy textbook to grasp all the body's parts, but this book is a lovely, lively complement."
NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"A welcome new edition of a classic."
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 27, 2013
"An exceptionally well-written journey to make sense of the senseless. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
After one life-changing night with her secret crush Andy Cooper, Frenchie Garcia, a cigarette-smoking artist who quotes Dickinson and hangs out in a cemetery, is haunted.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Perhaps too detailed, but a useful contribution to an already rich literature."
A thoroughgoing, sometimes plodding account of the first major federal bailout of New York, one met with happier tidings than the equivalent of that old headline reading, "Ford to City: Drop Dead."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 28, 2013
"Exciting, action-packed and absolutely marvelous. (Fantasy. 10 & up)"
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Guengerich enriches his book with specific human elements drawn from his pastoral career, making it accessible and even evocative. However, he is simply following in the footsteps of thinkers across time who yearned for spirituality but rejected the world of the spirit."
FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"An expertly written tale of ancient crimes, with every period detail--and every detail, period--just right."
The sins of the fathers are always visited upon the sons--and in Meyer's sweeping, absorbing epic, there are plenty of them.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"No matter a person's ethnic or cultural background, this book is relatable."
Lester's (
Black, White, Other, 2011, etc.) poignant narrative probes the relationship between a mother and her biracial daughter.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Carlson has taken full advantage of abundant material to deliver a vivid chronicle of two working Civil War reporters and their spectacular odyssey."
A rollicking story of imprisonment and escape during the Civil War seems a stretch, but journalist Carlson accomplished a similar feat with a Soviet premier in
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009), and this is another entertaining, occasionally gruesome account.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Scholarly essays packed with closely reasoned arguments from the author and fellow academics, plus extensive historical analyses of thinkers from Aristotle to Spinoza to Malcolm Gladwell. Patient readers with a taste for philosophy will find that reading this book is a stimulating experience."
Why do some people behave honorably and others badly? This has been a core question since the dawn of philosophy, and Ravven (Religious Studies/Hamilton Coll.; co-editor:
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, 2002) discusses the possibilities.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"A wonderfully engaging study executed with a lot of heart."
Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I, the remaining members of which are depicted in this gloriously colorful swan song.
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INDIE
Released: May 28, 2013
"An earnestly optimistic and uplifting fairy tale."
Neftzger (
Confessions from a Moving Van, 2012) makes a promising entry into young-adult fantasy with this sincere, whimsical allegory that's built on the trope of the hero's quest and explores themes of freedom, creativity and teamwork.
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