NONFICTION
Released: June 21, 2013
"A delicious throwback memoir, writerly and rich."
In five dated yet beautifully crafted essays, Fallowell (
Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book, 2008, etc.) mines some early trips he took for literary inspiration.
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INDIE
Released: June 23, 2013
"A poignant, heartfelt memoir that offers support and inspiration."
NONFICTION
Released: June 24, 2013
"A thorough disclosure on today's airlines and the passengers who use them--best read while still on the ground."
NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Passionate and erudite, but with sharply focused appeal."
Veteran professor Landon (English/Univ. of Iowa;
Understanding Thomas Berger, 2009, etc.) urges a return to the sentence theories and pedagogy of Francis Christensen, whose ideas about cumulative sentences held sway for about a decade 40 years ago.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 25, 2013
"Brilliant in execution and hysterical in dialogue; Shea's pretty great, too. (Picture book. 3-6)"
FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Inhabiting an appealing if familiar scenario, this is a novel long on empathy but missing the spark of animation."
A sympathetic debut charts the days following a matriarch's death during which three generations of the same family see their settled lives begin to splinter.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Romantically tepid."
Charlie Burden is literally burdened. His career has devolved into meaningless administration; his marriage is lifeless, his children grown. Could he redeem himself and perhaps find love amid the coal fields and mountains of West Virginia?
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A tad overlong, but funny lines, fiendishly complicated plotting, and swiftly and sharply etched characters make this installment one of the most enjoyable in the series."
Odds favor a good time for the reader as Joe DeMarco faces his eighth case: a looming insider trading scandal with potentially fatal consequences.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"The Confessions of Max Tivoli was more inventive and more satisfying."
A woman inhabits three different selves in a time-travel novel from an author long fascinated by the manipulation of time (
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2004, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A tender, nail-biting account of an orca's fate as the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Department considered trapping and sending him to captivity."
Six years in the life of a young killer whale that lost contact with his family yet managed to survive on his own.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Adams presents Davis warts and all, as a callous, scheming tycoon who amassed a fortune and then did an about-face and behaved with honesty, responsibility and generosity as he transformed archaeology from glorified grave robbing to a science. "
Long before Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb, Theodore Davis (1837–1915) was the driving force in the exploration of the Valley of the Kings. Adams vividly portrays the unlikely robber baron who set the standards for archaeology.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"It won't be the last word on the play, but Critchley and Webster provide plenty of food for thought and fuel for obsession."
A philosophy professor and a psychoanalyst--also husband and wife--take
Hamlet well beyond the confines of literary criticism and Shakespearean scholarship.
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