NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2013
"A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis."
Memoirist, essayist and novelist Gallagher (
The Sacred Meal, 2009, etc.) explores the series of events set into motion by the startling diagnosis that she suffered from a condition causing blindness.
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INDIE
Released: May 22, 2013
"Fully realized characters, a remarkable fluency of language, wit, and an extensive comprehension of French culture and history make this literary novel a stellar achievement."
Carpenter's (
This Jealous Earth, 2012) suspenseful debut novel weaves together the consequences of a horrific trauma and the thirst for both vengeance and acceptance with explorations of the human mind, family dynamics and the complexities of language.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 23, 2013
"A sobering, even startling, view of an academic world that has fundamentally altered and softened in the last half-century."
Edited and translated transcripts of recordings of a university class in English literature taught in the fall of 1966 by the celebrated Argentinian author.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 26, 2013
"A dispassionate, academic account supported by reasoned facts in place of political passions."
Two University of Washington political science professors offer a rigorous scholarly investigation of the tea party.
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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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