FICTION
Released: April 23, 2013
"Two lessons: Don't discount a woman just because she's made of clay, and consider your wishes carefully should you find that magic lamp."
Can't we all just get along? Perhaps yes, if we're supernatural beings from one side or another of the Jewish-Arab divide.
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FICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"Probing yet accessible, beautifully written and richly characterized: fine work from a writer to watch."
A young woman has her eyes opened to her community's limitations--and her own--in television writer/producer Brill's strong debut.
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FICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"Mazari and Hillman's collaboration reveals the rich culture of a region largely unknown in the West."
Tales from the oral tradition of Afghanistan, a land where "memories are not made of air and light and colour [but]...of iron and stone"; in this collection, the stories vary in tone from the homely to the harrowing.
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FICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"Students of Soviet-era Russian culture will enjoy reading between the lines. Readers who love a good ghost story will enjoy it, period."
An excellent anthology of psych-and-spook mischief from behind the Iron Curtain, where a literature rich in such things held sway during the Soviet era.
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FICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"A well-turned debut that airdrops its characters into an appealingly offbeat milieu."
FICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"While the nonlinear structure is initially frustrating, there are enough brutal and beautiful moments to make this book absorbing."
The second novel by British author and political journalist Ledgard (
Giraffe, 2006) is a tangle of rich imagery, philosophical nuggets and factual anecdotes. And yes, there is also a plot, but one that the book abandons and rejoins at will.
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FICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"Macomber's writing and storytelling deliver what she's famous for--a smooth, satisfying tale with characters her fans will cheer for and an arc that is cozy, heartwarming and ends with the expected happily-ever-after."
When Libby Morgan is expecting to be named partner of her law firm but instead gets laid off, she's shocked and angry, but it may prove to be just what she needs to create the life she deserves.
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FICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"A successful Johansen novel, filled with intriguing twists and characters and an overarching mystery that will keep fans coming back for Book 2."
Jim Doane will stop at nothing to get the answers he wants as to what happened to his son, and he knows forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is the key; not only can she recreate Kevin's face from his skull, but she's a character in a deadly game she doesn't even know she's playing.
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FICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"Kerr masterfully explores morality's shadowy gray edge."
FICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"Treacly and entirely predictable, though it will no doubt appeal to undemanding readers looking for a warm and fuzzy adventure."
More sentimental fiction from actor/author Wilder (
What Is This Thing Called Love?, 2010, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"Heartbreak occasionally spiced with hilarity characterizes this persuasive docu-novel that scrutinizes mothers with limited sentimentality."
The low-key yet wrenching story of a Brooklyn couple who, after cancer and failed fertility treatment, endure more, different pain in their fixation to achieve parenthood.
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FICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"Ambitious and involving, capturing the zeitgeist of the liberal intelligentsia of the era."
Wolitzer (
The Uncoupling, 2011) follows a group of friends from adolescence at an artsy summer camp in 1974 through adulthood and into late-middle age as their lives alternately intersect, diverge and reconnect.
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