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Released: May 21, 2013
"This novel, first published in Norway, was worth the wait."
Miller's affecting debut, about a cantankerous Jewish widower transplanted to Norway who becomes party to a hate crime, is an unusual hybrid: part memory novel, part police procedural, part sociopolitical tract and part existential meditation.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A clever, well-conceived dual portrait that shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island."
Fidel Castro contemplates his legacy at the end of his life while a disgruntled Cuban expat plots to hurry that end along.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Sparkling dialogue and warm characters make Kamali's debut novel perfect for book clubs."
Career, love, happiness--for Mina Rezayi, everything becomes a gently humorous negotiation between her Iranian heritage and her American hopes, between her mother and herself.
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Released: May 21, 2013
"Top-notch effort in the first of a promising trilogy."
Ahmad debuts with a fast-paced literary thriller, shifting action from the desolate ice-clad Siachen glacier separating India and Pakistan to the posh environs of Martha's Vineyard.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"The stories spill from Hosseini's bountiful imagination, but they compete against each other, denying the novel a catalyst; the result is a bloated, unwieldy work."
After two stellar novels set (mostly) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini's third tacks among Afghanistan, California, France and Greece to explore the effect of the Afghan diaspora on identity.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Bulawayo crafts a moving and open-eyed coming-of-age story."
A loosely concatenated novel in which Darling, the main character and narrator of the story, moves from her traditional life in Zimbabwe to a much less traditional one in the States.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Grecian packs in almost more plot than a body can stand, but he presents with fine precision the gray and gritty atmosphere of late-Victorian England."
Scotland Yard inspector Walter Day, first introduced in Grecian's
The Yard (2012), returns to help solve a murder or two in the Black Country of the Midlands.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A sesquicentennial series volume worth a Civil War buff's attention."
Shaara (
A Blaze of Glory, 2012, etc.) continues to draw powerful novels from the bloody history of the Civil War, offering here an account of the siege of Vicksburg.
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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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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Less byplay among the regulars than usual, mainly since whenever promising domestic and group complications arise, Adler-Olsen lets them die on the vine. But the detection and thrills are authentic."
Inspector Carl Mørck and his raffish colleagues at Copenhagen's Department Q (
The Absent One, 2012, etc.) go up against a truly fiendish kidnapper.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Engaging, charming and moving, a beautifully rendered exploration of WWII on the homefront and the type of friendship that helps us survive all manner of battles."
Two World War II soldiers' wives begin a pen-pal correspondence and help each other through the emotional upheaval of war.
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