FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"A bit short on narrative energy, but appealingly warmhearted; readers will empathize with the endearing characters and want them to have a happy ending."
Unmoored by catastrophe, a father takes his daughter and dog to sea in this gentle novel from Orange Prize finalist Roffey (
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, 2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Well-meaning, well-written and well-plotted, with qualified justice for some of the bad guys and hope for a few of the oppressed: A most appropriate winner of the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction."
Playwright/activist Nussbaum makes her fiction debut with a scathing look at life inside an institution for disabled juveniles.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"An imperfect debut that may still capture the audience's attention and affection given its appealing themes and high-spirited style."
The mysterious disappearance of her local celebrity boyfriend sends Vivi McFadden to her best friend and attorney, Blake O'Hara Heart, and together, the two women explore history, friendship and matters of the heart to get to many different truths.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Shades of Homer Hickham and Pat Conroy appear in this surprising debut from a dad who inspired a Twitter frenzy."
Country roads lead a grieving grandfather a long way home in this emotional rural gothic by, of all people, one of Twitter's most popular celebrities.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Coleridge's smashing epic delivers a wealth of entertainment."
Scandalous behavior, a scheming opportunist and the upper echelons of British society provide fodder for this irresistible rags-to-riches saga by Coleridge (
Pride and Avarice, 2010, etc.), president of Condé Nast International.
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FICTION
Released: May 30, 2013
"An elegant if somewhat old-fashioned delayed-gratification seaside romance with a flavor of Daphne du Maurier."
A candidate for this year's big beach read--the period story of a derailed love affair seen through a sequence of summers spent at Seaview, R.I.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"A skillful miniature psychodrama delivered with humor and knowing restraint."
Enigmatic Agnès Morel provokes intense responses in the people around her, but is she an innocent, a savant or a violent criminal?
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"Hoagland's style is dense and tightly packed, each sentence weighted with significance, which makes the carnage and heartbreak he dramatizes all the more powerful."
A vision of contemporary Africa almost as horrifying as Conrad's in
Heart of Darkness, with violence flaring in all directions--toward children, toward Africans and toward NGO workers engaged in humanitarian works.
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FICTION
Released: June 3, 2013
"More fine work from a writer with a rare gift for blending wit and rue."
A 13-year-old girl finds that keeping secrets can have mortal consequences in this scarifying follow-up to
Apologize! Apologize! (2009).
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FICTION
Released: June 3, 2013
"A cheerily old-fashioned entertainment."
A pleasurably escapist trans-Atlantic mystery is intricately layered with plots, murders, feuds, romances, forgeries--and antiquarian book dealing.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Dominczyk writes knowingly of the issues faced by first-generation Americans and their problematic ties to the home country."
Three girls across two continents face issues of growing up, most particularly sexual relationships and the volatile nature of friendship.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A masterful, page-turning study of complex relationships among our bodies, our minds and our families."
A woman is at a loss to control her morbidly obese brother in the latest feat of unflinching social observation from Shriver (
The New Republic, 2012, etc.).
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