FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An elegant comedy and an auspicious debut."
Jane Austen, or maybe Edith Wharton, goes to Singapore, turning in this lively, entertaining novel of manners.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Walls turns what could have been another sentimental girl-on-the-run-finds-home cliché into a fresh consideration of both adolescence and the South on the cusp of major social change."
Memoirist Walls, who has written about her own nomadic upbringing (
The Glass Castle, 2006) and her remarkable grandmother (the novelized biography
Half Broke Horses, 2009), turns to out-and-out fiction in this story about two young sisters who leave behind their life on the road for the small Virginia town their mother escaped years before.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A warmhearted, understated serving of comfort food."
Four strangers sharing a railway carriage from Edinburgh to London recall their very different experiences of love in this stand-alone from McCall Smith (
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil, 2012, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A modern update of The Spoils of Poynton; elegant, assured, often moving and with a gentle moral lesson to boot."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Kerrigan's unresolved angst is the artificial heart of this real, joyous celebration of Copenhagen."
A sui generis work, the third in the author's Copenhagen Quartet, following
In the Company of Angels (2010) and
Falling Sideways (2011); these stand-alone novels have nothing in common save their Copenhagen setting.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A fine read for lovers of escapist fiction."
FICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"An obvious choice for fans of Dracula and Frankenstein and for anyone whose reading tastes extend into the realm of superstition."
California resident Prouty's debut novel will stoke the interest of Dracula lovers everywhere.
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FICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"Clever and witty: the best kind of summer book. "
A subversively charming debut about a group of happily imperfect New Yorkers from Dublin-based Casey, wife of novelist Joseph O'Connor.
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FICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"A beautifully written, at times lyrical, study of a disintegrating community. Roy, author of the Edgar Award-winning mystery Bent Road (2011), tackles similar themes here with equally successful results."
FICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"Laymon moves us dazzlingly (and sometimes bewilderingly) from 1964 to 1985 to 2013 and incorporates themes of prejudice, confusion and love rooted in an emphatically post-Katrina world."
FICTION
Released: June 17, 2013
"Hage's characters, while not necessarily larger than life, are certainly weirder than life, and Hage writes about them with humor and affection."
FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Family may be unstable and downright unbalanced, but in this witty, assured, surprising novel, family still has to accept you--mistakes and all."
Some families tangle and unravel, while others knit together, hiding every flaw. Claudia Silver, unfortunately, has grown up in the unraveling kind.
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