FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Daniel and Casey's story is warmhearted but slight."
Can a struggling boy who writes beautiful music find love with a privileged girl who writes beautiful lyrics? Maybe in a country song.
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Released: June 6, 2013
"High fashion and high drama coexist in equal measure in this insightful novel."
Szado looks at the era when Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is in New York City working on
Le Petit Prince, an era complicated by a love triangle involving his Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, and an apprentice couturière, Mignonne Lachapelle.
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FICTION
Released: June 7, 2013
"A provocative tale that undoes any romantic delusions a reader might hold about ancient Greek society and thought."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"In his first novel since The Appearance of Impropriety (1993), San Francisco trial lawyer Walker delivers a convincing portrait of misbehavior among the rich and powerful."
Years after watching his preppy friends sexually violate a young woman at a Palm Beach party, lowly assistant DA George Becket puts himself at risk by investigating their involvement in the unsolved murder of a girl in Cape Cod.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Like Suzanne Rendell in the novel The Other Typist (2013), Silver explores convolutions of guilt and innocence beyond the law's narrow scope with a sharpness and attention to detail that can be unnerving but demands attention."
Trained as a lawyer, Silver has written a darkly witty, acerbic jigsaw puzzle of a first novel about legal versus moral culpability.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Women will like this book."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"The author's success--she's a minister and LGBT rights advocate--lies in the simplicity of her style and the honesty of her words as she builds each story, one as fine as the next."
Whether she's writing about gay or straight relationships, the dynamics of family ties or friendships, Beach-Ferrara's exploration of the numerous types of love are spot-on in her debut short story collection.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Winthrop's novel is tender and true, and if it slows at times, in the end it reveals a quiet beauty."
A somber novel about the effects of suicide on a family and the secret wounds that become memorials.
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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."
