FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story."
Modern-day sorcerers fight a war of words in this intensely analytical yet bombastic thriller.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Delijani falls back on her family's personal experience to write this searing and somber slice-of-life novel, centered around children whose parents were singled out for persecution by the Iranian government, and scores a win with her grittiness and uncompromising realism."
Iran-born Delijani pens a horrifying picture of life in her home country in this sad yet compelling first novel.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Self-important pretensions don't deepen the shallow emotional waters in which these predictable characters swim. Brown is no Louise Erdrich."
In Brown's first novel, an impressionable young woman drifts into animal rights terrorism, goes on the lam and reinvents herself with the help of noble Native Americans and true love.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"As the male character's path to redemption leaves his body increasingly ravaged, Bell's book becomes an unflinching portrait of the struggle to keep a family intact."
A folkloric, allegorical tale of modern marriage, complete with shape-shifting, secret passageways and trials by fire.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"This first installment in a planned trilogy is great in the setup and not so great in the home stretch, which may not bode well for Books 2 and 3."
In Irish-born Patrick's tantalizing debut sci-fi thriller, criminal investigations feature a new breed of specialists with the ability to briefly resuscitate murder and accident victims and ask them whodunit (or what-dunit).
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Delicate handling of deep themes--loss, missed connections, meaninglessness--gives the novel an emotional charge greater than its low-key particulars and pacing."
A French journalist and a Portuguese photographer find they have some uncomfortable things in common in this latest from Le Tellier (
Enough About Love, 2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The best of these stories create an atmosphere of whimsy and menace."
This collection of short fiction interrogates the conventions of storytelling and obliterates the norms of psychological realism.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An installment enhanced by Lee's smooth, competent writing."
This third volume in the Books of Mortals series, a collaboration between Christian writer Dekker and his partner, Lee, continues the tale of an alternative universe with an allegorical flavor.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The fifth in the series (Breaking Silence, 2011, etc.) continues to provide details on the Amish way of life along with a fast-paced mystery that will leave readers stunned."
FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The author delivers a romantic, action-packed plot that is imaginative and emotionally textured."
Discovering she can't touch anyone without potentially killing them, a young woman goes on the run and meets a mysterious man who harbors a few life-changing secrets of his own.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2013
"Though clinical at first glance, this well-turned story packs plenty of emotion. Among the smartest of the batch of recent American war novels."
A mother considers the fate of her son, a Navy SEAL, with equal measures of intellect and heartbreak in this debut.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A smart fish-out-of-water conceit, but it's a little ungainly, never quite settling on a tone with which to crack wise about its wiseguys."
Neither the witness protection program nor rural France can tame a Mafioso in this seriocomic romp.
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