FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"Finely wrought work from an impressive new talent."
Tourists don't see the Hawaii unsparingly yet lyrically depicted in Kahakauwila's debut collection.
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"Less interesting as a novel than as insight into the mind of a novelist."
Autumn turns to winter in this novel about an author of the novelist's own generation, who reflects upon (among other things) the complex relationships between fiction and life, memory and truth.
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A derivative but unmistakably engaging debut."
Last seen in 1906, a frozen explorer, thawed by a scientist/entrepreneur, confounds present-day Boston.
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A flawed gem."
A young British-Indian woman faces a moral crisis while filming a BBC documentary, in Lalwani's follow-up to
Gifted (2007).
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A crisply written, grisly mashup tailor-made for black comedy junkies."
FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A moving novel about life and death."
FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"A perfect recipe of clever, quirky, poignant and fun make this a delightful debut."
When Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is announced as the winner of a dream home in Maine, two women who share the same name may just be what the other needs for a brand new lease on life.
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"By turns lyrical and flirtatious, Brockmole's debut charms with its wistful evocation of a time when handwritten, eagerly awaited letters could bespell besotted lovers."
In 1912, a chance letter from a young student to a reclusive poet sparks a trans-Atlantic romance spanning two wars.
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FICTION
Released: July 15, 2013
"A quick-flowing crime drama that will have fans eager for Willie Black to right another injustice."
Owen's (
Oregon Hill, 2012, etc.) hard-drinking Richmond reporter Willie Black has an inside track on a blockbuster crime story that's "red meat for the on-the-airheads."
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Not quite a love story and not quite a feminist bouquet, but a well-seasoned hybrid."
The hoodlum and the whore: Those labels are accurate but inadequate for the title characters of Young's debut Pao (2011) and this lively companion piece; both are set in mid-20th-century Jamaica.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Dunant's biggest and best work to date, this intelligently readable account of formative events and monster players has Hilary Mantel–era quality best-seller stamped all over it."
The big, bad Borgia dynasty undergoes modern reconsideration in the best-selling British author's epic new biofiction.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Don your hazmat suit, prop up your feet, and enjoy a good yarn."
