FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A film waiting to happen, this book boasts memorable characters, evocative settings and a suspenseful plot."
A rising star in neonoir, Lange follows up his 2009 novel,
This Wicked World, with a sharply calibrated and affecting tale about a young Mexican beauty who will do anything to reclaim the baby daughter she left in Los Angeles.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Tapani's search, which will lead him through an appalling series of cityscapes to some shattering discoveries about the wife he thought he knew so well, is the stuff of authentic nightmares."
In Tuomainen's first appearance in English translation, a long-unpublished poet takes to the streets of a grimly dystopian Helsinki in search of his vanished wife.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A fine exploration of growing up, weathering heartbreak and picking oneself up over and over."
A teenage girl endures fire, flood and the loss of her parents in this bracing, oddly uplifting debut.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
" A deliciously creepy and intense story."
Strong (
Burning the Sea, 2002) presents a disturbing and erotic narrative about the lives of an oddly matched married couple who host a teenage girl for the summer.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An entertaining book for Tudor history buffs that's grounded in acute psychological and political insight."
A debut novel that considers what might have happened if Anne Boleyn had been able to give Henry VIII the male heir he required.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Readers who missed this book the first time around will want to read the reprint.
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Originally published in 1966 in Australia, Harrower's (
The Catherine Wheel, 1960, etc.) narrative penetrates the intimate lives of an abuser and his enablers in 1940s Australia.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor."
FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Ace symbologist Robert Langdon returns, and the world trembles. Perfect escapist reading for fans."
Brown's (
The Lost Symbol, 2009, etc.) latest, in which a very bad guy is convinced that there are entirely too many people roaming the surface of the planet, and, because he's a fan of Dante and the Plague both, he's set to unleash inferno upon the world.
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FICTION
Released: May 13, 2013
"A thought-provoking collection; "Buying and Selling" is particularly strong."
A sequence of six linked stories explores the lives of those who risk something for their ideals, which is not the same as, and produces quite different results from, risking something for one's beliefs.
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FICTION
Released: May 10, 2013
"Perhaps not the best novel for a Nesbø initiate, but those with an affinity for the darkest and most literary crime fiction will want to get here as soon as they can."
Rarely does a mystery novel succeed on so many levels, as the intricate plotting explores psychological and theological dimensions that go deeper than standard notions of good and evil.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Well-written, strongly characterized and emotionally complex fiction."
YA veteran and National Book Award finalist Caletti (
The Story of Us, 2012, etc.) makes a striking adult debut with this tale of a husband's mysterious disappearance.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Unsparing yet compassionate; a fine addition to Godwin's long list of first-rate fiction bringing 19th-century richness of detail and characterization to the ambiguities of modern life."
Godwin (
Unfinished Desires, 2009, etc.) examines the intricate bonds of family and the enduring scars inflicted by loss.
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