FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Impressive work from a virtuoso."
Death haunts this dark collection of 10 stories from Tuck (
I Married You for Happiness, 2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"The always fresh perspective of this one-of-a-kind writer will have you responding like his character, who "laughed with surprise in her heart.""
Getting by, getting over, getting laid: Drury's characters keep busy in his fifth novel, another wild ride.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Electrifying tales of vibrant urban nights and acrid, desperate days."
Love, life, revenge, survival and compassion all figure in this bighearted, daring collection of stories from a gifted Nigerian writer.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A fanciful story layered in symbolism and ripe with lyrical language."
FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A somber, sensitive portrait of how lives fray and bind again in chaotic circumstances."
A decade of war in Chechnya informs this multivalent, heartfelt debut, filled with broken families, lost limbs and valiant efforts to find scraps of hope and dignity.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A praiseworthy effort."
Augustave, a first-time novelist, pens a well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Intriguing historical fiction; a laudable interpretation of colonial life."
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Not a perfect novel, but a strong voice and a compelling achievement."
A wildly ambitious debut novel--vividly imagined, frequently poetic--conjuring the Southern Delta of the first half of the 20th century as a fever dream, steeped in the blues.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A pleasant surprise, elegantly written and keenly observed. Think of it, in a way, as a Little Prince for grown-ups, without the aeronautics."
In his ninth decade, the legendary actor and civil rights activist Poitier adds novelist to his resume.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Resolutely keeping potential action sequences just offstage, le Carré (Our Kind of Traitor, 2010, etc.) focuses instead on the moral rot and creeping terror barely concealed by the affable old-boy blather that marks the pillars of the intelligence community."
The distinguished chronicler of Cold War espionage and its costs casts his cold eye on the fog of war and its legacy when the war sets terrorists against the mercenaries and independent contractors to whom international security has been farmed out.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative, about the nature of guilt and innocence within the context of social class in a rapidly changing culture."
Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some
Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Sandford keeps every stage of the investigation clear, compelling and suspenseful while peeling back layer after layer of a world in which "everybody was hot, everybody was rich.""
