FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A lovely book, and a wonderful revisiting of tales that, told once again, are meant to inspire--well, if not piety, at least more humane behavior toward our fellow adventurers."
Elegant, pointed retelling of the classic of medieval Arabian literature by Lebanese novelist and journalist al-Shaykh (
The Locust and the Bird, 2009, etc.).
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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 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 4, 2013
"Dominczyk writes knowingly of the issues faced by first-generation Americans and their problematic ties to the home country."
Three girls across two continents face issues of growing up, most particularly sexual relationships and the volatile nature of friendship.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Brown is able to make his narrative both sizzling and swashbuckling."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Witty, wicked and occasionally too clever. If Simone writes songs half as well as she writes fiction, expect her to become a household name."
Unemployed woman meets man on the Internet in this forceful, scabrous satire-cum–morality tale.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A gorgeously spun and deftly told tale."
The Laguna family is cursed. Generation after generation of women fall hopelessly in love and bear only daughters, who, in time, suffer their own hopeless loves.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"An elegy to love and loss and reconciliation."
Irwin debuts with movingly rendered literary fiction about love and loss, youth and maturity, ambition and its cost.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A masterful, page-turning study of complex relationships among our bodies, our minds and our families."
A woman is at a loss to control her morbidly obese brother in the latest feat of unflinching social observation from Shriver (
The New Republic, 2012, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Greenwood, best known for her Phryne Fisher mysteries, has written historical novels as well (Out of the Black Land, 2013, etc.). The first of her three Delphic Women series to be available in the United States is an enthralling, sensual, tragic tale packed with historical detail."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"An unusually accomplished and nuanced coming-of-age drama."
DiSclafani's debut chronicles a teenager's life-changing year at an elite boarding school in the North Carolina mountains.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A satisfying read that evokes the leisurely warmth of long summer days and true connection."
Three generations of women navigate love, loyalty and class issues in a Cape Cod resort town.
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