There’s a dash of Walter Mitty in each of us, daydreaming we’re people we’re not, that we’re double agents, fashion models, daredevil pilots, maybe even Julia Child. Vibrant, atmospheric books let us imagine those other lives while keeping our feet firmly planted to the ground. Whether it’s the life of a determined teenager on a Native American reservation out to right a severe wrong or the machinations of a “ghostman,” someone whose criminal life is successful because he’s so good at making himself disappear, these books open worlds usually closed to us. “I write because I want to have more than one life,” Anne Tyler has said. That’s also why we read.
FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"This second novel in a planned trilogy lacks the breadth and richness of Erdrich at her best, but middling Erdrich is still pretty great."
Erdrich returns to the North Dakota Ojibwe community she introduced in
The Plague of Doves (2008)--akin but at a remove from the community she created in the continuum of books from
Love Medicine to
The Red Convertible--in this story about the aftermath of a rape.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Finding nourishment, kosher-style, clever chick lit expands its usual boundaries."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"A great revival of an older genre, the treasure hunt, and associated adventures."
Wall Street Journal editor Stewart (
Hunting the Tiger: The Fast Life and Violent Death of the Balkans' Most Dangerous Man, 2008) makes use of the legacy of a 1930s explorer and adventurer in a new attempt to locate a fabled city in the tropical rain forests of Honduras.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"A smart entry into the modern thriller pantheon, at once slick and gritty."
An ice-in-his-veins fixer trawls Atlantic City for a missing bundle of cash in this watertight debut thriller.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"A valuable contribution to the literature of the Drug War."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 4, 2011
"Quirky, outlandish fiction: To say it's offbeat is to seriously underestimate its weirdness."
A debut novel from Russell (stories:
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, 2006) about female alligator wrestlers, ghost boyfriends and a theme park called World of Darkness.
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