FICTION
Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"A fun beach read for urban sophisticates or those who think they are."
From Semple (
This One Is Mine, 2008), a cleverly constructed Internet-age domestic comedy about a wife/mother/genius architect who goes a little nuts from living in that cesspool of perfection and bad weather called Seattle.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"Screwball romance with a likable and vulnerable heroine."
Plucky bride-to-be makes an unexpected connection after she appropriates a stranger's cellphone.
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"Another ambitious change of pace from talented and visionary Egan, who reinvents the novel for the 21st century while affirming its historic values."
"Time's a goon," as the action moves from the late 1970s to the early 2020s while the characters wonder what happened to their youthful selves and ideals.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
"Funny, humane and artful. "
An English-language newspaper headquartered in Rome brings together a strongly imagined cast of characters in journalist Rachman's first novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 20, 2008
"Kind of like if Office Space ended with scenes from the Kevin Costner vehicle Mr. Brooks."
FICTION
Released: Nov. 5, 2007
"Very low-key, but haunting and quietly provocative."
A rueful mood piece from prolific, eclectic O'Nan (
The Good Wife, 2005, etc.) about the closing of a chain restaurant.
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