FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction."
Wheeler (
The Deliverance, 2003
, etc.) brings to life robber barons, Irish immigrant miners and lost souls among the trash heaps and bawdy houses, headframes and smelters of 1890s Butte, Mont.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2011
"What does it all add up to? An indictment of the old Europe, for one thing, and a perplexing, multilayered, attention-holding mystery. Expect it to find many readers."
Eco (
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005, etc.) doffs his scholarly gown and dons his trench coat for another bracing--and controversial--mystery.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Encompassing the lives of women in the 20th century, this sprawling saga is tender and satisfying, with a heartbreaking end."
A single tragic event shapes four generations of American women in this accomplished and poignant debut.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Though his scenarios aren't always plausible in strictest terms, King's imagination, as always, yields a most satisfying yarn."
King (
Under the Dome, 2009, etc.) adds counterfactual historian to his list of occupations.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Perhaps the best so far in this consistently fascinating series."
First of a new trilogy set on the world of Terahnar, set hundreds of years before the previous books (Imager's Intrigue, 2010, etc.), where a handful of people have the power to create objects through visualization.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Lighter than lightweight but undeniably fun, largely because Preston is having so much fun herself."
Selecting from her own collection of period mementos, Preston (Gatsby's Girl, 2006, etc.) creates a literal scrapbook for a young New Hampshire woman coming of age in the 1920s.
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