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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
WILDERNESS
by Lance Weller
"A familiar war story, but told with verve and sturdy, biblical intonations."
A wounded Civil War veteran reckons with thieves, racism and the torments of his past. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2012
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
by Louise Penny
"Elliptical and often oracular, but also remarkably penetrating and humane. The most illuminating analogies are not to other contemporary detective fiction but to The Name of the Rose and Murder in the Cathedral."
A prior's murder takes Quebec's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his sidekick, Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir, inside the walls of the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loupes. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2012
CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH
by Victoria Dahl
"Rising romance star Dahl delivers with this sizzling contemporary romance. (Warning: Steamy situations and straightforward sexual descriptions are well-done and integral to the plot, but some scenes are pretty graphic for a mainstream romance.) "
Hot, contemporary "opposites attract" romance hits the emotional high notes as two struggling people find themselves and each other. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 24, 2012
Kirkus Star HOSTAGE
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel continues to remind us of the brilliant possibilities of the philosophical and political novel. "
Wiesel takes us on a journey through dream, memory and especially storytelling in his latest novel, which concerns Shaltiel Feigenberg, who in 1975, is captured and imprisoned for 80 hours in a basement by two captors. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 21, 2012
Kirkus Star A KILLING IN THE HILLS
by Julia Keller
"A fictional debut for a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, born and raised in West Virginia, whose love for the state, filled with natural beauty and deep poverty, pervades a mystery that has plenty of twists and turns and a shocking conclusion."
A tough prosecutor who's trying to make a difference in the lives of West Virginians suddenly finds her own life in shambles. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 14, 2012
Kirkus Star AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
by Laura Lippman
"Like Mary Cassatt, Lippman studies families with a different eye than her male contemporaries, showing the heartbreaking complexity of life with those you love."
Lippman (The Most Dangerous Thing, 2011, etc.), who specializes in tales of feckless parents and their luckless kids, puts a madam at the center of her latest dysfunctional family. Read full book review >