NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"A dark but hopeful chronicle that shows how even humanity's worst can fracture and fall."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author returns with the story of those dark decades in Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union slammed the prison doors on people, cultures and countries.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Even if some hairbreadth escapes test credulity, this is a great next read for fans of our nearest ape cousins or survival adventure. (map, author's note, author Q&A) (Adventure. 12-16)"
Congolese-American Sophie makes a harrowing trek through a war-torn jungle to protect a young bonobo.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"The final pages offer a hopeful conclusion to Rachel's even bigger search--for herself. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
Ellen Hopkins fans will find another look at methamphetamine addiction in this quick, realistic debut.
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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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FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Not as ambitious as Díaz's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), but sharply observed and morally challenging."
From the author of
Drown (1996), more tales of Dominican life in the cold, unwelcoming United States.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. "
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"A superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world. (source notes, quotation notes, acknowledgments, photo credits, index) (Nonfiction. 10 & up)"
In late December 1938, German chemist Otto Hahn discovered that uranium atoms could be split, and just a few months later the race to build an atomic bomb was on.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 3, 2012
"A finely detailed, sentimental family scrapbook inscribed with love."
Seattle-based Latino journalist Martinez recalls his youthful adventures in the 1980s romping around the border town of Brownsville, Texas.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Even so, Eggers' fiction has evolved in the past decade. This book is firm proof that social concerns can make for resonant storytelling."
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 8, 2012
"Though it lacks references or suggestions for further reading, Arn's agonizing story is compelling enough that many readers will seek out the history themselves. (preface, author's note) (Historical fiction. 12-15)"
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"The Johnson project deserves equal praise."
The fourth volume of one of the most anticipated English-language biographies of the past 30 years.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. "
Hailed as heroes on a stateside tour before returning to Iraq, Bravo Squad discovers just what it has been fighting for.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 6, 2012
"The result is wryly humorous and bearably yet excitingly menacing: Even while much is left unexplained, Rownie's triumph is both gripping and tantalizing. (Fantasy. 9-13)"
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 2012
"A complicated, elegiac, beautiful attempt to reconcile the physical bayt (home) and the spiritual."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"The best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition."
In her debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning
New Yorker staff writer Boo creates an intimate, unforgettable portrait of India's urban poor.
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