NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"An inspiring account of a very personal battle against "the plague of our generation.""
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"Alternately stomach-wrenching, anger-arousing and spirit-lifting--and always gripping."
The author of
Seabiscuit (2001) returns with another dynamic, well-researched story of guts overcoming odds.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"Successfully dissipating all the perfume, Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman--brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2010
"Elegant, confident prose brings this tale to life, and though the trope of the road as a journey to self-understanding is a very old one, Mengestu gives it a fresh reading."
A sometimes somber, always searching novel of love, loss and the immigrant experience by Ethiopia-born writer Mengestu (
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, 2006).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"The novel is rich with detail, and both the Brooklyn and Paris settings provide important grounding for the haunting and beautifully told story. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
Andi Alpers, a 17-year-old music lover, is about to be expelled from her elite private school.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"Informative, readable and great fun."
Bryson (
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, 2006, etc.) takes a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"Brainy and often lyrically expressive, but also elusive and sometimes infuriatingly coy; Krauss is an acquired taste."
A many-drawered writing desk resonates powerfully but for different reasons with the various characters in this novel about loss and retrieval from Krauss (
The History of Love, 2005, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2010
"Wrenching, as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching and at times unexpectedly funny."
Talented, versatile Donoghue (
The Sealed Letter, 2008, etc.) relates a searing tale of survival and recovery, in the voice of a five-year-old boy.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2010
"Will resonate with women readers of all ages, who, if they are dog lovers, will be doubly moved."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's heartfelt memoir of her midlife friendship with a fellow writer.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"Ultimately, this is the story of survival--how life quickens and is borne on through turmoil, pain and perseverance. At times slow-moving, but imbued throughout with a careful and evenly wrought lyricism."
The struggles and embroilments of neighboring farm households in the upper Midwest beginning in the summer of 1913 through the Great Depression, as narrated by the farmers' wives.
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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: April 1, 2010
"Readable and well written, though not quite in the class of Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Michael Herr, Robert Stone and other top-flight literary chroniclers of the war in Vietnam."
An ambitious first novel about the Vietnam War, written over three decades by a Marine veteran of the fight.
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