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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
GREAT HOUSE
by Nicole Krauss
"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.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2010
Kirkus Star ROOM
by Emma Donoghue
"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. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2010
LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME: A MEMOIR OF FRIENDSHIP
by Gail Caldwell
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
THE QUICKENING
by Michelle Hoover
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
Kirkus Star A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
by Jennifer Egan
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
MATTERHORN
by Karl Marlantes
"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. Read full book review >