FICTION
Released: July 12, 2011
"The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India's "assisted gestation" scheme, are gripping, and Weiner's elucidation of socio-economic determinism is as sharp as ever. However, the ending does not so much jump the shark as de-fang it."
Four women confront the quandaries surrounding modern motherhood, in Weiner's fraught latest (
In Her Shoes, 2002, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"Black's 12th lets readers peek into a corner of Paris that Fodor's leaves out."
Aimée Leduc (
Murder in Passy, 2011, etc.) helps her partner clear his girlfriend of a grisly crime.
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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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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Ingenious and mystical, although readers familiar with fantasy and science fiction will find little new or provocative here. Fans of Mosley's gumshoe noir books (or Blue Light, 1998, his earlier foray into the domain) will certainly wish to investigate."
Moving far from the milieu of Easy Rawlins and Socrates Fortlow (
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, 1997, etc.), Mosley offers two novellas in one volume, part of a series entitled Crosstown to Oblivion, the common theme being, "a black man destroys the world."
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Goldberg, a clinical professor at UCLA Medical Center, has the expertise to provide an exciting medical thriller. This fast-paced departure from his Joanna Blalock series (Lethal Measures, 2000, etc.) provides all the excitement, intrigue and danger you could ask for."
An emergency-room doctor must use all his considerable skills to save the president and the nation from disaster.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of equals."
Classic literature gets desterilized with the help of the modern world's most daring graphic artists.
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