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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
THE INNOCENTS
by Francesca Segal
"Even if the plot and themes are second-hand, this is an emotionally and intellectually astute debut."
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence gets a reboot in this novel set in a present-day London Jewish enclave. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
Kirkus Star GONE GIRL
by Gillian Flynn
"One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling."
A perfect wife's disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare as it rips open ugly secrets about his marriage and, just maybe, his culpability in her death. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
THE GRAPHIC CANON: GILGAMESH TO SHAKESPEARE TO DANGEROUS LIAISONS
edited by Russ Kick
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Star CANADA
by Richard Ford
"At the start of the novel's coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students "books that to me seem secretly about my young life," he begins the list with The Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Such comparisons seem well-earned."
A great American novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
PATIENT ONE
by Leonard Goldberg
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
THE GIFT OF FIRE / ON THE HEAD OF A PIN: TWO SHORT NOVELS FROM CROSSTOWN TO OBLIVION
by Walter Mosley
"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." Read full book review >