FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2012
"It's always a good thing when one wants more instead of less. A promising debut, and a glimpse at a hidden American subculture that few readers will suspect even exists."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"A compulsively readable novel about brothers on opposite sides of life."
Friday Night Lights meets
In Cold Blood in this powerful tale of distant brothers whose torment over the murder of their sister when they were teens is compounded by the murder of another targeted teenage girl--a killing one of the brothers is determined to avenge even if that means committing murder himself.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Stern weaves an intricate and clever web of stories steeped in both sacred and mundane Jewish culture."
"Mischief" is indeed the operative term here, for Stern's characters are subtle, slyly humorous and at times poignant.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A fine adult love story--not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up problems that a relationship can bring."
Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin (
A Soldier of the Great War, 1991, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving. "
The dark, silent, forbidding Ohio River flows like a line of moral demarcation in Hunt's (
The Exquisite, 2006, etc.) latest literary foray.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Josefson writes vigorously and is well attuned to the upheavals experienced by adolescents."
Most of the goings-on at Roaring Orchards School in upstate New York are not academic but instead personal and chaotic.
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