FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"It's hard to do justice to the outré and eccentric but gorgeous quality of Pilch's prose. Here he manages to pull off some neat literary tricks, frequently and self-consciously undermining the seriousness of his subjects with pricks of irony. "
A set of loosely concatenated stories that don't quite add up to a novel but are nonetheless rich in character and in the exploration of contemporary urban life in Poland.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"A gripping thrill ride that's also a thoughtful coming-of-age story. "
Journalist Miller (
Inheriting the Holy Land, 2005) makes her fiction debut with a smoldering mystery set in a New England prep school.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2012
"Emotionally unflinching stories of considerable power, wonder and humor."
A prize-winning poet (and MacArthur Fellow grant recipient) extends her literary mastery with a debut story collection.
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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 1, 2012
"Shepherd offers an intricate plot and a thousand details of the least-admirable side of Victorian life. A must-read."
Shepherd's latest detective story (
Murder at Mansfield Park, 2010) is a Victorian tour de force that borrows characters from Charles Dickens'
Bleak House and Wilkie Collins'
The Woman in White.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Tends toward the claustrophobic at times, but superior and fulfilling."
New ancient Egypt–flavored fantasy from the New York resident author of
The Broken Kingdoms (2010, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"Romance star Higgins pens a near pitch-perfect blend of comedy and touching emotion with this delightful winner."
When heiress Parker Welles learns she's lost everything due to her father's insider trading scheme, she hopes renovating a cabin in Maine will be a partial answer to her financial woes; the last thing she wants or needs is daddy's attorney and right-hand man, James, helping her salvage her inheritance--or her heart.
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"An evocative work about love, fate and redemption."
Up beyond Asheville, near where Gunter Mountain falls into Tennessee, evil has come to preach in a house of worship where venomous snakes and other poisons are sacraments.
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"This is the first of Icelandic author Ómarsdóttir's novels to appear in English, and it shouldn't be the last. Somewhere in the reader's mind, Catch-22 echoes faintly."
FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
A novel as contemporary as international terrorism and the war in Iraq and as timeless as mortality, from one of Britain's literary masters.
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Complex in theme, complex in narrative, this is a masterful literary exploration of the specter of conscience and the formidable cost of reconciliation."
In Flanery's debut literary fiction, Sam Leroux has a publisher's assignment to write the biography of a famous South African author, Clare Wald, imperious, reticent, evasive about her writing and disinclined to discuss her catastrophic personal life.
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Failed by the adults in her life and forced to be the grown-up when she should be experiencing first dates and football games, Liz is a wise, wry, wonderful heroine."
First-time author Thorne wears her heart on her sleeve in this semiautobiographical tale about a 14-year-old who juggles equal amounts of hope and despair in her chaotic daily life.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"An inventive, impressive and witty book."
FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"The third in Dean's series is another delight, complete with perfect regency prose and an excellent mystery."
A clever Regency sleuth is much like Jane Austen with her ability to see that the mundane things of life are more important than they seem.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Even better than the bestselling Serena (2008), for here Rash has elevated melodrama to tragedy. "
Lonely young woman meets mysterious stranger. What might have been trite and formulaic is anything but in Rash's fifth novel, a dark tale of Appalachian superstition and jingoism so good it gives you chills.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Once again Stroby demonstrates how adept he is at making readers empathize with the essentially unworthy."
Chasing her retirement number, superthief Crissa Stone (
Cold Shot to the Heart, 2011, etc.) fills bunches of money bags. And body bags.
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2012
"At every turn, James' prose is crisp, observant and carefully controlled; unlike the narrator of "Escape Key," who grows increasingly aware of his fiction's shortcomings, James projects a deep emotional intelligence."
A well-turned set of stories defined by emotional and physical separation, particularly in the Indian-American diaspora.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"An exceptionally fine study of love, war and the double-edged role of memory, which can both sustain and destroy. Prize-winning material."
It's extremes that rivet us in Olmstead's searing seventh novel: the heaven of first love; the hell of the battlefield.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"A veteran cop herself, Dial (The Broken Blue Line, 2010, etc.) does authenticity to the max, and readers will like that. But it's tough, vulnerable, never-say-die Josie that they'll love. "
FICTION
Released: March 29, 2012
"Let's hope Laukkanen writes more thrillers like this one."
