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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
Kirkus Star A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME
by Wiley Cash
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
Kirkus Star CHILDREN IN REINDEER WOODS
by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, translated by Lytton Smith
"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."
A literary allegory filled with truths and absurdities about the human condition. Read full book review >
Cover art for WISH YOU WERE HERE
FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
Kirkus Star WISH YOU WERE HERE
by Graham Swift

A novel as contemporary as international terrorism and the war in Iraq and as timeless as mortality, from one of Britain's literary masters. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
Kirkus Star SOMEBODY TO LOVE
by Kristan Higgins
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
Kirkus Star BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK
by Ben Fountain
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
Kirkus Star THE SOLITARY HOUSE
by Lynn Shepherd
"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. Read full book review >