NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 9, 2010
"Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics."
A dense, absorbing investigation into the medical community's exploitation of a dying woman and her family's struggle to salvage truth and dignity decades later.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2010
"Riveting and exquisitely crafted."
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (
Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and '70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York.
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FICTION
Released: March 31, 2009
"A sublime murder ballad that doesn't turn out at all the way one might expect."
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 19, 2009
"Due to the author's and the subject's popularity, this should be a much-discussed book, which rises far above the standard problem novel. (Fiction. YA)"
Neither therapy nor threats nor her ex–best friend's death can turn Lia away from her habits of cutting and self-starvation.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2009
"A solid sophomore effort, and hopefully a sign of even better things to come."
Cleave follows up his outstanding debut (
Incendiary, 2005) with a psychologically charged story of grief, globalization and an unlikely friendship.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"Impressive world-building, breathtaking action and clear philosophical concerns make this volume, the beginning of a planned trilogy, as good as The Giver and more exciting. (Science fiction. 11 & up)"
