FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Despite a less sure-footed conclusion, Díaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering political satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist."
A rich, impassioned vision of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora, filtered through the destiny of a single family.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Junior's keen cartoons sprinkle the pages as his fluid narration deftly mingles raw feeling with funny, sardonic insight. (Fiction. YA)"
Alexie nimbly blends sharp wit with unapologetic emotion in his first foray into young-adult literature.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 14, 2006
"Beautiful and important. (Fiction. 12+)"
FICTION
Released: May 2, 2005
"A most unusual and original piece of fiction--and not to be missed. "
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2005
"A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, thoroughly American story."
An account of growing up nomadic, starry-eyed, and dirt poor in the '60s and '70s, by gossip journalist Walls (
Dish, 2000).
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2004
"Despite overplotting, then, a telling portrait of a profoundly stressed family."
Picoult's latest chronicle of family travail (
Second Glance, 2003, etc.) highlights the consequences of deliberately conceiving a child genetically compatible with a mortally ill sibling.
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