FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"A simmering, colorful story about castaways and the deviance they inspire."
An albino woman suffers with her desperate need for intimacy in the wilds of World War II-era Australia.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"Barb is fine company--blunt, mordantly funny, with a winning combination of ruthlessness and warmth. "
FICTION
Released: Feb. 8, 2011
"Le Tellier examines the possibilities of love after 40, and he deals with this issue with patience, understanding and bemusement."
Two love triangles (equal one love hexagon?) that reveal much--or at least enough--about love.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2011
"A riveting novel in which the deceptively clear narrative voice offers no easy answers."
In British writer McKinlay's fiction debut, a carefully modulated morality play, a middle-aged woman who knows she is dying struggles with a basic dilemma--"whether a good deed cancels a bad one, whether evil is undone by penance."
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 25, 2011
"A melancholy coming-of-age debut novel in the spirit of The Virgin Suicides."
The sudden disappearance of a teenage girl has far-reaching implications for the psyches of the boys from her suburban town.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 25, 2011
"Heartfelt (everyone cries), deft and highly readable fiction."
Tragedy leads to complicated love as a widower and the woman who accidentally killed his wife are united by a grieving child looking for an angel.
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