NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 10, 2010
"An overly analytical biography, but one that goes a long way toward upending assumptions about Wood's work."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"Ironically, this brief novel takes on too much: Cox knows his way around Polish fairy tales, soccer culture, Czeslaw Milosz's poetry and life in Kraków, but his treatment of these is too glancing to have the intended emotional impact."
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Despite a too-pat ending, Louisa and Eliza provide a window into a shameful history of mental health care and women's incarceration that only ended in living memory. (Historical fiction. 12-14)"
Nineteenth-century tomboy Louisa Cosgrove wants to study medicine, but after her indulgent father's death, that dream seems impossibly distant.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"With the dated feel and the insubstantial characterization, Klise's first novel is a placebo rather than a cure. (Fiction. 12 & up)"
Only slowly accepting his homosexuality, 15-year-old Jamie Bates recoils when he encounters an odd gay student.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 24, 2010
"A vivid, candid portrait."
Provocative biography of a little-known university professor turned sex researcher and pornographer.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"A powerful, revealing and authoritative depiction of one the 20th century's most notorious literary figures."
Monumentally engaging account of W. Somerset Maugham's fiercely protected personal life (1874–1965).
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