As we launch our brand-new website, here's 10 new books that you need to add to your fall reading list. All received starred reviews from Kirkus.
FICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 2010
"Welcome back."
A modern master of suspense revives the series that initially earned him a hard-core following.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"This is superb, dazzling fiction. Ozick richly observes and lovingly crafts each character, and every sentence is a tribute to her masterful command of language."
An extraordinary novel, loosely based on
The Ambassadors--but Ozick (
Dictation, 2008, etc.) manages to out-James the master himself.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 2010
"An impeccable account of the politics, civics and devotion behind the Adams marriage."
The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author presents a vivid and insightful portrait of John and Abigail Adams.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 26, 2010
"All legendary athletes should hope for treatment by such capable, compassionate hands."
A sympathetic, moving life of the Brown Bomber by veteran cultural historian and biographer Roberts (History/Purdue Univ.;
The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports, 2005, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A dense, challenging, dazzling work that will leave readers exhausted but yearning for more."
The peripatetic author of
Great Plains (1989) and
On the Rez (2000) returns with an energetic, illuminating account of his several trips to Siberia, where his ferocious curiosity roamed the vast, enigmatic area.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2010
"Elegant, confident prose brings this tale to life, and though the trope of the road as a journey to self-understanding is a very old one, Mengestu gives it a fresh reading."
A sometimes somber, always searching novel of love, loss and the immigrant experience by Ethiopia-born writer Mengestu (
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, 2006).
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