FICTION
Released: April 19, 2011
"Errs on the side of the pat and predictable."
Three middle-aged sisters gather to consider the fate of their family property on Martha's Vineyard.
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FICTION
Released: April 19, 2011
"Authentic scenario, mystery piled on misdirection and more double-crosses than a tic-tac-toe tournament."
To keep al-Qaeda zealots, megalomaniac North Koreans with nukes and other bad guys at bay, gigabytes of real-time intelligence stream to the Wall, there to be collated and conceptualized by one man, the Analyst.
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2011
"Unfinished or no, it's worth reading this long, partly shaped novel just to get at its best moments, and to ponder what Wallace, that excellent writer, would have done with the book had he had time to finish it himself."
Rollicking postmodern romp, by the late cult-favorite novelist and essayist Wallace (with help from an editor), through the bowels of the IRS.
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2011
"Clowes finds heightened reality in caricature."
NONFICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
"A passionate reminder of the breathtaking misery of so many lives, and one woman's work in their service."
With the assistance of co-author Vollers (Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw, 2006, etc.), actress Judd delivers a keenly felt memoir of a dysfunctional upbringing twined with an adult life of progressive social advocacy.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
"A lyrical, informed investigation into the human as ecological agent, and a provocation to act responsibly."
Flannery (Environmental Sustainability/Macquarie Univ.;
Chasing Kangaroos, 2008, etc.) scrutinizes humankind's relationship to Earth and manages to find optimism at this critical, crossroads moment.
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