FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"Guaranteed to delight tough girls and tough-girl fans everywhere."
An architectural salvager discovers that the real trash can be found among Pittsburgh's intellectual elite.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"Hart's latest cozy puzzler casts a net that will ensnare a wide audience."
A mystery bookseller once more finds real-life murders harder to solve than the ones in the books she loves.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"We'll hope to see more, magic mushrooms or no."
Auel, of Clan of the Cave Bear fame, adds a sixth volume to her Earth's Children series, just over 30 years after the first appeared.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"A delight from start to finish, and a note-perfect evocation of the gray 1950s."
An entertaining Jewish picaresque novel, following on Jacobson's Man Booker Prize–winning
The Finkler Question (2010).
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"Though shivering in the winter of his discontent, Wallander will grip the reader hard. Flawed and occasionally exasperating, he is that rare thing: a true original."
Swedish detective Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander (
The Pyramid, 2008, etc.) makes a riveting 10th appearance in the strange case of the spy who was and wasn't.
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FICTION
Released: March 17, 2011
"Nazi collaboration, government cover-ups, kinky sex, a baby daughter waiting impatiently to be born and a vigilante-minded hero who talks back to his boss more irreverently than Dirty Harry. What more could you want?"
Inspector Kari Vaara's success in cracking the Sufia Elmi murder (
Snow Angels, 2010) wins him a transfer from the sticks to Helsinki, below the Arctic Circle but just as hospitable to cold-blooded murder.
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FICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"A thick web of family tensions and psychological dysfunction with a whodunit chaser, Tolkien's third novel (The Inheritance, 2010, etc.) is elegantly written, with Masterpiece Theatre pacing and embellishments. "
A prisoner escapes on the very night that his ex-girlfriend is murdered. Could it possibly be a coincidence?
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FICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"An unusual and unusually involving first novel with strong characters and nifty supernatural effects."
The kidnapping of an American businessman in the Philippines sets in motion an odd series of events involving his estranged son, a hard-boiled cop who inspired a hugely popular film series and a ragtag strike force with special powers.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 10, 2011
"A feast for cineastes."
In the manner of
Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967) and Cameron Crowe's
Conversations with Wilder (1999), movie critic and documentarian Schickel (
Clint: A Retrospective, 2010, etc.) gabs collegially with Martin Scorsese.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"An uncommonly brilliant blend of sociology, intellect and allegory."
Through the lens of a hypothetical couple and their offspring, New York Times columnist Brooks (On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) In the Future Tense, 2005, etc.) cleverly explores the realms of the psyche and the unconscious mind.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A gripping, tragic and unforgettable chronicle of lost innocence and abuse."
Disquieting memoir about the 15-year relationship between a child and a predatory sexagenarian.
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FICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A pleasure to read--and a pleasure to see Hadley Richardson presented in a sympathetic light."
An imaginative, elegantly written look inside the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson.
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FICTION
Released: March 7, 2011
"Will readers miss Rankin's long-running protagonist, John Rebus (Exit Music, 2008, etc.)? Don't see why they should. Bonus: Rankin's plotting and prose are as compelling as ever."
NONFICTION
Released: March 3, 2011
"Revelatory and inspiring."
One of America's most decorated chefs relates the triumphal story of his culinary genesis and epic battle with tongue cancer.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"Bar none, Joe Rizzo is the most authentic cop in contemporary crime fiction."
In the gripping sequel to
Rizzo's War (2009), maverick Detective Sergeant Joe Rizzo investigates the murder of a man too unimportant to murder.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"A complex, richly detailed story, which reaches an unexpected conclusion that, among other things, is likely to make the reader thirsty."
An imaginative, multigenerational exploration of the world of Southern slavery in the closing days of the "peculiar institution."
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"Gleick loves the layered detail, which might cause some to sigh, "TMI." But for completist cybergeeks and infojunkies, the book delivers a solid summary of a dense, complex subject."
Think your inbox is jammed now, your attention span overtaxed? It's only the beginning, writes pop-science writer Gleick (
Isaac Newton, 2003, etc.) in this tour of information and the theory that goes along with it.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"May's flair for narrative, characterization and evocative descriptions of various locales and historic tidbits makes his formulaic whodunit fresh and delightfully readable--catnip for armchair sleuths."
FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"The ideal mix of the personal, the political, the puzzling and the Parisian make Aimée's latest a perfect pleasure."
Murder strikes close to home when Aimée Leduc (
Murder in Palais Royal, 2009, etc.) finds her godfather charged with a
crime passionelle.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"Taut, atmospheric and immersive--an instant classic."
A London academic risks his life to uncover a real-life, decades-old Cold War mystery in Cumming's (
Typhoon, 2009, etc.) edgy thriller.
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