FICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Failed by the adults in her life and forced to be the grown-up when she should be experiencing first dates and football games, Liz is a wise, wry, wonderful heroine."
First-time author Thorne wears her heart on her sleeve in this semiautobiographical tale about a 14-year-old who juggles equal amounts of hope and despair in her chaotic daily life.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"The novel relies heavily on biblical and Greek myths to welcome readers to Zoe's nightmare, but it's a small price to pay for the jolt."
A woman on the run ponders the nature of humanity as she lives through the end of the world.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"The third in Dean's series is another delight, complete with perfect regency prose and an excellent mystery."
A clever Regency sleuth is much like Jane Austen with her ability to see that the mundane things of life are more important than they seem.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Even better than the bestselling Serena (2008), for here Rash has elevated melodrama to tragedy. "
Lonely young woman meets mysterious stranger. What might have been trite and formulaic is anything but in Rash's fifth novel, a dark tale of Appalachian superstition and jingoism so good it gives you chills.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"The lifeboat becomes a compelling, if almost overly crafted, microcosm of a dangerous larger world in which only the strong survive."
First-time novelist Rogan's architectural background shows in the precision with which she structures the edifice of moral ambiguity surrounding a young woman's survival during three weeks in a crowded lifeboat adrift in the Atlantic in 1914.
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FICTION
Released: April 4, 2012
"Iran's nuclear ambitions are prominent in the news. That makes this novel a perfectly timed, first-class read."
