FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."
In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming-of-age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers.
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FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"First-rate commercial fiction."
Graeme-Evans (
The Dressmaker, 2010, etc.)
intertwines two adventures separated by more than a millennium.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"A heartwarming, spirit-lifting read just in time for beach season."
When Lolly Weller summons her daughter and nieces home to The Three Captains' Inn, her announcement that she has been diagnosed with cancer is just one of many life-changing secrets to be told.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"A novel to savor."
A familiar premise inspires surprising and deeply moving results, fulfilling the British novelist's considerable promise.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Hanauer delivers a novel that is rich with relatable characters, realistic in its approach and highly readable. "
FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Still, the authors have plenty of fresh insights to offer, and fans of either will want to tag along and see where it all leads."
Pratchett, author of the esteemed Discworld yarns (
Snuff, 2011, etc.), and collaborator Baxter (
Stone Spring, 2011, etc.) venture into alternate worlds.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Exotic locale. Credible heroics. Vicarious thrills. Fans will want more, and soon."
If you have the right incentives, dollars in the billions can be made in Shanghai, where capitalism wrestles with communism. So says Pearson (
In Harm's Way, 2010, etc.) in this first in a new series of thrillers.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Lapeyre writes with great wit and sly craft on the miseries of unfulfilled relationships."
One need look no further than the apt title to uncover the frustrations of the two main male characters.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2012
"It's a journey well worth taking. "
Bauer's second novel (
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards, 2005) offers an introspective study of a woman as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"The novel recalls a time when black and white applied to both movies and moral choices. It's a tale with wide appeal."
A historical spy novel that takes the reader back to the 1930s, when Europe hurtled toward the abyss.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"A superb romp. "
Hollywood operators and creative washouts collide across five decades and two continents in a brilliant, madcap meditation on fate.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"This great novel should put Billingham in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey and Denise Mina. "
FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"A dazzling novel of great intensity and power. "
The Celt in question is Sir Roger Casement, who advocated on behalf of oppressed natives of the Congo and of Amazonia, but when he turns his attention to the Irish Troubles in 1916, the British feel he's gone too far, so he's caught, tried and executed.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Nobody but Lovesey could thump out a gritty procedural yet instill Bath with so much charm and history that readers will have to put it on their bucket lists."
How many mistakes can Detective Superintendent Diamond make and still catch the Somerset Sniper?
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Keesey writes lyrically and examines the ferocity of frontier life with an unromantic and penetrating gaze."
The title refers to a little town in the midst of the vastness of Oregon, where at the turn of the 20th century, sheepmen and cattlemen vie for grazing territory as well as for the love of 18-year-old Esther Chambers.
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FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"The latest from Lamanda (Running Homeless, 2011, etc.) is an exciting thriller filled with tough but sympathetic characters who drag you breathlessly along to the final scene."
A former police officer sunk in the depths of despair is rescued by the mob boss he thinks had his wife killed.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Amiable fluff for poolside."
Cook, author of the bestselling
Must Love Dogs (2002), delivers a minor comedy featuring a trod-upon woman who finds herself a contestant on
Dancing with the Stars.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Consigning most of the violence to the past allows Piccirilli (The Fever Kill, 2007, etc.) to dial down the gore while imparting a soulful, shivery edge to this tale of an unhappy family that's assuredly unhappy in its own special way."
Summoned home by an urgent plea from his kid sister, a runaway brother finds his family of thieves just as dysfunctional and even more criminal.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"This novel succeeds both as a story and an illumination of storytelling."
A beguiling exercise in metafiction, one that tells an engrossing story from various perspectives while undermining the possibility of truth in storytelling.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling."
A perfect wife's disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare as it rips open ugly secrets about his marriage and, just maybe, his culpability in her death.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A lyrical little novel about hope triumphing over adversity."
Makine presents a story within a story and thus winds up focusing on the lives of two "unknown men."
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Even if the plot and themes are second-hand, this is an emotionally and intellectually astute debut."
Edith Wharton's
The Age of Innocence gets a reboot in this novel set in a present-day London Jewish enclave.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"A novel that satisfies all expectations in some very familiar ways. "
A family melodrama that encompasses both tragedy and farce, as an upper-middle-class clan gathers to mourn a dead son and perhaps move on.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"Independently intelligible but best appreciated after volume one--and with a huge surprise twist in the last sentence. "
Part two of the topnotch space opera begun with
Leviathan Wakes (2011), from Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).
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