FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Saramago writes beautifully, and his style is ruminative--not for every taste, but definitely for those who appreciate finely wrought, meditative prose."
Nobel Prize–winning author Saramago explores art and the meaning of life in a posthumous release of his first novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. "
Hailed as heroes on a stateside tour before returning to Iraq, Bravo Squad discovers just what it has been fighting for.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Talton (Deadline Man, 2010, etc.) crafts a solid mystery while telling the engrossing, sometimes poignant story of a cop with a cane who refuses to be pigeonholed."
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Shepherd offers an intricate plot and a thousand details of the least-admirable side of Victorian life. A must-read."
Shepherd's latest detective story (
Murder at Mansfield Park, 2010) is a Victorian tour de force that borrows characters from Charles Dickens'
Bleak House and Wilkie Collins'
The Woman in White.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Binet deserves great kudos for retrieving this fateful, half-forgotten episode, spotlighting Nazi infamy, celebrating its resisters, and delivering the whole with panache. "
The evergreen allure of Nazis as the embodiment of evil is what drives this French author's soul-stirring work: a hybrid of fact and meta-fiction that won the Prix Goncourt in 2010.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Reportedly at work on a book about conservation in the Congolese rainforest, the author clearly has ambitions as big as his talent, but readers of this lyrical novel will hope he gets back to fiction soon."
Even better than his simultaneously published memoir (
Cures for Hunger), Béchard's haunting first novel follows three generations that can't find a home in this world.
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