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New & Notable Fiction: October 2012 (page 4)

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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star SAY YOU'RE SORRY
by Michael Robotham
"Subtle, smart, compelling and blessed with both an intelligent storyline and top-notch writing, this book will grab readers from page one and not let go until the final sentence."
Australia-based writer Robotham's insightful psychologist Joe O'Loughlin once again tackles a tough case involving crimes that, at first blush, do not seem related. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star BUILDING STORIES
by Chris Ware
"A dazzling document, beautifully if most idiosyncratically drawn; in this iteration, sure to become a collector's item, though one that begs for an easier-to-handle trade edition."
A treasure trove of graphic artworks--they're too complex to be called comics--from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW
by Mark Helprin
"A fine adult love story--not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up problems that a relationship can bring."
Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War, 1991, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
BETWEEN TWO FIRES
by Christopher Buehlman
"An author to watch, Buehlman is now two for two in delivering eerie, offbeat novels with admirable literary skill."
Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in this frightful medieval epic about an orphan girl with visionary powers in plague-devastated France. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE
by Robin Sloan
"From the shadows of Penumbra's bookshelves to the brightly lit constellation of cyberspace to the depths of a subterranean library, Sloan deftly wields the magicks (definitely with a "k") of the electronic and the literary in this intricate mystery."
All the best secrets are hidden in plain sight. The trick is to notice the secret in front of you. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star THE ISLAND OF SECOND SIGHT
by Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated by Donald O. White
"Worthy of a place alongside On the Marble Cliffs, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Death of Virgil and other modernist German masterworks; a superb, sometimes troubling work of postwar fiction, deserving the widest possible audience."
A vast novel--if novel it is--of the tangled lives of anti-Nazi Germans on the Spanish island of Majorca in the years leading up to World War II. Read full book review >