NONFICTION
Released: June 7, 2011
"As a bonus, even the well-read reader will be inspired to explore some of the books from this magical year."
FICTION
Released: May 31, 2011
"A literate, moving wartime tale in which love triumphs over despair."
Innocence, devastation and restored hope cycle through two British couples after the men go to France to fight World War I and the women cope with their absence in very different ways. This is Young's first adult novel to be published in the United States.
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FICTION
Released: May 12, 2011
"Already well-respected for both his music and his acting, Earle can now add novelist to an impressive résumé."
A thematically ambitious debut novel that draws from the writer's experience yet isn't simply a memoir in the guise of fiction.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"An engrossing, highly rewarding read that marks McKeon as a writer to watch. "
A debut novel of love and loss set in contemporary Ireland, where a family's troubled past cast its shadow over an uncertain future.
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FICTION
Released: April 25, 2011
"This could be an instruction book for a perceptive teenager. For an adult, it resonates as a bittersweet remembrance of a time when life was more difficult than it should have been."
Angst, and a grudging reconciliation to childhood being left behind, are the heart of this debut novel.
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FICTION
Released: April 20, 2011
"That the novel is marked by authenticity is no surprise given Clark's credentials—she was, after all, lead prosecutor in the headline-grabbing O.J. Simpson trial—but what may surprise some readers is the quality of the writing, plus the considerable charm of Rachel and her buddies."
A corker of a debut novel in which a brainy, plucky female prosecutor refuses to rush to judgment.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 15, 2011
"A shocking exposé of judicial overreach."
In this hard-hitting debut, journalist Potter likens the Justice Department targeting of environmentalists today to McCarthyism in the 1950s.
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FICTION
Released: April 14, 2011
"A certain light charm pervades the novel--a Spring Break kind of book."
Can love survive in the information age? It can when a newspaper's IT guy begins reading the e-mails of the film critic.
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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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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"After initially disdaining a career in food as one devoid of "meaning and purpose," she finds both here."
NONFICTION
Released: March 7, 2011
"There are no easy answers, but it's the hunt that counts, and Hohn makes it a gladdening, artful journey of discovery."
A finely spun chronicle of the wide-ranging quest to track the wanderings of a rubber duck lost at sea, from
Harper's senior editor Hohn.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2011
"In the process of assimilating disparate facts into a poignant and elegant story, Adorján exposes her own hopes and fears, an added bonus."
Berlin-based journalist Adorján's debut examines why and how her grandparents committed suicide together, decades after they survived the Holocaust.
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