NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2011
"A dryly humorous memoir of love, travel and wide-eyed idealism."
Chronicle of the chaotic year during which two-time Pushcart Prize–winning author Unferth (English/Wesleyan Univ.;
Vacation, 2008, etc.) and her then-boyfriend went from being college coeds to aspiring communist revolutionaries in Central America.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
"The uncanny power of Baxter's work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones."
This is the fifth story collection from novelist Baxter (
The Soul Thief, 2008, etc.); its 23 stories (seven of them new) range from mediocre to memorable to mesmerizing.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2010
"Class, not cure, is Nunez's preoccupation, and she handles it with fine-tuned irony and no small measure of profundity."
An adolescent orphan finds a home with an evangelical Christian community after his parents perish in an influenza pandemic, in the latest from Nunez (The Last of Her Kind, 2005, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"Doerr (Four Seasons in Rome, 2007, etc.) moves the reader gracefully from place to place (the stories span four continents), from incident to incident, and from memorable character to memorable character by focusing on small acts that have larger resonances. "
A collection of six stories--at least one long enough to be considered a novella--that illustrate Doerr's sparse style, command of language and mastery of characterization.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Only the title story, an anti-elegy for a World Trade Center victim, demonstrates explicitly how apt Hughes's title is, for the mourners' happiness is so rare and fleeting that they're doubly happy to feel happy."
Everything about this slender collection of 11 stories from Hughes (
Wavemaker II, 2001) rings true except for its ironic title.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"A fresh, chaotic and sexy updating of the cross-cultural experience."
Wildly profane and funny riffs on folklore, chronicling the adventures of two very modern Chinese-American sisters.
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