FICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"It's the tense atmospheres that Aronson creates, and her empathy for her characters, that make this a promising debut."
First-time author Aronson calls on her experience as a professor of medicine for this collection of short stories, which take place in and around a San Francisco hospital. But the stories are less concerned with medical details than with the inner lives of the characters and the psychological toll that health issues take on caregivers, patients and their families.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"Another exciting change of pace from the protean Donoghue."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Whether recent or from his earliest period, these pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn't "fit the profile of the neighborhood.""
Sterling collection of short stories by Alexie (
Ten Little Indians, 2003, etc.), a master of the form.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"A tissue-box-worthy collection of animal tales."
For fans of man's best friend, a collection of insightful, moving and often unforgiving stories about dogs, cats and their people.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2012
"Fancher's writing is long on whimsy but short on humor."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Not as ambitious as Díaz's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), but sharply observed and morally challenging."
From the author of
Drown (1996), more tales of Dominican life in the cold, unwelcoming United States.
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