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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
SAN MIGUEL
by T.C. Boyle
"What may seem to some like paradise offers no happy endings in this fine novel."
The prolific author's latest is historical, not only in period and subject matter, but in tone and ponderous theme. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
WINTER OF THE WORLD
by Ken Follett
"An entertaining historical soap opera."
Follett continues the trilogy begun with Fall of Giants (2010) with a novel that ranges across continents and family trees. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
JANE: THE WOMAN WHO LOVED TARZAN
by Robin Maxwell
"A respectful, exciting and disarming update of one of the last century's most oft-told tales."
The old "Me Tarzan, You Jane" dynamic established in Johnny Weismuller movies gets a radical update by shining the spotlight on adventuress Jane Porter. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
Kirkus Star SOMETHING RED
by Douglas Nicholas
"A hauntingly affecting historical novel with a touch of magic."
Award-winning poet Nicholas (Iron Rose, 2010, etc.) treks into the wilds of medieval England in his first novel, a saga vibrant with artful description. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 15, 2012
Kirkus Star DEAD ANYWAY
by Chris Knopf
"An absorbing update of the classic film, D.O.A., that finds its author so completely in the zone that not a word is wasted, and the story seems to unfold itself without human assistance."
Nothing in Knopf's reflective, quietly loopy Hamptons mysteries starring Sam Acquillo and Jackie Swaitkowski (Ice Cap, 2012, etc.) will have prepared his fans for this taut, streamlined tale of a man investigating his own murder. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 12, 2012
Kirkus Star BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HERE
by Susan Straight
"Straight (who is white but eschews the self-congratulating, cliché-laden condescension of books like The Help) employs glorious language and a riveting eye for detail to create a fully realized, totally believable world."
Set several years before the events of Straight's Take One Candle Light a Room (2010), the third installment of her trilogy concerns the reactions and memories that a prostitute's death stirs up in the tightknit black community in Rio Seco, Calif. Read full book review >