FICTION
Released: June 28, 2011
"Delightful coming-of-age story with a sweet reverence for the art and romance of old Gotham."
A young woman who flees the Midwest to begin a new life in New York discovers that her cool little apartment already has a long-term tenant.
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Released: June 28, 2011
"Like Marshall himself, the novel maintains a reserved, laconic, even pedantic tone--off-putting at times yet often moving."
Mason (
Nancy Culpepper, 2006, etc.) may surprise fans of her Appalachian stories with this historical novel about a World War II pilot who returns to France to find the families who helped him survive after his plane was shot down 36 years earlier.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
""Pants" fans who have grown up with the girls and love them will no doubt overlook the improbabilities, unrealized characters and plot manipulations to make this a bestseller."
Having turned to adult fiction (
My Name is Memory, 2010, etc.), Brashares offers what may or may not be a closing novel to her popular Traveling Pants series.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"A tragicomedy that follows very much the same formula as Portobello (2010). No new ground is broken, but fans will be pleased."
An ill-assorted group of neighbors, enough false notes to work corrosive effects and enough time for the whole bunch of them to stew until done, or done in.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"An intoxicating small-town thriller that quickly gets under your skin."
A crime of passion, thought to be committed by a traumatized Vietnam veteran, links a lovesick Illinois girl with an equally needy young Mexican-American woman in Texas.
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FICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"Jaffy's experience could well move the reader as profoundly as it changed the narrator."
