Publication Location: New York

Island Treasures: Growing Up In Cuba

School Library Journal 06/01/2015 Gr 4–6—In this memoir collection, Ada vividly recounts childhood stories, painting pictures with words that allow readers to almost taste Cuban foods, smell her grandmother's talcum, and feel the red clay used to make pottery. Ada presents five original vignettes in the section "Days at La Quinta Simoni," which is sandwiched […]

Devil's Bridge

Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015 In bestseller Fairstein’s subpar 17th novel featuring ADA Alexandra “Coop” Cooper (after 2014’s Terminal City), a paralegal steals Coop’s files for a sex trafficking case and gives them to the defendant. Then investigators find a connection between the theft and a shady self-styled pastor and community agitator with suspiciously close ties to […]

Code of Conduct

Providence Journal “Thor’s most ambitious, prescient and wondrously realized book yet reads like the best of James Bond sprinkled with just enough of a Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp-like edge…a thinking man’s thriller quilted in an action-adventure fabric that’s Thor at his very best.”

Circling the Sun

Library Journal ★ 05/15/2015 Famed aviator and renowned racehorse trainer Beryl Markham is only one of the subjects of McLain's captivating new novel. The other is Kenya, the country that formed the complicated, independent woman whom Markham would become. Like her father who raised her, she falls under the spell of Kenya's lush valleys and […]

Evergreen Falls

Library Journal ★ 07/01/2015 In this lush, evocative book, family secrets have the power to both wound and heal. In 2014, introverted Lauren finds old love letters stashed away in a hotel that is being renovated. Intrigued by the mystery, she starts to trace the love affair chronicled in the epistles. Woven into the book […]

Fool's Quest

Library Journal ★ 07/01/2015 Fitz has rushed his old friend, the Fool, back to Buckkeep for healing (immediately following the events of Fool's Assassin), leaving his home at Withywoods undefended. The unthinkable happens, with Servants of the White Prophet attacking Withywoods and kidnapping Fitz's small daughter, Bee. The Servants believe Bee is capable of prophecy, […]

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Library Journal ★ 05/15/2015 As a telegraph operator in 1880s London, Nathaniel Steepleton works in the Home Office, lives in a small, spare apartment, and has a quiet life. The anonymous gift of a beautifully intricate watch changes everything. Soon after, terrorists set off a bomb using elaborate clockworks and Steepleton's device narrowly saves him […]

Crooked Heart

Publishers Weekly 05/11/2015 British author Evans makes her American debut in this Baileys Women’s Prize–longlisted dark comedy with heart, set in London during World War II. After the death of his beloved godmother Mattie, a former suffragette whose keen intellect had begun to buckle under dementia just as the Blitz commenced, 10-year-old Noel Bostock is […]