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A Sudden Light

Seattle Times "Rich and textured…Stein is resourceful, cleverly piecing together the family history with dreams, overheard conversations, and reminiscences…a tale well told."

Pathfinder

VOYA, August 2014 (Vol. 37, No. 3) – Mary Ann Darby Alice TodHunter Moon is feeling lost and confused—her mother has died, her father has vanished, and horrible creatures are snatching up villagers and chasing her. Seven years after the final installment of Septimus Heap, Tod lives in a village of PathFinders, and just after […]

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

Library Journal 09/01/2014 In Lovett's debut novel, The Bookman's Tale, about an antiquarian book dealer, Shakespeare took center stage. This time the author adds bookish intrigue to the life of another luminary of English literature. While the few facts about Jane Austen's life are well known, many scholars have speculated about Austen's experience in love. […]

Paris Match

Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014 Edgar-winner Woods’s intriguing 31st Stone Barrington novel (after Cut and Thrust) takes the New York City attorney to Paris for the opening of his new hotel, l’Arrington. Stone leaves behind his love, Ann Keaton, to manage the campaign of the first-ever pregnant presidential candidate, their mutual friend, Kate Lee, the wife of […]

Leaving Time

Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014 Picoult’s (The Storyteller) novel explores grief, memory, and motherhood through the unlikely lens of elephant behavior. Jenna Metcalf was three years old when her mother, Alice, disappeared from the elephant sanctuary where she worked as a researcher. Ten years later, Jenna is ready to launch a search. After poring over her mother’s […]

The Forgers

Publishers Weekly ★ 09/01/2014 Onetime forger Will, the refined if unreliable narrator of this artfully limned suspense novel from Morrow (The Diviner’s Tale), gets involved in the macabre mutilation-murder in a Montauk, N.Y., beachfront cottage of his girlfriend Meghan’s brother, Adam Diehl, who was, like himself and Meghan, a member an insular circle of rare […]

The Girl Next Door

Washington Post “It's a pleasure to report that Ruth Rendell, at the age of 82 and after publishing more than 60 books, has given us yet another gem. A pleasure but not a surprise, since Rendell has for years, along with her friend P.D. James, been bringing new sophistication and psychological depth to the traditional […]

Lila

The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani : Writing in lovely, angular prose that has the high loneliness of an old bluegrass tune, Ms. Robinson has created a balladlike story about two lost people who, after years of stoic solitariness, unexpectedly find love—not the sudden, transformative passion of romantic movies and novels but a hard-won […]

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Publishers Weekly ★ 09/15/2014 Tension escalates in Henrietta, Va. (as does the body count), in the third of four titles in Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, following The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves. Gansey’s elderly British mentor, Malory, is just one of the new arrivals in town (he’s certainly among the more benevolent) as Gansey, Blue, […]