Second Honeymoon
BookReporter.com "Whether you're cuddled up in front of a fire or basking on a sunny beach, Honeymoon will be over all too soon."
Unseen : a Novel
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Slaughter’s tense and densely plotted thriller, the fifth to merge her Atlanta-based characters with those in Georgia’s fictional Grant County (after 2012’s Criminal), focuses on stubborn Lena Adams, a Macon police detective and the woman that Dr. Sara Linton—the girlfriend of Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent—blames for her husband Jeffrey’s […]
Eleanor & Park
The New York Times Book Review – John Green …I have never seen anything quite like Eleanor & Park. Rainbow Rowell's first novel for young adults is a beautiful, haunting love story…Its observational precision and richness make for very special reading…Evocative sensual descriptions are everywhere in this novel, but they always feel true to the […]
Chasing the Prophecy
Jason and Rachel were not born in Lyrian. They did not grow up in Lyrian. But after all of the battles and losses, the triumphs and adventures, and most of all, the friendships forged in this fantastical world, Lyrian has become home to them in a way they never could have imagined. And so, armed […]
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The New York Times Book Review – Barbara Kingsolver …a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get…Fowler…is a trustworthy guide through many complex territories: the historical allure and dicey ethics of experimental psychology, not to mention academic families and the college towns of Bloomington and Davis…The novel's […]
The 5th Wave
The New York Times Book Review – Justin Cronin …wildly entertaining…Just about everything here is borrowed from one venerable pop culture source or another, but it's a rip-roaring setup, and as the bodies accumulate, the pages turn themselves. It's hard to recall a novel—Y.A. or otherwise—in which more bad things happen to more good people […]
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani In [DiSclafani's] story there are echoes of A Separate Peace…as well as of Curtis Sittenfeld's more recent boarding school novel, Prep. What makes Yonahlossee emotionally engaging in its own right—this summer's first romantic page turner—is Ms. DiSclafani's sure-footed sense of narrative and place, and her decision to portray […]
The Silver Star
The New York Times Book Review – Chelsea Cain The Silver Star turns out to be an absorbing, unsentimental tale of childhood, place and emus.
Call Me Amy
For Amy Henderson, 1973 has been a lonely year of too many awkward moments to count—that is, until she helps rescue an injured seal pup. To help save Pup, she forms an unlikely alliance with a questionable boy in a worn-out army jacket, and a peculiar older woman the kids in town call "Old Coot." […]
Beautiful Day
Publishers Weekly Hilderbrand's latest (after Summerland) is the perfect beach read—down to its Nantucket setting. The Carmichaels and Grahams arrive on the island for the wedding of golden girl Jenna Carmichael to eth-ical banker Stuart Graham. Jenna's mother Beth, before dying seven years ago, prepared a wedding notebook, a guide that approaches sanctity to Jenna, […]