Shelter : a Mickey Bolitar Novel
School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—Coben's first YA novel starts off with a bang and keeps going strong until the end. Sophomore Mickey Bolitar's happy, globe-trotting family returned to the States so that the teen could complete high school. Then Mickey sees his father killed in an accident and his bereft mother, who has taken […]
Son of Stone : a Stone Barrington Novel
Library Journal: Yup, looks as if Stone Barrington had a son—according to rich-rich former love Arrington Calder. She's got other plans for him, too. Don't know yet where the suspense comes in—though those plans are probably dangerous—but Woods is always popular.
Prey : a Novel
From Barnes & Noble: Angie Powell can't keep Dare Callahan out of her thoughts. On one hand, he's the hunting guide who ruined her own business; on the other, he's the manly hunk who twice asked her out on a date. Now, down to her last Montana wilderness gig, all that seems behind her until […]
The Art of Fielding : a Novel
The New York Times Book Review – Gregory Cowles: Chad Harbach makes the case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and altogether excellent first novel…If it seems a stretch for a baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human condition in its mitt, well, The Art of Fielding isn't really a […]
That Used to Be Us : How America Fell Behind In the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
The New York Times Book Review – David Frum …a book that is at once enlightened and enlightening. Friedman—not that you need me to tell you this—is a very good reporter…The partnership with Mandelbaum has been fruitful, curbing Friedman's notorious verbal excesses and stiffening the book with extra analytic rigor
The Forgotten Waltz
Library Journal She's a sharp-tongued home wrecker who doesn't try to ingratiate herself. But in this corrosively beautiful novel from Man Booker Prize winner Enright (The Gathering), you want to drag back Gina Moynihan as she recounts plunging headlong into the affair that will change her life. Gina met Seán Vallely at sister Fiona's house […]
Everything Happens Today
Library Journal Sixteen-year-old Wes, the protagonist of this literary experience of teenage angst, attends Manhattan's elite Dalton School but lives downtown in the Village. A modern Holden Caulfield with an iPhone (though he's both smarter and more interesting than Salinger's antihero), Wes tolerates a mentally absent father, cares for a slowly dying mother, and protects […]
Dinosaur Discovery : Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist
School Library Journal Gr 4 6—A baker's dozen of prehistoric critters gets full spreads with large realistic illustrations, fact boxes, captions, species data, and an informative paragraph or two. Potentially unfamiliar terms are highlighted in bold type and defined in the glossary. The usual suspects (Allosaurus, T. rex, etc.) are represented, as is a new […]
America Is Under Attack : September 11, 2001 : the Day the Towers Fell
School Library Journal Gr 3 6—Specifically addressing young readers with no memory of that tragic day, America combines news reports with published eyewitness accounts. Brown's compelling narrative chronologically recounts the morning's events in a tone both straightforward and compassionate, without resorting to sensationalism. Brown's watercolor illustrations, covering most of each spread, mirror this voice, conveying […]