A Gate At the Stairs
The New York Times Book Review – Jonathan Lethem: ?more expansive than either of her two previous novels?also a novel that brandishes some "big" material: racism, war, etc.?albeit in Moore's resolutely insouciant key?Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing and earnest at once?unmysterious, in […]
Homer & Langley : a Novel
The Washington Post – Michael Dirda ?as with his much admired novels The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March, Doctorow again creatively reconfigures and amplifies the historical record?There's a briskness to Homer & Langley that never flags, and its solitary protagonists?two lost souls?possess a half-comical, half-nightmarish fascination. They seem, at once, symbols […]
The Last Song
Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and […]
The Coral Thief
Library Journal: In 1815 on his way to Paris, young medical student Daniel Conner is robbed of his letters of introduction and his rare coral samples by a mysterious woman. Thus begins his frantic search for his belongings and the thief in postrevolutionary Paris. To restore his name and appointment at the famous Jardin des […]
The Lost Symbol : a Novel
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Within this book's hermetically sealed universe, characters' motivations don't really have to make sense; they just have to generate the nonstop momentum that makes The Lost Symbol impossible to put down?The Lost Symbol manages to take a twisting, turning route through many such aspects of the occult even […]
No Time to Wave Goodbye
Library Journal In this sequel to The Deep End of the Ocean, Mitchard returns to the Cappadora family. It's been 13 years since Ben was returned to his family after being abducted at age three. Now, the family is gathered to watch the premiere of oldest son Vincent's documentary about abducted children. As they watch […]
Little Bird of Heaven
The Washington Post – Michael Lindgren This is a powerful novel. Oates's feel for the rhythms of hardscrabble life and its sour mix of alcoholism, suicide, drug abuse, adultery and murder is as keen as ever. In Sparta she has created a fictional universe to stand beside Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County or Cheever's Shady Hill. Her […]
Dawn Light : Dancing With Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
Kirkus Reviews: Ackerman (An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, 2004, etc.) luxuriates in the break of day. The author experiences dawn as a powerful borderland that accommodates both dreaminess and awareness. She celebrates the sighting of a crane flying overhead and meditates on the use of the bird in Oriental […]
The Amateur Marriage
Spartan Gold
From the Publisher: The debut of a brand-new, action-packed series from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of ?pure entertainment? (People). Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his […]