A Visit From the Goon Squad
The Washington Post – Ron Charles If Jennifer Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. Her new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, is a medley of voices…scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page PowerPoint presentation reproduced toward […]
The Emerald Atlas
The New York Times – Dana Stevens: Stephens spins a tightly paced, engaging yarn…
Minding Frankie
Library Journal Fans of Irish author Binchy will welcome the return of some familiar faces (from Quentins; Heart and Soul; Scarlet Feather) and also enjoy meeting new characters in her latest. Frankie is a little girl born as her mother Stella is dying of cancer. During the last stages of her life, Stella contacts Noel, […]
Patriot: A Memoir
The Murder Room
The Blue Shoe : a Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes
School Library Journal Gr 4–6—This tale begins with a mysterious blue-jeweled shoe and centers on the adventures of 13-year-old Hap Barlow, who gets imprisoned and is part of a slave revolt, and ends with the mystery of the shoe solved and a lesson on how not to mistreat the Earth. Elflike creatures called Aukis once […]
First Family : Abigail and John
Publishers Weekly: Pulitzer Prize winning historian Ellis (Founding Brothers) gives "the premier husband-wife team in all American history" starring roles in an engrossing romance. His Abigail has an acute intellect, but is not quite a protofeminist heroine: her ambitions are limited to being a mother and helpmeet, and in the iconic correspondence she often strikes […]
Star Island
The New York Times Book Review – Marilyn Stasio: Whenever it seems as if he might be running out of oxen to gore, Carl Hiaasen comes up with fresh victims for his killing wit?Trying to follow the plot, which involves a supporting cast of crooked politicians and predatory developers, is a little like walking a […]
The Horse You Came In On
Parrot and Olivier In America
Publishers Weekly: The eminently talented Carey (Theft) has the gift of engaging ventriloquism, and having already channeled the voices of Dickens?s Jack Maggs and the Australian folk hero/master thief Ned Kelly, he now inhabits Olivier-Jean-Baptist de Clarel de Barfleur, a fictionalized version of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose noble parents are aghast at his involvement in […]