Heroes of the Frontier
The New York Times Book Review – Barbara Kingsolver The common writerly mistake is to slight child characters for lack of a formed intelligence. But by around age 6, the psychologists tell us, we already have the I.Q. and most of the personality we're ever going to get. It's a rich combination—personhood unconstrained by the […]
Everybody's Fool
The New York Times – Janet Maslin …delightful…North Bath, N.Y., a fictitious upstate town [is]…a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy. It's a great place for a reader to visit, and it seems to be Mr. Russo's spiritual home…Both Bath and Everybody's Fool are funny—very funny…Mr. Russo's […]
The Noise of Time
“[An] ambitious Orwellian allegory about the plight of artists in totalitarian societies—and a Kafkaesque parable about a fearful man’s efforts to wrestle with a surreal reality, even as he questions his complicity with the system. . . . Barnes’s book internalizes these debates, turning them into conversations within Shostakovich’s own head. On one hand, defending […]
Every Day
Donated by Little City Thrift Store. Entertainment Weekly, August 22, 2012: "Rich in wisdom and wit…Levithan keeps the pages turning not only with ingenious twists on his central conceit but with A's hard-earned pieces of wisdom about identity, isolation, and love. Every Day has the power to teach a bully empathy by answering an essential […]
All Things Cease to Appear
Publishers Weekly š 12/14/2015 Brundagefs (bestselling author of The Doctorfs Wife) searing, intricate novel epitomizes the best of the literary thriller, marrying gripping drama with impeccably crafted prose, characterizations, and imagery. In 1978, Ella and Calvin Hale respond to their farmfs failing fortunes by committing suicide. As their sons, Eddy, Cole, and Wade, are taken […]
The Passenger
Vanishing Games
Publishers Weekly ★ 05/25/2015 A shipment of incredibly valuable uncut sapphires, smuggled out of Burma and hijacked by pirates in the South China Sea, provides the MacGuffin for Edgar-finalist Hobbs’s fantastic sequel to 2013’s Ghostman. Enter a pair of professional thieves, Jack (aka Mr. Outis/Ghostman) and his onetime mentor, now partner, Angela. Each of them […]
In the Unlikely Event
The New York Times Book Review – Caroline Leavitt …Blume has threaded these lives together in an essential way and given every one of them importance…Devastating secrets are uncovered, moving love stories play out or fade to black. Blume, whose fiction for adults has the same emotional immediacy as her books for children, makes us […]
Our Souls At Night
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/02/2015 Within the first three pages of this gripping and tender novel, Addie Moore, a 70-year-old widow, invites her neighbor, Louis Waters, to sleep over. “No, not sex,†she clarifies. “I’m talking about getting through the night. And lying warm in bed, companionably.†Although Louis is taken off guard, the urgency of […]
The Jezebel Remedy
Library Journal ★ 05/01/2015 Clark (The Legal Limit) spends his days as a Virginia circuit court judge, which explains why he is able to portray the inner workings of the legal system with ease and dexterity. It also accounts for why his latest effort is only the fourth book the author has published in 15 […]