The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-12-21 A brilliant account of six years during which four Founding Fathers, "in disregard of public opinion, carried the American story in a new direction."In a virtuosic introduction, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Ellis (Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, 2013, etc.) maintains that Abraham Lincoln was wrong. In […]
Blood On Snow
Library Journal Review Olav and his employer, a major crime boss, agree that Olav is good for one thing only-serving as a hit man who expertly "fixes" up messes. However, when Olav is commissioned to kill his boss's wife, things start to go south for him. Olav knows if he takes her out, he is […]
The Buried Giant
Booklist Review In Ishiguro's first novel since 2006 (Never Let Me Go), the award-winning author reinvents himself once again. It is a fable-like story about an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who reside in a village that is made up of underground warrens and is sometimes menaced by ogres. One day they get it into […]
A Spool of Blue Thread
Library Journal Review Starred Review. Three generations of Whitshanks have lived in the family home in Baltimore since the 1920s, in which they have loved, squabbled, protected secrets, had children, and, in some cases, led inauthentic lives. Using her signature gifts for brilliant dialog and for intricately framing the complex messiness of parental and spousal […]
Amnesia
“When you open a new novel by Peter Carey you’re never sure what’s going to leap out at you. . . . [Amnesia] sizzles with indignation . . . Often rumbustiously funny, it has an almost Dickensian zest for colourful characters. . . . The cyber-underworld and its bizarre obsessives buzz with fascination. . . […]
Wicked Cruel
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
The Marriage Portrait
Stella Maris
MaddAddam : a Novel
Library Journal The compelling conclusion to Atwood's dystopian trilogy opens with a brief synopsis of the series' first two books, Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood, then launches directly into the story of the MaddAddamites, survivors of a global pandemic that wiped out most of humanity. Readers, even those unfamiliar with the […]
The Rathbones
Library Journal A widow's walk atop a crumbling mansion where beautiful haunted women wait in vain for their men to return from the sea; a family's mysterious past, their fortunes gained and lost; and a journey back in time. All this (and more) describes debut author Clark's saga of the whales and the water. In […]