The Island : a Novel
Library Journal: Two generations of women come together off the coast of Nantucket as they spend the summer in the family beach cottage. They're all there for different reasons: Chess is trying to mend her broken heart after her ex-fianc? dies in a tragic accident; her sister, Tate, is eager to escape boredom and figure […]
Phenomena : Secrets of the Senses
School Library Journal: Gr 5-8:Students with an interest in the weird and unusual will find this book fascinating. It begins with an introduction to human senses and continues with chapters devoted to phenomena such as the "sixth sense," synethesia, and intuition. One of the most interesting sections discusses animals that use their senses in unusual […]
Testimony : a Novel
Bette-Lee Fox – Library Journal: Recounting a student sex scandal at a prestigious Vermont private academy, this explosive novel from Shreve (Body Surfing) is more transfixing than a multicar pileup on the interstate. Told from the perspectives of the students involved, the school administrator, the parents, and numerous bystanders, the story keeps unraveling as it […]
The Brass Verdict
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: The Brass Verdict has the sneaky metabolism of any Connelly book. It starts slowly, moves calmly, hides pertinent bits of information in plain sight and then abruptly ratchets up its energy for the denouement. The reader who wonders why this book cares so much about, say, the jury […]
The Heretic's Daughter
Barbara Hoffert – Library Journal: History is more than facts and figures; it's something that happens to all of us. That's the thought that may strike readers of Kent's luminous first novel, set at the time of the Salem witch trials. In fact, Martha Carrier, Kent's grandmother back nine generations, was hanged as a witch […]
An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Breaking Dawn
Publishers Weekly: It might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy?but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer?s first […]
The Host : a Nove
Jane Jorgenson – Library Journal: Meyer's YA vampire novels (Breaking Dawnwill be out in August) have been touted in the Wall Street Journalas successors to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. And with a fan base that has grown exponentially with each new release, they may not be far off. All of which makes the publication […]
Sail : a Novel
From the Publisher: Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, […]
Sundays At Tiffany's
From the Publisher: As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. But she does have one friend–Michael–and no one can see him but her. But Michael can't stay with Jane forever, and on her eighth birthday, […]