Close Your Eyes : a Novel
Library Journal Ward (Forgive Me; How To Be Lost; Sleep Toward Heaven) has written an intriguing literary mystery involving compelling, complex characters. After spending a summer night sleeping in their tree house, six-year-old Lauren Mahdian and her brother, Alex, discover their mother's body. The police arrest their Egyptian father for the murder, and he is […]
Dogs In the Dead of Night
Jack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House! Beware of avalanches! When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time to the highest pass in the Swiss Alps, they discover an ancient monastery filled with monks and Saint Bernard dogs. […]
The Girl In the Blue Beret : a Novel
The New York Times – Daniel Swift Mason has given us a portrait of a man from a generation whose members were uncertain about the protocols of letting oneself feel. And she has lovingly captured the tone of bluff assertion still shared by veterans of that war. Marshall's banality has the ring of truth; his […]
Dreams of Joy
The Washington Post – Chris Bohjalian Once again, See's research feels impeccable, and she has created an authentic, visually arresting world.
The Social Animal : the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
The Washington Post – Paul Bloom …sharp, clear and often very funny…Many of us, Brooks believes, are in the grip of an outdated theory of human nature. We give priority to cold-blooded reason, to deliberative, conscious, logical and linear thought…[but] Brain research, Brooks tells us, "reminds us of the relative importance of emotion over pure […]
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories That Scared Even Me
Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a Novel
The Washington Post – Eugenia Zukerman …Clara and Mr. Tiffany is about art and commerce, love and duty. Peopled with characters both imagined and historic, it is also a study of New York's ultra-rich and desperate poor, its entitled men and its disenfranchised women. And it is the story of one extraordinary woman's passion and […]
I Still Dream About You : a Novel
The Washington Post – Sarah Pekkanen: For a comic mystery romp, Fannie Flagg's latest book, I Still Dream About You, has a lot of talk about suicide, incest, cross-dressing and vicious backstabbing. But hey, who says those are bad things? Flagg, the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and a half-dozen […]
Unbroken : a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Just as she demonstrated in Seabiscuit, Ms. Hillenbrand is a muscular, dynamic storyteller…Her command of the action-adventure idiom is more than enough to hold interest. But she happens also to have located a tale full of unforgettable characters, multi-hanky moments and wild turns. And if some of it […]
Monsoon : the Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Library Journal: The Indian Ocean has been a major commercial trading area for many centuries. Kaplan (Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond) asserts that it is the most important such commercial area, carrying half the world's container shipments and even more oil trade. […]