In the Beauty of the Lilies
A Patchwork Planet
Saint Maybe
Sent
Kirkus Reviews: Historical time travel for the middle-school crowd continues in this second installment of Haddix's latest series, The Missing. The first book (Found, 2008) set the premise-36 endangered children have been snatched from history. Here, readers are catapulted immediately into 1483, with all of its inconveniences, bad food and lack of sewage treatment. Hero […]
A Gate At the Stairs
The New York Times Book Review – Jonathan Lethem: ?more expansive than either of her two previous novels?also a novel that brandishes some "big" material: racism, war, etc.?albeit in Moore's resolutely insouciant key?Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing and earnest at once?unmysterious, in […]
Homer & Langley : a Novel
The Washington Post – Michael Dirda ?as with his much admired novels The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March, Doctorow again creatively reconfigures and amplifies the historical record?There's a briskness to Homer & Langley that never flags, and its solitary protagonists?two lost souls?possess a half-comical, half-nightmarish fascination. They seem, at once, symbols […]
The Last Song
Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and […]
The Coral Thief
Library Journal: In 1815 on his way to Paris, young medical student Daniel Conner is robbed of his letters of introduction and his rare coral samples by a mysterious woman. Thus begins his frantic search for his belongings and the thief in postrevolutionary Paris. To restore his name and appointment at the famous Jardin des […]
The Lost Symbol : a Novel
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Within this book's hermetically sealed universe, characters' motivations don't really have to make sense; they just have to generate the nonstop momentum that makes The Lost Symbol impossible to put down?The Lost Symbol manages to take a twisting, turning route through many such aspects of the occult even […]
No Time to Wave Goodbye
Library Journal In this sequel to The Deep End of the Ocean, Mitchard returns to the Cappadora family. It's been 13 years since Ben was returned to his family after being abducted at age three. Now, the family is gathered to watch the premiere of oldest son Vincent's documentary about abducted children. As they watch […]