April 1, 2020 4:06 am
By Diane Slocum
An Audacious Interplay of Perception and Reality in a Complex, Intriguing Tale - A street priest with a neon chapel, streets filled with released “loonies”, including one who babbles about his lost boy, a flickering young man (he’s there and then he’s not), the crime boss who ran things for the absentee crime boss, his brother/sister team of sneak and fighter (or was there a brother?), the circus with the beautiful, leaping aerialist (without/with a beard), the circus owner with the ritual of bird or spade (neither a good choice).
April 1, 2020 4:04 am
By Doris Booth
Devoted, Dean Koontz, Thomas & Mercer - In his first book with Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer, DEVOTED, Dean Koontz, the internationally bestselling master of suspense, offers an epic thriller about a golden retriever, a boy named Woody, his mother Megan, and their extended family, as they confront a terrifying threat to all humanity.
April 1, 2020 4:04 am
By Ellen Birkett Morris
Carnegie Hill Looks at Love and Marriage at a Co-Op - Inspired by a friend’s experiences on the co-op board of building on New York’s Upper East Side, Jonathan Vatner wrote Carnegie Hill, a novel that uses the travails of residents of an exclusive building to look at the institution of marriage.
April 1, 2020 4:01 am
By Anna Roins
The Strawberry Thief, Joanne Harris MBE, Orion - Joanne Harris (MBE) is a best-selling English author known for her novel, the Chocolat (1999) which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Juliette Binoche and Judy Dench.
March 1, 2020 4:05 am
By Diane Slocum
Africaville, Jeffrey Colvin, - Amistad. Kath Ella grew up in a black community on a rocky bluff in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the early 1900s. It is a tightly-knit community settled by families going back to the 1700s, whose ancestors ranged from American slaves to Jamaican rebels.
March 1, 2020 4:04 am
By Ellen Birkett Morris
Montauk, Nicola Harrison, St. Martin's Press - Enchanted with the history of Montauk, Long Island, Nicola Harrison decided to tell the story of a modest woman who finds herself among high society.
March 1, 2020 4:01 am
By Anna Roins
The Dearly Beloved, Cara Wall, Simon & Schuster - In The Dearly Beloved, we follow two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment.
March 1, 2020 4:01 am
By Doris Booth
In the Land of Men, Adrienne Miller, Harper Collins - Once in a while a book comes along that accomplishes more than yelling and screaming about the social issues that divide us.
February 1, 2020 4:06 am
By Doris Booth
The Hand on the Wall, Maureen Johnson, Harper Collins - New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson is receiving wide acclaim for the newly-released final chapter in her Truly Devious mystery trilogy.
February 1, 2020 4:05 am
By Ellen Birkett Morris
The Last Book Party, Karen Dukess, Henry Holt - In The Last Book Party, Karen Dukess takes us to the summer of 1987 as 25-year-old Eve, an assistant at a publishing house, attends a party at the Cape Cod home of literary luminaries New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie.
