Lucretia and the Kroons (Novella)
Written by Victor LaValle
Format: eBook, 104 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2012
Price: $0.99
From one of the most acclaimed young writers of fiction in America today comes a fast-paced and fantastical novella about a young girl’s journey into a dark netherworld to find her missing best friend. This eBook edition contains an exclusive excerpt from Victor LaValle’s new novel The Devil in Silver, about...
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Playing with Matches
A Novel
Written by Carolyn Wall
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
When I felt truly lost—which was most of the time—I went out to the narrow lot and sat down in the weeds. From there I could observe both houses. After all, I had two eyes, didn’t I? Two nostrils, two arms, two knobby knees. The trouble was, I had only one...
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Playing with Matches
A Novel
Written by Carolyn Wall
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
When I felt truly lost—which was most of the time—I went out to the narrow lot and sat down in the weeds. From there I could observe both houses. After all, I had two eyes, didn’t I? Two nostrils, two arms, two knobby knees. The trouble was, I had only one...
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But...
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Darkness, My Old Friend
Written by Lisa Unger
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $7.99
Novelist Bethany Graves is recovering from a bitter divorce when she decides to move back to her small Northeastern hometown, The Hollows. There, she plans to write her next book and repair her relationship with her teenage daughter, Willow. But when Willow spots a caver digging what looks like a grave...
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A Fatal Debt
A Novel
Written by John Gapper
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $26.00
This timely debut thriller by an award-winning Financial Times columnist is a gripping tale of lethal intrigue set in the high-stakes Wall Street world—where wealth and privilege are no match for jealousy and betrayal. Ben Cowper, an attending psychiatrist at the prestigious New York–Episcopal Hospital, is stunned to learn the...
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A Fatal Debt
A Novel
Written by John Gapper
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $7.99
This timely debut thriller by an award-winning Financial Times columnist is a gripping tale of lethal intrigue set in the high-stakes Wall Street world—where wealth and privilege are no match for jealousy and betrayal. Ben Cowper, an attending psychiatrist at the prestigious New York–Episcopal Hospital, is stunned to learn the...
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The Last Kind Words
A Novel
Written by Tom Piccirilli
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $26.00
From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals...
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The Last Kind Words
A Novel
Written by Tom Piccirilli
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $4.99
From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals...
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The Last Kind Words
A Novel
Written by Tom Piccirilli
Read by Mike Chamberlain
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $20.00
From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals...
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Mission Flats
A Novel
Written by William Landay
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $15.00
Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this critically acclaimed first novel of crime and suspense—perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Dennis Lehane. “Landay writes with eloquent intensity.”—The New York Times Book Review By a shimmering lake in western Maine, a...
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The Strangler
A Novel
Written by William Landay
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $15.00
Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this widely acclaimed second novel of crime and suspense, which was named a Favorite Crime Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers. Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe...
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Bech Is Back
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
In this follow-up to
Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances while publicizing himself in Australia and Canada. He marries a
shiksa and travels...
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Bech: A Book
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech—procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline—made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess.” That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed make up this collection
. “Bech is the...
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Brazil
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
In the dream-Brazil of John Updike’s imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Tristão Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach, their flight from family and into marriage takes them to the...
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Game of Secrets
A Novel
Written by Dawn Tripp
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $15.00
Jane Weld was eleven years old when her father, Luce, disappeared in 1957. His skiff was found drifting near a marsh, empty except for his hunting coat and a box of shotgun shells. No one in their small New England town knew for sure what happened until, three years later, Luce’s...
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Inside
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $25.00
“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee
“Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney
“Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams.” —Heidi Julavits
From the highly...
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Inside
Written by Alix Ohlin
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee
“Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney
“Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams.” —Heidi Julavits
From the highly...
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Confusion
Written by Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell
Introduction by George Prochnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.00
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and
Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form.
A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin is packed off by his father to...
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Playing Dead
A Novel
Written by Julia Heaberlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $15.00
“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town
“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?”
The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after...
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Playing Dead
A Novel
Written by Julia Heaberlin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town
“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?”
The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after...
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The Sense of an Ending
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize
One of The Atlantic's Best Books I Read This Year
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting,
The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a...
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The Cranes Dance
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.95
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.
So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by...
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The Cranes Dance
Written by Meg Howrey
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.
So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by...
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Rising Sun: A Novel
Written by Michael Crichton
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.”—The New York Times Book Review On...
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