Saturday, June 9, 2012

New This Week


Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (Viking)
Feeling apart from the privileged students who roam Cambridge's colleges and spires, nursing home assistant Oscar Lowe is drawn into the opulent world of the charismatic Bellwether siblings and falls in love with medical student Iris before realizing the dangers posed by troubled Eden Bellwether, who believes he can heal people with his music.


Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (Harper)
Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.


Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (Atria)
Reunited with her cousin Kelsey when a job offer returns her to the home of her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma, Logan risks everything to secure her cousin's happiness while Kelsey's celebrity and controlling parents threaten her efforts to live a normal life. By the authors of The Nanny Diaries.


Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)
Charlie Beale meets Sylvan Glass, the bride of the town's richest man, and Sam Haislett, the son of owner of the butcher shop where Charlie gets a job, and soon the interaction between Charlie, Sylvan, and Sam alters the town forever.


Porch Lights by Dorothea Benton Frank (William Morrow)
In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother and a son--discover the indelible power of love, in this emotional journey that interweaves stories of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic writer named Edgar Allan Poe with the bonds of family.

Red House by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
A tale told from rotating viewpoints traces seven days of bitterly comic family dynamics and confrontation when a wealthy doctor invites his estranged sister's family to join his newly blended one at a vacation home in the English countryside. By the Whitbread Book of the Year Award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

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