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Much like his remarkable and bestselling first novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles' new book is richly evocative, with a strong sense of time and place, and fully realized characters.
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Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she'll be her best, and tackle the little things: She will shower and get dressed; she will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. But today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake-sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day her surgeon husband Joe has chosen to tell his office - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't get worse, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.
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Crime fiction lovers and fans of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series will relish this sixth installment, featuring detectives Antoinette Conway and Stephen Moran. Called to what seems like a routine case, the team finds a murdered young woman who looks familiar to Detective Conway. Figuring out where she has seen the victim before, going to battle with colleagues who make her feel bullied, and dealing with a ghost from her past leave Conway reeling.
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Margaret Atwood has written the latest in The Hogarth Press' series of Shakespeare re-tellings, taking on tyranny, betrayal, and art. She focuses on the power of an artist to re-imagine his fate. Her Prospero, the actor/impresario Felix Phillips, has spent too many years ignoring office politics so he can concentrate on "the things that really mattered, such as his perceptive script notes and his cutting-edge lighting schemes and the exact timing of the showers of glitter confetti of which he has made such genius use." As a result, he's been ousted as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival, and finds himself in isolated southern Ontario, teaching theater to prisoners at the Burgess Correctional Institution.
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"In this refreshing departure from Smith's popular international thrillers, the 15th novel from this two-time Hammett Award winner is a clever, well-crafted, and exciting blend of WWII romance, suspense, and intrigue." - Publishers Weekly
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Eight scientists called the Terranauts are living in E2, an enclosed, presumably sustainable three-acre world meant to model a possible space colony. Its motto, "Nothing in, nothing out," sums up both the mission and its risks; E2 has to work on its own, and everyone is watching to see whether it will fail.
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"Everyone who reads IQ will be clamoring for the next book, and for the one after that. This is one of the most intriguing - and appealing - detective characters to come along in years." - Carl Hiaasen
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon's new book has been declared Best Book of the Year by multiple publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. A "fictional nonfiction," Moonglow is built from the stories of the so-called Greatest Generation. Specifically, stories told to Chabon over the course of a week by his dying grandfather in 1989. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the American Century, the novel revisits an entire era through a single life.
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