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The Revenge of the Radioactive - Elizabeth Stuckey-French
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle. Seventy-s... -
Shiloh and Other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
Review"One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted ... -
Sea Glass_ A Novel - Anita Shreve
Amazon.com ReviewFrom its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the l.... -
Mermaid_ A Twist on the Classic - Carolyn Turgeon
From Publishers WeeklyIn Turgeon's surprisingly dark retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, two women pine for the affections of a prince: mermaid Lenia, who pu... -
Machine Man - Max Barry
Review"Wickedly entertaining, a brilliant book: caustically funny, and-by its closing chapter-surprisingly moving." --Scott Smith, author of The Ruins "Using precision... -
Getting In_ A Novel - Karen Stabiner
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Karen Stabiner's GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen obsessiveness regarding the ... -
Crazy - William Peter Blatty
FromSassy humor and gentle nostalgia is the surprisingly effective combination employed by Blatty, master of the horror genre and the author of The Exorcist, in this fond look back... -
Class - Cecily Von Ziegesar
These five friends came to Dexter to get a college degree.What they' ll really get is an education. Gossip Girl goes to college in this tart satire . . . crisp and surprisingly ste... -
All That Follows - Jim Crace
From Publishers WeeklyLeonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace's surprisingly bad 10th novel (after The Pesthouse), has Walter Mitty–like dreams of being a revolutionary .... -
After the quake_ stories - Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin
Amazon.com ReviewHaruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two...