Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir by Doron Weber Nonfiction — Memoir Simon & Schuster; February 5, 2013 Paperback 368 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: A medical mystery and a remarkable passion for life lie at the heart of a gifted boy’s fight to survive. Born with a congenital heart […]

Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley Fiction Little, Brown and Company; April 16, 2013 Kindle edition 338 pages (Source: Publisher / NetGalley ) From Goodreads: A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she’s convinced […]

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Fiction — Historical Harper, August 2012 Hardcover 448 pages From the inside flap: At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace […]

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Nonfiction — Memoir Knopf; October 2, 2012 Hardcover 352 pages Will Schwalbe’s mother, Mary Anne, came home from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with what seemed to be a rare form of hepatitis. When she still wasn’t feeling better a few months later, […]

The Bookie’s Son by Andrew Goldstein Fiction — (Adult) (sixoneseven) books, May 2012 Paperback 246 pages From the back cover: The year is 1960 and the place is the Bronx. All twelve-year-old Ricky Davis wants to do is play stickball with his friends and flirt with the building super’s daughter. But when his father crosses […]

Brand New Human Being by Emily Jeanne Miller Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; June 12, 2012 Hardcover 272 pages “My name is Logan Pyle. My father is dead, my wife is indifferent, and my son is strange. I’m thirty-six years old. My life is nothing like I thought it would be.” Logan Pyle is a grad […]