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 […]

Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks; October 2, 2012 (reprint) Paperback 384 pages From the back cover: It’s been six years since Pen Calloway watched Cat and Will, her best friends from college, walk out of her life. Through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and […]

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 […]

Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita López Torregrosa Nonfiction — Memoir Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; August 7, 2012 Hardcover 240 pages From the inside flap: Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bonds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her […]

The Absolutist by John Boyne Fiction Other Press; July 10, 2012 Paperback 320 pages From the inside flap: It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. But the […]

With My Body by Nikki Gemmell Fiction Harper Perennial; June 19, 2012 Paperback 480 pages From the back cover: “A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want–and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live […]

In One Person by John Irving Fiction Simon & Schuster Release date: May 8, 2012 Hardcover 448 pages Synopsis from the publisher: In One Person is narrated by Billy Abbott, one of Irving’s most tormented and impassioned protagonists. Billy grows up in First Sister, Vermont, a small town with two defining institutions: a boarding school […]