Thursday, April 22, 2010

New Summer Releases Part 3


THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR, Allegra Goodman (July 6)
Fans of Goodman's lovely, nuanced novels have a treat in store with this tale of two sisters, one the CEO of a much-hyped data storage start-up, the other a grad-school dropout working in an antiquarian bookstore.

LUCY, Laurence Gonzales (July 13)
A fast-paced Crichtonesque thriller about a half-human, half-ape girl.

RED HOOK ROAD, Ayelet Waldman (July 13)
The setting: an idyllic town in Maine. The scene: a local wedding. The tragedy: The bride and groom are killed as they drive from the church to the reception. What happens to the families left behind, then, is the stuff of Waldman's moving novel.

I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME, Per Petterson (Aug. 3)
A poignant mother-son story from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.

YOU LOST ME THERE, Rosecrans Baldwin (Aug. 12)
A much-hyped debut novel that tells the story of a marriage from the point of view of the husband.

MOCKINGJAY, Suzanne Colllins (Aug. 24)
The final volume of Collins' dystopian trilogy, following The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

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