Starter Set Giveaway!

Anyone (in the United States or Canada) who signs up for The Reagan Arthur Book Challenge before February 28, 2010 is eligible to win an awesome Reagan Arthur Books Prize Pack. This awesome starter set of books will include: The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris Marriage and Other Acts of Charity by Kate Braestrup Doors Open [...]

Patterns of Paper Monsters

PATTERNS OF PAPER MONSTERS by Emma Rathbone will be published on August 9, 2010. About the author: Emma Rathbone is a graduate of New York University and the MFA Fiction Program at the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Charlottesville and is beginning work on a second novel.

The Messenger of Athens

THE MESSENGER OF ATHENS by Anne Zouroudi will be published on July 19, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by the modern world.  So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police are [...]

The Island

THE ISLAND by Elin Hilderbran will be published on July 6, 2010. About the author: Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, PA, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her eight previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins [...]

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

MR. ROSENBLUM DREAMS IN ENGLISH by Natasha Solomons will be published on June 21, 2010. About the author: Natasha Solomons is a 29-year-old screenwriter. She based this story on her own grandparents’ experience.

The Rehearsal

THE REHEARSAL by Eleanor Catton will be published on May 17, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: A teacher’s affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power.  As the girls vent to their saxophone teacher while practicing for an upcoming recital, they voice their own [...]

Still Midnight

STILL MIDNIGHT by Denise Mina will published on March 22, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: Alex Morrow is not new to the police force-or to crime-but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a [...]

Next

NEXT by James Hynes will published on March 9, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity. Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility. As his relationship with his girlfriend approaches a [...]

Black Hills

BLACK HILLS by Dan Simmons will published on February 24, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, “counts coup” on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general’s ghost enters him – and his voice will speak to him for [...]

The Unnamed

THE UNNAMED by Joshua Ferris was published on January 18, 2010.  Here’s the publisher’s description: He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. [...]