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Sakie
Yakota
North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter
978-1-934287-44-6 | $16.95 |
Vertical | TR | Available
On November 15, 1977, 13 year-old Megumi Yokota
disappeared without a trace while on her way home from school.
Twenty years later a newspaper revealed she was abducted by North
Korean operatives and was still in North Korea. This is her mother's
memoir of the last 30 years.
Katherine
Center
Everyone is Beautiful
978-1-4000-6643-8 | $23.00 |
Ballantine | HC | Available
Everyone is Beautiful is a hugely
entertaining, poignant, and charming new novel about what happens
after happily ever after: how a woman learns to fall in love
with her husband–and her entire life–all over again.
Miriam Gershow
The Local News
978-0-385-52761-3 | $24.95 |
Spiegel & Grau | HC | Available
“Going missing was the only interesting thing my brother
had ever done.” Relentlessly gripping, often funny, and
profoundly moving, The Local News is a powerful exploration
of the fraught relationship between a brother and sister and
how our siblings define who we are.
Tayeb
Salih
Season of Migration to the North
978-1-59017-302-2 | $14.00 |
New York Review Books | TR
After many years of study in Europe, the young
narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns
to his village along the Nile in the Sudan, eager to make a
contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back
home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the
enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed—with a strange confession.
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Curtis
Sittenfeld
American Wife
978-0-8129-7540-6 | $15.00 |
Random House | TR | Available
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s,
Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the
White House, married to the president. This new novel chronicles
the life of a would-be First Lady unabashedly modeled after Laura
Bush but with a voice all her own.
978-0-553-38610-3 | $13.00 | Bantam | TR | Available
Between elegant soirees and the occasional mortifying
mishap, Aisha Bhatia’s job at New Delhi’s five-star
Grand Orchid Hotel is intermittently fabulous, however her mother
never fails to remind her that she is still single at 29. When
the handsomely chiseled Karan Verma arrives from New York, Aisha
experiences an unexpected attitude adjustment.
Peter
Carey
His Illegal Self
978-0-307-27649-0 | $14.95 |
Vintage | TR
It is 1972 and seven-year-old Ché finds
himself at an Australian hippie commune after he is kidnapped
by a woman claiming to be his mother from the Park Avenue apartment
he shares with his eccentric grandmother. This is a love story
like no other about the openness and innocence of this young boy
as he seeks out his parents.
Elizabeth
Diamond
An Accidental Light
978-1-59051-301-9 | $23.95 |
Other Press | HC
On a quiet road just outside London, in the blue
half-light of dusk, a fatal car accident takes the life of thirteen-year-old
Laura Jenkins, and her death changes the lives of two families
forever. In this heartbreaking and redemptive novel, Elizabeth
Diamond explores the ripple effects of a single moment of tragedy
and the journey those involved are forced to take.
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