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Jon
Clinch
Finn
978-0-8129-7714-1 | $14.00 | Random House | TR
In this masterful debut by a major new voice in
fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the heart of one
of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures:
Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original
tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic but takes
on a fully realized life of its own.
An ALA Notable Book
Gerri
Brightwell
The Dark Lantern
978-0-307-39534-4 | $24.95 | Crown | HC
London, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her
deathbed, and her son Robert has returned from France. But in
the Bentleys’ luxurious home, everyone has her secrets,
including Robert’s beautiful and elusive wife, the orphan
maid she hires from the country, and the mysterious young woman
claiming to be the bride of Robert’s drowned brother.
Daniel Mason
A Far Country
978-1-4000-3039-2 | $13.95 | Vintage | TR
Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with
the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought
and war grip the backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great
exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow,
forsaking the only home she’s ever known, her sole consolation
the thought of being with her brother again.
Castle
Freeman
Go With Me
978-1-58642-139-7 | $21.95 | Steerforth | HC
The Vermont hill country is the
stark, vivid setting for this tale of
daring and conquest starring
Lillian, a young woman from parts
elsewhere, who refuses to back
down in the face of threats from
the potentially lethal local villain,
Blackway. Her boyfriend has fled
the state in fear and local law
enforcement can do nothing. Lillian
is determined not only to stand
her ground, but to fight back.
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Pauline
W. Chen
Little
Heathens
978-0-553-38424-6 | $12.00 | Bantam | TR
Growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm
during the depths of the Great Depression with her father banished
from the household for mysterious transgressions, five-year-old
Mildred could easily have been overwhelmed by the challenge of
simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of suffering.
978-0-307-26803-7 | $23.95 | Knopf | HC
Evacuated during the Blitz, eight-year-old Rosamond
forged a bond with her cousin that augured the most treasured
and devastating moments of her life. She recorded these memories
sixty years later, just before her death, on cassettes she bequeathed
to a woman she hadn’t seen in decades. When her beloved
niece plays the tapes in hopes of locating this heir, she instead
hears a family saga swathed in promise and betrayal.
Jill
Smolinski
The Next Thing on My List
978-0-307-35129-6 | $13.95 | Three Rivers Press
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After a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa,
dies, June Parker finds herself in possession of a list Marissa
has written: “20 Things to Do by My 25th Birthday.”
To assuage her guilt, June races to achieve each goal herself
before the deadline, learning more about her own life than she
ever bargained for.
Tove
Jansson
The Summer Book
978-1-59017-268-1 | $14.00 |
New York Review Books | TR
Intense, fleeting, and perfect, Tove Jansson’s
slender novel is a season told in episodes in the lives of a six-year-old
girl, awakening to existence, and her grandmother, who is nearing
the end of hers. The two traipse over coastline and forest in
easy companionship, discussing the things that matter to young
and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love.
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