It’s no secret that we adore Robyn Carr around here. Who else can use humor and enormous heart to tackle a story about why unhappily married people stay together, and the courage it might take to walk away? So we’re thrilled with her starred review from Library Journal, which says of The View From Alameda Island [MIRA Books]: “Brimming with insight, tender sensuality, sympathetic characters, and family anxiety, this story (read more…)

Susan Mallery, arguably the queen of beach reads, delivers once again with a book that Library Journal calls “a breath of fresh air for romantics” (starred review). Don’t miss The Summer of Sunshine and Margot [HQN, June 11] about twin sisters who, with the help of an ensemble cast that includes an aging Hollywood icon, will turn their family’s disastrous luck in love into destiny. Available to preview on Netgalley! (read more…)

Nicholas Mancusi’s taut, white-knuckle literary debut, A Philosophy of Ruin [June 18, Hanover Square], opens with Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted young philosophy professor, receiving tragic news from his father: Oscar’s mother has died during the couple’s flight to Hawaii. The news subsequently sends Oscar’s life spiraling out of control when he finds himself wrapped up in the intrigues of one of his students–and subsequently a drug run. In a freshly (read more…)

If Steven Soderbergh wrote All the Light We Cannot See, you might just have something like The Ventriloquists [Aug. 27, Park Row]. This inspired-by-true-events debut WWII heist novel by E.R. Ramzipoor has already earned a starred review (by Booklist‘s incomparable Bill Ott, no less), calling it “a compelling historical thriller” that is “never less than engrossing.”  And here’s some more early buzz: “Reminds us that so much of what we (read more…)

Pulitzer-nominated journalist Meredith May has written a magical memoir about her unusual childhood on the coast of Big Sur, California. In The Honey Bus [Park Row Books, April 2] she tells of a little girl from a broken family taken under the wing of her eccentric grandfather who kept bees in an abandoned military bus in his yard.  And there’s good news for book clubs: we have a book club (read more…)