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Galley Talk: Joanna Hershon's 'A Dual Inheritance'
Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance (Ballantine, May 7) gets my vote for best book of the year, hands down.
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Galley Talk: 'Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library'
Emily Grossenbacher of Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss., is looking forward to introducing kids to Chris Grabenstein's Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.
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Galley Talk: 'Amity and Sorrow' by Peggy Riley
In Peggy Riley’s magnificent debut, Amity and Sorrow (Little, Brown, Apr.), you’ll discover a world that’s assured and stunningly confident, a world populated with exquisitely flawed characters whose story bolts out of the reader’s hand and hurtles towards its conclusion—a conclusion that’s horrific, unavoidable, and magnificent all at once.
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Galley Talk: Stephan Talty’s 'Black Irish'
How did I miss Stephan Talty’s nonfiction? It clearly prepared him to unleash a powerful arsenal of prose and plot into his first novel.
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Galley Talk: 'The Rithmatist'
Megan O'Sullivan, the owner of Main Street Books in Cedar City, Utah, has high hopes for The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson's first novel for teens.
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Galley Talk: 'The Memory of Love' by Linda Olsson
It’s no surprise that Linda Olsson’s The Memory of Love (Penguin, Feb.) jumped to the top of my “must-read” list—this terrific author has written two of my favorite books, Astrid & Veronika and Sonata for Miriam.
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Galley Talk: 'Raising Cubby,' by John Elder Robison
It’s not often that you read a memoir in which the hero is an educational method.
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Galley Talk: 'Schroder,' by Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige’s deeply layered Schroder (Twelve, Feb.) drew me in with the intense beauty of the language and the doomed journey of its unreliable narrator.
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Galley Talk: 'Eleanor & Park'
Hannah Moushabeck, children's department director at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., shares her impressions of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.
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Galley Talk: 'The Death of Bees,' by Lisa O'Donnell
Told in a powerful rotating first-person style, the narrators in Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees (Harper, Jan.) circle in on this story like prey, drawing in the reader.
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