As Brian Renvall of Library Journal says in a starred review, BOY ON ICE by John Branch is, “A heartbreaking examination of a young man's life destroyed by the sport he loved. Highly recommended.” Norton will publish the book Oct. 1, 2014.

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and the Literary Review. The New York Times Book Review says, “it has an undeniable grace, reminding us that respite can be found even in emergent sorrow.” The Literary Review said, “The lyrical new novel by National Book Award Finalist René Steinke is the kind of 300-plus-page book that devours you in a couple of afternoons...

New York Times bestselling author of A FOREIGN COUNTRY, Charles Cumming’s second Thomas Kell novel was called, “one of the best books of 2014 thus far” by Joe Hartlaub in Bookreporter. St. Martin’s Press published the book August 5, 2014.

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, and PureWow, which said, “Steinke has a lyrical way with words, and she’s at her best when describing the small-town Texas dynamics and blighted landscape--an effect that falls somewhere between Erin Brockovich and Friday Night Lights.”

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s A PATH APPEARS: TRANSFORMING LIVES, CREATING OPPORTUNITY received a starred review in Booklist, which called it, “a slow-go read in the most positive sense; it is hard not to constantly put down the book in order to further investigate the many exemplary causes that are profiled.” Knopf publishes the book on September 23, 2014.

The August 1, 2014 issue of Kirkus says “A newspaperman’s sharp focus and beveled prose lend emotional power to this debate.” Simon & Schuster will publish the book on September 16, 2014.

Samantha Hunt’s THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE was listed on Flavorwire’s “50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read.” Samantha’s next novel MR. SPLITFOOT is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Lin Enger’s THE HIGH DIVIDE was reviewed by Kirkus, which said, “Enger's novel embraces not one but three journeys that involve guilt, expiation and redemption . . . Enger writes in an expansive style suitable to his sprawling subject.” Algonquin Books will publish the book on September 23, 2014.

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in O Magazine and Booklist. Booklist said, “With exceptional perception and deft artistry, Steinke (Holy Skirts, 2005) traces a matrix of poisonous acts in this magnetizing and sensitive tale of hidden dangers, the tyranny of the status quo, trust betrayed, crimes personal and planetary, and individuals transformed.”

Charles Cumming’s latest Thomas Kell novel is "complex, dangerous and well-told" says Patrick Anderson in THE WASHINGTON POST. St. Martin’s Press published the book August 5, 2014.