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WEBFeaturing 306 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Mary L. Trump, Tony Tulathimutte, and David Almond; and more. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, the Kirkus Star marks books of exceptional merit. The Kirkus Prize is among the richest literary ...
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WEBDEADLY CHOICE by S. Lee Manning. Quickview. NONFICTION. A HELL OF A STORM by David S. Brown. Quickview. NONFICTION. HIGHER ADMISSIONS by Nicholas Lemann. Quickview. At Kirkus Reviews, discover the hottest new books, from bestsellers you love to writers you didn't know you'd love.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES - Kirkus Reviews
WEBMay 3, 2022 — REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES. A debut novel about a woman who befriends an octopus is a charming, warmhearted read. A lonely woman discovers that sometimes humans don’t have all the answers. Tova Sullivan’s best friend is an octopus. A giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus, to be precise, and he …
NORTH WOODS - Kirkus Reviews
WEBSep 19, 2023 — The story of a house, the humans who inhabit it, the ghosts who haunt it, and the New England forest encompassing them all. In the opening chapter of the fourth novel by Mason—a Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020)—a pair of rebellious young lovers flee their Puritan Massachusetts village to seek refuge in the “north woods”: “They were Nature’s ...
THE WOMEN | Kirkus Reviews
WEBFeb 6, 2024 — New York Times Bestseller. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966 ...
THE GOD OF THE WOODS - Kirkus Reviews
WEBJul 2, 2024 — As rich in background detail and secondary mysteries as it is, this ever-expansive, intricate, emotionally engaging novel never seems overplotted. Every piece falls skillfully into place and every character, major and minor, leaves an imprint. "Don't go into the woods" takes on unsettling new meaning in Moore's blend of …
JAMES - Kirkus Reviews
WEBMar 19, 2024 — The outcome is never in doubt, and though the story often feels stretched to the limit—this novel could have easily been a novella—the author’s insistence on the power of connection to change lives comes through loud and clear. Haig’s positive message will keep his fans happy. Share your opinion of this book. Mark Twain's Adventures of ...
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK - Kirkus Reviews
WEBJun 25, 2024 — Likes. 17. Our Verdict. GET IT. New York Times Bestseller. A one-eyed boy becomes a monster’s prey in this chilling tale of missing children. Thirteen-year-old Missouri boy Joseph “Patch” Macauley was born with one eye, so he wears an eye patch and imagines himself a pirate. In 1975, he sees a masked man assaulting a girl in the woods.
ABSOLUTION - Kirkus Reviews
WEBNov 7, 2023 — The outcome is never in doubt, and though the story often feels stretched to the limit—this novel could have easily been a novella—the author’s insistence on the power of connection to change lives comes through loud and clear. Haig’s positive message will keep his fans happy. The complicated, unseen lives of American corporate wives in ...
THE COVENANT OF WATER | Kirkus Reviews
WEBMay 2, 2023 — Verghese's narrative mirrors the landscape it is set in, a maze of connecting storylines and biographies so complex and vast that it's almost a little crazy. But as one of the characters points out, "You can't set out to achieve your goals without a little madness." The madness begins in 1900, when a 12-year-old girl is married off to a widower ...