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February 26, 2013

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Daily Contest by Wednesday, February 27th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE CONDITIONS OF LOVE by Dale Kushner. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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Shirley MacLaine

Sophie Littlefield, author of Garden of Stones

Lucy Takeda is just 14 years old when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are taken to the Manzanar prison camp, where they must endure its harsh living conditions. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever...and spur her to sins of her own.

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Glen Beaman

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

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Glen Beaman

Edgar A. Shoaff

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.

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Edgar A. Shoaff

Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

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Rosa Parks

Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche: The New James Bond Novel

James Bond, in his early 30s and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, its aim is to protect the Realm by any means necessary. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about a scheduled attack. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission.

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Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories

A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s lower torso. Two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood. And this only scratches the surface of what appears in Karen Russell’s new collection of stories.

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Jess Walter, author of We Live in Water: Stories

In this first collection of short stories from bestselling author Jess Walter, the pieces range from comic tales of love to social satire and suspenseful crime fiction. Among them are "We Live in Water," in which a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared 30 years earlier, and the collection's final story, which transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times.

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