Kindle Edition: How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu

On November 3, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Early on in How to Read the Air–the second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears–Jonas Woldemariam and his soon-to-be wife Angela attend a party, where they tell casual, false stories about Angela’s absent father and arrive, all of a sudden, at the fulcrum of this elegant and unusual novel.

Kindle Edition: Zora and Me – A Novel by Victoria Bond

On November 2, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston. Whether she’s telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller.

Kindle Edition: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

On November 1, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Born and raised in the Mount Hope section of Providence, Rhode Island, journalist Liam Mulligan won’t simply report on the rash of arsons killing lifelong friends and loved ones in his old neighborhood. He wants to know more and launches an investigation, discovering a heavy-handed plot to own Mount Hope in order to redevelop it.

Kindle Edition – The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships by Kelly Valen

On October 31, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

In The Twisted Sisterhood, Kelly Valen picks up where her arresting New York Times essay about a painful sorority encounter left off. She pulls back the curtain on female relationships, revealing the troubling findings from her unique survey of more than three thousand women from all walks of life.

Kindle Edition: Adam & Eve: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund

On October 30, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

This outlandish stew of biblical analogy, political thriller, futuristic speculation, and old-fashioned adventure story by the best-selling author of Ahab’s Wife (1999) teases and frustrates the reader.

Kindle Edition: The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart

On October 30, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Reminiscent of Kent Haruf’s portrayals of hope amidst human heartbreak and Cormac McCarthy’s finely hewn evocations of the American Southwest, Bruce Machart’s striking debut is as well wrought as it is riveting. It compels us to consider the inescapable connections between sons and their mothers, between landscape and family, and between remembrance and redemption.

Kindle Edition: Take One Candle Light a Room: A Novel by Susan Straight

On October 30, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

For some, despite passage of time or change of location, the past is very much alive. Such is the case for Fantine, a travel writer living in L.A., worlds apart from Rio Seco, the community she grew up in only an hour east.

Kindle Edition: A Diamond in the Desert by Jo Tatchell

On October 29, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Tatchell is no “parachute journalist,” writing standard, pre-packaged vignettes that are so often required by “editorial concerns” back home. She spent a good portion of her youth in Abu Dhabi, arriving in 1974, at the age of three, with her parents.

Kindle Edition: Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

On October 28, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

While Moonlight Mile is the direct sequel to Prayers for Rain, the last Patrick and Angie book, it is more closely related to 1997′s Gone Baby Gone.

Kindle Edition – Bound: A Novel by Antonya Nelson

On October 26, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Antonya Nelson’s fourth novel is a quiet character study of the bonds of family and friendship, at times fragile and at others strong as steel. Nelson plumbs the interior lives of a small but intriguing collection of characters, probing for some understanding of these often inexplicable ties.