July 2011 Highlights
Novels1. The End of Everything (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, 2011) / Megan Abbott
2. The O’Briens (House of Anansi Press, 2011) / Peter Behrens
3. The Gap Year (Knopf Doubleday, 2011) / Sarah Bird
4. A Death in Summer (Henry Holt/Mantle, 2011) / Benjamin Black
5. You (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Joanna Briscoe
6. A Small Hotel (Grove/Atlantic, 2011) / Robert Olen Butler
7. Once Upon a River (W.W. Norton, 2011) / Bonnie Jo Campbell
8. After the End of the World (Sceptre, 2011) / Chris Cleave
9. The Inverted Forest (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2011) / John Dalton
10. Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud (Doubleday, 2011) / Bruce Duffy
11. Next to Love (Spielgel & Grau/Random House, 2011) / Ellen Feldman12. Breaking Away (trans. from the French) (Gallic Books, 2011) / Anna Gavalda
13. Iron House (Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press, 2011) / John Hart
14. Love Child (Penguin USA, 2011) / Sheila Kohler
15. Ghastly Business (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Louise Levine
16. A Dance with Dragons (Bantam, 2011) / George R.R. Martin
17. To be Sung Underwater (Abacus/Little, Brown, 2011) / Tom McNeal
18. House of the Hanged (HarperCollins, 2011) / Mark Mills
19. Tender Hooks (Chatto & Windus, 2011) / Moni Mohsin
20. A Good Hard Look (Penguin USA, 2011) / Ann Napolitano
21. I Could Love You (Soho Press, 2011) / William Nicholson
22. Dublin Dead (Sphere, 2011) / Gerard O’Donovan
23. This Burns My Heart (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Samuel Park
24. Waterline (Viking, 2011) / Ross Raisin
25. Conquistadora (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) / Esmeralda Santiago
26. Northwest Corner (Random House, 2011) / John Burnham Schwartz
27. The Emperor of Lies (trans. from the Swedish by Sarah Death) (Faber & Faber, 2011) / Steve Sem-Sandberg
28. Everyone’s Just So So Special (Big Finish Productions, 2011) / Robert Shearman
29. Burnt Mountain (Grand Central, 2011) / Anne Rivers Siddons
30. Agent 6 (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Tom Rob Smith
31. Stone Arabia (Scribner, 2011) / Dana Spiotta
32. The Oriental Wife (Other Press, 2011) / Evelyn Toynton
33. Genus (Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2011) / Jonathan Trigell
34. Everything Beautiful Began After (Beautiful Books, 2011) / Simon Van Booy
35. The Lovers (Atlantic Books, 2011) / Vendela Vida
36. Close Your Eyes (Random House, 2011) / Amanda Eyre Ward
37. The Warsaw Anagrams (Overlook, 2011) / Richard Zimler
38. The Whispers of Nemesis (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Anne Zouroudi
First Novels1. What They Do in the Dark (Virago Press, 2011) / Amanda Coe
2. All the Materials for a Midnight Feast (Old Street Publishing, 2011) / Gary Dexter
3. Turn of Mind (Atlantic Monthly Press/Harvill Secker, 2011) / Alice LaPlante
4. The Butterfly Cabinet (Simon & Schuster, 2011) / Bernie McGill
5. The Devil All the Time (Doubleday, 2011) / Donald Ray Pollock
6. The Return of Captain John Emmett (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) / Elizabeth Speller
7. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Random House, 2011) / Jenny Wingfield
Stories1. Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories (Counterpoint, 2011) / Gina Berriault
2. I Knew You’d Be Lovely (Broadway Books/Random House, 2011) / Alethea Black
3. Collected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics, 2011) / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Poetry
1. Midnight in the City of Clocks (Salt Publishing, 2011) / Tobias Hill
2. Love’s Vision (Princeton University Press, 2011) / Troy Jollimore
Nonfiction1. Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Janine di Giovanni
2. White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia (Portobello Books, 2011) / Jacek Hugo-Bader
3. On Writing Fiction: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom About the Craft (Writer’s Digest Books, 2011) / David Jauss
4. Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic (Oxford University Press, 2011) / Arthur Krystal
5. Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion (Henry Holt, 2011) / Michael Levy
6. Tretower to Clyro: Essays (Quercus Publishing, 2011) / Karl Miller
7. Hancox: A House and a Family (Viking, 2011) / Charlotte Moore
8. Street Fight in Naples: A City’s Unseen History (Bloomsbury, 2011) / Peter Robb
9. Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Incredible Journey Into the World of India’s Godmen (Arcade Publishing, 2011) / Tahir Shah
10. The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities (Crown, 2011) / Katharine Weber
11. Orpheus: The Song of Life (Jonathan Cape, 2011) / Ann Wroe
posted by Eric Forbes at 9:51 PM
1 Comments:
Iron House is my first John Hart novel and I am totally impressed with this author. This book was hard to put down and from the start it was non-stop action and thrills. The book excerpt leads one to believe it is a plot that revolves completely around the mob, however that is not the case. Iron House is the name of an institution where two boys amongst many are the focus of the story. One weak, the other strong, the weak one is adopted by a senator's wife who cannot have children of her own. But why would a senator's wife want to adopt a full grown child and not a new born infant? The seeds planted long ago are in wait and as the story evolves they only sink deeper and deeper and only sprout once all the evil and deception hits the surface. Hart has presented an incredible cast of characters, they left my skin tingling, my mind boggled, and it only made me want to read more of this amazing novel.
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