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The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Unbridled Books (May 15, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1609530792
Who and what is the book about (back-of-the-book blurb): Disgraced and fired from his newspaper job, a young man returns to the Florida town of his youth to begin searching for a daughter he has only recently learned may exist and who may be [...]
Like quirky indie films, I’m drawn to quirky indie books. This fall’s Touch and Go by Thad Nodine (the new fiction title from Unbridled Books) is lining up to fit the bill; the first sentence of the book blurb reminds me of a “guy walks into a bar” joke, but you’ll see it’s much more [...]
An Accidental Mother by Katherine Anne Kindred
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Unbridled Books (September 27, 2011)
ISBN-13: 978-1609530587
Back-of-the-book blurb: After her divorce, Kate Kindred decided that she would live her life without children. But then she fell in love with Jim, a handsome, caring man who had custody of his young son, Michael. And she fell in love [...]
There are books from a handful of small presses and imprints that I can pick up and read without any hesitation. As soon as I see the logo on the spine, I know I’m in for a good read, one that has been ‘pre-screened’ if you will. Unbridled Books is one of these, “a premier [...]
Today’s Spotlight on Bookstores is written by Deborah Noyes, the author of Captivity, a historical novel combining the true story of the Fox sisters who started the American Spiritual movement in the mid-1800s with a completely fictional thread about its impact on a certain woman with a tragic past. A previous novel, Angel and Apostle, [...]
Joyce Hinnefeld’s In Hovering Flight is out in paperback today, and I’m one of several bloggers who has an excerpt from my review blurbed in the book!
Unbridled Books shared the thoughts of several bloggers in the paperback, including My Friend Amy, BookingMama, Caribou’s Mom, and The Tome Traveller; regulars in my Google Reader.
Many thanks to [...]
Guest blogger Caitlin Hamilton Summie shares a very special perspective on The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. Caitlin lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. She works with Unbridled Books to promote new and emerging voices in fiction, work of which she is especially proud.
Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should be Reading. Click on over to her blog to read what others have found this week.
My first discovery: from this review at S. Krishna’s Books I found Conscience Point by Erica Abeel. This “modern-day Gothic mystery” will be published by Unbridled Books in May. [...]
The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Unbridled Books (October 28, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1932961546
Back of the book blurb: Against a backdrop of Immigration, Prohibition, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family make their way from Southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to [...]
Take a look at the cover for Joyce Hinnefeld’s In Hovering Flight:
Beautiful, isn’t it? The image, from an Audubon print, is balanced by the sparse text on the parchment background. [...]
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