Ramona Ausubel’s A GUIDE TO BEING BORN was reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe, while the author was interviewed in Los Angeles Magazine and Flavorwire. The Boston Globe called the book “epiphanic,” “carefully wrought,” and “ambitious,” noting that it “makes you feel as if you have emerged from a concert of atonal music, every object in the world momentarily transformed by Ausubel’s gloriously eccentric vision.”

Amy Shearn’s THE MERMAID OF BROOKLYN was chosen by Motherlode Magazine for one of the best books of the summer season to give to your mother. Amy Shearn has also been chosen as a Target “Emerging Author,” and her book will be featured in the franchise’s display in stores around the country. Touchstone published the book on April 2, 2013.

Derek B. Miller’s NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT is one of the five books on the NYPost’s list of “Required Reading.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book May 21, 2013.

Charlie Smith’s MEN IN MIAMI HOTELS was reviewed in Kirkus, calling it an “offbeat crime story” with a “wild and woolly” plot. Harper Perennial will publish the book on July 2, 2013.

ECSTATIC NATION: CONFIDENCE, CRISIS, AND COMPROMISE, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple was pick of the week in Publishers Weekly and received a starred review, which raved that “Acclaimed biographer Wineapple..gracefully choreographs a staggering number of primary sources, weaving disparate voices together into one revelatory thread.”

Nicholas Christopher’s TIGER RAG has received positive reviews from The Washington Post, GQ.com, The Toronto Star, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and The New York Post. The Washington Post raves, “you’ll love this ambitious, thoughtful novel.” The Dial Press published the book January 1, 2013.

SPARTA by Roxana Robinson received a starred review in Booklist: “Robinson tells tales of psychic maladies with spellbinding intensity and acute insight…Robinson’s diligently researched and profoundly realized tale of a warrior’s trauma and his family’s struggle to help him is a beautifully incisive, respectful, suspenseful, and indicting drama of our failure to grasp the full toll of war.” Sarah Crichton Books/FSG will publish the book June 4, 2013.

The May 6, 2013 edition of USA TODAY says “Some might feel it’s quintessentially Poitier. Elegant, if a book can be elegant, with a bit of mystery and Caribbean flavor thrown in for good measure. Like his famed movie roles in Lilies of the Field and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, he once again offers up a moving performance.” Spiegel and Grau published the book on May 7, 2013.

A GUIDE TO BEING BORN received a glowing review in the May 5 New York Times Book Review. The reviewer Helen Oyemymi praised Ausubel for "the measured elegance of her prose" and noted that "the dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.” Riverhead published the book May 2, 2013.

HARVARD SQUARE by André Aciman received glowing praise in the New York Times Sunday Book Review May 5: “His sentences call to mind the late work of V.S. Naipaul: comfortable, unforced, conversational, unafraid.” The New York Observer called the book “a delicately poignant interplay of desire and memory, and is Mr. Aciman at his greatest.” W.W. Norton published the book April 8, 2013.