I came across this Library Journal article and thought I’d share it to let you know of these great new memoirs:
Down with Summer Reading!: 19 Memoirs for the Recovery Crowd.
Fever Dream by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston - Preston and Child up the emotional ante considerably in their 10th thriller featuring brilliant and eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Special Agent Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife’s murder, but as he probes the circumstances of her death, he is [...]
Being home sick has its advantages. When I wasn’t passed out in a fever-induced coma this past week, I actually got some recreational reading done. Not much, but I managed to finish a couple of books.
Making Toast - this short memoir-of-sorts is sad and tragic. It doesn’t move quickly, it’s not a story with a [...]
The Spring is heating up with new releases. Among those releasing March 2nd were:
House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Eighteen-year old Jacob Hunt has Asperger’s syndrome, and his devoted single mother, Emma, has built their family’s life around Jacob’s needs, sacrificing her career to act as his caregiver and all but ignoring a younger son, Theo. [...]
This week’s releases feature thrills and entertainment in both fiction and non-fiction. A number of memoirs/biographies are being released, and the holiday-themed books are already starting to arrive!
True Blue by David Baldacci - Mason “Mace” Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped, framed for a crime, and incarcerated [...]
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls. The author of the incredible memoir, The Glass Castle, now brings us a true-life novel of her grandmother, Lily. Raised in a dirt dugout in west Texas and educated in starts and stops, Lily became a teacher at the age of 15 in a rural town. She married twice [...]
This week brings us brilliant releases in both fiction and non-fiction from some of our best-loved contemporary authors:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. The incredible story of a boy who brought electricity to a whole village. Kamkwamba grew up in an impoverished village in Malawi. At the age of 14 he had [...]
This week brings us further into our fall reading spectacular with releases from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Diana Gabaldon!
American on Purpose is Craig Ferguson’s memoir of his journey from the mean streets of Glasgow to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark—as [...]
Although the big, huge, ginormous news this week is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, there are still other releases to be excited about. And I am excited about all four of the ones listed below.
True Compass, Edward Kennedy’s memoir, is released today. Here in Massachusetts, we have all felt the recent loss of this amazing [...]
This shortened holiday week (for some) is packed with some exciting book releases, including:
Stitches by David Small, a memoir in graphic novel form. Baltimore County Librarian Lisa Wisotzki called the book “dark and hard and depressing…it tears your heart out,” saying it was a “gateway book to graphic novels.” I caught a brief glimpse [...]
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