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 [...]
Among this week’s releases are:
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
This is the third blistering serial-killer thriller in Cain’s “Gretchen Lowell” series. A college student is found dead, floating in a rowing boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his spleen was removed while he was still alive. The [...]
The James Tait Black literary prizes were presented in Edinburgh last Friday. The £10,000 awards were presented to Irish novelist Sebastian Barry for his novel The Secret Scripture, and to biographer Michael Holroyd, for his book on 19th century Shakespearean actors, A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their [...]
As the weather cools down (hopefully), the Fall releases are just heating up. This week we see the following books:
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs. I honestly have never read one of her books, but she’s been on my list to try for a while now. I absolutely love the TV show Bones that is based [...]
Among tomorrow’s releases are three stellar-looking books covering a diverse selection of interests and topics:
Soul of a Dog by Jon Katz. Who doesn’t love a good dog story? Well here you get several. With his signature wisdom, humor, and clarity, Katz relates the stories of the animals he lives with on Bedlam Farm and [...]
The newest edition of NPR’s book notes arrived in my e-mail, and I noticed its headliner is the book Farm City by Novella Carpenter. This is the story of a woman who is running a farm on a squatted parcel of land in the ghetto. No, really, she is. Her memoir is an amazing [...]
This week has some fairly staggered release dates for an excellent collection of releases.
James Patterson’s Swimsuit and Craig Nelson’s Rocket Men both release today. Swimsuit is Patteron’s latest thriller (cowritten by Maxine Paetro), centered around the disappearance of a swimsuit model. Rocket Men is a nonfiction book, taking a new look at “the epic story [...]
The July issue of Oprah’s Magazine features a collection of 25 books to read this summer chosen by author/editor/book reviewer Cathleen Medwick. Some of the featured titles are:
Provenance by husband-wife duo Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. A real-life thriller about the most elaborate art hoax of the 20th century. John Drewe fooled the art world [...]
The 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009. Presented annually since 1967, these awards honor excellence in children’s and young adult literature and are given in three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book.
The 2009 winners are:
Fiction and Poetry - Nation by Terry Pratchett. A young adult novel about two [...]
Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher novel, Gone Tomorrow, is being released tomorrow! This thirteenth in the series is described as a “gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense” (Amazon.com). Early one morning on a nearly empty Manhattan subway car, the former army MP notices a woman passenger he suspects is a suicide bomber. He confronts her, setting [...]
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