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Because Life’s Too Short | Books for Dudes
May is for manful titles, courage and resolution, old crime stories and new thrillers. Read Hobbs’s debut novel Ghostman, Kerr’s A Man Without Breath, Hillerman’s (1986) Skinwalkers, and more.
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, May 17, 2013
A fresh crime novel from Brackmann, the best Robert Landon novel yet from Dan Brown, Mark’s fast-paced police procedural, brisk action from O’Shea, Finnish crime fiction from Tuomainen, and Ulfelder blazes ahead with Shotgun Lullaby
Cooking Reviews | May 15, 2013
Columnist Lisa Campbell reviews cooking titles that focus on healthy and tasty recipes.
Poetry Goes (Sort of) Viral, Undying Love for Nick Carraway, and an Unlikely Roadtrip | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading some books very much of the moment: the follow-up to Code Name Verity and the genesis of Baz Luhrmann’s fizzy film. Others are stuck in the past, or someplace in the middle.
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2013 BEA Galley & Signing Guide Coming This Week! Register Now!
Last call to register for Library Journal’s annual BEA Galley & Signing Guide, ready this week! Last year’s guide was packed with more than 300 titles, and this year’s guide promises to be even bigger. From big houses and small, from Jamie Ford and Alice McDermott, Jonathan Franzen and Curtis Sittenfeld, the guide will cover [...]
Barbara’s Picks, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: Fiction from Albom, Baldacci, Banks, Child/Preston, Griffith, Hammett, Lynch, Miles, & Smith
Albom, Mitch. The First Phone Call from Heaven. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780062294371. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062294395. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio. POP FICTION Phones are ringing off the hook in little Coldwater, MI, but the callers are all deceased, stirring emotions from joyous relief to uncertain fear as they report being happy in [...]
Barbara’s Picks, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: Nonfiction from Auster, Bloom, Brotton, Gardiner, Halperin/Heilemann, Klima, & Robb
Auster, Paul. Report from the Interior. Holt. Nov. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780805098570. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805098594. CD: Macmillan Audio. MEMOIR At 63, celebrated novelist Auster wrote an account of his body and of physical sensation generally that was published last year as Winter Journal. In this work he charts the life of the mind, particularly [...]
General Nonfiction, Nov. 2013, Pt. 3: 15 Titles Ranging from Elizabeth of York to American Football
Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. New York Review Books. Oct. 2013. 480p. ISBN 9781590176740; e-book 9781590176993. BIOGRAPHY Lovers of travel writing everywhere know the name Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose walk across Europe in the 1930s, at age 18, is legendary. Fewer people know about his involvement in the resistance to German occupation of [...]
Cooking Reviews | May 15, 2013
Columnist Lisa Campbell reviews cooking titles that focus on healthy and tasty recipes.
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