Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
On Saturday, June 1, the final day of BookExpo America, rock-star fantasy and children’s author Neil Gaiman spoke to an adoring crowd of 500 on the topic “Why Fiction Is Dangerous.” At least, that was how the event was billed, but it seems to have been a throwaway title Gaiman gave BEA and then considered [...]
Gabaldon, Diana. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. Delacorte. Dec. 2013. 1008p. ISBN 9780385344432. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780440246442. TIME TRAVEL In the latest in Gabaldon’s relentlessly seductive series, readers get to time-travel to revolutionary Philadelphia, where Jamie Fraser joins wife Claire Randall as the redcoats march into town—a doubtless unnerving sight for our Scottish hero. [...]
Connelly, Michael. The Gods of Guilt. Little, Brown. Dec. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9780316069519. $28. CD: Hachette Audio. THRILLER Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back with a new case—the murder of a prostitute whom he thought he had saved from a life on the streets. Now he learns that he may have instead endangered her and [...]
American Heart Association. American Heart Association Go Red for Women Cookbook. Clarkson Potter. Dec. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9780385346214. $22.50; ebk. ISBN 9780385346221. COOKBOOK The American Heart Association (AHA) celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Go Red for Women campaign, aimed at improving women’s health, with a cookbook featuring 200 easy-on-time, easy-on-the-heart recipes for everything from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Berger, Glen. The Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History. S. & S. Nov. 2013. NAp. ISBN 9781451684568. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781451684582. MUSICALS Chosen by Julie Taymor to collaborate on the book of the Spider-man musical, Emmy Award–winning television and theater writer Berger saw the entire musical unfold [...]
Cookbooks, Food Memoirs, and Eating Advice from Chopra Choi, Roy & others. L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. Anthony Bourdain Bks/Ecco: HarperCollins. Nov. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780062202635. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062202642. COOKERY.MEMOIR Chopra, Deepak. What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul. Harmony, dist. [...]
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