Reviews of Lily Koppel’s The Astronaut Wives Club, Nancy Stout’s One Day in December, Robin Nagle’s Picking Up, and other Social Sciences titles from the May 1 issue.
Xpress Reviews: E-Originals | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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A historical novella, the fallibility of humans in a football-themed story, a steamy, shape-shifting tale, and the best of the “new adult” subgenre
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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The final installment in Dobbs’s important “Cold War Trilogy,” a program on Nixon’s famous speech will appeal to political junkies, novellas from Mosley, literary fiction from Orhan Pamuk, fun for sf fans, Virginia Woolf’s The Years, for fans of Downton Abbey.
Xpress Reviews: Graphic Novels | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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Week ending May 3, 2013 Gagné, Michel (text & illus.). Zed: A Cosmic Tale. Image. 2013. 280p. ISBN 9781607066682. pap. $19.99. SF A young alien named Zed has traveled to the planet Xandria to compete in the Nob-L prize for inventions. Something goes awry when his entry, which is supposed to create a clean and [...]
Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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More on President Ford, Detroit city, Phil Jackson on success, Morrison on beekeeping, learning something of the Palestinian perspective in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the centenary of Grand Central Terminal, and a simplified system of identifying personality types through colors
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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Fante’s fifth, two novels that make the most of the Roaring Twenties, and more from Roby’s Rev. Curtis Black series
Scott Thorson on Behind the Candelabra | Tantorious
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Tantorious is a semi-monthly podcast series featuring interviews with well-known authors, hosted by Allan Hoving and presented by Tantor Audio. Scott Thorson was the longtime companion of celebrity entertainer Liberace, who had plastic surgeons change the young man’s appearance to match his own. After their breakup, Thorson filed a palimony suit, then settled, and the two [...]
Morrow Launches Digital-First Mystery Line
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Ebook original mysteries continue to gain traction with publishers (see Kristi Chadwick’s 4/15 Genre Spotlight feature “Following Digital Clues”) as HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint announced the launch this October of Witness Impulse, a new digital -original mystery, suspense, and thriller line. Over 100 titles have already been acquired, and the initial release of ten titles [...]
Crime Fiction in Translation | May 1, 2013
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Reviews of The Square of Revenge, Summer Death, and The Redeemer.
Best Sellers: Asian History, May 2, 2013
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Reference eReviews | May 1, 2013
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Science & Technology Reviews | May 1, 2013
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Reviews of The White Planet, Letters to a Young Scientist, and Saving the Season, and other Science & Technology titles from the May 1 issue.
Beta Testers Weigh In On Hoopla
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Hoopla, Midwest Tape’s pay-per-circulation media streaming service for public libraries, has been in beta-testing mode for close to two months, and early reports of both the service overall and its mobile applications have been positive.
Barbara’s Picks, Oct. 2013, Pt. 5: Wrapping Up a Huge Month with Malcolm Gladwell, Malala Yousafzai, & More
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Chen Guangcheng. Untitled Memoir. Times: Holt. Oct. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780805098051. $28. MEMOIR Chen has been named a 2012 Brave Thinker, 2012 Rebel of the Year, and 2012 Global Thinker by the Atlantic, GQ, and Foreign Policy, respectively. And no wonder. Blinded by illness in infancy and illiterate until his teens, Chen taught himself law [...]
Fiction Previews, Oct. 2013, Pt. 5: Lots of Action from Lisa Scottoline, Anne Hillerman, & More
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Abrams, JJ & Doug Dorst. The Secret JJ Abrams Project. Mulholland: Little, Brown. Oct. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780316201643. $35. CD/downloadable: Hachette Audio. THRILLER Abrams has created, produced, written, and directed multiple Emmy– and Golden Globe Award–winning television series and films (yes, he’s helming the next Star Wars film), so it’s no surprise that he can [...]
Steve Jobs, Harry Houdini, and Beyoncé | What We’re Reading
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This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are dipping into some classics (both new and old) of the horror genre, taking behind-the-scenes looks at today’s technology, and looking at historical figures with new eyes.
Fiction Previews, Oct. 2013, Pt. 5: Five Hot Debut Titles
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Bonert, Kenneth. The Lion Seeker. Houghton Harcourt. Oct. 2013. 576p. ISBN 9780547898049. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780547898414. LITERARY The grandson of Lithuanian immigrants, South African Bonert was inspired to write this work by the photo of an uncle with Nadine Gordimer. This portrait of South Africa’s small Jewish community doubles as the portrait of a mother-son [...]
Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2013, Pt. 5: Memoirs, from Chelsea Handler to Elizabeth Smart
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Buffett, Howard. 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World. S. & S. Oct. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9781451687866. $26. MEMOIR Farmers can anticipate 40 growing seasons—that is, 40 chances to improve their land’s yield. Son of mega-investor Warren Buffett, who once challenged him to consider what he really wanted to accomplish in life, Howard Buffett [...]
What To Brew, Mix, & Serve | Wyatt’s World
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Classic cocktails, true brews, twists in tequila, slushes for a change? Every glass has a plot.
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