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Nonfiction Previews, Aug. 2013, Pt. 1: Parenting, from Prenatal Nutrition to Education

By Barbara Hoffert on February 3, 2013 Leave a Comment

Beam, Cris. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. Houghton Harcourt. Aug. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780151014125. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780547999531. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Beam should be able to clarify how badly our current foster care system fails the half million children in its charge; she’s not just a Lambda Literary [...]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Previews Tagged With: Atria: S. & S., Education, family & relationships, Harper: HarperCollins, Houghton Harcourt, Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA), pregnancy and childbirth, S. & S.

Barbara’s Picks, Feb. 2013, Pt. 2: Julianna Baggott, Amity Gaige, Cissy Houston, Maurice Sendak

By Barbara Hoffert on August 10, 2012 Leave a Comment

Baggott, Julianna. Fuse. Grand Central. Feb. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9781455503087. $25.99. Downloadable: Hachette Audio. DYSTOPIAN In Baggott’s laceratingly inventive Pure, those not safely under the Dome at the bomb-bright apocalyptic moment have been permanently fused to whatever was nearby, object or human, and Partridge defies his father, Dome master Willux, by escaping to the wider [...]