A crime novel for readers who love contemporary Westerns, how a crisis unearths community alliances and fissures, breathing new life into a familiar genre, and a new Maisie Dobbs title
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, February 22, 2013
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Audio Reviews | February 15, 2013
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Reviews of the audiobooks of Emma Donoghue’s Astray, Dashiell Hammett’s Return of the Thin Man, and Tere Tereba’s Mickey Cohen, plus a full list of audiobook reviews from the Feb. 15 issue.
The Narrating Brilliance of Simon Prebble | RA Crossroads
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Experience the brilliance of audiobook narrator Simon Prebble in his own voice, listen-alikes, listen-arounds, and listen-agains. Readers’ advisory recommends Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell; Morgenstern’s The Night Circus; Eliot’s Middlemarch, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities among others to get reading patrons listening.
The Reader’s Shelf | February 1, 2013
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Books exploring the concept of place
Connecting with Six Great Authors at ALA Midwinter
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Books can entertain or enlighten, sate our curiosity or pique it, but surely one of the things they do best is to capture significant change in their characters’ lives even as the act of reading changes ours. That was evident throughout the author presentations at the AAP/LJ Annual Complimentary BookTalk Breakfast at the ALA Midwinter [...]
Audio Reviews | February 1, 2013
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Reviews of James M. Cain’s The Cocktail Waitress, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue, and Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, plus a full list of audiobook reviews in the Feb. 1 issue.
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, February 1, 2013
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All-star attractions: the latest from Coben, Picoult, and Trout, plus a debut for readers of stories set in academia
Audio Reviews | January 2013
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Reviews of the audiobooks of Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone, Rachel Maddow’s Drift, and Alex Grecian’s The Yard, plus a full list of audiobook reviews in the January issue.
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, January 18, 2013
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Jackie Collins delivers, Rankin’s Rebus make a triumphal return, and Zinovieff explores Greece’s troubled history
Forthcoming Titles | Wyatt’s World
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One way to find provocative titles is browsing publisher catalogs. Here are five titles from Workman which are sure to add richness and depth to all collections. Topsy-Turvy Inside-Out Knit Toys: Magical Two-in-One Reversible Projects by Susan B. Anderson (Artisan). Building on the knitting boom, here is a unique project book to create toys that [...]
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