Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
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.
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 [...]
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
Fante’s fifth, two novels that make the most of the Roaring Twenties, and more from Roby’s Rev. Curtis Black series
Contemporary and historical romance to thrill, plus a thriller that might remind some of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels or Adam Hall’s Quiller series
Erdrich is highly recommended, Jennings’s volume is hilarious, entertaining, and surprisingly informative, Maron’s Deborah Knott series continues, Errol Morris on Jeffrey MacDonald, James Patterson—what more is there to say, and the always entertaining Wodehouse
A fun romp for fans of urban action and fantasy stories, Gauld’s pieces are intellectual and wryly funny, Johnny Red is like a big bowl of sugary breakfast cereal but loaded with nostalgic energy
The correspondence between Bly and Tranströmer, postpartum disorders, the life of an executioner, managing migraines, Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, the impact of social class on college enrollment patterns
Coonts’s latest Grafton and Carmellini adventure, a timely thriller captures the not-so-pretty side of New York’s financial elite, die-hard gaming fans will want Grossman’s latest, a complex multiple plot from Jio, Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is highly recommended
More from Cole’s “Realm of Blood & Mist,” Oliver Twist, Muller’s Looking for Yesterday, Soli’s magical realism, Giunta’s multiple tours of duty, Jasanoff’s historical analysis and eyewitness testimonies, Manchester’s conclusion to The Last Lion, African Americans in Mississippi, and Wisel’s stirring memoir
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