Casey and Adlard’s Kafka-like meditative piece, an oddly heartwarming family comedy, and Mahfood’s graffiti-style artwork adds to Martin’s acid-trip writing aesthetic
Xpress Reviews: Graphic Novels | First Look at New Books, May 10, 2013
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Xpress Reviews: Nonfiction | First Look at New Books, May 10, 2013
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Notes from Clive Davis, Cissy Houston talks about her daughter Whitney, Amanda Knox talks as well, clearing the air about firefighting, addressing psychiatric practice, touring the National Baseball Hall of Fame, firsthand accounts of serving in Afghanistan
Xpress Reviews: Fiction | First Look at New Books, May 10, 2013
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A sophomore effort from Drake, Foster bares it all, and a novel with period detail of the gay male experience
Xpress Reviews: E-Originals | First Look at New Books, May 10, 2013
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A horror ebook from Neocon, erotic romance during Mardi Gras, a chef with more on his mind than cooking, historical spies find love, and looking for a Plus One
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
Xpress Reviews: E-Originals | First Look at New Books, April 26, 2013
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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
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