Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir by Doron Weber Nonfiction — Memoir Simon & Schuster; February 5, 2013 Paperback 368 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: A medical mystery and a remarkable passion for life lie at the heart of a gifted boy’s fight to survive. Born with a congenital heart […]

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff Nonfiction — World War II Harper; April 23, 2013 Hardcover 416 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) On November 5, 1942, a U.S. C-53 cargo plane on a routine flight crash-landed on the Greenland ice cap. All five men aboard initially survived the crash and sent out distress […]

Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley Fiction Little, Brown and Company; April 16, 2013 Kindle edition 338 pages (Source: Publisher / NetGalley ) From Goodreads: A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she’s convinced […]

  Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper Paperbacks; April 30, 2013 Paperback 496 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) In Botswana, Africa, young girls are going missing after getting into cars with mysterious men. Detectives David “Kubu” Bengu and Samantha Khama have been charged […]

The Missing File by D.A. Mishani Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper; March 19, 2013 Hardcover 304 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: Police detective Avraham Avraham knows that when a crime is committed in his quiet suburban Tel Aviv, there is little need for a complex investigation. There […]

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Fiction — Historical Harper, August 2012 Hardcover 448 pages From the inside flap: At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace […]

The Tale of Lucia Grandi: The Early Years by Susan Speranza Fiction Brook House Press, October 2012 Kindle edition 428 pages Lucia Grandi is 110 years old and living in a nursing home (?) when she is asked by a young graduate student to tell the story of her life. Lucia goes on to recount […]

História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands by Eleanor Stanford Memoir — Travel CCLaP Publishing; March 11, 2013 Kindle edition 83 pages In 1998-2000, Eleanor Stanford and her husband, Dan, spent two years in the Cape Verde islands as volunteers for the Peace Corps. While Dan seemed to assimilate pretty quickly, Eleanor had […]

No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie Fiction — Mystery / Crime Fiction William Morrow; February 5, 2013 (reprint) Paperback 384 pages From the back cover: When a K9 search-and-rescue team discovers a woman’s body in the Thames, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications. The victim, the talented […]

Fight Song by Joshua Mohr Fiction Soft Skull Press; February 12, 2013 Paperback 272 pages From the publisher: When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor’s SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffen. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his […]

The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley Fiction — Drama William Morrow; February 5, 2013 Paperback 432 pages From Goodreads: Matt Beaulieu was two years old the first time he held Elle McClure in his arms, seventeen when he first kissed her under a sky filled with shooting stars, and thirty-three when he convinced her […]

The Shining by Stephen King Fiction — Horror Heinemann / Octopus, 1981 Hardcover 308 pages This book…THIS BOOK…really did a number on me. Holy smokes. In case you’re not familiar with the story: Jack Torrance is an aspiring author and newly recovering alcoholic who has just lost his job as a teacher at a prep […]

Proof of Guilt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (#15) by Charles Todd Fiction — Mystery, Crime Fiction William Morrow; January 29, 2013 Hardcover 352 pages From the inside flap: London, summer 1920. An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investigation to uncover what happened. […]

The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics by Greg Mitchell Nonfiction — Politics Sinclair Books, 2011 Kindle edition 686 pages Upton Sinclair was a lot of things: journalist, Socialist, muckraker, author, politician. He’s probably best known for his novel, The Jungle (1906), about the […]