The Yellow Birds : a Novel
The New York Times Book Review: …a first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo…the fractured structure replicates the book's themes. Like a chase scene made up of sentences that run on and on and ultimately leave readers breathless, or like a concert description that stops and starts, that swings and […]
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
The New York Times: …[a] slyly arch novel about technology and its discontents…The culture clash at work here—Google aces wielding the full, computer-assisted strength of their collective brainpower, one scholar fiddling with a quaint astrolabe—has a topicality that works to this novel's advantage. Mr. Sloan fills his book with wittily-drawn prodigies, then makes them wonder […]
The Intercept
Library Journal Wolf, the master storyteller behind NBC's four Law and Order series, makes a spectacular fiction debut with this gripping thriller. Just three days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower on July 4, five passengers and a flight attendant on an incoming transatlantic flight prevent Awaan Abdulraheem, a fellow passenger, from hijacking […]
Snakes
Publishers Weekly Calling snakes “strange, secretive, and surprising,†Bishop offers an excellent photographic guide to these reptiles in all their diversity. Striking magnified images depict a variety of snake species in the wild and in captivity, including a feathered bush viper (whose scales resemble tree leaves), garter snakes overwintering in a burrow, and an African […]
From the Good Mountain : How Gutenberg Changed the World
Publishers Weekly Rumford frames this expressive introduction to Gutenberg and his revolutionary printing press as a riddle, describing a "mysterious" object that arrived in the city of Mainz, Germany, around 1450. "It was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds…. What was it?" Subsequent pages concisely describe the processes by which paper, leather, and […]
The Black Box
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Connelly’s excellent 18th Harry Bosch novel (after 2011’s The Drop) opens in 1992, a few days after the acquittal of the cops who beat up Rodney King incited an eruption of violence in Los Angeles (“Flames from a thousand fires reflected like the devil dancing in the dark skyâ€). In a South-Central […]
Hard Twisted
Library Journal Barely a teenager, Lottie Garrett has already known hard times. It's 1934, and the Depression is in full sway in Oklahoma. Lottie and her father scrape by, roaming the countryside in search of food and shelter. Eventually they meet Clint Palmer, cocksure and scrappy, who draws them into his world of anger and […]
Nano
Kirkus Reviews A medical/scientific thriller from Cook (Vital Signs, 1991, etc.). Nanotechnology operates at the one-billionth of a meter level, and at such a scale, the tiniest details matter. In things medical, nanobots can swarm inside your body and fix all sorts of things–but then, as anyone who recalls the old Raquel Welch vehicle Fantastic […]
The Child's Child
Library Journal: Grace and Andrew Easton share the house they've inherited from their grandmother and live there peaceably until Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, James, whose caustic comments turn the atmosphere sour. Even as James starts coming apart after he and Andrew witness a friend's murder, Grace begins reading a lost 1951 novel called […]
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
School Library Journal Gr 5-8 Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes's 14-year-old sister takes on a new case, this one involving Lady Cecily Alistair, the champion of the poor and working classes of London. The Holmes brothers continue to be concerned about Enola's lack of a "proper" upbringing and she continues to evade them by disguising herself […]