The Alzheimer's Prevention Program : Keep Your Brain Healthy For the Rest of Your Life
Publishers Weekly Director of the UCLA Longevity Center, Small and partner Vorgan (The Memory Prescription) have refined their program into a seven-day kick-start to master such frustrating memory problems as “tip-of-the-tongue†phenomena and forgetting names, while developing healthy habits that could delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Their regime […]
Wanted Women : Faith, Lies, and the War On Terror : the Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
Publishers Weekly For Scroggins (Emma’s War), two women who, despite a “weird symmetry†in their lives, embody the split among Muslims regarding the West and the war on terror. Ayaan Hirsi Ali “fights only with words†against Islam, calling it a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death,†while there are numerous indicators that Aafia Siddiqui was […]
Before I Go to Sleep
Publishers Weekly Memories—real, false, and a bit of both—are at the heart of British author Watson's haunting, twisted debut. Christine Lucas awakens each morning in London with no idea who she is or why she's in bed with a strange man, until he tells her that his name is Ben and they've been married for […]
The Retribution
Publishers Weekly The return of serial killer Jacko Vance drives McDermid’s superb seventh novel featuring Dr. Tony Hill and Det. Chief Insp. Carol Jordan of the Bradfield police (after 2010’s Fever of the Bone). Vance, the charming TV talk show host responsible for murdering 17 teenage girls in 1997’s The Wire in the Blood, manages […]
The Whites of Their Eyes
Andrew Clements delivers the latest in his adventure-filled school series. This could be the last great Memorial Day weekend on Barclay Bay, and Ben knows it. This time next year, he might not be able to stand in the yard of the Oakes School and watch the harbor shake off winter—boats buzzing just beyond the […]
Gideon's Corpse
Publishers Weekly Fans of Preston and Child’s bestselling Aloysius Pendergast novels (Relic, etc.) may want to take a pass on the unremarkable second Gideon Crew thriller (after 2011’s Gideon’s Sword), whose lead could be cut-and-pasted into any number of books by less gifted genre writers. A rare medical disorder has left Crew, a private contractor […]
The Rope : an Anna Pigeon Novel
From The Critics The adventures of park ranger Anna Pigeon have filled the pages of 16 books, and now her legion of loyal fans can find out how her story began. After her husband's death in 1995, Anna leaves New York City to take a seasonal position at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. On a […]
The Drop : a Novel
From The Critics Connelly’s lean, just-the-facts style makes for crisp dialogue and a brisk, info-driven plot…A haunted quality has always been one of the chief attractions of Connelly's series and of Bosch's character, and this latest entry hardly fails to deliver. —The Washington Post
Breakdown
Publishers Weekly At the start of MWA Grand Master Paretsky’s riveting 15th novel featuring Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski (after 2010’s Body Work), Warshawski goes in search of several 12- and 13-year-old girls, members of her cousin Petra’s book club, who are out after curfew. Warshawski finds the girls in a cemetery, steps away from a […]
Need You Now : a Novel
Publishers Weekly A Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff proportions drives this winning financial thriller from bestseller Grippando (Money to Burn). Abe Cushman, “a former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market and a force on Wall Street trading for nearly fifty years,†commits suicide just hours before he’s supposed to report to federal authorities on charges […]