Darkness, My Old Friend
Library Journal Willow spots a man digging up a dead body, then drops her cell phone as she flees. He returns it, explaining to her mom that he was hunting for an abandoned mine shaft. He also explains that he has been trying to figure out what happened to his long-gone mother; a psychic he's […]
Sister : a Novel
The New York Times – Liesl Schillinger …a taut, hold-your-breath-and-your-handkerchief thriller…Like Kate Atkinson, Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell, Lupton builds suspense not only around the causes and details of her story's brutal denouement, but also around the personalities and motivations of those who lunge and those who duck…Both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, Sister provides an adrenaline […]
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Washington Post – Eric Roston: Skloot's vivid account?reads like a novel. The prose is unadorned, crisp and transparent?This book, labeled "science–cultural studies," should be treated as a work of American history. It's a deftly crafted investigation of a social wrong committed by the medical establishment, as well as the scientific and medical miracles to […]