The End
Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, […]
Truck : a Love Story
Publisher Weekly Review: A part-time emergency medical technician, Perry delivers the latest account of his somewhat idiosyncratic life and times in a small Wisconsin town ("I am happy to live in a place where I can chuck a washing machine out my back door and no one judges my behavior unusual"). Here, he focuses on […]
In?s of My Soul
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Only months after the inauguration of Chile's first female president, Allende recounts in her usual sweeping style the grand tale of Do?a In?s Su?rez (1507? 1580), arguably the country's founding mother. Writing in the year of her death, In?s tells of her modest girlhood in Spain and traveling to the […]
What Came Before He Shot Her
Publisher Weekly Review: Bestseller George (With No One as Witness) departs from the usual investigative nuts and bolts of her Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers mystery thrillers with this searing examination of the lives of one horribly dysfunctional family and their immigrant London milieu. Switching uncomfortably at times from dialogue in a rough patois to […]
Fairest
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 6 Up?In a world in which elegance, beauty, and singing ability are revered, Aza is bulky, awkward, and homely. Her saving grace is that she can sing and has a gift of voice manipulation that she calls ??illusing.?? Through a chance meeting at her family???s inn, a duchess […]
The Scroll of Seduction
Publisher Weekly Review: How crazy was Juana La Loca, the Spanish queen who allegedly would not stop kissing her husband, Philippe the Handsome, even after he died? A Madrid professor enlists the help of a student and a silk dress to find out in the latest from Nicaraguan poet-memoirist-novelist Belli (The Country Under My Skin). […]
Got the Look
Library Journal: What is the price of a human life? That is the central question confronting Florida lawyer Jack Swyteck as he grapples with kidnapping and treachery. He's just beginning to believe that new girlfriend Mia Salazar might be the one when he discovers she's married. Jack dumps her and, while licking his wounds, finds […]
Proof Positive
Publisher Weekly Review: In bestseller Margolin's third legal thriller featuring feisty defense lawyer Amanda Jaffe (after 2003's Wild Justice), respected forensic expert Bernard Cashman, who works for the Oregon State Crime Laboratory, has developed a personal philosophy that allows him to manufacture evidence to ensure the successful prosecution of those he feels are guilty, especially […]
Dispatches From the Edge : a Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Publisher Weekly Review: HarperCollins touts the handsome, prematurely gray host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360?as the "prototype for a twenty-first century newsman." Sadly, that statement is all too true. This brief, self-involved narrative reaffirms a troubling cultural shift in news coverage: journalists used to cover the story; now, more than ever, they are the story. […]
Runny Babbit : a Billy Sook
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by the Delta Kappa Gamma Society in memory of Donna Washburn. Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In what may be the definitive book of letter-reversal wordplay, late author-illustrator Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends) composes poems about cottontail Runny Babbit. He illustrates the verse in his signature devil-may-care ink line […]