Paul Newman : a Life
Kirkus Reviews: Portland Oregonian film critic Levy (The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa, 2005, etc.) reckons with the life and work of one of the last great Hollywood icons. Newman (1925-2008), notes the author, was well-loved for his waggish, self-deprecating charm, his philanthropy and his longtime marriage to actress Joanne Woodward. Of […]
After Etan
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: After Etan is a complex, many-tentacled account of just how tantalizingly close Mr. Ramos has come to incriminating himself in the Patz case and just how tirelessly he has tormented prosecutors, who have said they do not have enough evidence to charge him. In a book loaded with […]
Evidence : Poems
Synopsis: In this new volume of forty-six poems, Mary Oliver delves even deeper than she has in the past into the mysteries of life, love, and death. Exploring the evidence presented to us daily by the natural world, inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth: ?To me the meanest flower that blows can give […]
Adventures With Ari : a Puppy, a Leash & Our Year Outdoors
Edell M. Schaefer – Library Journal: At last, a canine memoir that is unique and irresistible; more reminiscent of Ted Kerasote's Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog than John Grogan's Marley & Me, this book goes beyond telling the familiar story of a dog and its owner. Allowing her shelter puppy Ari (labeled a […]
Tales From a Dog Catcher
Florence Scarinci – Library Journal: The title of Duffy-Korpics's memoir conjures up visions of a mean-spirited civil servant netting strays and taking them to a dingy shelter where a dire fate awaits. The author, a social studies teacher, worked her way through college as an animal-control officer in an upstate New York town. Writing in […]
This Dog Will Change Your Life
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children and Divorce : Reassuring Advice to Help Your Family Adjust
Synopsis: For parents, the hardest part of divorce is how it affects the kids. How do you explain to your child the reasons for choosing to divorce your spouse? How do you avoid creating feelings of guilt or blame, and let them know they are not responsible for the decision? The Everything Parent's Guide to […]
The Gamble : General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: ?powerful and illuminating ?Mr. Ricks writes as both an analyst and a reporter with lots of real-time access to the chain of command, and his book's narrative is animated by closely observed descriptions of how the surge worked on the ground, by a savvy knowledge of internal Pentagon […]
The Lost City of Z : a Tale of Deadly Obsession In the Amazon
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: ?at once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd?it reads with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller and all the verisimilitude and detail of firsthand […]