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Review: Cursebreakers, Madeleine Nakamura, Canis Major Books – Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016.
Review: The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, Virginia Pye, Regal House Publishing – It is the dawn of the women’s rights movement in 1895 when Victoria Meeks, the protagonist in Virginia Pye’s novel, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, encounters unimaginable obstacles because she refused to write another “dime store” pamphlet.
Redemption, Deborah J. Ledford, Thomas & Mercer – In Deborah J. Ledford’s latest thriller, “Redemption,” Taos Pueblo native and Taos County sheriff’s deputy Eva Duran discovers a woman’s body on the boundary between Pueblo land and Taos County.
Review: Hà Nội at Midnight, Bảo Ninh, Texas Tech University Press – “A soldiers’s life, like a sigh, was full of sorrow and boredom,” writes Bảo Ninh, whose collection of ten short stories evoke deeply emotional and heartbreaking memories of the Vietnam War in his book, “Hà Nội at Midnight.”
Book review: The Double Life of Benson Yu, Kevin Chong, Atria – Author Kevin Chong’s metafiction, “The Double Life of Benson Yu, is most definitely an impressive and challenging read.
Review: The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman, Atria – Author Alice Hoffman offers us a timely, and harrowing, historical fantasy in her novel, “The Invisible Hour,” which harkens back to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 classic, “The Scarlet Letter.”
Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works, Editor, Jay Jennings, Library of America – The Library of America offers homage in a new collected works edition to American author Charles Portis, whose notoriety springs from his novel, “True Grit,” that was transformed into a popular 1968 feature film starring John Wayne.
Book Review, Where Waters Meet, Zhang Ling, Amazon Crossing – “Where Waters Meet” is a multiplex novel that resembles pieces of a puzzle on a table. Award-winning Chinese author Zhang Ling, in her first English work
The Fires, Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir , Amazon Crossing – In the novel, “The Fires,” volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir relies on science to forecast volcanoes and earthquakes in Iceland.
Review: The Boy Behind the Door, David Tabatsky, Amsterdam Publishers – Another book about the holocaust? Yes, so as not to let the horrors fade away, “The Boy Behind the Door,” offers us a true account of how Salomon Kool survived the holocaust.
