R.J. Keller in her first novel, Waiting for Spring, transcends the life of Tess Dyer, who blames herself for her recent divorce. She refused to have a child and then had an affair. She wants out of town. In interior monologue she declares, “I might be Brookfield’s town whore, but I could sure scrub the hell out of a toilet.”
“The Fragile Mistress” is a dense poetic drama about 14-year-old Liana, who with her sister reluctantly accompany their mother from their American home to Jerusalem in 1963 for the reburial of her mother’s brother, who died during the 1948 “War of Independence”, in the new Jerusalem cemetery.
Gabrielle Hamilton should have written a cookbook rather than reveal her life blemishes in a memoir. Like cooking, when ingredients are left out, the dish is less than fulfilling. “Blood, Bones, & Butter,” leaves a lot of unanswered questions which wouldn’t have been the case if she’d stayed focused on how her cooking skills turned her into one of New York City’s top chefs.
In Union Atlantic, Adam Haslett deftly weaves a literary novel around the global financial crisis with a cast of disturbing characters. Ambitious investor Doug Flanning, moralist-historian Charlotte Graves and others intersect in a web of deviltry and deception.
How to Read the Air Dinaw Mengestu Riverhead books-Penguin Group 10-30-10 Hardcover/320 pages ISBN: 978-159448770-5 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .an elegiac story brilliantly crafted akin to the gritty American stories by John...
“In The Company of Others,” is short on drama and suspense and long on “words of wisdom,” sinners confessing sins and gaining forgiveness. As Cynthia, tells her husband, Episcopalian priest and central character Timothy Kavanagh, “So you pray and I’ll paint and together we’ll get the job done. Okay.”
101 Ways to Save Money on Health Care Cynthia J. Koelker, MD Plume; Penguin Group USA 9-10-10 Hardcover/304 pages ISBN: 978-0-452296947 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .a book that will pay for itself." Frustrated with the healthcare...
Beneath the Sands of Egypt Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D Harper Collins 7-10-10 Hardcover/286 pages ISBN: 978-0-061732829 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . valuable insight into 3,000 years of “grave digging” in the Valley of the Kings."...
William Golding, The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies John Carey Simon & Schuster/Free Press 6-16-10 Hardcover/573 pages ISBN: 978-1-43918732-6 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . nothing less than spectacular." John...
Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, and Other Travels Roy Blount, Jr., Editor The Library of America, 2010 May 25, 2010 Hardcover/1050 pages ISBN: 1-598530666 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .published by The Library of America with...
