SNAKES CAN’T RUN by Ed Lin
NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN in 1976 is the setting for gripping, gritty police procedural with an Asian-American hero. B PLUS
SNAKES CAN’T RUN: A MYSTERY
Minotaur Books
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
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NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN in 1976 is the setting for gripping, gritty police procedural with an Asian-American hero. B PLUS
SNAKES CAN’T RUN: A MYSTERY
Minotaur Books
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
A HYPERVERBAL CHILDHOOD transformed by a love of debate is at the heart of this perhaps too detailed memoir. B MINUS
WISENHEIMER: A CHILDHOOD SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Free Press
2010
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews
THRILLING, IF BLEAK, true stories of 19th century Arctic exploration. Meticulously researched, well told. B PLUS
THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS: THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
SNARKY, DIVERTING MEMOIR by a former blackjack card counter and poker player takes readers behind the hype. SOLID B
REPEAT UNTIL RICH: A PROFESSIONAL CARD COUNTER’S CHRONICLE OF THE BLACKJACK WARS
Penguin Press
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
ROLLICKING STEAMPUNKY prequel to her “Company” time travel books shows the (alas!) late Kage Baker in fine form. B PLUS
NOT LESS THAN GODS
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
CHATTY YET INFORMATIVE, thoroughly researched look at the history of Shakespearian authorship controversies. B PLUS
CONTESTED WILL: WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE?
Simon & Schuster
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
FAST-PACED WALL STREET thriller is good over-the-top fun, with lots of topical twists and turns. SOLID B
MONEY TO BURN
HarperCollins Publishers
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
ABOVE-AVERAGE CHICK-LIT romp features a team of cosmetics-company commandos saving the world with style. Fun! SOLID B
BULLETPROOF MASCARA
Atria Books
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
SCIENCE BROUGHT TO LIFE as a reporter tracks a leading–and controversial–neurobiologist’s memory research. B PLUS
101 THEORY DRIVE: A NEUROSCIENTIST’S QUEST FOR MEMORY
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
TOUCHING, GRACEFUL memoir by a veteran writer who became a live-in grandparent after his daughter’s death. A MINUS
MAKING TOAST
Ecco
2010
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews