FRENCH LESSONS by Ellen Sussman
BREEZILY ROMANTIC CONFECTION follows the connections between three Parisians and the Americans they tutor. SOLID B
FRENCH LESSONS
Random House Publishing Group
2011
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
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BREEZILY ROMANTIC CONFECTION follows the connections between three Parisians and the Americans they tutor. SOLID B
FRENCH LESSONS
Random House Publishing Group
2011
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
AUSTRALIAN FAMILY SAGA’S quirky characterizations and local color redeem its soap-operaesque plot. SOLID B #beachread
AT HOME WITH THE TEMPLETONS
Ballantine Books
2011
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
ENCHANTING, LUMINOUS NOVEL about the power (and limitations) of love and of stories. Haunting and delightful.
Grade: A MINUS
THE BORROWER
Viking
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels
QUANTUM PHYSICS THRILLER is an over-the-top pageturner; THE DA VINCI CODE meets A BEAUTIFUL MIND, maybe?
Grade: SOLID B
THE OMEGA THEORY
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
A TUDOR SCANDAL RETOLD with a journalistic touch in this well researched examination of the Amy Robsart mystery.
Grade: SOLID B
DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN: ELIZABETH AND THE DARK SCANDAL THAT ROCKED THE THRONE
St. Martin's Press
2011
Tags: Elizabeth I, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Tudor Court
DRIVEN LONDON DETECTIVE Anna Travis hunts a serial killer in this tense, edgy procedural from Lynda La Plante.
Grade: SOLID B
BLIND FURY
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
A BELOVED DOG inspires a man to stop drinking and start living. Touching, candid, and surprisingly wry.
Grade: SOLID B
DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE: A MEMOIR
St. Martin's Press
2011
Tags: Dogs, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
GOSSIPY, FUN HISTORY looks at the madams and dance-hall girls who were high rollers in 19th-century Montana.
Grade: SOLID B
WANTON WEST: MADAMS, MONEY, MURDER, AND THE WILD WOMEN OF MONTANA'S FRONTIER
Chicago Review Press
2011
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States, Women's Issues
GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.
Grade: B PLUS
THE MEMORY PALACE
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
1920s PARIS, VIVIDLY reimagined from the point of view of Hadley Richardson (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway. Great beachread!
Grade: B PLUS
THE PARIS WIFE
Ballantine
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction