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September 20, 2011
A HEADLINE-GRABBING MURDER in 1933 Paris, examined in depth, illuminates the culture and politics of the era.
Grade: B PLUS
VIOLETTE NOZIERE: A STORY OF MURDER IN 1930S PARIS
University of California Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, France, History, Non-Fiction, True Crime
September 19, 2011
A CORPSE AT A WEDDING launches the peppy plus-size paralegal Odelia Grey on her 6th juicy murder investigation.
Grade: SOLID B
TWICE AS DEAD
Midnight Ink
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
September 18, 2011
A NAIVE AMERICAN TEEN’S days of revolution-chasing in 1980s South America revisited in a rueful, witty memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
REVOLUTION: THE YEAR I FELL IN LOVE AND WENT TO JOIN THE WAR
Henry Holt
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Costa Rica, Memoirs, Nicaragua, Non-Fiction
September 17, 2011
NEAR-FUTURE DISASTER novel places its slacker protagonist in a world where civilization ends with a whimper.
Grade: SOLID B
SOFT APOCALYPSE
Night Shade Books
2011
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews
September 16, 2011
NEWEST EDITH PIAF biography will delight fans of the French singer with the breadth and depth of its research.
Grade: SOLID B
NO REGRETS: THE LIFE OF EDITH PIAF
Knopf Doubleday
2011
Tags: Biography, France, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Women's Issues
September 15, 2011
HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.
Grade: B PLUS
THIS LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS: THE STORY OF MY FAMILY'S DREAM
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
PAMPERED RICH KIDS on an adventure game turned deadly find help from an intrepid shrink, EMT in tense thriller.
Grade: SOLID B
THE NIGHTMARE THIEF
Penguin Group
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
September 14, 2011
TOBE HOOPER’S DEBUT novel provides the gritty, witty, gross horror you expect from Mr. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. B PLUS
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
Crown Publishing Group
2011
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
September 13, 2011
LIGHTHEARTED AND INFORMATIVE illustrated look at the physics of everyday life has laughs and facts aplenty. SOLID B
THE INSTANT PHYSICIST
W. W. Norton & Company
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
September 11, 2011
COMPELLING, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED look at the power of Tacitus in German mythmaking through history. Chilling! B PLUS
A MOST DANGEROUS BOOK: TACITUS’S GERMANIA FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE THIRD REICH
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
2011
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews