LIONHEART, by Sharon Kay Penman
EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.
Grade: B PLUS
LIONHEART
Putnam
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
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EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.
Grade: B PLUS
LIONHEART
Putnam
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
FUNNY, FUNKY, CUTE, and sometimes bittersweet memoir from an “Art Star” of the Lower East Side’s arts heyday.
Grade: SOLID B
ELF GIRL: A MEMOIR
Gallery Books
2011
Tags: Art History, Memoirs, New York City, Non-Fiction, Social History, Solid B Reviews
INSIDE A COMPLEX, troubling investigation of a multi-victim case of child sexual abuse and its church coverup.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SINS OF BROTHER CURTIS: A STORY OF BETRAYAL, CONVICTION, AND THE MORMON CHURCH
Scribner
2011
Tags: Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime
CREEPY NOIR COMEDY about a woman who finds her calling in mercy killings–of her perfectly healthy friends.
Grade: SOLID B
PRACTICAL JEAN
Harper Collins
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
WONDERFULLY IMAGINATIVE FANTASY riff on a takeover bid in Hell is a YA title plenty sharp enough for grownups.
Grade: SOLID B
THE INFERNALS
Atria
2011
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Young Adult
A YOUNG WRITER’S MEMOIR of her mother’s disappearance eloquently conveys the impact of uncertainty and loss.
Grade: SOLID B
MISSING: A MEMOIR
Scribner
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
FUNNY, RUEFUL, WISE essays about family dysfunction, celebrity, love, and especially dogs from Merrill Markoe.
Grade: SOLID B
COOL, CALM & CONTENTIOUS
Villard
2011
Tags: Humor, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
WISTFUL, HAUNTING LITTLE fable of how love, friendship, and imagination persist and flourish under oppression.
Grade: B PLUS
THE CURFEW
Vintage Contemporaries
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
A YOUNG WOMAN’S MEMOIR of losing her sense of smell and (spoiler!) regaining it is intriguing, well researched.
Grade: B PLUS
SEASON TO TASTE: HOW I LOST MY SENSE OF SMELL AND FOUND MY WAY
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Neuroscience, Non-Fiction, Science
DECK THE HALLS with Flavia de Luce! The spookily precocious child sleuth returns for a Christmassy whodunit.
Grade: B PLUS
I AM HALF SICK OF SHADOWS: A FLAVIA DE LUCE MYSTERY
Delacorte
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels