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January 11, 2012
EXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED INVESTIGATION of how Nazi war criminals escaped justice is shocking and comprehensive.
Grade: B PLUS
NAZIS ON THE RUN: HOW HITLER'S HENCHMEN FLED JUSTICE
Oxford University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, World War II
January 10, 2012
FASCINATING TRUE TALES of the scholars, zealots, and eccentrics who have searched for an actual Garden of Eden.
Grade: B PLUS
PARADISE LUST: SEARCHING FOR THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Grove Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social History
January 9, 2012
STORY-WITHIN-A-STORY starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. Even Byron can’t make this novel sizzle!
Grade: B MINUS
CHILDISH LOVES
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Literary History, Novels
January 8, 2012
EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL with a magic realist touch takes in the Spanish Civil War, its origins and its aftermath.
Grade: SOLID B
BOOKS BURN BADLY
Random House
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Spain
January 7, 2012
THOUGHTFUL, COMPLEX NOVEL traces a relationship from its start as a brief affair to the end of two marriages.
Grade: B PLUS
THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ
W. W. Norton
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
January 6, 2012
HEARTBREAKINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of dyslexia, surprising in its source: Pulitzer-winning poet Philip Schultz.
Grade: SOLID A
MY DYSLEXIA
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Solid A Reviews
January 5, 2012
THE LATEST DISCWORLD TALE! Delightful adventure, as Commander Sam Vimes takes on the cause of goblins’ rights.
Grade: B PLUS
SNUFF: A NOVEL OF DISCWORLD
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Humor, Novels
January 4, 2012
FUNNY, SNARKY, INSIGHTFUL celebration of romance novels, and of the ways many readers find them empowering.
Grade: SOLID B
EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS
Sourcebooks
2011
Tags: Literary History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
January 3, 2012
VIVID, DREAMLIKE FANTASIA on race and culture in the US Southwest is strongest on landscape, weakest on plot.
Grade: B MINUS
RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME
University of Oklahoma Press
2011
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Novels
January 2, 2012
CARRIE FISHER’S LATEST tell-all is more candid than ever, with revelations about her parents and celeb friends.
Grade: B PLUS
SHOCKAHOLIC
Simon & Schuster
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Hollywood, Memoirs, Non-Fiction