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May 31, 2013
TENSE SWEDISH THRILLER follows an intrepid nurse through a deadly web of international intrigue. Breathtaking.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ANDALUCIAN FRIEND
Crown
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Suspense, Sweden, Thriller
May 30, 2013
TWO YOUNG WOMEN weather the changes of the 1960s in different ways. A complex, deft portrait of friendship!
Grade: B PLUS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF US
Henry Holt and Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues
May 29, 2013
THE POWER OF ART, both to heal and to hurt, takes center stage in this fascinating, brutally frank novel.
Grade: A MINUS
THE MORELS
Soho Press
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels
May 28, 2013
A WRITER’S STARTLINGLY CANDID memoir of her marriage and its ending, of her infidelities and her husband’s.
Grade: B PLUS
VOW: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE (AND OTHER AFFAIRS)
Bloomsbury
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Love and Relationships, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Sexuality
May 27, 2013
A YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN searches the US for the father she’s never met. Delicate novel sings with love’s power. B PLUS
OLEANDER GIRL: A NOVEL
Simon & Schuster
2013
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
May 26, 2013
IN PRAISE OF TINKERING, and the mechanical and intellectual innovations that drive social change. Persuasive! SOLID B
THE TINKERERS
Basic Books (AZ)
2013
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
May 25, 2013
SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith. B PLUS
SEARCHING FOR ZION: THE QUEST FOR HOME IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
2013
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
May 24, 2013
SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith.
Grade: B PLUS
SEARCHING FOR ZION: THE QUEST FOR HOME IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Grove/Atlantic
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Black History, Ethiopia, Ghana, History, Israel, Jamaica, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Spirituality, Social and Cultural Commentary, United States
May 23, 2013
SCREENWRITER AND TWITTER CELEB Kelly Oxford shares wacky stories of her wild youth, snarky mommying. SOLID B
Grade: SOLID B
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT WHEN YOU'RE A LIAR
HarperCollins/It Books
2013
Tags: Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
May 22, 2013
SLEUTH EASY RAWLINS’S near death in a brutal crash adds a metaphysical perspective to this intricate LA noir.
Grade: B PLUS
LITTLE GREEN: AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY
Doubleday
2013
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels