A THOUSAND PARDONS, by Jonathan Dee
A SUBURBAN FAMILY SHATTERS in a time of crisis, but builds new futures in this sly comedy of manners.
Grade: B PLUS
A THOUSAND PARDONS
Random House
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
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A SUBURBAN FAMILY SHATTERS in a time of crisis, but builds new futures in this sly comedy of manners.
Grade: B PLUS
A THOUSAND PARDONS
Random House
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
A YOGA TEACHER, BUDDHIST practitioner shares thoughts for women on making peace with body and mind. Candid!
Grade: B MINUS
MAY I BE HAPPY: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, YOGA, AND CHANGING MY MIND
Dutton
2013
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Women's Issues, Yoga
A CHILD’S DISAPPEARANCE plays out against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia in this complex, deft historical.
Grade: A MINUS
IS THIS TOMORROW
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
MARVELOUS COMIC NOIR stars a sleuthing burglar embroiled with mobsters and old-school rock ‘n’ roll.
Grade: A MINUS
LITTLE ELVISES: A JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERY
Soho Crime
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
EARTH’S STRANGEST LIFEFORMS and the hunt for other “extremophiles” on land, in ocean, in space. Fun science!
Grade: B PLUS
WEIRD LIFE: THE SEARCH FOR LIFE THAT IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN
W. W. Norton & Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biology, Marine Biology, Non-Fiction, Science
GLORIOUS, DREAMLIKE SPANISH novel riffs on the life and death of poet García Lorca. Luminous new translation!
Grade: B PLUS
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Novels, Spain
GAMES, THEATER, MAGIC, and the tangled relationships of young Manhattan academics. Absorbing, complex novel.
Grade: A MINUS
THE MAGIC CIRCLE
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tags: A Minus Reviews, New York City, Novels
URBAN EXPLORATION, FROM the catacombs of Paris to the bridges of New York, captured in an exciting memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
HIDDEN CITIES: TRAVELS TO THE SECRET CORNERS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST METROPOLISES---A MEMOIR OF URBAN EXPLORATION
Penguin/Tarcher
2013
Tags: Architecture, B Plus Reviews, Brazil, History, London, New York City, Non-Fiction, Paris, Rome, Russia, Ukraine
SUPERB TRUE ADVENTURE tale of the first Western explorer/naturalist to study, document (and hunt) gorillas.
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: Africa, B Plus Reviews, History, History of Science, Social History, Zoology
FIERCE, FUNNY, LOVING memoir of father and son—both creative, adventurous, and living with Asperger’s.
Grade: B PLUS
RAISING CUBBY: A FATHER AND SON'S ADVENTURES WITH ASPERGER'S, TRAINS, TRACTORS, AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES
Crown
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Neuroscience, Non-Fiction, Parenting