WAYWARD SAINTS, by Suzzy Roche
FOLK-POP ICON Suzzy Roche’s debut novel has all the charm, heart, and wild surrealist humor of her music.
Grade: B PLUS
WAYWARD SAINTS
Hyperion
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
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FOLK-POP ICON Suzzy Roche’s debut novel has all the charm, heart, and wild surrealist humor of her music.
Grade: B PLUS
WAYWARD SAINTS
Hyperion
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
BEAUTIFULLY CURATED COLLECTION of Victorian detective stories includes old favorites and some new finds.
Grade: B PLUS
THE DEAD WITNESS: A CONNOISSEUR'S COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN DETECTIVE STORIES
Walker & Company
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Literary History, Mystery, Short Stories
WARM-HEARTED, FUNNY, OFFBEAT memoir of an eccentric family, set in the earliest years of the state of Israel.
Grade: B PLUS
MY RUSSIAN GRANDMOTHER AND HER AMERICAN VACUUM CLEANER: A FAMILY MEMOIR
Knopf
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Israel, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
FASCINATING BOOK DETAILS research into chimpanzee language, including surprising new observations by the author.
Grade: B PLUS
THE SONG OF THE APE: UNDERSTANDING THE LANGUAGES OF CHIMPANZEES
St. Martin's
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Primatology, Science, Zoology
A BRIGHT, CREATIVE TEEN who died tragically young is remembered and celebrated in his dad’s touching memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
IMMORTAL BIRD: A FAMILY MEMOIR
Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
THE ANCIENT MAYA CALENDAR and concept of time explained vividly by a distinguished scholar. Debunks 2012 myths!
Grade: B PLUS
THE ORDER OF DAYS: THE MAYA WORLD AND THE TRUTH ABOUT 2012
Crown
2011
Tags: Archaeology, B Plus Reviews, History, Maya, Non-Fiction, Pre-Columbian
MARY BOLEYN, MISTRESS and later sister-in-law to Henry VIII, is richly envisioned in this adept biography.
Grade: B PLUS
MARY BOLEYN: MISTRESS OF KINGS
Ballantine
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction
19th CENTURY NEW ORLEANS is the setting for a well-crafted, complex mystery with a free man of color as sleuth.
Grade: B PLUS
RAN AWAY
Severn House
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
THOUGHTFUL COLLECTION OF people’s true stories about reconciling their sexuality with their Christian beliefs.
Grade: B PLUS
SEE ME NAKED: STORIES OF SEXUAL EXILE IN AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
Beacon Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Sexuality, Social and Cultural Commentary, Women's Interest
FUNNY, CLEVERLY WROUGHT, occasionally gory tale of pest control professionals on the run from assassins.
Grade: B PLUS
THE EXTERMINATORS: AN ASSASSIN BUG THRILLER
Poisoned Pen Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Thriller