Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
March 4, 2012
INTRICATE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE novel follows two loners and the secrets they carry to the English countryside.
Grade: B PLUS
THE DARK ROSE
Penguin/Pamela Dorman Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Suspense
March 3, 2012
COMPLEX, ULTRA-SMART PARANORMAL thriller takes us inside an epidemic where people are possessed by angry ghosts.
Grade: B PLUS
HITCHERS
Night Shade Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels, Paranormal, SF, Thriller
March 2, 2012
POETIC AND TROUBLING novel follows a social worker’s loss of faith in himself, obsession with a homeless client.
Grade: B PLUS
PARTS OF A WORLD
Northwestern University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mental Health and Illness, Novels
March 1, 2012
CHARISMATIC U. S. ASTROPHYSICIST Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers an impassioned pro-space exploration argument.
Grade: B PLUS
SPACE CHRONICLES: FACING THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER
W. W. Norton and Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Public Policy, Science
February 28, 2012
SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Atria
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spain, Women's Fiction, World War II
February 24, 2012
WILD, GRITTY NOIR adventure has plenty of graphic sex and violence, a unique tough-broad protagonist’s voice. B PLUS
CHOKE HOLD (HARD CASE CRIME)
Hard Case Crime
2011
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
February 23, 2012
WILD, GRITTY NOIR adventure has plenty of graphic sex and violence, a unique tough-broad protagonist’s voice.
Grade: B PLUS
CHOKE HOLD
Hard Case Crime
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
February 22, 2012
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY, RICH with newly released letters, of Victorian art figure Effie Gray Ruskin Millais.
Grade: B PLUS
EFFIE: THE PASSIONATE LIVES OF EFFIE GRAY, JOHN RUSKIN, AND JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: 19th Century, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, Non-Fiction
February 21, 2012
CHILLING, COMPELLING NOVEL shows a gay white South African man’s struggles with family, apartheid society, army.
Grade: B PLUS
MOFFIE
Europa Editions
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Novels, South Africa
February 18, 2012
CANDID AND ENGROSSING memoir of a young woman’s decision to leave New York’s Satmar Hasidic Jewish community.
Grade: B PLUS
UNORTHODOX: THE SCANDALOUS REJECTION OF MY HASIDIC ROOTS
Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social and Cultural Commentary, Women's Issues