Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
April 29, 2011
COZY SEASIDE MYSTERY is as brilliant as its sixty-something sleuths, a New Age healer and her civil servant pal.
Grade: B PLUS
THE SHOOTING IN THE SHOP
Gale/Cengage Five Star Mystery
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
April 28, 2011
A YOUNG MAN’S EXPERIENCES of schizophrenia, told in his own words and by his journalist father. Deeply moving.
Grade: B PLUS
HENRY'S DEMONS
Scribner
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
April 27, 2011
INTRIGUING BIOGRAPHY of Rome’s most (in)famous empress looks beyond the cartoon villainess of fiction and myth.
Grade: B PLUS
LIVIA, EMPRESS OF ROME
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Non-Fiction
April 24, 2011
DELICATE COMING-OF-AGE novel about an introspective white suburban boy; impressive depth, breadth for its ilk.
Grade: B PLUS
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
Vintage
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
April 20, 2011
MASSIVE ONLINE GAMES collide with real-world politics in this technothriller from the great Walter Jon Williams.
Grade: B PLUS
DEEP STATE
Orbit
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction
April 19, 2011
BREEZY, OPEN-HEARTED memoir centers around yoga as a metaphor for life; introspection is balanced by light tone.
Grade: B PLUS
POSER: MY LIFE IN TWENTY-THREE YOGA POSES
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
April 18, 2011
A PICARESQUE FUTURE TEXAS, plus riotgrrl gene splicers, mutant rabbits, vampires, and online revolutions = fun!
Grade: B PLUS
REVOLUTION WORLD
Night Shade Books
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction
April 14, 2011
ANGRY, ELOQUENT novel explores families through the eyes of a young Irishman working as a caregiver in New York.
Grade: B PLUS
THE COMPANION
Europa Editions
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
April 12, 2011
GRAND TUDOR EPIC is also a tightly plotted mystery/thriller, and sheer page-turning delight for history buffs!
Grade: B PLUS
HEARTSTONE
Viking
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Thriller
April 10, 2011
SWASHBUCKLING OLD-SCHOOL WESTERN adventure as only the late, great Elmer Kelton could do it–with finesse. B PLUS
TEXAS STANDOFF: A NOVEL OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
2010
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews