BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST, by Monte Reel
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
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
WRYLY FUNNY AUSTRIAN private-eye yarn mixes hardboiled detective tropes with a healthy shot of satire.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BONE MAN
Melville House
2013
Tags: Austria, B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
A TINY MEXICAN VILLAGE is transformed by a US quack doctor’s pirate radio station. Lovely 1930s historical.
Grade: SOLID B
DR. BRINKLEY'S TOWER
Steerforth Press
2013
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mexico, Novels, Solid B Reviews
DELICATE AND EVOCATIVE NOVEL tells a modern fairy tale of a professor and his elusive, beautiful young wife.
Grade: B PLUS
ORKNEY
Counterpoint
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Scotland
“MEDICINE IS BROKEN” argues Dr. Ben Goldacre in an expose of drug testing and marketing as parts of the issue.
Grade: B PLUS
BAD PHARMA: HOW DRUG COMPANIES MISLEAD DOCTORS AND HARM PATIENTS
Faber & Faber
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
HIGHLAND SLEUTH EXTRAORDINAIRE Hamish Macbeth solves his most complex crime yet. Wonderful Scottish detail!
Grade: B PLUS
DEATH OF YESTERDAY: A HAMISH MACBETH MYSTERY
Grand Central
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, United Kingdom
NAZI CYBORG WARRIORS, warlock magic, and time travel combine in this brilliant, spooky World War II thriller.
Grade: B PLUS
NECESSARY EVIL
Tor
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Novels, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Thriller
IMAGES OF HAITI after the 2010 earthquake, from a US journalist trying to see past her outsider’s perspective.
Grade: B PLUS
FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO: A LETTER FROM HAITI
Simon & Schuster
2013
Tags: African Diaspora, B Plus Reviews, Environmentalism, Haiti, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Weather and Climate
BRUTAL NO-HOPER NOIR, set against an Indiana landscape of violence and despair. Grim, gory, haunting.
Grade: B PLUS
DONNYBROOK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels