THE UNINVITED, by Liz Jensen
CHILLING ECO-HORROR TALE touches on love, innocence, science, history, and the future amid fast-paced thrills.
Grade: B PLUS
THE UNINVITED
Bloomsbury
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Horror, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
CHILLING ECO-HORROR TALE touches on love, innocence, science, history, and the future amid fast-paced thrills.
Grade: B PLUS
THE UNINVITED
Bloomsbury
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Horror, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging. SOLID B
THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN
Free Press
2012
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race. Thought-provoking and engaging.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN: AN AFRICAN WARRIOR, HIS WHITE DESCENDANTS, A SEARCH FOR FAMILY
Free Press
2012
Tags: Biography, Cameroon, Genealogy, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, US History
GLOBETROTTING FINANCIAL THRILLER stars Ava Lee, a sleuth with gifts for numbers and martial arts. Elegant fun!
Grade: B PLUS
THE DISCIPLE OF LAS VEGAS: AN AVA LEE NOVEL
Picador
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Thriller
INSIDE THE WORLD OF hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, the Willy Wonka of the human brain. Fun, informative.
Grade: B PLUS
HALLUCINATIONS
Knopf
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Mental Health and Illness, Neuroscience, Non-Fiction, Science
PLAYFUL, ABSORBING DISQUISITION on women as chefs, with lots of interviews, lots of chefs’ perspectives.
Grade: B PLUS
SKIRT STEAK: WOMEN CHEFS ON STANDING THE HEAT AND STAYING IN THE KITCHEN
Chronicle Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Food Writing, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
VIVID MASSACHUSETTS ATMOSPHERE, “townie”/”incomer” tensions, deftly captured in a tale of gossip and scandal.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GOOD HOUSE
St. Martin's Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Women's Fiction
A FATHER’S MEMOIR of his son’s experience of autism reflects their shared humor and bookish quirkiness.
Grade: SOLID B
BAD ANIMALS: A FATHER'S ACCIDENTAL EDUCATION IN AUTISM
Skyhorse Publishing
2012
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Parenting, Solid B Reviews
PERFECTLY POISED BETWEEN nightmare and satire, this horror tale rips into the upscale parenting Zeitgeist.
Grade: SOLID B
BREED
Little, Brown/Mulholland Books
2012
Tags: Horror, Novels, Solid B Reviews
A HORRIFYING CHILDHOOD OF desperate poverty and abuse in 1950s Dublin, vividly recalled. Harsh, compelling.
Grade: B PLUS
MA, HE SOLD ME FOR A FEW CIGARETTES: A MEMOIR OF DUBLIN IN THE 1950S
Seven Stories Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Dublin, Ireland, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues