October 27, 2011
FASCINATING REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE follows conservation biologists fighting invasive species on remote islands.
Grade: B PLUS
RAT ISLAND: PREDATORS IN PARADISE AND THE WORLD'S GREATEST WILDLIFE RESCUE
Bloomsbury
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science
October 26, 2011
A WRITER’S LOVE LETTER to the psychiatrist who saved her life is quirkily touching, if a bit chaotic.
Grade: SOLID B
YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD: A MEMOIR
Other Press
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Women's Issues
October 25, 2011
LONDON’S HIGH SOCIETY, titled Russian expatriates, and complex murders add up to a snazzy 1922-set procedural!
Grade: B PLUS
THE BLOOD ROYAL: A JOE SANDILANDS MURDER MYSTERY
Soho/Constable
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
October 24, 2011
INTENSE, SENSITIVE, EVOCATIVE story of the impact of a hate crime in a small town; YA that resonates for adults.
Grade: B PLUS
SHINE
Amulet
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Novels, Young Adult
October 23, 2011
SEARING AND ELOQUENT memoir of child sexual abuse, family dysfunction, and the healing power of nature.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS: A MEMOIR
Free Press
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime
October 22, 2011
RUTH RENDELL’S WEXFORD, now retired, shines in his first case as a London consultant. Complex and well-wrought.
Grade: B PLUS
THE VAULT
Scribner
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
October 21, 2011
IMPECCABLY REPORTED HISTORY of Scientology gives airtime to both adherents and opponents of the faith.
Grade: B PLUS
INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST SECRETIVE RELIGION
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social History
October 20, 2011
FAST-PACED MILITARY science fiction with a vividly drawn future setting. Fights, explosions, adrenaline galore!
Grade: SOLID B
GERMLINE
Orbit
2011
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
October 19, 2011
MASTERFUL RETELLING OF a murder case that grabbed headlines in 1897 New York is rich in detail and drama.
Grade: A MINUS
THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY: THE GILDED AGE CRIME THAT SCANDALIZED A CITY AND SPARKED THE TABLOID WARS
Crown
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Social History, True Crime
October 18, 2011
FRANK MEMOIR OF a horrific bout of Crohn’s Disease is most affecting when talking about the author’s children.
Grade: SOLID B
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T EAT: A MEMOIR
Gallery Books
2011
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews