NEAR-FUTURE DISASTER novel places its slacker protagonist in a world where civilization ends with a whimper.

NEWEST EDITH PIAF biography will delight fans of the French singer with the breadth and depth of its research.

HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.

PAMPERED RICH KIDS on an adventure game turned deadly find help from an intrepid shrink, EMT in tense thriller.

TOBE HOOPER’S DEBUT novel provides the gritty, witty, gross horror you expect from Mr. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. B PLUS

MIDNIGHT MOVIE
Crown Publishing Group
2011

LIGHTHEARTED AND INFORMATIVE illustrated look at the physics of everyday life has laughs and facts aplenty. SOLID B

THE INSTANT PHYSICIST
W. W. Norton & Company
2010

COMPELLING, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED look at the power of Tacitus in German mythmaking through history. Chilling! B PLUS

A MOST DANGEROUS BOOK: TACITUS’S GERMANIA FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE THIRD REICH
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
2011

GORGEOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC, SPOOKY novel from Graham Joyce. Is it existential mystery? Horror? A gem no matter what. B PLUS

THE SILENT LAND
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2011

JUICY 16TH-CENTURY ROYALTY saga; not the Tudors for a change, but Juana of Castile. Great characterizations! B PLUS

REIGN OF MADNESS
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
2011

INTRIGUING ALTERNATE HISTORY posits a world in which the Hitler-Chamberlain peace talks went differently. SOLID B

WORLD WAR TWO WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
Severn House Publishers Ltd
2011