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BRED IN THE BONE by Christopher Brookmyre

April 28, 2014

ANOTHER BRILLIANT GLASGOW noir from Christopher Brookmyre. Not to be missed by crime-fiction aficionados! A MINUS

Grade: A MINUS

BRED IN THE BONE
Atlantic Monthly Press
2014

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BLOOD WILL OUT by Walter Kirn

April 11, 2014

THE WILD, ALMOST HALLUCINOGENIC story of writer Walter Kirn’s friendship with murderer “Clark Rockefeller”. A MINUS

BLOOD WILL OUT
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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BEDROCK FAITH by Eric Charles May

April 1, 2014

AN EXTRAORDINARY AMERICAN NOVEL! A tragic, comic, touching story set in a tightly-knit black neighborhood. A MINUS

BEDROCK FAITH
Akashic Books
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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STRANGE BODIES by Marcel Theroux

March 21, 2014

LIFE AFTER DEATH? Or maybe something even stranger? Marvelous SFF: literary, philosophical, scary as hell. A MINUS

STRANGE BODIES
Farrar
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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ANNIHILATION by Jeff VanderMeer

March 19, 2014

A MYSTERIOUS MICROAPOCALYPSE has engulfed 11 scientific expeditions. We’re along for the 12th. Amazing SFF! A MINUS

ANNIHILATION
FSG Originals
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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DON’T START ME TALKIN’ by Tom Williams

March 14, 2014

TWO GENERATIONS OF BLUES musicians on the road together in a glorious novel about music, race, age, manhood. A MINUS

DON’T START ME TALKIN’
Curbside Splendor Publishing
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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AN OFFICER AND A SPY by Robert Harris

February 28, 2014

THE BEST KIND OF HISTORICAL novel: a gripping adventure that’s built on solid research. Bravo! J’adore! A MINUS

AN OFFICER AND A SPY
Knopf Publishing Group
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH by Rebecca Mead

February 22, 2014

A GLORIOUS LOVE LETTER to George Eliot’s MIDDLEMARCH, and to the lasting power a beloved book can hold. A MINUS

MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH
Crown
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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HYPERBOLE AND A HALF by Allie Brosh

February 15, 2014

THE FUNNIEST BOOK ABOUT sadness, anxiety, neurosis, and other dysfunctions ever written (and drawn!). A MINUS

HYPERBOLE AND A HALF: UNFORTUNATE SITUATIONS, FLAWED COPING MECHANISMS, MAYHEM, AND OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED
Touchstone
2013

Grade: A MINUS

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CAULDSTANE by Linda Gillard

February 10, 2014

MARVELOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC NOVEL of romantic suspense in the very best high Gothic Daphne du Maurier tradition. A MINUS

CAULDSTANE
self-published
2014

Grade: A MINUS

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