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THE HEADLINE-GRABBING ABDUCTION OF a young Englishwoman in Tokyo in 2000, explored in thoughtful complexity.
Grade: SOLID B
PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS: THE TRUE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO VANISHED FROM THE STREETS OF TOKYO--AND THE EVIL THAT SWALLOWED HER UP
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/FSG Originals
2012
Tags: Japan, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, True Crime
JOKEY, CHATTY TOUR through the fringes of science, from Ben Franklin’s electrocuted turkey to nuking the moon.
Grade: SOLID B
ELECTRIFIED SHEEP: GLASS-EATING SCIENTISTS, NUKING THE MOON, AND OTHER BIZARRE EXPERIMENTS
Thomas Dunne Books
2012
Tags: History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews
CROSSWORDS, VINTAGE COUTURE, pigs spice up a fun tale of a Manhattan artist trying to choose among her suitors.
Grade: SOLID B
PERFECT ON PAPER
New American Library
2012
Tags: New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
MUMBAI’S SEEDY UNDERWORLD of opium dens, bordellos is the stage for a poetic magic-realist experimental novel. SOLID B
NARCOPOLIS: A NOVEL
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
2012
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
QUEEN OF AMISH ROMANCE Beverly Lewis’s latest has oodles of homespun charm and wisdom. Sweet as shoofly pie! SOLID B
THE FIDDLER (HOME TO HICKORY HOLLOW SERIES #1)
Baker Publishing Group
2012
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
POST-APOCALYPTIC PICARESQUE TALE follows survivors on a harrowing river journey through a shattered America. SOLID B
LOST EVERYTHING
Tor Books
2012
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
TIGHT SPY THRILLER features lots of action, vivid China setting, but (alas!) a dull cast of characters. SOLID B
MINISTERS OF FIRE
Swallow Press
2014
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights. SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin’s Press
2013
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.
Grade: SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.
Grade: SOLID B
REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: Egypt, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social Media, Solid B Reviews, Technology