DONNYBROOK, by Frank Bill
BRUTAL NO-HOPER NOIR, set against an Indiana landscape of violence and despair. Grim, gory, haunting.
Grade: B PLUS
DONNYBROOK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
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BRUTAL NO-HOPER NOIR, set against an Indiana landscape of violence and despair. Grim, gory, haunting.
Grade: B PLUS
DONNYBROOK
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
CANDID, UNSETTLING, ELOQUENT memoir from a writer who was the target of a former student’s obsession.
Grade: B PLUS
GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE: ON BEING STALKED
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Psychology
ON A POSTAPOCALYPTIC EARTH, bunker-dwelling survivors try to regiment the world around them. Thoughtful SF.
Grade: B PLUS
THE OFFICE OF MERCY
Viking
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
WONDERFUL ENGLISH COZY features a precocious sleuth, a spooky tomb, and various 1950s village shenanigans.
Grade: B PLUS
SPEAKING FROM AMONG THE BONES: A FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL
Delacorte
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
A WILD HISTORICAL PICARESQUE races from 1930s Berlin to LA, complete with pulp staples like ghosts and spies.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT
Bloomsbury
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction
EARLY TORNADO CHASERS in the US, from Ben Franklin through the 20th century, profiled in a lively history.
Grade: B PLUS
STORM KINGS: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST TORNADO CHASERS
Pantheon
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, United States, Weather and Climate
TOUCHING, GRACEFUL NOVEL about adult children caring for aging parents, connecting with their Indian heritage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ABUNDANCE
Henry Holt & Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, India, Novels, Race and Ethnicity, South Asian-American Authors
UPDATES FROM THE HAPPINESS psychology front, with a fresh take on conventional wisdom about joy, satisfaction.
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social and Cultural Commentary, Sociology
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE of Eslanda Robeson, influential writer, civil rights activist, and wife of Paul Robeson.
Grade: B PLUS
ESLANDA: THE LARGE AND UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE OF MRS. PAUL ROBESON
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: Africa, African American Writers, African Diaspora, B Plus Reviews, Biography, Black History, Black Writers, Literary History, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Commentary
SUDDEN MINOR SUPERPOWERS appear at times of crisis in this bittersweet parable of family pain and healing.
Grade: B PLUS
WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDED
Penguin/Riverhead
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels