Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones WW Norton and Company 8/5/13 $25.95 283 pp. Mark Slouka’s new novel, “Brewster,” is a powerful, gorgeous coming-of-age story. It tells of the intense friendship between two teenage boys as they face life in small-town, blue-collar Brewster, N.Y. It is 1968, and
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Simon and Schuster Oct. 1, 2013 $28 304 pp. “Divergent” is the next big thing in dystopic fiction — complete with conflicted heroine, dramatic setting, moral ambiguity and the ubiquitous passionate romance, this book will appeal to “The Hunger Games” fans. However,
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Simon and Schuster Oct. 1, 2013 $28 304 pp. Graeme Simsion’s “The Rosie Project” will appeal to readers who would never touch a “romance” novel but enjoy a good romantic comedy movie. Quirky Australian genetics professor Don Tillman narrates the novel in
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 11/5/13 $25 450 pp. When I was in high school, my brother gave me a copy of “The Princess Bride.” One of my favorite gifts ever, I was enchanted. When the movie came out a few years later, I
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch University of Minnesota Press Oct. 18, 2013 $24.95 127 pp. Of the many centennials observed this year, the one of which little is heard is the Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913. The author, Michael Schumacher, specializes in books about the Great Lakes
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Touchstone Books 10/29/13 $17.99 384 pp. There aren’t enough synonyms for “awesome” to describe this book, “Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened.” Ridiculous, hilarious, emotional, awkward, brilliant, subtle, painful, comforting are all adequate
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 11/05/13 $29.99 589 pp. When Amy Tan found an aged photograph of her grandmother, she was stunned to see that she was wearing the attire of a high-class courtesan in turn-of-the century China and labeled as one of the “Ten Beauties
Read More →Review by Shirley Shiffler Simon and Schuster Pub. Date 11/5/13 $30 414 pp. The untold history of Red Cloud, the great warrior and leader of the Sioux Nation, is captured with the pages of “The Heart of Everything That Is.” Told with epic detail illustrating his brilliant tactical role in
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books By Jayne Anne Phillips Scribner Pub. date: Oct. 15 $28 464 pp. Award-winning fiction writer Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in West Virginia haunted by her mother’s stories of the gruesome 1931 murders of at least two women and three children in nearby Quiet Dell. In
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Tin House Books Pub Date: 7/16/13 $14.95 288 pp. In this new collection of short stories by Jodi Angel, each is headed up by a rough-necked, hapless teenaged narrator, from harsh backgrounds of poor, underclass, dysfunctional families, compromised by drugs or drinking.
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