Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Scribner 6/01/13 $26 267 pp. Jeannette Walls wrote about her own childhood in her best-selling memoir, “The Glass Castle.” She became a successful and accomplished writer despite a father who veered between brilliance and drunken destruction and a mother who hated being
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Mulholland Books 6/4/13 $26 375 pp. Lauren Beukes’ first two books, “Moxyland” and “Zoo City,” were tragically overlooked. For those of us who caught on early, the enormous success of this gritty suspense novel is no surprise. Damaged characters slink into your
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Harper 4/23/13 $26.99 496 pp. As often happens at Beaverdale Books, a customer recently asked me what I’ve enjoyed reading lately. I immediately handed her “The Golem and the Jinni.” She took one look, shook her head and said she did not
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Riverhead Books June 4, 2013 $27.95 390 pp. Anton Disclafani soared from unknown to bestselling author with this story of adolescence set in the Depression-era South. Fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell of Emaltha, Fla., is driven by her father to Blowing Rock, N.C., to
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones HarperCollins 8/12/2013 $14.99 336 pp. Michael Perry’s new book “Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace” is a beautiful portrait of his neighbor, Tom Hartwig. Perry lives on a small farm in Wisconsin near where he grew
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Simon and Schuster June 11, 2013 $24.99 209 pp. Parents of “one and only” children will find “One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One” enlightening and reassuring in many respects. The author, Lauren
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 2/12/13 $25.99 372 pp. The publication of Tara Conklin’s debut novel, “The House Girl,” has been eagerly anticipated after it was named the No. 1 “Indie Next Pick” for February. It was worth the wait. This novel will become a book
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Grand Central Publishing May 7, 2013 $25.99 533 Pages Benjamin Percy won me in about 10 pages with “The Wilding,” so naturally when I heard he wrote a book about werewolves, I was giddy. Cheesy or not, I love me
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Posted July 10, 2013in Book Review
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Quirk Books July 2, 2013 $14.95 174 pages What would happen if one of our greatest writers joined forces with one of the most popular movies ever? The answer is “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.” This last year has brought us several lighthearted
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Random House June 25, 2013 $27 416 Pages Curtis Sittenfeld’s fourth novel centers on a pair of identical twins whose personalities appear on the surface to have little in common. Daisy and Violet grow up in suburban St. Louis with uncanny psychic
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