Review by Victoria Jones Peter Publishing Group 2/12/13 $425.92 2,857 pp. The story begins with Melody, the daughter of an orange farmer, riding her horse through the orchards one sunny afternoon, when she stumbles upon a naked man sprawled out behind “a particularly forlorn tree.” Instead of galloping away in
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Knopf Publishing Group 2/26/13 $25.95 257 pp. With his new release, “Benediction,” best-selling author Kent Haruf delivers another poignant, elegant portrait of life in Holt, Colo. As the novel opens, Dad Lewis and his wife Mary learn that Dad’s cancer has worsened
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Reagan Arthur Books Jan. 15, 2013 $25.99 388 pp. Retired detective John Rebus, star of 2008’s “Exit Music” by Ian Rankin, returns as a civilian working in a cold case unit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebus meets with Nina Hazlitt whose daughter disappeared
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Barb Palar Simon and Schuster 2011 $15 325 pp. Jean Thompson had me with the first paragraph: “The bride and groom had two wedding receptions: The first was in the basement of the Lutheran Church right after the ceremony, with punch and cake and
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Delacorte Press Jan. 15, 2013 $26 402 pp. In 1927, during her senior year of college, Anne Morrow meets the dazzling hero Charles Lindbergh, fresh from his historic solo flight to Paris. She is enthralled, and as amazed as the rest of
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Crown June 5, 2012 $25 432 pp. As she handed me “Gone Girl,” my friend smiled wickedly, said “this is deeply disturbing,” and warned me not to plan to get anything else done once I started reading it. Nick and Amy meet
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Putnam March 2013 $26.95 320 pp. Hesketh’s haunting, heartfelt first novel tells the story of Albert Honig, an elderly beekeeper who lives in Southern California. As the book opens, Albert comes upon the dead bodies of his longtime neighbors, Claire and Hilda;
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Posted February 06, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Scribner Book Company Dec. 4, 2012 $19.99 237 pp. Answer: “Because I Said So!” Question: “What do parents say when they are tired of answering the question, ‘Why?’ ” The title is so appropriate for this book, which is a compendium of
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Posted January 30, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Touchstone Books 1/22/13 $24.99 320 pp. We are nearing Super Bowl Sunday, and what do we look forward to the most? Yes, of course, those memorable commercials. Former ad man and New Yorker contributor John Kenny has written his debut novel about
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Posted January 23, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang William Morrow and Company 11/13/12 $ 22.99 192 pp. Oh, Willie, you clever scoundrel. You knew we would just have to read a book with a title like this. So I did, and here we go… This is a delightful, quick read
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