17Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Simon and Schuster 2/19/13 $23 240 pp. “Middle Men” is a collection of short stories about those ordinary men who fade into the background. These are not those men who are the successful movers and shakers. These are those men who are
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Knopf Dec. 6, 2012 $24.95 243 pp. University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Ayana Mathis has earned well-deserved acclaim for this painful first novel. In 1923, young Hattie, along with her mother and two sisters, flees Georgia for Philadelphia, becoming part of
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Reviewed by Julie Goodrich Hyperion Books May 15, 2012 $16.99 343 pp. There are times when simple description isn’t really enough to properly frame a book. Suggesting a young-adult novel to any adult is usually an exercise in frustration. Adding that it’s essentially historical fiction about
Read More →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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