Book Reviews and Other Book Stuff
Everything You Need to Ace World History In One Big Fat Notebook Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (Aug. 9 2016) ISBN-13: 978-0761160946 Synopsis: Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations—from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the …
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Wish You Were Here by Renee Carlino Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Atria Books (Aug. 15 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501105821 Synopsis: Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life and give her a sense of purpose. She’s had as many jobs as she’s had bad relationships, and now she’s feeling especially lost …
Make Trouble by John Waters Hardcover: 80 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (April 11 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1616206352 Synopsis: When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. …
Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (Aug. 1 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501157660 Synopsis: The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family’s reputation and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran …
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 25 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501151811 Synopsis: “I need you.” Three small words that change everything. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives this text from an old friend. Why else would Kate summon her and their two friends Thea and …
Wrecked by JB Salsbury Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Forever (July 18 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1455596362 Synopsis: It's been months since Aden Colt left the Army, and still the memories haunt him. When he moved into a tiny boat off the California coast, he thought he'd found the perfect place to escape life. Then Sawyer shows up and …
The Diary of Hendrik Goren by Hendrik Goren Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (July 11 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1455542178 Synopsis: Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and …
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Until It Fades by KA Tucker Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Atria Books (June 27 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501133381 Synopsis: Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in Balsam, Pennsylvania (population three thousand outside of …
How Churchill Saved Civilization by John Harte Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (Jan. 3 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1510712379 Synopsis: How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as “Why were the …
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death Hardcover by Adrian Owen Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 20 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1501135200 Synopsis: In this startling and thought-provoking book, which will remind readers of works by Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals his controversial, groundbreaking work with patients …
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (July 1 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1616080211 Synopsis: Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the …
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The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Atria Books (Oct. 18 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1501121142 Synopsis: A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, …
