Author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl ISBN: 9780989447850 Pages: 570 Description: BEYOND THE REALM OF DREAMS IS A WORLD SHE NEVER IMAGINED Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure . . . and deadly. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. One day, Sairu will…
Author: Carl Van Doren ISBN: 9780140152609 Pages: 864 Description: Among my bibliophile friends, is a subset who enjoy historical biographies. A friend loaned me this bio of Benjamin Franklin, a 1939 Pulitzer winner that occupies >800 dense pages. I flinched, but Steve loved it, so I put my head down and tucked in. Other than…
Author: Laurie R. King ISBN: 9780553807998 Pages: 266 Description: “NEW YORK TIMES “BESTSELLER Laurie R. King’s “New York Times” bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance…
Author: Rachel Cusk ISBN: 9780312311308 Pages: 224 Description: The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in…
Author: Karin Slaughter ISBN: 9780345528209 Pages: 387 Description: There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith…
Author: Jackson Wright Shultz ISBN: Pages: 232 Description: This book is just fantastic and very thorough. It’s closer to five stars–my only gripe is that the format distracted me and felt disjointed. You begin by reading brief biographies of each person featured in the book, then begin to read their stories based on subject, and…
Author: W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 9780375725029 Pages: 308 Description: Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then…
Author: Banksy ISBN: 9781844137879 Pages: 240 Description: Banksy, Britain’s now-legendary “guerilla” street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City’s major art museums, he’s also “hung” his work at London’s Tate Gallery and adorned Israel’s…
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick ISBN: 9781578569809 Pages: 377 Description: Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother’s photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman’s pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs,but her heart was the true image exposed.…
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien ISBN: 9780395394298 Pages: 393 Description: This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien’s Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales,…