Pantheon Books | 2009 | 208 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon
A little over four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. New Orleans and Mississippi are still recovering to this day. For those of us who witnessed the events only through news coverage, the scale [...]
Vintage | 1996 | 192 Pages | List Price $13.00 | Get it for less at Amazon
Don’t let the slender size fool you. PUSH is a remarkably complex, disturbing and redemptive tale of strength and perseverance. For many, PUSH will not be a book to consume in one sitting—the subject matter is just too disconcerting. [...]
Stewart, Tabori & Chang | 2009 | 396 pages | List price: $37.50 | Get it for less at Amazon
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the hit Food Network show, “Good Eats,” Alton Brown, the series’ creator, star, producer, writer and director has released the first book in a planned three volume epic tome on [...]
Little Brown and Company | 2007 | 400 Pages | List Price: $23.99 | Get it for less at Amazon
Every office has them: whiners, power seekers, idiots, jokesters, workaholics, gossip girls, negative nellies and “different birds.” Working in an office with its own cast of characters from 8–5 every day, I wasn’t so sure reading [...]
Pantheon Books | 2009 | 224 pages | List price: $16.95 | Get it for less at Amazon
Cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s award winning 2006 graphic novel, CANCER VIXEN, will be released in paperback on September 29th, just in time to kick off breast cancer awareness month in October. In 2004, Acocella Marchetto, a cartoonist [...]
Pantheon Books | 2009 | 336 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon
In a game of opposites, what is the opposite of black? While one might naturally say white, in Norman Lebrecht’s finely wrought THE GAME OF OPPOSITES, the answer is gray. Black and white are the absolute [...]
Pantheon Books | 2009 | 320 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon
For Lebanese-born author Hanan al-Shaykh’s first non-fiction book, she has turned to a story that is deeply rooted in the personal, that of a biography of her mother Kamila. THE LOCUST AND THE BIRD chronicles Kamila’s life [...]
Pantheon Books | 2009 | 288 pages | List price: $24.00 | Get it for less at Amazon
Freedom, sexuality, fortune, power, magic, love, immortality, adventure, and knowledge: according to Mayan legend whoever collects the nine plants of desire will have everything that he or she desires, but collecting them has a price. Before [...]
Penguin Press | 2009 | 369 pages | List price: $27.95 | Get it for less at Amazon
Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, INHERENT VICE, takes place at an interesting time sociologically, as southern California begins to face the reality that the bright days of sun and surf have now turned into something much darker. Set [...]
Grand Central Publishing | 2009 | 336 Pages | List Price: $23.99 | Get it for less at Amazon
APRIL AND OLIVER came to me by way of my book club as our August selection. Our host wanted a juicy page-turner, ideal for the hottest month of the year. As the club’s organizer, I [...]
