Archive for the ‘Family Matters’ Category
LIGHT FROM A DISTANT STAR by Mary McGarry Morris
Nellie Peck is thirteen years old going on forty. She is wise, intelligent and impulsive. Despite her precociousness, however, she is still a child. She lives with her parents and two siblings, Ruth and Henry; Ruth is a half-sister from a relationship that her mother had in high school. The Pecks are struggling financially. Nellie’s mother works as a hair dresser and Nellie’s father owns a hardware store that is slowly going under. Her father’s passion is his writing – he is writing a tome about the history of their town, Springvale. His goal is to get it self-published so that it can be read by a wide audience.
October 26, 2011
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Tags: Contemporary, Family Matters, Mary McGarry Morris, murder mystery · Posted in: Contemporary, Family Matters, Morality, Small Town
THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ by Anne Enright
Anne Enright, author of the 2007 Booker Prize winner, THE GATHERING, has written a new novel called THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ. It is told from the point of view of Gina Moynihan who has a lust-filled affair with a married man, Sean Vallely. They first meet at a garden party hosted by Anne’s sister Fiona, and progresses from there. At first there are innocent (and not so innocent) looks, and then on a business trip in Switzerland, the affair begins in earnest.
October 21, 2011
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Tags: 1990s, 2012 PB Release, Adultery, Around-the-World, lyrical · Posted in: Award Winning Author, Betrayal, Contemporary, Family Matters, Ireland, Life Choices, Literary, World Literature
THE REDEMPTION OF GEORGE BAXTER HENRY by Conor Bowman
George Baxter Henry is no paragon of virtue. In fact, he is a paradigm of vice, with a penchant for lustful young women. His marriage is on the rocks and his fractured family is falling apart. Connor Bowman’s novella after The Last Estate takes us back to the South of France—this time Nice, but with an American protagonist. In this sinfully laugh-out-loud story about a wounded family trying to stitch itself back together, Bowman manages to make the reader care about these cross and querulous individuals who are headed on a grease skid to oblivion.
October 16, 2011
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Tags: Family Matters, Humorous, Permanent Press · Posted in: Family Matters, France, Humorous
NORTHWEST ANGLE by William Kent Krueger
In NORTHWEST ANGLE, William Kent Krueger’s 11th book in the award winning Cork O’Connor series, Cork and his family vacation in September on a houseboat in Canada, near the Northwest Angle area of Minnesota. Cork had hoped that his family, including his three children, Jenny, Annie and Steve and his sister-in-law Rose and her husband Mel, could finally get some time to relax and enjoy each other. They had all suffered the loss of Cork’s wife two year’s prior and they had not yet found any time to spend together especially since his kids had become older and living on their own.
Unfortunately for Cork and his family, the vacation becomes anything but enjoyable when soon after arrival, Cork and his older daughter Jenny become trapped in a major quick forming and very dangerous derecho storm that shipwrecks them on one of the many islands in the area.
October 2, 2011
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Tags: 2012 - authors with books published this year, 2012 PB Release, 2013 - authors with books coming out in 2013, Minnesota, murder mystery, Native American, Sleuth, Thriller · Posted in: Family Matters, Literary, PEN/Hemingway Winner, Short Stories, Writing Life
CHILD WONDER by Roy Jacobsen
Navigating that shaky bridge between childhood and adulthood is never easy, particularly in 1961 – a time when “men became boys and housewives women,” a year when Yuri Gargarin is poised to conquer space and when the world is on the cusp of change.
Into this moment of time, Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen shines a laser light on young Finn and his mother Gerd, who live in the projects of Oslo. Fate has not been kind to them: Gerd’s husband, a crane operator, divorced her and then died in an accident, leaving the family in a financially precarious position. To make ends meet, she works in a shoe store and runs an ad for a lodger for extra money.
September 28, 2011
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Tags: 1960s, Around-the-World, Graywolf, Oslo, Scandinavian · Posted in: Award Winning Author, Coming-of-Age, Family Matters, Life's Moments, Norway, Time Period Fiction, Translated, Uncategorized, World Literature
THE VAULT by Ruth Rendell
The brilliant and prolific Ruth Rendell continues to entertain us with her latest Inspector Wexford novel, The Vault. Although he is retired and has no official standing, Wexford, the former Chief Inspector of Kingsmarkham, is delighted when Detective Superintendent Thomas Ede asks for his advice concerning a puzzling case. The scene of the crime(s) is a two-hundred year old house in London, Orcadia Cottage. The current residents are Martin and Anne Rokeby, who bought the property for one and a half million pounds. One day, Martin decides to lift a manhole cover in the “paved yard at the back of the house,” curious to know what, if anything, is down there. Little does he realize that this deed would end up “wrecking his life for a long time to come.”
September 25, 2011
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Tags: 2012 - authors with books published this year, 2012 PB Release, Foreign Detective, London, murder mystery, Ruth Rendell · Posted in: Award Winning Author, Character Driven, Family Matters, Mystery/Suspense, United Kingdom
