 MostlyFiction.com Newsletter Update
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September 30, 2006
Hello, MostlyFiction.com readers!
27 new reviews were recently posted to MostlyFiction.com. Click on the book cover to read the review; click on reviewer's name to learn more about the reviewer.
Next week, from October 3-5th is the first annual ONLINE BOOK FAIR to celebrate the love of reading. Click on the banner to go to the website where it is all happening and where you can participate in hourly book giveaways, a chance to win $50 gift card for Barnes & Noble, author interviews, blogs and publisher exhibits of upcoming fall titles. It's a celebration and connection of the online book community with something for everyone.
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 DREAM BOOGIE
by Peter Guralnick
Reviewed by Hagen Baye
Sam Cooke was shot dead in a Los Angeles motel, in 1964, at the age of thirty-three. Guralnick writes the definitive biography on this immensely talented soul singer.
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 GOLDEN COUNTRY
by Jennifer Gilmore
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
A gentle loving satire of Jewish immigrant experience, which traces three generations of overlapping families who settled in Brooklyn.
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 AMERICA'S REPORT CARD
by John McNally
Reviewed by Tony Ross
Set in the summer before the 2004 presidential election, the story follows two separate protagonists, 23-year-old Charlie Wolf in Iowa City and 17-year old Jainey O'Sullivan in Chicago. Bizarre and colorful.
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 THE DEAD HOUR
by Denise Mina
Reviewed by Poornima Apte
Paddy Meehan, graveyard shift reporter for the Scottish Daily News, has a problem; she's committed one of the most serious violations in journalism -- and now it involves murder. Extremely well delivered multilayered suspense novel.
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 THE MEMORY OF RUNNING
by Ron McLarty
Reviewed by Pat Neuman
Smithy, a most beguiling anti-hero, is a 279-pound, hard-drinking, chain-smoking, 43-year-old misfit who sets out cross country on a bicycle after his parents sudden death.
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 LOST AND FOUND
by Carolyn Parkhurst
Reviewed by Guy Savage
An inventive novel that follows its contestants (chosen for the secrets that they don't want to reveal) thorugh a reality-TV show.
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 KUSHIEL'S SCION
by Jacqueline Carey
Reviewed by Jana L. Perskie
First novel in a new trilogy which will chronicle the life of de la Courcel, the foster son of Phèdre nó Delaunay, the Comtesse de Montreve, peer of Terre d'Ange, and her consort, the Cassiline.
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 RAINBOW'S END
by Vernor Vinge
Reviewed by Ann Wilkes
Set in San Diego, California around 2025, Robert Gu is rehabiliated from Alzheimer's, and though he missed the techno revolution around him due to the disease, is suddenly immersed in it. He's also become a pawn in a dark international conspiracy.
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 A GARDEN OF VIPERS
by Jack Kerley
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
Alabama detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus are hunting the psychopath who tortured and murdered a young radio reporter named Taneesha Franklin. Hard-boiled and wisecracking narration.
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 KILLER INSTINCT
by Joseph Finder
Reviewed by Debbie Lee Wesselmann
A fast-paced, character-driven thriller, about a young sales manager who discovers the power of "networking" as probably no other white collar worker has.
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 THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
by Claire Messud
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
Marina Thwaite and her friends are "thirty-something," rootless and generally uncommitted; out of college ten years they have just floated through life. The book begins in pre 9/11 and ends post 9/11.
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 TOTAL CHAOS
by Jean-Claude Izzo
Reviewed by Tony Ross
An unflinching portrait of France's southern port, dressed up in the trappings of a crime story. First in trilogy.
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 CHOURMO
by Jean-Claude Izzo
Reviewed by Tony Ross
2nd in trilogy, picking up about a year after the events in TOTAL CHAOS.
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 CELLOPHANE
by Marie Arana
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
Don Victor Sobrevilla Paniagua is an engineer and a dreamer who ferries his wife and children into the Peruvian jungle to build a paper mill.
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 HAVANA RED
by Leonardo Padura
Reviewed by Jana L. Perskie
A police procedural set in present day Cuba by an author who still lives there.
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 THE BOOK OF RALPH
by John McNally
Reviewed by Tony Ross
An anthology of related stories about one character which share a tone that mixes humor, pathos, and keen observation that form a very compelling coming of age story.
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 THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE
by A.M. Homes
Reviewed by Guy Savage
Middle-aged wealthy day trader Richard Novak attempts to navigate through a catastrophic mid-life crisis after a trip to the emergency room and sinkhole appears at his home.
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 LUDMILA'S BROKEN ENGLISH
by DBC Pierre
Reviewed by Guy Savage
An absurd, bizarre and ultimately touching novel that depicts a chaotic world rife with constantly present terrorism and out-of-control globalism.
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 DRIVE
by James Sallis
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
A minimalist noir novel about a damaged man who works as a stunt man by day and getaway car driver at night.
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 13 STEPS DOWN
by Ruth Rendell
Reviewed by Guy Savage
A psychological crime novel that explores the mind of Mix Cellini, a severly disturbed young man, as he pursues his obsession for infamous serial killer Reggie Christie.
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 MARKED MAN
by William Lashner
Reviewed by Chuck Barksdale
"Ethically Adventurous" Philadephia attorney Victor Carl meets a woman in the bar and wakes up with a tattoo on his chest with the words "Chantal Adair."
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 CARTE BLANCHE
by Carlo Lucarelli
Reviewed by Tony Ross
First in a trilogy set in the waning days of Fascist Italy, starring Commisario De Luca.
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 HIT PARADE
by Lawrence Block
Reviewed by Hagen Baye
John "The Hit Man" Keller latest set of assignments. Another great read from the masterful Block.
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 AT RISK
by Stella Rimington
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
A good spy novel novel written by the former Director General of Britain's M15. Smooth and fast-paced, with fascinating details.
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 HITLER'S PEACE
by Philip Kerr
Reviewed by Tony Ross
In 1943, the outcome of WWII in the European theater was more or less a foregone conclusion. Kerr's potboiler is about the behind the scenes negotiations.
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 QUANTICO
by Greg Bear
Reviewed by Ann Wilkes
A near future thriller in which terrorism has reshaped the world and no one plays by the rules.
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Happy Reading!
Judi Clark
MostlyFiction.com
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