For those Kindle readers who, like me, read for entertainment, scanning the book reviews in People magazine is good way to check out new people-related books - celebrity bios, popular novels, absorbing nonfiction - just hitting bookstore shelves. Featured in the September 19th issue of People:
The Dog Who Knew Too Much, by Spencer Quinn. Atria Books, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. MYSTERY. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (11 reviews). People's slant: "Quinn's plot isn't as frisky as his four-legged gumshoe, but he ably sidesteps the saccharine in this charming tale." Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.89. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
This is the fourth book in a series of mysteries featuring Chet the dog - who tells the story - and Bernie his private eye partner. What I love best about the Chet and Bernie books is that Chet is a real dog and the reader sees all the events in the story from a dog's point of view. The first book in the series is Dog on It , followed by Thereby Hangs a Tail and To Fetch a Thief.
"Bernie is invited to give the keynote speech at the Great Western Private Eye Convention, but it’s Chet that the bigshot P.I. in charge has secret plans for. Meanwhile Chet and Bernie are hired to find a kid who has gone missing from a wilderness camp in the high country. The boy’s mother thinks the boy’s father - her ex - has snatched the boy, but Chet makes a find that sends the case in a new and dangerous direction. As if that weren’t enough, matters get complicated at home when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up. ... page-turning entertainment that’s not just for dog-lovers." - Publisher.
Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny. Minotaur Books, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. MYSTERY. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (69 reviews). People's slant: "With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.44. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
" Hearts are broken, Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. Sweet relationships are dead. But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light." - Publisher.
Birds of Paradise, by Diana Abu-Jaber. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Print Length: 362 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). People's slant: "As Katrina barrels ashore, the Muirs' absorbing story builds to a thoroughly satisfying climax." Kindle edition $10.39; Hardcover $15.26 Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen. Now, after five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Her family - Avis, an exquisitely talented pastry chef; Brian, a corporate real estate attorney; and her brother, Stanley, the proprietor of Freshly Grown, a trendy food market - will each be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. Meanwhile, Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away..." - Publisher.
Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son, by Tom Fields-Meyer. NAL, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. MEMOIR. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (12 reviews). People's slant: "...an unexpectedly uplifting experience for the reader." Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $10.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"A heartwarming and hopeful memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When his son Ezra was diagnosed with autism, Tom Fields-Meyer knew little about parenting and even less about neurological disorders. This intimate memoir chronicles his remarkable experiences of learning and growth from the time Ezra was diagnosed at age three to his bar mitzvah at thirteen. In that time, Ezra evolves from a remote, peculiar toddler to an extraordinary young man, not cured, but connected - in his own unique way - to the world around him." - Publisher.
Goddess of Vengeance, by Jackie Collins. St. Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 528 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). People's slant: "Voyeuristic and completely over-the-top, Goddess is junk food worth every empty calorie." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Lucky runs a high profile casino and hotel complex, The Keys in Vegas. Lennie, her movie star husband, is still writing and directing successful independent movies, while Max, her stubborn and gorgeous teenage daughter is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and her son, Bobby, owns a string of hot clubs. Lucky has everything. Family. Love. Life. And everything is exactly what billionaire businessman Armand Jordan is determined to take from her one way or the other." - Publisher.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (103 reviews). People's slant: '...dark and extravagantly imagined debut..." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.03. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands..." - from the hardcover edition.
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