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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 December 12th issue of People:

The Drop, by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Print Length: 401 p. MYSTERY. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (59 reviews). People's slant: "Master crime writing Connelly gives his favorite detective two cases to solve - and double the suspense." Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries..." - Publisher.

Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II , by Philip Eade. Henry Holt, 2011. Print Length: 377 p. BIOGRAPHY. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (3 reviews). People's slant: "...after reading this engaging biography of Philip's early years, it's easy to see how the future Queen of England fell for him." Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Before he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was born deaf; she was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was eight. His father, Prince Andrew of Greece, already traumatized by his exile from his home country, promptly shut up the family home and went off to live with his mistress, effectively leaving his young son an orphan. Remarkably, Philip emerged from his difficult childhood a character of singular vitality and dash - self-confident, opinionated, and devastatingly handsome. In this authoritative and wonderfully compelling book, acclaimed biographer Philip Eade brings to vivid life the storm-tossed early years of one of the most fascinating and mysterious members of the royal family." - Publisher.

The Angel Esmeralda, by Don DeLillo. Scribner, 2011. Print Length: 226 p. STORIES. Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (7 reviews). People's slant: "Behold and be dazzled." Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling - and foretelling - three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In Creation, a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In Human Moments in World War III, two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda." - Publisher.
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