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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 9th issue include:


Stardust: A Novel, by Joseph Kanon. Atria. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Kanon's prose is eminently noir, all cigarette smoke and magnesium flashbulbs..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $15.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from wartorn Europe to find that his brother, Daniel, has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful career in the movies, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Determined to uncover the truth, Ben enters the maze of the studio system and the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business..." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Kanon's earlier thriller, Alibi.

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, by Jeannette Walls. Scribner. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...a narrative as bold and self-assured as a cowboy's lasso skills." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $14.30. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience...hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience." - Publishers Weekly.
$9.99 or less alternative: Wall's unsparingly-honest memoir, The Glass Castle.

A Change in Attitude, by Anita Shreve. Little, Brown and Company. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Shreve, who spent three years in Africa as a young woman, brings the continent vividly to life, but never quite injects her characters with the same immediacy." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (46 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs... A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships." - Amazon.

The Kids Are All Right, by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch. Publisher. MEMOIR. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Well, 1983 certainly wasn’t boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune in the same way they dealt with the unexpected arrival of the forgotten-about Chilean exchange student - together. All that changed with the death of their mother... Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of un­breakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with - growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up..." - www.randomhouse.com.


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