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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the September 10th issue include: 

Ape House, by Sara Gruen. Spiegel & Grau. Print length: 352 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...the chapters are brisk and the action is swift. Whenever one of the humans starts to bore, you can be sure that a charming bonobo will quickly come to the rescue." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (14 reviews). Kindle edition $13.69. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships - but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn’t understand people, but animals she gets - especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she’s ever felt among humans...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what’s really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and 'liberating' the apes, John’s human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he’ll risk his career and his marriage to follow." - Amazon.  

Getting to Happy, by Terry McMillan. Viking. Print length: 400 p. NOVEL.  Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin- - now in their 50s - for a disappointing and uninspired outing. As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel. Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems. Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn't given a story worthy of them..." - Publishers Weekly.

The Junior Officers' Reading Club, by Patrick Hennessey. Riverhead. Print length: 336 p. MEMOIR.  EW's slant: "Hennessey...wields his words as impressively as he does his weapons." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and joined the army in January 2004. On operational tours to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, he became the army's youngest captain and was commended for gallantry. - Amazon.

 The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, by James Ellroy. Knopf. Print length: 176 p. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "Certainly there is much here to trouble any prospective father-in-law of Ellroy's...fascinating as it is at times utterly disturbing."  Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels...The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and 'summoned her dead.' She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur. James Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her." - Amazon.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. Random House. Print length: 720 p. NONFICTION.  EW's slant: "...an indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in 20th century America."  Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $15.80. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career." - Amazon.