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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 June 13th issue of People:

State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (35 reviews). People's slant: "Reading this book will cause you to call in sick, cancel all plans and return to page one upon completion." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.50. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Marina Singh gave up a career as a doctor after botching an emergency delivery as an intern, opting instead for the more orderly world of research for a pharmaceutical company. When office colleague Anders Eckman, sent to the Amazon to check on the work of a field team, is reported dead, Marina is asked by her company's CEO to complete Anders' task and to locate his body. What Marina finds in the sweltering, insect-infested jungles of the Amazon shakes her to her core. For the team is headed by esteemed scientist Annick Swenson, the woman who oversaw Marina's residency and who is now intent on keeping the team's progress on a miracle drug completely under wraps. Marina's jungle odyssey includes exotic encounters with cannibals and snakes, a knotty ethical dilemma about the basic tenets of scientific research, and joyous interactions with the exuberant people of the Lakashi tribe, who live on the compound." - Joanne Wilkinson for Booklist.

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, by Mark Seal. Erik Singer (Narrator). Penguin Audiobooks, 2011. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). People's slant: "...a true story that would seem absurd if it were fiction."
Please note: This is an unabridged Audible Audio Edition downloadable to Kindle. $23.95 or free with Audible.com 30-day free trial membership. Listening Length: 10 hrs. 32 min.
"The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man - because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a small village in Germany. At 17, obsessed with getting to America, he flew into the country on dubious student visa documents and his journey of deception began. Over the next 30 years, boldly assuming a series of false identities, he moved up the social ladder through exclusive enclaves on both coasts - culminating in a stunning 12-year marriage to a rising star businesswoman with a Harvard MBA who believed she'd wed a Rockefeller..." - Amazon.

La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, by Elaine Sciolino. Times Books, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (11 reviews). People's slant: "...exhaustive and, yes, sexy examination of France's culture through the lends of seduction." Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $16.46. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France...Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland." - Amazon.

The Devil She Knows, by Bill Loehfelm. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: none yet. People's slant: "...rousing tale with riveting characters." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.46. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Life isn’t panning out for Maureen Coughlin. At twenty-nine, the tough-skinned Staten Island native’s only excitement comes from...well, not much. A fresh pack of American Spirits, maybe, or a discreet dash of coke before work. If something doesn’t change soon, she’ll end up a 'lifer' at the Narrows, the faux-swank bar where she works one long night after another. But just like the island, the Narrows has its seamy side. After work one night, Maureen walks in on a tryst between her co-worker Dennis and Frank Sebastian, a silver-haired politico. When Sebastian demands her silence, Maureen is more than happy to forget what she’s seen - until Dennis turns up dead on the train tracks the next morning." - Amazon.
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