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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the July 1st issue include:

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time, by Mark Adams. Dutton, 2011. Print length: 352 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...an engaging, informative guide to all things Inca..." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.31. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"July 24, 1911, was a day for the history books. For on that rainy morning, the young Yale professor Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and encountered an ancient city in the clouds: the now famous citadel of Machu Picchu. Nearly a century later, news reports have recast the hero explorer as a villain who smuggled out priceless artifacts and stole credit for finding one of the world's greatest archaeological sites. Mark Adams has spent his career editing adventure and travel magazines, so his plan to investigate the allegations against Bingham by retracing the explorer's perilous path to Machu Picchu isn't completely far- fetched, even if it does require him to sleep in a tent for the first time. With a crusty, antisocial Australian survivalist and several Quechua-speaking, coca-chewing mule tenders as his guides, Adams takes readers through some of the most gorgeous and historic landscapes in Peru..." - Amazon.

Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. Print length: 320 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...part mystery novel, part family drama, and it's no small feat that LaPlante manages to spin a coherent tale despite her main character's profound disorientation." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (23 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.96. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White’s best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn’t know whether she did it..." - Amazon.

Once Upon a River, by Bonnie Jo Campbell. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Print length: 348 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...vivid and mesmerizing...a demonstration of outstanding skills on the river of American literature." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.13. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone... Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to the decision of what price she is willing to pay for her choices." - Amazon.

The Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler. Translated by Ann Long. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print Length: 512 p. THRILLER. EW's slant: "hardly groundbreaking...but still a worthy addition to the ever-expanding ranks of Scandinavian crime fiction." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.86. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness - the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes. It’s the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again..." - Amazon.

Silver Girl, by Elin Hilderbrand. Reagan Arthur Books, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (12 reviews). EW's slant: "Hilderbrand's tone is breezy and easy as always.But she's borrowed details so freely from Ruth Madoff's ruined life that it feels as if another crime - identity theft - has been committed." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.59. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby - Meredith's high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had." - Amazon.

Payback at Morning Peak by Gene Hackman. Pocket, 2011. Print length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.89. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Life, not death, drove Jubal Young...but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his blood running cold with fear, terror, and anger. When it was over, the homestead was half burned to the ground. Someone had to bury the bodies. Someone had to set things right. Now, as Jubal rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family’s laughter and love, his pa’s wisdom, ma’s thick books, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man’s murderous grudge..." - Amazon.

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The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic, by Michael Sims. Walker Books, 2011. Print length: 320 p. BIOGRAPHY. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $16.50. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: Write what you know. Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called 'the most companionable of writers' lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers. Blending White's correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker into his own elegant narrative, Sims brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories - real and imaginary - made him famous around the world." - Amazon.

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel , by Alexander McCall Smith. Random House, 2011. Print length: 304 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.92. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is the second book in McCall Smith's Corduroy Mansions series, following Corduroy Mansions.

"In the elegantly crumbling mansion block in Pimlico called Corduroy Mansions, the comings and goings of the wonderfully motley crew of residents continue apace. A pair of New Age operators has determined that Terence Moongrove’s estate is the cosmologically correct place for their center for cosmological studies. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has decided to represent Autobiography of a Yeti, purportedly dictated to the author by the Abominable Snowman himself. And our small, furry, endlessly surprising canine hero Freddie de la Hay - belonging to failed oenophile William French - has been recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring..." - from the hardcover edition.
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