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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 July 4th issue of People:

Alice Bliss, by Laura Harrington. Viking, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (13 reviews). People's slant: "Her story is harrowing and heartbreaking, but it reads like truth." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.14. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations - the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door. These characters' struggles amidst uncertain times echo our own, lending the novel an immediacy and poignancy that is both relevant and real." - Amazon.

Untold Story, by Monica Ali. Scribner, 2011. Print length: 272 p. NOVEL. People's slant: "Tightly structured and lyrically told, Ali's book explores not only Princess Di's 'untold story' but deeper issues of human identity." Amazon customer rating: 2 1/2 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.61. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"When Princess Diana died in Paris’s Alma tunnel, she was thirty-seven years old. Had she lived, she would turn fifty on July 1, 2011. Who would the beloved icon be if she were alive today? What would she be doing? And where? One of the most versatile and bold writers of our time, Monica Ali has imagined a different fate for Diana in her spectacular new novel...Fast forward a decade after the (averted) Paris tragedy, and an Englishwoman named Lydia is living in a small, nondescript town somewhere in the American Midwest. She has a circle of friends: one owns a dress shop; one is a Realtor; another is a frenzied stay-at-home mom. Lydia volunteers at an animal shelter, and swims a lot. Her lover, who adores her, feels she won’t let him know her. Who is she? Untold Story is about the cost of celebrity, the meaning of identity, and the possibility - or impossibility - of reinventing a life." - Amazon.

Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, by Juliet Eilperin. Pantheon, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $17.25. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species can survive. In this eye-opening adventure that spans the globe, Juliet Eilperin investigates the fascinating ways different individuals and cultures relate to the ocean’s top predator. From Belize to South Africa, from Shanghai to Bimini, we see that sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventually lead to their extinction.
With a reporter’s instinct for a good story and a scientist’s curiosity, Eilperin offers us an up-close understanding of these extraordinary, mysterious creatures in the most entertaining and illuminating shark encounter you’re likely to find outside a steel cage." - Amazon.

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Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large, by Kimberly Brittingham. Three Rivers Press, 2011. Print Length: 240 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $11.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Kim Brittingham struggled for years with her weight and body image before she learned how to love her self unconditionally, find her confidence, and fully enjoy her life. In this unflinching, humorous, and uplifting memoir, she openly explores her complex relationships with food and dieting, sex and dating, and exercise and health, ultimately inspiring every woman to live life to the absolute fullest, no matter what your jean size." - from the paperback edition.

Your Voice in My Head, by Emma Forrest. Other Press, 2011. Print Length: 224 p. MEMOIR. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.52. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. She was on the brink of drowning, but she was still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there... a stunning memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit." - Amazon.

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970, by David Browne. Da Capo Press, 2011. Print Length: 392 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (10 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.16. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer songwriter who’s just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives - and the world around them - will change irrevocably. Fire and Rain tells the story of four iconic albums of 1970 and the lives, times, and constantly intertwining personal ties of the remarkable artists who made them. Acclaimed journalist David Browne sets these stories against an increasingly chaotic backdrop of events that sent the world spinning throughout that tumultuous year: Kent State, the Apollo 13 debacle, ongoing bombings by radical left-wing groups, the diffusion of the antiwar movement, and much more." - Amazon.
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