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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the August 5th issue include:

Northwest Corner, by John Burnham Schwartz. Random House, 2011. Print length: 304 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...poetic, introspective, evocative. And no, those words aren't code for 'boring'. ...ranks up there as one of the most gut-wrenching books I've ever read." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (21 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.12. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"A postgame bar fight leaves college baseball player Sam on the run and wondering whether he and his estranged father share a violent streak or at least bad judgment. His father, Dwight, can never make up for the accident that took a boy's life or repair his career or the family he left 12 years ago. Instead, he is going through the motions of starting over after serving his prison sentence until the day Sam arrives on his doorstep unannounced and troubled...Readers of Reservation Road will enjoy continuing the stories of these two families, linked by tragedy, while those who haven't yet discovered this powerful writer are in for a treat." - Gwen Vredevoogd for Library Journal.

The End of Everything, by Megan Abbott. Reagan Arthur Books, 2011. Print length: 256 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "There is a haunting story here; it's a shame readers have to wade through so much narrative fog to find it." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99; Hardcover $12.88. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. They are best friends who swap bathing suits and field-hockey sticks, and share everything that's happened to them...And then, one afternoon, Evie disappears. The only clue: a maroon sedan Lizzie spotted driving past the two girls earlier in the day. As a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the Midwestern suburban community, everyone looks to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth..." - Amazon.com Review.

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, by Ben Mezrich. Doubleday, 2011. Print length: 320 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...reads like a novelization of a movie that doesn't yet exist." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (27 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.82. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA - past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways - and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. But what does one do with an item so valuable that it’s illegal even to own? And was Thad Roberts - undeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronaut - really what he seemed? Mezrich has pored over thousands of pages of court records, FBI transcripts, and NASA documents and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct this Ocean’s Eleven–style heist..." - from the hardcover edition.

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The Griff: A Graphic Novel, by Christopher Moore and Ian Corson. William Morrow, 2011. Print length: 160 p. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Please note: This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on devices with larger screens such as Kindle DX, Kindle for PC/Mac, and Kindle for iPad.

"...a wacky and entertaining graphic tale of alien invasion and a motley crew of Earthlings trying to stay alive and, oh, yeah, save humankind. The mayhem begins when an ancient alien beacon is unwittingly activated, summoning behemoth spaceships from the far reaches of the galaxy. Hovering in Earth’s atmosphere, they release a biblical stream of pods that transform into minivan-size, people-eating, flying lizardy things that look like mythological griffins. Destroying communications, emergency, and military infrastructure, they systematically kill everyone on the planet. Well, almost everyone. A pesky trio of New Yorkers isn’t about to roll out the red carpet - or roll over and die - for these unwelcome intergalactic marauders..." - Amazon.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print length: 576 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (89 reviews). Kindle edition $19.99; Hardcover $21.09. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Between 1830 and 1900, hundreds of Americans - many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - migrated to Paris. McCullough shows first how the City of Light affected each of them in turn, and how they helped shape American art, medicine, writing, science, and politics in profound ways when they came back to the United States. McCullough's histories have always managed to combine meticulous research with sheer enthusiasm for his subjects, and it's hard not to come away with a sense that you've learned something new and important about whatever he's tackled... a dazzling and kaleidoscopic foray into American history by one of its greatest living chroniclers." - Amazon.com Review.
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