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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 4th issue include:

The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, 2011. Print length: 416 p. YA NOVEL. EW's slant: "With this beautifully executed drama, Stiefvater has established herself as one of the finest YA novelists writing today." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (38 reviews). Kindle edition $8.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen..." - Publisher.

The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, by Adam Gopnik. Knopf, 2011. Print length: 320 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "By turns meaty and frothy, this ode to the social experience of eating combines a reporter's eye for facts with a gourmand's devotion to food." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing - “You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives? With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts America’s recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes. It is a journey that begins in eighteenth-century France - the birthplace of our modern tastes (and, by no coincidence, of the restaurant) - and carries us to the kitchens of the White House, the molecular meccas of Barcelona, and beyond. ...Gopnik delves into the most burning questions of our time, including: Should a Manhattanite bother to find chicken killed in the Bronx? Is a great vintage really any better than a good bottle of wine? And: Why does dessert matter so much?" - Publisher.

The Stranger's Child, by Alan Hollinghurst. Knopf, 2011. Print length: 448 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...elegant if often obtuse multifamily saga." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate - a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance - to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them..." - from the hardcover edition.

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print Length: 656 p. BIOGRAPHY. EW's slant: "...as full a portrait as we're ever likely to get of the prickly, complicated, driven genius who reimagined computers, movies, phones, music, and tablets." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (221 reviews). Kindle edition $16.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted." - Publisher
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