Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Even more new Fic and NonFic

Adult Fiction

Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans. Another Christmas story by Evans.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom. A new novel by the best-selling memoirist.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. This turned into a sleeper best-seller in the publishing world. Look at the super neat-o website.

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear. The fourth Maisy Dobbs mystery. Dobbs investigates the death of a painter in 1930 England.

All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer Fleming. After the female Anglican pastor and the male Sheriff of Millers Kills, NY break off their intramarital affair the Sheriff's wife is found dead in the Sheriff's home. This has received very good reviews.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. A recent book club selection in town. AN unemployed veterinarian during the Depression joins the circus for a job and meets his two loves: Marlena the entertainer and Rosie the elephant.

What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George. Ms. George writes a lot of novels with two regular detective characters and her readers enjoy each one. This novel changes pace to follow the orphaned trio of Joel, Ness and Toby as they "do their best to cope with their new life in London's often-menacing neighborhood of North Kensington."

Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson. Lawson wrote Crow Lake and sets Other in the middle of a love triangle in Northern Canada of the 1930s and 1950s.

Adult NonFiction

Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry. Wisconsin's most popular poet/writer/EMS worker/fireman.

Why We Want You to be Rich: Two Men One Message by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. Trump and Kiyosaki (author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series) team together.

Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly. The pundit's latest.

Truth About Muhammed: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion by Robert Spencer. You should check this out just for the sake of the incendiary title.

What Colleges Don't Tell You, and What Other Parents Don't Want You To Know: 272 Secrets For Getting Your Kid Into The Top Schools by Elizabeth WIssner-Gross. "The author's approach is to endow the student's advocate, usually a parent who has the most time to devote to the task, with the skills to elicit and enhance the student's natural accomplishments, rendering him or her desirable to colleges" review link.

Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. Bryson's best selling humour has covered Australia and the Appalaichan Trail, English language and the history of science. Life and Times is about growing up in 1950s Iowa.

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