Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Great News! A New Brent Ghelfi Novel! A New Lawrence Block Novel!

Fiction

The Burning Lake by Brent Ghelfi. The fourth Ghelfi novel featuring Alexei "Volk" Volkovoy. Volk is a troubleshooter for the the Russian Army and his shadowy general. Ghelfi takes the modern Russian problems of graft, corruption and crime and perfectly ties them into each Volk novel.

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. A crime novel set in Oslo. A woman goes missing in November and police investigator Harry Hole is on the job. Nesbo has gotten some great reviews by Anthony Neil Smith.
I have had a recent compulsion to type in Anthony Neil Smith. I think it is because I know that every time I type in "Anthony Neil Smith" the real Anthony Neil Smith will improve my website statistics by reading what is being written about him. Anthony Neil Smith. I used to have this same compulsion for Bill Crider. Bill Crider.

A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block. A new Matt Scudder novel. Everything I know about Alcoholics Anonymous I learned from Block's Scudder novels. Scudder attends at least one AA meeting a day while working as an unlicensed PI in Manhattan. Block has a new author photo. The photo has Block without glasses and sporting a van Dyke beard and mustache.

Buried Prey by John Sandford. Is Sandford getting ghost help on these? He is certainly cranking them out. Someone mentioned to me that they heard a Sandford interview recently. I think it was on Minnesota Public Radio but I am not sure.

Get Maitland by James Patrick Hunt. Another novel featuring former bounty hunter and current art dealer, Maitland. Maitland takes a job to rare antique in London. Maitland gets framed for murder instead.

Large Print

The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice.

Buried Prey by John Sandford.

Quicksilver by Amanda Quick.

Southern Comfort by Fern Michaels.

Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods.

Sixkill by Robert B. Parker.

Monday, May 16, 2011

One Audio and Five Large Print

Audio Book on CD

Firewall by Henning Mankell. 13 CDs at 16 hours.

Large Print

Devious by Lisa Jackson.

Daughters-in-Law by Joanna Trollope.

Wedding Promise by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer.

Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin.

Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen.

Montreal, Reloading, Civil War, Medicare

NonFiction

Florida Keys, 2nd Edition edited by Carolyn Galgano. That's a long drive away.

Montreal and Quebec City, 2011 edited by Jess Moss. I wish I could go to Montreal this summer. The F1 race is less than a month away.

Farmer's Wife Harvest Cookbook edited by Lela Nargi. Curse you ring bound cookbooks!

Managing Your Medicare: an insider's guide to maximizing benefits and lowering costs by George Jacobs. I'm young enough I don't have to worry about this stuff.

The ABCs of Reloading edited by C. Rodney James. I want to but the cost and time of start-up are intimidating.

Big Book of Civil War Sites edited by Cynthia Parzych. I don't much care about the Civil War but even I think this is a neat book.

Simply Necklaces: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.

Simply Earrings: 20 beading projects by Lark Crafts.

Warman's Antiques and Collectibles, 2012: 45th Edition by Mark F. Moran. Very nice color photos.