Monday, October 08, 2012

Canadian Chair Cover?

Fiction

Trinity Game by Sean Chercover.  Dabiel Byrne works for the Vatican "debunking false miracle claims."  Byrne is sent to the U.S. where Byrne's estranged uncle has turned televangelist and is predicting the future.  Chercover's previous private eye novels were well done.

Round House by Louise Erdrich.  Woman living on South Dakota Indian reservation is attacked and the traumatized withdraws into depression.  Her 13-year-old son sets out to find out what happened.

Mad River by John Sandford.  Thriller featuring Sandford's Virgil Flower's character trying to catch criminals tearing through rural Minnesota.

NYPD Red by James Patterson and Marshall Karp.  Cranking'em out.

NonFiction

Launch Pad: inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most exclusive school for startups by Randall Stross.  Big-time Y Combinator funds startups and provides guidance.

More Large Print Than I Know What to Do With.  Seriously, We Are Running Out of Room

Last Man by P.T. Deutermann.  Thriller.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain.

Meryl Street Movie Club by Mia March.

St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell.

A Cowboy Under My Christmas Tree by Janet Dailey.

These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen.  Pekkanen?  Is that Finnish?

First Warm Evening of the Year by Jamie M. Saul.

Return to Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs.

A Place in the Country by Elizabeth Adler.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.

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