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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Joshua Ferris, T. Jefferson Parker, Stuart Woods, A.L. Kennedy, and Jayne Anne Krentz. Plus, Peter Bognanni chronicles a punk-rock-in-an-Iowa-geodesic-dome adolescence, the aliens arrive in Evan Mandery's smart and funny romp, Bob Morris finds more trouble in the Sunshine State, and Bernard Cornwell delivers another big, bloody epic. More
Fiction Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 11/09/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Carey, Alexander McCall Smith, Katherine Center, John Lescroat, and Lori Lansens. Plus, Lindsey Davis takes on the English civil war, Ann Mah sends an out-of-work journo to Beijing, James Greer plots a clever caper, and John McNally digs into writerly envy.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
Reviewed this week, new books by T.C. Boyle, Douglas Preston, Louise Erdrich, Jack Higgins, Jerome Charyn and Jim Harrison. Plus, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein creates an "athiest with a soul," Katherine McMahon unravels a post-WWI mystery, Wallace Stroby kicks off what looks like a promising new series, and Bill Flanagan chronicles 40 years of rock and roll.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 10/26/2009 10/26/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Robert Crais, Sandra Brown, Stephen Coonts, Ron Rash, Nicholas Coleridge and Jude Deveraux. Also, Leila Meacham delivers a big, fat Texas epic, Canadian radio host Stuart McLean revisits the Vinyl Cafe, Johanna Moran finds inspriation in an old polygamy case, and Susan Abulhawa revisits Palestinian-Jewish conflicts.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 10/19/2009 10/19/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Tami Hoag, Amy Bloom, Tash Aw, Sadie Jones and David Carkeet. Plus, Dexter Palmer debuts with a smart steampunk page-turner, Michael Thomas Ford takes Jane Austen into the realm of the undead, Brooke Morgan finds inspiration in a real-life murder case, and Hillary Manton Lodge heats up the bonnets in an Amish romance.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 10/12/2009 10/12/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Sue Grafton, J.M. Coetzee, Ken Bruen, Anna Maxted and Richard Bausch. Plus, Norberto Fuentes channels Castro, Thomas E. Kennedy gets a long-overdue U.S. launch, Maaza Mengiste debuts with a striking novel of 1974 Ethiopia, and Matthew Reilly delivers another bang-up adventure.
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Fiction Reviews: 10/5/2009 10/05/2009
This week, reviews of new ones from Sam Lipstyle, Kristin Hannah, Steve Hamilton, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, Stephen Hunter, Katherine Weber, Relentless Aaron, Cassandra Clark, Mike Resnick, Lewis Shiner, Laura Griffin, and more.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 9/28/2009 09/28/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Patricia Cornwell, Joseph Wambaugh, Alexander McCall Smith, Jonathan Dee and Tracy Chevalier. Plus, the 34th Pushcart Prize anthology, Javier Marías concludes his disquieting Your Face Tomorrow trilogy and Zachary Mason reinterprets the Odyssey. More
