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Fiction Book Reviews: 2/8/2010 02/08/2010
Reviewed this week, new novels from James P. Othmer, Roddy Doyle, Alexander McCall Smith, Alafair Burke, Joanna Trollope, and Joshua Braff. Plus, Frederick Turner investigates one of JFK's purported mistresses, Jonathan Kellerman delivers his 25th Alex Delaware novel, Dutch author Tommy Wieringa chronicles an insane and brilliant coming of age, and much more. More
Fiction Book Reviews: 2/1/2010 02/01/2010
Reviewed this week, new novels from Joshilyn Jackson, Jesse Kellerman, Simon Tolkein, Jennifer Gilmore, Jim Lehrer, and Michael Harvey. Plus, Miguel Syjuco's smashing debut, Martha McPhee's novel of money and art, newly translated stories by Irène Némirovsky, Dorothy Garlock's true-to-form latest, and much more. More
Fiction Reviews: 1/25/2010 01/25/2010
Reviewed this week, new novels from Jane Smiley, Harlan Coben, Olga Grushin, Joe Hill, Anne Lamott, Christopher Moore, and Ray Banks. Plus, Duane Swierczynski does time travel, Joshua Cohen delivers an extravagant doorstop about the last Jew on Earth, Andrew Gross's Ty Hauck is back, Danielle Trussoni watches the war between angels and humans, and more.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 1/18/2010 01/18/2010
Reviewed this week, new novels by Sue Miller, Jim Crace, Emily Giffin, William Bernhardt, Katie Crouch, and David Rollins. Plus, Nordic crime writer Jo Nesbø delivers another Harry Hole stunner, Ben Kane goes back to ancient Rome, Ann Hood melds knitting and international adoption, and Lisa Lutz closes out the Spellman odyssey. More
Fiction Book Reviews: 1/11/2010 01/11/2010
Reviewed this week, new novels by William Peter Blatty, Lisa Scottoline, James Grippando, Pearl Abraham, Anchee Min, and Dewey Lambdin. Plus, Karl Marlantes's star-worthy 30-years-in-the-making Vietnam epic, Huffington Post columnist Keith Thomson's father-son spy thriller, and Sam Munson's stony sleuth.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 1/4/2010 01/04/2010
This week, stars for Randy Wayne's Deep Shadow, Kim Wright's Love in Mid Air, Gardiner Harris's Hazard, Simon Lelic's A Thousand Cuts, Thomas Kaufman's Drink the Tea, Erica Hayes's Shadowglass, Joe R. Lansdale's Best of, Jenn McKinlay's Sprinkle with Murder, and the complete The Rocketeer comics from Dave Stevens and Laura Martin.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 12/21/2009 12/21/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Straub, Jodi Picoult, J.D. Robb, Joanna Kavenna, Eric Van Lustbader, Dan Simmons, William Boyd, and David Peace. Plus, Dan Fesperman reviews Don DeLillo, Teddy Wayne gets a starred debut, Robert B. Parker's back, Cathleen Schine recasts an Austen classic, Henning Mankell goes to China and Modern Library drops a 1,136-page Ralph Ellison behemoth.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 12/14/2009 12/14/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels by Tim Dorsey, Eric Puchner, Jackie Collins, Mary Sharratt, Chuck Hogan, and Donald Welch. Plus, Elizabeth Jolley's Very Wright trilogy caught between two covers, S.J. Parris debuts with an Inquisition-era thriller, Susan McBride sets the cougars on the prowl, and W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear begin an epic New World trilogy.
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