A Christmas ReturnAnne Perry. Ballantine, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-425285-07-7
One day in December 1896, octogenarian Mariah Ellison, the sensitive, fully fleshed-out star of bestseller Perry’s exceptional 15th Christmas-themed mystery (after 2016’s A Christmas Message), receives an unusually heavy Christmas pudding at her house in London. Inside there’s a small canno... Continue reading »
Eat the Apple: A MemoirMatt Young. Bloomsbury, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63286-950-0
In this bold memoir, ex-Marine Young examines how war transformed him from a confused teenager into a dangerous and damaged man. Fresh from high school and with no direction, Young walked into a Marine recruitment center in 2005 and sealed his fate. Soon he was suffering the indignities of basic tra... Continue reading »
Sex Fantasy Sofia Foster-Dimino. Koyama, $18 ISBN 978-1-927668-46-7
Relationships emerge and deteriorate in this collection of ten Ignatz Award–winning self-published zines by illustrator Foster-Dimino. The character designs are elegantly simple, each composition beautifully contained, each line crisp and clean, every emotion naked. The collection opens with two cha... Continue reading »
Samuel C. Heilman. Univ. of California, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-520277-23-6
This detailed study of changes in leadership in the major communities of the Hasidic movement—Munkacs, Boyan and Kopyczynitz, Bobov, Satmar, and Chabad—is not aimed at the same general audience as sociology professor Heilman’s acclaimed other works (The Rebbe; Sliding to the Right)... Continue reading »
Sex Fantasy Sofia Foster-Dimino. Koyama, $18 ISBN 978-1-927668-46-7
Relationships emerge and deteriorate in this collection of ten Ignatz Award–winning self-published zines by illustrator Foster-Dimino. The character designs are elegantly simple, each composition beautifully contained, each line crisp and clean, every emotion naked. The collection opens with two cha... Continue reading »
Magpie MurdersAnthony Horowitz, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-0-06-267764-8
Horowitz’s new novel salutes the whodunit by presenting two sterling examples of it—a golden age classic in the style of Christie and Sayers bookended by a contemporary mystery involving the suspicious death of bestselling author Alan Conway. Actor Bond, best known as Lady Rosamund on the televis... Continue reading »
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