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Donnybrook: A Novel of Southern Indiana Lowlifes by Frank Bill

On May 2, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana, Donnybrook is exactly the fearless, explosive, amphetamine-fueled journey you’d expect from Frank Bill’s first novel . . . and then some.

Maya’s Notebook, A Lyrical Melodrama by Isabel Allende

On April 25, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973 with a young son, and her grandfather Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer.

The Famous and the Dead, The Latest Charlie Hood Mystery by T. Jefferson Parker

On April 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

The explosive conclusion to T. Jefferson Parker’s New York Times bestselling Charlie Hood series – Los Angeles County sheriff ’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border.

Good Bait, The Best of British Crime Writing by John Harvey

On January 22, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling author. Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey’s latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.

Black Heart on the Appalachian Trail: A Mystery Novel by T.J. Forrester

On November 24, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Hikers are dying along the trail, their broken bodies splayed on the rocks below. Are these falls accidental, the result of carelessness, or is something more sinister at work?

Skagboys, A Hefty Prequel to “Trainspotting” by Irvine Welsh

On October 6, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Marked by Irvine Welsh’s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started.

The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to the Drug-War Epic ‘Savages’ by Don Winslow

On June 18, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Fast-paced, provocative, and wickedly funny, The Kings of Cool is a spellbinding love story for our times from a master novelist at the height of his powers. It is filled with Winslow’s trademark talents—complex characters, sharp dialogue,blistering social commentary—that have earned him an obsessive following. The result is a book that will echo in your mind and heart long after you’ve turned the last page.

Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America’s Most Outlaw Industry by Greg Campbell

On May 17, 2012, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

Greg Campbell, coauthor of the bestselling Flawless and Blood Diamonds, presents a compelling, close-up investigation of a hot-button topic: America’s schizophrenic attitude to the legalization of pot.

Narcopolis: An Untraditional Indian Novel by Jeet Thayil

On April 10, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. This is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and god, and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights.

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel

On July 8, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it—or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.