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Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music by Burt Bacharach

On May 7, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

In his memoir Anyone Who Had a Heart, Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest songwriters of all time, offers a frank and riveting account of his unparalleled life. Candid and emotional, and with 16 pages of color photographs, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music is Burt Bacharach in his own words—a powerful and personal look at the award-winning songwriter and composer.

Telling the Bees, A Novel About the Friendship of Two Elderly Beekeepers by Peggy Hesketh

On April 28, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

With echoes of The Remains of the Day, an elderly beekeeper looks back on his quiet life, and the secrets of a woman he never truly knew. As he pieces together the memories of their shared history, he will come to learn the painful truths about Claire’s life, and the redemptive power of laying the past to rest.

Fellow Mortals: A Novel of How Relationships Are Built and Burned by Dennis Mahoney

On April 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

An affecting story about how relationships are built—and burned—by desperate needs and obligations. With sparse and handsome prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver and early Stewart O’Nan, Mahoney’s probing first novel charts the fall of a man who has spent his life working to be decent and shows us a community trying desperately to hold itself together.

All That Is, The Life and Loves of a Manhattan Book Editor by James Salter

On April 4, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

Life After Life: A Journey Through Time and Memory by Jill McCorkle

On March 27, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill  McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. With Life After Life, she has conjured up an  entire community that reminds all of us that grace and magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it.

This Close: Lucid, Elegant and Immersive Stories by Jessica Francis Kane

On March 15, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Short Stories, by Editor

Through thirteen stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Kane questions the tensions between friendship and neighborliness, home and travel, family and ambition. In writing filled with wit and humor and incredible poignancy, she deftly reveals the everyday patterns that, over time, can swerve a life off course.

Comandante: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, A Journalistic View by Rory Carroll

On March 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll breaches the walls of Miraflores Palace to tell the inside story of Chávez’s life and his political court in Caracas. Based on interviews with ministers, aides, courtiers, and citizens, this intimate piece of reportage chronicles a unique experiment in power, which veers among enlightenment, tyranny, comedy, and farce. Carroll investigates the almost religious devotion of millions of Venezuelans who still regard Chávez as a savior and the loathing of those who brand him a dictator.

Benediction, A Meditation on Morality by Kent Haruf

On February 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

Artful, A Novel on Art and Life by Acclaimed Scottish Novelist Ali Smith

On January 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals.

The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera

On January 21, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than fiction.