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Blue at the Mizzen,
by Patrick O'Brian
Jack Aubrey of the English Royal Navy sets sail after
Waterloo in the ship Surprise, and that's what he gets:
desertions, collisions, unsafe passage through the icy
netherworld south of the Horn, and a fight to pry Chile from
Spain's grip. Patrick O'Brian proves literary historical
fiction can get down and swashbuckle.
Pop Goes the Weasel,
by James Patterson
Doctor-detective Alex Cross hunts a cunning, unusually
creepy psycho killer called the Weasel in Edgar Award winner
Patterson's action movie of a novel.
Have a Nice Day!,
by Mick Foley
The tormented master revolutionized the canvas and gave his
own ear for his art. Van Gogh? No, Mick Foley, the World
Wrestling Federation champ whose cheery memoir of mayhem won
an unexpected No. 1 spot on Amazon.com's nonfiction
bestseller list.
'O' Is for Outlaw,
by Sue Grafton
Gumshoe Kinsey Millhone gets a 15-year-old letter revealing
that her first husband, cop Mickey Magruder, was cheating on
her--and that Kinsey may have let him take the fall for a
killing he didn't commit.
Hearts in Atlantis,
by Stephen King
With a growing literary ambition, the master writes five
linked stories about the generation that lived through a
great American horror: the Vietnam War.
Family Honor,
by Robert B. Parker
What if there was a female Boston detective as cool as
Robert B. Parker's Spenser? Find out in Parker's latest
page-turner, starring Sunny Randall, a painter turned
detective created for Parker's pal Helen Hunt (who's slated
for the film version).
Isaac's Storm,
by Erik Larson
Erik Larson will blow you away with his howling account of
the hurricane that flattened Galveston, Texas, in 1900.
America's deadliest natural calamity was packed with human
drama (and when folks climbed trees to escape the flood,
they discovered venomous snakes had the same idea).
Ender's Shadow,
by Orson Scott Card
Move over, Luke Skywalker! The greatest alien fighter could
be the child genius Bean, the star of the new installment of
Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series.
Point of Origin,
by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta's romantic getaway with her ex-FBI beau
gets the chills when a psycho killer she put away escapes.
What's scarier still, the killer is the ex-lover of
Scarpetta's intriguing, trouble-prone niece, Lucy.
The Haunting of Hill House,
by Shirley Jackson
Experts agree: this 1959 haunted-house book is 10 times
scarier than the hit 1999 Liam Neeson movie version, "The
Haunting." Prepare to enter a place "without kindness, never
meant to be lived in"--if you dare!
War of the Rats,
by David L. Robbins
Amid the rubble of the gory 1942 Battle of Stalingrad,
Siberian hunter-turned-sniper Vasily Zaitsev faces Heinz
Thorvald, the top sharpshooter of the SS, in a novel that
makes real characters and a terrifying time come alive--and
puts you right in the thick of it.
Faith of My Fathers
God's Funeral is A.N. Wilson's account of the decline of orthodox Christianity in Victorian Britain. The most popular explanation for this widely-recognized phenomenon is the acceptance by intellectuals of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. To disprove the notion that Darwin singlehandedly committed deicide, Wilson describes a host of secularizing predecessors and accomplices such as Hume, Gibbon, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, Marx, and Carlyle. All play major roles in Wilson's brilliantly staged reconstruction of the so-called death of God. God's Funeral also takes account of the pain and confusion these intellectuals brought upon themselves when their great achievements helped erode the social and intellectual foundations of their lives. Furthermore, Wilson shows how their crises of faith relate to our own. Like our Victorian forebears, contemporary readers still must ask, "Is our personal religion that which links us to the ultimate reality, or is it the final h! uman fantasy...?" and, "Is there a world of value outside ourselves, or do we, collectively and individually, invent what we call The Good?" God's Funeral helps readers learn to ask these questions in smarter and sharper ways by giving them a clearer sense of how Western society reached its current state of confusion.
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Hannibal,
by Thomas Harris
Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, of "Silence of the Lambs"
fame, is back--and one of his victims wants his head. Horror
fiction was never so delectable.
Editor' note: I finally got a chance to read this. I loved it except for the way it ended, which I hated but don't want to give anything away. I'd like to hear from some other readers.
Woman: An Intimate Geography,
by Natalie Angier
Men aren't from Mars, women aren't from Venus, and female-
demeaning evolutionary psychology can go to blazes, says
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer Natalie
Angier in her droll, fascinating book.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter, of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, crashes his flying car into a Whomping Willow in
the season's top children's-lit sequel.
The Falcon at the Portal,
by Elizabeth Peters
Sleuthing archaeologist Amelia Peabody, her husband, and her
mercurial offspring, Ramses, return in a ripping yarn of
forged relics and Egyptian politics.
Body for Life,
by Bill Phillips
Phillips is like an Andrew Weil with muscle, and he's got a
12-week program to mental and physical strength that's
working for plenty of people.
