A Scourge of VipersBruce DeSilva. Forge, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7431-8
Edgar-winner DeSilva’s excellent fourth Liam Mulligan novel (after 2014’s Providence Rag) finds the Providence, R.I., investigative journalist on hard times professionally. His newspaper, The Dispatch, has been reduced to a shell of its former self, publishing fluff rather than sub... Continue reading »
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by SurpriseMichael Brooks. Overlook, $27.95, (304p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1059-7
Brooks (Free Radicals), a consultant at New Scientist, highlights numerous areas of research that give pause to many scientists and throw lay readers into confusion in this challenging and mind-bending work. This confusion follows in no part from Brooks's skills as a writer and explicator of science... Continue reading »
Look!Jeff Mack. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16205-3
A gorilla finds a stack of books. He doesn’t seem aware of the literary potential they hold, but as objects, the possibilities for goofiness are evident: books can be worn, juggled, even balanced on. It’s just the sort of discovery one friend would share with another—except that the gorilla’s friend... Continue reading »
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American HistoryPeter Manseau. Little, Brown, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-10003-8
The last few decades have produced several magisterial tomes on American religious history, from such authors as Sydney Ahlstrom and Edwin Gaustad. None, however, matches the subversive and much-needed revisionism of Manseau's tour de force. Arguing that "we have learned history from the middle rath... Continue reading »
Jen Printy. Red Adept, $14.99 trade paper (310p) ISBN 978-1-940215-25-9
Printy’s paranormal romance series launch is hamstrung from the start by the first-person present-tense narration. Jack Hammond has spent most of his life trying to die, haunted by the mystery of his immortality. He’s also spent 170 years relentlessly pining for his lost soul mate, Lydia. When he bu... Continue reading »
RumbleEllen Hopkins, read by Kirby Heyborne. Simon & Schuster Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-8510-8
In his narration, Heyborne proves once again to be a voice-actor extraordinaire, especially with his portrayal of Matthew Turner, the protagonist. In this book about loss, each emotion of the complicated but immediately sympathetic and likeable young man—including faux indifference, teenage lust, an... Continue reading »
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