Alice Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author Anchor Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-26764-9
Picasso, Buster Keaton, Hitler and Stalin are analyzed to prove that childhood trauma or abuse is related directly to later creativity or destructiveness. ``These profiles . . . are reductionist,'' PW said. ``Swiss psychoanalyst Miller is more...
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Karen Miller, Orbit, $25.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-02921-6
Miller's thoroughly satisfying fourth and final Mage title (after The Prodigal Mage) brings the story to the lost land of Dorana, where the sorcerer Morg has finally found a body sturdy enough to hold his essence without going completely mad. That...
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Andrew Miller, Author, Ron Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author . Harcourt $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100721-9
Three characters on the cusp of crisis and one on the brink of death inhabit Miller's moving new novel, in which each grapples with despair and discovers that love can confer purifying strength. Widowed school administrator Alice Valentine is...
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Andrew Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100258-0
Miller's debut novel is a bildungsroman with an inventive twist. His 18th-century hero, James Dyer, is incapable of feeling pain or experiencing pleasure. Unlike most coming-of-age novels, which detail the emotional pains of the protagonist as he...
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Debbie S. Miller, illus. by Jon Van Zyle. Walker, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9813-8
In a fascinating companion to Survival at 40 Below (2010), readers visit Australia’s Simpson Desert, spending a day (and night) with the animals that can tolerate its punishing temperatures. Readers may be familiar with emus, red kangaroos, and...
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Miller, and Hachette’s new mass market imprint Orbit, debuts with a solid epic that posits political intrigue, ethereal prophecies and a rags-to-riches hero against a vivid if familiar fantasy backdrop (sure to provoke déjà vu in
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Karen Miller. Orbit, $20 (528p) ISBN 978-0-316-12008-1
Australian fantasist Miller (Kingmaker) opens her Tarnished Crown epic fantasy series with this elaborate tale of ambitious aristocrats whose capacity to inflict harm is as great as their sense of entitlement. The lands of Harcia and Clemen share a...
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