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The Mirage by Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff, author of Queen Anne Books favorites Set This House in Order and Bad Monkeys,
has written another page-turning, mind-reeling masterpiece. Imagine a
world where the United Arab States is threatened by Christian
fundamentalist terrorists, a world where a few good Homeland Security
Agents have to fight corruption and conspiracies to protect all they
believe in, a world where evil and mass deception threaten everything. I
predict this is the novel that everyone will be talking about in 2012... read the rest of Tegan's review
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
To read Adam Johnson’s new novel The Orphan Master’s Son is to
plunge headlong into the terrifying and creepy world of North Korea.
Really, who sets a book in North Korea? An obsessive researcher, Johnson
(who took six years to write the book) reveals a setting that is
hauntingly realistic—so real, in fact, this reader couldn’t shake the
lingering images of mind-stripping torture, dark-of-night kidnappings,
and punishing interrogations... read the rest of Wendee's review.
Cook Grow Eat by Willi Galloway Portland-based garden writer Willi Galloway has created the perfect book
for aspiring vegetable gardeners. The magic is in the concept of
combining gardening advice with recipes that use fresh ingredients
straight from the vegetable patch. This is a comprehensive book that
covers EVERYTHING a gardener needs to know about vegetable growing... read the rest of Wendee's review.