Anne's Summer List 2009

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Paperback)

By Stacey O'Brien

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781416551775
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Free Press, 06/01/2009

Le Crime (Paperback)

By Peter Steiner

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780312380663
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Minotaur Books, 07/01/2008

Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

By Abraham Verghese

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9780375714368
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010

City of Thieves (Paperback)

By David Benioff

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780452295292
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Plume, 04/01/2009

The Soloist (Paperback)

By Steve Lopez

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780425238363
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Berkley Trade, 05/01/2010

Serena (Paperback)

By Ron Rash

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780061470844
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Ecco, 10/01/2009

The Painter from Shanghai (Paperback)

By Jennifer Cody Epstein

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780393335316
Availability: Readily Available
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 04/01/2009

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by David Mitchell
I became a fan of Mitchell after I read his wildly inventive Cloud Atlas, so I was expecting literary pyrotechnics from his latest. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, the sweeping story of the Dutch East Indies Company in Japan at the turn of the 19th century, reads like a combination of Patrick O'Brien's nautical historical fiction, the exoticism and passion of Shogun, and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" because of a creepy part of the plot. Wow!... read the rest of Tegan's review

The City & the City
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I think good Science Fiction uses an altered reality to reveal something about the real world that couldn’t be revealed without that altered setting. Great Science Fiction does this and entertains as well. China Mieville’s The City and the City is really great Sci-fi. It begins feeling like a dark, well-written, noir-style mystery – a body has been found in the city of Beszel, detective Borlu has been assigned to investigate – but the story quickly takes a sci-fi turn... read the rest of Lillian's review.