
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Apr 02 2008 4:46 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, SciFi & Fantasy, Mystery & Crime

Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. But not the kind of werewolf that has been popularized in recent urban fantasy and pop horror novels. Marlowe can't control his transformation, nor can he control the beast that lives within him. He knows that once a month, whether he wants to or not, someone will die.
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Apr 16 2008 3:20 pm permalink Post a comment
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In the grand tradition of Vonnegut's absurdist fiction, 's second novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post apocalyptic satire, tells the story of young Indian brave named Broadway Danny Rose and his search for the mythic titular valley where "death becomes life".
by McNally Robinson - Tuesday Apr 29 2008 9:21 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Ask a Bookseller
Sheila writes:
Help! I have about 100 pages left in the series The Seventh Sword and I have no idea which author to read next. I prefer fantasy series; I want to become part of what I am reading. I have read all of , , , , , , , 's Arthur series, 's Black Jewels trilogy, and 's Fionavar Tapestry. I always go back to Eddings and Kay when I have nothing else. I have read a few and but would not pick them up again.
Chad Ginther, who is better versed in such matters than anyone we know, makes the following recommendations...
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Mar 30 2008 10:47 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy
's debut novel The Red Wolf Conspiracy has already been compared to both 's His Dark Materials and 's The Lies of Locke Lamora. High praise indeed, but can it possibly live up to the hype?
by Joan Marshall - Monday Apr 07 2008 10:28 am permalink Post a comment
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In The Lizard Cage by , two brothers fight for a woman named Aung San Suu Kyi, one using words and the other using weapons.
by Philip Hayes - Tuesday Apr 22 2008 2:31 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, New Releases
has put together one of the most fascinating books about the Great War that you are likely to find,Brushes & Bayonets.
by Allison Fairbairn - Thursday Apr 17 2008 7:28 pm permalink Post a comment
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Hooked on , but can't wait until August for Breaking Dawn, the next and final installment in the Twilight series? Look no further than Meyer's May release, The Host.
by Joan Marshall - Friday Mar 07 2008 12:13 pm permalink Post a comment
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's Fault Lines tells the story of a quintessential American-Jewish-German family--one whose horrifying history gradually reveals true courage.
The layered narratives of the characters echo through the novel and tie the characters to their parents and their pasts. Children who tell their stories at the beginning of the novel re-appear a generation or two later as adults with their own children or grandchildren observing them.
Huston's writing is especially satisfying because the voices of the children convincingly display all the misunderstandings, chaotic emotions, and hunger to be the centre of the universe that characterize childhood.
If you're interested in the Holocaust, or even just in children, you'll love this book.
by Joan Marshall - Sunday Mar 23 2008 5:56 pm permalink Post a comment
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People of the Book is a riveting mystery that swings back and forth between the present career of book conservator Hanna Heath and the precarious lives of the creators and protectors of an ancient Jewish holy book.
' brilliant characters throw their essential goodness in the path of evil, but cannot help but be smothered by the anger, prejudice and persecution they face. As the story flows through Spanish kidnapping and slavery, the Inquistion, late 19th century anti-Semetism, World War II, and the recent war in Bosnia, Brooks' vivid writing exposes the appalling rigidity of religious laws. At the centre of it all is the beauty of the book itself.
If you love books as objects and you love history you will be carried away by this wonderful, delicately constructed novel.
by Joan Marshall - Thursday Feb 28 2008 7:24 pm permalink Post a comment
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Invited to try out for a beginning university women's hockey team, 19-year-old Isabel Norris approaches campus life and the raucous team relationships with trepidation.
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