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News - Book Reviews

A PATH APPEARS: TRANSFORMING LIVES, CREATING OPPORTUNITY by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s A PATH APPEARS: TRANSFORMING LIVES, CREATING OPPORTUNITY has received outstanding reviews across the board. Rick Bass of The Boston Globe says A PATH APPEARS is “good strong journalism, researched powerfully,” and adds, “upon finishing the book readers are likely to experience an uneasy state of stimulation and find themselves willing to do something in the world, unconcerned by questions of scale, but instead, to simply become more engaged, and in that, alive.” Knopf published A PATH APPEARS on September 23, 2014.

THE EMPTY QUARTER by David L. Robbins

THE EMPTY QUARTER is the second in Mr. Robbins’ Pararescue Thriller series that started with THE DEVIL’S WATERS. The new book received a rave review from E. A. Aymar of the Washington Independent Review of Books who called the book, “a great introduction for new fans, and a mesmerizing tale of duty and desperate love for everyone.” Thomas & Mercer published this title August 1, 2014.

DEAD INSIDE: DO NOT ENTER by Lost Zombies

Mark Frauenfelder on BoingBoing notes, “signs of struggle and desperation serve to create a fascinatingly creepy environment. And that’s why I like DEAD INSIDE: DO NOT ENTER so much. The book consists entirely of letters, hand-written warnings, and pages torn from journal entries that were written during the zombie pandemic.” In his review of this collection of notes from the Zombie Apocalypse. CHRONICLE BOOKS published the paperback September of 2011.

BOY ON ICE by John Branch

As Brian Renvall of Library Journal says in a starred review, BOY ON ICE by John Branch is, “A heartbreaking examination of a young man's life destroyed by the sport he loved. Highly recommended.” Norton will publish the book Oct. 1, 2014.

FRIENDSWOOD by Rene Steinke

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and the Literary Review. The New York Times Book Review says, “it has an undeniable grace, reminding us that respite can be found even in emergent sorrow.” The Literary Review said, “The lyrical new novel by National Book Award Finalist René Steinke is the kind of 300-plus-page book that devours you in a couple of afternoons...

A COLDER WAR by Charles Cumming

New York Times bestselling author of A FOREIGN COUNTRY, Charles Cumming’s second Thomas Kell novel was called, “one of the best books of 2014 thus far” by Joe Hartlaub in Bookreporter. St. Martin’s Press published the book August 5, 2014.

FRIENDSWOOD by Rene Steinke

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, and PureWow, which said, “Steinke has a lyrical way with words, and she’s at her best when describing the small-town Texas dynamics and blighted landscape--an effect that falls somewhere between Erin Brockovich and Friday Night Lights.”

A PATH APPEARS by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s A PATH APPEARS: TRANSFORMING LIVES, CREATING OPPORTUNITY received a starred review in Booklist, which called it, “a slow-go read in the most positive sense; it is hard not to constantly put down the book in order to further investigate the many exemplary causes that are profiled.” Knopf publishes the book on September 23, 2014.

ISRAEL: IS IT GOOD FOR THE JEWS? by Richard Cohen

The August 1, 2014 issue of Kirkus says “A newspaperman’s sharp focus and beveled prose lend emotional power to this debate.” Simon & Schuster will publish the book on September 16, 2014.

Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt’s THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE was listed on Flavorwire’s “50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read.” Samantha’s next novel MR. SPLITFOOT is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.