New from BWLB: "Detour" a novel by Michael Brodsky

"Detour," a novel by Michael Brodsky

(BWLB, ebook $ 5.99, print $23.99)

Detour charts the struggle of a film-crazed young man to shape his identity; it is also about his resistance to doing so at every turn. Owning an identity can mean being straitjacketed, condemned to a living death . . . Read More HERE

New from BWLB: "Three Goat Songs," by Michael Brodsky

“Three Goat Songs” by Michael Brodsky is a series of variations on a theme. It is divided into three novellas, each about a man who sits on a rocky coast by the seashore . . .
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New from BWLB: "Circuits" by Michael Brodsky

"Circuits," by Michael Brodsky (BWLB, $ 5.99)

This startling novel (originally published in 1991) is the concentrated peak of Brodsky’s dynamic and unique vision. With a shifting group of characters—Mazel Tov Jones, Neddie and Eddie, Vladimir and Mr. and Mrs. Stein, Brodsky . . .
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Books We Live by releases: "Stanley Kubrick: The Odysseys," by Fabrice Jaumont

Books We Live by announces the release of "Stanley Kubrick: The Odysseys," by Fabrice Jaumont (BWLB, $ 9.99, 140 pages)

April 2, 2018 was the 50th anniversary of a 1968 premiere in Washington, DC. of Stanley Kubrick's 2001:  . . . READ MORE HERE

New release from BWLB: "Relative Man" by Ionel Petroi and Ivanka Stoïanova

“Relative Man: the Music of Ionel Petroi,” by Ionel Petroi and Ivanka Stoïanova.

Born in Yugoslavia into an ethnic Romanian family, raised in Serbia, groomed in the Paris music circle before relocating to New York, if anything, provide a strong metaphor for Ionel Petroi’s “Musique Relative.” What came first the relative identity or the music? Is this latter the emanation of the former?

Author du Jour: Rob Dunn, "Never Out of Season"

“Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future,”
by Rob Dunn

(Little, Brown and Company, pp 348, $27.00)

The opening chapter of “Never Out of Season,” exposes the book premise flat out. It deals with the short history of the . . .

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Author du Jour: Jonathan White, "Tides"

“Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,” by Jonathan White

(Trinity, pp 336, $28.00)

Something unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air as the winds break like waves upon the shores of your...

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Author du Jour: Fabrice Jaumont, "The Bilingual Revolution"

“The Bilingual Revolution,” by Fabrice Jaumont

(TBR Books, pp 210, $19.99)

This book is about education and the teaching of foreign language in the American school system . . . And this book is about community and the use of other languages within a specific social framework . . .

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Author du Jour: Kathleen Hill, "She Read to us in the Late Afternoons"

“She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels,” by Kathleen Hill

(Delphinium Books, pp 224, $24.00)

Here is a book that could easily be missed out. So delicate in tone and style that it reads like a minuet. It is precisely the finely chiseled and graceful sentences. . .

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Author du Jour: Teresa Messineo, "The Fire by Night"

“The Fire by Night,” by Teresa Messineo

(William Morrow, pp 302, $ 26.99)

Though all wars results in the same atrocious outcome, they are hardly similar in their origins. They often start with an incident, a provocation, appearing to . . .

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Author du Jour: Deborah Crombie, "Garden of Lamentations"

“Garden of Lamentations,” by Deborah Crombie

(William Morrow, pp 400, $15.99)

A new shipment from Texas transplant, Deborah Crombie, to the UK brings another powerful thriller featuring the Scotland Yard detectives Duncan...

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Author du Jour: Elliot Ackerman, "Dark at the Crossing"

“Dark At the Crossing,” by Elliot Ackerman

(Alfred A. Knopf, pp 256, $ 25.95)

Here is an author whose fiction cannot be separated from his life, or, if you indulge me, whose novels....

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Author du Jour: Alex Berenson, "The Prisoner"

“The Prisoner,” by Alex Berenson

(Putnam, pp 426, $28.00)

In this age of great distrust, when the most unsuspected neighbor turns out to be a blood-thirsty sleeping cell about to enact some extremist cause, suspicion comes. . .

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author du Jour: Meredith Maran, "The New Old Me"

“The New Old Me” by Meredith Maran

(Blue Rider Press, pp 302, $27.00)

A great undiscovered jewel, and from what I infer, a book that deserves to get into every single book club in the nation, and beyond. My enthusiasm is perhaps excessive. There comes a time . . .

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Author du Jour: Beatriz Williams, "Wicked City"

“The Wicked City,” by Beatriz Williams
 

(William Morrow, pp 368, $26.99)

In “Wicked City,” one can smell the whiffs of Fitzgerald’s Nick Carraway as he journeys back and forth between New York and East Egg. You can touch Princeton . . . .

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Author du Jour: Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn & Dr. Elissa Epel, "The Telomere Effect"

“The Telomere Effect: a Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer,” by Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD and Elissa Epel, PhD

(Grand Central Publishing, pp 399, $28.00)

Whoever came up with the subtitle for this fascinating book did an excellent job creating a strong hook. Who indeed would not want to live longer? Contrary to what you may consider, that life is just a game of roulette, with molecules moving one way and DNA reacting in another . . . Read book review ....

Author du Jour: Suzanna O'Sullivan, "Is It All in Your Head?"

“Is It all in Your Head? Trues Stories of imaginary Illness,” by Suzanne O’Sullivan, MD

(Other Press, pp 296, $26.95)

Psychosomatic illness is problematic. Disregarded as not real, it is often not considered seriously and is relegated to footnotes in medical books. And yet, it is all around us, often having debilitating effects on the sufferer, which can last for years in some cases. According to Dr. O’Sullivan,

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Author du Jour: David Morrell, "Ruler of the Night"

“Ruler of the Night,” by David Morrell
 

(Mulholland Books, pp 342, $27.00)

If you go down the street and ask anyone who is David Morrell, chances are you will be met with a blank stare. And yet, there is not a soul on earth who does not know “Rambo,” the iconic character Morrell created more than 45 years ago. In “Ruler of the Night,” Morrell spruces up . . .

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Author du Jour: A. Scott Berg, "World War I and America"

“World War I and America: Told by the American Who Lived It,” edited by A. Scott Berg
 

(Library of America, pp 896, $40.00)

Besides the inviting silky quality of the paper, this volume from the Library of America offers an impressive collection of articles, essays, personal stories, and declassified. . .

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Author du Jour: Alan Jacobson, "The Darkness of Evil"

“The Darkness of Evil,” by Alan Jacobson
 

(Open Road Integrated Media, pp 488, $16.99)

Sanity can be regained in many ways. While there are those who go to great lengths to analyze a person’s psyche to better penetrate it and spend a great deal of time to suggest curative solutions by trial and error . . .

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