Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
Jazz musicians of mixed nationalities and ethnicities struggle to survive Nazi Berlin and occupied Paris. Decades later, the survivors still face the consequences of their choices.
Jazz musicians of mixed nationalities and ethnicities struggle to survive Nazi Berlin and occupied Paris. Decades later, the survivors still face the consequences of their choices.
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is a good but not exemplary drama of shifting views and identities in North Korea.
Readers of all ages can appreciate this heartrending story of loss and monsters.
It begins with a baby found in a forest. It ends with a scene of carnage set to the sounds of ABBA.
It’s 2004 in the Temescal district, and a local celebrity has decided that he’ll “return to his roots” by opening another branch of his mega chain entertainment store in the neighborhood. Should Nat and Archy fight the power? Who will help them?
We follow Rex Randall, world-renowned author and self-made lothario. However, with five women, choppy prose, and a lack of real direction, it’s hard to decide whether or not the Jericho Secret is a secret we actually want to be told.
Classic film characters cross over into each others’ stories in this bleak look at American dreams.
In the sequel to Dirty Kiss, we find Detective Cole McGinnis yet again in the line of fire, as he tries to locate Shin-Cho’s missing father. However, with Jae-min now in the mix there’s much more on the line for Cole than simply trying to stay alive long enough to close this case.
Yes, welcome once again to the world of Joss Whedon, except — Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Sunnydale anymore.
In the past few years, the world has witnessed the rise of Apple, the fall of Xanga, and the slow, insidious creep of Justin Bieber’s haircut — all things that have seriously altered the paths of teenagers everywhere. Despite the tidal changes in trend, however, one thing stays the same: High school sucks.