Thursday, May 29th, 2014
“Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale” by Mariusz Kotowski (University Press of Kentucky, $40) Reviewed by Larry Cox One of the first truly great movie stars of the early American film industry was a former ballerina...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
“The Bone Season” by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury USA, $17) Reviewed by Ealish Waddell Under the regime of Scion, having any psychic ability at all is a crime, but having a rare dreamwalking talent like Paige’s means...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
“The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim” by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet (Doubleday, $27.98) Reviewed by Larry Cox Aribert Heim worked at the Nazi concentration camp in...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
“Ramshackle Glam: The New Mom’s Haphazard Guide to (Almost) Having It All” By Jordan Reid (Running Press, $19) Reviewed by Molly Ford One of the biggest changes that can happen to family is the arrival of...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
“A Trust Betrayed: The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning of Generations of Marines and Their Families” by Mike Magner (Da Capo Press/A Merloyd Lawrence Book, $27.50) Reviewed by Larry Cox “A Trust Betrayed”...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2014
“Dark Eden” by Chris Beckett (Broadway Books, $15) Reviewed by Ealish Waddell The Family lives on a planet of darkness, where the only light comes from the warm luminescence of the native plants and animals, and...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur” by Mark Perry (Basic Books, $29.99) Reviewed by Larry Cox Even a half-century after his death, Gen. Douglas MacArthur remains one of the most controversial...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2014
“The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results” by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (Bard Press, $24.95) Reviewed by Molly Ford If your day-to-day life is feeling like a treadmill where everything is urgent...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
“Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims” by Paul Begg & John Bennett (Yale University Press, $35) Reviewed by Larry Cox More than 100 non-fiction books have been written about Jack the Ripper and a series of...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
“The Daring Ladies of Lowell” by Kate Alcott (Doubleday, $25.95) Reviewed by Ealish Waddell America of 1832 doesn’t offer many opportunities for a girl to make her own way, so farm girl Alice is elated to...
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