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BookBrowse Highlights
 August Previews July 31, 2008
 
In This Issue
Preview:
The Gargoyle
Preview:
Man in the Dark
First Impressions:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

First Impressions:
How Far Is the Ocean from Here

First Impressions:
Findings

First Impressions:
Sweet Mandarin
Giveaway
Love as a Way of Life
Preview:
The 19th Wife
Preview:
A Better Angel
Preview:
The Fifth Floor
Preview:
Poisoned Profits
Preview:
Dry Storeroom No. 1
Hello,

In this issue of "BookBrowse Highlights" we bring you previews of seven notable books publishing in August:
  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
  • Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
  • The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff 
  • A Better Angel by Chris Adrian
  • The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
  • Poisoned Profits by Philip Shabecoff
  • Dry Storeroom No. 1 by Richard Fortey
     
 
In addition, you can read what BookBrowse members are saying about the books they've been reviewing recently as part of our First Impressions program, all of which published in the last few weeks.
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • How Far Is the Ocean from Here by Amy Shearn
  • Findings by Mary Anna Evans
     
  • Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse
     


You can also enter to win copies of Love As A Way of Life by Gary Chapman.

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Davina Morgan-Witts
Editor, BookBrowse.com

 

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Preview

Book Jacket The Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson

August 5. 480 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN-13: 9780385524940

Critics' consensus:



Book Description: The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide - for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.

A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete - and her time on earth will be finished.


Prepublication Reviews:
"Starred Review. Once launched into this intense tale of unconventional romance, few readers will want to put it down." - Publishers Weekly.

"Starred Review. A romance spanning centuries and continents finds a grotesque narrator redeemed by the love of a woman who claims they first met seven centuries earlier, in this deliriously ambitious debut novel." - Kirkus Reviews.

"Davidson's debut is storytelling at its finest, featuring a lively assortment of characters and events that combine in a gripping drama that will keep readers' attention through the very last page. An essential summer book; highly recommended" - Library Journal.

"I was blown away by Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle. It reminded me of Life of Pi, with its unanswered (and unanswerable) contradictions. A hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel that manages, against all odds, to be redemptive." - Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants.

Note:
Andrew Davidson was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English literature. He has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons for Japanese Web sites. The Gargoyle, the product of seven years' worth of research and composition, is his first book. Davidson lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

For more about the book, including an excerpt and reading guide, visit the official website. And be sure to check out burnedbylove.com, a site which explores the heart of the book - intense love.

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Book Jacket Man in the Dark: A Novel
by Paul Auster


August 19. 192 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN-13: 9780805088397

Critics' consensus:



Sin In The Second CityBook Description: Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued.

As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.


Prepublication Reviews:
"The merging of nostalgia with a Philip K. Dick conceit doesn't wholly succeed, but Auster's juxtaposition of two worlds is compelling and intellectually rigorous in Auster's trademark claustrophobic hall-of-mirrors fashion." - Publishers Weekly.

"Starred Review. Auster's trademark shattering ending that's not a twist but a revelation hauntingly revitalizes the book's theme of the horrors of war. This best-selling author with a cult following of literati finally offers one to please both fan bases." - Library Journal.

"Starred Review. Probably Auster's best novel, and a plaintive summa of all the books that - we now see - have gone into its making. " - Kirkus Reviews.

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First Impressions
 

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Book Jacket The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Publisher: Dial Press
Publication Date: 07/29/2008
Novels, 288 pages

Number of reader reviews: 20
Readers' consensus:


"I highly recommend this book to anyone. I could already picture the BBC or PBS adapting this book into a successful mini series. Readers would certainly welcome more time spent on the island of Guernsey." - Karen.

"Having to say goodbye to the people in this book is like losing close friends .... I found myself dreading each turn of the page because it brought me closer to the end. Alas, it is over and I miss them already." - Shirley.

"I have always heard of those people that read a book in two days or stayed up all night to finish a book, and I always thought what show-offs. But now I know what they mean. After receiving this book on Thursday I could not put it down. I seriously considered calling in sick to work to finish it." - Cheri.

"I absolutely loved this book and was so sorry when I finished it because there was no more. It is reminiscent of 84, Charing Cross Road, but to me it was even more engaging." - Kathy.

"I couldn't put it down....and I'm NOT a history buff. This isn't school history. This is personal and enchanting if such can be said about anyone in time of war." - Judith.

"I highly recommend this book as a good read. The power of a reading group to expand the lives of its members shines through their letters." - Helen.

"This little book is a gem! The authors take readers through the gamut of emotions from laugh-out-loud to lump-in-the-throat; you care about the finely drawn characters because they are so real. Book clubs should have wonderful discussions about this story." - Maxine.

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Book Jacket How Far Is the Ocean from Here: A Novel
by Amy Shearn

Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Publication Date: 07/22/2008
Novels, 320 pages

Number of reader reviews: 19
Readers' consensus:

"Author Amy Shearn takes readers on a delightful journey which explores relationships, family, parenthood, love, and the unique and strange bonds that connect people. Readers who appreciate beautiful and insightful writing as much as a good story line itself will find a lot to like about this novel." - Marcia.

"I highly recommend this book for book clubs. There is something about each character that I could relate to thus making this a book I couldn't wait to read." - GM.

"I liked the way Ms. Shearn was able to make me feel like I was right there, with everyone, instead of reading a book about them. I also agree that this book would make an excellent book club selection." - Debi.

"I loved this book! This is a tale of ambivalence. What makes one a mother? What is "normal"? Who am I?  The setting is remarkably described; I felt I was truly in the desert with them. This will make a great film." - Susan.

"An amazing read, I couldn't put it down and I was sorry when it ended. Thank you Amy Shearn for giving us a book that is so intuitive and that touched my heart." - Cathy.


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Book Jacket Findings: Faye Longchamp Mysteries, No. 4
by Mary Anna Evans

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Publication Date: 07/10/2008
Mysteries, 232 pages

Number of reader reviews: 19
Readers' consensus:

"I enjoyed the story which ends on a very dramatic note, but most interesting was the island setting. I certainly will purchase the first three titles." - Jeanne.

"I loved this book. I thought it was the best mystery I'd read in a long time." - Randi.

"I am quite surprised by how I was absolutely smitten with this book." - Linda.

"A very good page turner, so good that I'm ordering her other three books." - Fred.

"Faye is a wonderfully intelligent character who you connect with from the beginning." - Angelina.

"Even though the book is part of a series and I had not read any of the previous books, this story stands on it's own. It is a great mix of mystery and historic fiction - I will recommend it to my mystery and history loving friends!" - Barbara.


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Book Jacket Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West
by Helen Tse

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 07/08/2008
Biographies/Memoirs, 288 pages

Number of reader reviews: 18
Readers' consensus:

"This is a highly readable book - you will have a hard time putting it down." - Nancy.

"Would definitely recommend this book for book clubs." - Catherine.

"Much of what is passed from one generation to the next, revolves around the love of food and cooking. I found it fascinating reading. It's a good book!" - Kathryn.

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It read like a novel but I had to keep reminding myself it was a true story. Two thumbs up!" - Patricia.

"When at last I'd reached The End, I closed the book feeling so proud of these women I'd come to know and love. And so inspired." - Monica.

 I found this an easy to read fascinating look at a very different and very difficult life." - Dorothy.


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Giveaway

Love as a Way of Life

by Gary Chapman

Publication Date: Jul 2008

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From the Jacket
In his first major work since the publication of his phenomenal bestseller The Five Love Languages, Dr. Chapman delivers a powerful plan for whole-life happiness, with simple yet intensive exercises and wisdom for finding the life you have always wanted. The way in which our individual lives are improved, says Chapman, is through improving each relationship in your life: with your parents your children, your coworkers, and your spouse, and for all human interactions that form the foundations of our lives.

With breakthrough strategies for developing new ways of accepting and responding to the gift of love, Love as a Way of Life nurtures the essential qualities of Kindness, Patience, Forgiveness, Courtesy, Humility, Generosity, and Honesty. Memorable real-life stories and inspiring advice make this an ideal book to share with others, fostering meaningful conversations about the incredible possibilities that emerge when love becomes a habit.

In his previous work, Dr. Chapman brought to light the different ways people express love, but in Love as a Way of Life he reveals that every aspect of your life can be improved by placing love at the center of everything you do.

As Rick Warren does in The Purpose Driven Life, Chapman illuminates the profound influence of spiritual insight and understanding on our daily lives.

Using real-life anecdotes, he examines the obstacles and misunderstandings that undermine relationships, and provides quizzes and exercises to help readers evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses. Rich in wisdom and inspiration, Love as a Way of Life is an invaluable guide to creating fulfilling and satisfying relationships and reaping the joys of living a love-driven life.

Reviews:
"Starred Review. Chapman manages to make tried-and-true material feel fresh through carefully chosen examples from his pastoral counseling practice and his own life ... This book is head and shoulders above the bulk of self-help literature precisely because it is not about 'self' so much as helping others." - Publishers Weekly.

"Chapman's style is easy to follow; his questions are thought-provoking and appropriate for group discussion and personal reflection." - Library Journal.

 

3 people will each win a hardcover copy of Love as a Way of Life.

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Book Jacket The 19th Wife: A Novel
by David Ebershoff


August 5. 528 pages
Publisher: Random House
ISBN-13: 9781400063970

Critics' consensus:



Fire In The BloodBook Description: It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.

Soon after Ann Eliza's story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds - a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father's death.

And as Ann Eliza's narrative intertwines with that of Jordan's search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.


Prepublication Reviews:
"[An] exquisite tour de force ... This novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject. " - Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week.

"Ebershoff takes a promising historical premise and runs with it - perhaps a couple of dozen pages too long ... Reminiscent of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose in scope and ambition, though the narrative sometimes drags." - Kirkus Reviews.

Note:
David Ebershoff is the author of two novels, Pasadena and The Danish Girl, and a short-story collection, The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award, and has been translated into ten languages to critical acclaim. Ebershoff has taught creative writing at New York University and Princeton and is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. For many years he was the publishing director of the Modern Library, and he is currently an editor-at-large for Random House. He lives in New York City.

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Book Jacket A Better Angel: Stories
by Chris Adrian


August 5. 240 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-13: 9780374289904

Critics' consensus:



Book Description: The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering-illness, regret, mourning, sympathy - in the most unusual of ways. In "Stab," a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In "Why Antichrist?" a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne'er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.


Prepublication Reviews:
"Starred Review. Adrian illuminates how people act out their grief on their own bodies and the bodies of others, and enter the world of the spirit in the process." - Publishers Weekly

"Starred Review. The moment you feel as if you've discovered the meaning in his words, it slips between your fingers and leaves you unsettled, unmoored, and unmistakably impressed. " - Booklist.

"Adrian'...stories captures his strongest suits: an instinctive mistrust of the glib and easy, and an insistent undertow pulling toward greater depths." - Elle.

"Starred Review. Abrasive, accusatory, despairing and, more than often enough, quite unforgettable fiction." - Kirkus Reviews.

Note:
Chris Adrian is the author Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital. He lives in Boston, where he is a pediatrician and divinity student.

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Book Jacket The Fifth Floor
by Michael Harvey


August 26. 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN-13: 9780307266873

Critics' consensus:



Book Description: Michael Harvey's sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way ("A magnificent debut that should be read by all" - John Grisham; "This book heralds the arrival of a major new voice" - Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

When PI Michael Kelly is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The tail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago's North Side. Inside it, the private investigator finds a body and, perhaps, the answer to one of Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places he'd rather not go, specifically, City Hall's fifth floor, where the mayor is feeling the heat and looking to play for keeps. Ultimately, Kelly finds himself in a world where nothing is quite what it seems, face-to-face with a killer bent on rewriting history and staring down demons from a past he never knew he had.


Prepublication Reviews:
"Starred Review. Harvey's plot twists in all the right places, and his noir-inspired dialogue crackles without sounding showy. Marlowe and Spade would readily welcome Michael Kelly into their fold." - Publishers Weekly.

"Starred Review. Dry wit, delectable clues and tricky leads hallmark this trenchant tale of the Windy City." - Kirkus Reviews.

"Michael Harvey is a magnificent new voice." - John Grisham.

In The Fifth Floor, Michael Harvey gives us a tale of murder, bare-knuckle mayoral politics, and historical catastrophe-in short, the perfect Chicago detective story, complete with a loving tour of the city's funkier locales that'll make any displaced Chicagoan long for home." - Erik Larson.

Note:
Michael Harvey is a journalist, documentary film producer, and writer, as well as the co-creator and executive producer of the television series Cold Case Files. His work has won many national and international awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination. He lives in Chicago.

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Book Jacket Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff

August 12. 368 pages
Publisher: Random House
ISBN-13: 9781400064304

Critics' consensus:



Book Description: In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children's health.

With indisputable data, Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers - the first to be raised in a truly "toxified" world - have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses than previous generations. In piercing case histories, the authors identify the culprit as corporate pollution. Here are the stories of such places as Dickson, Tennessee, where babies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water, and Port Neches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near synthetic rubber and chemical plants contracted cancer that the school was nicknamed "Leukemia High."

The danger to our children isn't just in the outside world, though. The Shabecoffs provide evidence that our homes are now infested with everything from dangerous flame retardants in crib mattresses to harmful plastic softeners in teething rings to antibiotics and arsenic in chicken - additives that are absorbed by growing and physically vulnerable kids as well as by pregnant women. Compounding the problem are chemical corporations that sabotage investigations and regulations, a government that refuses to police these companies, and corporate - hired scientists who keep pertinent secrets massaged with skewed data of their own.

Poisoned Profits also demonstrates how people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents' groups putting pressure on politicians, the rise of "ecotheology" in the pulpits of formerly indifferent churches, or the new "green chemistry" being practiced in labs to replace bad elements with good. The Shabecoffs also include helpful tips on reducing risks to children in how they eat and play, and in how parents clean and maintain their homes.

Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, Poisoned Profits is a wake-up call that is bound to inspire talk and force change.


Prepublication Reviews:
"The authors' passionate exposé of corporate America's behavior is numbing in its impact; an appendix detailing steps parents can take to reduce risk eases the angst." - Publishers Weekly.

"The best exposes leave readers yearning to take action. This one will make them want to gnash their teeth and discard their plastic containers." - Kirkus Reviews.

Note:
Alice Shabecoff is a freelance journalist focusing on family and consumer topics. Philip Shabecoff was the chief environmental correspondent for The New York Times for fourteen of the thirty-two years he worked there as a reporter. For his environmental writing, Shabecoff was selected as one of the "Global 500" by the United Nations' Environmental Program.

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Book Jacket Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

August 19. 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN-13: 9780307263629

Critics' consensus:



Book Description: Richard Fortey-one of the world's most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth - describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London's Natural History Museum, a home of treasures-plants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewels - pulses with life and miraculous surprises.

In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill the museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Fortey's scholarship dances with wit. Here is a book that is utterly entertaining from its first page to its last.


Prepublication Reviews:
"Starred Review. Fortey offers a beautiful paean to the collections and articulately makes the case that museums are much more than mere spectacles to entertain and educate the public." - Publishers Weekly.

"Highly recommended for all collections and required for natural history and history of science collections." - Library Journal.

"Starred Review. Visitors to the venerable building in South Kensington will probably get more from Fortey's lively, learned portrait than from any official guidebook." - Kirkus Reviews.

Note:
Richard Fortey was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. His previous books include the critically acclaimed Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution and The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. In 2003, he won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science from Rockefeller University. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1997.

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