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September 1, 2011, 679 voters

September 2011

We know that some groups suspend meetings for the summer and that others have meetings that are more sparsely attended as members are off on vacation, thus September takes on a “back to the books” kind of feeling for book groups.

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Friday, August 26, 2011

The titles below are discussed in the August 26th Bookreporter.com Newsletter Opener, which can be read here:

RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles
THORN IN MY SIDE by Karin Slaugher

The following are reviews, excerpts, interviews and features that currently appear on the Bookreporter.com homepage: Read More

SAINT'S GATE by Carla Neggers

August 25, 2011

Fifteen Years Measured By a Bottle

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The Book Report Network celebrates 15 years this weekend. And while I have a flood of memories that float through me when I think of this decade and a half, it’s hard for me to crystallize the excitement and joy that has come from building and running this company in a few paragraphs. Thus I asked Greg, my older son  --- who was just six when we launched the first site and has been working with us part-time for a few years now --- to write a piece from his perspective instead. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
Helen Schulman is the author of This Beautiful Life, which is about one family handling a crisis at a high school. It is also the latest Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. In this essay, courtesy of BookClubGirl.com, Helen discusses the process of writing her critically-acclaimed novel.

Editorial Content for Thick as Thieves

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Joe Hartlaub

I have been coming across the name “Peter Spiegelman” quite a bit recently in blogs, reviews and articles. Spiegelman has been writing for eight years or so, publishing on average a book every two years. His first three concerned a private investigator named John Marsh, but his latest is a departure from that series. This is a fully-realized noir caper full to the brim with tightly coiled tension and suspense, played out against the backdrop of a canvas that stretches from South America across the Grand Caymans to Miami and West Palm Beach. Read More

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From the author of RED CAT comes a new thriller that takes us inside a hair-raising heist, where paranoia hangs as heavy as the tropical heat, and the only law is Murphy's.

About the Book

A new thriller that takes us inside a hair-raising heist, where paranoia hangs as heavy as the tropical heat, and the only law is Murphy’s.

Carr --- ex-CIA --- is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning a robbery of such extraordinary proportions that it will leave them all set for life. Diamonds, money-laundering, and extortion go into a timed-to-the-minute scheme that unfurls across South America, Miami, and Grand Cayman Island. Carr’s cohorts are seasoned pros, but they’re wound drum-tight: months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup. And there are other loose ends. Some of the intel they’re paying for is badly inaccurate, and one of the gang --- lately, Carr’s lover --- may have an agenda of her own. Carr finds himself “working the paranoid calculus...mapping the shifting landscape of who-owes-who and who-owns-who, of loyalty, grudge, and pressure” --- but his biggest problems are yet to come: few of his crew are what they seem to be, and even his own past will turn out to be built on a lie.

Terrifically suspenseful and psychologically complex, THICK AS THIEVES is a rare, penetrating look into the sophisticated machinations of an unparalleled crime, and Peter Spiegelman’s most accomplished and galvanizing novel yet.

Editorial Content for The Woodcutter

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Joe Hartlaub

After reading a novel by Reginald Hill, it’s difficult to fathom why he is not a household name in the United States. Granted, his work is very much written for a British audience, full of colloquialisms and the like that will send even the most seasoned anglophile to the Internet to brush up on certain bits of slang. But this quality just makes his books more appealing. 

"This is a story --- brilliantly plotted and told --- of tragedy, resurrection, revenge and redemption."

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Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairy tale. From humble origins as a woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. But a knock on the door one morning ends it all.

About the Book

Wolf Hadda’s life has been a fairy tale. From his humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter’s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the woman of his dreams.

A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, abandoned by friends and family, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later, prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk, and under her guidance he is paroled, returning to his family home in rural Cumbria.

But there was a mysterious period in Wolf’s youth when he disappeared from home and was known to his employers as the Woodcutter. And now the Woodcutter is back, looking for the truth --- and revenge. Can Alva intervene before his pursuit of vengeance takes him to a place from which he can never come back?

THE WOODCUTTER is a treat that both lovers of the Dalziel and Pascoe series and newcomers to the always masterful work of Reginald Hill will devour.

August 22, 2011

Emily Chenoweth: HELLO, GOODBYE

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Author Emily Chenoweth discusses the personal events that led her to pen her novel, Hello Goodbye.