Paul French “Midnight in Peking”
May 7th, 2012
For 75 years the grisly and mysterious murder of a beautiful young woman has gone unsolved. Until now, perhaps.
It’s 1937 in the Chinese city then known as Peking. The victim is nineteen-year-old Pamela Werner, daughter of a former British consul to China. She has not just been killed, her body has been horribly mutilated.
A Chinese detective teams with one from Britain, but they hit a stone wall — and then history takes a tragic turn as Japanese invaders take Peking, and the investigation into Pamela Werner’s murder gets left behind.
Now historian and China expert Paul French reopens the case, reviews long-forgotten files and notes — and solves the case. His book is called “Midnight in Peking.”
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Loung Ung “Lulu in the Sky”
May 3rd, 2012
Cambodian-born Loung Ung is the bestselling author of the memoirs “First They Killed My Father” and “Lucky Child.” But a few years ago she realized her story had not yet been fully told.In her new book “Lulu in the Sky,” Ung reconnects with her Cambodian heritage in unexpected ways, while also trying hard to navigate a romantic relationship she both craves and fears. Life in America, it turns out, is not perfect after all.
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Joyce Carol Oates “Mudwoman”
May 1st, 2012
The first woman president of an Ivy League university is a woman with a very, very troubled past, in the new Joyce Carol Oates novel “Mudwoman.”
Meredith “M.R.” Neukirchen is being tested in all sorts of ways, as she stands up to professional criticism, romantic uncertainty, a country standing on the brink of a war she fears, all overlaid on childhood memories she just can’t shake.
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Mark Updegrove “Indomitable Will”
April 26th, 2012
To younger Americans, Lyndon Johnson is almost the “invisible” president, a chief executive who had neither the smooth charisma of John F. Kennedy nor the foreign policy brilliance of Richard Nixon.
But Mark Updegrove would take exception to the notion of LBJ as a footnote. Updegrove is director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, and author of the book “Indomitable Will.” The unique structure of the book blends recollections of LBJ by those who knew him, worked with him, covered him, supported him or fought him. Only when they are taken together does a clear picture of the multi-faceted Lyndon Johnson begin to emerge.
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Brad Meltzer “Heroes for My Daughter”
April 17th, 2012
In 2010 thriller writer Brad Meltzer wrote a book that was more personal than any he’d ever written before. It was called “Heroes for My Son,” a collection of essays in tribute to dozens of men and women he thought would make excellent heroes for his own sons.
But Brad also has a daughter,
And she wanted a book of heroes, too.
Calling on inspiration a second time, Brad Meltzer now has come out with a volume called “Heroes for My Daughter.” Like its predecessor, this one contains the stories of many of the “usual suspects,” like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. But you’ll also find Tina Turner, Lisa Simpson, and the Three Stooges in here.
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