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The Nowhere Man  (An Orphan X Novel) Author: Gregg Hurwitz   Jason Bourne’s balls and brawn, James Patterson’s staccato chapters that rip through a novel, and with an orphaned hero-assassin with a big heart, The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz assures an on the edge performance that strikes like a fully loaded clip on an automatic rifle: taut, safety off, and lethal. “Faster than a speeding bullet” accounts for The Nowhere Man’s dynamic drama, and ensures us a first seat on the bus to ... continue reading...

Only the Animals Author: Ceridwen Dovey To anthropomorphize or Not to anthropomorphize?  Ceridwen Dovey’s novel, Only the Animals, is a collection of very clever short stories with animal narrators. Each animal narrator is owned by a famous person in history that has been famous for talent and goodness (Tolstoy) or evil (Hitler) or the animal is present at a momentous historical event (the Western Front, Sarajevo).   Each animals tells its own life story and the story of its friends and ... continue reading...

The Big Green Tent  Author: Luidmila Ulitskaya(Translated from Russion by Polly Gannon) Sloughing through a Cold War, The Big Green Tent combines a sweeping tale of three Russian friends from Moscow with a panorama of the politics, ethics, literature and Russian experience as the characters all wind their way through childhood, school and adulthood.  The boys are Outliers of a sort; they are an orphan who is a poet, a talented pianist, and a photographer with passion.  Ulitskaya covers them ... continue reading...

The Crooked House Author: Christobel Kent Creepy, incestuous atmosphere spun to perfection, skewed characters that run true, a crooked house that seals the deal, and a bent horizon thrust Kent’s characters into a plot so thick and gooey that this novel stalks each reader with a brilliance that terrifies.  Brutal, somewhat gothic, narrowly noir, and with tendrils of Du Maurier and Bronte, The Crooked House, deserted on a bleak muddy estuary peripheral to the main village,  allows secrets to ... continue reading...