october book buzz
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October
Power of E-Readers
Books to Movies
Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack
Starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich
Opening: October 8th
Books to Movies
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Starring: Zack Galifianakis and Emma Roberts
Opening October 8th
Books to Movies
The Social Network based upon The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Playing Now
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
• Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
"It is impossible to read 'Dirty, Sexy Politics' and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot."
--Leon Wolf
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
• Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
"Other terms that the novelist is pretentious enough to use despite his not knowing their precise meanings include 'enormity,' 'parameters,' 'jumper,' 'tortuous' and 'petty crime.' The choicest mixed metaphor finds Harry 'keeping his balls in the air' while he’s 'stuck on a roller coaster' carrying him along by 'sheer momentum.'"
--Troy Patterson
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Foer isn't just a bad author, he's a vile one. Why wait to have ideas worth writing when you can grab a big theme, throw in the kitchen sink, and wear your flip-flops all the way to the bank? How could someone so willfully young be so unambitious?"
--Harry Siegel
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
"The novel is a 576-page monument to insignificance. Franzen uses facile tricks to tart up the story as a total account of American life."
--B.R. Myers
The Five Meanest Book Reviews
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
"This is easily one of the worst books I’ve ever read. And bear in mind that I’ve read John Grisham."
--Susan Cohen
New Releases
Title: Bound
Author: Antonya Nelson
A young wife and older entrepreneurial husband, negotiate their difference in age and a plethora of well-concealed secrets.
New Releases
Title: C
Author: Tom McCarthy
An experimental novel for the ambitious reader.
New Releases
Title: Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
Author: Donald Sturrock
The first authorized biography of one of the greatest authors of the modern age.
New Releases
Title: Some Sing, Some Cry
Authors: Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza
A saga covering seven generations of the Mayfield family.
New Releases
Title: The Replacement
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Mackie Doyle is not of this world.
New Releases
Title: By Nightfall
Author: Michael Cunningham
A New Yorker has an existential crisis.
New Releases
Title: Zero History
Author: William Gibson
A follow-up to Spook Country.
New Releases
Title: God and Sex
Author: Michael Coogan
What does the Bible Really say about sex?
New Releases
Title: Obama’s War
Author: Bob Woodward
An unprecedented behind the scenes look.
Hot Off the Press
Title: Great House
Author: Nicole Krauss
One desk, many stories
Hot Off The Press
Title: The Reversal
Author: Michael Connelly
The latest in the Harry Bosch series.
Hot Off The Press
Title: The Next Queen of Heaven
Author: Gregory Maguire
A little bit sacred, a little bit profane.
Hot Off The Press
Title: Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
Author: George Dohrmann
Hot Off the Press
Title: The Valcourt Heiress
Author: Catherine Coulter
Historical romance from the best-selling author.
Hot Off the Press
Title: Nemesis
Author: Philip Roth
One family and the long-term effects of polio in 1944.
Hot Off The Press
Title: World and Town
Author: Gish Jen
A novel of survival and reconciliation.
Hot Off The Press
Title: The False Friend
Author: Myla Goldberg
After 20 years Celia decides to tell the truth of what really happened…
Hot Off the Press
Title: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Author: Bill Bryson
A stroll through Bill’s house.
Hot Off the Press
Title: Spiritual Envy: an Agnostic’s Quest
Author: Michael Krasny
A memoir of searching and doubt.
Upcoming Books
Title: The Lost Hero
Author: Rick Riordan
A new series set at Camp Half-Blood.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Life
Author: Keith Richards
The rocker’s long awaited autobiography.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Hunger
Author: Jackie Morse Kessler
An anorexic teen girl becomes one of the four horsemen.
Upcoming Releases
Title: How to Read the Air
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
A man on the brink of divorce tries to make sense of his family history.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Travels in Siberia
Author: Ian Frazier
A travelogue of "the greatest horrible country in the world,"
Upcoming Releases
Title: The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
Author: Jane Leavy
Upcoming Releases
Title: Worth Dying For
Author: Lee Child
Jack Reacher!
Upcoming Releases
Title: Wake of Forgiveness
Author: Bruce Machart
A sweeping tale of forgiveness
Upcoming Releases
Title: Our Kind of Traitor
Author: John Le Carre
The latest from the master of spy fiction.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Djibouti
Author: Elmore Leonard
The latest from the author of more than 40 novels.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Ghost in Trouble
Author: Carolyn Hart
The latest set in the fictional town of Adelaide, Oklahoma.
Upcoming Releases
Title: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Author: Avi Steinberg
Upcoming Releases
Title: The Confession
Author: John Grisham
His first legal thriller since January, 2009.
Staff Picks
• Blind Descent by James Tabor
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Five of My Favorite Horror Novels*
• Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• Cell by Stephen King
• Ghost Story by Peter Straub
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson
*available at the Stillwater Public Library