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After two awful entries in the Dexter series, Jeff Lindsay has regained his mojo for the fifth book, Dexter is Delicious, which introduces Florida's most ethical serial killer as a brand-new father. Enraptured by his daughter, Dexter resolves to put his Dark Passenger behind him, only to find that there are those in his life who actually demand its return. While two girls from an expensive private school go missing -- along with scores of undocumented workers -- someone from Dexter's past wriggles into his life, and our hero is anything but pleased. His sister, Deborah, is determined to save one of the kidnapped girls, and because she dislikes her new partner, drags her brother along on her investigation. What the two of them find is a gruesome underworld centered around a sinister nightclub, Fang, which caters not only to Miami's vampire wannabes, but a far darker group with decidedly different tastes. Lindsay is back in fine form, taking bizarre plot elements and weaving them together into a credible tale for the sole graduate of the Harry Code.
While second-person narrative is difficult for most writers, Mark Richard's House of Prayer No. 2 is so compelling that the tale wouldn't sound right any other way. His memoir of being born with deformed hips in mid-50s rural Virginia is rich with description, reflection, resentment, astonishment and gratitude. From his long body-cast stays at Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond to hauling nets on a fishing boat on the Outer Banks to an NYC writing workshop where he meets his future wife, he never stops searching for faith, for signs, for direction. It leads him back to where he began, the small southeastern Virginia town where, while financing a new church for his mother's congregation at House of Prayer No. 2, the deliverance Mark has sought is finally delivered, in all its marvelous glory.
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Second in a trilogy collecting the enormous loss inflicted by Katrina, Where We Know: New Orleans as Home compiles essays, short stories and historical documents in an effort to lay a foundation for the massive tragedy that transformed the City that Care Forgot into the City that America Forgot. Editor David Rutledge has categorized chapters into four sections: Home, Culture & History, Loss, and Home II. Virtually every neighborhood – Gentilly, Marigny, Baywater/Upper Ninth, the French Quarter, Touro, Holy Cross, Carrollton and Treme – is covered. And with historic and current maps bracketing the collection, even readers not familiar with the Big Easy can come to an understanding of just what was lost in August 2005.
Florida’s preeminent psycho trickster is up to more hilarious hijinks in Electric Barracuda, his thirteenth excursion across the Sunshine State. Not only is a full posse of federal agents trailing Serge and Coleman up and down Florida, but they’re saddled with a new partner, surprisingly dropped on them by the ever-malicious Molly. Not to mention Doberman, an idiotic motorcycle-mounted bounty hunter accompanied by busty chicks and a bus screeching Kiss tunes, and the venal lawyer Brad Meltzer (Tim Dorsey must have lost a bet to his fellow author), who’s trying to cheat the very clients – Serge’s grandfather and his pals – who trusted him with their Prohibition-era secret. And, of course, the ever-present Agent Mahoney, whose presence delivers a shocker Dorsey obviously saved for the magic number 13.
Sports Illustrated writer Jim Gorant chronicles the life of the forty-plus dogs rescued from Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennels, taking readers through their harrowing lives as fighting dogs to the loving rehabilitation -- and even therapy careers -- the pit bulls have found today. For those who favor forgiving Vick, read this book and reassess your opinion. I doubt it will be the same.
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Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
Madam Pince, September 4, 2011
After two awful entries in the Dexter series, Jeff Lindsay has regained his mojo for the fifth book, Dexter is Delicious, which introduces Florida's most ethical serial killer as a brand-new father. Enraptured by his daughter, Dexter resolves to put his Dark Passenger behind him, only to find that there are those in his life who actually demand its return. While two girls from an expensive private school go missing -- along with scores of undocumented workers -- someone from Dexter's past wriggles into his life, and our hero is anything but pleased. His sister, Deborah, is determined to save one of the kidnapped girls, and because she dislikes her new partner, drags her brother along on her investigation. What the two of them find is a gruesome underworld centered around a sinister nightclub, Fang, which caters not only to Miami's vampire wannabes, but a far darker group with decidedly different tastes. Lindsay is back in fine form, taking bizarre plot elements and weaving them together into a credible tale for the sole graduate of the Harry Code.House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home by Mark Richard
Madam Pince, April 5, 2011
While second-person narrative is difficult for most writers, Mark Richard's House of Prayer No. 2 is so compelling that the tale wouldn't sound right any other way. His memoir of being born with deformed hips in mid-50s rural Virginia is rich with description, reflection, resentment, astonishment and gratitude. From his long body-cast stays at Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond to hauling nets on a fishing boat on the Outer Banks to an NYC writing workshop where he meets his future wife, he never stops searching for faith, for signs, for direction. It leads him back to where he began, the small southeastern Virginia town where, while financing a new church for his mother's congregation at House of Prayer No. 2, the deliverance Mark has sought is finally delivered, in all its marvelous glory.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Where We Know: New Orleans as Home by David Rutledge
Madam Pince, February 9, 2011
Second in a trilogy collecting the enormous loss inflicted by Katrina, Where We Know: New Orleans as Home compiles essays, short stories and historical documents in an effort to lay a foundation for the massive tragedy that transformed the City that Care Forgot into the City that America Forgot. Editor David Rutledge has categorized chapters into four sections: Home, Culture & History, Loss, and Home II. Virtually every neighborhood – Gentilly, Marigny, Baywater/Upper Ninth, the French Quarter, Touro, Holy Cross, Carrollton and Treme – is covered. And with historic and current maps bracketing the collection, even readers not familiar with the Big Easy can come to an understanding of just what was lost in August 2005.Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey
Madam Pince, February 7, 2011
Florida’s preeminent psycho trickster is up to more hilarious hijinks in Electric Barracuda, his thirteenth excursion across the Sunshine State. Not only is a full posse of federal agents trailing Serge and Coleman up and down Florida, but they’re saddled with a new partner, surprisingly dropped on them by the ever-malicious Molly. Not to mention Doberman, an idiotic motorcycle-mounted bounty hunter accompanied by busty chicks and a bus screeching Kiss tunes, and the venal lawyer Brad Meltzer (Tim Dorsey must have lost a bet to his fellow author), who’s trying to cheat the very clients – Serge’s grandfather and his pals – who trusted him with their Prohibition-era secret. And, of course, the ever-present Agent Mahoney, whose presence delivers a shocker Dorsey obviously saved for the magic number 13.The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant
Madam Pince, January 1, 2011
Sports Illustrated writer Jim Gorant chronicles the life of the forty-plus dogs rescued from Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennels, taking readers through their harrowing lives as fighting dogs to the loving rehabilitation -- and even therapy careers -- the pit bulls have found today. For those who favor forgiving Vick, read this book and reassess your opinion. I doubt it will be the same.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
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