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Party Girl_ A Novel - Anna David
From Publishers WeeklyDavid, who has written about celebrities for glossy mags, delivers the saga of Amelia Stone, who writes about celebrities for a trashy gossip magazine. Amelia... -
Paris Noir - Aurelien Masson
From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No... -
Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan; Richard Hol
From Publishers WeeklyA joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a "j... -
Panorama_ A Novel - H. G. Adler; Peter Filkins; Pet
From Publishers WeeklyThe first English-language translation of an opus by Adler (The Journey), Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, opens with the young Josef Kramer, at a "panora... -
Pakistan_ A Hard Country - Anatol Lieven
From Publishers WeeklyLieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in i... -
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue_ - John McWhorter
From Publishers WeeklyThis evolutionary history of the English language from author and editor McWhorter (The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language) isn't an easy read, but... -
Other People's Children - Joanna Trollope
From Publishers WeeklyA skilled artisan of nuance and insight reveals a vigorous new edge as she explores the painful and contentious arena of stepfamilies. Here Trollope focuses o... -
Orchid Blues - Stuart Woods
From Publishers WeeklyThis second thriller in the series Woods inaugurated with Orchid Beach starts with a bang a literal one. While series heroine Holly Barker, a former military ... -
Open City_ A Novel - Teju Cole
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Possibly the only negative thing to say about Cole's intelligent and panoramic first novel is that it is a more generous account of the recent... -
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Jasper Fforde
From Publishers WeeklyWith the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Depart...