Bookshots: 'J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist' by Thomas Beller
Review by Keith Rawson
Is Thomas Beller's slim biography of J.D. Salinger a worthwhile window into the immortal writer's life, or will you want to escape its pages as quickly as possible?
Bookshots: 'FaceOff' Edited by David Baldacci
Review by Leah Dearborn
The stories in 'FaceOff' include a chase for a pervert who really likes milk, the deathbed confession of a Mod punk from sixties Brighton, and a cameo by R.L. Stine’s Slappy the Dummy.
Bookshots: 'The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression' by Amity Shlaes and Paul Rivoche
Review by Dean Fetzer
A graphic novel primer of the political and economic events during America's Great Depression of the 1930s.
Bookshots: 'Frog Music' by Emma Donoghue
Review by Christopher Shultz
This book is not a crime novel, not really. That doesn't mean it's a bad book.
Bookshots: 'Cold in July' by Joe R. Lansdale
Review by Chris Rosales
Bookshots: Cold in July. The novel that inspired the new film by the same name.
Bookshots: "The Galaxy Club" by Brendan Connell
Review by Brian McGackin
Once upon a few decades ago there was a desert man fish king oasis nailed to the cross witch witch fight the Demon Taming Stick sir stab him in the throat do you know where their treasure is?
Bookshots: 'The Possibilities' by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
Single mother Sarah just lost her only son to a skiing accident and thinks she'll never feel normal again, until his secret girlfriend turns up with an even bigger secret in her womb.
Bookshots: 'We Were Flying to Chicago' by Kevin Clouther
Review by Naturi Thomas-Millard
Everyone's on a journey in this debut collection of stories, where a layover, a sunrise or a karaoke-singing carwash attendant can alter the course of a life.
Bookshots: 'Between Wrecks' by George Singleton
Review by Christine J. Schmidt
George Singleton's short story collection checks glamor at the door.
Bookshots: 'The Transcriptionist' by Amy Rowland
Review by Teeney Hood
Lena, a transcriptionist for a New York daily, has a chance encounter with a woman who later commits suicide. Compelled to find out about this woman, Lena begins to question her own life.
