Category Archives: Random House

Audio Book Review: Elsewhere by Richard Russo

Listening Length: 7 hours and 32 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: October 30, 2012 Source: Library Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo follows eight tremendous works of fiction with a truly rewarding memoir of his life in … Continue reading

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Audio Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child

Listening Length: 15 hours and 33 minutes Version: Unabridged Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: September 27, 2011 Source: Personal Copy The year is 1997. Jack Reacher is still in the military police, ordered to go undercover in a small town in … Continue reading

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Mini-Review: Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Audiobook)

Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (October 19, 2010) ISBN-10: 0307749436 Listening Length: 13 hours and 45 minutes Source: Publisher Hitch-hiking his way to Virginia, Reacher is dropped off outside a desolate small town in Nebraska. He only intends on staying in … Continue reading

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Review: The Devil in Silver by Victor Lavalle

Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (August 21, 2012) ISBN-10: 1400069866 Source: Publisher Pepper is the newest guest in a mental institution, New Hyde Hospital, in Queens, NY. He isn’t mentally ill, instead the police decided to admit him … Continue reading

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Review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House (July 24, 2012) ISBN-10: 0812993292 Source: Publisher Harold Fry is recently retired, living with his wife Maureen in a small English village. Their marriage, on the surface, is no longer one made of love … Continue reading

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Audiobook Review: The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice

Audio CD Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (February 14, 2012) Listening Length: 17 hours and 19 minutes ISBN-10: 0307877221 Source: Personal copy Reuben Golding is a young reporter on assignment with the San Francisco Observer, sent to Mendocino County to write … Continue reading

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Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Random House (June 26, 2012) ISBN-10: 0812992970 Source: Publisher The day appeared to be normal to Julia in the California suburb where she lived with her parents. At eleven years old, Julia is dealing with the … Continue reading

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Review: I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Hogarth (May 8, 2012) ISBN-10: 0307984737 Source: Publisher In Transylvania in 1939, Josef is just five years old when he witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of the Romanian Iron Guard. He is … Continue reading

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Review: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl

Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) ISBN-10: 1400066573 Source: Publisher In 1868 Boston, a new school opens up on a former wasteland: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  It promises to study science for the well-being of all, … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Defending Jacob by William Landay

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. The featured book this week is Defending Jacob by William Landay Hardcover:432 pages Publisher:Delacorte Press (January 31, 2012) ISBN-10: … Continue reading

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