Novel set in WWII France doesn’t hold together
“Ignorance” by Michele Roberts (Bloomsbury, 231 pages, $25)
“C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet” by Alister McGrath (Tyndale House, 448 pages, $24.99)
“Ignorance” by Michele Roberts (Bloomsbury, 231 pages, $25)
“The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend” by Glenn Frankel (Bloomsbury, 405 pages, $28)
“Stag’s Leap: Poems” by Sharon Olds (Knopf, 112 pages, $16.95, paperback)
For the past several years, if you wanted to get a taste of the Texas Book Festival, you traveled to Austin in October and spent a weekend hopping from session to session while dozens of authors spoke.
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“Selected Translations” by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press, 424 pages, $40, hardback)
“Eight Girls Taking Pictures” by Whitney Otto (Scribner, 342 pages, $25)
In his new book “The Dark,” Lemony Snicket, a.k.a. Daniel Handler, writes,“You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you.” Then he lures a young boy named Lazlo through some spooky scenarios.
“A Week in Winter” by Maeve Binchy (Knopf, 336 pages, $26.95)
“Sandalwood Death” by Mo Yan (University of Oklahoma Press, 409 pages, $24.95)
Wichita book lovers, there’s an embarrassment of riches for you this week: four big-name authors are doing readings in the area over seven days, three in Wichita and one in Salina. And there’s something for everyone: Southern culture, wry humor, literary speculative fiction and memoir.Ann B. Ross
“Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories From the Road” by William Least Heat-Moon (Little Brown and Co., 402 pages, $29.99)
“Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books, 544 pages, $27.99)
“Zero Separation” by Philip Donlay (Oceanview Publishing, 312 pages, $25.95)
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