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  2. Books Published May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published May 9, 2012. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in May 2012.

Book Review

Be Still

by Sheila M. Trask

The title of Tania L. Ramos’s second novel, "Be Still", reflects the story itself: simple on the surface, but with layers of meaning beneath. The book is a contemporary tale about the relationships between family members and how they... Read More

Book Review

How to Succeed in Divorcing

by Margaret Cullison

Couples usually marry with the intent of staying together for the rest of their lives, but sometimes that intention falters and divorce becomes preferable to continuing the marriage. Two people who once loved each must then let go of... Read More

Book Review

The Accidental Agent

by Mark McLaughlin

Freshman author Madhav Gokhlay is to be congratulated for concocting a solid, tense, and quite believable political thriller involving rogue CIA operatives, industrial espionage, a dirty bomb, terrorists, and a Pakistani general who may... Read More

Book Review

The Lie That Is Lincoln

by Mark McLaughlin

Calling Carl Sandburg and other Lincoln scholars “ass-lickers,” “imbeciles,” and “sycophants,” and denigrating all previous biographies, histories, and works on America’s sixteenth president as “bullshit” is not the... Read More

Book Review

Morehead

by Sheila M. Trask

College student Dave Morehead is a “straight young man living in a gay old city” in Jeffrey Hickey’s candid coming-of-age story. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, "Morehead" follows the education of a twenty-one-year-old man who arrives... Read More