What People Magazine is Reading This Week (April 4th & 11th Issues)

For those Kindle readers who, like myself, read for entertainment, scanning the book reviews in People magazine is good way to check out new people-related books - celebrity bios, popular novels, absorbing nonfiction - just hitting bookstore shelves. Featured in the April 4th and April 11th issues of People:

The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell. Knopf, 2011. Print Length: 384 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (22 reviews). People's slant: "As satisfying for its emotional depth as its suspense..." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.18. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander - officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him - and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself." - www.henningmankell.com.
This is Mankell's eleventh and final novel to feature Swedish detective Kurt Wallander. For a complete list of the novels in this highly-acclaimed Scandinavian crime fiction series, see the Inspector-Wallander.org website.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, by Bridget Asher. Bantam, 2011. Print Length: 448 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). People's slant: "Fans of Under the Tuscan Sun will adore this impossibly romantic read." Kindle edition $11.99; Paperback $8.24. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in the south of France, where a crumbling stone house may be responsible for mending hearts since before World War II. There, Charlotte confesses a shocking secret, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother’s 'lost summer' when Heidi was a child. As three generations collide with one another, with the neighbor who seems to know all of their family skeletons, and with an enigmatic Frenchman, Heidi, Charlotte, and Abbot journey through love, loss, and healing amid the vineyards, warm winds and delicious food of Provence." - Amazon.

The Uncoupling , by Meg Wolitzer. Riverhead, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. NOVEL. People Pick. Amazon customer rating: none yet. People's slant: "...her wittiest and most incisive work yet...stunningly insightful, characteristically hilarious..." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.57. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata - the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war - a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light." - Amazon.

Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: 300 Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Dishes Under 300 Calories, by Lisa Lillien. St. Martin's Griffin, 2011. Print Length: 560 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (96 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99; Paperback $12.22. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"This book features three hundred satisfying and delicious recipes for full-on meals. Breakfast, lunch & dinner dishes, plus snazzy starters and sides, that contain less than 300 calories each! In addition to crock-pot recipes, foil packs, and other HG favorites, this book serves up more than seventy-five soon-to-be-famous HG trios: three-ingredient combos that take easy to a whole new level!" - Amazon.

The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M. Auel. Crown, 2011. Print Length: 752 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (31 reviews). People's slant: "While tne uninitiated may find Auel's epic tedious, she does paint a convincing picture of ancient life. And readers who fell in love with little Ayla will no doubt revel in her prehistoric womanhood." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.30. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
This is book six of Auel's Earth's Children® series that began with the 1980 blockbuster The Clan of the Cave Bear.
"Now a wife and mother, Ayla lives among the Zelandoni, the people of her mate, Jondalar, but she hasn't forgotten the ways of the people who raised her. Ayla is training to become a spiritual leader, and her devotion to this calling takes its toll on her union with Jondalar. On their journeys, Ayla and her friends contend with earthquakes, a band of marauding rapists, and even an outbreak of prehistoric chicken pox. When Ayla and Jondalar get wistful for the days when they were alone with their animals, readers might find themselves feeling similarly... the millions of readers who have been with Ayla from the start will want to once again lose themselves in the rich prehistoric world Auel conjures and see how this internationally beloved series concludes." - Kristine Huntley for Booklist.

The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. THRILLER. Amazon customer rating: none yet. People's slant: "...Connelly at his thought-provoking best." Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $14.28. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after The Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in 'foreclosure defense.' Haller's first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel's protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes 'the fifth witness' of the title." - Publishers Weekly.

Bent Road, by Lori Roy. Dutton, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: none yet. People's slant: "...simplest scenes crackle with suspense..." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died. While Arthur and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children struggle to fit in. Daniel, the only son, is counting on Kansas to make a man of him since Detroit damn sure didn't. Eve-ee, the youngest and small for her age, hopes that in Kansas she will finally grow. Celia grapples with loneliness and the brutality of life and death on a farm. And then a local girl disappears..." - Amazon.

Genre Watch: New Mysteries and Thrillers for the Kindle

Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Recent genre fiction releases in mystery and suspense fiction include:

A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (38 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.67. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities 'not in the interests of His Majesty's government.' When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance. To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - the Nazi Party - in Britain." - Amazon.

Murder in Passy by Cara Black. Soho Crime, 2011 Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $16.50 . Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’s wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that’s exactly what Aimée finds. Xavierre, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aimée waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess." - Amazon.
This is Black's 11th mystery to feature Paris-based private investigator Aimée Leduc. The series began with Murder in the Marais. A guide book to the series, The Aimée Leduc Companion, is currently available free in the Amazon Kindle bookstore.

Love you More by Lisa Gardner. Bantam, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (36 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.47. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Detective D. D. Warren of the Boston police and Massachusetts state trooper Bobby Dodge are together again, this time not as lovers but as partners in the investigation of a state trooper who shot and killed her husband. Tessa Leoni’s bruised face leads to speculation that she retaliated when her husband hit her. But there’s a lot that doesn’t fit the model, not the least of which is the disappearance of the couple’s six-year-old daughter, Sophie. Could Tessa, by all accounts an exemplary officer and an exceptionally devoted mother, have shot her husband three times in the chest and then killed her own child? If so, where is Sophie’s body? Just when D. D. thinks she has it all figured out, a curious new piece of the puzzle emerges..." - Stephanie Zvirin for Booklist.

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.56. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"At a remote cattle post south of Gaborone two cows have been killed, and Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s No. 1 Lady Detective, is asked to investigate by a rather frightened and furtive gentleman. It is an intriguing problem with plenty of suspects - including, surprisingly, her own client. To complicate matters, Mma Ramotswe is haunted by a vision of her dear old white van, and Grace Makutsi witnesses it as well. Is it the ghost of her old friend, or has it risen from the junkyard? In the meantime, one of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni’s apprentices may have gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious to help sort things out." - Amazon.

The Night Season by Chelsea Cain. Minotaur Books, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (18 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $16.49. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Devoted readers of Cain’s superb Archie Sheridan novels, starring the Portland, Oregon, police detective, have known all along that eventually the series would have to stand on its own without the mesmerizing presence of serial killer Gretchen Lowell, with whom Archie shares the quintessential love-hate relationship. But can Cain pull it off? Yes, indeed. As the novel begins, Portland is threatened by the worst flood since 1948, when the town of Vanport, just north of the city, was wiped from the map. Cain skillfully incorporates the details of the real-life Vanport flood into her story, which centers on the murders of a random group of victims who have been bitten by a rare breed of venomous octopus. The floodwaters continue to rise as Archie and reporter Susan Ward, elevated here from scene-stealing supporting player to full-fledged costar, track the killer and a boy he has apparently kidnapped..." - Bill Ott for Booklist.
Please note: Heartsick was the first of Cain's thrillers to feature Portland police detective Archie Sheridan.

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens. Crown, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (46 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.80. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Vanessa 'Michael' Munroe deals in information - expensive information - working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago..." - Amazon.
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A Week of Entertainment: Kindle Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly's Mar 25th Issue

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the March 25th issue include:

Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson. Reagan Arthur Books, 2011. Print length: 400 p. MYSTERY. EW's slant: "...while this book is firmly rooted in the mystery genre, Atkinson's prose is so lovely, with startlingly keen observations and wit, even those uninterested in the solving of various whodunits will be spellbound." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (10 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $13.04. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Feeling his age, Jackson is touring the ruined abbeys of northern England, a sucker for great landscapes and the poetry of Emily Dickinson (from which the novel’s title is taken). He’s also trying to track down the biological parents of a woman who was adopted as a child. How that case intersects with a series of crimes committed in Leeds in the 1970s is just one of the many strands Atkinson seamlessly weaves together in a plot driven by coincidence and a diamond-hard recognition of man’s darker nature... For its singular melding of radiant humor and dark deeds, this is must-reading for literary crime-fiction fans." - Joanne Wilkinson for Booklist.
This is Atkinson's fourth novel to feature semi-retired private detective Jackson Brodie. Although this book is clearly a stand-alone effort, if you want to read all the Brodie novels in publication order, the first three are: Case Histories, One Good Turn, and When Will There Be Good News?.

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller. Dutton, 2011. Print length: 352 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...some pretty notable contributors." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $12.91. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Growing up isn't easy. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, making them feel like they have nowhere to turn. This is especially true for LGBT kids and teens who often hide their sexuality for fear of bullying. Without other openly gay adults and mentors in their lives, they can't imagine what their future may hold. After a number of tragic suicides by LGBT students who were bullied in school, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage uploaded a video to YouTube with his partner Terry Miller to inspire hope for LGBT youth facing harassment. Speaking openly about the bullying they suffered as teenagers, and how they both went on to lead rewarding adult lives, their video launched the It Gets Better Project YouTube channel and initiated a worldwide phenomenon. It Gets Better is a collection of expanded essays and new material from celebrities, everyday people and teens who have posted videos of encouragement..." - Amazon

Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason, by Anne Roiphe. Nan A. Talese, 2011. Print length: 240 p. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...the provocative 75-year-old novelist, journalist and memoirist has always had the canny ability to get under a reader's skin, usually by making assertive but blithely unanalytical statements. Her new hellzablazin' memoir takes such dramatic maneuvers to new levels." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.96. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Coming of age in the 1950s, Roiphe, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants, grew up on Park Avenue and had an adolescence defined by privilege, petticoats, and social rules. At Smith College her classmates wore fraternity pins on their cashmere sweaters and knit argyle socks for their boyfriends during lectures. Young women were expected to give up personal freedom for devotion to home and children. Instead, Roiphe chose Beckett, Proust, Sartre, and Mann as her heroes and sought out the chaos of New York’s White Horse Tavern and West End Bar. She was unmoored and uncertain, 'waiting for a wisp of truth, a feather’s brush of beauty, a moment of insight.' Salvation came in the form of a brilliant playwright whom she married and worked to support, even after he left her alone on their honeymoon and later pawned her family silver, china, and pearls. Her near-religious belief in the power of art induced her to overlook his infidelity and alcoholism, and to dutifully type his manuscripts in place of writing her own... In clear-sighted, perceptive, and unabashed prose, Roiphe shares with astonishing honesty the tumultuous adventure of self-discovery that finally led to her redemption." - Amazon.

Emily, Alone, by Stewart O'Nan. Viking, 2011. Print length: 272 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...O'Nan writes with such specificity and humor...When this novel ends, in a moment of great hope and vigor, you'll find yourself missing her [Emily, the main character] terribly." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.57. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"...bracingly unsentimental, ruefully humorous, and unsparingly candid novel about the emotional and physical travails of old age. At 80, widow Emily Maxwell has become dependent on her equally aged sister-in-law, Arlene, to chauffeur them to the rounds of Pittsburgh's country club dinners, flower shows, museums, and increasingly frequent funerals. After Arlene has a stroke, Emily is forced into reclaiming her independence, but she remains clear-eyed about her diminishing future and what she can expect of her two adult children and four grandchildren, giving O'Nan the opportunity and space to expertly play out the misunderstandings, disagreements, and resentments among parents and their grown children. ...the closely observed Emily is a sort of contemporary Mrs. Bridge, and O'Nan's depiction of her attempts to sustain optimism and energy during the late stage of her life achieves a rare resonance." - Publishers Weekly.

Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell. Riverhead, 2011. Print length: 256 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...her brainy wit and savvy cultural references keep the book from seeming like homework." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell, a public radio star and bestselling author..., retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. In her usual wry tone, Vowell brings out the ironies of their efforts: while the missionaries tried to prevent prostitution with seamen and the resulting deadly diseases, the natives believed it was the missionaries who would kill them: 'they will pray us all to death.' Along the way, and with the best of intentions, the missionaries eradicated an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture (although the Hawaiians did have taboos against women sharing a table with men, upon penalty of death, and a reverence for 'royal incest')...a thought-provoking and entertaining glimpse into the U.S.'s most unusual state and its unanticipated twists on the familiar story of Americanization." - Publishers Weekly.

Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys. Philomel, 2011. Print length: 344 p. YOUNG ADULT NOVEL. EW's slant: "...stirring tale...brave Lina is a heroine young and old readers can believe in." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99; Hardcover $10.58. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions. Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously - and at great risk - documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ruta Sepetys grew up hearing stories of her father's childhood as a Lithuanian refugee. Realizing this was a story never told in a novel for young adults, Ruta decided to tell it herself." - Amazon.
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Off-Beat Travel Books for the Kindle Armchair Traveler

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. - Clifton Fadiman.

Full body scans, long lines at the airport, and extra fees for everything but breathing on the plane - who needs it? Stay home and relax with one of these travel books that venture far off the beaten path to places most of us would never include in a list of top 10 dream vacation destinations:

A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World , edited by Don George. Lonely Planet, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $10.19. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables a traveller to survive, a doorway into the heart of a tribe, or a thread that weaves an indelible tie; it can be awful or ambrosial - and sometimes both at the same time. Celebrate the riches and revelations of food with this 38-course feast of true tales...by Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Mark Kurlansky, Matt Preston, Simon Winchester, Stefan Gates, David Lebovitz, Matthew Fort, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris and Pico Iyer." - Publisher.

The Saint: The True Story of How One Man's Search for Virtue Led to the Brink of Madness, by Oliver Broudy. Print Length: 85 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle Single $1.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"New Yorkers occasionally suffer from a unique and unlikely loneliness, despite the frenzy of cultural activity that surrounds them. Call it 'center-of-the-world ennui.' Attempting to combat his own bout of the Gotham blues, author Oliver Broudy is looking for an escape when a routine journalism gig lands him the project of his life: namely, one James Otis, idea man, collector of Gandhi-related memorabilia, and wealthy devotee of the great Mahatma. So begins a truly great adventure that drags Broudy halfway around the world and through a whiplashing gauntlet of emotional crests and troughs, forcing him to play friend, protector, fixer, PR agent, and a host of other duties on Otis's behalf. Luckily for readers, Broudy maintains an intelligent open-mindedness - if not throughout, at least in the recall - in the face of lies, danger, and significant self-discovery... The Saint succeeds on all levels: as profile, as travelogue, as a tale of true adventure." - Jason Kirk for Amazon.com Review.

Bedpans and Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime, by Barbara Fox. Hachette, Digital, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $7.36; Paperback $8.68. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving. Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn’t really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend and fellow nurse Pat in tow, she left the dismal British winter behind, and embarked on an amazing American adventure. After a year nursing in Cleveland, Gwenda, Pat and three new friends set off on a road trip around North America, driving in a rickety 1949 Ford. What follows is the charming true story of five remarkable young women. Over the course of eighteen months, the girls go to a 4th July rodeo, visit San Francisco and Las Vegas, learn to surf in Hawaii, spot movie stars in Hollywood and celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Wherever they go, the travelling nurses cause a sensation. This is a delightfully nostalgic memoir of friendship and the romance of the open road." - Amazon.

Where the Hell Am I? Trips I Have Survived, by Ken Levine. Self-Published, 2011. Print Length: 138 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $2.99; Paperback $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Join Emmy winning writer Ken Levine on a tour of the world – well, mostly America but a few other places too. It’s a world of craziness, lost reservations, the 'Master Bait & Tackle Shop', Pet Jacuzzis, Pompeii pornography, the Electric Chair beauty salon, Cowboy poetry gatherings, strips searches, a Cannabis festival, the 'Miss Swamp Buggy' beauty contest, cancelled flights, tattooed Santa, the 'Shrub Guy', an Iranian comic, free dwarf mice, and Hitler’s town car on display in a Las Vegas casino. After reading Ken Levine’s hilarious and instructive excursions, you’ll be on the phone to your travel agent, either booking or canceling your next trip." - Amazon.

Predators I Have Known, by Alan Dean Foster. Open Road E-riginal, 2011. Print Length: 208 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $20.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators." - Amazon.

Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, by James Attlee. University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.30; Hardcover $17.16. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Nobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon, wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that never sleeps. Moonlight, for most of us, is no more. So James Attlee set out to find it. Nocturne is the record of that journey, a traveler’s tale that takes readers on a dazzling nighttime trek that ranges across continents, from prehistory to the present, and through both the physical world and the realms of art and literature. Attlee attends a Buddhist full-moon ceremony in Japan, meets a moon jellyfish on a beach in Northern France, takes a moonlit hike in the Arizona desert, and experiences a lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve atop the snowbound Welsh hills. Each locale is illuminated not just by the moonlight he seeks, but by the culture and history that define it..." - Amazon.

Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence, and True Self-Knowledge, by Janice Holly Booth. National Geographic, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $16.32. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude, introspection, courage, and commitment. Through a series of compelling travel essays and deeply thoughtful memoirs, Janice Booth draws readers into each adventure - ranging from a solo hike through Northern California to galloping across the fields of Ireland to a short stint with the Circus Arts learning the flying trapeze - and shares her secrets to a fuller life through traveling alone. Step by step, she demonstrates why leaving everything - and everyone - behind for a few days (or more!) is the best path to inner strength, confidence, and true self-knowledge." - Amazon.

Bad Lands: A Tourist on the Axis of Evil, by Tony Wheeler. Lonely Planet, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.49; Paperback $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of having visited all the rogue countries currently on newsreaders' lips. Bad Lands is a witty first-hand account of his travels through places often perceived as having some of the most repressive and dangerous regimes in the world: Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Taking into account each country's attitude to human rights, terrorism and foreign policy, he asks 'what makes a country truly evil?' and 'how bad is really bad?' - all the while engaging with a colourful cast of locals and hapless tour guides, ruminating on history and debunking popular myths. Written by the founder of Lonely Planet, this fascinating account of life in these closed-off countries will appeal to anyone with an interest in the state of the world today." - lonelyplanet.com.

Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, by Lisa Napoli. Crown, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (27 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.87. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"A successful journalist working for public radio in Los Angeles, Napoli hit a wall. Burned out and overwhelmed by regret, she wondered how to recharge her life. Enter a friend of a friend with connections to the tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan. In 2006, this Buddhist kingdom, long cocooned against the outside world, launched a new youth radio station, Kuzoo FM (kuzoo zampo means hello). Would Napoli like to volunteer as a consultant? So begins a love affair with a land unlike any other, a bond that lifts Napoli out of her blues and enriches the lives of the young people with whom she works. The stories of the wildly popular station are charming and gracefully revealing as Napoli shares her experiences of Bhutan's magnificent landscape, fiery cuisine, and openhanded daily life in a society that measures its achievements not with a Gross National Product but, rather, with Gross National Happiness..." - Donna Seaman for Booklist.


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What People Magazine is Reading This Week (Mar 28th Issue)

For those Kindle readers who, like myself, read for entertainment, scanning the book reviews in People magazine is good way to check out new people-related books - celebrity bios, popular novels, absorbing nonfiction - just hitting bookstore shelves. Featured in the March 28th issue of People:

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (30 reviews). People's slant: "...transporting, enlightening book...a fascinating window on Afghan life under the Taliban..." Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war - a rare achievement for any Afghan woman - Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business of her own. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Taliban. Former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years on the ground reporting Kamila's story, and the result is an unusually intimate and unsanitized look at the daily lives of women in Afghanistan." - Amazon.

The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream, by Suze Orman. Spiegel & Grau, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (24 reviews). People's slant: Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.00. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...a master class on personal finance for this pivotal moment in time. She addresses every aspect of the American Dream— - home, family, career, retirement. She teaches us that in order to create lasting security we must learn to stand in our truth. We must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for us today and allow that understanding to inform the choices we make. The New American Dream is not the things we accumulate, says Orman, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which we’ve worked so hard for cannot be taken away from us. In TThe Money Class, Orman teaches us how to take control over our present - right here, right now - in order to build the future of our dreams. Whether navigating the complicated mix of money and family, offering the most comprehensive retirement resource available today, or delivering a bracing dose of reality when it comes to recalibrating our expectations and our goals, Orman educates us with her signature no-nonsense approach and laser-like clarity." - from the hardcover edition.

Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain, by Michael Farquhar. Random House, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (1 review). People's slant: "Imagine the history of the monarchy as told by the British tabloids, and you have this rollicking account of kings and queens gone wild." Kindle edition $11.99; Paperback $8.54. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, while others met a cruel fate at the edge of an axman’s blade. From the truth behind the supposed madness of King George to Queen Victoria’s surprisingly daring taste in sculpture, Behind the Palace Doors ventures beyond the rumors to tell the unvarnished history of Britain’s monarchs, highlighting the unique mix of tragedy, comedy, romance, heroism, and incompetence that has made the British throne a seat of such unparalleled fascination." - Amazon.

Night Road, by Kristin Hannah. St. Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). People's slant: "Hannah masterfully details the unraveling of a family." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.28. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows - her twins, Mia and Zach - are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harm’s way. It has always been easy - until senior year of high school. Suddenly she is at a loss. Nothing feels safe anymore; every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them. On a hot summer’s night her worst fears come true..." - Amazon.
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Miss Zukas Checks Out

If you are a fan of the Miss Zukas mystery series, you will be pleased to learn that the author, Jo Dereske, has just announced the twelfth volume of the redoubtable librarian's sleuthing adventures is on track for June publication in both Kindle and paper editions. This will be the last volume of the series and you should be able to pre-order it from Amazon soon. The title: Farewell, Miss Zukas.

In the meantime, if you are suffering from Dereske deprivation, the author has made the first chapter of Farewell available free (in PDF format) at her website.

Or check out this recently-published collection of Dereske short stories that are not Zukas-related.

Ten Tales, by Jo Dereske. June Creek Books, 2011. $2.99.
"Ten short stories by Jo Dereske, known for her witty Miss Zukas mysteries. These edgier tales - both previously published and published here for the first time - explore the bonds of death, betrayal and true love. In Bingo Brothers, twin brothers face the consequences of having saved a life, only to see it taken. In Layers, four generations of women grapple with the ties of responsibility to one another. Ella at Widow Wanda’s is a taste of cowgirl justice. And Dying is actually about the fear of living. In Potatoes, a family’s pride battles with starvation. A widow looks at love through the headlights of her Blazer in Last Words. Triumph is a tale of cosmic retribution." - Amazon.

New Popular Science Books for the Kindle

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective." - Edward Teller.

Even Kindle readers who read for pleasure like to dip into the heady realm of science non-fiction now and then to keep up with what's happening in a world scientists are still uncovering. Recent additions to the Kindle popular science shelves include:

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, by Michio Kaku. Doubleday, 2011. Print length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.92. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Michio Kaku - the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible - gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs. The result is the most authoritative and scientifically accurate description of the revolutionary developments taking place in medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production, and astronautics." - Amazon.

The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World, by Laura J. Snyder. Broadway, 2011. Print length: 448 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (21 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $16.80. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon - another former student of Cambridge - the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended. Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder exposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge - and power - that drove these extraordinary men..." - Amazon.

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science, by Lawrence M. Krauss. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Print length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.98. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Physicist Richard Feynman has a reputation as a bongo-playing, hard-partying, flamboyant Nobel Prize laureate for his work on quantum electrodynamics theory, but this tends to obscure the fact that he was a brilliant thinker who continued making contributions to science until his death in 1988. He foresaw new directions in science that have begun to produce practical applications only in the last decade: nanotechnology, atomic-scale biology like the manipulation of DNA, lasers to move individual atoms, and quantum engineering. In the 1960s, Feynman entered the field of quantum gravity and created important tools and techniques for scientists studying black holes and gravity waves. Author Krauss (The Physics of Star Trek), an MIT-trained physicist, doesn't necessarily break new ground in this biography, but Krauss excels in his ability, like Feynman himself, to make complicated physics comprehensible..." - Publishers Weekly.

Before the Swarm, by Nicholas Griffin. The Atavist, 2011. Print length: 24 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle Single $1.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Mark Moffett doesn't just study ants, he travels among them. Moffet holds a Harvard Ph.D. in entomology and is an accomplished scientist, an award-winning author and journalist, and one of the best nature photographers of his generation. Years ago, this free-spirited naturalist left academia behind to plunge into the deepest jungles and observe insect societies up close. Now author Nicholas Griffin takes us inside Moffett's own world, to explore his death-cheating quest for discovery and his end-run around the scientific establishment. We'll follow Moffett into the rainforest as he chases a groundbreaking theory of ant superorganisms and supercolonies, one that may help us understand our own increasingly urbanized society. Along the way we'll meet a fascinating cast of battling army ants, farming leafcutter ants, and the insatiable Argentines: an ant species built to take over the world." - Amazon.

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive, by Brian Christian. Doubleday, 2011. Print length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $15.37. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"In a fast-paced, witty, and thoroughly winning style, Christian documents his experience in the 2009 Turing Test, a competition in which judges engage in five-minute instant-message conversations with unidentified partners, and must then decide whether each interlocutor was a human or a machine. The program receiving the most 'human' votes is dubbed the 'most human computer,' while the person receiving the most votes earns the title of 'most human human.' Poet and science writer Christian sets out to win the latter title and through his quest, investigates the nature of human interactions, the meaning of language, and the essence of what sets us apart from machines that can process information far faster than we can. Ranging from philosophy through the construction of pickup lines to poetry, Christian examines what it means to be human and how we interact with one another, and with computers..." - Publishers Weekly.

Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality, by Hannah Holmes. Random House, 2011. Print length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.05. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"With her trademark wit and sly humor, Hannah Holmes takes readers into the amazing world of personality and modern brain science. Using the Five Factor Model, which slices temperaments into the major factors (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness) and minor facets (such as impulsive, artistic, or cautious), Holmes demonstrates how our genes and brains dictate which factors and facets each of us displays. Each facet took root deep in the evolution of life on Earth, with Nature allowing enough personal variation to see a species through good times and bad... Drawing on data from top research laboratories, the lives of her eccentric friends, the conflicts that plague her own household, and even the habits of her two pet mice, Hannah Holmes summarizes the factors that shape you." - from the hardcover edition.
Hannah Holmes is the author of The Well-Dressed Ape and Suburban Safari.

The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II, by Stephen Phelps. Westholme Publishing, 2011. Print length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $15.40; Hardcover $18.48. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"This erudite, literate, and thoroughly absorbing piece of WWII history tells of the British decision to make a free gift of much advanced technology to the U.S. Led by Sir Henry Tizard, a group of top British scientists crossed the Atlantic to meet with their American counterparts, whom FDR had already mobilized as a new and top-secret brain trust. They brought information on nuclear fission, on jet propulsion, and, most important, on technology for vastly improved radar (the key to that, the cavity magnetron, now adorns most kitchens in the land as the microwave oven). The British attached no strings to any of their gifts, which vastly aided the postwar American economic boom; the Americans greeted their British colleagues with very close to open arms. A long-overdue resurrection of Tizard and his colleagues. - Roland Green for Booklist.
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A Week of Entertainment: Kindle Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly's March 18 Issue

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the March 18th issue include:

Moondogs, by Alexander Yates. Random House, 2011. Print length: 352 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...weird and weirdly affecting Philippines-set novel." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (11 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.26. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysome­thing Benicio - aka Benny - travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged father, Howard. But when he arrives his father is nowhere to be found - leaving an irri­tated son to conclude that Howard has let him down for the umpteenth time. However, his father has actually been kid­napped by a methaddled cabdriver, with grand plans to sell him to local terrorists as bait in the country’s never-ending power struggle between insurgents, separatists, and 'democratic' muscle. Benicio’s search for Howard reveals more about his father’s womanizing ways and suspicious business deals, reopening the old hurts that he’d hoped to mend. With blistering forward momentum, crackling dialogue, wonderfully bizarre turns, and glimpses into both Filipino and expat culture, the novel marches toward a stunning cli­max..." - from the hardcover edition.

Signs of Life: A Memoir, by Natalie Taylor. Broadway, 2011. Print length: 320 p. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...there's something unforgettable about her rawness." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $14.26. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the way. Then, while visiting her sister, she gets the news that Josh has died in a freak accident. Four months before the birth of her son, Natalie is leveled by loss. What follows is an incredibly powerful emotional journey, as Natalie calls upon resources she didn’t even know she had in order to re-imagine and re-build a life for her and her son... Drawing on lessons from beloved books like The Color Purple and The Catcher in the Rye and the talk shows she suddenly can’t get enough of, from the strength of her family and friends, and from a rich fantasy life - including a saucy fairy godmother who guides her grieving - Natalie embarks on the ultimate journey of self-discovery..." - Amazon.

Come to the Edge: A Memoir, by Christina Haag. Spiegel & Grau, 2011. Print length: 304 p. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "The fact that Haag is a beautiful writer; and the book full of wonderfully vivid descriptions, somehow makes this glimpse into the lives of the most fiercely private family feel all the more invasive." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love, and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its fullest." - Amazon.

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare. Viking, 2011. Print length: 560 p. LETTERS. EW's slant: "These selected, edited, annotated letters still keep plenty hidden. But they go a long way toward revealing the complicated man who charmed and confounded, reported and embellished, and blurred the contours of his sexuality." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $16.99; Hardcover $23.10. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively—everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters—invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books—and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin’s wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin’s correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48." - Brad Hooper for Booklist.

Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, by Peter Guber. Crown, 2011. Print length: 272 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (35 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.26. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Former chairman of Sony Pictures and current CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, Guber illustrates how powerful storytelling - about yourself or your product - can be the ultimate tool to get the meeting, engage the listener, and close the deal. With brisk and readable anecdotes, the author relates what he's seen and learned in Hollywood, and how his celebrated friends - Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Arianna Huffington, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra - impressed upon him the power of a well-crafted story or appeal." - Publishers Weekly.
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Books They're Talking About: Kindle Books in the Media

Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer's eye and generate interest in their work. Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.

On NPR's Talk of the Nation (10 Mar 2011):

Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry, by Rachel Hadas. Paul Dry Books, 2011. Print Length: 240 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.83; Paperback $10.35. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of sixty-one. Strange Relation is her account of 'losing' George. Her narrative begins when George's illness can no longer be ignored, and ends in 2008 soon after his move to a dementia facility (when, after thirty years of marriage, she finds herself no longer living with her husband). Within the cloudy confines of those difficult years, years when reading and writing were an essential part of what kept her going, she 'tried to keep track... tried to tell the truth.'" - http://pauldrybooks.com/

On NPR's All Things Considered (12 Mar 2011):

Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World, by James Carroll. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Print Length: 432 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $15.40; Hardcover $18.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Carroll examines the enigma that is Jerusalem - the holiest and most blood-soaked spot on earth - with insight and candor. He begins at the very beginning: Homo erectus become Homo sapiens become Homo sapiens sapiens. He who knows he knows soon becomes aware of death. Death leads to ritual, and ritual leads to religion. And while various religions flourished all over the ancient world, it was in Jerusalem that God emerged. Not just a god, but God, one who recognizes how both the need for violence and the hatred of violence reside within the human spirit. These conflicting impulses are the subthemes that propel Carroll's story across the ages, through Jerusalem's wreckages and rebirths, as the three Abrahamic religions claim the city as its own... For those meeting Jerusalem for the first time, this volume makes a stunning introduction. For others, who have struggled with the city's conundrums, either its symbolic meaning in the history of civilization or its place in the modern world, Carroll's reflections will add clarity if not closure. - Ilene Cooper for Booklist.

On NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (13 Mar 2011):

The Other Life, by Ellen Meister. Putnam, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $16.47. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"If you could return to the road not taken, would you? Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice - not only that, she knows how to cross over. But even in her darkest moments - like her mother's suicide - Quinn hasn't been tempted to slip through...until she receives devastating news about the baby she's carrying. The grief lures her to peek across the portal, and before she knows it she's in the midst of the other life: the life in which she married another man..." - Amazon.

On ABC's Good Morning America (14 Mar 2011):

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, by Rob Bell. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99; Hardcover $11.72. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this 'good news'? Troubling questions - so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? ...Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the 'good news' is much, much better than we ever imagined." - Amazon.

On NPR's Fresh Air (14 Mar 2011):

The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise their Promise to Heal, by Gregg Bloche, M.D. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.64. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When we’re ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But medicine’s expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon physicians to limit care and to use their skills on behalf of health plan bureaucrats, public officials, national security, and courts of law. And doctors are answering this call. They’re endangering patients, veiling moral choices behind the language of science and, at times, compromising our liberties...Challenging, provocative, and insightful, The Hippocratic Myth breaks the code of silence and issues a powerful warning about the need for doctors to forge a new compact with patients and society... Bloche, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write this book was a health care advisor to President Obama’s 2008 campaign and a consultant to the World Health Organization." - Amazon.

On ABC's Good Morning America (15 Mar 2011):

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, by Sammy Hagar. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99, Hardcover $14.00. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For almost forty years, Sammy Hagar has been a fixture in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career to his ride as the front man of Van Halen, Sammy's powerful and unforgettable voice has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written - songs like I Can't Drive 55, Right Now, and Why Can't This Be Love. In Red, Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock 'n' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring that have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in the blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he loved - fast cars, loud parties, and lots of good times. From the decadence of being one of the world's biggest rock stars to the unfiltered story of being forced out of Van Halen, Sammy's account spares no one, least of all himself." - Amazon.

On NPR's Morning Edition (15 Mar 2011) and on CBS's Sunday Morning (27 Mar 2011):

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, by Del Quentin Wilber. Macmillan, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"On March 30, 1981, President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was shot by a would-be assassin. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one has ever written a detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on exclusive new interviews, Del Quentin Wilber tells the electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a terrifying crisis. With cinematic clarity, we see the Secret Service agent whose fast reflexes saved the president's life; the brilliant surgeons who operated on Reagan as he was losing half his blood; and the small group of White House officials frantically trying to determine whether the country was under attack. Most especially, we encounter the man code-named Rawhide, a leader of uncommon grace who inspired affection and awe in everyone who worked with him." - Amazon.

On NPR's The Diane Rehm Show (16 Mar 2011):

Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives, by Miguel Nicolelis. Times Books, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $18.48. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self - and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach. Beyond Boundaries draws on Nicolelis's ground-breaking research with monkeys that he taught to control the movements of a robot located halfway around the globe by using brain signals alone. Nicolelis's work with primates has uncovered a new method for capturing brain function - by recording rich neuronal symphonies rather than the activity of single neurons. His lab is now paving the way for a new treatment for Parkinson's, silk-thin exoskeletons to grant mobility to the paralyzed, and breathtaking leaps in space exploration, global communication, manufacturing, and more." - Amazon.
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What People Magazine is Reading This Week (March 21st Issue)

For those Kindle readers who, like myself, read for entertainment, perusing the book reviews in People magazine are good way to check out new people-related books - celebrity bios, popular novels, absorbing nonfiction - just hitting bookstore shelves. Featured in the March 21st issue of People:

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn. Viking, 2011. Print Length: 416 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (3 reviews). People's slant: "...puckish, profound and as irresistible as the yellow bath toy itself." Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $18.26. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable." - Amazon.

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, by Kay Hymowitz. Basic Books, 2011. Print Length: 248 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 2 stars (17 reviews). People's slant: "...ruefully amusing..." Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.69. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as 'pre-adult' men, stuck between adolescence and 'real' adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it’s time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it’s time for these young men to man up." - Publisher.

The Trinity Six, by Charles Cumming. St. Martin's Press, 2011. Print Length: 368 p. THRILLER. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (15 reviews). People's slant: "...a smashing Cold War thriller for the 21st century." Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.02. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that – and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from what they seem. Fifteen years later, academic Sam Gaddis needs money. When a journalist friend asks for his help researching a possible sixth member of the notorious Trinity spy ring, Gaddis knows that she's onto a story that could turn his fortunes around. But within hours the journalist is dead, apparently from a heart attack. Taking over her investigation, Gaddis trails a man who claims to know the truth about Edward Crane. Europe still echoes with decades of deadly disinformation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. And as Gaddis follows a series of leads across the continent, he approaches a shocking revelation – one which will rock the foundations of politics from London to Moscow." - http://us.macmillan.com/thetrinitysix

Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America, by Les Standiford and Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews. Harper Collins,2011. Print Length: 304 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (39 reviews). People's slant: "Hopeful and heartbreaking...tough to forget." Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $14.96. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a crowded Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Later, he was murdered and decapitated. Identifying Adam's killer took 25 years. His parents turned into tireless advocates for missing and abused children; Adam's father, John Walsh, moved from a sales job to being the executive producer and host of America's Most Wanted. This forceful account, written with Matthews, former sergeant with the Miami Beach Police Department, who worked the case for years, gives readers the ultimate insider's account of the grueling search for Adam's killer and for the evidence to convict him." - Connie Fletcher for Booklist.

Witches on the Road Tonight, by Sheri Holman. Grove Press, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. NOVEL. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (2 reviews). People's slant: "...richly layered novel...Holman's most ambitious and successful yet." Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $13.71. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...takes readers deep into the backwoods of the Depression-era south, where dark folklore and witchcraft ignite imaginations, and brings us to contemporary New York, where fear has evolved into a very different kind of desired impulse. As a child growing up in rural Virginia, Eddie Alley’s quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother’s sorcery. But when they’re visited by a writer and a glamorous photographer working for the WPA, the isolation and mystery borne from his mother’s unorthodox life are violently disrupted, and Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town. He leaves for New York and begins a career as Captain Casket, a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. Though an expert at softening terror for his young fans, Eddie himself is incapable of escaping the guilty secrets of his childhood. When he opens his family’s door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at his TV station, the boy’s presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother. As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past to repair their misguided attempts at both love and redemption." - Amazon.

Aging Gracefully: A Short List of Recommended Titles:

Fortytude: Making the Next Decades the Best Years of Your Life -- through the 40s, 50s, and Beyond, by Sarah Brokaw. Hyperion, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $13.32. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In her practice as a licensed therapist and through discussion groups all across the country, Sarah Brokaw has discovered that the women who navigate midlife most smoothly - who go on to prosper and to enjoy the best years of their lives - are those who foster five Core Values in themselves. In Fortytude, she shows how any woman can nourish these qualities in herself, and evolve and thrive. In Brokaw’s reassuring voice and through the stories of incredible women from all walks of life, readers can learn how they, too, can embrace and fully enjoy their forties, fifties, and beyond." - Publisher.

Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age, by Susan Jacoby. Pantheon, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (16 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $16.41. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age - unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness - awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a caustic eye not only on the modern fiction that old age can be 'defied' but also on the sentimental image of a past in which Americans supposedly revered their elders. This wide-ranging reappraisal examines the explosion of Alzheimer’s cases, the uncertain economic future of aging boomers, the predicament of women who make up an overwhelming majority of the oldest - and poorest - old, and the illusion that we can control the way we age and die. Her book speaks to Americans, whatever their age, who draw courage and hope from facing reality instead of embracing that oldest of delusions, the fountain of youth." - Amazon.

The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study, by Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin. Hudson Street Press, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. NONFICTION. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.00. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat, how much we stress, and how fast we run. Based on the most extensive study of longevity ever conducted, The Longevity Project exposes what really impacts our lifespan - including friends, family, personality, and work. Gathering new information and using modern statistics to study participants across eight decades, Dr. Howard Friedman and Dr. Leslie Martin bust myths about achieving health and long life. For example, people do not die from working long hours at a challenging job- many who worked the hardest lived the longest. Getting and staying married is not the magic ticket to long life, especially if you're a woman. And it's not the happy-go-lucky ones who thrive..." - Amazon.
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Kindle Genre Watch: New in Romance & Western Fiction

Spend less time searching for new fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Recent genre fiction releases in romance and western fiction include:

Romance

How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper. Pocket, 2011. Print length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (16 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Even in Grundy, Alaska, it’s unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham - who has been openly critical of Mo’s ability to adapt to life in Alaska - has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble. For Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, it’s love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind..." - Amazon.

Against the Law by Kat Martin. Mira, 2011. Print length: 416 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $5.49; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"At thirty-two Dev is 'mostly retired' from Raines Investigations, content to run operations from his sprawling Arizona home. But Dev has never been able to say no to a beautiful woman, so when Lark Delaney comes to him for help, the former U.S. Army Ranger from Wind Canyon gets back in the game. Lark is sexy, successful and dedicated to tracking down the baby girl her sister gave up for adoption. It should be a straightforward case, but...As the case grows dangerous and Lark needs him more than ever, Dev can't ignore his growing attraction for her. He also can't trust his judgment with women or the emotions he's long-since buried. But there's a chance, if he gets this right and saves Lark's niece, that he'll end up saving himself, too." - Amazon.

A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson. Kimani Press, 2011. Print length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $8.79; Paperback $10.17. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"For Erica Sanders, finding a soul mate was easy. Brian Lawson is the man she wants and everyone agrees they're the ideal couple. The one exception is Erica's mother. She even hires a private detective to investigate Brian... As secrets are revealed, Erica and Brian find themselves caught between the bonds of the past and an uncertain future. Masterfully told with the sensuality and drama that Brenda Jackson does best, this is an unforgettable story of relationships at their most complex, and how hard it can be to choose between living separate lives or holding fast when love hangs by a silken thread." - Amazon.

Harvest Moon by Robyn Carr. Mira, 2011. Print length: 368 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $5.59; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated...until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack than a sophisticated screenwriter - a combination Kelly finds irresistible. But less appealing is Lief's rebellious stepdaughter, Courtney. She's the reason they moved from L.A., but Courtney's finding plenty of trouble even in Virgin River. Kelly's never fallen for a guy with such serious baggage, but some things are worth fighting for. Besides, a bratty teenager can't be any worse than a histrionic chef...right? " - Amazon.

The Perfect Mistress by Victoria Alexander. Zebra Books, 2011. Print length: 352 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (25 reviews). Kindle edition $5.29; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Widowed Julia, Lady Winterset, has inherited a book - a very shocking book - that every gentleman in London seems to want. For a charismatic businessman, it's a chance to build an empire. For a dashing novelist, it could guarantee fame. But to a proud, domineering earl, it means everything. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, can't let the obstinate Julia release the shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name. But the only way to stop her may be equally sordid - if far more pleasurable. For his rivals are intent on seducing the captivating woman to acquire the book. And Harrison isn't the sort to back away from a competition with the stakes this high. Now the winner will claim both the scandalous memoirs and the heart of their lovely owner..." - Amazon.


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Westerns

The Last Gunfighter: Dead Before Sundown by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone. Pinnacle Books, 2011. Print length: 353 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $3.99; Paperback $6.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. This is the 22nd volume in Johnstone's Last Gunfighter series that began with The Drifter.
"Frank Morgan survived his first trip to Alaska. Barely. Now, in Western Canada, Morgan and a band of survivors encounter an arch enemy with a fortune in ill-gotten gains - money he'll use to supply murderous Metis rebels with stolen U.S. Army Gatling guns to use for a bloodbath - and the Last Gunfighter is now in their way. But before the rebels can kill him, a daring U.S. secret agent joins his side. In a harsh and untamed land, Frank Morgan will soon face the ultimate battle for survival - before an all-out civil war explodes." - Amazon.

Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake. Zova Books, 2011. Print length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (54 reviews). Kindle edition $6.99; Paperback $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Academy Award-Winning film adaptation of the novel, Michael Blake's historical masterpiece Dances With Wolves is now available in digital form. With a new preface by the author, the e-book edition of Dances With Wolves brings the 1988 classic to a new generation of readers. When Lieutenant Dunbar receives his orders to join the regiment stationed at Fort Sedgewick, he has no idea that the post has been completely abandoned. Left to guard the fort alone, Dunbar finds himself with nothing but the open prairie for company - that is, until a band of Comanche Indians returns to their summer grounds a few miles away. Dunbar is soon faced with a choice between his obedient solitude and the compelling way of life offered by the neighboring Indian people. But each choice has its consequences..." - Amazon.

While Angels Dance (The Life And Times Of Jeston Nash) by Ralph Cotton. Western Classic. First published in 1994. Print length: 327 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $5.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Author Ralph Cotton grew up listening to stories of the James-Younger gang, and a the years passed his fascination led him to seek the truth behind the legends. Now, in this brilliant blend of history and imagination, he offers up a fresh and gritty look at the gang through the eyes of Jeston Nash. Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin, Jesse Woodson James of Clay County, Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces. Later, after the war, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. ...a vivid adventure tale of the outlaw West and an original view of the James-Younger gang. While Angels Dance was a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction." - Amazon.

Farin West by Brad Dixon. Mirador Publishing, 2011. Print length: 202 p. Kindle edition $7.99; Paperback $13.89. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Returning after a five year term in prison for a crime he didn't commit, to a town that sanctioned his conviction and to the cattle baron that murdered his father, Farin West was blinded by thoughts of revenge. He had become known as a dangerous man while he did his time at Yuma and even the thieves and killers of that hell hole avoided him. Now he was going back to seek out those who had ruined his life and destroyed the world he had known. Out gunned, out numbered and out manoeuvred, he would play a deadly game of cat and mouse, right up to the final confrontation with the Kersey outfit." - Amazon.
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