LINKEDINCOMMENTMORE

Fiction

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Armor Towles (Historical) — When, in 1922, Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Commonwealth by Ann Pratchett (Fiction) — One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest (Horror) — Inventory at Chuck Dutton’s Music City Salvage is running low. His luck changes when Augusta Withrow appears in his office offering salvage rights to her entire property. Chuck puts his daughter Dahlia in charge of overseeing the project. Right away the crew finds a few unusual surprises. The place is in unexpectedly good shape. There's also a cemetery, which consists of about thirty fallen and overgrown graves dating back to the early 1900s. Augusta insists that the cemetery is a Halloween prank, so the city gives the go-ahead. The bulldozer digs up human remains. Augusta says she doesn't know whose body it is, refuses to answer any more questions, and eventually disappears. But Dahlia’s concerns about the corpse and Augusta's disappearance are overshadowed when she begins to realize that she and her crew are not alone, and they're not welcome at the Withrow estate.

Nonfiction

Slow-Cooker to the Rescue by Gooseberry Patch — Slow cookers are the heroes of our kitchens. We've gathered over 300 simple, fool-proof recipes created just for your slow cooker. From cheesy dips to beefy stews, crowd-pleasing appetizers to tummy-warming soups, you'll find recipes to take you from Saturday morning breakfast to your next big tailgating party. Six big chapters organize the recipes in easy-to-browse themes, from Game-Changing Party Food to Chicken to Cheer For. You'll never have to wonder what's for dinner!

Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond by Neil deGrasse Tyson — In 2009 Neil deGrasse Tyson founded StarTalk, the wildly popular podcast that became an Emmy-nominated talk show. Featuring vivid photography, thought-provoking sidebars, enlightening facts, and fun quotes from science and entertainment luminaries like Bill Nye and Dan Aykroyd, StarTalk reimagines science’s most challenging topics—from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes—in a relatable, humorous way that will delight fans and new readers alike.

Courtesy of goodreads.com, compiled by Laura Osterfeld, public service librarian for the Henderson County Public Library.

Read or Share this story: http://www.thegleaner.com/story/life/columnists/2016/11/12/book-blurbs-startalk-answers-questions-universe-unknown-sci-fi/93571894/
https://www.thegleaner.com/story/life/columnists/2016/11/12/book-blurbs-startalk-answers-questions-universe-unknown-sci-fi/93571894/
www.thegleaner.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-51
144671
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:DI7U6GRLUYFV323MI4PJLG3I3VJKY4CP
<urn:uuid:30ae2df8-3fae-40bc-aaba-563fd3e644df>
2019-12-06T01:17:58Z
151.101.202.62
text/html
sha1:H6GETDP7OT7PGD76XSYAFC23FQ7B6AY2
<urn:uuid:ca5e7bad-774e-4be4-98f7-8f9a867166cb>
https://www.thegleaner.com/story/life/columnists/2016/11/12/book-blurbs-startalk-answers-questions-universe-unknown-sci-fi/93571894/
response
<urn:uuid:cd7d225b-166a-457b-a964-39623db1fb1a>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-207.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/