Search Results: "Tobias S. Bucknell"


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DIVERSE ENERGIES by Tobias S.  Bucknell
YOUNG ADULT
Released: Oct. 1, 2012

"Careful, curious readers will be rewarded, though probably not comforted, by the many realities and futures imagined here. (Science fiction/anthology. 12 & up)"
As the title promises, this sophisticated science-fiction anthology is diverse in nearly every sense of the word. Read full book review >

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HURRICANE FEVER by Tobias S. Buckell
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: July 1, 2014

"So don't wait for a dark and stormy night to read this novel; you'll have plenty of fun."
A stormy, aptly named thriller set in the Caribbean of the near future. Read full book review >

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ARCTIC RISING by Tobias S. Buckell
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: Feb. 28, 2012

"Buckell successfully draws the reader in with his characters and ideas, only to blow things up a little too thoroughly by the end."
This fast-paced near-future thriller delivers a combination of geopolitical intrigue and technological speculation, only flagging as it reaches its jumbled conclusion. Read full book review >

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WRITERS HARVEST 3 by Tobias Wolff
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Feb. 1, 2000

"A strong and varied anthology gathered for a worthwhile cause."
The money raised by these Writer's Harvest anthologies, which collect representative work by both new and well-established writers, is donated to the Share Our Strength coalition, devoted to ending hunger, thus allowing writers, in the words of Tobias Wolff, "the chance to put their work at the service of others without any sanctimonious distortions of their voices and interests." Read full book review >

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THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1994 by Tobias Wolff
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Nov. 3, 1994

"Mostly safe, but with enough danger and excitement to make it worthwhile."
Despite some real snoozers, a solid, generally somber sampling of today's established short story writers. Read full book review >

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THE BEST LITTLE BOY IN THE WORLD GROWS UP by Andrew Tobias
NON-FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998

"Tobias pleads for understanding, maybe a contribution to a good gay-rights cause, and, of course, auto insurance reform (his other constant worry). (Author tour)"
Tobias, premier financial author (The Only Other Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, 1987; My Vast Fortune, 1997, etc.), now turns to autobiography and reveals to the few who don—t already know that he is homosexual. Read full book review >

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NON-FICTION
Released: Oct. 26, 1994

"If less intense than his earlier memoir's portrayal of a troubled childhood, this candid work evenly weighs the many costs and few gains of coming of age in a war."
Wolff continues his memoirs in this excellent volume, with his keen prose, dispassionate mordancy, and writer's attention to mood and characters applied to Vietnam's moral absurdity. Read full book review >

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NON-FICTION
Released: Jan. 25, 2011

"Hardly groundbreaking, but a well-conceived and -executed addition to the burgeoning movement of stats-based sporting analysis."
In a Freakonomics for sports, an economist and a sportswriter use the power of data analysis to debunk some of the sports world's conventional wisdom. Read full book review >

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THE ROOKIE BOOKIE by L. Jon Wertheim
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 7, 2014

"The sports fan's alternative to The Lemonade War. (Fiction. 9-13)"
Best-selling authors Wertheim and Moskowitz (Scorecasting, 2011) team up again on their first novel for children. Read full book review >

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LIBERATION by Christopher Isherwood
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Nov. 6, 2012

"Isherwood was unquestionably a fascinating man. True fans of his work as well as gossip lovers will no doubt read all three volumes of his diaries. For the rest of us, a simple biography should be sufficient."
Final volume of the meticulously detailed diaries of the acclaimed author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939) and other celebrated works. Read full book review >
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