DJTV-Books
22/05 - Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorou...
22/05 - Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
Miranda Weiss
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—b...
22/05 - The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Ross Macdonald
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hea...
22/05 - The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Profound loss, desolation and rebuilding are the literal and metaphoric themes of Michaels's exquisite second novel (after Fugitive Pieces). Avery Escher is a Canadian engineer recently moved to a houseboat on th...
22/05 - Like Mandarin
Kirsten Hubbard
It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, sham...
22/05 - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Steve Earle
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011: Steve Earle's heartbreaking debut novel features a morphine addict who performs illegal abortions, a young Mexican girl with mysterious healing powers, the ghost of Hank Williams, and a host ...
22/05 - The Fourth Durango
Ross Thomas and Sarah Paretsky
From Publishers WeeklyA tiny, godforsaken California town named Durango is the setting for Thomas's ( Out on the Rim ) tense new novel, a suspense story laced with wry wit. The town's mayor, plucky Barbara Huckins, and its chief of police, Sid Fork, ...
22/05 - Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
O romance gira em torno de um 'tremor de tempo' que teria feito com que o universo sofresse uma espécie de soluço, voltando dez anos em sua trajetória. O texto é permeado por auto-referências. Do massacre da cidade de Dresden, em 1945, que o escritor...
22/05 - The White-Luck Warrior
R. Scott Bakker
Widely praised by reviewers and a growing body of fans, R. Scott Bakker has already established his reputation as one of the few unique new talents in the fantasy genre. Now he returns with the long-awaited The White Luck Warrior--the second book in ...
21/05 - American Outlaw
Jesse James
Jesse James has survived lower depths, faced harder times, and beaten down more private demons than most--and lived to tell his story with honesty, introspection, and humility.
21/05 - The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler and Jennifer Bassett
Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasing...
21/05 - A Jest of God
Margaret Laurence
Review?Fresh and arresting?unforgettably good and nothing less than brilliant.??_Maclean?s_ ?Superb and movingly human.??_Saturday Review_ -- ReviewProduct DescriptionA thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels...
21/05 - The Eyes Have It
Philip K Dick
A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start here: It was quite by ...
21/05 - The Zenith Angle
Bruce Sterling
Amazon.com ReviewThe Zenith Angle, futurist Bruce Sterling's first novel since Zeitgeist (2000), tells the story of Derek "Van" Vandeveer. As The Zenith Angle opens, Van sits peacefully at his breakfast table, enjoying life as a new homeowner and hap...
21/05 - The Caryatids
Bruce Sterling
From Publishers WeeklySignature_Reviewed by_ Greg BearCaryatids, in Greek architecture, are stone women who support massive buildings. The Caryatids of Bruce Sterling's shimmering new novel—Vera, Radmila and Sonja—support the weight of a near-future ...
21/05 - Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
21/05 - Batavia's Graveyard
Mike Dash
From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's r...
21/05 - Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam
Coalwood [1]: Amazon.com ReviewInspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dyin...
21/05 - Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942
Clay Blair
Amazon.com ReviewA former infantryman, Adolf Hitler had little use for the German navy, which he considered inept and politically suspect. Still, through the skillful maneuverings of a young, up-and-coming naval officer named Karl Dönitz, Hitler even...
21/05 - Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Götz Aly and Michael Sontheimer and Shelley Frisch
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur ...
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