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Six Authors and Books Worth a Read, Murakami, Scheeres, Jordan, Helwig, Hoffman, Johnson
Written by SR Staff Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:17
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Here are six noteworthy book titles and authors that have been racing up our most popular charts this month, October 2011.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres, When She Woke by Hillary Jordan, Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir by Terry Helwig, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman and The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Two moons over the Tokyo skyline echo the parallel stories of a lonely ghostwriter and a female assassin whose lives converge during the course of 1984. This surrealist magnum opus from a postmodern master is both mystery and romance. Darya Conmigo says, "Reading a Murakami book is like diving into the ocean only to discover that you have always been a fish. Things suddenly start making sense."
“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres
Now notorious for persuading his flock to drink poisonous Kool-Aid in the Jonestown compound in Guyana in 1978, narcissistic cult leader Jim Jones is profiled in this thoroughly researched nonfiction work. Scheeres pays special attention to the diverse individuals who joined the doomed Peoples Temple. Amy Rose says, "What emerges is a story so vivid, so lucid, you feel like you're running through a South American jungle...I'm speechless. Blown away."
“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.” —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. After Jones moved his church to Northern California in 1965, he became a major player in Northern California politics; he provided vital support in electing friendly political candidates to office, and they in turn offered him a protective shield that kept stories of abuse and fraud out of the papers. Even as Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers found it increasingly difficult to pull away from the church. By the time Jones relocated the Peoples Temple a final time to a remote jungle in Guyana and the U.S. Government decided to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late.
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When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
After aborting her child and refusing to name her lover (a married TV evangelist), Hannah Payne is sentenced to 16 years of "melachroming"—her skin is dyed stop-sign red. She must adjust to her life of persecution in a fictional fundamentalist near-future America. Jackie says, "This book is going to create a STIR—I foresee protests and outrage countered by admiration and passionate defense of the sublime way all of these volatile elements are joined to create a love story as well as a page-turning thriller."
Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and her skin color has been genetically altered. Her crime, according to the State of Texas: the murder of her unborn child, whose father she refuses to name. Her color: red. The color of newly shed blood.
In Hannah’s America, sometime in the future, faith, love, and sexuality have fallen prey to politics. Convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated, but “chromed,” forced to appear in a new and sinister form of reality TV, and released back into the population. Stigmatized in a hostile world, they must survive the best they can.
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Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir by Terry Helwig
Love triumphs over abuse in this memoir about sisterhood and forgiveness. With a neglectful, drug-addicted mother, the author must grow up quickly—holding together her itinerant family and caring for her five sisters as they move from town to town. Donna says, "It is a testament to unconditional daughterly devotion, sisterly love, and the human capacity to endure and overcome."
"I invited the child I was once to have her say in these pages. I am the one who came out on the other side of childhood; she is the one who searched for the door."
In the tradition of The Glass Castle comes a debut memoir about a woman’s hopeful life despite the sad results of her mother’s choices. Moonlight on Linoleum is an affecting story of a girl who rose above her circumstances to become an early and faithful caretaker to her five siblings. It is about the power one finds in sisterhood to thrive in a difficult and ever-changing landscape as the girls bond in unconditional love despite constant upheaval and uncertainty. In these pages, Teresa Helwig crafts a moving portrait of a mother she loved completely even as she struggled to understand her.
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Anchored by the harrowing true events of the Siege of Masada in ancient Judea in 70 A.D., this historical novel by the author of Practical Magic weaves together the stories of four potent women who are present at the Near East mountaintop fortress when the Romans' invasion led to a mass suicide of nearly all the Jewish rebels within. Summer says, "This horrible story is told with such lyrical words that you can't help but be drawn into it. What an excellent contribution to literature."
Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel.
The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune’s Daughter, and Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet—one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women.
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The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Louisiana teen Rory enrolls in a London boarding school just as a copycat killer begins to mimic the century-old murders of Jack the Ripper. She sees the prime suspect appear on campus but soon realizes he's invisible to everyone else, including security cameras. Dark Readers calls this young adult novel a "jaw-dropping, jump-out-of-your-seat amazing thriller...This novel will make you realize how ghostly, gorgeous, and historic London really is."
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888.
Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police now believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
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