Brand new today! Blurbs courtesy of the books’ publishers.
HARDCOVER FICTION
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavots, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another. Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother’s suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment. Julia retreats to a faceless job in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia’s emerging gifts, and soon she’s recruited to track down an elusive missing person—a controversial artist who might have a connection to her mother.
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HARDCOVER NONFICTION
The Drunk Diet by Lüc Carl
Lüc Carl is a bar manager, author, long-distance runner, musician, personal trainer, semiprofessional bowler, and SiriusXM Radio DJ based in New York City. His fitness philosophy isn’t about following a list of rigid rules or traditional “do this, not that” charts, but gaining a better understanding of how the body works and discovering what you’re personally willing to change about your lifestyle in order to reach your goals. For him, that meant trading in the crap he was eating for unprocessed, natural foods and embracing a newfound love for exercise, but never sacrificing his social life (or his love for cold beer).
Meet Lüc Carl here at BookPeople on Thursday, March 22, 7p when he’s here to speak & sign his new book!
Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond
The Pioneer Woman–accidental ranch wife and #1 New York Times bestselling author Drummond–shares even more of her satisfying and delicious country cooking, with recipes sure to please the whole family, from meat-loving cowboys to finicky young ranch hands. And with widely available ingredients and step-by-step photos of each recipe, she makes it easy to cook new favorites.
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, Gilead, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.In “Open Thy Hand Wide” she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in “When I Was a Child,” one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.
Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency by Mark Updegrove
Nearly fifty years after being sworn in as president of the United States in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson remains a largely misunderstood figure. His force of personality, mastery of power and the political process, and boundless appetite for social reform made him one of the towering figures of his time. But he was one of the most protean and paradoxical of presidents as well. Because of his flawed nature and inherent contradictions, some claimed there were as many LBJs as there were people who knew him. Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove offers an intimate portrait of the endlessly fascinating LBJ, his extraordinarily eventful presidency, and the turbulent times in which he served.
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PAPERBACK NONFICTION
Chinaberry Sidewalks by Rodney Crowell
In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodney’s tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth.
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I grew up in a very rural area, the Pioneer Cookbook sounds like a good read.