As Appearing in The Herald Journal Cache Magazine
July 2008
Tailspin by Catherine Coulter - FICTION COULTER
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler - FICTION CUSSLER
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich - MYSTERY EVANOVICH
Shadow Command by Dale Brown - FICTION BROWN
Sail by James Patterson - FICTION PATTERSON
Collateral Damage by Fern Michaels - FICTION MICHAELS
Resolution by Robert B. Parker - FICTION PARKER
Reapers by John Connolly - FICTION CONNOLLY
Bloid Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton - FICTION HAMILTON
Comanche Moon by Adeline Catherine Anderson; published by Signet, 2008.
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his controlor his touch. Despite the hatred between their peoples, Loretta and Hunter gradually find their enmity changing to respect and care. In the midst of such conflict, it will take all the force of their love to find a safe haven.
Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh; published by Delacorte Press, 2008.
Claudia Martin, headmistress and owner of Miss Martin's School for Girls, had no use for the ton, and reserved a special disdain for dukes. To Claudia's great consternation, Joseph, the Marquess of Attingsborough, refuses to succumb to her icy disapproval. Instead, he thaws Claudia into accepting his offer for her and two of her recently graduated students to travel with him to London. That trip turns out to be just the beginning of his campaign to win Claudia's affections, but she is certain she can resist the infinitely rakish Joseph. A prim and proper spinster discovers love is never sensible when she engages in a spirited battle of wits and wills with a nobleman with charm to spare. With her signature exquisite sense of characterization and subtle wit, Balogh brings her sweetly sensual, thoroughly romantic Simply quartet to a truly triumphant conclusion.
Wizard's Daughter by Catherine Coulter; published by Jove Books, 2008.
Coulter's latest in the historical Sherbrooke series (following Lyon's Gate) stars Rosalind de la Fontaine, a beautiful young woman with an ethereal voice who has no memory of her name, her family or her heritage since being saved and adopted by Ryder Sherbrooke as a girl. Nicholas Vail, the new earl of Mountjoy, returns to England and recognizes her as the girl he has seen in his dreams since childhood chanting, I am your debt. The two are soon inseparable, and their relationship reaches an altogether new level when they inexplicably discover an old book written in code, with tales of a magical place filled with dragons, wizards and abundant evil: the book urges them toward the realization of Nicholas's debt and the interpretation of a haunting song that Rosalind sings spontaneously.
To Wed a Wicked Prince by Jane Feather; published by Pocket Star, 2008.
Growing up as the daughter of an earl who gave up material pleasures to live as an ascetic, Livia Lacey is enjoying the social whirl of Regency London in the town house she inherited from an unknown relative. She maintains an unorthodox household, then acquires a tenacious and exciting suitor. Growing up in a Russian palace and educated with Czar Nicholas I, Prince Alex Prokov expects to have his wishes and desires obeyed. Livia is a woman with her own mind. And so the fireworks begin in this clash-of-cultures historical romance filled with intrigue and dynamic, compelling characters. A marvelous addition to Feather's Wicked series.
A Brilliant Deception by Kathleen Fuller; published by Avalon Books, 2008.
Lily Thornton, daughter of the Duke of Breckenridge, unwittingly finds herself a suspect in a rash of jewelry thefts. In order to clear her name, she teams up with her best friend Emily's brother, the handsome Colin Dymoke, to find the real thief. To make matters worse, Lily's scheming former fiance keeps turning up and causing trouble while making Lily question her own self-worth. Thankfully, she has Colin by her side to help and protect her. As they work to solve the mystery, Lily fights her growing feelings for Colin, who is considered one of England's most eligible bachelors. Having been hurt in the past, she's reluctant to entrust her heart to someone again. Before long, the two of them are caught up in a web of intrique and deception. They need to clear Lily's name before she and her family are ruined and all hope for romance with Colin is lost.
Kurdistan : in the Shadow of History by Susan Meiselas; published by University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I, when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East, leaving the Kurds without a homeland. Today the Kurds, who live on land that straddles the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, are by far the largest ethnic group in the world without a state. Renowned photographer Susan Meiselas entered northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War to record the effects of Saddam Husseins campaigns against Iraqs Kurdish population. She joined Human Rights Watch in documenting the destruction of Kurdish villages (some of which Hussein had attacked with chemical weapons in 1988) and the uncovering of mass graves. Moved by her experiences there, Meiselas began work on a visual history of the Kurds. The result, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, gives form to the collective memory of the Kurds and creates from scattered fragments a vital national archive. In addition to Meiselass own photographs, Kurdistan presents images and accounts by colonial administrators, anthropologists, missionaries, soldiers, journalists, and others who have traveled to Kurdistan over the last century, and, not to forget, by Kurds themselves. The books pictures, personal memoirs, government reports, letters, advertisements, and maps provide multiple layers of representation, juxtaposing different orders of historiographical evidence and memories, thus allowing the reader to discover voices of the Kurds that contest Western notions of them. In its layering of narrativesboth textual and photographicKurdistan breaks new ground, expanding our understanding of how images can be used as a medium for historical and cultural representation. A crucial repository of memory for the Kurdish community both in exile and at home, this new edition appears at a time when the worlds attention has once again been drawn to the lands of this little-understood but historically consequential people.