Book roll-outs continue with lots of exciting new releases in the bookstores this week.
Monday, September 19
Ryder Windham has compiled Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide to provide fans and newcomers "everything they need to know about the highest-grossing movie saga ever... the first-ever visual guide to the entire Star Wars franchise," including Episode III. (Publisher's release notes)
Cinnamon Kiss, by Walter Mosley, follows Easy Rawlins on his 10th outing, as he grapples with a mystery and his own personal problems at the height of the Vietnam era. "Easy leaves Los Angeles for San Francisco, where his new employer puts him on the trail of a wealthy and eccentric lawyer and the lawyer's exotic lover, a girl known as Cinnamon... As ever, Mosley is able to capture the era—hippies, Watts, communes—in brief strokes that provide a brilliant background to Easy's search for solutions to both a convoluted mystery and complex personal problems." —Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, September 20
Goodnight Nobody by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, tells the story of a young mother's move to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town and the secrets she uncovers there... She discovers the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's placid picket-fence facade—and the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between independence and obligation, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own. (Publisher's release notes)
Sure to generate cross-over excitement, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 by Bob Dylan, is released Tuesday. A "highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s..., the Scrapbook is crammed with features including rare photographs, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics and rare memorabilia." (Publisher's release notes)
Following last year's self-help bestseller, He's Just Not That Into You, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy, by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt, takes you "From how to put yourself through 'he-tox,' to how to throw yourself a kick-ass pity party... gives you everything you need to get over him and make the right decisions along the way. Complete with an essential workbook to help you put the crazy down on paper and not take it out into the world, this is a straight-talking, spot-on, must-have manual for finding your way back to an even more rocking you." (Publisher's release notes)
Article comments
1 - Scott Butki
Oooh! I want to read and review that Gaiman book.
I saw him read at the National Book Festival in DC last year. He's great.
2 - DrPat
You'll definitely beat me to it, Scott, since I have to wait for the Paperback vercion to come out...
3 - Bob A. Booey
This is a good feature, Dr. Pat.
I'm not interested in most of these books, but it's good to see a review of new book releases on this site since so many people are already doing music.
That is all.
4 - Scott Butki
So would this be a good place to ask about how to get free review copies of books
like Gaiman's?
5 - DrPat
That's the Group, not the Site...
It's a meta-Blogcritics thing!
6 - Scott Butki
Hmm, no idea what that means. Email sometime to explain or I'll write you tomorrow.