Among the considerations for Father's Day are new books by Ian McEwan, Robert B. Parker, Gerald Levert, Eric Van Lustbader, Carl Bernstein, Michael Ondaatje, and Clive Cussler.
FICTION:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
"We live," Michael Ondaatje declares in the structurally lopsided but lyrical and alluring Divisadero, "with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives ... We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell." The effects of borders, acts of separation, and a sense of isolation are suggested even in the title of Ondaatje’s wide-ranging new novel, the word "divisadero" itself coming from the Spanish word for "division." But with other implications for the elegiac and episodic work’s thematic journeying, for the need to seek out, and for the probative searching for answers — allusions that may also derive from the word divisar, meaning to "gaze at something from a distance" — another concept also looms large and takes hold in Divisadero. The marked complexity of ye-shall-find accounts recounted aptly and tidily turns out "as a folded map places you beside another geography." Still, like attempts to refold a map, life is messy, and the storyline of the novel seemingly slips into disarray at times, becoming disjointed before it ultimately recaptures its promise.
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
When Day Breaks: A Sunrise Suspense Society Novel by Mary Jane Clark
Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson
Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Navigator by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker
Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Saga Edition by Owen K. Stephens, Rodney Thompson
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader
NONFICTION:
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown:
- I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still
Dead doo ron ron ron dead doo ron ron...
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana by Janet Gleeson,
I Got Your Back: A Father and Son Keep it Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship by Gerald Levert, Lyah Leflore, Eddie LeVert, Lyah Beth Leflore, with Lyah Beth LeFlore
Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted by William Queen, Douglas Century
The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel
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