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Nat and Archy, owners of Brokeland Records, Oakland, California circa 2004, go up against Gibson Goode, multi-millionaire, who wants to open a megastore.

Review in Books — by ManOfLaBook.com — on Oct 01, 2012

Chabon pays homage to movies, music, and Oakland in his latest novel.

Review in Books — by Shannon Turlington — on Sep 16, 2012

Plundered from a panoply of American-pop-culture and treasured guilty pleasures, Geddes' stories conjure up many ripped-from-your-recollections topics.

Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 04, 2012

It was 1981, Chris MacCauley was nursing a broken heart, a bruised ego and his own resistance to his rite of passage into adult maturity.

Review in Books — by Paige Lovitt — on Aug 22, 2012

A literary zombie novel that explores Manhattan, American culture and human nature.

Review in Books — by Nancy Fontaine — on Aug 19, 2012

Tales of men and women and their struggles for survival, identity, and dignity.

Review in Books — by The Dirty Lowdown — on Aug 16, 2012

Set in a drought-ridden Colorado town of the near future, Cobbs’ gracefully-worded craftsmanship bespeaks volumes in a kaleidoscopically apocalyptic novel of multiple plotlines and shifting perspectives.

Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 23, 2012

Changing lives move from the individual to collective in character-driven stories, while big questions about life and love are considered.

Review in Books — by Maggie Ball — on Jul 20, 2012

With The Architect, expecting the unexpected, and sometimes the unacceptable, is part and parcel of the author's refusal to settle for the merely unsettling.

Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 17, 2012

A rich and engaging tale, with complex characters and a plot seamlessly interwoven with the history of Seattle.

Review in Books — by Nancy Fontaine — on Jul 06, 2012