Pilgrim: Saturday post

The Saturday Evening Post

May 2014 - June 2014

SUMMER READING

BYLINE: Braun, Wendy

SECTION: POST-ITS; Pg. 26 Vol. 286 No. 3 ISSN: 0048-9239

LENGTH: 309 words

ABSTRACT

Drunk Mom: A Memoir (Penguin Books) by Jowita Bydlowska: Chilling look at the way even the most casual drinking can lead to problems.

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HOT BOOKS

Amazon's Editorial Director Sara Nelson and her colleagues sift through hundreds of new ' books each month in search of 1 gems. Here are the top 10:

I Am Pilgrim (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) by Terry Hayes: A smarter (and longer!) than average thriller by the writerproducer of such films as Payback, Road Warrior, and Dead Calm.

A postmodern whodunit with shades of John Irving's picaresques, The truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (Penguin Books), by Joël Dicker, is a best-seller in Europe.

A very smart "domestic'' novel, The Blessings (Grand Central Publishing), by Elise Juska, tells the story of a Philadelphia family in the aftermath of the father's death.

The Steady Running of the Hour (Simon & Schuster) by Justin Go: A spellbinding historical novel about the rightful heirs of English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham.

Set in Las Vegas, Laura McBride's novel We Are Called To Rise (Simon & Schuster) is about several characters - a child, a vet, and two women - facing the disappearance of their own American dreams.

Meryl Gordon's Tïie Phantom of Fifth Avenue (Grand Central Publishing) is the tale of Huguette Clark, the super-heiress who became a recluse in her last 50 years.

Drunk Mom: A Memoir (Penguin Books) by Jowita Bydlowska: Chilling look at the way even the most casual drinking can lead to problems.

Lynn Sherr's biography Sally Pide: America's First Woman In Space (Simon & Schuster) tells the compelling and detailed story of the famous astronaut.

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (Viking Adult), by Lynne Cheney, Is a portrait of our fourth president.

J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (New Harvest), by Thomas Beller: A short biography of one of America's most complicated writers.

LOAD-DATE: May 6, 2014

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