Best Defense novel shifts Ellis Cose from nonfiction to fiction
Ellis Cose Novelist presents a courtroom mystery centered on a white shooter with a Latino motive in The Best Defense. The author discusses race, entertainment aims, and critics while supporting a cast that includes Felicia Fontaine, a Harvard trained Black attorney defending the shooter.
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Cose
Newsweek
Case
Manhattan
Los Angeles
Washington Post
Felicia Fontaine
Fontaine
Upper West Side
New York
Wee
Ellis Case
Bech at Bay review Reintroduces Updikes Bech in final novel
The Bech character returns in Bech at Bay, a quasi novel collection by John Updike. Henry Bech, a self centered aging writer, uses his persona to critique fame and literary life while Updike, behind the curtain, watches. The pieces range from a homicidal fantasy to a Nobel Prize fantasy, provoking disbelief and curiosity about Updike’s career.
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John Updike
Bech
Henry Bech
Henry
Knopf
New Yorker
Beck
Henry Kuch
Plete
Updike
Charlie Rose
Roger Angelli
Stockholm
Season in Hell offers patient perspective on cancer
Marilyn French chronicles her esophageal cancer battle in A Season in Hell. She details distrust of doctors, supportive and unsupportive friends, and bodily decline from a sore throat to the cancer ward. The memoir emphasizes informed patients, but reads clinical with few emotional nuances and ends with uncertainty about tomorrow.
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Marilyn French
Hell
Knopf
French
Bestselling Books List From Publishers Weekly
The nation’s top books across fiction and nonfiction are listed by Publishers Weekly. Notable titles include The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, Lindbergh by A Scott Berg, and A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer among others.
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Anne Rice
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Arthur Golden
Nicholas Evans
Baby Girl
Fannie Flagg
Ken Follett
Patrick O'Brian
Wally Lamb
Richard Paul Evans
Judy Blume
Sara Ban Breathnach
Cherie Carter- Scott
Bob Arnott
Morrie
Mitch Albom
Suze Orman
Stewart Vogel
Laura Schlessinger
Steward, Bethea, Andrews and Balart
Outrage
William J. Bennett
Steve Mar
Canfield, Hansen and Kirberger
Gary Zukav
Rebecca Wells
Pearl Cleage
Richard Carlson
Charles Frazier
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Thomas J. Stanley
William D. Danko
Dave Pelzer
Caroline Myss
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A. Scott Berg
Just Jacke
Edward Klein
Emeril
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James Patterson
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Michael R. Eades
Mary Dan Eades
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Nora Roberts
Anna Quindlen
Elizabeth George
Nicholas Sparks
Sebastian Junger
Martha Grimes
Jon Krakauer
Belya Plain
Robert B. Parker
K.W. Jeter
Toni Morri
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