Who’s up for a trip to the farm? The Body Farm, that is! On March 23, Jefferson Bass return with THE BONE THIEF, the latest slice of forensic fiction featuring anthropologist/crimebuster Dr. Bill Brockton.
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Previews
In ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND PHILOSOPHY: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER, editor Richard Brian Davis examines the compelling issues behind Lewis Carroll’s classic. It’s part of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, and here’s the introduction. Read me:
“You take the blue pill,” Morpheus says to Neo in THE MATRIX, “and the story ends . . . . You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” It’s a tempting offer, isn’t it? For at one time or another in our lives, we’ve all wanted to escape — from a dull and tedious job, an impossible relationship, from a world in which we often have so little control over what happens to us. Perhaps it’s for reasons such as these that our culture has become positively obsessed with the idea of transcending the confines of this world for the cool fresh air of another. Whether it’s by a red pill, a secret wardrobe, a looking glass, or a rabbit-hole, it doesn’t really matter. We’ll take it.
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With PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES being such a monster hit, you knew another installment was inevitable. And so it on March 23, when Quirk Classics unleashes the prequel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS, by Steve Hockensmith.
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If you’re among those who watch professional wrestling, but wish it were really cartoony, mark your calendar for March 23. That’s when WWE HEROES #1, Titan Publishing’s comic book featuring WWE superstars, hits stores. Here’s your preview.
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She’s back, pimpin’ out notable new releases to place on your radar!
THE INFORMER by Craig Nova — Berlin in 1930 is a city of dark paranoia and covert power struggles, where violence can erupt at any moment. The Brownshirts dominate the streets, but the Red Front is building its insurgence. Gaelle, a beautiful but desperate young prostitute with a scar across one side of her face, trades in something far more powerful — and dangerous — than sex: information. To possess her, men will do more than pay — they will tell her secrets. What Gaelle wants is protection. Felix, a 16-year-old boy with a lame foot, negotiates Gaelle’s price, accompanies her in limousines when she feels threatened, and reminds her to take care of herself. But can he really keep her from harm?
CAPITOL BETRAYAL by William Bernhardt — Kincaid is in a meeting with the president in the Oval Office when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground PEOC — Presidential Emergency Operations Center — built to withstand a nuclear blast, but vulnerable to another kind of attack. Inside the bunker, defense specialists realize that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. The dictator’s message is clear: Heed his demands or suffer unfathomable destruction.
MARK TWAIN’S OTHER WOMAN: THE HIDDEN STORY OF HIS FINAL YEARS by Laura Skandera Trombley — Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of 34 years and how those experiences affected him, personally and professionally. For nearly a century, it was believed that Twain went to his death a beloved, wisecracking iconoclastic American, undeterred by life’s sorrows and challenges. Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, suspected that there had to be more to the story than the cultivated, carefully constructed version that had been intact for so long. She went in search of the one woman whom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain’s life during those final years and who possibly held the answers to her questions about his life and writings.
THE BEATLES ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO ON TOUR AND ON STAGE by Andy Neill — Culturally, the Beatles were a global phenomenon, changing all facets of popular music for good, but not just because they were a band that made great recordings. How big a part did performing in concert play? Would they have achieved what they did without an early grounding in the dance halls and clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg? After their first year as a headline-grabbing attraction, why did The Beatles soon tire of the relentless pace of Beatlemania? Through print and images from the DAILY MIRROR archive, this book answers these questions, examining in detail the Beatles as a live act between the key Beatlemania years of 1963-1966.
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