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7 reviews
Halldor Laxness

Permanent Press (NY), 1983

a stunning story of politics, personal hope, and salvation
In the Atom Station, Halldor Laxness demonstrates the skill and complexity that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel tells the story of a simple lass from the north of Iceland who comes face to face with the duplicity of politicians who sell out Icelandic sovereignty for the sake of a nuclear station during the cold war. She also comes to some realizations about ...

Clay Walls

3 reviews
Kim Ronyoung

Permanent Press (NY), 1996

A beautiful book about a Korean family's life in America
I had to read Kim Ronyoung's "Clay Walls" for an Asian Literature class, and when I began it seemed like a cliched story about all the bad things that could happen to Koreans upon coming to the U.S. However, once it gets going you realize that through a simple story of a love for one's homeland and a desire to succeed in a new land can be so uplifting. The book is written from three ...

The Hoax

13 reviews
Clifford Irving

Permanent Press (NY), 1981

A ripping good yarn
Love him or hate him, Clifford Irving sure can write. The Hoax is an absolute page turner from start to finish; I am about three quarters of of the way through the book and counting the minutes until I can return home and dive into it again. Clifford Irving lived an incredible life even before turning to forgery: living on a houseboat in Kashmir, living in Mexico, a couple of European wives, an ...

School for Hawaiian Girls

4 reviews
Georgia Ka'Apuni McMillen

Permanent Press (NY), 2005

"Concise and Engrossing"
Lydia attends the School for Hawaiian Girls on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1922. When she becomes pregnant, her mother ships her off to Maui, forcing her to give up her illegitimate child. A year later, on her way to find her daughter, Lydia's body is found in the cane field. Raped and her throat slashed, she is soon forgotten by everyone but her family. Moani owns a kayaking business in Honolulu ...

Two Time

3 reviews
Chris Knopf

Permanent Press (NY), 2005

Hamptons Noir
In the first few pages of his second appearance (after "The Last Refuge"), Hamptons native and recent returnee Sam Acquillo nearly gets blown up while sipping Absolut on the deck of a dockside restaurant in East Hampton. Sam's skills and powers of observation as an ex-boxer and engineer save him and his lawyer friend Jackie from the fate of the other patrons when a car bomb kills its target ...

A Soldier's Book

7 reviews
Joanna Higgins

Permanent Press (NY), 1998

A REMINDER OF THE NOBLE BENT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Drawing from the daily journal of a Union prisoner of war, Joanna Higgins has crafted a spare, intense, incredibly moving debut novel, a Civil War drama in which historically accurate details bring fictional characters to resonant life. It is not amiss to equate her offering with the quintessential record of those experiences, Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor for Ms. Higgins exhibits an ...

Kuperman's Fire
John J. Clayton

Permanent Press (NY), 2007

Hi-tech entrepreneur Michael Kuperman discovers the illegal sale of chemical weapons abroad by a powerful American corporation. What does he do with this knowledge? Ultimately, the Kuperman family must flee Boston and hide their identity. Dealing with danger changes their life as a family. This is a novel about family. The many ways of being Jews in contemporary American society play themselves out in the tensions within Michael s family, a ...

The Last Refuge

9 reviews
Chris Knopf

Permanent Press (NY), 2005

More Sam Acquillo
Chris Knopf uses a technique in "The Last Refuge" that I see from time to time some of in my favorite novels, whether they're murder mysteries or not. I've seen it in Lee Child and I've seen it in Herman Melville. It probably has a literary name, but for now I'll call it the Observational Aside. The narrative stops for a moment, usually just as something big is about to happen, and the author ...

Walking the Perfect Square: A Novel (Moe Prager Mysteries)

9 reviews
Reed Farrel Coleman

Permanent Press (NY), 2002

The First Moe Prager: Walking The Perfect Square
On December 8, 1977 Patrick Maloney, Jr., college student, walked out of a local bar and vanished. As 19977 became 1978 other things in New York City like the arrest of the Son of Sam killer garner media attention. For recently retired Police Officer Moe Prager, the disappearance of Patrick Maloney, Jr. is insignificant and no different than many of the ills that befall the city's population. Not ...

Dark & Light: A Love Story

6 reviews
Michael Laser

Permanent Press (NY), 2006

An Excellent Book!
Dark & Light works like a piece of chamber music and is a great read. Most of it takes place on the Upper West Side of New York City in the mid-1990s, when some people still smoked in offices, used subway tokens, and were just beginning to use the Internet. While a relationship between a divorced, older white computer programmer and a homeless, younger African American woman at that time may ...

A Good Divorce

1 review
John E. Keegan

Permanent Press (NY), 2003

Publisher's Weekly Review (September 15, 2003)
"When Cy Stapleton's rebellious and dissatisfied wife, Jude, encouraged by her consciousness-raising group, divorces him to find herself, the Seattle lawyer ends up living in a shabby basement apartment and struggling to be a father on an every-other-weekend basis. It's a familiar enough scenario, but when Jude's new lesbian lover moves in with her and the kids start in on the pot smoking and ...

Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez & Love in New York

5 reviews
Manoucher Parvin

Permanent Press (NY), 2003

An Evergreen Epic of Humanity
Dardedel displays an unquenchable thirst within man for love, perfection and humanity. The enchanting Mitra, the embodiment of everlasting love and light, enlightens a musical craving for love within man. Professor Manoucher Parvin has written a palatable, seductive tale that definitely leaves the reader begging for more. The wisdom of Hafiz and Rumi speaks directly to the heart of philosophy, ...

Resume With Monsters

17 reviews
William Browning Spencer

Permanent Press (NY), 2000

Brilliant Adaptation of Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft always intended his Cthulu mythos to live through other authors' pens. If Lovecraft were alive today he would certainly find William Spencer Browning's treatment most entertaining. In "Resume with Monsters," Browning artfully welds together the infinite horrors of Lovecraft's Old Ones with the modern banalities of life in the corporate world. The result is a book loaded with ...

Manifesto for the Dead

4 reviews
Domenic Stansberry

Permanent Press (NY), 2000

Off-beat Classic
This book did not get as much attention as Last Days of Il Duce, but it is in many ways a more interesting novel--with its novel-within-a-novel structure and its dynamic portrait of crime novelist Jim Thompson. A short, punchy book that defies easy categorization. Stansberry defintely twists the genre to his own purposes here. I liked Il Duce a lot, but this is more gold from a very good ...

The Tall Boy

5 reviews
Jess Gregg

Permanent Press (NY), 2005

A Wonderful Memoir!
Jess Gregg is a masterful storyteller. Drawing upon a lifetime filled with abundant memories, he not only recalls events but can recount even the tiniest details to draw you into his world ever so smoothly. This is his story, colored with the charm of a grown man who has lived a full life but with the poignancy and sadness of a little boy who never could resolve what he thought life should be ...

The Turning over

2 reviews
William McCauley

Permanent Press (NY), 1999

A great book about Africa; you can "smell" the places.
"The Turning Over" is one of the best books I have read about Sierra Leone. The book follows the journey of an American expatriate during a time of change in that country. In the 1980's, most expratriates were turning over their jobs to local indigineous people in most places in Africa. The programs were then run by corrupt governments that cared little about the well-being of indigineous ...

Christmas in Paris 2002

4 reviews
Ronald K. Fried

Permanent Press (NY), 2006

A Rich, Satisfying Portrait Set in the City of Lights
CHRISTMAS IN PARIS: 2002 begins with a taxi ride from Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris. I've taken that taxi --- if you travel to Paris regularly, it's like a trip through your past, rushing you by hotels you've stayed in, reminding you of the person you used to be. So it is for Joseph Steiner, a New Yorker who first came to Paris thirty years earlier. Now he's married, living in Manhattan, ...

Rock of Ages

1 review
Howard Owen

Permanent Press (NY), 2006

North Carolina gothic, with warmth and humor
Refreshingly different and not easy to categorize, this well-paced novel was a very enjoyable and quick read. A 50-something English professor (with more than her fair share of personal troubles in recent years), Georgia returns to her small-town North Carolina home with son and pregnant girlfriend in tow. She soon finds herself investigating the death of an elderly cousin, finding romance with ...

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