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January 2012

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 2012.

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It's Time

by Leia Menlove

“I don’t have to be happy,” realizes the hero of Pavel Kostin’s It’s Time: Writing on the Wall, a novel recently translated from Russian into English by James Rann. The story details the meanderings of an acutely introspective... Read More

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Karam's Kismet

by Barbara Bamberger Scott

Karam Pardesi is “the reluctant Midas; it seemed that everything he touched turned to gold.” In this historical novel of a young man whose fortunes change as the world changes, Sohan S. Koonar has created a sensual India and a... Read More

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Fatal Females

by Jeannine Chartier Hanscom

Accountant Tony Rawlins has never had much luck with women, and the pattern shows no sign of changing anytime soon. It seems that every woman who crosses his path complicates his life in one way or another, and Fatal Females explores... Read More

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Acid Indigestion Eyes

by Peter Dabbene

Americans born between the mid-1960s and early 1980s are often characterized—some would say stereotyped—by their resistance to established norms, as well as a general reluctance to be categorized. Wayne Lockwood’s Acid Indigestion... Read More

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Hostile Border

by Joseph Del Priore

Thomas D. Potter’s "Hostile Border" is a labyrinth of secrets and subterfuge. Iranian terrorists pay a third-rate Mexican drug cartel to smuggle a black-ops team, along with a dirty bomb, into the United States. Meanwhile, a political... Read More

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Mountain Clouds

by Sheila M. Trask

In "Mountain Clouds", Li shares her memories of how she—a poor child raised in wartime China—came to be a world traveler who lived in Geneva, Switzerland, and eventually settled in Montreal, Canada. Readers of recent fiction, Lisa... Read More

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The TurboCharged Mind

by Patty Sutherland

Dian Griesel, a counselor and certified hypnotherapist, a self-described serial entrepreneur, and a nationally recognized health spokesperson, codeveloped the trademarked TurboCharged franchise with her brother, Tom Griesel, a health and... Read More

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