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May 1, 2012

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published May 1, 2012. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in May 2012.

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Nature's Compass

by Kristen Rabe

Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation begins, ironically, with a haunting scene from the human world: a September 1621 shipwreck. Ferdinando deVerar and the crew of the Portuguese ship San Antonio made several navigational... Read More

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Elemental

by Alicia Sondhi

Blending aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and romance, debut author Emily White’s "Elemental" is an incredibly intriguing, if occasionally stunted, start to a series. The novel’s strength mainly comes from its richly creative... Read More

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Tangles

by Joseph Thompson

No diagnosis is as evil as Alzheimer’s. While it slowly strips away memories, experiences, and personalities, it leaves victims with enough awareness to know something is terribly, and terrifyingly, wrong. At some point, even this... Read More

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Two Winters in a Tipi

by Kristine Morris

“In 1989, a midnight August storm unleashed a bolt of fire, connecting heaven and earth through the mountain farmhouse in which I had been living for the past seven years,” writes Mark Warren, a naturalist and educator for the... Read More

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The Mightier Hudson

by Kai White

"The Mightier Hudson" opens with a picturesque description of a smiling, diverse group of pedestrians crossing the Walkway Over the Hudson, a “linear park in the sky,” and an example of recent revitalization along the river’s... Read More

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Journey beyond 2012

by Mark G. McLaughlin

Finally, a doomsday 2012 novel without meteors, earthquakes, tsunamis, viral epidemics, or zombies. Piero Rivolta is to be congratulated for eschewing the commonplace while taking what is quite literally a high road. Although spurred on... Read More

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