Tagged: Austin Chronicle

. . . Rolling the Bones by Kyle Jarrard Steerforth Press, 320 pp., $24 Rolling the Bones is like one of those pokey rides at the original Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels. You drift along...

. . The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis by Lucy Jago Knopf, 320 pp., $24 Who would have expected a page-turner about a...

. . Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Random House, 399 pp., $24.95 Once upon a time, one of America’s biggest celebrities was a horse named Seabiscuit. In 1938 he got more news...

. . Lost and Found A Daughter’s Tale of Violence and Redemption by Babette Hughes The Permanent Press, 168 pp., $24 Babette Hughes was an unhappy Jewish housewife in the 1950s, but she was...

. . . The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington Atlantic Monthly Press, 352 pp., $24 Treading on ground that readers of Tom Tryon’s Night Magic may find familiar, The Spirit Cabinet looks at the...

. . . Mistletoe Man: A China Bales Mystery by Susan Wittig Albert Berkeley, 296 pp., $21.95 We all know that good fences make good neighbors, but judging from Mistletoe Man, the latest herbal...

. . . A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas translated by Ivan Sanders with Imre Goldstein Overlook Press, 720 pp., $14.95 (paper) You may think the world needs another 700-page Hungarian novel like...

. . . Le Mariage by Diane Johnson Dutton, 322 pp., $23.95 Johnson writes like a 20th-century Jane Austen, all rapt observation and wry comment. Close in tone and spirit to her bestselling Le...