Revival by Stephen King
Scribner
We haven't seen a preacher raise such a ruckus since Jim Bakker. In King's latest novel, the charismatic Rev. Charles Jacobs turns a small Maine town upside down. When his wife and son die in an tractor accident, Father Jacobs curses God and mocks religion. When the preacher is fired, things get progressively worse, culminating in a terrifying confrontation decades later. (Like for many King books, you'll want to turn on all the lights and lock the door before you start reading this one.)
Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme
Overlook
It's the late 1980s in Alphabet City. In New York Post film critic Smith Nehme's debut novel, heroine Ceinwen Reilly lives in an Avenue C walk-up, struggles to make ends meet and watches "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" at the New Yorker theater. The plot thickens when Ceinwen discovers that an elderly neighbor may have starred in a forgotten silent film. Ceinwen embarks on a search of a print of the film, as well as for her own identity.
Between Two Worlds: How English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
Basic
It wasn't all Thanksgiving for the Pilgrims. Historian Gaskill talks turkey about the rough road the first 350,000 English settlers followed in the New World and how their travails in the wilderness helped make them into Americans. Arriving with an intention of recreate a genteel English way of life, they soon realized there was little help from home and that they had to adapt and innovate to their often hostile environment. It was the first step toward rebellion that would culminate in the next century with independence.
What I love about Movies edited by David Jenkins and Adam Woodward
Opus
If you want to know what some filmmakers and actors think about the movies, they spell it out in this volume. Whimsically illustrated, and with sections marked off in a movie-ticket motif, we hear from the likes of Mila Kunis ("It's escapism for an hour-and-a-half"), Helen Mirren ("When I watch . . . it's just me and the screen, and I love the intimacy of that") and Wes Anderson ("The feeling of someone casting a spell and taking you completely out of your life and putting you in some other place . . .").
On the Road With Janis Joplin by John Byrne Cook
Berkley
It was 1967, the Summer of Love. The spotlight shone on Janis Joplin, and road manager Byrne Cooke saw it all — not to mention Woodstock in 1969, the Festival Express train trip across Canada and even Joplin's 10th high-school reunion. Plus, Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company's first trip to NYC: "The first thing Janis and the boys notice about New York is that people here don't make eye contact," he reports. It's the story of the woman who skyrocketed to fame as the first female rock superstar and left it at a tragically young age — from someone who had a front-row seat.
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