Books in the News - 1/20/13

Want the list of books reviewed in your local papers this Sunday?  Done!  Here you go!

The Pioneer Press [1]'s Sunday Life is all about the Winter Carnival 2013 [2] this week, but had room to feature A Carnival of Killing [3] by former Dispatch/Pioneer Press staffer, which is a murder mystery filled with lots of Winter Carnival lore.

Titles reviewed and featured in the Star Tribune's Books [4] section included:

• Kind of Kin [5] by Rilla Askew - a novel set in Oklahoma about a family torn apart by an immigration law

• Heat: Adventures in the World's Firey Places [6] by Bill Streever - nature nonfiction about the hottest places on earth.  (Fun fact:  Streever's last book was Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places [7].)

• The Tell [8] by Hester Kaplan - a novel about the effect on a couple's marriage when an aging but charismatic actor moves in next door

• Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse - nonfiction documenting civilian deaths in the Vietnam War

• The Drowning House [9] by Elizabeth Black - a novel about a photographer investigating family secrets in Galveston, Texas

• The Boy by Lara Santoro - a novel about passion, motherhood, and a woman's unthinkable rebellion

Happy Reading and Requesting!