![]() ![]() In anticipation of spring, we must add a baseball book: Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life by Katya Cengal (University of Nebraska Press), about ordinary people with a passion for the game, from players to groundskeepers to local families.Īnd what a rich trove of fiction. In "dazzling prose," National Book Award-winning historian Timothy Egan took us into the life and world of an iconic photographer with Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). ![]() Guy also provided one of our most delightful interviews. One of our favorites was When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy (Da Capo Press), "the epitome of Chicago blues." The ebullient Mr. Susan Cain wrote about the gifts of introversion in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Crown) for people labeled shy, unsocial or unfriendly, it's a welcome antidote to an extrovert-centric world.īruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen: 2012 was a great year for music memoirs and biographies. So we'll squeeze in just a few more worthy books: We've already published our Shelf Awareness Pro reviewers' favorites, here and here, and even so, it was agonizing to choose only 10 titles each for fiction, nonfiction and children's/YA. In our final issue of 2012, we are celebrating books we reviewed and loved this year. ![]()
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