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July 7, 2011TITANIC’S LAST SECRETS
By BRAD MATSEN
Twelve Publications, $27.99
If you feel there’s nothing new to be learned about the Titanic, this book will shock you with revelations of cost cutting by the owners resulting in a less than seaworthy vessel. Had the Titanic been built as designed, with double hulls and larger rivets, it could have stayed afloat up to two hours longer and more than 1,500 lives would have been saved.
The deep sea explorations by the “Shadow Divers,” John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, prove the ship did not go down intact as depicted in the movies, but that it broke in half at the surface. Thanks to their inspection and the research of the author, the Titanic continues to fascinate.
10th ANNIVERSARY
By JAMES PATTERSON & MAXINE PAETRO
Little, Brown, $27.99
Patterson celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Women’s Murder Club with Lindsay Boxer and Joe tying the knot, but the honeymoon is interrupted when a young girl, showing signs of having just given birth, is found unconscious with no sign of the baby. Determined to find the infant, Lindsay is baffled when confronted with several similar cases.
In the meantime, her good friend, Assistant District Attorney, Yuki Castellano, is prosecuting a well-known doctor charged with killing her husband. When Lindsay discovers evidence that might prove the doctor’s innocence, she’s torn between staying silent, or revealing it and wrecking her friend’s case.
Patterson and Paetro continue to keep us turning pages at a furious pace.
AFRAID OF THE DARK
By JAMES GRIPPANDO
Harper, $25.99
Defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back in what may be his most difficult case yet when he’s called on to defend a young man who’s dying girlfriend named him as her killer. Worse still, an explosion blinds Sgt. Vince Paulo, who witnessed the girl’s last words, as he left the scene.
Filled with twist and turns and a frightening villain known only as “The Dark,” terror awaits Jack at every turn, including threats against his aged grandfather in a nursing home.
COME AND FIND ME
By HALLIE EPHRON
William Morrow, $24.99
The author, one of the four Ephron writing sisters, follows up her award-winning previous novel with an exciting thriller featuring a heroine who’s both a computer hacker and a security expert who protects businesses from people like her. She does all this from her home, which she hasn’t left for over a year since her fiancé was killed in a climbing accident. But when her sister goes missing, she finally gathers her courage and leaves the house to face unknown dangers.
TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN
By STEFAN KANFER
Knopf, $26.95
Humphrey Bogart is not the tough “dead end” kid you’d expect, but rather, a privileged son of a wealthy family, who ran away from home, joined the Navy and somehow ended up in Hollywood playing small roles in Grade-B movies. But with his starring role in John Huston’s “Sierra Madre,” his career took off and earned him kudos for his performances in “Casablanca” and the “Caine Mutiny Court Martial.”
Bogie’s only Academy Award came for “The African Queen,” but it was in “To Have or Have Not” that the three-times-married actor scored his greatest triumph, meeting and marrying Lauren Bacall.
I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING
By CHARLOTTE CHANDLER
Applause Books, $18.99
Katharine Hepburn was the ultimate Hollywood movie star, winning a record four Oscars: “Morning Glory,” “The Lion in Winter,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “On Golden Pond.” Her life story, however, is even more fascinating than her onscreen roles; finding her older brother’s body, whom she idolized, in an apparent suicide; swimming nude with lover Howard Hughes; and, although she had other loves, none could compare with her long lasting love affair with Spencer Tracy.
She, of course, co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in “African Queen.”
Includes lots of great black and white photos.
THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE
By SHAWN ACHOR
Random House Audio, $35
This audio book could have been subtitled, “Happy at Harvard,” where this course on achieving happiness was created and taught by the author, one of the world’s leading experts on human potential.
On the six CD’s, Achor explains the seven practical principles that we can use to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our full potential.
