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2011 Best of Indie: The Complete List (page 3)


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Cover art for AMIDST LATVIANS DURING THE HOLOCAUST
INDIE
Released: Dec. 27, 2010

"A testament of remarkable clarity and humanity, wrung from dark experience."
A Jewish teenager views World War II from a very precarious perch—Nazi-occupied Latvia—in this quietly harrowing memoir. Read full book review >
Cover art for NEWSLADY
INDIE
Released: Nov. 5, 2010

"An honest, engaging self-portrait of a woman who forever changed racial and gender dynamics in media."
A journalist's trailblazing rise and swift fall in TV broadcasting. Read full book review >
Cover art for MISFITS & HEROES
INDIE
Released: Nov. 4, 2010

"The kind of dangerous book that makes you want to remove most of your clothing, climb in a dugout and just start paddling."
Rollins tells an epic tale of ancient conflict, migration, spirit-world mystery and love. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE SHAKE
INDIE
Released: Sept. 27, 2010

"An utterly readable fusion of vampire fiction and labyrinthine whodunit powered by a highly intelligent narrative containing deep existential speculation and numerous philosophical references; Anne Rice meets Dashiell Hammett at a Zen Buddhist monastery."
A philosophically inclined vampire turns gumshoe and investigates an unsolved murder. Read full book review >
Cover art for OH, BEAUTIFUL
INDIE
Released: July 4, 2010

"A satisfying, well-crafted reminder of how one family's story can encapsulate the cultural history of America as a whole."
Godges presents a vast narrative depicting what it means to be an American, told through the lens of an expressive family story. Read full book review >
Cover art for YELLOW BIRD
INDIE
Released: June 24, 2010

"Old-fashioned but never stodgy; a charming story about a bygone time where even magic seems possible."
In Johnson's novel, faith and mysticism bring two people on uncertain paths together in the mountains of Appalachia. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE ABOMINABLE GAYMAN
INDIE
Released: Feb. 15, 2010

"An extremely important contribution to the field of Mormon fiction, whose current growth just might make all that explication unnecessary in the future."
In this novelistic collection of short stories, a gay Mormon missionary struggles to make sense of sexuality and spirituality in 1970s Italy. Read full book review >
Cover art for ROCK STAR'S RAINBOW
INDIE
Released: Jan. 1, 2010

"A smart, entertaining send-up of celebrity under siege."
A rock star searching for his soul embarks on an underworld picaresque in this gonzo satirical romance. Read full book review >
Cover art for MOTHS TO FLAME
INDIE
Released: Dec. 3, 2009

"A gripping thriller with as many twists and turns as a cross-country road trip."
A young man set to inherit his dead father's fortune runs into a charismatic drifter on a cross-country trip in this thriller from Maffei (And of the Holy Ghost, 2010, etc.). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE SCHOOLMASTER SPY
INDIE
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"A fine, gripping page-turner infused with a deep historical sensibility."
A Czech spy-chief battles the rising Nazi menace in this engrossing thriller. Read full book review >