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Last week was a banner book week for me. Four books came into my house. They are as different as can be but all look great!
Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones. I love her books! This one is a romantic adventure set in 1930s Shanghai. The hero is a black American jazz musician; the heroine is a young Chinese woman bonded into servitude to pay her father's gambling debts. Their lives collide when the Japanese invade Shanghai.
The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba by Julia Cooke. Cooke is a journalist who spent five years "embedded" in Cuba after Fidel Castro stepped down as President. By focusing on the lives of young adults -- the "last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro" -- Cooke offers a fresh and timely look at real life in Cuba.
Small Town Trouble by Jean Erhardt. This is the first in a new mystery series featuring Kim Claypoole, a restaurateur and amateur sleuth with her home base in the Smokey Mountains.
The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast by Bonnie Henderson, published by OSU Press. Henderson mixes science, history, and first-hand accounts to explain how the next mega-quake under the Pacific Ocean will generate a tsunami "likely to be the most devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States."