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Priest helps campus find faith
Most 14-year-olds aren't exactly wrestling with life's more important decisions. Their big decisions usually involve whom they should sit by at lunch, whom to ask to a school dance or how to stretch that curfew by just a few minutes.
But at age 14, Charlie Calabrese made a choice that would govern the rest of his life. He decided to become a Catholic priest.
At the end of his eighth-grade year, said Calabrese, the TCU Catholic Community campus minister, he entered the seminary on a 12-year path toward ordination, an idea he first posed to his grandmother three years earlier. "She said, 'No, no, no, you're going to be rich and famous – you're going to become a doctor,'" Calabrese said. "That was what she thought rich and famous was."
A Lifelong Calling
Calabrese, who has been at TCU since October of 1984, admits now that he had no idea what it really meant to become a priest in fifth grade, and said that after his grandmother's initial discouragement, he didn't mention entering the priesthood again until eighth grade.
But the idea never left him.
"My dad didn't want me to go (to seminary)," Calabrese said. "He said, 'Have a normal high school experience. If you still want to go after high school, that's fine, but I think you're too immature, too young to make this kind of a decision.'"
Calabrese said looking back, his father was right: A 14-year-old could not possibly make that kind of decision. He said he constantly had to renegotiate his decision and sometimes doubted that God wanted him to become a priest.
"There were times I would wake up one morning and I would think, 'yeah, I need to be a priest,'" Calabrese said. "I'd wake up the next morning and say, 'I don't think so.'"
Calabrese said he never heard a voice from God telling him to be a priest or got any clear indication that was what he should do with his life, but in the end, after a lot of prayer, he got the subtle feeling that being a priest was right for him.
"I since continue to believe that God supports our decisions in life and works," he said. "I think God is so much of a realist that God takes a serious thing, works with us in the present to work out the future, but doesn't have the future already mapped out. We have to try to figure it out."
Zan Morningstar, a student coordinator for Catholic Community, said TCU is lucky Calabrese chose the priesthood.
"Father Charlie has given so much time for TCU, but he's always willing to give more time," Morningstar said. "You can come to Father Charlie with any problems you have and he'll do whatever he can for you."
Morningstar, a senior marketing and management major, said Calabrese shows a passion for his work and his light-hearted, caring and understanding nature can benefit everyone at TCU, not just those of the Catholic faith.
"I really think that somebody who wasn't even spiritual could – if they were having problems – they could come in and talk to Father Charlie," Morningstar said. "He would really take the time to listen to them and really be there for them and try to understand what they're going through."
Following the Call
Calabrese said he entered campus ministry in 1976 at Ohio University, but that the choice wasn't his. In those days, Calabrese said, a priest would go to his mailbox and find a letter from the bishop informing him that he would have a new assignment in two weeks.
"I didn't know what to expect," said Calabrese, who had been ordained four years earlier. "I found that I liked it very much and enjoyed working with students, but I had no idea what it was going to be like."
Calabrese said he hit it off with the students and faculty at Ohio right away and found they were eager to include him in their lives. He had been at Ohio for eight years, he said, when he took a trip to Fort Worth to visit some friends and found there was a vacancy at TCU.
The idea of being an official part of the campus at a private university intrigued Calabrese, he said, and soon after, his bishop in Ohio loaned his services to the bishop of Fort Worth.
"All of that was going to be new to me," he said. "I found it attractive to be working with campus ministries of other denominations."
Sister Donna Ferguson, a nun with the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, said she met Calabrese on his visit to Fort Worth more than 20 years ago when she was doing work with campus ministries at TCU.
"The impression was that he was extremely honest," Ferguson said. "He's very intense and very sensitive."
Sister Ferguson, who Calabrese called his spiritual director and said knows him better than anyone else, said Calabrese is "a deeply faithful, true priest" who knows how to listen and is compassionate.
"He is very present to individuals. I think his focus probably is very attractive to individuals who are having a difficult time," she said. "He practices what he preaches."
Calabrese said he constantly prays for the ability to respond to people's needs in the best way possible and to be open to everyone who comes into his life.
"What I pray for is that God will let me be God's tender love in people's lives. That's a bottom-line prayer that I pray on a daily basis," he said. "Everyone doesn't necessarily want to belong to our community or to be in a relationship with me, but I do believe there's room for everybody and I think I am a welcoming presence."
Jessica Searcy, a junior communication studies major and member of Catholic Community, said Calabrese is easy to talk to and makes students feel like they are a welcome part of the community.
"He's there to listen and help, and he's not there to judge," Searcy said. "He doesn't preach to you and tell you what you're doing is wrong. He'll give you advice."
One of the best parts of being at TCU is getting to see the spiritual growth a student experiences over his or her time at TCU, Calabrese said. He said he's always gratified by the way students instantly accept him as part of their lives.
"I guess that's one of the fringes of being a priest or minister – that people take us into their lives," he said. "That most sacred part of their life, they share with us – their most intimate."
Though Calabrese said he is happy to see students grow over their TCU careers, he said it's never easy having people he's formed connections with leave his life so often.
"I cry," he said. "I've gotten very close to some students. I feel sad when they leave. I'm glad that they're leaving and moving on with their lives, and I know they're excited. Some of them are sad to leave, also."
But Calabrese said there is always a fresh crop of students who come along, not to replace people from his past, but with whom to form new relationships.
"That is something that amazes me over and over and over and over," Calabrese said, "is how wonderful the students have been all through the years – their enthusiasm, their leadership, their dedication, their love of the church, their desire to be involved."
Morningstar, who is active in Army ROTC, said Calabrese understands the college student and appreciates and accommodates busy students like him.
"He understands that I'm very devoted to my faith and willing to help, but he also understands that that's not the only thing I do," Morningstar said. "He's always understood that I want to do what I can for Catholic Community but that I've got other stuff going on."
Sister Ferguson said Calbrese's ability to understand the hectic schedule of students and keep them involved with God is a quality that has served him well in campus ministry.
"I think he truly has gotten students more involved in their faith, which is really a hard task when you have so many things to get involved in at TCU," she said. "The fact that (students) take an interest in faith is very important when you have so many other possibilities."
Serving the Campus
In addition to working with students, Calabrese said he also gets the chance to work with faculty and staff and their families. He said one of his most rewarding moments in campus ministry came recently when he went to lunch with the spouse of a staff member who he had been meeting with for several weeks.
Calabrese said he did not want the spouse's gender identified for reasons of confidentiality, but said he was moved by the words that person said to him on a damp and cloudy Thursday afternoon.
"You are the sunshine of my day," Calabrese recalled the person saying. "You just – you just brighten up my day. I've never met a priest that I have found to be so joyful and so loving as you."
Calabrese said he was initially surprised that the person hadn't found joy in the lives of other priests, but that he was deeply touched by the words and felt grateful to be a part of that person's life.
Even though Calabrese has helped so many through rough patches in their faith lives, he said he, too, experiences doubts.
"It's human to doubt, to wonder, to have fear crop up," he said. "To wonder, in those dry periods of our prayer life where we don't feel the presence of God, is God really present? Have I done something to harm my relationship with God?"
He said he has relied on the insight and wisdom of Sister Ferguson to set him straight in his spiritually trying times and every spiritual adviser needs guidance in order to guide others.
"Anyone who's providing spiritual direction for others, if they're not in spiritual direction themselves, that's, I think, a dangerous thing," Calabrese said. "Oh yeah, gosh, do I need it."
Despite his doubts, Calabrese said he has formed an intimate relationship with God and is happy where he is now: experiencing the joy students bring into his life as he helps them appropriate the Catholic faith in a mature way.
"I used to think there was some place to go – a certain degree of holiness I had to have or there were stages in the spiritual journey I had to fulfill," Calabrese said. "I just reached the conclusion there's no place to go. In a sense, there's nothing to do except do what I'm doing – to be present in the moment.
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A Heart in a Body in the World
by Caletti, Deb
School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-Seventeen-year-old Annabelle Agnelli needs to run away from tragedy. She starts in her hometown of Seattle with the intention to run 2,700 miles to Washington, D.C. As she crosses the vast and lonely terrain, she has flashbacks that gradually reveal what she is trying to flee. She runs to punish herself for the crime she thinks she has committed; she runs to feel the pain she thinks she deserves. Annabelle unwittingly becomes a spokesperson for a greater cause and a reluctant role model. Caletti tackles two big topics-gun violence and violence against women-with enormous skill. Annabelle's story never seems forced or heavy-handed; Caletti realistically mines the gray areas of the teen's conscience. Portrayals of complex, multifaceted secondary characters and vivid descriptions of the protagonist's surroundings permeate this story and make it come to life. Readers can almost smell the pine trees, see the glimmering lake water, and feel the steamy heat rising off of the pavement as Annabelle runs across the country. They can also feel her confusion and pain, which makes her hard-won self-redemption most rewarding. -VERDICT A moving novel centered on -timely issues that deserves a place in all libraries serving young adults.-Melissa Kazan, Horace Mann School, NY © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Publishers Weekly It's been nine months since an unnamed act of violence left runner Annabelle "broken and guilty and scared." When an incident at a restaurant triggers bad memories for the high school senior, she takes off running, forming a plan to go 2,719 miles, from Seattle to Washington, D.C. In a powerful story of a survivor trying to regain a sense of justice and power, Caletti (Honey, Baby, Sweetheart) details a young woman's harrowing psychological and physical journey across the United States. Thanks to support-written with tender detail, her younger brother and friends create a GoFundMe website, her grandfather trails her in his well-equipped RV, and a growing fan base cheers her on-Annabelle's trek quickly evolves into a cause. What happened to Annabelle and why she feels compelled to run to the nation's capital remain undefined until the book's end, when a series of flashbacks playing in the heroine's mind reveal clues as she battles exhaustion, dehydration, and pain during her 16-mile-a-day run. Caletti expresses familiar themes about what it can be like to live as a woman in U.S. society, constantly guarding against threat ("What are you supposed to do when you're also required to be kind and helpful as well as vigilant?"). Annabelle's determination to make a difference in spite of her fears sends an inspiring and empowering message. Ages 14-up. Agent: Michael Bourret, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Book list *Starred Review* A guy in a parking lot leers at her, and Annabelle Agnelli takes off running. Eleven miles later, she stops, only to realize that running is exactly what she needs to do. Not just an impromptu, panic-stricken bolt, but an outlandishly extreme run that will take her from Seattle to Washington, D.C. It might help with her PTSD, and it might help her come to terms with her body. It will surely give her time to mourn the terrible losses of the previous year, and atone for the role she was never meant to play. This remarkable book traces Annabelle's cross-country adventure while gradually peeling apart the events that led to the trauma she's running from. Annabelle was on the rebound from a disrupted relationship when she befriends a socially awkward boy, now known only as The Taker. Annabelle couldn't decide if he was weird or cute and tried not to encourage him, but looking back, she is tormented by her every smile and kindness. Through Annabelle, Caletti rips apart the contradictions of a society that commands women to be compliant and pleasing and then blames them for male responses to their attractiveness, however violent they might be. This timely, well-written novel is crucial reading in the days of #metoo.--Colson, Diane Copyright 2010 Booklist
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The Rough Patch
by Brian Lies
Book list *Starred Review* Farmer Evan, portrayed as a fox in overalls, has a dog. Constant companions, they enjoy playing games, taking hikes, and working in the garden. But after the dog's death, Evan feels that nothing will be quite the same and so hacks his beloved garden to bits. Time passes. Weeds move in, and he lets the itchy, spiky-looking ones stay. He begins to tend a prickly vine, which eventually produces an enormous pumpkin. Feeling an old, familiar sense of excitement, Evan hauls his pumpkin to the local fair, where he enjoys the food, the games, and talking with old friends. His pumpkin wins him a prize: $10 or a puppy. He drives home with a new companion. Spare and beautifully phrased, the story is well told in the text. But Evan's emotions are most vividly conveyed in the artwork, created with acrylics, oils, and colored pencils. In the graveside scene, a shadow literally falls over Evan, while on the facing page, the phrase and nothing was the same appears on a light gray background, encroached by looming, chaotic darkness. Lies' rich colors and expressive use of light are evident throughout this picture book, which acknowledges grief and delivers a hopeful message with subtlety, empathy, and eloquence.--Phelan, Carolyn Copyright 2018 Booklist
School Library Journal Gr 2-5-Lies taps into the powerful nature of love, loss, grief, and hope in his latest picture book. Evan, a fox, and his dog are best friends and in a series of acrylic, oil, and colored pencil vignettes, they are shown attending a fair, playing games, and, most important, working in Evan's meticulously groomed garden. These loving scenes are abruptly cut short by a large spread of white space with spare text stating: "But one day, the unthinkable happened." On the opposing page, white space surrounds a grieving Evan as he mourns the loss of his dog. In his grief, Evan destroys the garden that reminds him so much of his friend and weeds grow in its place. When a pumpkin vine sneaks into the garden, Evan allows it to take root and with it, hope returns. With lyrical figurative language, Evan transitions from being devastated by heartache to a being willing to step back into the world again. With his pumpkin, Evan rejoins his friends at the fair. Although it's not the same without his best friend, he enjoys himself again and even wins a prize for his pumpkin. His prize and the hope of all those who suffer love's loss is a chance to love again with a new puppy. While best suited for independent readers or shared moments during a loss, this poignant picture book provides an exquisite depiction of grief and hope. VERDICT A remarkable first selection for all libraries and a helpful guide for children and adults who are going through their own rough patches.-Rachel Zuffa, Racine Public Library, WI © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly The polished, jaunty spreads that open this story by Lies (Gator Dad) give little hint of the deep emotion to come. Evan, a fox, cuts a handsome figure in his overalls and wire-rimmed spectacles, and he and his beloved black-and-white dog are always together. They drive in Evan's red farm truck and play games, "But what they loved the most was working in Evan's magnificent garden," a lush, fertile enclosure studded with neat trellises. Then, two terrible things happen: Evan's dog dies-readers see the fox slumped over the hound's body-and in his grief, Evan destroys his garden, swinging a hoe that fells the plants and snaps the trellises in two. The story of how Evan finds his way through his grief rings true, and Lies's atmospherically lit, exquisitely drafted paintings will absorb readers as they trace Evan's journey through mourning. Some sensitive readers may draw back from tragedy this stark, but others will be fascinated by Evan's mysterious world, in which pumpkins grow into prize-winning behemoths and rubber boots come specially made for fox feet. Ages 4-8. Agent: Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Free Falling As If in a Dream:
by Leif GW Persson
Library Journal Persson concludes his trilogy (Another Time, Another Life; Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End) about the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986, a case that was never solved but now is, though only as fiction. It is a meticulous reconstruction of the investigation of a highly sensitive case, long since past but now reopened. More than any other series of police procedurals today, Persson's exceptional novels show how cops actually pursue a difficult investigation, the thousands of steps and missteps that occur en route. The detectives are competent and human, with interesting quirks; their boss Lars Martin Johannsson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, is a veritable bloodhound once he gets a notion in his head. In the process of narrating this fascinating tale, Persson makes telling comments about the pernicious influence of the police presence in Sweden and paints an uproariously funny portrait of a very bad cop-venal, xenophobic, work-averse, and a liar-who attempts to force his way into the case with disastrous consequences. (For himself, of course.) Verdict Readers who enjoy Scandinavian crime fiction will love Persson's climactic volume in a series that may be the best around. [Interestingly, the late Swedish journalist and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson may have cracked the case; according to the Guardian (bit.ly/1fLJ3Sg), a Swedish newspaper recently reported that Larsson left 15 boxes of papers for the police supporting his claim that South African security forces were involved in the crime.-Ed.]-David Keymer, Modesto, CA (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Book list Swedish crime fiction had a solid fan base in North America even before Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy hit the shelves, but since then the onslaught of new authors has become a tidal wave. Persson's trilogy of crime novels featuring Lars Martin Johansson (introduced in the author's first novel, 1978's The Pig Party) was originally published from 2002 through 2007 but didn't start appearing in English translation until 2010. Here, in the concluding volume, Lars Martin is now the head of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation. He remains obsessed with the still-unsolved 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, and now he has taken the highly unusual and politically unwise step of reopening the investigation. How much of his own life and career (not to mention sanity) is he willing to sacrifice to find, more than two decades later, Palme's killer? A gripping novel and a fitting conclusion to a trilogy that, in many ways, is nearly as powerful as Larsson's blockbusters.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
by Kevin Henkes
Book list *Starred Review* A pig with an umbrella, a spotted owl, a puppy on a sled, a bear holding a kite, and a rabbit with a long accordion body. These five little toys look out a tall window at nothing much, waiting. Pig waits for rain; Owl, the moon; Bear, the wind; Puppy, the snow; and Rabbit just waits. One day they are joined by a round wobble of a cat. She tumbles over and out come nested cats of decreasing size, who join the friends on the windowsill to wait and watch. Quiet yet evocative, this is a lovely melding of artwork, design, and text. The pictures, executed in a soft palette of brown ink, watercolors, and colored pencils, get a suitable home on buff-colored pages. The thoughtful design begins on the jacket, where the window, its panes accentuated by a shiny gloss, allows the toys to view clouds reflecting altered views of their own images: Pig's umbrella floats through the sky, while the staid owl soars with wings spread. The short sentences of the text flow with the precision one would expect from a master picture-book creator like Henkes. Little ones, to whom each experience is new, will know what it's like to dream and wait. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Caldecott medalist and Newbery Honor Book author Henkes is a favorite among librarians and booksellers (and, of course, children). Any new book will spark demand from his fans.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2010 Booklist
School Library Journal PreS-K-Five toys sit on a windowsill, each waiting for something. There's an owl with spots waiting for the moon, a pig with the umbrella waiting for the rain, a bear with a kite waiting for the wind, and a puppy on a sled waiting for the snow. And then there's a "rabbit with stars," content to simply look out the window. With an economy of words and gently repeating patterns, the text informs readers about the emotional ups and downs of this tiny band of friends: what makes them happy (getting what they've waited for), what makes them sad (when one of them goes away), and what surprises them (gifts, visitors, new friends.) Along with happiness and friendship, there are small moments of grief, anxiety, and existential wonder-all thoughtfully and authentically depicted with childlike honesty and optimism. On thick, creamy pages, Henkes uses brown ink with touches of watercolor and colored pencil in muted shades of pink, green, and blue to depict the softly rounded figures, shown small before the expanse of the four-paned window. Henkes varies the compositions with vignettes and a four-page wordless sequence showing the beautiful (a rainbow, fireworks) and sometimes scary (lightning) sights that the toys observe from the vantage point of their windowsill. The careful placement of the text and images establishes a leisurely pace, encouraging readers and listeners to slow down, examine the pictures, and discuss. Are these sentient little beings or are they moved and posed by an unseen child? Henkes leaves it up to readers to determine. VERDICT Waiting further cements Henkes's place alongside picture book legends like Margaret Wise Brown, Crockett Johnson, and Ruth Krauss, through his lyrical text, uncluttered yet wondrously expressive illustrations, and utmost respect for the emotional life of young children.-Kiera Parrott, School Library Journal © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Waiting can make anyone feel helpless and frustrated, so the five toylike knickknacks in Henkes's (Penny and Her Marble) story should be at their collective wits' end. Perched on a windowsill, this odd, diminutive crew-a pig with an umbrella, a bear with a kite, a puppy attached to a sled, a rabbit on an accordion spring, and an owl-have little volition of their own ("Sometimes one or the other of them went away, but he or she always came back"). But while their lives are spent waiting, their existence seems full and rich with meaning. Waiting reinforces their sense of identity: the pig waits for the rain and when it comes, "the pig was happy. The umbrella kept her dry." Waiting also connects them to each other: looking out the window together, "they saw many wonderful, interesting things," like frost on the windowpane or a sky lit up with fireworks. Henkes never tells readers explicitly what he's up to, and several incidents are wide open to interpretation-and that's what makes this enigmatic, lovely book intriguing and inimitable. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Seven Blind Mice
Publishers Weekly In a stunning celebration of color Caldecott medalist Young ( Lon Po Po ) offers a vibrant variation on the fable of the blind men trying to identify an elephant. Seven differently-hued blind mice approach the ``strange Something'' in their midst on successive days and report their findings to the group. A large black square provides the background for each painting, a dramatic contrast to the brilliant images ``felt'' by the sightless rodents. Young's textured, cut-paper illustrations allow readers to visualize just how a floppy ear might be mistaken for a fan (``I felt it move!''); the elephant's curving trunk springs to life as both a jewel-green snake and a glowing yellow spear. The spare text permits greater exploration and enjoyment of the artwork--it may be difficult to read the story straight through without stopping to compare the various images. The ``Mouse Moral'' that concludes the tale--``Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole''--may seem superfluous to those who prefer the imaginative ``vision'' of the mice. Ages 4-up. (Apr.)
School Library Journal K-Gr 3-- A real winner, on many levels. The first impression is visual delight. Brilliant colors and varied textures of paper collage are placed in striking contrast against velvety black pages. Bold white lettering imposed on the dark background tells of seven blind mice, seen in seven bright colors. Over the course of a week each investigates, in turn, the strange ``Something'' it encounters. To one it is a pillar, to another a snake, to another a cliff. Finally, on the seventh day, the white mouse, running across the thing and remembering what the others found, concludes that it is an elephant. The tale ends with the moral that wisdom comes from seeing ``the whole.'' Adapting the old fable of the blind men and the elephant by weaving in the days of the week, the mice, and the beautiful shapes of the things they see, Young gives children a clever story, wise words, and a truly exciting visual experience.-- Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
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Never Go Back
by Lee Child
Book list *Starred Review* Jack Reacher, the loner thumbing his way through life, despises entanglements. So what could he possibly be doing going back to his old barracks in Washington, D.C., to take a woman to dinner? Yes, the woman, Major Susan Turner, is now the C.O. of Reacher's former unit, and, yes, he liked her voice when he talked to her on the phone in 61 Hours (2010), but, really, Reacher, what were you thinking? Naturally, when Reacher arrives on the base to ask Turner out, he discovers a whopping mess and lands in the middle of it. Turner is in the brig, and the army promptly arrests Reacher on what seems to be a trumped-up charge involving a case from decades ago. And what's this about Reacher having a daughter, of all things, whose mother is suing for child support? None of it makes sense, except that somehow it must all tie together. Nothing to do but break out of the brig, with Turner in tow, and set things right, which requires a cross-country road trip, more than a little rough stuff, and a whole lot of fretting about entanglements. Child never, ever slips. He keeps the action cranking better than anyone, but, best of all, he keeps us guessing about Reacher. Will he, of all people (Ninety-nine of us grow up to fear the howling wolf, and one grows up to envy it. I'm that guy.), really hang up his toothbrush (his only traveling accoutrement) this time? Child has spent 17 novels committing his hero to the call of the wild, and now he dangles a dinner date and a possible daughter in front of the howling wolf? Brilliant. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Published in nearly 40 countries and more than 70 languages with more than 70 million copies in print, the Jack Reacher series is a publishing phenomenon and won't go away anytime soon.--Ott, Bill Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal After trekking back from the savage snowstorms of South Dakota, Jack Reacher finally returns to his old military police unit, eager to meet Maj. Susan Turner, the new commanding officer who helped him save the trapped victims in 61 Hours. However, Reacher finds out that Turner is under investigation for corruption and is awaiting trial for conspiracy. And that's not all. The army drafts him back into service to face two trumped-up legal cases-homicide charges for assaulting an L.A. gangbanger for selling black-market weapons and a paternity suit from a former girlfriend alleging that Reacher fathered her 14-year-old daughter. Both parties are simply after his money. Harnessing his anger and brute strength, Reacher cunningly defends himself, promising to "never go back." VERDICT As they snatch up Reacher's 18th adventure, avid fans in more than 95 countries will again marvel at Child's terse, hard-boiled style. [See Prepub Alert, 3/11/13.]-Jerry P. Miller. Cambridge, MA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Since talking to Maj. Susan Turner on the telephone from South Dakota in 2010's 61 Hours (bestseller Childs's 14th Jack Reacher novel), the former military cop has been heading to the Virginia headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP, in hopes of meeting her. In this 18th outing, Reacher finally arrives in Virginia, where his plan to meet Turner is initially thwarted by thugs who want to keep them apart. An arrest for a crime Reacher doesn't remember committing 16 years earlier and the dangled bait that he might be a father provoke him to run, kicking off a cross-country odyssey. As usual, head-busting physicality and analytical problem solving play key roles in Reacher's fight to prove his innocence and expose his enemies. Manhunts on both coasts, a link to corruption in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. military drawdown, and the possibility for romance between Reacher and Turner make this entry one of the best in the series. Agent: Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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