Fiction
Lucid Intervals: A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart Woods — The 18th novel featuring the wining, dining, womanizing yet charming New York City attorney.
This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George — A mystery lover’s mystery, with a complex case that lures Inspector Lynley back from mourning his dead wife to investigate the death of a young woman.
The Burying Place by Brian Freeman — There’s nothing like a crisis to pull you back from the brink of despair, as Duluth, Minnesota detective Jonathan Stride discovers when he learns of a baby kidnapping and a rash of serial killings in the normally sleepy lakeside town.
American Taliban by Pearl Abraham — What would cause a young American, raised in relative wealth and privilege, to leave his country for Pakistan and take up arms with terrorists? Abraham explores that question in this novel loosely inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh.
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen — Quindlen’s latest novel explores what happens when the utterly unforeseen befalls a previously peaceful, happy family: landscaper Mary Beth, her ophthalmologist husband, her teenaged daughter, and younger twin sons.
Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay — Newspaper reporter David Harwood takes his wife Jan and young son Ethan on an outing to an amusement park, thinking it will lift their spirits. But in the press of the crowd, Ethan disappears, and when Jan goes to look for him, she never returns. David suddenly finds himself the chief suspect in what is assumed to be a double homicide, and he has to find out the truth on his own.
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli — Helen Adams, a photographer fresh out of college, arrives in Vietnam in 1963 to learn about and document the war that has already taken her brother. She quickly falls in with — and in love with — two very different men also consumed by the tragedies of the war — Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran photojournalist Sam Darrow and his young Vietnamese assistant, Linh.
Without Mercy by Lisa Jackson — Jules Farentino, worried about her younger half-sister, gets a job at the prep/reform school in the Oregon wilderness where Shay has been sent — and where young women have recently started to turn up missing or dead.
Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories by Aryn Kyle — Despite the title, the protagonist’s of Kyle’s stories are almost all girls and women, all trying to figure out themselves and their relationship to the world around them. If you liked Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals, be sure to check this collection out!
Angelology by Danielle Trussoni — It starts innocently enough: Sister Evangeline of the St. Rose Convent arhives receives a letter from V.A. Verlaine, who is wondering about a possibly link between the convent and philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller. What she uncovers is an epic battle concerning an artifact sacred to a band of fallen angels — angels who may walk among us to this day. It sounds whacky, but it’s been getting rave reviews, so take a look!
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark — You’re on your deathbed, and you face a choice: keep a secret and ensure the beatification of a woman you know to be a liar, and allow a fortune to be squandered, or face the chaos that will ensue from revealing what you know? Clark’s latest explores faith, family loyalty, morality, and mortality in her latest best-seller.
The Exodus Quest by Will Adams — Archeologist Daniel Knox stumbles on a bowl with ties to the Dead Sea Scrolls while wandering through an Egyptian marketplace in this fast-paced follow-up to The Alexander Cipher.
Reckless by Andrew Gross — The murder of an investment banker and his family seems like just a burglary gone bad, but global securities firm investigator and former NYPD detective Ty Hauck suspects there’s more to the case. Gross used to co-write books with James Patterson — expect a similar kind of edge-of-your-seat story in his latest.
The Skorpion Directive by David Stone — The latest thriller featuring CIA “cleaner” Micah Dalton requires, according to Library Journal, some suspension of disbelief but makes up for it with non-stop action.
Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker — Before he died, Parker completed this follow-up to Brimstone, which finds Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch dealing with the corrupt new chief of police in Appaloosa.
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard — Twenty-three years ago, Collin Crosby’s father was convicted of the murders of a Kansas ranching couple. Collin, now a lawyer, has secured a new trial for his father, and now the two of them return to the scene of the crime to confront the surviving family members, and to make them confront the truth about the past.
Innocent by Scott Turow — Over twenty years after his first best-seller, Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow revisits the characters from that novel, now older but just as troubled, in this stellarly-reviewed new courtroom drama.
Nonfiction
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick — New Yorker editor Remnick’s new biography of the President.
In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape by Gretel Ehrlich — Ehrlich continues her chronicles of the Arctic by taking a trip around the Arctic Circle and reporting on the cultures that live within it.
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove — Rove gives a behind-the-scenes perspective on George W. Bush’s rise first to governor of Texas and then to the presidency of the United States.
Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff Out of Your Head, Find it When You Need It, and Get It Done Right by Douglas C. Merrill and James A. Martin — A former Google CIO and a technology blogger give you tips on staying organized and up-to-date.
When I Came West by Laurie Wagner Buyer — In the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner was a college student who’d never even been on a camping trip, but she yearned to live close to the outdoors, so she answered an ad from a Vietnam vet looking for a companion to join him in a cabin in Montana with no plumbing or electricity, four miles from the nearest neighbor. When I Came West is her account of the hardships she endured — and the things she learned.
The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain by Judith Horstman — A fascinating look at what’s happening in your brain, hour by hour, in an average day, and how it affects your body, your mood, your long-term health, and more.
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick — Best-selling historian Philbrick (author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War and In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex) brings his narrative skill to the oft-told but still compelling story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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