By Isabel Sharpe
Avon A, $13.99, 300 pages
Megan’s life is a carefully controlled mess; her marriage remains intact only because of her desire to do what’s best for her kids, and her friendships are all superficial at best. But this is what she has chosen, and she believes herself to be happy enough until her [...]
By Danny Tobey
Atria, $25.00, 320 pages
Jeremy Davis comes from a small city in Texas and graduates – first in his class – from a small college we’ve never heard about. Then to his surprise, he is accepted at the greatest law school in the world. At the school, Jeremy soon learns about the existence [...]
By Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Golden Gryphon Press, $24.95, 316 pages
Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories collects nine tales by award winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Perhaps best known for her novella of space-faring treasure archaeologists and treasure hunters, “Diving into the Wreck” (which appears in this collection), this compilation shows the unique versatility and consummate [...]
By Edward Hirsch
Knopf, $27.00, 242 pages
The Living Fire is a collection of new and old poems by famous American poet Edward Hirsch. Current president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hirsch has published popular poetry collections for over three decades. This new collection brings to readers new poems, as well as a comprehensive [...]
By Karin Fossum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25.00, 265 pages
A line of people stands in her driveway but she’s used to seeing them. They’re potential characters, waiting day after day, week after week, sometimes year after year, for her to tell their story. Then one night, the unthinkable happens…one of the characters comes right into her [...]
By Randall de Seve
Balzer + Bray, $15.99, 28 pages
Mathilda is a young, curious sheep among a herd of incurious grass-munchers. Collectively, they are about as dull and gray as a herd of sheep can get. Then one day, an orange balloon drifts by on a breeze and changes Mathilda’s life. As she watches it [...]
By Bonnie Worth
Random House Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 45 pages
When my oldest child was a preschooler, someone advised me not to read at my child’s perceived level. Instead, I should provide books that were above his level because he would understand more than I expected. Repeatedly, this advice proved correct, and I remain [...]
By Jefferson Bass
William Morrow, $24.99, 359 pages
The author of this true-to-life, crime scene investigation novel is two persons: Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Together as Jefferson Bass, they have written several novels based on the work of Dr. Bass, who is a highly respected forensic anthropologist. There is no criminology that relies on [...]
By Jaspreet Singh
Walker & Company, $14.00, 250 pages
“The carrots and onions were having better sex than me. Zucchini made scandalous love to paneer, mushrooms, garlic and tomatoes.”
Award-winning short story writer Jaspreet Singh’s first novel opens fittingly on a train as the narrator, Kirpal Singh, is traveling from India to Kashmir. Though ill, he is [...]
By Jake Adelstein
Pantheon, $28.00, 336 pages
Jake Adelstein is a brave man. He’s also one of the luckiest. Despite being American and Jewish, Adelstein managed to get a job at a premiere newspaper in Japan—not the English edition or the fluff articles either. Adelstein worked the police beat at Yomiuri Shinbun for 12 years, and [...]
By Heather Terrell
Ballantine Books, $14.00, 256 pages
When Alexandra Patterson, an appraiser of medieval relics, is called to Ireland to study a reliquary box at a small convent near Dublin, she has no idea that what she finds just might rock the Catholic Church.
Seamlessly transitioning from 456 A.D. to the present day and Alexandra’s discovery [...]
By Guy Gavriel Kay
Roc, $26.95, 592 pages
Guy Gavriel Kay is a historical fantasist, using historical places and times and recreating them for his stories. The majority of his previous books have been European-based, which makes Under Heaven a pleasure to read for people familiar with his books. In Under Heaven, Kay uses the Chinese [...]
By Quindlen, Anna
Random House, $26.00, 299 pages
Mary Beth Lethem, wife, mother, and businesswoman narrates the challenges of her life that, at least as our story begins, are ordinary and yet exquisitely rendered in Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One. Mary Beth’s daughter Ruby, too bright, too beautiful, and too independent is entering her last year [...]
By Zoe Fishman
Harper Paperbacks, $13.99, 365 pages
At a 10-year college reunion in New York City, Charlie, a co-owner of a new yoga studio in Brooklyn, convinces three of her college acquaintances to form a small-group yoga basics class on Saturday mornings. Over the course of the six weeks of the class, the introspective quality [...]
By Kerry Reichs
Avon A, $13.99, 368 pages
I paused in my reading at the sound of a man’s voice nearby. I had him repeat his words. “Funny Book, huh?” he asked. I nodded in agreement and went back to my reading. I’d been chuckling out loud, without noticing, all the way through Kerry Reich’s magnificent [...]
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