By William Landay Delacorte Press, $26.00, 421 pages I grew up watching Perry Mason on TV, a lawyer who never lost a case. I’m also a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense films. Perry and Hitch would …
By Gail Carriger Little, Brown BFYR, $17.99, 320 pages For a mischievous young lady of means like Sophronia Angelina Temminnick, the words “finishing school” are akin to “prison colony” or “formal family affair” on the list of unpleasant experiences. But …
By Cynthia Hand Harper Teen, $17.99, 438 pages In Boundless, the third and final book of the Unearthly series, we find ourselves discovering what college life is like for Clara and friends. Clara, Angela and Christian are all at Stanford University and while …
By Lucy Knisley First Second, $17.99, 192 pages The genetic offspring of a talented chef mom and an epicure dad, amazingly talented Lucy Knisley has drafted a graphic memoir of her growing up within the circle of ‘foodies’ that imprinted her love …
By George O’Connor First Second, $9.99, 80 pages George O’Connor has put together one of the industry’s best written graphic novel series. It seems everyone has something to write pertaining to Greek mythology, but this series, and especially this book, brings …
By Chris Crutcher Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 304 pages Paulie Bomb has a pretty sweet life, except for his philandering father, weak mother, and the best girlfriend in the world who he’s just lost through unbelievable stupidity. But he has a …
By Simon Rich Reagan Arthur Books, $23.99, 240 Pages On any normal day in Heaven, Craig would be hard at work, doing his angelic duties in the Department of Miracles and achieving wonderful results for humans in subtle ways. But today’s hardly …
By Mike Jung, Mike Maihack (illustrator) Arthur A. Levine Books, $16.99, 309 pages Copperplate City is defended by Captain Stupendous, and nobody knows more about him than Vincent Wu and his pals Max and George, members of the (Unofficial) Captain …
By George R.R. Martin Bantam, $16.00, 448 pages From 1979-1986, bestselling author of the Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R . Martin wrote a series of science fiction short stories about the intrepid adventurer and unique character named Tuf. The …
By Lisa McMann Scholastic Inc., $12.99, 192 pages With the Infinity Ring, Sera, Riq, and Dak time travel to periods in history to fix “breaks” in history caused by a mysterious organization called SQ. This time they find themselves in …
By M. John Harrison Night Shade Books, $14.99, 280 pages In Empty Space: A Haunting, M John Harrison continues, if not potentially concludes, the Kefahuchi Tract sequence after a gap of some five years. By any standards this is a remarkable piece …
By A. Lee Martinez Orbit, $13.99, 320 pages Emperor Mollusk is an inventor, a leader, and the ex-warlord of Earth. As a supervillain, he’s done it all and then some. Not too shabby for an invertebrate genius in a robotic body. Now …
By Will Hobbs HarperCollins, $16.99, 224 pages Nick Thrasher, a fifteen-year-old Inuit, hunts for a caribou to feed his family, especially for the organ meat for his grandfather Jonah, who is dying from cancer. After Nick butchers his kill, he …
By Liesel Schwarz Del Rey, $25.00, 352 pages A Conspiracy of Alchemists is a truly unique amalgam of urban fantasy, steampunk, vampires, warlocks and romance. Moreover, author Liesel Schwarz pulls these diverse themes together in a delightfully entertaining way. Conspiracy is set in Europe …
By Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway Avon, $7.99, 384 pages Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway once again join forces to bring readers a wonderfully romantic and humorous novel written in three parts. Taran Ferguson is tired of waiting for …
