By Jim Bob The Friday Project Limited, $19.99, 257 pages There are certain eccentricities in life one really doesn’t like to admit to except in the most intimate and trusted of company and even then you better watch your back, …
By Edward Kelsey Moore Knopf, $24.95, 320 pages In this first novel, Edward Kelsey Moore acquaints us with the southern Indiana town of Plainview and with its African-American residents. Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean have been each others’ staunch friends …
By Adam Mansbach Viking, $26.95, 304 pages No one knows what happened to the Immortal 5 on the night of Dondi’s birth. All eighteen-year-old Dondi knows is the repercussions: his dad’s disappearance, his mom’s anger, Amuse’s death, Fever’s blindness, Cloud …
By Anthony Marra Hogarth, $26.00, 400 pages War has obliterated the small Chechnyan village of Eldár. The few villagers who are left after Federal reprisals live in constant fear that the Feds will return and more loved ones will disappear. …
By Kent Haruf Knopf, $25.95, 272 pages Dad Lewis is dying. As he sits looking out the window at the prairie beyond his barn, Dad knows that he won’t see the end of summer. When his wife, no longer young …
By Beth Gutcheon William Morrow Paperbacks, $14.99, 304 pages Gossip by Beth Gutcheon is a novel about three women with the unusual names of Dinah, Avis, and Loviah, who became acquainted while attending an exclusive East Coast boarding school. Loviah, the owner of …
By Tom Holt Orbit, $13.99, 400 pages Theo Bernstein is going through a rough patch. One small mistake on Theo’s part—a misplaced decimal point—results in the destruction of the Very Very Large Hadron Collider (and the mountain housing it) and …
By Indira Ganesan Knopf, $25.95, 288 pages As Sweet as Honey, by Indira Ganesan, concentrates on matters of the heart at odds with old school cultural expectations on the island of Pi in the Bay of Bengal. In this tiny …
By Teddy Wayne Free Press, $24.99, 304 pages Jonny Valentine is an eleven-year-old pop singing sensation. Narrated in first person, Jonny talks the talk; he drops phrases like “It’s better to have a poorly produced album with a robust marketing …
By Zdenko Basic, illustrator Running Press Kids, $18.95, 408 pages Welcome to a world where men move not just across space, but through time. Where alien monstrosities declare war against mankind and the most humble of earth’s organisms are positioned …
By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, $27.99, 669 pages This macabre, pseudo-historical novel takes place during the peak of a curse that nearly destroys the town of Princeton, New Jersey in the early 1900s. The narrator, a historian native to Princeton, …
By Paula Brackston Thomas Dunne Books, $24.99, 352 pages From the gorgeous hardcover design to the sumptuous prose within, The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston sweeps the reader off to nineteenth-century Wales, into windswept mountains, thick with magic and the promise …
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 Patti Callahan Henry St. Martin’s Press, $24.99, 261pages Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 says “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds…” and this is a love story with much alteration. Based on the true story of the author’s sister who …
By Maeve Binchy Knopf, $26.95, 336 pages Against the advice of her family, Chicky Ryan, at the ripe old age of twenty, followed a summer boyfriend to America. The relationship evaporated but Chicky was too proud to drag herself home to Ireland. …
