By Dorothea Benton Frank William Morrow, $26.99, 368 pages You don’t read a Dorothea Benton Frank novel for lyrical language or an especially deep thematic take on the human condition, a la Leo Tolstoy or Louise Erdrich. No, you read …
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 Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 320 pages Serena Frome is the daughter of an Anglican bishop, but having grown up in the 1960s she goes on to have a number of affairs with remarkably few hang-ups. The novel charts the …
By Susan Mallery Harlequin, $16.95, 320 pages The inhabitants of Fool’s Gold, Calif., are so sweet they must have a built-in immunity to tooth decay! But how refreshing to read a story in which people are nice to each other and continually …
By Audrey Schulman Europa Editions, $16.00, 353 pages At the end of 1899, Jeremy, an engineer, arrives in British East Africa to oversee a major railroad-building project. He quickly finds that two lions are killing the men he’s bound to protect. …
