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 Renee French Toon Books, $12.95, 32 pages Barry’s best buddy, Polarhog, rousts him out of bed with promises of a surprise and proceeds to guide Barry on a long walk through the woods. While Polarhog overflows with enthusiasm, Barry …
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 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 Ruta Sepetys Philomel, $17.99, 352 pages Although she is smart, resourceful, and hard-working, Josie Moraine is the child of a New Orleans prostitute and an unknown father. No matter how hard she works or how much she saves, Josie cannot move …
By Christine Sneed Bloomsbury USA, $25.00, 304 pages Actor, director, and producer Renn Ivins has everything: money, fame, a beautiful young girlfriend, critical acclaim, and big plans for the future. He is a bright light in Hollywood, brilliant on the silver screen …
By Steve Breen Dial BFYR, $16.99, 32 pages Pug and Doug are best friends. Though the neighbors have a lot in common—they love to watch birds and dance the polka—the two friends are very different. While Doug is artistic and imaginative, Pug …
By Sergio De La Pava University of Chicago Press, $18.00, 688 pages Casi, a public defender in New York City’s court system, has never lost a case. Sympathy for his clients and an ardent desire to maintain his perfect record compel …
By G. Willow Wilson Grove Press, $25.00, 320 pages Alif nominally lives in an unnamed emirate in the Middle East, but he pledges his true affiliation to the community of hackers who cache their ideas in the Cloud and correspond almost exclusively via …
By Toni Morrison Knopf, $24.00,160 pages Frank Money returned from the Korean War a broken man. Unable to deal with his guilt for the atrocities he witnessed and his inability to save his friends, Frank suffers from waking visions that wash …
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Will Terry (illustrator) Dial, $17.99, 32 pages The sixteen poems in Nasty Bugs are not for the faint of heart. These nasty bugs will suck your blood, sting your skin, eat your crops, and destroy your furniture. And …
By Wendell Berry Counterpoint, $14.95, 190 pages As Hannah Coulter nears the end of her life, she spends more and more time telling herself the story of her life, in order to get the details right. It’s a story of her love …
By Robert Neubecker Balzer + Bray, $14.99, 32 pages What are little boys made of? In this modern retelling of the 19th century nursery rhyme, boys are made of much more than “frogs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails.” Trapped inside …
By Vanessa Gebbie Bloomsbury, $16.00 384 pages “Listen with your ears. I have a story for them, see?” Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, self-proclaimed coward and professional beggar, tells stories. Each story features a different member of his village and attempts to explain …
