A Woman of IntelligenceKarin Tanabe. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-23150-5
Tanabe (A Hundred Suns) returns with a layered and engrossing Cold War historical. In 1954, Rina Edgeworth is a surgeon’s wife and full-time mother living on the Upper East Side, her free-spirited life as a French translator for the United Nations a distant memory. One day, FBI agent Lee Co... Continue reading »
The CleanerMark Dawson. Welbeck, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-78739-512-1
Government assassin John Milton (aka Number One), the hero of this outstanding series launch from British author Dawson (the Beatrix Rose series), seeks personal atonement after his 137th assigned kill goes wrong. His handler, known as Control, blames the botched mission, which targeted a pair of ma... Continue reading »
The Seventh QueenGreta Kelly. Harper Voyager, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-295699-6
Picking up right where The Frozen Crown left off, Kelly’s latest feminist epic fantasy is even better than her debut. After death witch Askia, Queen of Seravesh, witnesses the assassination of her new husband, Emperor Armaan of Vishir, before the marriage is even consummated, she is abducte... Continue reading »
It’s Better This WayDebbie Macomber. Ballantine, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-984818-78-2
Bestseller Macomber (Cottage by the Sea) wows with this heartwarming romance between middle-aged divorcées. Six years after Julia Jones’s divorce from her husband of 31 years, Julia, now approaching her 60th birthday, is “easing into retirement.” She’s sold her interior design business and ... Continue reading »
BubbleJordan Morris, Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff. First Second, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-24555-7
Barely ever stopping for a breath, this sci-fi adventure comedy (adapted from the popular podcast) bounds from one escapade to another while keeping up a running satirical patter. The setting is an alien planet where human settlers are divided between cosseted urbanites living in corporate-controlle... Continue reading »
The Essential June JordanJune Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller. Copper Canyon, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-55659-620-9
Wide in scope and singular in their articulation of atrocities, Jordan’s poems shine in this thoughtfully curated volume. Ordered so that each era of her work speaks to the next, her poems contemplate war (“What will we do/ when there is nobody left/ to kill?”) on a national, interpersonal, and inte... Continue reading »
Along a Storied TrailAnn H. Gabhart. Revell, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8007-3721-4
Gabhart (An Appalachian Summer) introduces two strong women who persevere without the help of men in 1930s Appalachia. As a packhorse librarian, Tansy Calhoun delivers books, magazines, and newspapers to townsfolk living across the rugged terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. When Damien Fe... Continue reading »
The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to RavennaTim Parks. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-86684-1
A pilgrimage in the footsteps of Italy’s national hero grounds a meditation on the country’s character in this soulful historical travelogue. British novelist and Italophile Parks (Italian Ways) retraces the 400-mile-long retreat of revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi from Rome to the ... Continue reading »
The Vegan Meat Cookbook: Meatless Favorites. Made with Plants. Miyoko Schinner. Ten Speed, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-984-85888-7
Chef Schinner (The Homemade Vegan Pantry), known as the “Queen of Vegan Cheese,” proves she knows her way around vegan meat as well, in this stellar recipe collection. She notes that despite an increasing number of vegetarians and vegans, meat consumption is on the rise in America. At the s... Continue reading »
The God Beat: What Journalism Says About Faith and Why It MattersEdited by Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon. Broadleaf, $26.99 (225p) ISBN 978-1-5064-6577-7
Bradatan, religion editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Simon, a staff writer for The Millions, collect 26 superior recent essays representative of “a New Religion Journalism emerging to cover issues of faith with the same literary panache as a Didion or a Talese.” The f... Continue reading »
On the HookFrancisco X. Stork. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-338-69215-0
Throughout Stork’s (Illegal) unflinching, fully fleshed out novel centering a 16-year-old chess aficionado turned reformatory school student, his introspective Mexican American protagonist wrestles with an unimaginable question: “How could he live with himself knowing that he let his brothe... Continue reading »
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