The Other Bennet SisterJanice Hadlow. Holt, $27.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-12941-3
Mary Bennet, the overlooked and unlikable fifth sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, learns to see herself and others clearly in Hadlow’s spectacular debut novel (after A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of George III). Born without the beauty her mother prizes or the wit... Continue reading »
The Dirty SouthJohn Connolly. Atria/Bestler, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2754-1
Supernatural noir fans will relish Connolly’s excellent 18th thriller featuring PI Charlie Parker (after 2019’s A Book of Bones), an origin story set in 1999. The murder of Parker’s wife and daughter ended his career as an NYPD detective, but the ghosts of his loved ones still literally hau... Continue reading »
The Book of DragonsEdited by Jonathan Strahan. Harper Voyager, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-287716-1
There is not a single false note among these 29 stories and poems of dragons collected by Strahan (The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, editor). Strahan’s passion for the mythological creatures is infectious and evident in his selections, which draw from many different myths and cultures,... Continue reading »
Home to MeCatherine Bybee. Montlake, $12.95 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-54-200985-0
Bybee cushions a serious subject in a gentle tale of love and support in her endearing second Creek Canyon contemporary (after My Way to You). Erin Fleming escapes her abusive husband and assumes a new identity in Santa Clarita, Calif., but she’s afraid to think of her newfound safety as an... Continue reading »
Ping PongTaiyō Matsumoto, trans. from the Japanese by Michael Arias. Viz, $29.99 (520p) ISBN 978-1-974711-65-9
First serialized in Japan in the mid-1990s, this unlikely love song to ping-pong by Matsumoto (Cats of the Louvre) dashes together a cockeyed mix of athletic action, indie drama, and visual spectacle. At a small high school, two former friends dream of table tennis greatness: Peco, a cocky ... Continue reading »
RueKathryn Nuernberger. BOA, $17 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-942683-97-1
Disillusionment, bigotry, and violence pervade the riveting third book from Nuernberger (The End of Pink) as sardonic social analysis and explorations of nature overlay a confessional narrative. Nuernberger illustrates the “varieties of performance,” the variations of happiness and the poss... Continue reading »
The Summer HouseLauren K. Denton. Thomas Nelson, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-78523-253-7
Denton (Glory Road) delivers a moving story about the friendship of two women reeling from betrayal and divorce. In Safe Harbor, Ala., Lily Bishop comes home one day to find an apology note from her husband alongside signed divorce papers. Rose Carrigan, the co-owner and manager of a local ... Continue reading »
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945Ian W. Toll. Norton, $40 (864p) ISBN 978-0-393-08065-0
Historian Toll (The Conquering Tide) brings his Pacific War trilogy to a dramatic conclusion in this expertly told account of the final year of WWII. After an intriguing examination of how FDR directed the efforts of U.S. military commanders Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, and William “B... Continue reading »
Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American DreamAlvin Cailan, with Alexandra Cuerdo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35 (352p) ISBN 978-1-328-93173-3
In this exciting debut cookbook, chef and restaurateur Cailan shares recipes inspired by his Filipino immigrant parents. Here he reflects on his culinary growth from childhood as “a knucklehead kid who wanted to be Gordon Gekko,” through a period living “the extravagant, hip-hop baller lifestyle,” t... Continue reading »
Yes to Life: In Spite of EverythingViktor E. Frankl. Beacon, $19.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0555-2
Based on three public lectures delivered in Vienna in 1946, this slim, powerful collection from Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning) attests to life’s meaning, even in desperate circumstances. Coming less than a year after Frankl’s liberation from Auschwit... Continue reading »
Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of Mister RogersMatthew Cordell. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4618-6
When readers first see Fred Rogers in this authorized picture book biography, he’s an instantly recognizable figure playing his beloved piano; musical notes, hearts, and more pour forth from the instrument. Caldecott Medalist Cordell begins his story on the TV set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood<... Continue reading »
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