GreenwoodMichael Christie. Hogarth, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-1-984822-00-0
Christie’s rugged, riveting novel (after If I Fall, If I Die) entwines a family’s rising and falling fortunes with Canada’s dwindling old-growth forests. In a frightening, nearly treeless 2038, 33-year-old dendrologist Jacinda “Jake” Greenwood guides tourists on a British Columbia island wh... Continue reading »
Hid from Our Eyes: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alystyne MysteryJulia Spencer-Fleming. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-60685-5
It’s the summer of 1972, and the body of a well-dressed young woman turns up in the middle of a remote Adirondacks road, in bestseller Spencer-Fleming’s stellar ninth mystery featuring Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and her husband, Millers Kill, N.Y., police chief Russ Van Alystyne (after 2013’s ... Continue reading »
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying VampiresGrady Hendrix. Quirk, $21.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-68369-143-3
When Patricia Campbell, a bored, housewife in 1990s Charleston, S.C., sighs, “Don’t you wish that something exciting would happen around here?” she all but invites the chilling horrors that soon enmesh her and her friends in this clever, addictive vampire thriller from Hendrix (We Sold Our Souls... Continue reading »
In Bed with the EarlChristi Caldwell. Montlake, $12.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-5420-4257-4
The exceptional first Lost Lords of London Victorian era romance by Caldwell (the Heart of a Scandal series) circles an intriguing central mystery. Thirty-year-old newspaper reporter Verity Lovelace searches for a long-missing earl in order to secure a scandalous story and ensure her spot at the pap... Continue reading »
Oak FlatLauren Redniss. Random House, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-58972-0
MacArthur “genius grant”–recipient Redniss (Thunder and Lightning) combines drawings with reportage and oral history to tell the story of America’s decimation of indigenous people and culture in this gorgeous, devastating, and hopeful ethnographic account. Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in ... Continue reading »
Pale Colors in a Tall FieldCarl Phillips. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-22905-4
The rich, ruminative 14th book from Phillips (Silverchest) begins midconversation: “—By fire, then, but within view of a rough sea?” it asks as though imagining how someone would like to die. It ends with an affirmation of spring in “Defiance”: “For by then all the lilies on the pond had op... Continue reading »
The Land Beneath UsSarah Sundin. Revell, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8007-2799-4
Sundin (Through Waters Deep) crafts an unusual love story in the third installment of the Sunrise at Normandy series. In Camp Forrest, Tenn., just before D-Day, Pvt. Clay Paxton trains with the Army Rangers and is driven by a recurring dream of his death on the battlefield. Betrayed by his ... Continue reading »
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937–May 1942Richard B. Frank. Norton, $40 (836p) ISBN 978-1-324-00210-9
Military historian Frank (Downfall) taps a massive, multicontinent array of sources to deliver the definitive account of the first phase of WWII in the Pacific. Frank begins more than four years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, with the July 1937 skirmish between Japanese and Chinese Nat... Continue reading »
The Book of St. JohnFergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver. Ebury, $55 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5291-0321-2
A glorious ode to snouts, trotters, offal, fat, and other less appreciated bits arrives from Henderson and Gulliver of London’s famed St. John restaurant. Henderson (The Complete Nose to Tail), a pioneer of whole-animal and farm-to-table cooking, rolls out recipes for the hearty yet refined... Continue reading »
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic LeaderDerek Penslar. Yale Univ, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-18040-4
Penslar (Jews and the Military), a professor of Jewish history at Harvard, provides an excellent, concise biography of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), architect of modern Zionism. The focus is less on the biographical details of Herzl’s life—though the broad strokes are covered—and more on the v... Continue reading »
Things That Go AwayBeatrice Alemagna. Abrams, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4482-2
This simple, beautiful creation by Alemagna (Child of Glass) does what it says on the tin: looks at transience. “In life, many things go away. They transform,” Alemagna starts. Each spread uses a page of translucent vellum to show something that’s there atop a background—and then, just as s... Continue reading »
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