Best Kept SecretJeffrey Archer. St. Martin's, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-00098-9
An artful blend of colorful characters, seething resentment, calculated revenge, and a shocking, tragic cliffhanger distinguishes Archer's third volume of The Clifton Chronicles. Picking up where The Sins of the Father left off, readers discover whether Giles Barrington or Harry Clifton will inherit... Continue reading »
American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten FirearmsChris Kyle, with William Doyle. HarperCollins, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-224271-6
Bestselling author Kyle (American Sniper) was putting the final touches on this discerning study of 10 firearms—completed by his widow and Doyle—that changed the course of warfare when he was killed at a gun range. Coupled with his goal of "talk[ing] history with the bullets f... Continue reading »
BangLeo Timmers. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-877579-18-9
Watching vehicles bash into one another is a perennial rib-tickler for kids, and Timmers (The Magical Life of Mr. Renny) exploits this with a marvelously loony series of fender benders. The story opens with a self-referential gag as a googly-eyed deer in a bowler hat drives what appears to be the of... Continue reading »
Neil Gillman. Jewish Lights, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-58023-669-0
After a half-century at the Jewish Theological Seminary as student, teacher, and administrator, Gillman offers a masterful summary of challenges facing religious believers. He focuses on God, revelation, suffering, and death. His thinking has moved from supernaturalism to a naturalist understanding ... Continue reading »
Suehiro Maruo. Last Gasp, $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-86719-777-8
Cult manga artist Maruo delivers a sprawling and nightmarish tour de force of erotic fantasy. Adapted from the 1920s novella by Japanese author Edogawa Rampo—a popular detective novelist who took a Poe-esque turn toward the grotesque and fantastical—Maruo follows the story of Hitomi, a desperate wou... Continue reading »
The Woman UpstairsClaire Messud, read by Cassandra Campbell. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-91360-9
It’s not that elementary school teacher Nora Eldridge’s life has gone particularly wrong, it’s that it hasn’t gone particularly right. She sold out her artistic dreams for success and stability, and become angry and full of self-loathing somewhere along the way. But when a young student, Reza Shahid... Continue reading »
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