Haunting and Homicide is an entertaining start to a cozy mystery series set in New Orleans starring a ghost tour guide—who can actually see and speak to spirits.
Charmaine Wilkerson’s second novel, Good Dirt, reminds us that we need access to a multitude of stories for a full understanding of our country’s rich and complicated past.
Going Home marks the debut of a gifted writer whose readers will find themselves feeling better, somehow, about the world.
Go Tell It is an inspiring look at James Baldwin, one of America’s most important writers.
In Gliff, Ali Smith offers a paradoxical benediction over life in our increasingly anxious age: “Unbelievable believable hope. . . . Impossible, possible.”
Perfect for those who are grown up and those who are still growing up, Dreamover is a nostalgic and thought-provoking experience.
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem offers a world of inspiration for young creators of many kinds.
Charles Piller’s Doctored investigates explosive claims that a fraudulent study has derailed Alzheimer’s research for nearly two decades.
Author Jakob Kerr’s Silicon Valley background lends a glamorous, galling and sometimes humorous authenticity to his debut mystery, Dead Money.
Midcentury sleuth Lillian Pentecost has been framed for murder, and only her assistant, Will Parker, can save her in Stephen Spotswood’s latest noir.
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s latest memoir-in-essays, Cleavage, is a sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac, meditation on gender, parenthood and coming to terms with herself.
Falon Ballard’s sweet, endearing Change of Heart follows a career-driven lawyer who is magically transported into a Hallmark movie-esque world.
Fast-paced, engaging and surprising, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose long-ago summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.
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