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Also of interest ... novels of love and betrayal
feature The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris; The Family Man by Elinor Lipman; The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum; The Act of Love
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Book of the week: Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder
feature Tracy Kidder “may have just written his finest work,” said Ron Suskind in The New York Times.
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Author of the week: Dan Brown
feature The mystery of why Dan Brown took so long to write a follow-up to The Da Vinci Code has finally been solved, said James Kaplan in Parade.
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Also of interest ... in new celebrity titles
feature The Gospel According to Coco Chanel by Karen Karbo; Shooting Stars
by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger; Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin; The 50th Lafeature -
Also of interest ... in ’60s and ’70s lore
feature The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang; Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year by Sir Alistair Horne; Go Like Hell by A.J. Baime; What the Heck Are Yo
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Also of interest ... stories of outsiders and exiles
feature Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon; Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen; The Magiciansnby Lev Grossman; This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
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Also of interest ... novels of the moment
feature Glover’s Mistake by Nick Laird; Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.; I’m So Happy for You by Lucinda Rosenfeld; How I Became a F
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Also of interest ... in new memoirs
feature The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon; The Big Rewind by Nathan Rabin; Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman; The Impos
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Author of the week: Stephen L. Carter
feature People assume the female protagonist in Carter's new thriller, Jericho’s Fall, is white, yet the author very carefully refrained from giving her any physical description.
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New fiction: The (old) boys of summer
feature That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo; Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon; Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry; South of Broad by Pat Conroy
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Also of interest ... in cities as characters
feature Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just; Farm City by Novella Carpenter; Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann; A Bright and Guilty Place by Ric
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Book of the week: Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America’s New Rootless Professional Class by Peter T. Kilborn
feature In today's global economy many professionals relocate every two or three years. New York Times journalist Peter Kilborn thoughtfully examines how this serial relocation affects families and communities.
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Also of interest ... hidden talents and heightened senses
feature You Are Here by Colin Ellard; A Brain Wider Than the Sky by Andrew Levy; The Third Man Factor by John Geiger; Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner
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Author of the week: Colin Beavan
feature Beavan’s new book, No Impact Man, describes his self-imposed 12-month experiment in reducing his impact on the environment by living without electricity, elevator service, toilet paper, Starbucks, and other ameniti
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