The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Nonfiction — Memoir Knopf; October 2, 2012 Hardcover 352 pages Will Schwalbe’s mother, Mary Anne, came home from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with what seemed to be a rare form of hepatitis. When she still wasn’t feeling better a few months later, […]

Breed by Chase Novak Fiction — Horror / Speculative Fiction Mulholland Books; September 4, 2012 Hardcover 320 pages From the back cover: Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives–fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don’t have is a child, and as they try one infertility […]

Dare Me by Megan Abbott Fiction — Young Adult Reagan Arthur Books; July 31, 2012 Hardcover 304 pages After a game, it takes a half hour under the showerhead to get all the hairspray out. To peel off the sequins. To dig out that last bobby pin nestled deep in your hair. Sometimes you stand […]

With My Body by Nikki Gemmell Fiction Harper Perennial; June 19, 2012 Paperback 480 pages From the back cover: “A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want–and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live […]

The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers Fiction — Speculative Harper Perennial (HarperCollins) U.S. Release Date: May 15, 2012 Paperback 256 pages In the not-too-distant future of The Testament of Jessie Lamb, an assumed act of biological terrorism has unleashed a virus on the world that only affects pregnant women. MDS (Maternal Death Syndrome)–a […]

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye Historical Fiction/Mystery Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam; March 15, 2012 Advance Review Copy (Paperback) 414 pages From the inside flap: It is 1845…Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he will have enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams incinerate […]

Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung Fiction Riverhead Books Release Date: March 1, 2012 Paperback (review copy) 296 pages From the back cover: On the night Janie waits for her sister, Hannah, to be born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, […]

Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Fiction Algonquin Books, January 2012 Hardcover 384 pages From the inside flap: Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints […]

The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate Fiction Algonquin Books, September 2011 Paperback 288 pages Josie Henderson is a marine biologist who has always been fascinated with water. She has a good job and she’s married to a good guy; her life seems pretty ideal from the outside. Behind the scenes, though, it’s a different […]