POST-APOCALYPTIC DETECTIVE NOIR morphs cleverly into a suspenseful thriller with lots of action, complex plot.

CHATTY, ENGAGING BOOK summarizes what scientists know about the sun, as well as the history of solar astronomy.

ENTHRALLING NOVEL TELLS the story of a 1950s Jane Eyre type, a brave and intellectually curious Scots orphan.

INSIDE GENE THERAPY research and clinical trials, with a focus on pioneering young patients and their outcomes.

COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.

JOHN HODGMAN’S UNIQUE blend of quasi-factoids and surrealist spoof trivia goes apocalyptic in his latest tome.

TWISTED 21ST-CENTURY TAKE on the “humans made giant by radiation” horror/science fiction motif is a trip.

WARM-HEARTED, THOUGHTFUL NOVEL follows an introspective man through his first year of widowerhood into new love.

WHIMSICAL BIOGRAPHY OF a quirky, little-known English mathematical genius and public transportation advocate.

A GROUP OF LONDONERS’ lives are changed by a chance event in this delightfully complex comedy of manners.