A THOUGHTFUL INVESTIGATION into the mythology of the chupacabra provides context for the legend’s how and why.

STEAMPUNK AND THE TALL TALES of the 19th century American frontier combine in a clever Twain-like picaresque.

THE HISTORY AND FUTURE of urban planning outlined with wit and grace in this informative, highly readable book.

CHILLING INVESTIGATIVE PROFILE of 2001’s anthrax attacks via US mail, and of the FBI’s (now dead) prime suspect.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL ABOUT H.G. Wells would probably have worked better as a biography than this queasy hybrid.

FAST-PACED MYSTERY FEATURES women bodybuilders, a decades-old murder, and newly minted honeymooner private eyes.

FASCINATING LOOK AT recent neuroscience around attention, and its synergies with technology and education.

A POET’S MEMOIR of life with severe food allergies is more impressionistic than self-help, but insightful, wry.

INFERTILITY, INFIDELITY, COMAS, and sisters as rivals: crisp writing can’t redeem soap-operatic UK chicklit.

DELICATELY WROUGHT NOIR tales of crime from a distinguished German defense attorney, in crisp translation.