ENTERTAINING, ENLIGHTENING LOOK at how modern US medicine grew from a 19th century chaos of competing ideas. B PLUS

MARKETPLACE OF THE MARVELOUS
Beacon Press
2014

CANDID AND TOUCHING MEMOIR of a family fractured by depression as much as by alcohol and drugs. Insightful. B PLUS

IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
Counterpoint LLC
2013

SPOOKY, ATMOSPHERIC HORROR story links an indefinable terror across continents, through decades. Gory stuff! SOLID B

FOREST GHOST: A NOVEL OF HORROR AND SUICIDE IN AMERICA AND POLAND
Severn House Publishers
2014

FIERCE BATTLES AND FIERCER intrigue fill Bernard Cornwell’s latest Saxon Tale with tension, excitement. B PLUS

THE PAGAN LORD
Harper
2014

A SMALLTOWN NEWSPAPER OWNER solves a series of murders and finds love in this rural Michigan-set cozy. Fun! SOLID B

SNOOP
Cozy Cat Press
2013

THE SEEDY, FARCICAL LIVES of a family of hard-drinking Belgian no-hopers, depicted with tender brutality. SOLID B

THE MISFORTUNATES: A NOVEL
St. Martin’s Press
2013

THE POWER OF PARANOIA and conspiracy theory in US politics, from Colonial times to the present. Fascinating! B PLUS

THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA : A CONSPIRACY THEORY
Harper
2013

A NORTHERN IRELAND MYSTERY has an action-packed plot, background on human trafficking, immigration tensions. SOLID B

BORDER ANGELS
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
2013

A MEMOIR OF AMNESIA: intriguing enough right there, but the beauty here is the story of growth afterwards. B PLUS

THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS ME: A MEMOIR OF AMNESIA
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
2014

STYLISH FAMILY SAGA with a touch of the supernatural follows several generations of a wealthy black family. SOLID B

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Kensington Publishing Corporation
2013