THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION: how medical research is exploring its healing potential. Evidence-based reporting! B PLUS

CURE: A JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE OF MIND OVER BODY
Crown/Archetype
2016

A VOICE FROM DEATH ROW speaks in this powerful, haunting novel set in a Zimbabwe women’s prison. Chilling. B PLUS

BOOK OF MEMORY
Farrar Straus Giroux
2016

AN EMT TURNS SLEUTH after she stumbles on a skeleton. Thoughtful mystery touches on race, class, corruption. SOLID B

THE SKELETON FRIEND
R. C. Johansen
2016

IRREVERENT MEMOIR OF LIFE at a dot-com startup mixes sharp insights with some astonishing cluelessness. B PLUS

DISRUPTED MY MISADVENTURE IN THE START UP BUBBLE
Hachette Books
2016

THE ELEMENTS OF CREATIVITY explored. Lovely, spare prose! Examples from nature, science, architecture, arts. A MINUS

THE STORM OF CREATIVITY
MIT Press
2015

SMART, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER sets a young writer with secret evidence of alien contact against the world. B PLUS

NOT ALONE
Craig A. Falconer
2015

THE RITUALS OF DEATH, considered across history and around the world: thorough research, poetic voice. A MINUS

DEATH’S SUMMER COAT
Pegasus Books
2016

BENEATH EARTH’S SURFACE with the researchers seeking to understand its depths. Fantastic science writing! A MINUS

INTO THE HEART OF OUR WORLD: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: A REMARKABLE VOYAGE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
Pegasus
2016

A TIGER-DEMON IN VEGAS? Clever fantasy brings a shape-shifter from India to the US for a new start on life. SOLID B

THE KING OF LAS VEGAS
John Van Stry
2016

A BRUTAL CHILDHOOD OBSERVED in a thoughtful memoir from screenwriter Gloria Norris. Tough, powerful read. B PLUS

KOOKOOLAND
Regan Arts
2016