CLEVER APOCALYPTIC HORROR tale resonates with larger issues of racism, sexism, motherlessness, and family. B PLUS

REENU-YOU
Book Smugglers Publishing
2017

TAUT CHINATOWN NOIR: a cop with loyalties divided between the force and his old neighborhood friends. SOLID B

LUCKY
Soho Crime
2017

NOBODY DOYLES IT BETTER! Lyndsay Faye’s Sherlock Holmes short stories are intriguing and just delightful. B PLUS

THE WHOLE ART OF DETECTION: LOST MYSTERIES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (HARDCOVER)
Mysterious Press
2017

EXTRASENSORY PHENOMENA, GOVERNMENT-STYLE! Comprehensive history of the US’s ESP experiments is fascinating. B PLUS

PHENOMENA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOKINESIS
LITTLE BROWN & CO
2017

SCIENCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION serve as the jumping-off point for a ramble through history and science. SOLID B

REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE : TRANSFORMATION AND TURMOIL IN THE AGE OF THE GUILLOTINE
Pegasus Books
2017

AN ENGLISHWOMAN TURNED JIHADI finds life on the Islamic revolutionary front disenchanting. Fascinating novel. B PLUS

JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE (PAPERBACK)
Interlink Books
2016

INTENSE, CANDID MEMOIR of losing and finding love, family, Native heritage, and especially self. Raw, deep. B PLUS

ABANDON ME: MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury USA
2017

THE DOLLOP’S IRREVERENT, FUNNY takes on some of United States history’s weirdnesses. Stranger than fiction! B PLUS

THE UNITED STATES OF ABSURDITY : UNTOLD STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Ten Speed Press
2017

A POET EXPLORES TAXIDERMY, family history, death, and love in a dazzling kaleidoscope of short essays. A MINUS

AN ARRANGEMENT OF SKIN: ESSAYS (HARDCOVER)
Counterpoint LLC
2017

DREAMLIKE, POETIC CHINESE novel set in a fantastic landscape haunted by ghosts, snow leopards, memories. A MINUS

FRONTIER
Open Letter Books
2017