EVERY PARENT’S NIGHTMARE—child abduction—spun into a mythic, poetic tapestry by Joyce Carol Oates.

CHILLING ECO-HORROR TALE touches on love, innocence, science, history, and the future amid fast-paced thrills.

GLOBETROTTING FINANCIAL THRILLER stars Ava Lee, a sleuth with gifts for numbers and martial arts. Elegant fun!

INSIDE THE WORLD OF hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, the Willy Wonka of the human brain. Fun, informative.

PLAYFUL, ABSORBING DISQUISITION on women as chefs, with lots of interviews, lots of chefs’ perspectives.

VIVID MASSACHUSETTS ATMOSPHERE, “townie”/”incomer” tensions, deftly captured in a tale of gossip and scandal.

A HORRIFYING CHILDHOOD OF desperate poverty and abuse in 1950s Dublin, vividly recalled.  Harsh, compelling.

RAZOR-SHARP THRILLER TAKES on the supernatural, mean girls, and class divisions in the small-town South.

TOUCHING, POETIC MEMOIR of a life spent studying a group of endangered orcas in Alaska. Vivid, impassioned.

ENTERTAINING, ACCESSIBLE LOOK at particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, the search for the Higgs Boson.