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

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.

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

A HEADLINE-GRABBING MURDER in 1933 Paris, examined in depth, illuminates the culture and politics of the era.

A NAIVE AMERICAN TEEN’S days of revolution-chasing in 1980s South America revisited in a rueful, witty memoir.

HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.

TOBE HOOPER’S DEBUT novel provides the gritty, witty, gross horror you expect from Mr. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. B PLUS

MIDNIGHT MOVIE
Crown Publishing Group
2011

COMPELLING, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED look at the power of Tacitus in German mythmaking through history. Chilling! B PLUS

A MOST DANGEROUS BOOK: TACITUS’S GERMANIA FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE THIRD REICH
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
2011

GORGEOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC, SPOOKY novel from Graham Joyce. Is it existential mystery? Horror? A gem no matter what. B PLUS

THE SILENT LAND
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2011