CHARMING FRENCH NOVEL follows four Gen-X siblings stealing time from their complicated lives to hang out, bond. B PLUS

FRENCH LEAVE
Europa Editions, Incorporated
2011

BLEAK WELSH NOIR follows an amnesiac detective on the run from enemies he can’t remember. Wryly powerful. B PLUS

BANK OF THE BLACK SHEEP
Serpent’s Tail
2011

STEAMPUNK SUPERNATURAL ALT-HISTORY with plenty of action is a ripping yarn that’s tremendous Victoriana fun. B PLUS

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN
Pyr
2011

THOUGHTFUL RECESSION-ERA RIFFS on women’s fiction tropes in the latest gem from UK megastar Elizabeth Buchan. B PLUS

SEPARATE BEDS
Viking Adult
2011

INSIDE 2009’S MEGA-SCANDAL of corruption, bribery, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, organ trading in New Jersey.

GRIM NEAR-FUTURE APOCALYPSE centers around a youth movement poised between anarchy and fascism.  Chilling.

THE FUNNIEST, MOST TOUCHING memoir about love and marriage and parenthood and kidney transplants ever written.

A SISTER’S SHORT LIFE, and her suicide at age 21, are explored by a writer in this poetic, touching memoir.

ENGROSSING HIDDEN HISTORY of three 19th-century Frenchwomen whose cases inspired modern neurology, psychology.

A STEAMPUNK CYBORG CIRCUS roams a postapocalyptic world in a dreamlike, poetic, vividly imagined tale.