JASPER FFORDE is back with another metafictional adventure for his sleuth Thursday Next–or a version of her…

GRACEFUL, TENDER MEMOIR of a composer’s experience of living apart from his twin, who has severe disabilities. B PLUS

TWIN
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
2010

A MAGICAL LONDON with a jazz-flavored film noir feel + a tough detective/sorcerer hero = memorable fantasy. B PLUS

MOON OVER SOHO
Del Rey Books
2011

MEMOIR OF A COMPLICATED girlhood in 1960s Buffalo and beyond has clarity and charm amid all the craziness.

WARM-HEARTED WOMEN’S FICTION looks at all kinds of love, including ’70s celebrity crushes. Sweet and fun. B PLUS

I THINK I LOVE YOU
Knopf
2011

OLD-SCHOOL DETECTIVE YARN like only Loren D. Estleman can write ’em; Detroit setting, scruffy characters shine. B PLUS

THE LEFT-HANDED DOLLAR (AMOS WALKER SERIES #20)
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
2010

POETIC, CHARMING LITTLE reverie on the most famous photograph by “Lewis Carroll” of his girl-muse Alice Liddell.

TENSE, COMPLEX THRILLER, the 8th to feature elite security agent Charlie Fox, finds her taking on a deadly cult.

LUMINOUS MEDITATION on love and loss, war and peace, traces friendship of a Mauritian boy and a Holocaust exile.

GRACEFUL, ADAGIO PROSE and a memorable heroine in this tale of a young scientist’s Alice-in-Wonderland life.