BITTERLY FUNNY, VAGUELY horrifying memoir of a young American woman’s complicated life in Europe. B PLUS

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE GREAT: AN UNDERFUNDED AND OVEREXPOSED EUROPEAN GRAND TOUR
HarperCollins Publishers
2010

PLAUSIBILITY BE DARNED, this 15th Jack Reacher thriller is a tense, gripping Good vs. Evil page-turner. B PLUS

WORTH DYING FOR
Delacorte Press
2010

GUITAR LEGEND JIMI Hendrix is the subject of a well researched biography. Great art; tragic and difficult life. B PLUS

BECOMING JIMI HENDRIX: FROM SOUTHERN CROSSROADS TO PSYCHEDELIC LONDON, THE UNTOLD STORY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
Da Capo Press
2010

A WRITER’S THOUGHTFUL memoir of her intricate and enduring friendship with a fellow writer who died too young. B PLUS

LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME: A MEMOIR OF FRIENDSHIP
Random House
2010

EYE-OPENING ACCOUNT of the 2008 cyclone disaster in Burma and the military dictatorship’s callous response. B PLUS

EVERYTHING IS BROKEN: A TALE OF CATASTROPHE IN BURMA
Penguin Group (USA)
2010

BITTERSWEET, MEDITATIVE NOVEL of a psychologist at midlife helping his clients, students, and himself. B PLUS

THE GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST
Henry Holt and Co.
2010

SURPRISING TRUE SAGA of the self-mythologizing Iowa native who popularized yoga in the early 20th-century US. B PLUS

THE GREAT OOM: THE IMPROBABLE BIRTH OF YOGA IN AMERICA
Penguin Group (USA)
2010

QUEEN OF HISTORICAL novels Philippa Gregory is great as ever, but her heroine (Henry VII’s mum)? Unappealing! B PLUS

THE RED QUEEN (COUSINS’ WAR #02)
Touchstone Books
2010

TRUE STORY of a headline-grabbing New York society murder in 1873 paints a vivid picture of the Gilded Age. B PLUS

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WALWORTH: A TALE OF MADNESS AND MURDER IN GILDED AGE AMERICA
Henry Holt & Company
2010

CORPORATE ESPIONAGE takes many a deadly twist in this latest William Gibson novel of the present future. B PLUS

ZERO HISTORY
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
2010