LIFE AFTER CANCER TREATMENT: a thoughtful memoir looks at motherhood, career change, and losing loved ones. SOLID B

THEN CAME LIFE : LIVING WITH COURAGE, SPIRIT, AND GRATITUDE AFTER BREAST CANCER
Gotham Books
2014

CHEMISTS RECREATE ALCHEMY’S “transmutation” experiments in a fun, informative book (with home experiments!) SOLID B

THE CHEMISTRY OF ALCHEMY : FROM DRAGON’S BLOOD TO DONKEY DUNG, HOW CHEMISTRY WAS FORGED
Prometheus Books
2014

TURBOCHARGED GONZO SATIRE with some great lines studded into a bawdy, chaotic shaggy-dog monster story. SOLID B

HELLO DEVILFISH!
Three Rooms Press
2014

LONDON IS THE REAL STAR in this historical novel of postwar England; vivid vignettes of the 50s, 60s, 70s. SOLID B

THREE BROTHERS
Nan A. Talese
2014

AMATEUR DETECTIVES SOLVING murders and identifying victims? Engaging journalism reads like a mystery novel. SOLID B

THE SKELETON CREW: HOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ARE SOLVING AMERICA’S COLDEST CASES
Simon & Schuster
2014

WILD WEST TWIST on a dystopian future: a young woman, sold into debt slavery, becomes Mars miners’ showgirl. SOLID B

THE GIRL THEY SOLD TO THE MOON
Intrigue Publishing
2014

THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL intertwine in this elegantly crafted novel set against a Cold War backdrop. SOLID B

THE UNWITTING: A NOVEL
Random House Publishing Group
2014

GOVERNMENTS REPOSSESS EDUCATIONS in a near-future soft apocalypse; teacher turns reluctant revolutionary. SOLID B

CHIMPANZEE
self-published
2014

DARK, DISTURBING PSYCHOLOGICAL suspense novel goes inside the head of a troubled murder suspect. Grim stuff. SOLID B

I CAN SEE IN THE DARK
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014

LIVELY STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE in an alternate 1830s England has a feisty heroine, a clockwork dinosaur, romance. SOLID B

OBSIDIAN EYES
Curiosity Quills Press
2014