THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH COURT of Aethelred and Emma, vividly depicted in all its wicked intrigue. Tudors? Pfft!

TAIWANESE-AMERICAN FOOD CELEBRITY Eddie Huang’s memoir is candid, irreverent, and funny as hell.  Sharp stuff!

TENSE SWEDISH THRILLER follows an intrepid nurse through a deadly web of international intrigue. Breathtaking.

TWO YOUNG WOMEN weather the changes of the 1960s in different ways.  A complex, deft portrait of friendship!

THE POWER OF ART, both to heal and to hurt, takes center stage in this fascinating, brutally frank novel.

A WRITER’S STARTLINGLY CANDID memoir of her marriage and its ending, of her infidelities and her husband’s.

A YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN searches the US for the father she’s never met. Delicate novel sings with love’s power. B PLUS

OLEANDER GIRL: A NOVEL
Simon & Schuster
2013

IN PRAISE OF TINKERING, and the mechanical and intellectual innovations that drive social change. Persuasive! SOLID B

THE TINKERERS
Basic Books (AZ)
2013

SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith. B PLUS

SEARCHING FOR ZION: THE QUEST FOR HOME IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
2013

SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith.