A CYBORG SINGULARITY RUN wild is at the heart of this high-tech military thriller.  Page-turning suspense!

DOMINICAN-AMERICAN FILMMAKER Raquel Cepeda explores her family history and Latina identity in charming memoir. B PLUS

BIRD OF PARADISE
Atria Books
2013

DOMINICAN-AMERICAN FILMMAKER Raquel Cepeda explores her family history, her Latina identity in charming memoir.

GRIPPING STORY OF a mother and daughter on the run, united by love and fear.  Great prose and translation.

ELOQUENT, SLY, INSIGHTFUL travel writing from England’s great Sara Wheeler in a decades-spanning collection.

A BROKEDOWN US BOXER, drawn into investigating the hundreds of women murdered in Ciudad Juárez.  Grim, true.

SPOOKY HISTORICAL NOVEL mixes horror, legend, and Enlightenment science in a gory, kinky, unsettling tale.

WITH A POET’S GRACE of language and her keenly observant eye, this New York memoir stands out from the crowd.

SHARP, FUNNY CROATIAN novel contrasts everyday chaos in Zagreb with a reporter’s unhinged notes from Iraq.

QUIRKY SF SATIRE of a future world where everyone is always connected, and life, love, death are monetized.