CHARMING COMEDY OF MANNERS finds four Indian expats to the US dealing with midlife crises, culture clashes.

GRANDLY TOPICAL APOCALYPSE in the Michael Crichton tradition features Mayan predictions of 2012 doom come true.

ENGAGING MEMOIR DETAILS an Englishman’s quest to reconcile the UK’s status symbols with his Pakistani heritage.

TOP-NOTCH IRISH MYSTERY centers on a family killing and the troubled detective investigating the deaths.

JUICY COURT INTRIGUE, this time revolving around Napoleon’s second wife, Maria Luisa of Austria. Delightful!

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, EYE-OPENING memoir of China in the 1970s looks at three generations in a time of change.

META-HISTORICAL META-NOVEL about the lingering specter of World War II and the utter impossibility of fiction.

POLITICAL COMEDIAN LIZZ WINSTEAD reflects on her career, friends, and family in a set of funny, snarky essays.

A WOMAN UNCOVERS THE secrets behind the death of her best friend, thanks to clues in her unfinished memoir.

MICHAEL FRAYN’S FARCE of jet-set conferencegoers and mistaken identities has lots of charm, insider snark.