THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.

STEAMPUNK FANTASY SPACE OPERA offers magic swords, copper robots, and interplanetary travel. Third in a series.

MYSTERY/COMEDY OF MANNERS offers some sharply observed satire of upwardly mobile Manhattanites amid the gore.

TIME TRAVEL, NANOMACHINES, alternate history combine in a novel of intriguing ideas (if lackluster characters).

JAMES BOND 007, Jeffery Deaver style! Starts slowly (and may disappoint Bond purists) but a darn good thriller.

LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY at its highs, snickerworthy even at its lows! Comic essays from the hilarious Larry Doyle.

SASSY, FAST-PACED PARANORMAL mystery features a wisecracking thief turned sleuth and a great supporting cast.

EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.

FUNNY, FUNKY, CUTE, and sometimes bittersweet memoir from an “Art Star” of the Lower East Side’s arts heyday.

INSIDE A COMPLEX, troubling investigation of a multi-victim case of child sexual abuse and its church coverup.