AN EXILE’S RETURN to 1980s Romania causes upheavals in his family circle as well as for the secret police. B PLUS

THE ENCOUNTER
Dalkey Archive Press
2016

SHARP, FUNNY MYSTERY follows a reporter turned detective trying to expose a Casanova of a TV psychic. Clever! B PLUS

HITS & MRS.
Karen Stollznow
2016

THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION: how medical research is exploring its healing potential. Evidence-based reporting! B PLUS

CURE: A JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE OF MIND OVER BODY
Crown/Archetype
2016

A VOICE FROM DEATH ROW speaks in this powerful, haunting novel set in a Zimbabwe women’s prison. Chilling. B PLUS

BOOK OF MEMORY
Farrar Straus Giroux
2016

IRREVERENT MEMOIR OF LIFE at a dot-com startup mixes sharp insights with some astonishing cluelessness. B PLUS

DISRUPTED MY MISADVENTURE IN THE START UP BUBBLE
Hachette Books
2016

SMART, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER sets a young writer with secret evidence of alien contact against the world. B PLUS

NOT ALONE
Craig A. Falconer
2015

A BRUTAL CHILDHOOD OBSERVED in a thoughtful memoir from screenwriter Gloria Norris. Tough, powerful read. B PLUS

KOOKOOLAND
Regan Arts
2016

THE SHADOW OF TWO WORLD WARS brings two strangers, both British Army veterans, together in an unusual bond. B PLUS

WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT
Henry Holt & Company
2016

DARK ENGLISH THRILLER has a spooky sense of place and atmosphere, lots of action, a fierce protagonist. B PLUS

THE CROOKED HOUSE: A NOVEL
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2016

ON SCAMS AND CON ARTISTS, and a look at what research psychology says about why we fall for them. Smart! B PLUS

THE CONFIDENCE GAME: WHY WE FALL FOR IT… EVERY TIME
Penguin Group USA
2016