A DARKLY COMIC MYSTERY features a hapless English writer whose fictional murder plot becomes all too real. B PLUS

THE ALMOST PERFECT PLOT (THE ALMOST PERFECT SERIES BOOK 1)
None
2015

THE LEGENDARY GEORGE CLINTON, father of funk, speaks his mind in an insightful, improvisatory memoir. B PLUS

BROTHAS BE, YO LIKE GEORGE, AIN’T THAT FUNKIN’ KINDA HARD ON YOU?
Pocket Books
2014

A FAMILY CONFLICT ECHOES the divisions of power, class, and race in 1970s-80s Argentina. Spare and allusive. B PLUS

DREAMING OF THE DELTA
Texas Tech University Press
2014

ABUJA, NIGERIA IS the setting for an elegantly written Christian romance between two driven entrepreneurs. B PLUS

A SCOOP OF LOVE
None
2015

HYPNOTIC, UNSETTLING PARABLE about paranoia and conformity, set in the wake of an unspecified disaster. B PLUS

THE GUARD
Maclehose Press Quercus
2015

A SURGEON’S CHALLENGE to the big business of American healthcare is thoughtful, timely, and sobering. B PLUS

THE COST OF CUTTING
Berkley Publishing Group
2014

AN INGENIOUS TIME TRAVEL yarn stars Harriet Tubman, waking up in 2014 with all of her trademark courage. B PLUS

THE CROSSING HOUR
None
2015

AN EPIC MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE follows the French scoundrel-poet François Villon on a risky quest to Jerusalem. B PLUS

THE BROTHERHOOD OF BOOK HUNTERS
Europa
2014

BLACK VISIONARIES, Douglass to King to Malcolm X: powerful conversation from Cornel West, Christa Buschendorf. B PLUS

BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE
Beacon Press (MA)
2014

ANIMAL EMOTIONS EXPLORED in this far-ranging book that examines mental health and illness in all creatures. B PLUS

ANIMAL MADNESS
Simon & Schuster
2014