THE SCIENCE OF ALCOHOL, ENTERTAININGLY explained in an informative, delightful book. Lots of facts and fun. B PLUS

PROOF : THE SCIENCE OF BOOZE
Houghton Mifflin
2014

SWEET, OPEN-HEARTED MEMOIR about a family shaped by a father’s serious illness, and the love that united them. B PLUS

COMMA: A MEMOIR OF BELIEVING IN THE PROMISE OF EVERY MOMENT
self-published
2014

INTRIGUING NEAR-FUTURE THRILLER brings together smart drugs, cartels, psychotic spies, and scolding angels. B PLUS

QUESADILLAS
FSG Originals
2014

AN UNSUNG TRIUMPH OF World War II: how a double agent helped the FBI take down a Nazi spy ring in New York. B PLUS

DOUBLE AGENT: THE FIRST HERO OF WORLD WAR II AND HOW THE FBI OUTWITTED AND DESTROYED A NAZI SPY RING
Scribner Book Company
2014

MELANCHOLY FUTURE NOIR set in a virtual-reality archive of a destroyed Pittsburgh. Evocative, Chandleresque. B PLUS

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Putnam Adult
2014

AN OFF-THE-GRID CHILDHOOD RECALLED as a writer reconciles with her mountain-man father. Quirky, oddly moving. B PLUS

GONE FERAL
Penguin Press HC
2014

BLEAK YET TENDER memoir chronicles a son’s quest to understand his complicated mother during her final days. B PLUS

NOBODY KNEW SHE WAS THERE: THE TRUE STORY OF A MOTHER WHO LOST HER WAY
AuthorHouse
2014

BLISTERINGLY FUNNY SATIRE from the last decades of the Soviet Union, recently translated. Bitter and timely. B PLUS

PUSHKIN HILLS
Counterpoint Press
2014

A HIGH-TECH CARIBBEAN THRILLER with lots of action, set in a near future shaped by climate change. Exciting! B PLUS

HURRICANE FEVER
Tor Books
2014

HARRIET TUBMAN, SUPERHERO? A marvelous Afrofuturist steampunk fantasy revisits a mythic 19th century. Fun! B PLUS

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
2012