A SIZZLING HIGH-TECH THRILLER in the best Michael Crichton tradition: supercomputers, government plots, guns! B PLUS

WITTY, THOUGHT-PROVOKING science fiction! A UFO researcher/stripper on the run from Men In Black; smart fun. B PLUS

THE XY CONSPIRACY
Aqueduct Press
2014

WITTY, THOUGHT-PROVOKING science fiction! A UFO researcher/stripper on the run from Men In Black; smart fun. B PLUS

TAUT TIME-TRAVEL THRILLER follows six survivors on the run through a parallel Earth. Fascinating, fast-paced. B PLUS

THE FLIGHT OF THE SILVERS
Blue Rider Press
2014

TAUT TIME-TRAVEL THRILLER follows six survivors on the run through a parallel Earth. Fascinating, fast-paced. B PLUS

THE STERN BEAUTY OF ALASKA’S coast, richly evoked in a tale of a fisherman trying to hold his family together. B PLUS

THE GODS OF SECOND CHANCES
Forest Avenue Press
2014

A HILARIOUSLY CRINGEWORTHY WALK down memory lane: comic writer Pamela Ribon reviews her teenage scribblings. B PLUS

NOTES TO BOYS
Rare Bird Books
2014

GLORIOUSLY LITERARY, ENTRANCING travel essays about the inner life of cities from Venice to Mexico City. B PLUS

SIDEWALKS
Coffee House Press
2014

FOUR LIVES ENMESHED by a decades-old mystery, two in a changing Beijing and two in the US. Stunning, rich. B PLUS

KINDER THAN SOLITUDE
Random House
2014

AN EXTRAORDINARY INTERSTELLAR THRILLER has an unforgettable heroine as well as spaceships and aliens aplenty. B PLUS

LEX TALIONIS
Dragonwell Publishing
2014