A MARRIAGE SHATTERED, a career ended, and a family in crisis after a man’s brain tumor. Intense Danish novel. B PLUS

YOU DISAPPEAR
Nan A. Talese
2014

INTRIGUING, IMPASSIONED MEMOIR of a youth spent in the Czechoslovakian resistance to Nazis, then Soviets. B PLUS

BORDER CROSSINGS: COMING OF AGE IN THE CZECH RESISTANCE
1021 Press
2012

EARLY SELF-HELP GURU Dale Carnegie profiled in this richly detailed biography. A fascinating life story. B PLUS

SELF-HELP MESSIAH: DALE CARNEGIE AND SUCCESS IN MODERN AMERICA
Other Press
2013

A GRIEVING MOTHER INVESTIGATES her teen daughter’s death in a stylish novel of suspense. Upscale NYC setting! B PLUS

RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA
Harper
2013

RAMBUNCTIOUS SOUTHERN NOIR from Rick Gavin; a third gloriously seedy caper starring assorted Delta lowlifes. B PLUS

NOWHERE NICE
Minotaur Books
2013

SOBERING, INFORMATIVE LOOK at the archaeology and forensic science used to investigate war crimes in Bosnia. B PLUS

BOSNIA’S MILLION BONES: SOLVING THE WORLD’S GREATEST FORENSIC PUZZLE
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

CHARMING, SASSY AUSTRALIAN mystery has a memorably quirky heroine and an intriguing Tasmania setting. B PLUS

A TRIFLE DEAD
Deadlines
2013

DELIGHTFUL COMIC FANTASY from Tom Holt, with multiverses, goblins, ray guns, a schnook who finds true love. B PLUS

WHEN IT’S A JAR
Orbit
2013

RAW, BRILLIANT ESSAYS by Kiese Laymon (with notes from family and friends) unfold a black American experience. B PLUS

A SPRAWLING EXISTENTIAL DETECTIVE novel that only Thomas Pynchon could have written. Wonderful and baffling. B PLUS