FAST-PACED THRILLER ROCKETS from a mysterious death on the Harvard campus to a crisis at the White House. B PLUS

ANONYMOUS SOURCES
Gallery Books
2013

LOVELY, ELEGAIC MEDITATION by Julian Barnes on ballooning, photography, and the death of his beloved wife. B PLUS

LEVELS OF LIFE
Knopf
2013

EERIE TALE FUSES science fiction, horror, and suspense. Riveting, tense, and not for the fainthearted! B PLUS

THE SHINING GIRLS: A NOVEL
Little, Brown & Company
2013

SPOOKY, INTRIGUING JAPANESE noir thriller about a man on the run from his family legacy of evil. Sharp, smart. B PLUS

EVIL AND THE MASK
Soho Crime
2013

CANDID, COMPELLING, TOUCHING, often witty memoir of writer Anchee Min’s early years as an immigrant to the US. B PLUS

THE COOKED SEED: A MEMOIR
Bloomsbury USA
2013

THE LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLES of Wall Street, of the Spanish bullring, and of family life, compellingly drawn. B PLUS

THE COOKED SEED: A MEMOIR
Bloomsbury USA
2013

THE LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLES of Wall Street, of the Spanish bullring, and of family life, compellingly drawn.

AN EXPERIMENT IN CELIBACY, recounted in a poetic, intriguing, disarmingly open memoir from a French writer. B PLUS

THE ART OF SLEEPING ALONE: WHY ONE FRENCH WOMAN SUDDENLY GAVE UP SEX
Scribner
2013

BRILLIANT INTERSTELLAR CAPER novel reimagines the “bank heist” plot in a vividly drawn far-future setting. B PLUS

NEPTUNE’S BROOD
Ace Hardcover
2013

A RELUCTANT VAMPIRE COMES of age, and into her powers, in modern Budapest. Charming, quirky Hungarian fantasy. B PLUS

THE FINNO-UGRIAN VAMPIRE
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
2013