Sunday, August 10, 2014
Fiction
THE HEIST, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.
THE BOOK OF LIFE, by Deborah Harkness. In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.
TOM CLANCY: SUPPORT AND DEFEND, by Mark Greaney. A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Clancy, who died in October 2013.
A PERFECT LIFE, by Danielle Steel. A successful TV anchor faces a young rival at work just as the long-kept secrets of her private life are exposed.
THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
ACT OF WAR, by Brad Thor. Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent attack.
THE SILKWORM, by Robert Galbraith. Private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
INVISIBLE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. A former FBI researcher finds a link between scores of apparently unconnected unsolved cases.
REMAINS OF INNOCENCE, by J. A. Jance. Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two seemingly unrelated and perplexing cases.
MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King. A driver plows into a crowd, killing eight, then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop another, deadlier attack.
Nonfiction
AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families.
ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.
HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton's memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state and her views about the American role in the world.
THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR, by Marja Mills. The author's experience as Harper Lee's neighbor.
DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor.
THINK LIKE A FREAK, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. How to solve problems creatively.
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Thomas Piketty. A French economist's analysis of centuries of economic history predicts worsening inequality and proposes solutions.
CLINTON, INC., by Daniel Halper. A view of how the Clintons attained, lost and regained political power, from an editor of the Weekly Standard.
Paperback fiction
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears from her Missouri home on her fifth anniversary; is her bitter, oddly evasive husband a killer?
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.
THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, by Amy Tan. The author of The Joy Luck Club follows mother and daughter courtesans over four decades, from the lavish parlors of Shanghai to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.
Paperback nonfiction
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A young boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir about a year in a women's prison.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she was constantly on the move.
Editorial on 08/10/2014