Sunday, August 24, 2014
Fiction
THE MAGICIAN'S LAND, by Lev Grossman. Quentin, an exiled magician, tries a risky heist in the final installment of a trilogy.
BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
THE LOST ISLAND, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Gideon Crew, scientist and thief, pursues an extraordinary treasure for his mysterious employer.
SEVERED SOULS, by Terry Goodkind. Book 14 of the Sword of Truth series returns to Richard Rahl, Kahlan Amnell, and their world.
THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
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.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II. 1
THE SILKWORM, by Robert Galbraith. The private detective Cormoran Strike in literary London; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
Nonfiction
AMERICA, by Dinesh D'Souza. A defense of America against the view that its power in the world should be diminished.
ONE NATION, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems.
IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE, by Hampton Sides. An 1879 polar voyage goes terribly wrong.
THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL, by Ronald Kessler. A reporter divulges details from Secret Service agents about the lives of presidents, ex-presidents and candidates, as well as about the service's failings.
HARD CHOICES, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton's memoir focuses on her years as secretary of state.
A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, by Ben Macintyre. An account of British Cold War spy Kim Philby focuses on the two close friends whose trust he betrayed.
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, by Rick Perlstein. Society and politics in America from 1973 to 1976, the years between Nixon's resignation and the beginning of Ronald Reagan's ascent.
BLOOD FEUD, by Edward Klein. A journalist describes animosity behind the alliance between the Clinton and Obama families.
DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. How disadvantages can work in our favor.
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
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.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James. Daunted by Christian's dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship, but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy.
Paperback nonfiction
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown. A group of American rowers pursue gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. A young boy's encounter with Jesus and the angels.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed; it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, by Piper Kerman. A memoir about a year in a women's prison; the basis for the Netflix series.
Editorial on 08/24/2014