My Name Is Emilia del ValleIsabelle Allende, trans. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle. Ballantine, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-97509-1
In the riveting latest from Allende (The Wind Knows My Name), a journalist finds love and danger while covering the Chilean Civil War. Emilia del Valle was raised in San Francisco’s Mission District by her Irish American mother, Molly Walsh, who left her life of Catholic religious service a... Continue reading »
Never FlinchStephen King. Scribner, $32 (448p) ISBN 978-1-6680-8933-0
King cements PI Holly Gibney’s status as one of the great contemporary detectives in this thrilling sequel to Holly. When a letter arrives at the Buckeye City Police Department proclaiming that “the INNOCENT should be punished for the needless DEATH of an innocent,” detective Izzy Jaynes is... Continue reading »
The Two Lies of Faven SytheMegan E. O’Keefe. Orbit, $19.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-57202-6
O’Keefe (the Devoured Worlds trilogy) flexes her worldbuilding chops in this superior space opera, set in a future in which shards of “sacred cryst,” grown under women’s skins, are “plucked free to be nurtured into a woman, or something like a woman” who serve as spaceship navigators using their spe... Continue reading »
Ordinary LoveMarie Rutkoski. Knopf, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-80326-4
Bestselling YA author Rutkoski (Real Easy) makes her adult debut with a raw and moving second-chance love story that tenderly tracks a woman’s determined efforts to regain self-worth as she heals from an abusive marriage and reunites with a past love. For many years, Emily has convinced her... Continue reading »
Gilt FrameMatt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt. Dark Horse, $29.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4594-7
Harvey award winner Kindt (the Mind MGMT series) collaborates with his mother, Margie Kraft Kindt, on this charming cozy whodunit that builds an intricate case around the murder of a Parisian antiques dealer. Amateur sleuths Meredith “Merry” Pearson and her nephew Sam have a knack for stumbling onto... Continue reading »
Viscera: Eight Voices from PolandEdited by Mark Tardi, trans. from the Polish by Malgorzata Myk et al. Litmus, $22 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-933959-83-2
This luminous bilingual anthology features eight contemporary women poets from Poland: Anna Adamowicz, Maria Cyranowicz, Hanna Janczak, Natalia Malek, Joanna Oparek, Zofia Skrzypulec, Katarzyna Szaulińska, and Ilona Witkowska. The opening “Cantata” section presents selections from each, displaying t... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
A Training School for Elephants: Retracing a Curious Episode in the European Land Grab for AfricaSophy Roberts. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6486-5
In 1879, while the Great Powers were scrambling to carve up Africa, Belgian king Leopold II came up with the “bizarre idea” that sending four Indian elephants to the continent would give him a competitive edge, explains journalist Roberts (Pianos for Siberia) in this riveting, sumptuously w... Continue reading »
Kawaii Appliqué Quilts from Japan: How One Country’s Love of All Things Tiny Powers Today’s Most Intricate Quilts (with 5 Projects from Top Designers)Naomi Ichikawa and Teresa Duryea Wong. Schiffer, $34.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6925-4
Ichikawa, publisher of Quilt Diary Japan magazine, and art historian Wong (Sewing and Survival) serve up an enchanting celebration of kawaii (“small and cute”) quilts, which are characterized by their intricately detailed scenes featuring tiny, cartoon-like figures. Delvin... Continue reading »
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the PresentJohn Tolan. Princeton Univ, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-69126-353-3
Historian Tolan (Faces of Muhammad) traces in this vibrant and sweeping survey the 1,400-year evolution of Islam. Stressing Islam’s conceptual unity (“we are one umma”) and diverse reality, he tells its history by stitching together the stories of key figures. Among them are Um Waraqa, a wo... Continue reading »
Dawn: Watch the World AwakenMarc Martin. Candlewick Studio, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3240-0
Martin (A Stone Is a Story) employs delicate, luminous watercolor, pencil, and digital panels, captioning them with simple words, to limn quiet moments of drama in the natural world. The sun rises on an opening page, turning a pond’s surroundings rusty gold as a fish jumps: “Dawn.” A page l... Continue reading »
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