Look for new fiction from the likes of Andrew Vachss and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In nonfiction, Douglas Brinkley relates the story of the U.S. Rangers at the D-Day invasion. Harlan Coben and Jodi Picoult both have new paperbacks of recent books.
FICTION
“Two Trains Running,” by Andrew Vachss, Pantheon, 448 pages, $25|Set in post-World War II in the South, this novel explores race-driven, clannish politics in the run-up to the 1960 presidential election.
“Summer of Roses,” by Luanne Rice, Bantam, 322 pages, $23|The writer of such sentimental novels as “Summer’s Child” and “Beach Girls” is back with a story examining the human heart.
“Dance of Death,” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Warner, 451 pages, $25.95| The authors’ return to the extraordinary wiles of FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, who must face his toughest foe yet – his sick brother.
NONFICTION
“The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the Heroic Feats of the U.S. Army Rangers,” by Douglas Brinkley, HarperCollins, 274 pages, $22.95|This is an account of the U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the president who paid them homage many years later.
“Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism,” by Timothy Naftali, Basic, 416 pages, $26|The author, who worked with the 9/11 Commission, tells the story of the country’s decades-long battle against terrorism.
“Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft,” by Lyndall Gordon, HarperCollins, 562 pages, $29.95|The biographer of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte turns her sights on the founder of modern feminism.
PAPERBACKS
“Just One Look,” by Harlan Coben, Signet, 400 pages, $7.99|When a housewife picks up a package of ordinary photographs, she sets off a string of extraordinary events.
“My Sister’s Keeper,” by Jodi Picoult, Pockets, 448 pages, $14|Here is the story of a child who has one reason for living – to provide a genetic match for her terminally ill sibling.
“The Fabric of the Cosmos,” by Brian Greene, Knopf, 592 pages, $15.95|The author, using terms and analogies the nonscientific mind can understand, describes areas that scientists are looking into today.
COMING UP
“This Dame for Hire,” by Sandra Scoppettone, Ballantine, 272 pages, $21.95, July|The first of a new suspense series that features a female private eye working in New York during World War II.
“Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America,” by Philip Dray, Random House, 304 pages, $25.95, Aug.|Franklin was a scientist long before he was a statesman, and Dray tells the story of his experiments with electricity.
“Anne Frank,” by Josephine Poole, illustrated by Angela Barrett, Knopf, 40 pages, $17.95, Aug.|This children’s book, for ages 8 and up, tells the story of Anne Frank’s childhood through the time her hideout is raided by the Nazis.
