EDITOR’SCHOICE
Con Ed by Matthew Klein, $23.95
In Klein’s debut novel, one-time con man Kip Largo, who not too long ago spent some time in jail for fraud, doesn’t think much of a gorgeous woman’s plan to steal her husband’s fortune. But then he realizes his son is in debt to his eyeballs to the Russian mob. | Tom Walker
FICTION
The Last Empress by Anchee Min, $25 | Min continues her series of historical novels set in China with the story of one of China’s most reviled women, Tzu Hsi, who presided over the last decades of the Ch’ing Dynasty.
Body of Lies by David Ignatius, $24.95 | The Washington Post columnist’s novel deals with the labyrinthine plot to bring a shadowy member of al-Qaeda to justice.
NONFICTION
Palestine: A Personal History by Karl Sabbagh, $24 The son of a British mother and Palestinian father investigates his history and how it ties in with the history of the Palestinian people.
The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman, $29.95 | The author asserts that the story of the Jamestown settlement deserves a re-telling as its 400th anniversary approaches.
To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, $26 | Here is the story of the legendary Texas singer/songwriter who, while working toward recognition from the public, struggled with alcoholism and depression.
PAPERBACKS
You Must Set Forth at Dawn by Wole Soyinka, $16.95 | The first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature follows his autobiography “The Years of Childhood” with a look at his turbulent life as an adult.
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, $7.99 | With more than 30 million copies in print, this novel is an exploration of the great philosophcial concepts in Western thought.
Skinner’s Drift by Lisa Fugard, $15 | The debut novel from playwright Athol Fugard’s daughter centers on Eva van Rensburg, who returns to South Africa from America to tend to her dying father.
COMING UP
MAY
Hate Mail From Cheerleaders: And Other Adventures From the Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly, $25.95 | Here is a collection of 100 columns collected by Sports Illustrated from Denver’s own Rick Reilly, who once wrote for The Denver Post.
JUNE
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, $26.95 | The prolific Oates is back with a novel about a father who moves his family to New York to escape the Nazis and has to settle for a job as a gravedigger.
AUGUST
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard, $24.99 | The author of “The Deep End of the Ocean” is back with the story of three women who reunite after 20 years and suffer a series of devastating events.
