EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston, $25.95
Again centering on Sheilagh Fielding, the delightful protagonist in his “The Colony of Unrequited Dreams,” Canadian Johnston returns to Newfoundland and the story of a remarkable woman with plenty of spunk and a few secrets.
Tom Walker
FICTION
Christopher’s Ghosts by Charles McCarry, $25 | McCarry brings back World War II espionage agent Paul Christopher, who must match wits with his nemesis.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Rolano, $27 | This is the late Chilean author’s crowning achievement, an internationally acclaimed novel about a dying literary movement and two men on a quixotic quest to save it.
NONFICTION
John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs, $35 | At once an English swashbuckler who fought against Spain for the adventure of it, Donne became a poet and Protestant clergyman.
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley, $27.50 | Woolley tells the story of America’s first settlement, a daring enterprise led by outcasts from Europe.
What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States Since 9/11 edited by David Farber, $24.95 | Writers from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America describe the world’s attitudes toward the United States – both before and since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
PAPERBACKS
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, $15 | After being nursed back to health in a small Pakistani village after a climbing accident, Mortenson swore he’d come back and build a school He did more than that. Over the next decade, he built 55 schools in the area that spawned the Taliban.
JPod by Douglas Coupland, $14.95 | A slapstick novel set in the today’s world of the tech worker. A group of jPodders are trapped in limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company.
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz, $15 | The author and a friend, while on a cross-country bike trip in 1977, were brutally attacked by a man with an ax. Jentz returns to the small town where it happened to see how the crime affected the people there.
COMING UP
MAY
Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell, $24.95 | A debut novel set in post-Civil War era Appalachia. It’s the story of three generations of families who transform a wilderness into a home.
Free Fire by C.J. Box, $24.95 | Box brings back Joe Pickett. Fired from his game warden job, Pickett is recruited to investigate a murder that happened in a no-man’s land with issues of jurisdiction.
JUNE
The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel, $32.95 | Vogel gives an exhaustive history of the building of the huge edifice during World War II and then the rebuilding of it after the attacks of September 11.
