EDITOR’S CHOICE
Christopher’s Ghosts
by Charles McCarry, $25
The highly acclaimed espionage author is back with an engaging story of revenge set in 1930s Europe. Paul Christopher is a young boy whose life is thrown into turmoil by a Nazi sadist. It takes Paul half a life to find his tormentor after World War II. | Tom Walker
FICTION
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine, $24 | Schine dispatches a love letter to New Yorkers and the dogs who own them in her seventh novel (after “She Is Me”), an ensemble story centered on an Upper West Side street. | Publishers Weekly
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk, $24.95 | Viciously incisive and lethally funny social commentary in a novel cast as an oral biography. Palahniuk’s latest provides a parody of the oral biography format. | Kirkus
NONFICTION
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader, $39.95 | Leader delivers a scrupulously researched and unfailingly entertaining account of the life of one of postwar Britain’s funniest and most famous writers. | Publishers Weekly
Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn, $25.95 | Cohn (senior editor, New Republic) offers a convincing collection of stories about people dealing with the inequities and problems in the present system. | Library Journal
American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin, $30 | A provocative study of how the war-of-each-against-all on the western frontier of America shaped the revolutionary nation. | Kirkus
PAPERBACKS
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue, $13.95 | Donohue may seem to have written a clever debut novel about fairies. But … he has performed a switch and delivered a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity. | Washington Post
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate, $16.95 | In this engaging biography (winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in biography), American studies scholar Applegate situates this curiously modern 19th-century figure at the focus of epochal developments in American culture. | Publishers Weekly
Snow Ashes by Alyson Hagy, $15 | Childhood friends return from the Korean War differently damaged in Hagy’s moving and stark fifth work of fiction (“Keeneland”; “Graveyard of the Atlantic”). | Publishers Weekly
COMING UP
JULY
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke, $26 | Burke’s protagonist, Dave Robicheaux, is back with another case in New Orleans, this one set during the fallout from the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
AUGUST
Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Kluger, $35 | The Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes how America’s quest for conquering the huge tracts of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific came to be.
Starburst by Robin Pilcher, $24.95 | Set against the Edinburgh International Festival, Pilcher brings together a colorful cast of characters whose lives change after coming in contact with each other.
