EDITOR’S CHOICE
North River by Pete Hamill, $25.99
Hamill (“Forever,” “A Drinking Life”) has crafted a beautiful novel, rich in New York City detail and ambiance, that showcases the power of human goodness and how love, in its many forms, can prevail in an unfair world.
Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Blaze by Richard Bachman, $25|Despite its predictability, this diverting soft-boiled crime novel reflects influences ranging from John Steinbeck to James M. Cain. Also included is a previously uncollected story, “Memory,” the seed of King’s forthcoming novel “Duma Key.”
Publishers Weekly
Origin by Diana Abu-Jabar, $25 |A moody thriller from Arab-American Abu-Jaber (“The Language of Baklava,” 2005, etc.) that transposes the author’s usual questions of identity onto a young lab tech who believes she was raised by apes.|Kirkus
NONFICTION
The Reagan
Diaries edited by Douglas Brinkley, $35|The diaries our 40th president kept while in office – edited and abridged by historian Brinkley (The Great Deluge)-are largely a straightforward political chronicle. Reagan describes meetings with heads of state and anti-abortion leaders, reflects on legislative strategy and worries about leaks to the press.|Publishers Weekly
Nabeel’s Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq by Jo Tatchell, $23.95|British journalist Tatchell offers a sensitively composed account of the beleaguered life and family of Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin as they weathered decades of repressive government regimes.|Kirkus
Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank, $24.95 |When Frank, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, began noticing that the ranks of America’s wealthy had more than doubled the past decade, and that they were beginning to cluster together in enclaves, he decided to investigate this new society, where “$1 million barely gets you in the door.”|
Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane, $13|McGuane’s reputation is based on his early novels. More recently he also has become an accomplished essayist, but this new collection of stories suggests that short fiction may be his true calling.|Library Journal
What Remains by Carole Radziwell, $15|Radziwill’s life, from ABC correspondent to wife of a prince, Anthony Radziwill, who was diagnosed with cancer before their wedding and died within five years, just as the plane piloted by cousin John Kennedy crashed.|Library Journal
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund, $15.95|The French queen (Marie Antoinette) traditionally portrayed as a vain, heartless epicurean tells her own story in the industrious and versatile Kentucky author’s fourth novel (“Four Spirits,” 2003, etc.). |Kirkus
COMING UP
JULY
The Last Street Novel by Omar
Tyree, $24|Beloved best-selling African-American romance author Tyree delivers the gritty story of a beloved African-American romance author who strays from his comfort zone in order to write a gritty street novel.|
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