EDITOR’S CHOICE
New England White by Stephen L. Carter, $26.95
Two lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter’s best-selling first novel, “The Emperor of Ocean Park” – husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle – take center stage in his second, a compelling, literate page-turner | Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Satisfaction by Gillian Greenwood, $24 | Once the 20-something editor of the Literary Review and now executive producer of the “South Bank Show,” the London-based Greenwood comes up with a first novel about psychologist Patrick; his patient, the cheerful Amy; her devoted husband, James; her nutty sister, Grace; and more. | Library Journal
The Far Reaches by Homer Hickam, $24.95 | This is Hickam’s third WWII action saga featuring Capt. Josh Thurlow, an officer exhibiting military insight and preternatural fighting abilities. The book opens in 1943 as an American fleet assembles off Tarawa and the Marines prepare to land. | Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Bobby and Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America by Burton Hersh, $28.95 | The many tensions between Bobby (as both attorney general and senator) and the power-hungry FBI director are well known. What Hersh brings to the party is important new research and intensive analysis revealing the complex background attendant to the confrontations of the 1960s. | Publishers Weekly
Satan’s Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York’s Trial of the Century by Mike Dash, $24.95 | Dash (“Batavia’s Graveyard,” etc.) provides a colorful tour of early-20th-century New York in this Police Gazette-style tale of the only New York cop ever executed for murder. | Kirkus
…And His Lovely Wife: A Memoir From the Woman Beside the Man by Connie Schultz, $24.95 | Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Schultz may have won a Pulitzer Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, two National Headliner awards, and more, but during husband Sherrod Brown’s successful run for Congress, she was just his “lovely wife.” | Library Journal
PAPERBACKS
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein, $13.95 | In Dornstein’s haunting memoir, the author tries to understand the loss of his only brother – killed in the terrorist airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. | The Washington Post
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado, $13.95 | In October 1972, a plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Not immediately rescued, the survivors turned to cannibalism to survive and after 72 days were saved. Rugby team member Parrado has written a beautiful story of friendship, tragedy and perseverance. | Publishers Weekly
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali, $14 | Using luminous, heartfelt language, the award-winning Ali (“Brick Lane”) weaves a tapestry of human frailty. | Library Journal
COMING UP
SEPTEMBER
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin, $27.95 | Based on exclusive interviews with the Supreme Court justices themselves and other insiders, “The Nine” is a timely and provocative “state of the union” about America’s most elite legal institution.
