EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney, $25
The frigid isolation of European immigrants living on the 19th-century Canadian frontier is the setting for British author Penney’s haunting debut. Seventeen-year-old Francis Ross disappears the same day his mother discovers the scalped body of his friend, fur trader Laurent Jammet, in a neighboring cabin. | Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Dead Connection by Alafair Burke, $19.95 | Novice NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher worked low-level robberies until she was whisked to the homicide division and plunged neck-deep into a series of killings in this addictive thriller. | Kirkus
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare, $26 | Kadare takes as his subject the shattering impact of World War II as that cataclysm is lived by a small, immensely sensitive boy. | Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor, $26.95 | Tabor’s exhaustive look at the doomed 1967 expedition to scale Alaska’s Mount McKinley is an often gripping, detailed account of the infamous climb that remains controversial. | Publishers Weekly
Tales From Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major by John Feinstein, $26.99 | Feinstein follows the action at the 2005 Q School (PGA tour qualifying school), but the core of the book is taken up with getting inside the heads of the competitors. | Booklist
The Dangerous Book For Boys by Conn Igguldon and Hal Igguldon, $24.95 | Intentionally old-fashioned and politically incorrect, this eclectic collection addresses the undeniable boy-appeal of certain facts and activities. (Grades 4-8). | School Library Journal
PAPERBACKS
Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner, $15 | Smart, acerbic, 30-something women battle dating damage and broken childhoods (absent fathers in particular) in order to build their own families – or to convince themselves they still want to. | Publishers Weekly
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman, $15 | Fans of Klosterman’s Ritalin-paced pop culture criticism (“Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”) will eagerly devour this collection of previously published essays. | Publishers Weekly
Radiant Days by Michael A. Fitzgerald, $15 The dramatic journey of a San Francisco cyber professional named Anthony. | Library Journal
COMING UP
AUGUST
The Rake by William F. Buckley Jr., $24.95 | Buckley’s novel centers on Ruben Castle, a political candidate with enough skeletons in his closet to thwart his dreams unless he takes extraordinary measures.
OCTOBER
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs | Snyder tells the story of what has gone wrong in our war on germs, and of our emerging understanding of the relationship between our bodies and their microbes.
OCTOBER
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo, $26.95 | Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
