Editor’sChoice
Phantom Prey, by John Sandford, $26.95. In bestseller Sandford’s solid 18th Prey novel (after “Invisible Prey”), Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Lucas Davenport ought to be taking the desk aspects of his job more seriously. Publishers Weekly
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The Lady Elizabeth, by Alison Weir, 25. The experiences of Elizabeth I make for the ultimate royal bedtime story, and Weir’s sophomore fiction offering (after last year’s New York Times best-selling Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey) about the life of Elizabeth before she ascended to the throne is the finest to date. Publishers Weekly
M.I.A., by Michael Allen Dymmoch, 24.95. Rhiann Fahey’s second husband, Mickey, a cop, was killed in a car crash, and his best cop-friend, Rory Sinter, is determined to look after Rhiann, even if she finds him creepy. Publishers Weekly
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, by Arthur Herman, $30. Historian Herman (“How the Scots Invented the Modern World”) paints a forceful portrait of the emergence of the postcolonial era in the fateful contrast — and surprising affinities — between two historic figures on opposite sides of the struggle for Indian independence. Publishers Weekly
Notes On a Life, by Eleanor Coppola, $25. Coppola (“Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now”) has gathered together excerpts from 20 years of her personal journals and in the process she captures the experiences of being a wife, mother and artist trying to find her own self-expression in the midst of a talented family. Publishers Weekly
Hospital, by Julie Salamon $25.95. Bestselling author Salamon (The Devil’s Candy; The Christmas Tree) illustrates the complex machine that is the modern hospital, vying to provide cutting-edge facilities and compassionate care, while making money doing it. Publishers Weekly
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Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje, $13.95. What an unusual, and unusually rich, experience it is to read “Divisadero,” the new novel by Michael Ondaatje — like going for a walk in a familiar neck of the woods, getting lost and then discovering an entirely new neck of woods filled with unknown wonders. The Washington Post.
The Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner, $16.95. Pulitzer Prize- winner Weiner combed through the history books and recently declassified records to offer up this fascinating, comprehensive and sometimes appalling history of the Central Intelligence Agency. Publishers Weekly
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon, $15.95. In this wildly inventive blackest of black comedies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chabon (“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”) imagines that after World War II, President Roosevelt decreed the yet-to-be-50th state the homeland of the Jews. Library Journal
COMING UP </h3
Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, by David Kaufman, $29.95. Rather than the girl next door, as she’s been depicted, Kaufman tells the story of a workaholic with four failed marriages and a son who was “more of a brother or a father-figure than a son to his mother.” (June)
The Garden of Evil, by David Hewson, $24. After a body is found in a deserted artist’s studio in the heart of Rome, Dectective Nic Costa is on a chase through history, following clues left by an artist with gruesome tastes. (Aug.)
