Editor’s Choice
Madewell Brown, by Rick Collignon, $23.95. In his fourth novel in an acclaimed series that includes “The Journal of Antonio Montoya,” “Perdido” and “A Santo in the Image of Cristobel Garcia,” Collignon returns to the fictional town of Guadalupe, N.M., and continues the strange mystery of Madewell Brown. Think Tony Hillerman with a dash of Cormac McCarthy. Library Journal
FICTION
Hello, Goodbye, by Emily Chenoweth, $25. An understated debut novel of great beauty and power about a vibrant woman who contracts terminal brain cancer. The novel ends with Helen’s moving epiphany: “The world is beautiful, and she is so glad she has seen it.” Heartbreaking yet unsentimental. Kirkus
The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters (“The Night Watch”) reflects on the collapse of the British class system after World War II in a stunning haunted-house tale whose ghosts are as horrifying as any in Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House.” (Doctor) Faraday, one of literature’s more unreliable narrators, carries the reader swiftly along to the devastating conclusion. Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press, by Eric Boeh lert, $26. Award-winning journalist Boeh lert introduces the new generation of political muckrakers who took the 2008 presidential campaign — and old-guard, by-the-numbers reporting — by storm. Boehlert presents a Web’s-eye-view of the American left’s grand reawakening. Publishers Weekly
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by David A. Kessler, $25.95. Here Kessler (“A Question of Intent”) describes how, since the 1980s, the food industry, in collusion with the advertising industry, and lifestyle changes have short-circuited the body’s self-regulating mechanisms, leaving many at the mercy of reward-driven eating. Publishers Weekly
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, by D.D. Guttenplan, $35. In this sometimes workmanlike but often animated biography, Guttenplan (“The Holocaust on Trial”) provides a lively portrait of a journalist who was as passionate about radical politics and getting a story right as he was about ballroom dancing. Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham, $18. The most readable single-volume biography ever written of our seventh president, drawing on a trove of previously unpublished correspondence to vividly illuminate the self-made warrior who “embodied the nation’s birth and youth.” Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Washington Post
Oxygen, by Carol Cassella, $15. Powered by Cassella’s 25 years in the medical field, this nicely wrought debut follows the travails of an experienced Seattle anesthesiologist after an 8-year-old patient dies while under the knife. In the aftermath, Dr. Marie Heaton is entangled in both her grief and a malpractice lawsuit. Publishers Weekly
Fidelity, by Thomas Perry, $14.95. Perry’s tale of murder and love in various forms — genuine, unrequited, illicit and perverse — begins with the killing of a philandering private eye, then concentrates on the effect of the death on his adoring wife, the oddly conflicted paid assassin and his employer, a wealthy, insane child molester. Publishers Weekly
COMING UP
The Siege, by Stephen White, $25.95. A number of students on the Yale campus — including the sons of the secretary of the Army and the newest member of the Supreme Court — have gone missing. Is it kidnapping? Terrorism? You can be sure that the disappearances have captured the attention of some heavy hitters. (August)
