Fiction
Bonnie, by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s Press)
Eve Duncan’s relentless search for her kidnapped little girl, Bonnie, has led her to New Orleans and a man from both her and Bonnie’s father’s past.
— Library Journal
Damned, by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
Move over, Dante, there’s a new tour guide to hell: Madison Spencer, the 13-year-old narrator of Palahniuk’s cliche-ridden latest bulletin of phoned-in outrage.
— Publishers Weekly
Ed King, by David Guterson (Knopf)
Guterson uses key elements of Oedipus the King as scaffolding for a snarky comedy skewering contemporary values.
— Publishers Weekly
Nonfiction
Luck or Something Like It, by Kenny Rogers (Morrow)
Most of us know little about this surprisingly reticent man. This memoir changes that.
— From the publisher
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, by Judy Collins (Crown Archetype)
Despite Collins’ tendency to lapse into high-toned idealism and compulsive name-dropping, this is a fascinating and even harrowing musical and personal reflection.
— Kirkus Reviews
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, by Robert Morgan (Algonquin)
Novelist, poet and historian Morgan moves in the territory between hagiography and calumny in this look at the men who made Manifest Destiny manifest.
— Kirkus Reviews
The Table Comes First, by Adam Gopnik (Knopf)
By turns ponderous and amiable, recherche and playful, Gopnik’s look at the changing rituals of eating and cookery is thorough and rarely dull.
— Publishers Weekly
Emily Post’s Etiquette, 18th edition, by Peggy Post, Anna Post, Lizzie Post and Dan Post (Morrow)
That’s a lot of Posts. But Emily’s rules surely need an update.
Van Gogh: The Life, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White (Random House)
Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials.
— From the publisher
