Fiction
What the Nanny Saw, by Fiona Neill. Turn up the juice: Here comes a midsummer beach read full of delicious snark about people a lot richer than the rest of us.
The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman. A couple on a remote island buries a stillborn child shortly before a boat washes up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Do they report it?
Ten Girls to Watch, by Charity Shumway. She’s a recent college grad. She’s still “seeing” an ex-boyfriend. She gets a plum assignment from a glossy magazine. Chick-litery ensues.
The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, by Margaret Dilloway. A California high school biology teacher has a pleasant life. Then, her 15-year-old niece shows up — to stay. Then what?
Lake Country, by Sean Doolittle. First, our hero falls asleep at the wheel, killing a bystander. Then, his daughter is kidnapped. Was the initial accident really an accident?
History
Ibn Saud, by Michael Darlow and Barbara Bray. The modern country of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by this desert nomad who’d spent three decades fighting to unify the peninsula.
Rome: An Empire’s Story, by Greg Woolf. This accessible, well-illustrated history proves that, for as much has been written about the Roman empire, there’s still more to say.
Memoir
Anything Worth Doing, by Jo Deurbrouck. Two dudes decide to build a boat and navigate the Salmon River system from its headlands in Idaho to the Pacific.
Leaving Home, by Anne Edwards. She was a Hollywood writer, blacklisted in the McCarthy 1950s, so she moved to London for 20 years and wrote under an assumed name. How did she ever manage?
Short Stories
Shadow Show, Edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle. A rogue’s gallery of writers, from Margaret Atwood to Neil Gaiman, honors the late, great Ray Bradbury.
Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins. A volume of stories — some epic, some bold, some tawdry — set in the American West
Eco-Terrorism Romance
The Hydra Effect, by V. Christian Kingsford. A Leadville author spins a multilayered tale set (mostly) in Colorado. Will ex-covert operations guy Ralph Simon and widowed geochemist Samantha Boyer save the world from impending doom?
