Local Author
Abominable, by Dan Simmons. It’s 1924, and three mountaineers are high on Mount Everest, in pursuit of a summit and also a missing climber — when they find themselves pursued. By someone. Or something? Local author Simmons mined the historical records for this deeply researched thriller.
Fiction
We Are Water, by Wally Lamb. The bestselling author returns with the story of Annie Oh, a middle-aged mother who shocks her family by falling in love with an art dealer, Viveca.
Adé, by Rebecca Walker. A free-spirited American woman and a Muslim Swahili man fall in love on an island off Kenya. And nothing’s the same again.
History
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades, by Susannah J. Ural. A historian mines the records for a portrait of the Civil War “in the words of those who lived it.”
Lincoln in the World, by Kevin Periano. Most of the ink given to Abe Lincoln concerns his domestic legacy. But he was also an innovative foreign policy-maker.
Letters
The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies. And you thought the iconic musician only wrote songs.
The Leonard Bernstein Letters, edited by Nigel Simeone. And you thought the iconic composer only wrote music.
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger. And you thought the iconic intellectual only wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning histories and social criticism.
