Fiction
WHISKEY BEACH, by Nora Roberts. A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife’s murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house’s caretaker amid continuing danger.
DADDY’S GONE A HUNTING, by Mary Higgins Clark. Two sisters are threatened by a dark secret from their family’s past.
LIFE AFTER LIFE, by Kate Atkinson. A woman appears in different versions of the same events, centered on World War II.
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn.A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
TAKING EVE, by Iris Johansen. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan undertakes a job for a man with dark secrets; the first book in a trilogy.
THE BURGESS BOYS, by Elizabeth Strout. Two brothers, both lawyers, come together in a small Maine town to defend their good-for-nothing nephew; by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
DON’T GO, by Lisa Scottoline. An Army doctor returns from Afghanistan when his wife dies in what at first appears to be an accident, and finds that his life is falling apart.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, by Stuart Woods. New York lawyer Stone Barrington discovers a shadowy network beneath the world of European wealth.
SIX YEARS, by Harlan Coben. Six years after the woman he loved married another man, Jake Fisher discovers that neither she nor their life together were what they seemed, and he sets out to uncover the truth.
STARTING NOW, by Debbie Macomber. A Seattle lawyer loses her job and remakes her life; she finds support at the local knitting store. A Blossom Street novel.
Nonfiction
LEAN IN, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell. The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
THE ATHENA DOCTRINE, by John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio. How feminine values of nurturing, listening and collaborating are redefining success for both genders.
GULP, by Mary Roach. A science writer’s pilgrimage down the digestive tract.
UNSINKABLE, by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway. A second memoir by the actress, singer and dancer presents stories about her show-business friends, her man and money troubles, and her children.
THE WAY OF THE KNIFE, by Mark Mazzetti. The New York Times’ national security correspondent describes how the lines between the CIA and the U.S. military have been blurred.
GIVE AND TAKE, by Adam Grant. A Wharton professor’s research discloses that success depends on how we interact with others, and he argues that “givers” do better than “takers.”
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific.
THE GREAT DEFORMATION, by David Stockman. A revisionist account of economic history since the New Deal by President Ronald Reagan’s former budget director.
MY WAY, by Paul Anka with David Dalton. A show-business memoir from the singer and songwriter.
KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Paperback fiction
BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess Walter. Ruins both emotional and architectural, in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere, figure in this sweeping novel.
WORLD WAR Z, by Max Brooks. An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.
THE BLACK BOX, by Michael Connelly. In a case that spans 20 years, Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links a recent crime to the killing of a photographer amid the 1992 race riots.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E.L. James. An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in an erotic trilogy.
THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. A special agent with the U.S. Army investigates his aunt’s mysterious death in a picture-perfect town on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Paperback nonfiction
PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander. A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma.
WILD, by Cheryl Strayed. A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in the summer of 1995.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by Ben Carson with Candy Carson. A vision of the nation’s future that is informed by a view of its past.
AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle. A member of the Navy SEALs who had the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war. Kyle was recently shot to death in Texas.
QUIET, by Susan Cain. Introverts, one third of the population, are undervalued in American society.
Perspective, Pages 73 on 05/05/2013