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* Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan Ruth Gilligan. Tin House (Norton, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-941040-49-2 Gilligan makes a stellar U.S. debut with this wistful and lyrical [...]

Christian's delightful sophomore outing (after A Beautiful Mess) is a vibrant story of self discovery. After Noni Blake's nine-year relationship fizzles out, Noni, a plus-sized, bisexual teacher, is ready to [...]

A fictionalized version of terrorist Anders Breivik's slaughter of 77 people at a Norwegian summer camp in 2011 provides the backdrop for this stunning psychological thriller from McPherson (A Line [...]

Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, the design team known as MinaLima, created graphic elements seen throughout J.K. Rowling's Potterverse--in films, at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park, and [...]

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South John T. Edge, read by the author. Penguin Audiobook, unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-5247-3617-0 Edge, who serves [...]

* The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South John T. Edge. Penguin Press, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59420-655-9 James Beard Award-winning writer and food historian Edge evokes potlikker--the [...]

Gwyn (Wynne's War) unleashes a powerful, decades-spanning novel of Texas's violent birth in the mid-19th century. Duncan Lammons, 20, a gay son of a preacher, travels from Kentucky to the [...]

Leger's standout conclusion to her ttilogy of meditations on the lives of women (after Exposition) shuttles between the stories of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who hitchhiked across Europe in [...]

The #10 book in the country is the Victorian romance Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas. It's the sixth book in her Ravenels series and the first to receive a starred [...]

IS IT THE ECONOMY? IS IT THE AFTEREFFECTS OF September 11? Is it because there are too many books being written and published? Perhaps other leisure-time activities are gaining in [...]

"A Christmas Eve Love Story" by Ginny Baird is a spellbinding time loop romance novel that follows Annie Jones, an orphan who hopes for a perfect Christmas Eve. Working as an assistant window designer at Lawson's Finest department store, Annie encounters hunky security guard Braden Tate and faces disappointment when staff cuts are announced instead of a promotion. However, Annie wakes up the next morning to relive the same Christmas Eve twelve times, each with a slightly different twist and longer encounters with Braden. Baird's novel captivates readers with a fated connection between Annie and Braden, a charming supporting cast, and genuine humor, making it a heartwarming and clean romance. [Extracted from the article]

Death by Toilet Paper Donna Gephart. Delacorte, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-74399-0 Benjamin Epstein, 12, is having an epically bad year. His father's death left the family saddled with medical bills, [...]

Paper Valentine Brenna Yovanoff. Razorbill, $17.99 ISBN 978-1-59514-599-4 In her chilling third novel, Yovanoff (The Space Between) combines supernatural horrors with others that are all too human. Hannah Wagnor is [...]

The Elizabeth Papers Jenetta James. Meryton, $12.95 trade paper (229p) ISBN 978-1-68131-007-7 James (Suddenly Mrs. Darcy) follows the characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice beyond the end of their [...]

Paper Girls, Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Image, $9.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-63215674-7 Like some great 1980s teen sci-fi/horror cult classic, this aggressively awesome new series [...]

ANDREW LEVY. Roof $11.95 paper (112p) ISBN 0-937804-83-5 Levy, in books like Values Chauffeur You and Continuous Discontinuous, has quietly been producing some of the most fascinatingly meditative avant-garde writing [...]

In the past decade, Leo Paper has been increasing the emphasis on edutainment and interactivity in its R&D direction for new product ideas. 'Magic Paper World, our trademarked value-added solution, [...]

Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine Edited by Travis Kurowski. Atticus (itascabooks.com, dist.), $29.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-9840405-75 Literary magazines may have been dubbed 'little [...]

Funny Verse and Nothing Worse DEAN KOONTZ, ILLUS. BY PHIL PARKS. HarperCollins, $17.95 (160p) ISBN 0-06-029488-4 Bestselling novelist Koontz rejoins his collaborator on Santa's Twin for this uneven roundup of [...]

HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN. Seven Stories and Permanent Press, $24 (176p) ISBN 1-58322-272-3 Elegantly conceived and tenderly written, this cameo of a novel ushers readers into a small, warmly lit comer [...]

ROSEMARY WELLS. Hyperion, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-7868-0737-7 * Wells returns to the plucky heroine she introduced in Yoko with this wistful story about the green-eyed kitten and her faraway grandparents. [...]

MICHAEL FRAYN AND DAVID BURKE. Metropolitan, $20 (136p) ISBN 0-8050-6752-3 While Frayn's play Copenhagen won three Tony awards in 2000 (including best play), and the London playwright has Noises Off [...]

NICHOLSON BAKER. Random, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-375-50444-3 * All writers of course love the printed word, but few are those willing to start foundations in order to preserve it. Not [...]

EDITED BY TOM HINEY AND FRANK MACSHANE. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-87113-786-0 Chandler, author of such hard-boiled detective classics as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, wrote highly [...]

MARCEL THEROUX. Harcourt, $23 (224p) ISBN 0-15-100647-4 Although this tale of a man's investigation into the truth of his family history is written with much shrewd wit and a sensitive [...]

COMPILED BY ZHANG LIANG, EDITED BY ANDREW J. NATHAN AND PERRY LINK, AFTERWORD BY ORVILLE SCHELL. Public Affairs, $30 (514p) ISBN 1-58648-012-X * Nathan, director of Columbia's East Asian Institute, [...]

Paper Hearts, Vol. 1: Some Writing Advice Beth Revis. Scripturient, $3.99 e-book (340p) ISBN 978-0-9906626-5-5 YA author Revis (A World Without You) offers sensible and useful advice for writers in [...]

Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Edited by Mary Savig. Princeton Architectural, $27.50 (208p) ISBN 978-1-61689-462-7 These original, handwritten letters by 56 renowned [...]

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Alexander Monro. Knopf, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-27166-2 In this well-researched history, Monro (China: City and Exile), a British reporter who [...]

DAVID STANDISH. Chronicle, $19.95 (132p) ISBN 0-8118-2805-0 Beginning with the sunflowers on the Netherlands' 50-gulden note (Standish loves them) and ending with the redesigned American fives, tens and twenties (hates [...]

WAYSON CHOY. Picador USA, $24 (352p) ISBN 0-312-26218-3 Eighteen years after he sat by his mother's hospital bed watching her die, novelist Choy (The Jade Peony) received a disturbing phone [...]

STEVE SAMUEL, Simon & Schuster, $25 (320p) ISBN 0-684-82343-8 Cloak and dagger thrills and counterterrorist gamesmanship fuel this lively but precariously plotted tale of a Secret Service agent with a [...]

ANDR[acute{E}] ACIMAN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-374-29978-1 Memory trumps life and existence acquires the hue of old hand-tinted photographs in this collection of 14 essays by a [...]

BARBARA SNOW GILBERT. Front Street (PGW, dist.), $16.95 ISBN 1-886910-44-8 Gilbert (Stone Water; Broken Chords) stresses the destructive forces of paramilitary groups in this chilling survival tale of a boy [...]

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 Iris Murdoch, edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe. Princeton Univ., $39.95 (688p) ISBN 978-0-691-17056-5 Novelist and philosopher Murdoch was a dedicated [...]