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Saving Susy Sweetchild. By Barbara Hambly. Sept. 2024. 224p. Severn, $29.99 (9781448311057); e-book (9781448311064). Hambly's third installment of her Silver Screen historical mystery series, following One Extra Corpse (2023), once [...]

* Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening. By Elizabeth Rosner. Sept. 2024. 240p. Counterpoint, $27 (9781640095519); e-book (9781640095526). 400. "Listen up!" "Sounds good!" "I hear ya!" [...]

The Paris Gown. By Christine Wells. Aug. 2024. 320p. Morrow, paper, $18.99 (9780063336889); e-book (9780063336902). Oh, to be young in Paris in the 1950s. Claire, Gina, and Margot are three [...]

Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy. By Brian Tyler Cohen. Aug. 2024. 224p. Harper, $27.99 (9780063392885). 324.2734. Election year or not, partisan rancor continues to roil [...]

A Refiner's Fire. By Donna Leon. July 2024. 288p. Atlantic Monthly, $28 (9780802162540); e-book (9780802162557). There are certainly more violent crimes that inspire gripping police procedurals, but in the thirty-third [...]

The Next Mrs. Parrish. By Liv Constantine. June 2024. 336p. Bantam, $30 (9780593599921); e-book (9780593599938). This installment, following The Last Mrs. Parrish (2017), in the Parrish domestic psychodrama series from [...]

* The Wildes. By Louis Bayard. Sept. 2024. 304p. Algonquin, $29 (9781643755304). As befits a novel about one of literature's most astute, witty, and persecuted playwrights, Bayard structures his poignant [...]

Silver Moon Rising. By A. M. Potter. Sept. 2024. 248p. Stark House, paper, $15.95 (9798886011005). Potter's second Ivy Bourque novel is a classic police procedural that follows the young detective [...]

* Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue. By Sonia Purnell. Sept. 2024. 448p. Viking, $35 (9780593297803). 923.2. Harriman's motto could very well have been, Go ahead, [...]

* Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. By Elyse Graham. Sept. 2024. 400p. Ecco, $30 (9780063280847); e-book (9780063280861). 940.54. James Bond [...]

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Save Our World. By Anupreeta Das. Aug. 2024. 320p. Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader, $32 (9781668006726). 338.7. Microsoft cofounder Gates is [...]

I Need You to Read This. By Jessa Maxwell. Aug. 2024. 288p. Atria, $27 (9781668008034); e-book (9781668008058). When the murder of the Herald's beloved advice columnist goes unsolved, her long-sought [...]

Three Keys. By Laura Pritchett. July 2024. 336p. Dell, paper, $20 (9780593724200); e-book (9780593724217). Ammalie has suffered a string of losses: the death of her husband, Vincent; the loss of [...]

The Dark Wives. By Ann Cleeves. Aug. 2024. 384p. Minotaur, $29 (9781250836847); e-book (9781250836854). On the same night Josh, a supervisor in an at-risk teen shelter, is murdered, Chloe, a […]

* Tell Me Everything. By Elizabeth Strout. Sept. 2024. 336p. Random, $30 (9780593446096); e-book (9780593446102). It's a rare and special thing to have someone with whom to share one's deepest […]

A Great Marriage. By Frances Mayes. Aug. 2024. 320p. Ballantine, $30 (9780593498989); e-book (9780593498996). When Dara and Austin fell in love, it was fast and furious. When they broke up […]

Connie. By Connie Chung. Sept. 2024. 336p. Grand Central, $32.50 (9781538766989); e-book (9781538767009). 070.431. In her life-spanning memoir, veteran journalist Chung reveals that the seeds of her ambition were planted [...]

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady. By Heath Hardage Lee. Aug. 2024. 400p. St. Martin's, $32 (9781250274342); e-book (9781250274359). 973.924. There are […]

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed. By Maureen Callahan. July 2024. 400p. Little, Brown, $32.50 (9780316276177).973. For generations, Kennedy men have held some of the nation's highest [...]

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age. By Michael Wolraich. Feb. 2024.352p. Union Square, $28.99 (9781454948025). 364.15. As the Jazz Age plummeted into [...]

* Playing with Wildfire. By Laura Pritchett. Feb. 2024.209p. Torrey House, paper, $18.95 (9781948814898). Who would view the confluence of COVID-19 and Colorado's wildfires as a good thing? Virtuoso novelist [...]

* Teddy. By Emily Dunlay. July 2024. 320p. Harper, $30 (9780063354890). Detectives at the door. A bloodied dress on the bedroom floor. What has Teddy, the newlywed wife of a [...]

* Jackie. By Dawn Tripp. June 2024. 496p. Random, $30 (9780812997217); e-book (9780812997224). Inspired by a rare photograph capturing a tender moment between a young Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Tripp [...]

You Never Know. By Tom Selleck. May 2024. 352p. Morrow/Dey St., $29.99 (9780062945761).792.0280. There was a time when dorm rooms everywhere were festooned with posters of Tom Selleck sporting his [...]

* The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism. By Joe Conason. July 2024. 320p. St. Martin's, $30 (9781250621160); e-book (9781250621177). 320.52. Politicians and corruption seem to [...]

* Trust Her. By Flynn Berry. June 2024. 304p. Viking, $30 (9780593490327); e-book (9780593490334). Berry's sequel to Northern Spy (2021) is less a political thriller centered around the escalating unrest […]

* How to Age Disgracefully. By Clare Pooley. June 2024. 352p. Pamela Dorman, $29 (9780593831496). It is said that it takes a village, but in the London neighborhood of Hammersmith, [...]

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Apr. 2024. 480p. Simon & Schuster, $35 (9781982108663). 973 Words matter. With their power to inspire, [...]

Honey. By Victor Lodato. Apr. 2024. 440p. Harper, $32 (9780063309616); e-book (9780063309623). At 82, Honey Fazzinga, the daughter of a Jersey mobster, has moved back home after decades in Los [...]

Radiant Heat. By Sarah-Jane Collins. Jan. 2024. 352p. Berkley, $27 (9780593550342); e-book (9780593550359). As wildfires flicker against the walls of her home in the remote Australian countryside, Alison King is [...]

The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small. By Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell. Oct. 2023. 560p. Bloomsbury, $40 (9781526659293). 551.58. Award-winning nature writer Tree and [...]

* Mania. By Lionel Shriver. Apr. 2024. 288p. Harper, $30 (9780063345393); e-book (9780063345416). When Pearson Converse's exceptionally bright son is suspended from school for calling a classmate's t-shirt 'stupid,' it [...]

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--and the Fight to Resist It. By Ari Berman. Apr. 2024. 384p. Farrar, $30 (9780374600211); e-book (9780374600228). 320. The notion [...]

* The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters. By Susan Page. Apr. 2024. 480p. Simon & Schuster, $30 (9781982197926). 070.92. In the annals of broadcast journalism, Barbara Walters [...]

Monkey Grip. By Helen Garner. Feb. 2024. 352p. Pantheon, $28 (9780553387452); e-book (9780553387469). Finding and keeping love is hard. There is so much competition from other potential partners as well [...]

* Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America. By Joy-Ann Reid. Feb. 2024. 352p. Mariner, $30 (9780063068797). 973.9. Acclaimed for her cogent analysis and spirited [...]

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America. By Barbara McQuade. Feb. 2024.416p. Seven Stories, $35 (9781644213636); e-book (9781644213643). 320. When the phrase 'alternative facts' was first uttered on the [...]

* The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press. By Calvin Trillin. Feb. 2024.336p. Random, $31 (9780593596449); e-book (9780593596456). 070. Contrary to the opinion of paranoid politicians, the press [...]

Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge. By Lizzie Pook. Jan. 2024. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (9781982180546); e-book (9781982180560). When famed British explorer Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition fails to return to [...]

* The Road from Belhaven. By Margot Livesey. Feb. 2024. 272p. Knopf, $29 (9780593537046); e-book (9780593537053) In late nineteenth-century Scodand, 11-yearold Lizzies life on her grandparents' impoverished farm is both [...]

The London Bookshop Affair. By Louise Fein. Jan. 2024. 416p. Morrow, paper, $19.99 (9780063304840); e-book (9780063304857). The postwar peace in London during the early 1960s is an uneasy one. Physical [...]

The Princess of Las Vegas. By Chris Bohjalian. Mar. 2024. 400p. Doubleday, $29 (9780385547581); e-book (9780385547611). While the real princess of Wales was part of a family whose treatment of [...]

* Ordinary Human Failings. By Megan Nolan. Feb. 2024. 224p. Little, Brown, $27 (9780316567787). The death of a toddler is an extraordinary loss, made even more so when it comes [...]

* American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden. By Katie Rogers. Feb. 2024. 304p. Crown, $30 (9780593240564). 973.9340. In 1993, the differences [...]

Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy. By Carl Sferrazza Anthony. May 2023.400P. Gallery, $29.99 (9781982141875); e-book (9781982141899). 973.9220. While there seems to be no stone unturned [...]

* The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy. By James Risen and Thomas Risen. May 2023.480p. Little, Brown, [...]

* After Annie. By Anna Quindlen. Mar. 2024. 304p. Random, $30 (9780593229804); e-book (9780593229811). Sometimes the fullness of a life can best be measured by the emptiness left behind. When [...]

Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the 'Criminal Alien.' By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez. Jan. 2024. 240p. New Press, $27.99 (9781620977798); e-book (9781620978306). 345.73. For a country that has billed [...]

* Ilium. By Lea Carpenter. Jan. 2024.240p. Knopf, $27 (9780593536605). Carpenter's unnamed narrator is the perfect pawn in a game of revenge and, perhaps, atonement set in the rarefied worlds [...]

Diva. By Daisy Goodwin. Jan. 2024. 336p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250279927); e-book (9781250279934). In the 1950s, Maria Callas was arguably the world's greatest opera star and Aristotle Onassis was the [...]