You might not realize it, but in historical terms, this is a golden age for vegetables. As Rupp points out in her introduction to this delightful book, "for a substantial chunk of human history, people have turned their noses up at vegetables.” But that doesn't mean that our ancestors did without them completely. In each chapter, Rupp (who holds a Ph.D… Read More >>

National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon writes truly unnerving stories—and that is meant as a compliment. You’re reading on the edge of your seat, and at the same time, you experience  our universal  yearning for love and connection—and the ways we’re haunted— in ways you might not have considered before. Read More >>

This beautifully written debut novel takes us to a remote Romanian village in 1939, where the townspeople are desperate to save themselves from war’s encroaching danger. Storytelling becomes their survival mechanism, hope and imagination their weapons. “This book is about the bigness of being alive,” the author writes in an afteward. Read More >>

Walter Mosley delivers another whip-smart — and wildly entertaining — murder mystery in his bestselling Leonid McGill series, with plenty  of stolen money, hanky panky, revenge, and family drama to keep you turning pages.  Mosley’s stylish writing and his sharp insights into his characters are what make his novels stand out  from the pack. Read More >>

Author Taylor, a born and bred Irish physician himself, has created the Irish Country Doctor series, of which this stand-alone is the latest installment. It’s the story of series hero Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly as a young man in 1930s Dublin, going against his father’s wishes to become a student doctor. It’s fun to read how different the practice of… Read More >>

For more than 20 years, journalist P. J. O'Rourke was a foreign and war correspondent – or, as he put it in his 1988 book Holidays in Hell, "what I've really been is a Trouble Tourist — going to see insurrections, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because...because it's fun." At least it was until the Iraq War, when the realization finally… Read More >>

James Patterson writes more books in a year (admittedly with cowriters) than most people can keep up with. In that dynamic output, most of which is thrillers of one sort or another, occasionally he throws in a soft family story. This one tells of matriarch Gaby Summerhill calling her four adult children home for her wedding—but she’s not telling anyone… Read More >>

This volume of Paddleford's 1960 classic, How America Eats, has been updated by Kelly Alexander, with 500 recipes from all 50 states. Some are for gelatin molds. Some use cream-of-mushroom soup. Trendy and uppity it's not. But it is deliciously all-American. Read More >>

In the latest Harry Bosch mystery, Michael Connelly once again demonstrates why he’s the best in the business. In The Drop, Harry is approaching retirement age, and is also the single parent of a 15-year-old daughter, who now lives with him. Both these things have made him more thoughtful, and perhaps more melancholy about good and evil, right and wrong, etc… Read More >>

If you like Nicholas Sparks, you’ll like Kevin Alan Milne. In this story, a starry-eyed young couple find love in romantic Vienna. But instead of marriage leading to the expected happily-ever-after, it leads to real life, and all the things in the world that a couple must face to remain a couple—if they’re going to remain a couple. You root for the… Read More >>