Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life — With a Soundtrack, a collection of short, sharp essays by New York Times bestselling author Ben Greenman is organized around a thematic playlist of songs, and serves as a reminder of the lyrical power of songwriting, and the sonic ability of pop to capture the human experience. Michael Gross’s Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers is an unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it.…

In From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places, Elmira Bayrasli brings readers inside the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth. In Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness;…

Davis Miller‘s Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts is the single most intimate look at Muhammad Ali’s retirement, told through the story of an unexpected, powerful and life-changing friendship. James Andrew Miller presents Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency, an astonishing history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all. Lisa Napoli’s Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away tells the true story of Ray and Joan Kroc’s relationship.…

Steven Johnson’s Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World is an illustrated history of popular entertainment which contends that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.…

In The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution, photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a reappraisal of the Black Panther Party’s history and legacy.…

S.L. Price’s Playing Through the Whistle explores the history of Aliquippa, PA, a former industrial steel mill boomtown that has fallen on hard times, but has subsequently produced a remarkable number of NFL stars through its high school sports teams. The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting is New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos’s researched account of one of the deadliest fires in American history,…

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists.…

Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in her hilarious book of essays, I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.…

In Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me, Ana Castillo looks at what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. In The Art of Waiting, Belle Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family.…

Elizabeth Kostova‘s suspenseful novel, set in Bulgaria, The Shadow Land, spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. In Bradford Morrow‘s novel, The Prague Sonata, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of a mysterious musical masterpiece. John Freeman Gill‘s Novel The Gargoyle Hunters a boy is recruited by his father to help him in an architectural salvage scheme,…

From Jami Attenberg, the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, comes All Grown Up, a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. In Lauren Grodstein‘s poignant novel, Our Short Story, a dying mother struggles to play out her last days in the “right” way for her son. Three decades after she first made a name for herself among the ranks of writers like Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt,…

In Alisyn Camerota‘s novel, Amanda Wakes Up, a woman who lands the coveted morning anchor slot must decide what she’s willing to give up to get ahead—and what she needs to hold on to save herself. In Mary Simses’s latest novel, The Rules of Love and Grammar, a woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots. Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard provide the setting for Elin Hilderbrand‘s twentieth novel, The Identicals,…

Alissa Nutting‘s novel, Made for Love, is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family. Based on her experience as Hunter S. Thompson’s assistant, Cheryl Della Pietra novel Gonzo Girl proves that the road to hell is paved with good intentions–and tequila, guns, and cocaine. Weike Wang’s Chemistry: A Novel is a luminous coming-of-age novel about a young female scientist who must recalibrate her life when her academic career goes off track.…

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Kia Corthon‘s first novel is The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, in which four boys from small-town America will culminate in an explosive and devastating encounter between their two families. Set in rural Georgia during the Depression, Eleanor Henderson‘s epic novel, The Twelve-Mile Straight, a lynching touches off an exploration of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis. Tom Franklin‘s novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter,…

As he travels across twelve countries and reports from the front lines, acclaimed journalist Jeff Goodell employs fact, science, and on-the-ground journalism to show vivid scenes from what already is becoming a water world, in The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. In Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change,…

Attorney Alan Bell‘s illness leads him to the fight of—and for—his life, in Poisoned: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims. In his work of speculative nonfiction, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon, Pope Brock asks: if we’re given a second chance on the moon, will we use it to create at last a sane and peaceful society? Marcus Eriksen‘s Junk Raft combines an unlikely ocean adventure with concrete,…

Today, media are struggling to maintain credibility as they cover everything from local breaking news to a combative White House that has weaponized criticism of the media. In response, some journalists have positioned themselves as both objective truth-tellers and advocates for the communities they serve, two sides of the journalism coin that supposedly cannot coexist. The credibility gap between media and audiences is growing, nationally as well as locally, where choices on what to cover have been feeding negative stereotypes and division for decades.…

In his refreshingly honest memoir, Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years, former presidential speechwriter David Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is Jared Yates Sexton’s firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and powered Donald Trump into the White House.…

Francine Klagsbrun presents the definitive biographer of one of the most notable women of our time, in Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, which brings to life the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. Jonathan Eig’s unauthorized biography, Ali: A Life, is a groundbreaking story about race, about a brutal sport, and about a fascinating man who shook up the world. Renowned biographer James Atlas presents an endearing tale of how writers’ lives get documented,…

The opiate crisis has made headlines across the country as journalists and editors seek to humanize the story of users and source the mountain of prescription drugs that are being consumed. Was the crack crisis covered differently? Did the race and social status of the users in each epidemic, and the urban vs. corporate manufacture of the drugs, impact the coverage? How do the answers to these questions contribute to the distrust some Americans have in reporters and media companies? How do attitudes toward reporting on the evolving story reflect or mirror the ambivalence some in the public have toward journalism today?…

From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado, Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration tells the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today. Laura Wides-Muñoz’s The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American examines the issue of undocumented “Dreamers” who came to the US as children and are reshaping immigration policy in the US.…

Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy argues that for the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals that led us out of the bloody muck of the past – or back to the muck we will go.…

The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president’s staff can change the nation in West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House. With contributors Rumana Ahmed, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Cecilia Muñoz, and Stephanie Valencia.…

Mark Leibovich‘s Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times is a merciless probing of America’s biggest cultural force, pro football. We Matter: Athletes and Activism features interviews by former NBA star Etan Thomas with over fifty athletes, executives, media figures, and more. In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves.…

Ben Fountain’s Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution is a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, that recounts a surreal year of politics. James Miller’s Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World is a  new history of the world’s most embattled idea. Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank is a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times—perfect for this political moment.…

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster by H.W. Brands chronicles the careers of three second-generation American founding fathers. Tom Clavin’s Valley Forge recounts perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history—the inspiring, account of the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution.…

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order from David Levering-Lewis examines the life of influential politician Wendell Willkie. In conversation with Kai Bird, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.…

From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism is a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s. In conversation with Carlos Lozada. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29, 2018 at 10 A.M. Click here to purchase tickets! Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a “first come, first served” basis. Seats will only be held up to ten (10) minutes before the start of the session.…

In No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. In The Land Between Two Rivers Tom Sleigh examines the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront it. The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America is Mohammed Al Samawi’s moving story of war,…

In The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love—from superhero franchises such as the “Dark Knight,” “X-Men,” and the “Avengers” and series like “The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones” to thrillers like Homeland and 24—are saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics. Chris Stirewalt’s Every Man a King is a rollicking history of an American attitude that has shaped not only our current moment,…

Robert Boyers’s The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture, and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Stanley Fish’s The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump is a sharply observed look at one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: freedom of speech.…

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognize some of the most outstanding works of nonfiction published in the U.S. each year. Moderated by Elizabeth Flock, reporter and producer for PBS NewsHour. Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,…

Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, Pamela Paul shows how to instill the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading in her book, How to Raise a Reader. Adam Mansbach’s Fuck, Now There Are Two of You, is actually a loving monologue about a new addition to the family. Paul and Mansbach will be joined by podcast hosts Jamilah Lemieux and Dan Kois, the latter writes about setting out with his family on a journey of discovery in How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together.…

In Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, authors Julian E. Zelizer and Kevin M. Kruse chronicle the past four decades of stark political partisanship and social divisions in the United States. Nicholas Lemann’s Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream examines the concentration of wealth and economic inequality in the United States.…

From “Agitate” to “Zygote,” John Freeman’s Dictionary of the Undoing redefines selected words necessary in the current political era. In If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might be Saved, Michael Tomasky combines data with trenchant analysis to explain how the nation broke apart and offer a path to a more hopeful political future.…

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States  is transgender reporter Samantha Allen’s narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in conservative states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Outside In: A Political Memoir is part memoir, and part analysis of the political process, by Libby Davies, the first openly lesbian MP in Canadian politics.…

Alex Kotlowitz’s An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago is a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago’s most turbulent neighborhoods. Investigative reporter Kyle Swenson tells in Good Kids, Bad City the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.…

Melissa Isaacson’s  State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation  is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality in the 1970s. In You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how masculinity adversely impacts women and creates many “blind spots” that hinder the healthy development of men.…

Una conversación sobre la forma en que la estética, la temática y la profundidad de los textos de las autoras de origen hispano que escriben en los Estados Unidos está redefiniendo la literatura contemporánea. Keila Vall de la Ville, Los días animales, Kelly Martínez-Grandal, Muerte con campanas, y Grethel Delgado Álvarez, Sancho, dialogan con los editores Pedro Medina León y Gastón Virkel, moderados por Adriana Pacheco.…

Before the Food and Drug Administration existed, drugmakers could hawk any potion, claim treatment for any ailment, and make any promise on a label with impunity. In Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust, Mikkael Sekeres, M.D., a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA’s cancer drug advisory committee, tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world and how its system of checks and balances works – or doesn’t.…

Based on true-life events, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‘s The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance tells the story of Jindan, who transformed herself from a daughter of the keeper of the royal kennel to a powerful monarch. As the last reigning queen of India’s Sikh Empire, the once pampered wife became a warrior ruler to protect her people from the encroaching British Empire. Moderating is Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, author of A Matter of Trust: India U.S.…

In Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova explores how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories. You might even be worried that your memory lapses could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s or dementia. But, as it turns out, forgetting is part of being human. In The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains and the Search for Our Psyches,…

In Etaf Rum‘s A Woman Is No Man: A Novel, Deya, Isra, and Fareeda – three Palestinian American women spanning as many generations – deal with their roles and the expectations of their community. Isra and her eldest daughter, Deya, prefer books and college to arranged marriages. Fareeda, the traditionalist matriarch, believes a woman’s future depends on marrying the right man. Susan Abulhawa‘s Against the Loveless World: A Novel, tells the story of Nahr, a young Palestinian woman fighting for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.…

In author and editor John Freeman‘s anthology Animals – featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more – he explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside them. In Pathetic Literature, Eileen Myles presents a global anthology of pieces selected from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks, to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic.” It’s a collection of pieces ranging from poetry to theater to prose to something in between.…

In Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, Mustafa Akyol diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward. He argues that values often associated with Western Enlightenment – freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science – had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. This is a ReadingEast program.…

In Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and His Daring Quest for a Free Cuba, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David E. Hoffman examines a lone individual with the courage, faith, and persistence to struggle for democracy against an unforgiving dictator. Founder of the Christian Liberation Movement, which called for nonviolent civil disobedience, Payá died in a suspicious car accident in 2012. Simultaneous translation into Spanish available. Sponsored by…

In Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, longtime public radio reporter and host Stacey Vanek Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best. Joining her is Rebecca Fishman Lipsey, president and CEO of The Miami Foundation.…

In the horror graphic novel The Keeper, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due tell the story of Aisha, a young Black girl devastated after losing her parents and trapped between her grandmother’s wish to protect her and their family’s dark history. Inspired by the Japanese “yokai” and the “jorogumo” spider demon, Alma Katsu‘s The Fervor: A Novel explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond the threat of the occult. It’s 1944, and as World War II rages on,…

In The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. In this memoir-cum-biography, he offers an in-depth analysis of the places and people in Hemingway’s life.…

For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families – the Cabots, the Lowells – by the end of the 20th century, it’s an unforgiving place awash with secrets. The Waitsfield of Sarah Manguso‘s Very Cold People: A Novel is a place to be survived, one from which a girl like Ruthie would be lucky to get out of alive. Lydia Millet‘s Dinosaurs is the story of Gil,…

In Sebene Selassie‘s first book, You Belong: A Call for Connection, the meditation expert calls for an exploration of our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other. We are not separate from each other but we don’t always believe it – and we certainly don’t always practice it. In Pamela Paul‘s 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet, her musings turn to modern life and its absolute entrenchment in the digital space. The internet has put an entire world at our fingertips,…

Plucky lingerie buyer turned hardworking bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back in JANET EVANOVICH‘s Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum #30), taking on an assignment that seems simple enough: A local jeweler wants her to find a former security guard he’s convinced stole a fortune in diamonds from his safe. But things get complicated, the body count rises, witnesses start to disappear, and everyone is playing dirty. Buy Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum #30). – Evanovich…

In RAMONA AUSUBEL’s The Last Animal: A Novel, teenage sisters accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, 4,000-year-old baby mammoth and set off a surprising chain of events. In RITA CHANG-EPPIG’s Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, Shek Yeung navigates a marriage of convenience, motherhood, and leadership crises, and must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to the price of power. And in JEANNETTE WALLS’ Hang the Moon: A Novel, a privileged young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia is cast out of the home after a tragic accident.…

In GARTH STEIN and cartoonist MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH’s eagerly anticipated The Cloven: Book Two, Dr. Kenneth Langner, a world-renowned geneticist and creator of the Cloven species, reveals himself to Seattle Stranger reporter Jake Arthur. When Langner turns up dead the next morning, Arthur learns he’s into something far more sinister than he realized. In STONA FITCH’s Death Watch, artist-provocateur Watanabe claims that his latest creation, a watch called Cassius Seven, can kill its wearer – and watch-wearers start dying.…

In MEG CABOT‘s rom-com fantasy Enchanted to Meet You: A Witches of West Harbor Novel, Jessica Gold is a plus-size witch who as a teenager was cast out of the World Council of Witches – then handsome WCW member Derrick Winters show up 15 years later to tells her she’s destined to save it. In Love, Theoretically by ALI HAZELWOOD, physicist Elsie Hannaway makes up for her nonexistent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend.…

ELIZABETH CROOK’s The Madstone: A Novel is set in 1868 Texas, where 19-year-old tradesman Benjamin Shreve’s quiet existence takes a sharp turn when he’s asked by a mysterious stranger to find a stagecoach carrying Nell, a pregnant woman, and her 4-year-old son, Tot. In LAWRENCE WRIGHT’s Mr. Texas: A Novel, when a dark-horse candidate risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives, he must navigate life in politics while weighing his own ethics against the pressures of veteran politicians,…

T.C BOYLE‘s Blue Skies: A Novel takes readers to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving family are struggling to adapt to a “new normal” in which natural disasters happen once a week and drinking seems to be the only way to cope. Lurking beneath their story lies a caricature of materialist American society and a warning about our planet’s future. Buy Blue Skies: A Novel. – Boyle…

In Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels, DEBORAH BONELLO shows them to be just as capable, ruthless, and violent as their male counterparts. MICHAEL FINKEL’s The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and Dangerous Obsession tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who carried out more than 200 heists in museums and cathedrals all over Europe. And in The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring,…

In K-MING CHANG‘s Organ Meats: A Novel, best friends find refuge with a group of stray dogs that have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. And in JADE SONG’s Chlorine: A Novel, a young swimmer aches to become a mermaid, an obsession that becomes catastrophic. Moderating is MITZI RAPKIN, founder, host, and producer of the literary podcast First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing. Buy Organ Meats: A Novel. – Chang Buy Chlorine: A Novel.…

In JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS’ Night Watch: A Novel, a family seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War try to reclaim their lives. Go as a River: A Novel by SHELLEY READ was inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of a small Colorado town in the 1960s. And LUIS ALBERTO URREA’s Good Night, Irene: A Novel is based on the magnificent true story of courageous Red Cross women facing a precarious future during WWII.…

Set in Berkley, California, in 1944, AMY CHUA‘s The Golden Gate: A Novel follows homicide detective Al Sullivan as he tries to find out who killed a wealthy industrialist and presidential candidate. In CHARLES CUMMING’s Kennedy 35, questions surrounding a long-ago hunt for a war criminal resurface. And in BRENDAN SLOCUMB’s Symphony of Secrets: A Novel, a music professor discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time: His music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy.…

PATRICIA ENGEL‘s The Faraway World: Stories is a collection of 10 short stories set across the Americas and linked by migration, sacrifice, moral compromise, and the cost of leaving – and staying. In When the Hibiscus Falls: Stories, M. EVELINA GALANG examines the triumphs and sorrows connecting generations of women and the complexity of family, community, and Filipino American identity. CRISTINA GARCÍA’s Vanishing Maps: A Novel tracks four generations of the del Pino family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba,…

In JAMES GRIPPANDO‘s Code 6: A Novel, aspiring playwright Kate Gamble is secretly writing about the dark side of Big Data. But she’s the daughter of the CEO of a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counterterrorism organization in the Western World. And in DWYER MURPHY’s The Stolen Coast: A Novel, adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds.…