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The always startling collision of science with the worlds of entertainment and yellow journalism reached an early apex in the year 1903 when showman P. T. Barnum conspired with inventor Thomas Edison to test novel electrocution technology on a rogue pachyderm named Topsy. Reporter Michael Daly (The Book of Mychal) captures the whole mad spectacle vividly and sympathetically, with many colorful touches. Buy Now
Sarah Bruni's debut novel -- equal parts magic and white-knuckle suspense -- commingles romance and cynicism, fantasy and harsh reality to tell a gripping tale of young love and crime, all boiling over with stripmall angst. Bruni's haunted young lovers find danger and rewards in their comic-book folie à deux. Buy Now
Cathleen Schine's sparkling new novel brilliantly conjures up the vanished golden era of mid-1960s New York City, as she follows the tragicomic fortunes of a young boy named Fin and his errant half-sister, Lady, left parentless and forced to shift as best they can amidst a turbulent milieu. The road to maturity is paved with excess. Buy Now
Best-selling novelist Chris Bohjalian journeys to Italy for his latest examination of the strange byways of the human heart. In the midst of WWII, a rich Italian family, the Rosatis, are shattered by the all-encompassing conflict. Then, years later, their dwindled dynasty is further perturbed by a series of inexplicable murders, which local Florentine police inspector Serafina Bettini must solve at her own peril. Buy Now
The modern world is filled with unfortunate phenomena not even conceivable by our ancestors. "Light pollution" is one such horrid annoyance. Professor Paul Bogard chronicles this twenty-first century curse and how to combat it, all in a quest to bring back "night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars." Buy Now
Two good-hearted but foolish teens experience a self-engineered calamity that reverberates throughout their wildly heterogenous neighborhood in this second novel from Ivy Pochoda (The Art of Disappearing). Deftly capturing the gritty warp and weave of twenty-first-century Brooklyn, her novel charts the interface beween independence and civic bonding. Buy Now
Having morphed from an award-winning horror writer to a creator of wild-eyed, noir-dark crime novels, Tom Piccirilli has settled into a solid new groove. This sequel to The Last Kind Words finds our hero, Terry Rand, a fellow with thievery in his very lineage, out to protect his friends, disconcert his enemies, and escape with his hide intact from a variety of oddball antagonists. Buy Now
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love
Sarah Butler's engaging, inventive, heartfelt first novel blends the story of a young woman named Alice, estranged from her family and adrift in her own life, with the tale of Daniel, a homeless sixty-year-old who practices an eccentric form of art on his harsh wanderings through the streets of London. The interlocking lifepaths of these two sharply drawn characters create a beautiful synergy, both hopeful and melancholy. Buy Now
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
Physicist Dave Goldberg has the kind of offbeat mind that inquires into such wild topics as how to travel to the edge of the observable universe in just a few seemingly impossible decades of spaceflight. This unconventional sensibility is at work in the pages of his newest book, where he speculates on such cool subjects as shrink-rays and antimatter as expressions of the underyling structure of our cosmos. Buy Now
It's safe to say that America has seen its share of eccentrics, both good and evil. In the latter category, Tom Kizzia firmly places the fascinating "Papa Pilgrim," a religious zealot whose domineering ways brought havoc to a small Alaskan community. Recounted with insight and zest, this narrative shines a spotlight on the issues of individuality, community, and madness. Buy Now
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
Famed NPR commentator David Rakoff managed to complete this "novel in verse" before his untimely passing in 2012. A sweeping, picaresque trawl of the twentieth century, the book is filled with gemlike vignettes of unforgettable characters, all of them striving to offer and receive as much of the universal benison of kindness and beauty as they can, despite frequent missteps and failures of an ultimately forgiveable and endearingly human nature. Buy Now
The contemporary literary elite find their clear-eyed, caustic Truman Capote in this new novel from David Gilbert. Tracking the mingled fortunes of two writing families, Gilbert's massive, wide-ranging tale anatomizes success and failure, family and society through the eyes of an unreliable narrator with plenty of skin in the glamorous game. Buy Now
Memoirs centering around the joys of food don't come much more mouth-watering than Jen Lin-Liu's new account of her savory explorations of various Asian cuisines and their influences on the kitchens of the West. Digging deep into history, she charts the lineage of many popular dishes and limns the cultures they arose from with empathy and delight. Buy Now
