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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Set in Chechnya during the war year of 2004, Anthony Marra's debut novel feels both headline-ready and eternally relevant. A young Chechen girl named Havaa must rely on the kindness of a family friend and a Russian doctor to survive her country's disintegration. From its first line --"On the morning after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones." -- this ambitious book blends brutal reality with luminous flights of the imagination. Buy Now
Khaled Hosseini's breakout first novel, The Kite Runner, proved one of the most heartening literary success stories of recent memory, demonstrating that the audience for earnest and touching family drama transcended unfamiliar venue, customs and nationality. In his third book, Hosseini broadens his scope, sending his Afghan characters on a diaspora across several decades and as many countries. And the Mountains Echoed is a beautifully wrought tale about how the choices we make can resonate for generations. Buy Now
Rich in plot and nuance, The Bookman's Tale is the beguiling story of an antiquarian bookseller's hunt for the origins of a mysterious portrait -- a portrait that bears an uncanny likeness to his late wife. The trail leads him right to the doorstep of one of literature's greatest mysteries: the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Buy Now
Raymond Sokolov -- a former food editor for The New York Times -- recounts extraordinary meals and venues spanning the gastronomic revolution of the last 40 years. To quote Francine Prose, "Reading ... Steal the Menu is like having dinner with one's wittiest, most erudite and charming friend, someone who knows everything worth knowing about food, its history and culture." Buy Now
Vividly conjuring up the tumultuous Jazz Age of America, Suzanne Rindell's debut novel -- a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan -- is comic, provocative, and deliciously addictive. Buy Now
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson concludes his "Liberation Trilogy" (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle) with this sweeping account of the war in Western Europe from 1944-45. D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's nuanced account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory. Buy Now
Philipp Meyer, author of the acclaimed novel American Rust, winner of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, returns with The Son, an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. With deft strokes, Meyer reveals fundamental truths about human greed and frailty. Buy Now
Paul Theroux's travel books have become a genre unto themselves: brilliant, idolized, idiosyncratic mashups of memoir, political reporting, cultural exegesis and crotchety complaints. His latest is no exception, as the author traverses 2,500 miles of African territory generally neglected by the media's inconstant gaze. Moving across a variety of landscapes -- from the rural enclaves of the San Bushmen to the teeming urban streets of Luanda --Theroux employs his deep experience and keen sensibilities to make sense of a vast and contradictory tapestry of human existence. Buy Now
With two story collections, a first novel, and a slew of awards behind him, Benjamin Percy ramps up his literary game with a big occult thriller that moves into Peter Straub territory. The premise of Red Moon is simple yet fascinatingly expansive: in an alternate timeline full of allegorical resonance to ours, werewolves, or "lycans," function as the oppressed global minority forced to turn to terrorism in their pursuit of justice and equality. Shepherding a large cast through a slambang plot, Percy never neglects the moral dimensions of his parable. Buy Now
It wasn't until after her mother's death that journalist Emma Brockes was able to piece together the true story of her mother's brutal childhood and daring attempt to save herself and her siblings from her violent father. A chilling work of psychological suspense, She Left Me the Gun joins the ranks of memoirs like Mary Karr's unforgettable The Liars' Club and Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss -- crystalline, pointedly unsentimental revelations of unforgettable family dramas that leave the reader forever changed. Buy Now
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
The mind is a muscle, and no one exercises it better than brain maven Daniel Dennett. Here he generously shares his full personal suite of mind-strengthening and -expanding tools. The benefits, as stated in his Introduction, "These handy prosthetic imagination-extenders and focus-holders permit us to think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions." Confronting and banishing squalid habits of thought has never been more engaging. Buy Now
Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America's endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. In Wild Ones, journalist Jon Mooallem follows three particular endangered species: the polar bear, the little-known Lange's metalmark butterfly, and the whooping crane. His story is as much about the wild animals as the humans who love, exploit, and market their fellow species. Buy Now
In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Twenty years later, she picks up the tale again, with the story of her emigration to the U.S., the land of bounty. But Min's path toward selfhood in her new country is anything but easy. She teaches herself English watching Sesame Street; she works five jobs at once to keep herself afloat; she endures a rape, and a bad first marriage. Her successes, when they come, are all the more stunning. Buy Now
