Crow Fair: Stories
By Thomas McGuane
The iconic author of The Sporting Club and Ninety-Two in the Shade is the latest to embrace the short form. These stories, set in the Big Sky Montana that McGuane knows so well, are simple and often humorous, yet after reading each one, you’re struck by his insight into humanity, and the cumulative effect of the 17 tales is profound.
Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius
By Bill Pennington
This biography of the volatile manager of the New York Yankees is a perfect gift for not only baseball fans but also for those who like to plunge into a warts-and-all story of a brilliant but complicated, if not self-destructive man. Fascinating for its study of how “difficult” people, while colliding, can produce sports greatness.
Finders Keepers: A Novel
By Stephen King
Remember the terror of "Misery," a novel-turned-movie about an author terrorized by a reader? Now King is back with a story just as gripping—a reader turns violent after his obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far and a long spell in prison just makes the reader more determined than ever to get his vengeance.
Reagan: The Life
By H.W. Brands
Making use of unseen archives, this historian takes a sweeping view of the B-movie actor who just kept rising, and makes a case that Ronald Reagan’s force of personality and vision brought about a revolution in American politics—and brought down the seemingly invincible Soviet Union.
The President’s Shadow
By Brad Meltzer
The thrillers rolling out this summer have a tough one to beat in this political page-turner from No. 1 bestseller Meltzer. After the First Lady finds a severed arm in the Rose Garden, an alarming plot targeting the president unfolds, and only a brilliant young archivist with demons in his own family history can make sense of the message clenched in the fingers of the dead man’s hand.
Thank You, Goodnight
By Andy Abramowitz
This debut novel is generating a lot of buzz: The author, Andy Abramowitz, crafted an edgy, funny story about the lead singer of a one-hit-wonder ‘90s rock band now working as a lawyer who ends up getting the band back together—with surprising results.
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