Katerina
James Frey (Gallery/Scout Press)
Set in 1992 Paris and 2018 Los Angeles, a love story between a young writer and a young model, both on the verge of fame. Twenty-five years later, the writer receives an anonymous message that draws him back to that relationship and all the magic of that earlier time.
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harper)
In 1780s London, merchant Jonah Hancock is interrupted one night by a knock on the door and a visit from a ship captain with a shocking object — a dead mermaid. Gossip spreads through London, and everyone is curious to see Hancock’s new possession. During this time, he meets a fascinating woman named Angelica, and the two of them start a dangerous relationship.
Corduroy Takes a Bow
Viola Davis (Viking Books for Young Readers)
America’s favorite department-store bear is back, 50 years after he was first introduced to readers by creator Don Freeman. In this new entry, Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the first time, and he falls in love with the stage. Oscar winner Davis breathes her love of acting into Corduroy’s experience.
The Dinner List
Rebecca Searle (Flatiron Books)
Which five people, living or dead, would you have dinner with, if given the choice? That’s the basis of this charming novel, which finds Sabrina arriving at her 30th birthday dinner to find her best friend, three assorted others from her past and Audrey Hepburn.
The Blue Pawn
D.D. Simpson (memoir, Newman Springs Publishing)
This memoir of a second-generation New York City police officer is a moving, thoughtful look at his years in the NYPD put together from a journal Simpson kept during his career. He struggled with alcoholism; on the morning of 9/11, he had been sleeping off a hangover. By the time he woke up, the towers had fallen. Putting on the police uniform he hadn’t worn in five years after being processed out of the NYPD due to a disability, he headed to Ground Zero, where he spent the next few weeks as part of the rescue and recovery effort.
The Winter Soldier
Daniel Mason (fiction, Little, Brown)
Vienna, 1914. As World War I explodes across the continent, a young medical student is assigned to a typhus-ravaged outpost in the Carpathian Mountains. All the other doctors have fled; one nurse remains.
