Stocking Stuffers

Fredrik Backman’s A Man

Called Ove, a hit in Europe, features a cantankerous boomer leading man.

Giller-winner Linden MacIntyre delivers a stunning tale of vengeance in

Punishment.

Rebus fans will delight in The Beat Goes On, The Complete Rebus Stories by Ian Rankin, including a few new ones, featuring the incorrigible detective.

Stephen King’s new supernatural thriller, Revival, boasts the most terrifying conclusion King has ever written.

Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her 22-year-old granddaughter in Anita Diamant’s

The Boston Girl.

A coming-of-age tale meets ghost story in A

Sudden Light by Garth Stein,

author of The Art of Racing in the Rain.

Queen of the beach read Elin Hilderbrand sticks with family drama for her first

Christmas novel, Winter

Street.

Jodi Picoult explores the mother-daugther relationship in Leaving Time.

Margaret Bradham Thornton pens a trail of love lost and regained that runs from South Carolina to Europe and back in her debut novel, Charleston. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Steve Jobs biographer Walter

Isaacson, charts the evolution of the digital landscape.

Vanity Fair calls on Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and other early contributors to celebrate its centennial in Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair.

Legendary fashion designer Valentino Garavani shares his passion for entertaining and his art de vivre in Assouline’s Valentino: At The Emperor’s Table. — AM