New and noteworthy
scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1 The Sleepwalker
by Chris Bohjalian ( Doubleday, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Anna-lee Ahlberg, a notorious sleepwalker, disappears one night, leaving her husband and daughters to wonder if she’s dead.
THE BUZZ: A “stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller,” says Publishers Weekly.
2I Am Jim Henson
by Brad Meltzer, illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos ( Dial, non- fiction, ages 5- 8, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Picture- book bio for kids about the life of the creator of The Muppets. THE BUZZ: It’s the latest in a series called “Ordinary People Change the World,” which has celebrated such figures as Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln and Jackie Robinson.
3Doctorow: Collected Stories
by E. L. Doctorow ( Random House, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Fifteen short stories by the author of popular novels including Ragtime and Billy Bathgate.
The stories were THE BUZZ: selected and revised by Doctorow shortly before he died in 2015 at age 84.
4 Ring of Fire
by Brad Taylor ( Dutton, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Pike Logan is on the trail of a Saudi businessman who is using a shell company to fund terrorists. The THE BUZZ: Pike Logan thriller The Forgotten Soldier landed at No. 9 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list a year ago.
5In the Great Green Room
by Amy Gary ( Flatiron, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Biography of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children’s classic Goodnight Moon, explores her colorful life and love affairs. Gary’s book is THE BUZZ: based in part on her discovery of hundreds of unpublished works by Brown in a trunk in Brown’s sister’s barn in Vermont.