On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, who later released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre Tania. The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing -- bank security cameras capturing Tania wielding a machine gun during a robbery; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country; and the use of the term Stockholm syndrome. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times and a melodramatic trial.

"Far to the north of Canada. . .Augustine searches the radio waves for signs of human activity. Over a year ago, when the remote observatory was evacuated, the brilliant astronomer stayed behind. Now he may be the only human left on earth. . .At the same time, a manned space flight is returning from a two-year exploration of Jupiter's moons. Sullivan, the mission specialist, has been unable to reach their team back on earth. . .Faced with an uncertain future, both Sully and Augustine seek meaning and redemption in their pasts. . .Brooks-Dalton's heartfelt debut novel. . .asks readers what will be left when everything in the world is gone." - Booklist

"In her first adult novel in 20 years, acclaimed children's and YA author Woodson (winner of the National Book Award for her last book, Brown Girl Dreaming) combines grit and beauty in a series of stunning vignettes, painting a vivid mural of what it was like to grow up African-American in Brooklyn during the 1970s. When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. . .memorable and profound. . . " - Publishers Weekly

"Miéville's latest describes an alternative 1950s Paris transformed by the S-blast, an explosion of occult power that has brought the dreams and art of surrealism to life as manifs. Paris is cut off from the rest of the world by a still active Nazi Germany, which attempts to combat the manifs and Paris' surrealist underground with demonic allies. Thibaut, one of the last survivors of a surrealist resistance movement, attempts to solve the mystery of a new Nazi scheme. . .while dealing with his own personal losses and traumas. . .Miéville remains one of the best recent writers not only of weird fiction but of speculative fiction in general." - Booklist