Roger Friedland
Harper Perennial
Amore: An American Father’s Roman Holiday
A memoir on moving his daughters from loveless California to Rome.
Laura Joh Rowland
Minotaur Books
The Iris Fan: A Novel of Feudal Japan
A plot on the shogun's life in this finale of thrillers set in feudal Japan.
Brenda Wineapple
Harper Perennial
Ecstatic Nation
...Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877: An acclaimed history.
Jeff Chang
St. Martin's Press
Who We Be: The Colorization of America
Dramatic demographic shifts (our colorization) amidst culture wars.
George Lerner
Pegasus
The Ambassadors: A Novel
The holocaust of the Rwandan civil war is backdrop for his debut novel.