Laurence Steinberg
Houghton Mifflin
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
How do we understand a teenager's brain? A leading adolescence scholar presents the latest research and ways to raise happier kids.
Rochelle Bilow
The Experiment
The Call of the Farm: An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking, and Finding Myself
A classically trained cook, this city gal spends a year on a sustainable farm, falling in love with a young farmer and with the earthy lifestyle.
Tova Mirvis
Houghton Mifflin
Visible City: A Novel
The lives of three couples, with their passions and doubts, intersect in a big-city neighborhood.
Ari Goldman
Algonquin Books
The Late Starters Orchestra
The author's love affair with his cello is a song to music-making later in life!
Linn Ullmann
Other Press
The Cold Song: A Novel
Set on the Norwegian coast, a father with writer's block in a family beset by strife suddenly must deal with a missing daughter.