206 Bones by Kathy Reichs: New York Times bestselling author and co-producer of the Fox television hit Bones returns with a spectacular new novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan.
Alexandria by Lindsey Davis: In first century A.D. Rome, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private informer. When he and his wife travel to Alexandria, Egypt, Falco finds himself in the midst of nefarious doings.
Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan: David Loogan finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the publisher of a mystery magazine. But as several deaths are uncovered, some of them echoing stories published in the magazine, Loogan begins to look more and more like the most promising suspect.
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner: With her incomparable humor and heart, the author of the bestselling titles Good in Bed and In Her Shoes returns with a novel that depicts the nuances of female friendship.
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy: Short stories.
Brimstone by Robert B. Parker: New York Times bestselling author Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong: Focusing especially on Christianity but also including other religions, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.
Cecilian Vespers: A Mystery by Anne Emery: Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers and occasionally investigating murders himself, but he's never seen anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian who was found dead on the altar of an old church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The controversial priest was known to provoke strong feelings in Catholics of all ideological stripes, and now those feelings seem to have overflowed with horrifying results. At least Monty knows where to look for clues; his friend Father Brennan Burke has just opened a choir school at the church, and the students provide an international cast of interesting suspects.
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell: An Atlantic Monthly correspondent uncovers the true cost in economic, political, and psychological terms of the West's penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible.
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt: A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, spans the Victorian era through the World War I years and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem: The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever: From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold.
Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World by Harold S. Kushner: From the bestselling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People comes an illuminating look at fear and specific steps one can take to overcome it.
The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott: In her debut Ghostwalk, Stott unfolded an extraordinary and true mystery involving Isaac Newton and set in 17th-century Cambridge. The Coral Thief offers another intriguing mystery, centering on pre-Darwinian theories of evolution, set in 1815 France.
Crossers by Philip Caputo: Taking readers from the turn of the 20th century to the present day, the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith pens an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become their inheritance.