 | THREE STATIONS, by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) In Smith’s seventh Russian mystery, the villains are corrupt bureaucrats and capitalists, and the hero, as ever, is Arkady Renko, investigator. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
| | CHURCHILL’S EMPIRE: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, by Richard Toye (John Macrae/Holt, $32.) Churchill led Britain through her finest hour, but also, as a brutal imperialist, through her most shameful one. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | EVERYTHING, by Kevin Canty (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $25.95.) Four Montana residents make terrible decisions about love in a novel filled with optimism and humanity as well as booze and heartbreak. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME, by Per Petterson. Translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson (Graywolf, $23.) This novel’s protagonist grapples with divorce, death and the fall of the Berlin Wall. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY, by Richard C. Morais (Scribner, $23.) In a story reminiscent of “Slumdog Millionaire,” a Bombay-born Muslim boy is catapulted to Paris’s temples of haute cuisine. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | THE BRAVE ESCAPE OF EDITH WHARTON: A Biography, by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $20; ages 12 and up.) How the smart, strong-willed future novelist survived in upper-crust New York around 1880. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED, by Christie Hodgen (Norton, $23.95.) A woman portrays five people who shaped her life in this intricate novel. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE, by Andrew Pettegree (Yale University, $40.) A revisionist history of the early years of printing. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION: Stories, by Suzanne Rivecca (Norton, $23.95.) The women in Rivecca’s first story collection are looking for salvation, but not the religious kind. ... review. | ||||||||||||||||||
The full reviews of these and other recent books are on the web: http://www.nyt.com/pages/books/index.html |
