1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton Norton discusses the sixteen months during which the traditional loyalists to King George III began their discordant “discussions” that led to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire and to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775. Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better…

  Agency by William Gibson Verity Jane becomes the beta tester for the latest product of a San Francisco start-up: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses who soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Lydia Quixano Perez lives a fairly comfortable life in the Mexican city of Acapulco,…

Love stories, cook books, religion, history, self-help, and suspense.  This week’s shelf has something for everyone. The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz Ten writers think they are signing up for a weeklong writing retreat with the most celebrated author in the world, but they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius, a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle…