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…

  Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer In a city with no name of its own, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways with the fate of Earth at stake. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal In 1850s London two people meet by happenstance, Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, and Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted…