Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
(Little, Brown)
"Everybody black knows how to react to a tragedy," Brooklyn author Hannaham ("God Says No") writes in this parable of antebellum southern bondage.
It with this survival instinct that young Eddie fights to free his mother, Darlene, a drug addict tricked by a mysterious company called Delicious Foods to work at remote farm, where she is held against her will and forced to do hard labor.
Eddie enlists lawyers and reporters to expose the farm's owners — who lure their unpaid workers into debt at their overpriced company store.
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden
(Viking)
In 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot shocked the world with his daring defection. Now Harden ("Escape from Camp 14") reveals the details of No Kum-sok's elaborate escape plan.
An anticommunist son of a former factory owner, Sok spent five years pretending to love Kim Il-sung, North's dictatorial leader. After becoming a pilot for North Korea's military, he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans.
The author draws on US military documents and personal testimony from the pilot himself.
Astrotwins Project Blastoff by Mark Kelly
(Simon & Schuster)
When 11-year-old twins Scott and Mark visit their grandpa, he suggests they build a spaceship. With an author like Kelly — the retired NASA astronaut, who with his identical twin brother Scott became the only siblings ever to fly in space — there are plenty of actual science facts.
But he makes the adventure fun with a cast of brainy friends and teachers who explain the principles of rocket science both in kid-friendly language and through "fieldwork" in a local amusement park.
The right stuff for wannabe astronauts ages 8 to 12.
Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Conservatives, liberals and journalists are all skewered with equal vigor in the four-decade Massachusetts Democrat's new book.
The first congressman to come out, Frank tells how he helped advance gay rights. He also tells stories from his childhood in hardscrabble Bayonne, NJ.
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
(Tin House Books)
What if there were only two people left in the world and you were one of them? In Fuller's debut novel, 8-year-old Peggy Hillcoat's survivalist father takes her from their 1976 London home to live a cabin in the woods in Germany, where he tells her that her mother is dead and rest of the world is gone.
After living off the land for nine years, Peggy finds a pair of boots in the woods and deduces her father isn't telling the truth.
As the book opens, it's 1985, Peggy is back in London, and her mother unearths the truth about what happened in the woods.
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