American Warlord: A True Story by Johnny Dwyer
Knopf
Now 67, ex-Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. Apparently the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. His American-born son Chucky left his suburban Florida home for Liberia, where he headed a paramilitary force for his father. His so-called anti-terrorist unit terrorized the civilian population. After his father lost power, Chucky tried to come home but was arrested and is now serving a prison sentence longer than his father's.
Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius by Bill Pennington
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Billy Martin inspired the often reused back page headline "Billy's Back," as a Yankees manager for five different stints. Sportswriter Pennington was a Yankees beat writer most of that time. Through interviews with Martin's long-silent widow, his son and others who knew and played with and for him, we get a complete picture — womanizing, drinking, fighting and the rest.
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Gallery Books
The movie of Genova's best seller "Still Alice" won Julianne Moore an Oscar and public awareness of the heartbreak of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The neuroscientist's new novel tells the story of Joe O'Brien, a 44-year-old Irish cop in Massachusetts who is diagnosed with fatal Huntington's disease. The book looks not only at how Joe copes, but also at his kids, as they weigh genetic testing to see if they also have Huntington's. An instructional novel about the strength of the human spirit.
The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
One hundred years ago, the SS Eastland tipped into the Chicago river, killing 844 people. It's one of a number of historic events that Morris, an award-winning writer and Chicago native who now lives in Brooklyn, twines into her latest novel. For Benny Lehrmann, an aspiring jazz musician, life begins on the Eastland: He survives the disaster and meets fellow passenger Pearl Chimbrowa, whose family owns a saloon. Soon Benny and a trumpeter named Napoleon are filling the place up. Too bad the mob doesn't like it.
Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham
Dey St.
Romeo and Juliet had the sonnet; Bogie and Bacall had the big screen. You could say writers Shah and Chatham have the iPhone. Their new novel about a romance between New Yorkers Madeline and Elliott consists entirely of e-mails and texts through which the couple gets to know each other — "sorry I hold my liquor like a college freshman" — and reports back to their respective friends, Emily and David — "stop the presses he doesn't have a girlfriend." Shah a former Post reporter and Chatham deliver a fun, breezy take on dating in Internet age.
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