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The latest issue of “American Craft” magazine, published by the American Craft Council, the national nonprofit based in Minneapolis, pays tribute to the enormous influence American potter Warren MacKenzie has had on others who practice the craft of clay. In brief but illuminating statements, 15 of his protégés including Maren Kloppmann, Jeff Oestreich, Michael Simon, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Mark Pharis and Guillermo Cuellar explain what their relationship with MacKenzie has meant to them. Each is a testament to what good teachers do: guide without forcing, help when help is needed, demand integrity, let people find their own creative selves. Take a look, and be sure to see the photo gallery.

On Monday (Nov. 24), St. Paul will officially co-name the section of Franklin between Berry and Eustis Ave. “Dave Ray Street.” The late bluesman was born in St. Paul; Franklin & Berry was the location of the insurance business he took over from his father. Ray was a member of the Twin Cities folk blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover. Red House recently issued a 3-CD retrospective of his career, “Legacy,” with extensive notes by Glover. The naming ceremony happens at 1 p.m., if you want to stop by.

The Picks
Tonight at Maple Island Brewing in Stillwater: Doug Hennes presents “That Great Heart,” his biography of I.A. O’Shaughnessy. The 13th child of a Stillwater bootmaker, O’Shaughnessy became the largest independent oil refiner and the largest benefactor of Catholic higher education in the United States. Hennes is the vice president for university and government relations at the University of St. Thomas, where four buildings are named O’Shaughnessy. 7 p.m. Free.

Tonight through Saturday at the Southern: Only a Dim Image Dessert Theatre presents “The Philadelphia Story.” Calyssa Hall directs Phillip Barry’s classic play, which led to the 1940 romcom starring Cary Grant, Kate Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. 7:30 p.m. FMI and tickets ($23 adults, $18 students; includes dessert). Ends Saturday, Nov. 22.

Saturday at Northrop: The 53rd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert. Nothing warms the blood like a marching band, especially if you don’t have to sit outside to hear it. This program packs a double whammy: the magnificence of the new Northrop and the fantastic sound, precision, and enthusiasm of the Pride of Minnesota, a 120-year-old organization whose members come from all majors and disciplines within the U. (They commit over 500 hours each semester to the band. No wonder they sound so good.) Tim Diem, Craig Kirchhoff, and Jerry Luckhardt conduct a program of half-time favorites and other rousers including “Hail! Minnesota,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. FMI and tickets ($20–$30).
Opens Saturday at History Theatre: “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.” Nicholas Freeman is the hiccuppy Holly in a part-bio, part-rock-concert play about his life. Alan Janes’ play, a History Theatre favorite, follows Holly’s brief career from rebellious country singer to the day the music died. A collaboration with McNally Smith College of Music, with dancers from the St. Paul Conservatory of Performing Artists, the show features 24 hit songs (“Peggy Sue,” “That’ll Be the Day”) and a live band. 8 p.m. FMI and tickets ($25–$45, students $15, 18 and under $10). Through Dec. 21.

Monday at the Guthrie: Leo Kottke. The great fingerpicker’s traditional Thanksgiving-week concert draws top musicians to hear one of their own. Kottke’s career spans more than 40 years and 40 albums including his legendary 1969 debut “12 String Blues.” Here’s a set he performed at the City Winery in New York earlier this year. He’ll have a bit more room on the Guthrie’s main stage, but you can expect similar warm, crowd-pleasing banter and virtuoso playing. Nellie McKay opens, which is also pretty terrific. Doors at 7 p.m., music at 7:30. FMI and tickets ($39 and $44).

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Alexandria Festival of the Lakes. “I’d heard the Satires sort of accidentally, on a CD of [other Shostakovich songs] I was re-learning a couple of years ago, and I recalled thinking, ‘Wow – those are cool. Sort of cabaret-esque.’ ” When the score arrived later, it was written in Cyrillic and German, with no transliteration. “Not only that – it looked like Gilbert and Sullivan, with a million syllables and extremely sprightly tempi.”

She found a transliteration, but it wasn’t especially helpful. Looking around for English translations, she discovered several in CD booklets, but none were singable. So she decided to create her own English version. “Using a word-by-word literal translation and three CD booklets’ sometimes dramatically different versions, I did one song pretty easily, and tried it out on [pianist] Sonja Thompson. We both agreed that the odds of the performance being both intelligible and actually entertaining were dramatically increased.”

Jette went on to complete the whole song cycle. “Rather than being a nerve-wracking 20 minutes of mystifying Russian performed by a stressed-out non-Russian, it turned out to be a really fun piece to perform, and seemed to be a hit with the crowd, although I think it was a lot spicier than what they thought the nice lady was going to sing for them.” About the spice: There’s a lady wearing a corset who’s no lady, a twilight encounter between a poetess and a lusty young man, a buxom servant with shapely legs and some kissing. Nothing the kids can’t handle, and how nice to hear it all sung instead of reading along in the program notes.

Jette will sing her new translation Sunday at Plymouth Congregational Church, at a concert benefiting the Alexandria Festival of the Lakes, a long-running, high-caliber chamber music series that takes place each year about two hours outside the Twin Cities. Sunday’s “Satires, Elegies and Dreams” is a repeat of the festival’s Aug. 3 concert and also includes Rachmaninov’s sensual “Six Romances,” Glazunov’s “Elegie” for viola, and Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in E-flat. With Sonja Thompson, Jill Olson Moser (violin), Tamas Strasser (viola), and Kirsten Whitson (cello). There is no charge for admission, but a free-will offering will be taken to benefit the festival. 5 p.m., 1900 Nicollet Ave. at Franklin.

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If you missed clarinetist Martin Fröst’s already-storied SPCO debut last month, the orchestra has just added selections to its online Listening Library, including the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and the encore, a klezmer dance by Martin’s brother Göran. The concert was recorded by Classical MPR, and the rest – the Grieg and Beethoven – will be available later. And if you don’t know the Listening Library, you’re missing one of our great music resources: more than 250 recordings by composers from John Adams to Bernd Alois Zimmermann. It’s easy to search, easy to navigate, and you can stream it all on your computer. Get the free app and you can listen on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch.
The latest issue of “American Craft” magazine, published by the American Craft Council, the national nonprofit based in Minneapolis, pays tribute to the enormous influence American potter Warren MacKenzie has had on others who practice the craft of clay. In brief but illuminating statements, 15 of his protégés including Maren Kloppmann, Jeff Oestreich, Michael Simon, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Mark Pharis and Guillermo Cuellar explain what their relationship with MacKenzie has meant to them. Each is a testament to what good teachers do: guide without forcing, help when help is needed, demand integrity, let people find their own creative selves. Take a look, and be sure to see the photo gallery.

On Monday (Nov. 24), St. Paul will officially co-name the section of Franklin between Berry and Eustis Ave. “Dave Ray Street.” The late bluesman was born in St. Paul; Franklin & Berry was the location of the insurance business he took over from his father. Ray was a member of the Twin Cities folk blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover. Red House recently issued a 3-CD retrospective of his career, “Legacy,” with extensive notes by Glover. The naming ceremony happens at 1 p.m., if you want to stop by.

The Picks
Tonight at Maple Island Brewing in Stillwater: Doug Hennes presents “That Great Heart,” his biography of I.A. O’Shaughnessy. The 13th child of a Stillwater bootmaker, O’Shaughnessy became the largest independent oil refiner and the largest benefactor of Catholic higher education in the United States. Hennes is the vice president for university and government relations at the University of St. Thomas, where four buildings are named O’Shaughnessy. 7 p.m. Free.

Tonight through Saturday at the Southern: Only a Dim Image Dessert Theatre presents “The Philadelphia Story.” Calyssa Hall directs Phillip Barry’s classic play, which led to the 1940 romcom starring Cary Grant, Kate Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. 7:30 p.m. FMI and tickets ($23 adults, $18 students; includes dessert). Ends Saturday, Nov. 22.

Saturday at Northrop: The 53rd Annual Marching Band Indoor Concert. Nothing warms the blood like a marching band, especially if you don’t have to sit outside to hear it. This program packs a double whammy: the magnificence of the new Northrop and the fantastic sound, precision, and enthusiasm of the Pride of Minnesota, a 120-year-old organization whose members come from all majors and disciplines within the U. (They commit over 500 hours each semester to the band. No wonder they sound so good.) Tim Diem, Craig Kirchhoff, and Jerry Luckhardt conduct a program of half-time favorites and other rousers including “Hail! Minnesota,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. FMI and tickets ($20–$30).

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The first trial produced a hung jury; the jurors were so far from agreement that they nearly came to blows in the deliberation room. The following year a retrial was held. Dorsey testified again. And this time Leutgert was found guilty of murdering his wife. Away from the courtroom, Dorsey faced criticism from other anatomists, who jeered at his "identifying a woman from four fragments of bone the size of peas" - that he abandoned forensics. But the press coverage had put forensic anthropology on the map.

Mary Ann Cotton
The 19th-century fear of arsenic poisoning first brought toxicology to the forefront of forensic investigation. The French had such trouble with arsenic that they dubbed it poudre de succession (inheritance powder). In England and Wales, there were 98 criminal poisoning trials between 1840 and 1850. Although a reliable test – the Marsh test – had been established in 1838, arsenic was still often used. It was odourless, virtually tasteless – some said it had a slightly sweetish taste – and cheaply available from all manner of shops. The body cannot excrete it, so the heavy, metallic element builds up in the victim's system, mimicking the slow deterioration of a natural disease. Those who digest it suffer a range of symptoms with varying degrees of severity: hypersalivation, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration and jaundice can all be a result of arsenical poisoning, often leading doctors to diagnose cholera, dysentery and gastric fever. Intelligent arsenic killers went down the chronic rather than the acute path of administration.

When she was 19, Mary Ann Cotton fell pregnant to a miner called William Mowbray and together they travelled the country looking for work. She gave birth to five children during this time, but four of them died, possibly from natural causes. In 1856, the couple moved back north, where she had three more children, all of whom died of diarrhoea. Her grief didn't prevent her from claiming on the life insurance policies she'd taken out on each of them. Then Mowbray injured his foot in a pit accident and had to convalesce at home. Soon he became ill and was diagnosed with "gastric fever"; he died in January 1865. Mary Ann went down to the office of the Prudential Insurance Company and collected the £30 policy which she had recently encouraged him to take out.

Over the next dozen years, Cotton became the most prolific female serial killer in British history. In 1872, she set her sights on Richard Quick-Mann, a wealthy customs and excise officer. Only her seven-year-old stepson, Charles Cotton, stood in the way. She tried fostering him with one of his uncles but failed. Then she took him to the local workhouse; the superintendent refused him entry unless Cotton accompanied him. All other options having failed, she poisoned Charles. The workhouse superintendent heard about his death and went to the police. The doctor who had attended Charles before he died carried out an autopsy and found no evidence of poison. So the coroner ruled death by natural causes. But the doctor had kept Charles's stomach and intestines and, when he tested them, he discovered the lethal poison.

The bodies of Mary Ann's most recent victims were exhumed and found to contain high levels of arsenic. Under the weight of this evidence and other witness statements, she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The story ran in the newspapers for months, and a rhyme was coined that began "Mary Ann Cotton – she's dead and she's rotten". The press knew that their Victorian readers were fascinated by the figure of the female poisoner, exuding loveliness and sweetness, offering her husband a second spoonful of sugar for his tea and then making it a lethal one. More than 90% of convicted spouse murderers in 19th-century Britain were men. But men were far more likely to stab or strangle their wives; twice as many wives as husbands stood trial for poisoning.

Brides in the Bath
By the mid-20th century, forensic scientists had a much higher profile, and some were almost celebrities in their own right. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent pathologist, was held in reverent esteem by the police and courts. Arthur Conan Doyle, who was somewhat suspicious of Spilsbury, remarked of "the more than papal infallibility with which Sir Bernard is readily being invested by juries".

Spilsbury's most famous case was that of Dr Crippen, the London pharmacist accused of poisoning his wife Cora and burying her torso in the cellar of his home. But his unconventional methods were also vital in another extraordinary case that neither DNA testing nor any other modern forensic technique could have helped him solve.

On 3 January 1915, Charles Burnham, a Buckinghamshire fruit grower, sat down with a mug of tea and opened his copy of the News of the World. On page three, he found a headline "Dead in Bath: Bride's Tragic Fate on Day after Wedding" and a short report explaining that one Margaret Lloyd had been found dead at her flat in north London. Charles Burnham's daughter Alice had also died in a bath, shortly after her wedding almost exactly a year before. Burnham contacted the police, and discovered that Margaret Lloyd's husband was George Joseph Smith, who had previously been married to Alice Burnham.

The police called in Spilsbury to perform an autopsy on the exhumed body of Margaret. He then travelled to Blackpool to autopsy Alice. Following this, the police uncovered details of a third woman, Bessie Williams, who had married George Smith and died in similar circumstances at home in Kent in 1912. When the police investigated anew, they discovered that Smith had benefited financially from all of his wives' deaths, the largest amount from Williams, who had left him £2,500 in trust money (worth around £190,000 today). A pattern was emerging, and the police arrested Smith.

From the bodies of Margaret and Alice, Spilsbury could find no signs of violence, poison or heart attack, though the GP who had first seen Bessie's body noted that she had been clutching a bar of soap. He had all three bath tubs brought to Kentish Town police station, where he lined them up together and examined them minutely. He was particularly puzzled by the case of Bessie Williams. Shortly before her death Smith had taken her to see the doctor about epilepsy symptoms. Smith had told her that she was suffering from fits, even though she couldn't remember having them and had no epilepsy in her family. But Bessie was 5ft 7in tall and obese. The bath tub she had died in measured just five feet at its longest, and sloped at the head end. Spilsbury knew that the first phase of an epileptic fit causes complete rigidity of the body and that, given her size and the shape of the bath, such a fit would have raised Bessie's head above the water rather than brought it below.

Spilsbury researched further and learned that an extremely sudden rush of water into the nose and throat can inhibit a vital cranial nerve, the vagus nerve, and cause sudden loss of consciousness, swiftly followed by death. A common subsidiary result is instant rigor mortis – which Spilsbury thought explained the bar of soap clenched in Bessie's fist. Armed with this knowledge, the investigating officer, Detective Inspector Neil, decided to carry out a series of experiments before the trial. The first volunteer stepped into a full bath, clad in a bathing costume, and managed to grip the side of the bath and struggle. But when Neil grasped her ankles and abruptly pulled her legs up, she slid under the water and lost consciousness. It took a doctor several minutes to restore her to consciousness; she was lucky to live. But the police had their answer.

Smith, a predatory conman with a penchant for gold rings and brightly coloured bow ties, was tried for the murder of Williams. At the trial, Spilsbury spoke with great authority. The jury deliberated for 20 minutes before finding Smith guilty. Public interest in the "Brides in the Bath Murders" was intense. Scores of journalists, hungry for a "scientist foils serial killer" headline, doorstepped Spilsbury throughout the investigation.

The Phantom of Heilbronn
Although Smith was almost certainly guilty, Spilsbury's intense self-belief – and the implicit faith invested in him by the legal system – also led to several miscarriages of justice. Although juries these days might be less swayed by the word of a charismatic expert witness, they can still place much faith in disciplines that are subject to interpretation – such as fingerprinting. Similarly, recent developments have shaken the foundations of DNA profiling.

The strange case of the "Phantom of Heilbronn" involved a seemingly superhuman female serial killer whose DNA was found at the scene of robberies and murders across Austria, France and Germany in the 1990s and 2000s. Mitochondrial analysis of the DNA suggested it came from a woman of Russian or eastern European extraction, but she seemed to be involved in a bewildering variety of criminal activity, and to leave no other trace. In 2009, when the DNA appeared on the burned body of a male asylum seeker in Germany, the authorities concluded that the "phantom" was simply the result of laboratory contamination: the cotton swabs used for DNA collection were not certified for the purpose, and were eventually traced to the same factory, which employed several Eastern European women who fitted the DNA profile of the "phantom".

One expert I interviewed said: "DNA doesn't lie. It's an exceptionally good lead and exceptionally strong evidence, but there is human interaction in the process [of profiling]. So the error rate is exceptionally low but it's not zero … DNA shouldn't be a lazy way to not do an investigation."

Suzanne Pilley
The largest strides in forensics in recent years have been digital. One case that hinged on such evidence was the murder of Suzanne Pilley, who was last seen as she set off on her way to her job as a bookkeeper for a financial services company in central Edinburgh. Suspicion quickly fell on David Gilroy, a colleague of Suzanne's with whom she had recently ended an affair. The police interviewed Gilroy and noticed a cut on his forehead, subtle bruising on his chest and curved scratches on his hands, wrists and forearms. Gilroy said he had scratched himself while gardening. Forensic pathologist Nathaniel Cary would later examine photographs of these injuries and testify that they could have been made by another person's fingernails, possibly in a struggle

The police seized Gilroy's mobile phone and car, and specially trained cadaver dogs detected human remains or blood in the boot and in the footwell, though there had clearly been an attempt to clean the car. Police also found vegetation underneath the car and a damaged suspension. It was suspicious, but they needed more to make the case. A forensic digital analyst went to work on Gilroy's phone. When you turn your phone off, it keeps a record of the last phone mast it was connected to, so it can find it again quickly when you start using your phone again. On the day that they thought he had disposed of Suzanne's body, Gilroy had switched off his phone as he travelled between Stirling and Inveraray. Police suspected he had done this to avoid being tracked as he searched for a good place to dispose of Suzanne's body in the dense woodland. On his way back, Gilroy again switched off his mobile phone between Stirling and Inveraray. This, the police believed, was when he dumped the body.

Suzanne's body was never found. Nevertheless in March 2012, Gilroy was found guilty of murder and conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice. It's rare for murderers to be convicted in the absence of their victim's body. In the Gilroy case there was no DNA. The scratches on his arm would not have been enough. He was convicted because of unusual mobile phone activity, CCTV video and images from road-side cameras.

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Between now and the holidays, publishers will push out a significant chunk of the books they publish for the entire year. And I do mean significant — everything from "Revival," a scary Hawthornesque novel by horrormeister Stephen King, to a slim book called "The Meaning of Existence" by world renowned biologist E.O. Wilson.

Not satisfied? Try new fiction by Ken Follett, Richard Ford, William Gibson, Hilary Mantel, David Mitchell, Marilynne Robinson, Garth Stein and Sarah Waters; nonfiction by Lawrence Wright, Karen Armstrong, and Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; and memoirs by comic geniuses John Cleese and Amy Poehler.

The following month-by-month list of titles being released now through November is alphabetized by author.

SEPTEMBER

FICTION

"Perfidia" by James Ellroy (Knopf).The author of "L.A. Confidential" returns to City of Angels territory with a story that begins the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Four members of the Watanabe family are dead in a possible ritual murder-suicide, and Los Angeles Police Department investigators include William Parker, the future head of the LAPD, as well as two characters from "Confidential" — Dudley Smith and Kay Lake.

"The Edge of Eternity" by Ken Follett (Dutton). The final installment of Follett's Century Trilogy ("Fall of Giants," "Winter of the World") follows several characters through the Johnson, Nixon and Reagan administrations, with an epilogue set on the night of Barack Obama's election.

"The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories" by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt).The genius author of "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" releases a collection of stories set in contemporary England. Her British publisher says, "Where her last two novels explore how modern England was forged, ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' shows us the country we have become."

"The Bone Clocks" by David Mitchell (Random House). Mitchell's mind-bending novel follows the fortunes of Holly Sykes, an English working-class girl who hears voices and receives visits from ghosts, as her story proceeds from the year 1984 to 2043. I am only scratching the surface here.

"The Paying Guests"by Sarah Waters (Riverhead). A young woman living with her widowed mother in post-World War I London falls desperately in love with the wife of the couple they've taken in as lodgers. Complications ensue. (See review, Page F6.)

NONFICTION

"Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson"by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner). Gwynne, author of the riveting Quanah Parker biography "Empire of the Summer Moon," takes on Confederate Civil War general Stonewall Jackson, a master strategist and relentless taskmaster who believed his cause was divinely inspired.

"This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate"by Naomi Klein (Simon & Schuster). Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine," argues that climate change calls for a fundamental restructuring of our economy.

"A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity" by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf). These joint Pulitzer Prize-winning authors look at individuals who make a difference and offer a road map for how to support initiatives that work.

"Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" by John Lahr (Norton). A revelatory new biography of the playwright by Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker. Williams' upbringing, his talent, his affairs and his internal conflicts and neuroses, all examined in glorious detail. (See review, Page F6.)

"Mary Randlett Portraits" by Frances McCue, photographs by Mary Randlett (University of Washington Press). Randlett began photographing Northwest luminaries in 1963 when poet Theodore Roethke asked her to photograph him shortly before his death. Many followed, including portraits of Jacob Lawrence, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, George Tsutakawa, Tom Robbins, Colleen McElroy, Betty Bowen and others. McCue, poet and a frequent collaborator with Randlett, provides biographical sketches. Ninety photographs.

"The Impulse Society" by Paul Roberts (Bloomsbury). Roberts, a critically praised Leavenworth author, ("The End of Oil," "The End of Food"), makes the case that our society's demands for instant gratification without regard for the long-term costs and consequences are negatively impacting the sectors of finance, labor, politics, health care and the environment.

"Cosby: His Life and Times" by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster). A comprehensive biography of Bill Cosby, groundbreaking comedian/entertainer.

"Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David"by Lawrence Wright (Knopf). The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author ("The Looming Tower") revisits the Camp David accords, going deep into history and forward to show how three men of widely different backgrounds — U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat — managed to work together toward agreement.

OCTOBER

FICTION

"The Peripheral" by William Gibson (Putnam). The brainy, highly imaginative speculative fiction writer publishes a novel set in "multiple futures" in America. Yum.

"Falling from Horses" by Molly Gloss (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The lyrical Portland writer returns with the story of a ranch hand who moves to Hollywood in 1938, hoping to become a stunt rider and to put a family tragedy behind him.

"A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James (Riverhead). There's advance buzz aplenty about this new novel, which begins with the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 and follows Jamaica through several dangerous, bloody and transformative decades.

"Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult (Random House). A daughter refuses to believe that her naturalist mother, who studied grief among elephants, abandoned her more than a decade before. Helped by a disgraced psychic and a cynical private detective, she searches for the truth.

"Lila"by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The third book in Robinson's trilogy set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, "Lila" tells the story of the young bride of the elderly Reverend Ames from the first book, "Gilead," as she tries to reconcile her painful past with the hope necessary for the marriage's future.

"Some Luck" by Jane Smiley (Knopf). Smiley's new novel follows an Iowa family, from the years after World War I through the early 1950s, from the family farm outward into the increasingly complicated world. Said to be the first in what may be a trilogy.

"A Sudden Light"by Garth Stein (Simon & Schuster). The Seattle author is back with a story of a young man and his father who travel from the East Coast back to their ancestral manse in a tract of forest in North Seattle, intending to oversee the sale and development of the land. They encounter the legacy of their ancestors' timber-cutting past and even a ghost or two.

"Norah Webster" by Colm Toibin (Simon & Schuster). From the acclaimed Irish novelist, the story of a widow who reclaims her life.

NONFICTION

"All the Truth is Out: The Fall of Gary Hart and the Rise of Tabloid Politics" by Matt Bai (Knopf). Political journalist Bai traces how the revelations of Gary Hart's extramarital affair in the 1988 presidential race fundamentally changed the way political campaigns are run in this country.

"Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice"by Joan Biskupic (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Biskupic, a journalist who has covered the Supreme Court, examines how Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman to be appointed to the court, navigated a convoluted political process to take a seat on the highest court in the land.

"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan). Gawande, a superb writer for the New Yorker who is also a surgeon, examines the realities of aging and what he can realistically accomplish for his patients in the twilight years, then calls for the medical system to better serve a rapidly growing segment of the population.

"Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence" by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly (Scribner). The Arizona congresswoman and her husband recount their fight to reform America's gun laws since Giffords was severely wounded by a gunman in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011.

"How to be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life" by Ruth Goodman (Norton/Liveright). British social historian Goodman resolved to do everything the way the Victorians did it, including personal hygiene, corset- wearing and hand-washing her laundry, for starters. "Living history" that may help you appreciate our own era a little better.

"Yes, Please" by Amy Poehler (Dey Street Books). The comedian and "Parks and Recreation" star promises juicy personal stories, "funny bits on sex and love" and advice on parenthood, among other things.

"Deep Down Dark: the Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free" by Hector Tobar (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Not for claustrophobic folks — the amazing story of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped 2,000 feet underground for 10 weeks in 2010, by a prize-winning Los Angeles Times columnist.

"The Meaning of Human Existence" by Edward O. Wilson (Norton). One of the world's pre-eminent biologists and naturalists examines what makes humans unique, challenges a mechanistic view of the universe and issues a warning about messing with the basic building blocks of life.

NOVEMBER

FICTION

"The Burning Room" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown). Detective Harry Bosch, now with the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Crimes unit, is assigned an unusual case — a man has just died from a bullet wound inflicted a decade earlier. The body is fresh, the clues thin on the ground and the case is fraught with political complications.

"Let Me Be Frank with You" by Richard Ford (HarperCollins). Ford brings back Frank Bascombe, the funny, profane and always observant protagonist of three previous books, as he adjusts to retirement from the real estate business and grapples with the catastrophe created by Hurricane Sandy.

"A Map of Betrayal" by Ha Jin (Pantheon). From the award-winning novelist — after his death a young woman finds the diary of her Chinese-born father, a CIA agent convicted many years earlier of spying for China. Its contents reveal multiple levels of duplicity.

"The Laughing Monsters" by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The National Book Award-winning author ("Tree of Smoke") writes a literary spy thriller, set in Africa in a dangerous post-9/11 world.

"Revival" by Stephen King (Scribner). An eerie tale, fraught with echoes of Poe and Hawthorne, set in a small town. When tragedy strikes a New England minister's family, the charismatic preacher curses God. Years later, a young man who knew the family meets him again and learns that the word "revival" has several different meanings.

NONFICTION

"Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence" by Karen Armstrong (Knopf). An internationally respected religious scholar examines the thread of violence that runs through each of the world's three great religions.

"So Anyway: Reflections from a Life in Comedy" by John Cleese (Crown Archetype). The co-founder of the Monty Python Flying Circus with a stellar comedy career in film and TV tells his story.

"My Heart is a Drunken Compass" by Domingo Martinez (Globe Pequot/Lyons Press). The Seattle author's second installment of his memoir. The first, "The Boy Kings of Texas," was a surprise finalist for the National Book Award.

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