Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini, HP Lovecraft and Marie Laveau join forces in 1919 New York to try and save a secret book and a beautiful girl from forces that would use them to remake the world in this witty occult adventure.

This compassionate novel is both a love story and a clear-eyed look at one of the most horrific events of our time, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, by one of French Canada's most admired journalists.

West Rogers Park in 1979-80 is the setting for what is our favorite novel of this summer, the story of two families, the upper middle class Rovners, the decidedly not upper middle class Wasserstroms, and the incomparable Muley Wills. We love this book. That's all.

A young woman dreams of heroic quests, epic swordfights, and the clash of mighty armies, until family secrets and the dark forces of the bearpriest brings her face to face with the battles between good and evil that take place on the battlefield, and within herself.

Actually you probably don't want to take this one to the beach, because you don't want to damage this beautiful, funny, practically perfect collection from the comic artist of the moment. For a change, the 'boy du jour' deserves the hype.