In search of something good to read? We've got this week's hottest new book releases.
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton(Thomas Dunne, fiction)
In this time-traveling adventure which begins in 1914, ex-soldier Hugh Stanton goes attempts to prevent World War I. A fun, smart, adventurous book, a work of science-fiction as big on ideas as action.
●$30 at Amazon and $28 at Bookshop. org
A Gift From Bob by James Bowen(Thomas Dunne,non-fiction)
London street musician James Bowen tells the story of how his cat Bob helped him overcome bad child-hood memories of Christmas. Bowen and the real Bob are acting in the 2016 film version of Bowen's best seller A Street Cat Named Bob, which stars Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey fame.
●$25 at Amazon and $25 at Bookshop. org
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore(Knopf, fiction)
Moore's first novel since "A Gate at the Stairs" is a meditation on mortality and letting go, in which a man returns home to the Midwest after his ex dies by suicide to find her seemingly alive.
●$24 at Amazon and $25 at Bookshop. Org
The Only One Left by Riley Sager(Dutton, fiction)
Suspense master Sager("The House Across the Lake,""Survive the Night")returns with a thriller about a home health carer assigned to care for 70-something Lenora, mute and in a wheelchair after a series of strokes. She's the same Lenora accused of killing her family decades earlier, and it's clear there's more to the tale than people know.
●$19 at Amazon and $26 at Bookshop. org
