In her seventh novel, Jensen dives into psychological wreckage. One summer, when the heat is "to die in, to go nuts or to spawn in," therapist Gabrielle Fox takes on the case of 16-year-old Bethany Krall, who has been committed to a psychiatric hospital after murdering her mother. During their sessions, Bethany reveals the apocalyptic images in her head, including scenes of catastrophic climate change in which entire coasts dissolve. When disasters start to occur just as Bethany described, Gabrielle fears the visions have materialized. True to her subject matter, the author avoids a contrived happy ending and offers cold comfort instead. This smart, suspenseful thriller examines the toll of willful self-destruction. -CARMELA CIURARU To buy the book click here.

This is the true story of one of the art world’s most brazen scams. The villain, John Drewe, is an urbane British con man who posed as a nuclear physicist, a spy and an art patron. Throughout the 1990s, he sold hundreds of paintings purportedly by modern masters, including Braque and Giacometti. He commissioned imitations (so convincing they fooled experts at Sotheby’s) from John Myatt, a working-class single father who needed cash. Sophis-ticated and outrageous, the scheme depended on false doc-uments to establish each work’s chain of ownership. Drewe even slipped photos of his fakes into London’s Tate Gallery archives to establish their line-age. The detailed account of his elaborate fraud is gripping, right up to its inevitable conclusion in Scotland Yard. -Caryn James To buy the book click here.

Based on the troubled marriage of Charles Dickens, this lovely debut is the portrait of a woman doomed to live in the shadow of her husband, the most celebrated author in the Victorian world. The fictional Dickens is named Alfred Gibson. He has just passed away and his funeral is to take place at Westminster Abbey. But Dorothea, his wife of twenty years, is not invited. His will favors his children and his clandestine mistress. Dorothea begins to examine her life with the great author more closely, revisiting their courtship and their early days of nuptial pleasure before the birth of too many children. To buy the book click here.

Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents’ Vietnameses legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the same studied diligence to her law career and marriage. Freewheeling Linny is grasping for a purpose when her affair with a married man takes a humiliating turn. Each is the last person her sister would call, but when their father summons them home for his American citizenship party, Van and Linny find themselves communing about their past. To buy the book click here.

After her boss is caught up in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father’s offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family home he recently inherited. Her father insists a little TLC can turn the house into a real estate cash cow, but Dempsey is in for a surprise when she arrives to find duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk and grumpy old lady squatting on the property. To buy the book click here.

The author takes on Bronte’s voice to weave a captivating tale based on her personal correspondence, published works and biographies. To buy the book click here.

This book follows the life trajectories of extraordinary women, now in their seventies and eighties, who share to a remarkable extent a set of qualities that produced their successful lives. From the heyday of Good Housekeeping-the era of the silent majority-to World War II, when the absence of men at home set a new measure of independence for women, through the sexual revolution and the civil rights and women’s movements, these women have accumulated powerful stories that address the essential facets of women’s lives: family, work, and love. To buy the book click here.

Divorced ad-exec Lila Nova buys her first plant at a Manhattan market. The man who sells it to her is David Exley, an intoxicating "country sexual," who introduces her to a mysterious man named Armand. Soon Lila is captivated by Armand’s tale of the nine plants of desire: if she can possess them all, her wildest dreams will come true. She sets off into the wilds of the Yucatan to try to do just that. Buy it here.

In 12-year-old Gwenni Morgan’s Welsh village, bad news spreads at breakneck speed and townspeople do their best to keep secrets buried. When the father of the children she babysits vanishes, this 1950s-era Harriet the Spy, sets out to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Buy it here.

When Sarah Rexford, a half-American, half-Japanese 14-year-old, goes to visit her family in Japan she learns a shattering secret-and the tricky rules by which her mother, aunt and grandmother live. Buy it here.

Margaret Snow is a window dresser at Saks when she suffers a loss that paralyzes her emotionally and professionally. To cope, she takes up her old childhood pursuit: bird watching. The birds inspire her to create-and to open herself back up to the world. Buy it here.

Wondering if you should wax your mustache or if you’re having the right amount of sex? Watson has the answer in this funny guide to finding love and looking good (without borrowing your daughter’s wardrobe or blowing your 401K). Buy it here.