Bookmarks: Recently-released books

Here are some books that have crossed our desks recently.

HARDBACKS

"COLD WIND: A Joe Pickett Novel," by C.J. Box, Putman, $25,95, 388 pages (f)

Set in the Wyoming back country, a detective working to find the murderer in a brutal death of a man finds himself in a battle among his family members, the sheriff and friends as he works through the layers of small-town politics and secrets.

More hardbacks recently released:

"THE SAVAGE CITY: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge," by T.J. English (nf): This part police procedural and part historical narrative looks at a trio of men and their roles in the civil rights movement in New York during the 1960s.

"LEE KRASNER: A Biography," by Gail Levin (nf): A biography of Jackson Pollock's wife, who also was a 20th century Modernist artist.

"NIGHT ROAD," by Kristin Hannah (f): The lives of Farraday family and Lexi Baill, a young teenage girl, are shattered during one reckless night and they work to pick up the pieces and learn to forgive.

"COME AND FIND ME," by Hallie Ephron (f): A reformed computer hacker must rely on her old skills and return to the "real world" when her sister goes missing.

"THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY," by Alexander McCall Smith (f): In this next "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency," a cattle killing leads to several suspects, including the client.

"MOONDOGS," by Alexander Yates (f): A son seeks to reconcile with his estranged, jet-setting and not-quite-squeaky-clean father, but his father disappears before the reunion. The son and his team of wizardry-infused soldiers take on the disappearance that takes twists and turns.

"EMILY ALONE," by Stewart O'Nan (f): Emily, the Maxwell family matriarch, finds herself a widow and, with children grown and gone, she takes some small steps to develop some form of independence.

PAPERBACKS

"BRING BACK BEATRICE! 1,108 Baby Names with Meaning, Character and a Little Bit of Attitude," by Jennifer Griffin, Workman Publishing, 567 pages, $10.95 (nf)

Using statistics from baby names in 2009, she gives advice, tips and history of names messed with modern culture references to help parents pick a name for their new little one.