Blake writes with strong, sensual, modern language, and utilizes time travel and dream sequences to create a multilayered story. Blake has packed a remarkable amount of earthly experience that is wondrous, funny, queasy, erotic into an ancient vehicle. And he's written one of those rare books that both geeks and casual listeners can enjoy, combining science, art and sheer enthusiasm to explain why you might love bluegrass while your significant other prefers the blues. In her debut novel, Sarah Blake vividly conveys the story of Noah and the Ark from an unusual perspective that of Noah’s wife, Naamah. Naamah houses an improbable bounty of life. Gasser is chief architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project, so he deeply understands why you like what you like. 'Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste,' by Nolan Gasser (April 30) It's as if Fox Mulder, Lisbeth Salander's maiden aunt and Kurt Wallander collaborated on a new unit, and it's great fun. The celebrated Scottish storyteller has turned his pen to Scandi-crime, setting his latest series with Detective Ulf 'The Wolf' Varg heading up a department of singular characters in the Swedish city of Malmo. 'The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel,' by Alexander McCall Smith (April 16) 'Normal People' is another familiar plot - two young lovers meet in high school, diverge at university, meet again as young adults - but Connell and Marianne are fresh, their entanglement so achingly tender that you'll read till the last drop of tea is poured. This is a book about doubt, about the human experience, where we were as people in the beginning of time and the way it parallels the way we are now.

The Irish writer's 2017 'Conversations With Friends' won over American readers with its deadpan wit, following a young woman's attempt to create an artistic life. The Long Review: Naamah is the story about Noah’s wifewho is left unnamed in the original textand her experience on the Ark.

Naamah by Sarah Blake