This month's fiction and non-fiction titles include an unfinished thriller by 'Jurassic Park' author Michael Crichton, completed more than 15 years after Crichton's death by bestselling writer James Patterson.
By Washington Post book critic Ron CharlesHere are four hot new books to check out this summer.You may know Claire Messud from such terrific books as 'The Emperor's Children' or 'The Woman Upstairs.' Her new novel, 'This Strange Eventful History' , uses the outlines of her own family to tell a story of three generations buffeted around the globe from World War II into the 21st century.
The result of this bestseller mash-up is 'Eruption' , an explosively corny thriller about a volcano that's about to send millions of tons of lava across Hawaii and possibly threaten all life on Earth. Put on your oven mitts: This is a hot one.
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