Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week

Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, February 25:

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (Crown, $32, 9780385348713) chronicles Winston Churchill's first year as prime minister.

The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life by Alexander Norman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544416581) is a biography about the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World by Rahm Emanuel (Knopf, $26.95, 9780525656388) is city-centric political science by the former mayor of Chicago.

Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World by Emily Balcetis (Ballantine Books, $27, 9781524796464) is a psychology professor's explanation of how anyone can "leverage" perceptual illusions to be more successful.

Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time by Dr. Mark Hyman (Little, Brown, $28, 9780316453172) pairs environmentalism with health in recommending food choices.

Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke (Kensington, $27, 9781496718891) is the 25th culinary mystery with Hannah Swensen.

Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Resurrection by Joshua Hood (Putnam, $27, 9780525542551) begins a thriller series set in the Jason Bourne universe.

Watching from the Dark: A Novel by Gytha Lodge (Random House, $27, 9781984818072) is a mystery about a woman murdered during a video chat.

A Home for Goddesses and Dogs by Leslie Connor (HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99, 9780062796783) features a 13-year-old girl who has experienced too much loss and a very bad dog.

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen by Sarah Kapit (Dial Books, $17.99, 9780525554189) is a middle-grade epistolary novel about a young woman whose autism won't keep her away from the baseball diamond.

Paperbacks:
Surrender by Ray Loriga, translated by Carolina De Robertis (Mariner, $15.99, 9781328528520) is a Spanish dystopia set in a city where secrets are forbidden.

The Traitor by V.S. Alexander (Kensington, $15.95, 9781496720399).

Movie:
The Invisible Man, loosely based on the novel by H.G. Wells, opens February 28. Elisabeth Moss stars as a woman being hunted by an invisible man.
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