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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the September 4th issue include:

Baking Cakes in Kigali, by Gaile Parkin. Delacorte Press. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Everyone needs a neighbor like Angel Tungaraza, a successful cake baker from Tanzania now living in Rwanda's capital city..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (37 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99.
"This gloriously written tale - set in modern-day Rwanda - introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungaraza - mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets - a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create hope amid the madness swirling all around her. In Kigali, Angel runs a bustling business: baking cakes for all occasions - cakes filled with vibrant color, buttery richness, and, most of all, a sense of hope only Angel can deliver. ... A CIA agent’s wife seeks the perfect holiday cake but walks away with something far sweeter ... a former boy-soldier orders an engagement cake, then, between sips of tea, shares an enthralling story ...weary human rights workers ... lovesick limo drivers. Amid this cacophony of native tongues, love affairs, and confessions, Angel’s kitchen is an oasis where people tell their secrets, where hope abounds and help awaits." - Amazon.

Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon. Ballantine. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...Americans love reinvention...Chaon's suspenseful yarn smartly explores the consequences of this often romanticized obsession. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99.
"The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways - and with unexpected consequences ... Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can’t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed. A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life...My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himself - through unconventional and precarious means." - Amazon.

Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore. Knopf. NOVEL. EW's slant: "... Lovers of language will find much to enjoy here, but Gate's cerebral thrills never quite connect with the heart." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (25 reviews). Kindle edition $14.27.
"As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer...has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: The Nanny Diaries, by Nicola Kraus.

The Longshot, by Katie Kitamura. Free Press. NOVEL. EW's slant: "At the final bell, it's nothing you haven't read before." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (14 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99.
"In hypnotic, pared-down prose, The Longshot offers a striking portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how ... Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago, Cal became the only mixed martial arts fighter to take Rivera the distance - but the fight nearly ended him. Only Riley, who has been at his side for the last ten years, knows how much that fight changed things for Cal. And only Riley really knows what's now at stake, for both of them. Katie Kitamura's brilliant and stirring debut novel follows Cal and Riley through the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, as each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. As the tension builds toward the final electrifying scene, the looming fight becomes every challenge each of us has ever taken on, no matter how uncertain the outcome." - Amazon.