DOING BATTLE
By Paul Fussell (Back Bay $13.95)
A memoir infused with the bitter awakening that a World War II combat experience brought about.
LETTING LOOSE THE HOUNDS
By Brady Udall (Washington Square $12)
This collection of 11 dark and unsettling stories about lost love and fragmented lives sparkles with passion and wit.
THE MAN IN THE BOX
By Thomas Moran (Vintage $12)
Jewish doctor is hidden from the Germans by Austrian family of a boy whose life he saved years ago.
THE RASTAFARIANS
By Leonard E. Barrett Sr. (Beacon Press $15)
A serious, scholarly examination of the history and beliefs of Jamaica’s Rastafarians.
LAMB
By Bernard MacLaverty (Norton $11)
Some call it kidnapping when Brother Sebastian leaves a bleak reformatory, taking a formerly abused boy with him.
CLINT EASTWOOD: A Biography
By Richard Schickel (Vintage $15)
Candid, in-depth portrait of the actor/director who has been an icon of American manhood.
AUDACIOUS DEMOCRACY
Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman, editors (Mariner Books $12)
Original essays that address shifts in America’s “social metabolism.”
WAIST-HIGH IN THE WORLD
By Nancy Mairs (Beacon Press $12)
Essayist’s unflinching insights into what it’s like to have a disability and the way it shapes a life.
FAMILY: American Writers Remember Their Own
Sharon Sloan Fiffer, Steve Fiffer, editors (Vintage $13)
Alice Hoffman, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Hoagland and others write about kin and kinship.
