SOME TAME GAZELLE
By Barbara Pym (Moyer Bell $11.95)
Barbara Pym’s first novel, a portrait of English country life, reveals why she is often compared to Jane Austen.
FINBAR’S HOTEL
Edited by Dermot Bolger (Harcourt Brace $13)
A Dublin hotel sets the stage for seven Irish writers who contribute chapters to this novel.
DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS
By Manju Kapur (Faber and Faber $14.95)
In this historical novel, a student in India betrays her family when she becomes a married professor’s second wife.
THE HEART OF A DOG
By Mikhail Bulgakov (The Harvill Press $11)
A scientific experiment goes awry in this early novel by the author of “The Master and Margarita.”
KILLING THE DREAM
By Gerald Posner (Harcourt Brace $15)
The investigative journalist’s definitive account of the events surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
ON THE OCCASION OF MY LAST AFTERNOON
By Kaye Gibbons (Bard $12.50)
In the Southern author’s sixth novel, a fiercely independent woman experiences the Civil War.
MOTHER IRELAND
By Edna O’Brien (Plume $11.95)
The renowned Irish novelist writes a memoir of her youth in seven luminous essays.
REAL BOYS
By William Pollack (Owl Books $13.95)
A Harvard professor’s readily accessible study for parents who are raising sons.
LEO STRAUSS AND THE AMERICAN RIGHT
By Shadia B. Drury (St. Martin’s Press $18.95)
This short biography of the University of Chicago professor covers the origins and impact of his conservative philosophy.
REBUILDING THE INDIAN
By Fred Haefele (Riverhead Books $14)
In this satisfying memoir, work on a 1941 Indian Chief motorcycle helps resolve a midlife crisis.
WORMHOLES
By John Fowles (Owl Books $16)
A collection of nonfiction writings from the English author of “The French Lieutenant’s Woman.”
PILGRIM SOULS
Edited by Amy Mandelker and Elizabeth Powers (Touchstone Books $17)
Excerpts of spiritual autobiographies from authors such as Leo Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis and Annie Dillard.
