LEAVING EARTH
By Helen Humphreys (Picador USA $13)
The poet’s first novel is an intimate tale of two fliers who find freedom above the clouds.
YEATS
By Richard Ellmann (Norton $14.95)
Best known for his biography of James Joyce, Richard Ellmann examines the Irish poet’s complex life.
WHAT OUR MOTHERS DIDN’T TELL US
By Danielle Crittenden (Touchstone $12)
A postfeminist study explains why independence fails to make modern women happy.
THE FOX IN THE ATTIC
By Richard Hughes (New York Review Books $12.95)
This first part of Richard Hughes’ long historical novel features the rise of Adolf Hitler.
WITH OSSIE & RUBY
By Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Quill $14)
In this conversational biography, the entertainers take turns relating the highlights of their lives.
LUCKY MAN, LUCKY WOMAN
By Jack Driscoll (Norton $13)
Infertility is the first problem in this debut novel depicting marriage from a man’s point of view.
THE CHISELLERS
By Brendan O’Carroll (Plume $11.95)
Agnes Browne returns in this second novel about an indomitable Dublin widow and her seven children.
A GOOD ENOUGH DAUGHTER
By Alix Kates Shulman (Schocken $13)
The rebellious writer describes how home is where the heart is when her parents fall ill.
FATHER, SON & CO.
By Thomas J. Watson Jr. and Peter Petre (Bantam $14.95)
The management of business and family mix in this candid biography of the men who ran IBM.
DREAM CHILDREN
By A.N. Wilson (Norton $13)
In this psychological novel, a writer’s admirers close ranks until they discover his dark secret.
THE TIMES OF MY LIFE: And My Life With the Times
By Max Frankel (Delta $15.95)
A former New York Times executive editor chronicles his life and journalism in the second half of the 20th Century.
THE WIDOW KILLER
By Pavel Kohout (Picador $14)
A young Prague homicide detective and a Gestapo officer set out to find a killer in World War II Czechoslovakia.
