MINNIE’S SACRIFICE, SOWING AND REAPING, AND TRIAL AND TRIUMPH
By Frances E.W. Harper (Beacon $14)
Three rediscovered novels, all by a leading black writer of the 19th Century.
THE IRONIC CHRISTIAN’S COMPANION
By Patrick Henry (Riverhead $13)
Thoughts on the nature of faith that take into account the not-so-subtle nuances of daily life.
THE FARM SHE WAS
By Ann Mohin (Bridge Works $13.95)
In this novel, a 90-year-old spinster remembers her past as she tries to save her New York farm.
POWER LINES
Edited by Julie Parson-Nesbitt, Luis J. Rodriguez and Michael Warr (Tia Chucha Press $14.95)
A decade of poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex, the cross-cultural literary arts center.
WHAT EINSTEIN TOLD HIS BARBER
By Robert L. Wolke (Dell $11.95)
Fun and informative answers to everyday scientific questions, plus experiments to try at home.
THE LAST LOVELY CITY
By Alice Adams (Washington Square Press $12.95)
Men and women struggle to make sense of shifting fortunes in Alice Adams’ fifth story collection.
ELEANOR RUSHING
By Patty Friedmann (Counterpoint $14)
Erotomania rules the life of a New Orleans woman in this novel of unrequited love.
THE HAUNTED WOOD
By Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev (Modern Library $14.95)
KGB archives reveal the depth of Soviet espionage in America during the Stalin era.
SLOUCHING TOWARD FARGO
By Neal Karlen (Spike $14)
Two seasons with the St. Paul Saints, Minnesota’s motley team of baseball misfits.
THE ARTIST’S VOICE
By Katharine Kuh (Da Capo Press $22)
Interviews with 17 painters and sculptors who discuss what it means to create modern art.
THE DYLANIST
By Brian Morton (Berkley Books $13.95)
A red-diaper baby wrestles with her destiny in this novel by the author of “Starting Out in the Evening.”
THE FIRST SEX
By Helen Fisher (Ballantine Books $16)
An anthropologist explains why women are now assuming their rightful place in society.
