The Clearing
By Tim Gautreaux (Vintage $13)
A novel about two brothers who try to repair their relationship as they repair their family’s lumber mill.
History on a Personal Note
By Binnie Kirshenbaum (Ecco $13.95)
A collection of darkly funny short stories.
Dog on the Cross
By Aaron Gwyn (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $14.95)
A debut collection of stories about people struggling with faith and self-doubt.
Death on the Black Sea: The Untold Story of the Struma and World War II’s Holocaust at Sea
By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins (Ecco $14.95)
A historical account of the 1942 explosion of the Struma, a barge carrying nearly 800 Jewish refugees.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
By Harry V. Jaffa (Rowman & Littlefield $22.95)
Continues the biography of Abraham Lincoln begun in “Crisis of the House Divided.”
Sideways
By Rex Pickett (St. Martin’s Griffin $13.95)
A novel about two men who take a road trip through California wine country.
The Tattooed Girl
By Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco $13.95)
In this novel, a reclusive novelist takes in an assistant with a tortured past.
Easy in the Islands
By Bob Shacochis (Grove $13)
This 1985 collection of stories set in the Caribbean was a National Book Award winner for first fiction.
The Songs of the Kings
By Barry Unsworth (Norton $13.95)
A retelling of the story of Iphigeneia, by the Booker Prize-winning author of “Sacred Hunger.”
Where the Truth Lies
By Rupert Holmes (Random House $13.95)
In this novel, a celebrity reporter tries to solve the murder that drove a show-business team apart.
Bay of Souls
By Robert Stone (Mariner $13)
A novel about a professor who abandons his academic life to follow his Caribbean lover.
Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
By Frank Owen (Broadway $14.95)
Inside the club and drug scene of the 1990s.
Good Faith
By Jane Smiley (Anchor $13.95)
A novel about a man embroiled in a shaky investment and an affair with his mentor’s wife.
Office of Innocence
By Thomas Keneally (Anchor $15)
The author of “Schindler’s List” writes about a young Catholic priest in World War II Australia.
Ladies Coupe
By Anita Nair (St. Martin’s Griffin $14.95)
A feminist novel about what a woman in India learns during a trip in an all-women railroad sleeping car.
Katherine
By Anya Seton (Chicago Review $14.95)
A new edition of a 1954 historical novel about 14th Century lovers who became the ancestors to much of the British royalty.
Sunday Brunch
By Norma L. Jarrett (Harlem Moon $12.95)
Five female lawyers meet weekly in this novel to discuss life and love.
Now You See It
By Allison Lynn (Touchstone $13)
A novel about a man’s search for his missing wife.
Gilgamesh
By Joan London (Grove $13)
A debut novel about a young woman’s adventures in the late 1930s.
Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
By Paul E. Johnson (Hill and Wang $14)
An account of an early 19th Century daredevil who made his name jumping from platforms into waterfalls.
Love in Idleness
By Amanda Craig (Anchor $14)
A contemporary retelling of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Long for This World
By Michael Byers (Mariner $13)
A debut novel about a geneticist who discovers the key to eternal youth.
Beaches
By Iris Rainer Dart (Perennial $12.95)
A novel that follows the lifelong friendship of two women.
The Music of Your Life
By John Rowell (Simon & Schuster $13)
A debut collection of short stories about outsiders.
Going Out
By Scarlett Thomas (Anchor $13)
A novel about a ragtag group of friends who meet a generous lottery winner.
Bush Versus the Environment
By Robert S. Devine (Anchor $12)
Contends Bush administration policies are damaging the environment.
The Hills at Home
By Nancy Clark (Anchor $14.95)
A humorous novel about a woman who has a summer full of houseguests.
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back
By Thomas Geoghegan (New Press $16.95)
A new edition of a 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated book about organized labor in America.
Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu
By Stephanie Rosenfeld (Ballantine $14.95)
A novel about a mother-daughter road trip.
The Bielski Brothers
By Peter Duffy (Perennial $14.95)
The story of three Jewish brothers who avenged their family’s murder by waging guerrilla war in the 1940s against the Nazis.
The Broom of the System
By David Foster Wallace (Penguin $15)
A new edition of the debut novel from the author of “Infinite Jest.
