FICTION
Beasts of No Nation
By Uzodinma Iweala
Harper $11.95
A debut novel about a young West African boy recruited into a guerrilla army.
Lipstick Jungle
By Candace Bushnell
Hyperion $14.95
Describes the high-powered lifestyles of four New York women in their 40s.
Glow in the Dark
By Lisa Teasley
Bloomsbury $13.95
A collection of stories featuring lost souls in a variety of places including New York, Los Angeles and Paris.
Dive
By Lisa Teasley
Bloomsbury $14.95
A debut novel about two people whose lives come together as they search for a new beginnings in Alaska.
Mistress
By Anita Nair
St. Martin’s Griffin $14.95
A novel about an Indian family whose lives are disrupted by the presence of a mysterious travel writer.
Mysteries
By Knut Hamsun
Farrar, Straus and Giroux $15
A new edition of the 1892 Norweigan novel about an enigmatic stranger who disrupts a small coastal town.
Carnivore Diet
By Julia Slavin
Norton $13.95
A darkly comic novel about a Washington woman’s attempts to keep her family together during her politician husband’s incarceration and while a ferocious beast is on the prowl.
Heat Signature
By Lisa Teasley
Bloombury $14.95
In this novel, a man haunted by the murder of his mother learns details of her life and brutal death.
Snakes and Earrings
By Hitomi Kanehara
Penguin $10
The Japanese cult classic about a young woman who becomes ensnared in the dangerous underground culture of Tokyo.
And God Created the Au Pair
By Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets
Plume $14
A humorous novel about two sisters divided by the Atlantic but joined by the ups and downs of motherhood.
Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys
Norton $13.95
A reprint of the 1966 novel that tells the story of the first Mrs. Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre.”
NON-FICTION
And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
By Studs Terkel
New Press $16.95
An oral history told through conversations from Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel’s famous Chicago radio program.
Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers
By Daniel Mouthrop, Ninive Clements Calegari and Dave Eggers
New Press $16.95
Outlines the realities and problems of teaching in the public schools and what can be done to fix them.
Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
By Jennifer Saginor
Harper $13.95
A memoir by the daughter of Hugh Hefner’s physician.
The Places in Between
By Rory Stewart
Harvest $14
The author writes about walking across Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
The Tender Bar
By J.R. Moehringer
Hyperion $14.95
A memoir of the author’s fatherless childhood and the solace he finds with the patrons of a bar.
The Story of a Life
By Aharon Appelfeld
Schocken $13
The author writes about his miraculous escape from a Nazi labor camp as a young boy and his harrowing trek through the Ukrainian forests to safety.
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising
By Robert Shogan
Basic $16.95
Describes West Virginia coal miners’ 1921 march against the mine owners.
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
By Clare Asquith
PublicAffairs $14.95
Offers a perspective on William Shakespeare’s personal and political beliefs that put his plays in a new light.
Have Glove Will Travel
By Bill Lee and Richard Lally
Three Rivers $13.95
The former Montreal Expos player follows up “The Wrong Stuff” with his tales of traveling around the world to find and play baseball.
The Shame of the Nation
By Jonathan Kozol
Three Rivers $14.95
Examines the plight of inner-city public schools and how America’s black and Hispanic children are being left behind.
Just and Unjust Wars
By Michael Walzer
Basic $19.95
The fourth edition of this moral argument on war includes the author’s first statement about Iraq.
A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
By Peter Irons
Penguin $18
A comprehensive history of the Supreme Court and the cases that have shaped American history since the 1870s.
