FICTION
Knitting
By Anne Bartlett
Mariner $12.95
A novel about the friendship of two very different women drawn together by their love of knitting.
The Summer He Didn’t Die
By Jim Harrison
Grove $13
A collection of novellas from the acclaimed author of “True North.”
Tomorrow They Will Kiss
By Eduardo Santiago
Back Bay $13.99
A novel about a Cuban immigrant who works at a doll factory and dreams of a true, redeeming love.
The Iceman Cometh
By Eugene O’Neill
Yale University Press, $12.95
A new edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s classic work about a collection of alcoholics and eccentrics with aimless dreams.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
By Eugene O’Neill
Yale University Press, $12.95
Eugene O’Neill’s final completed play is a sequel to “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
The Uncomfortable Dead
By Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcommandante Marcos
Akashic $15.95
A murder mystery co-written in alternating chapters by a Zapatista leader and the creator of a mystery series featuring Mexican private investigator Hector Belascoaran Shayne.
Clouds and Eclipses
By Gore Vidal
Carroll & Graf $13.95
A collection of short fiction from the National Book Award-winning writer.
My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
By Stephen Elliott
Cleis $13.95
A collection of short fiction drawn from personal experience by the author of “Happy Baby.”
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
By Amanda Elyot
Three Rivers $13.95
A novel that retells the Greek myth of Helen of Troy and the Trojan War from Helen’s perspective.
NON-FICTION
The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery and Lore of the Persian Carpet
By Brian Murphy
Simon & Schuster $15
A foreign correspondent describes the weaving process of Persian carpets and the legacy of myths and literature that have become associated with them over several centuries.
Pornified: How Pornography is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
By Pamela Paul
Owl $15
A treatise on how pornography is infiltrating and damaging all corners of life.
Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption
Edited by Sara Holloway
Random House $14.95
Authors, including Paula Fox, A.M. Homes and Jeanette Winterson, share their experiences with adoption.
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
By Jonathan Kozol
Three Rivers $13.95
A new edition of the 1988 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award-winning look at America’s homelessness epidemic.
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery
By Anne Farrow, Joel Lange, and Jennifer Frank
Ballantine $15.95
A team of writers from the Hartford Courant examine the rampant racism in the American North before and after the Civil War.
His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond
By Sonny Kleinfield
Holt $14
Follows the friendship between a poor Hispanic teenager and a well-off elderly woman.
Working Toward Whiteness
By David R. Roediger
Basic $17
The author of “The Wages of Whiteness” reveals the attitudes toward Jewish, Italian and Polish immigrant workers at the turn of the 20th Century and how that came to change.
Perfect Soldiers
By Terry McDermott
Harper $14.95
The L.A. Times correspondent offers a portrait of the 9/11 hijackers as unremarkable men and explains what compelled their actions.
Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender and the World
By Steven D. Stark
Harper $14.95
Puts the Beatles in a larger cultural context to explain their enduring success.
The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
By Karl Johnson
Owl $15
The dual biography of a Depression-era New York magician and the legendary cardsharp he sets out to find.
100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World
By John Tirman
HarperPerennial $13.95
A list of America’s transgressions from environmental destruction to unwarranted wars to mass consumerism.
True Story
By Michael Finkel
HarperPerennial $14.95
The fired New York Times Magazine writer sets out to find the accused murderer who assumed his identity.
