FICTION
Skinnner’s Drift
By Lisa Fugard
Scribner $15
A debut novel about a young woman’s return to South Africa to discover her family’s violent past and the changing politics of her homeland.
One Big Damn Puzzler
By John Harding
HarperPerennial $14.95
A novel about a pagan island in the South Pacific and a young American lawyer’s misguided quest to do good.
Sayonara Bar
By Susan Barker
St. Martin’s Griffin $14.95
A debut novel that describes the interwoven lives of the employees of a hostess lounge in Osaka, Japan.
The Unbinding
By Walter Kirn
Anchor $13.95
A satiric novel about a man who works for a problem-solving service that lets him monitor every aspect of the users’ lives.
Red Weather
By Pauls Toutonghi
Three Rivers $13
A novel set in Milwaukee in 1989 about a 15-year-old son of immigrants who falls in love with a girl and adopts her socialist politics.
Plum Wine
By Angela Davis-Gardner
Dial $13
A novel about an American teacher in Japan who is left a set of diaries that reveals the secrets of their writer and the man who translates them.
Wise Blood
By Flannery O’Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux $14
A new edition of the author’s first novel, about a young man in a terrible struggle against his faith.
The Deadly Embrace
By Robert J. Mrazek
Penguin $13
A World War II mystery about the murders of two mistresses of powerful Allied commanders.
I Take This Man
By Valerie Frankel
Avon $13.95
A novel about a woman who gets left at the altar and her mother’s bizarre attempt at revenge.
Augusta Locke
By William Haywood
Henderson Penguin $14
A novel that spans the 20th Century about a pioneer mother’s life in bleak Wyoming.
NON-FICTION
To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, From Achilles to Al Qaeda
By Derek Leebaert
Back Bay $15.99
A history of elite special forces in war.
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
By Michael Kazin
Anchor $16.95
A biography of the reformer, evangelist and three-time presidential candidate.
Stumbling on Happiness
By Daniel Gilbert
Vintage $14.95
A Harvard University psychology professor explains how the ability to imagine the future affects how people live today.
This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology
By Christina Robb
Picador $17
Tells the story of a group of psychologists who first identified relationships rather than self as the foundation of psychological and physical states.
Bat Boy
By Matthew McGough
Anchor $12.95
A memoir from a former bat boy of the New York Yankees offers a behind-the-scenes look at baseball.
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
By Wole Soyinka
Random House $16.95
A Nobel Prize-winning writer follows “Ake: The Years of Childhood” with a description of his adult life and exile from his Nigerian homeland.
Warriors: Portraits From the Battlefield
By Max Hastings
Vintage $15.95
Shares the heroic stories of 14 soldiers who fought in wars of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
The Ongoing Moment
By Geoff Dyer
Vintage $15.95
A history of photography that explores the connections between the subjects and experiences of photographers including Paul Strand, Walker Evans and Diane Arbus.
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs
By Bill Jenkinson
Carroll & Graf $16.95
Evaluates Babe Ruth’s career and measures it against modern baseball’s great sluggers.
Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
By Bruce Ackerman
Yale University Press $17
Proposes an “emergency constitution” that would institute new checks and balances in the event of a terrorist attack.
Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
By Brooke A. Masters
Owl $16
A portrait of the New York governor’s battles as the state’s attorney general.
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
By Nicholas Wade
Penguin $15
Explains how advances in genetics have revealed many details about human origins.
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead
By Ariel Gore
Three Rivers $13.95
Offers advice on writing as well as marketing and self-promotion techniques to jump-start a career as an author.
