School’s Out
By Christophe Dufosse
Penguin $14
A novel about a high school teacher who takes over for a dead friend and discovers some sinister things about the school and students.
Between, Georgia
By Joshilyn Jackson
Warner $13.99
A novel set in a small Southern town about a woman caught between her upstanding adoptive family and quirky birth family.
The Secret River
By Kate Grenville
Canongate $14
A Booker Prize finalist novel set in the early 1800s about an English family deported to the colony that would become Australia.
My Father Married Your Mother
Edited by Anne Burt
Norton $14.95
Writers including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Barbara Kingsolver and Andrew Solomon reflect on their experiences in blended families.
Sword and Blossom: A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
By Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
Penguin $16
Describes the love affair between a British officer and a Japanese woman in the early 1900s using their own letters.
