Challenger Park
By Stephen Harrigan
Picador $13.95
A novel about an astronaut and wife who struggles with finding a balance between career and family.
Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story
By Ann Kirschner
Free Press $14
A daughter shares her mother’s experiences in Nazi work camps.
Lost and Found
By Carolyn Parkhurst
Back Bay $13.99
A novel about a mother and daughter who test their relationship when they compete on a reality-TV show.
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
By Judith Rich Harris
Norton $16.95
Explores how individual personality is shaped.
Music Through the Floor
By Eric Puchner
Scribner $13
A Nelson Algren Award finalist offers a debut collection of stories told from a range of perspectives.
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
By John Pomfret
Holt $15
The author, who was won of the first American students to be allowed in communist China, writes about the experience.
The Giant, O’Brien
By Hilary Mantel
Picador $13
A novel about the conflict between a giant and a scientist set in London in the late 18th Century, by the author of “Beyond Black.”
Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
By Stephen J. Dubner
HarperPerennial $13.95
The author of “Turbulent Souls” writes about worshiping a football player after his father died at an early age.
Half Life
By Shelley Jackson
Harper $14.95
A novel about a conjoined twin and her attempts to get rid of her sister.
