Babylon by Bus
By Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann
Penguin $15
Two American civilians leave Boston for Iraq and chronicle life in Baghdad.
Elements of Style
By Wendy Wasserstein
Vintage $14.95
A novel about life in Manhattan in the 21st Century, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex and Real Estate
By Jane Juska
Villard $13.95
The author continues her tales as a single 60-something in this follow-up to “A Round-Heeled Woman.”
The Last Town on Earth
By Thomas Mullen
Random House $13.95
A novel about a town that quarantines itself against the 1918 flu epidemic and the disastrous outcome when a World War I soldier seeks asylum.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
By Amy Willentz
Simon & Schuster $14
An East Coast transplant writes about life in California.
The Echo Maker
By Richard Powers
Picador, $15
A young man comes out of a coma, and the aftermath threatens to change his life and those of the people around him in this National Book Award-winning novel.
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
By David S. Brown
University of Chicago Press $17
The life of the celebrated American historian juxtaposed with the rise and fall of American liberalism.
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
By Timothy Gilfoyle
Norton $16.95
A biography of a small-time crook that focuses on a colorful era, written by a Loyola University professor.
