Under a Flaming Sky
By Daniel James Brown
HarperPerennial $14.95
An account of the 1894 forest fires that devastated Hinkley, Minn., and revolutionized the forestry industry.
The Saffron Kitchen
By Yasmin Crowther
Penguin $14
A novel about a mother and daughter and their trip to Iran to confront the past.
Moonlight Hotel
By Scott Anderson
Anchor $14.95
A novel about a philandering mid-level diplomat who gets sent to a war-torn Middle East country.
Digging to America
By Anne Tyler
Ballatine $14.95
A novel about the chance airport meeting between two families, each awaiting the arrival of an adopted Korean infant, and the relationships that ensue.
The Boleyn Inheritance
By Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, $16
A novel that explores the lives of three women close to Henry VIII.
Ines of My Soul
By Isabel Allende
HarperPerennial, $14.95
Ines Suarez embarks on a new life in the New World and becomes the most powerful woman in Chilean history.
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
By Jonathan Franzen
Picador, $14
This National Book Award-winner’s memoir details his struggles with adolescence, relationships, his mother and an unexpected passion.
Journey to a Revolution
By Michael Korda
HarperPerennial, $13.95
The best-selling author’s memoir of his time as a young man during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genuis
By Joyce E. Chaplin
Basic, $17.50
A biography highlighting Benjamin Franklin’s scientific success as the foundation for his political prominence and international fame.
