Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers
By James F. Simon
Simon & Schuster, $15
Outlines the struggle between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger Taney during the Civil War over presidential authority.
Love Falls
By Esther Freud
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A novel surrounding a 17-year-old who travels to a Tuscan villa for a summer that changes her life.
The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
By Diane Pecknold
Duke University Press, $22.95
An analysis of country music as seen through popular culture, commercialism and social history.
Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion
By Antonio Monda
Vintage, $12.95
Well-known figures including Saul Bellow, Jane Fonda and Martin Scorsese discuss their religious beliefs.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Ken Kesey
Penguin Classics, $15
A new edition of the novel about a group of overmedicated mental-ward patients, with a foreword by Chris Palahniuk, author of “Fight Club.”
The Harbor Boys: A Memoir
By Hugo Hamilton
HarperPerennial, $13.95
The personal story of the author’s upbringing in Dublin and the guilt, politics and tragedy that marked his life.
The Kindness of Women
By J.G. Ballard
Picador, $15
A sequel to the novel “The Empire of the Sun.”
Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin
By Simon Louvish
Thomas Dunne, $17.95
A biography charting the entertainer’s seven decades in show business.
