Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Edited by Robert L. Mack
Oxford University Press, $10.95
The classic tale of the murderous, 19th Century London barber whose victims ended up in the fare of his pie-making accomplice.
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
By Carl Bernstein
Vintage, $15.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s biography of the Democratic candidate for president and former first lady.
Running Away With Frannie
By Renee Manfredi
MacAdam Cage, $13
In this novel, a chance meeting at a truck stop brings two nomadic personalities together as they fall in love and are challenged by their fear and uncertainty.
Flaubert
By Frederick Brown
Harvard University Press, $18.95
A biography of French novelist Gustave Flaubert, author of “Madame Bovary.”
Soul and Other Stories
By Andrey Platonov
New York Review of Books, $15.95
Eight short works of fiction by the Russian writer.
Who’s Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology
By Linley Erin Hall
Seal, $15.95
Research and personal stories about women in the sciences.
Wise Children
By Angela Carter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14
A novel about twin sisters known as the Lucky Chances who starred in vaudeville.
Wolves of the Crescent Moon
By Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Penguin, $14
This novel about a traditional society confronting the modern world begins with a man in a Saudi Arabian bus station finding a file containing reports about an abandoned baby.
