The Complete Plays: Anton Chekhov
By Anton Chekhov, translated by Laurence Senelick
Norton, $22.95
A single volume of the complete works of Anton Chekhov, including some never-before-translated pieces.
Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America
By William Colby
AMACOM, $17.95
Looks at medical and legal questions surrounding right-to-die cases.
Evolution for Everyone
By David Sloan Wilson
Delta, $15
A narrative explaining evolutionary biology as it applies to everyday living.
Heyday
By Kurt Anderson
Random House, $15.95
A novel of America’s coming of age, using 1848 as the revolutionary year to show the world vaulting into modernity.
American Shaolin
By Matthew Polly
Gotham, $15
The memoir of a young man who dropped out of Princeton University and moved to China for two years to study with the monks who invented kung fu.
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
By Ben Hills
Tarcher Penguin, $14.95
The true story of Japan’s Masako Owada and the pressures of one of the oldest royal dynasties.
The Terror
By Dan Simmons
Back Bay, $14.99
A historical novel about the doomed 1845 expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.
Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda
By Omar Nasiri
Basic, $15.95
The author’s story of his six years as a spy for the terrorist network.
Time Traveler
By Ronald Mallett, with Bruce Henderson
Thunder’s Mouth, $16.95
A scientist tells of his personal mission to make time travel a reality.
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Picador, $15
An anthropological look at human origins and the author’s experience living among Bushmen in Africa.
Patriot Hearts
By Barbara Hambly
Bantam, $14
A fictional look at the wives of the Founding Fathers and the lives they led in their husband’s shadows.
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
By Karen DeYoung
Vintage, $17.95
A biography of the former military leader and secretary of state.
The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson
By Murali Balaji
Nation, $18.95
Chronicles the 40-year friendship of two leaders of the black fight for civil rights.
Things I Didn’t Know
By Robert Hughes
Vintage, $15.95
A memoir by the Time magazine art critic and cultural commentator.
Tales From the Town of Widows
By James Canon
HarperPerennial, $14.95
A novel about how the women in a tiny Colombian village thrive after guerrillas take away all the men.
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
By Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson
Touchstone, $15.95
Incest, murder and endless riches characterize this true-crime family saga.
The Story of Psychology
By Morton Hunt
Anchor, $22
This updated and revised edition of the 1993 book looks at various schools of thought about understanding the mind and the causes of behavior.
