Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
By Michael K. Honey
Norton, $17.95
Reconstructs the background and day-to-day unfolding of the 1968 Memphis municipal sanitation workers’ strike and Martin Luther King Jr.’s support of it, which ended with his assassination.
The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France 1789 – 1815
By Robert Harvey
Carroll & Graf, $18.95
A comprehensive volume on the Napoleonic Wars.
The Uses of Enchantment
By Heidi Julavits
Anchor, $13.95
A novel detailing the fallout when a 16-year-old disappears for two weeks from her prep school.
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa’s Renaissance
By Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Oxford University Press, $14.95
The veteran PBS correspondent provides a fresh and optimistic look at modern Africa.
At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches
By Susan Sontag, edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump
Picador, $15
Sixteen works by Susan Sontag, with a foreword by her son, David Rieff.
Travels in the Scriptorium
By Paul Auster
Picador, $12
A novel about a man who wakes up in a locked chamber and must figure out how he got there.
The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
By Jeffrey Rosen
Holt, $15
An examination of the Supreme Court, focusing on four significant rivalries that have resulted in changes to the law over time.
Nicole Kidman
By David Thomson
Vintage, $15.95
A portrait of the actress and her rise to fame.
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
By Jacqueline L. Tobin and Hettie Jones
Anchor, $14
Describes support and communication networks for fugitive slaves and the risk they took for freedom to find new lives in Canada in the 19th Century.
Him, Her, Him Again, The End of Him
By Patricia Marx
Scribner, $14
A novel about a woman who lusts after her graduate-school boyfriend, years after he has moved on.
Boeing Versus Airbus
By John Newhouse
Vintage, $14.95
The fight for supremacy between two aircraftmaking giants.
The Barbarous Coast
By Ross MacDonald
Vintage Crime, $12.95
Part of the Lew Archer detective series, this novel centers on a beautiful woman’s disappearance in Malibu.
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
By Deborah Rodriguez
Random House, $14.95
A woman sets out to empower Afghan women through cosmetology, learning much about herself in the process.
Charity Girl
By Michael Lowenthal
Mariner, $13.95
A novel about a young girl who breaks out on her own during World War I, only to be quarantined for having a venereal disease.
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family By Martha Raddatz
Berkley, $15
The ABC News chief White House correspondent paints a first-hand picture of the war in Iraq.
Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics
By David Berlinski
Modern Library, $14
Focuses on the 10 most significant mathematical innovations.
