Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
By Vendela Vida
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A novel about a young woman’s discovery on the day of her father’s funeral.
Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America’s Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete By Kenneth Shropshire
Basic, $16.95
A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania explores the boxer’s life and the birth of a modern sports star.
My Name Is Iran
By Davar Ardalan
Holt, $15
A woman’s memoir of growing up in Iran and America, an arranged marriage and subsequent divorce, and the feminist spirit that got her through it all.
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
By Thant Myint-U
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15
A profile of the Southeast Asian country now known as Myanmar, and its history, combined with the author’s own family history.
The Welsh Girl
By Peter Ho Davies
Mariner, $13.95
A debut novel about a Welsh teenager who falls in love with a German POW during World War II.
Feather in the Storm
By Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Anchor, $14.95
Chronicles the tragic conditions surrounding Emily Wu’s childhood during the Cultural Revolution in China.
The Price of Liberty
By Robert D. Hormats
Holt, $16
Examines the financial decisions the federal government has made during wars, leading to debt and innovation.
Sixty Poems
By Charles Simic
Harcourt, $12
A collection of the U.S. poet laureate’s most coveted poems.
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
By Robert Stone
HarperPerennial, $13.95
Novelist Robert Stone takes a trip down memory lane to a time when he and writer Ken Kesey were friends.
All God’s Children
By Fox Butterfield
Vintage, $15.95
A reissue of a book that explores how a legacy of poverty and racism trapped several generations of a troubled black family in lives of violence and despair.
Hilter’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
By Gotz Aly
Holt, $18
How Adolf Hitler garnered loyalty and support from everyday Germans and improved their standard of living during World War II.
Fieldwork
By Mischa Berlinski
Picador, $14
A novel about anthropologists and missionaries clashing in the rice fields of northern Thailand.
The God Delusion
By Richard Dawkins
Mariner, $15.95
Denounces the logic of religion.
Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life
By Allen Shawn
Penguin, $15
The writer and composer’s memoir about his life filled with fear.
The Boys in the Trees
By Mary Swan
Holt, $14
In this novel, a picture-perfect family and tight-knit community deal with crime, emotion, and guilt.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
By Philip Zimbardo
Random House, $18
A social psychologist explains how humans are tempted by evil.
Ace of Spades
By David Matthews
Picador, $14
A memoir chronicling the life of a mixed-race young man.
