We Disappear
By Scott Heim
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A woman is haunted by the murder of a teenage boy and sets out on a disturbing personal journey.
Lost Men
By Brian Leung
Three Rivers, $13
In this novel, an estranged father and son travel to China together after 20 years of separation.
Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe
Anchor, $10.95
This 50th anniversary edition novel tells two stories surrounding a tribal man of Nigeria.
A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting
By Sam Sheridan
Grove, $14
A first-person survey of near-naked humans’ capacity to do harm and the meaning behind it.
Forgive Me
By Amanda Eyre Ward
Ballatine, $13
A journalist returns to South Africa to cover a murder trial, sparking painful memories in this novel of forgiveness and redemption.
Peony in Love
By Lisa See
Random House, $14
An enchanting ghost story from the author of “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.”
The Unknown Terrorist
By Richard Flanagan
Grove, $14
A novel about a pole dancer in Australia who becomes entangled in a terrorist scheme after she meets an Arab man on the beach.
Mellon: An American Life
By David Cannadine
Vintage, $19.95
A biography of economic titan Andrew Mellon, who became U.S. treasury secretary during the Depression.
Grand Avenues
By Scott W. Berg
Vintage, $15.95
Tells the role of Pierre Charles L’ Enfant in the design of Washington, D.C., and the city’s significance to urban history.
The Anansi Reader: Forty Years of Very Good Books
Edited by Lynn Coady
Anansi, $19.95
Excerpts from the most influential entries of the last 40 years from this Canadian press.
The Fiction Class
By Susan Breen
Plume, $14
A novel about an author who teachers her ailing mother how to write and learns much in the process.
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
By David Lindley
Anchor, $14.95
Illuminates the major players and a groundbreaking principle in modern physics.
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
By Thomas McNamee
Penguin, $15
The woman behind the restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., that became renowned for its reinvention of American cooking.
Luncheon of the Boating Party
By Susan Vreeland
Penguin, $15
A novel imagining the production of a single Impressionist painting through seven points of view, including that of the painter, Auguste Renoir.
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
By Sheila Kohler
Berkley, $15
This novel follows an 18th Century French aristocrat as she seeks a new life on an American farm.
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
By Joan Acocella
Vintage, $15.95
A compilation of essays discussing the likes of Saul Bellow, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mary Magdalene.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
By Scott Rosenberg
Three Rivers, $13.95
Details the problems software can cause.
