The Last Empress
By Anchee Min
Mariner, $13.95
Historical fiction about the woman who tried to balance the needs of her country against the traditions of her court during China’s Ch’ing Dynasty.
Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
By Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.
Back Bay, $15.99
The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters examine the former first lady and current presidential candidate.
The Lizard Cage
By Karen Connelly
Spiegel & Grau, $14
A novel of friendship, bravery and political oppression that chronicles the relationship between a Burmese prisoner and a young boy.
When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race
By Judith Stone
Hyperion, $14.95
The author tells of her upbringing in South Africa and struggles with her racial identity as a child born with brown skin to white parents.
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
By Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, $17
A memoir and two novels by the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The Lost Life of Eva Braun By Angela Lambert
St. Martin’s, $17.95
A biography of Adolf Hitler’s mistress.
A Good and Happy Child
By Justin Evans
Three Rivers, $13.95
Part psychological thriller and part horror story, this novel is about a troubled boy who might be possessed.
After Dark
By Haruki Murakami
Vintage, $13.95
Several lonely people make their way through a long, strange Tokyo night.
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
By Tennessee Williams
New Directions, $17.95
Twelve experimental and uncollected plays tackling themes of love, loneliness, violation and survival.
A Handbook to Luck
By Cristina Garcia
Vintage, $13.95
A moving and hopeful novel in which three people from different ends of the Earth are linked.
Pearl Harbor
By Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
Thomas Dunne, $15.95
A novel that looks at the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Hawaii before the U.S. entered World War II.
You Don’t Love Me Yet
By Jonathan Lethem
Vintage, $13.95
An amusing novel of art, music and life.
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
By Ann Hagedorn
Simon & Schuster, $17
A look at how the events of one tumultuous year in American politics shaped the country.
To My Dearest Friends
By Patricia Volk
Vintage, $13.95
A novel about two strangers brought together by the request of their dead friend that they open her safe-deposit box together.
Still Life With Husband
By Lauren Fox
Vintage, $13.95
In this debut novel, everyone is waiting for Emily to start a family with her boring but loving husband, yet she spends nights exchanging e-mails with a handsome man she met at a coffee shop who doesn’t know she’s married.
If I Am Missing or Dead
By Janine Latus
Simon & Schuster, $15
The author explores her abusive marriage and the murder of her younger sister by an ex-lover.
The Mona Lisa Stratagem: The Art of Women, Age, and Power
By Harriet Rubin
Grand Central, $12.99
A self-help book for older women that uses famous historical females as examples of how to succeed.
