The Secret of Lost Things
By Sheridan Hay
Anchor, $14.95
A novel about a New York City bookstore filled with erudite eccentrics who become involved in the hunt for a lost manuscript by Herman Melville.
The Mountains of California
By John Muir
Penguin, $13
The pioneering preservationist’s celebration of the Sierra Nevada.
The Visible World
By Mark Slouka
Mariner, $13.95
In this novel, the grown son of Czech immigrants tries to uncover the mystery of his mother’s first love.
The End of an Error
By Mameve Medwed
Avon, $13.95
A novel in which a woman questions the choices she made in her life and must figure out if it’s worth the risk to pursue what might have been.
Out Stealing Horses
By Per Petterson, translated from Norwegian by Anne Born
Picador, $14
Past and present mingle in this novel about a 67-year-old Norwegian man who moves from the city to a remote cabin.
Then She Found Me
By Elinor Lipman
Washington Square, $14
In this novel, a 36-year-old woman is reluctantly discovered by the mother who put her up for adoption.
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic, $15.95
The former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter assesses how Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush steered the U.S. to a position of international dominance after the Cold War.
Bird of Another Heaven
By James D. Houston
Anchor, $14.95
This novel focuses on Hawaiian history and culture, and a San Francisco man’s path to truth.
Ten Days in the Hills
By Jane Smiley
Anchor, $14.95
Sex is the major theme in this smoldering novel about the shallow, sheltered lives of Hollywood liberals.
The Long Exile
By Melanie McGrath
Vintage, $13.95
Follows three generations of an Inuit family that was among those forcibly relocated from their home on Hudson Bay by the Canadian government in 1932.
All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone
By Myra MacPherson
Scribner, $20
Recounts the journalistic and political journeys of 20th Century iconoclast I.F. “Izzy” Stone, who had a passion for exposing government lies.
Forgery
By Sabina Murray
Grove, $13
In this novel, an antiques-hunting art dealer finds more than he bargained for in Greece.
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
By Michael Lewis
Norton, $11.95
The “Moneyball” author remembers the sports and life lessons from his teenage baseball coach and tries to measure up in adulthood.
Edith Wharton
By Hermione Lee
Vintage, $18.95
A biography of the author of such works as “The House of Mirth,” “Ethan Frome” and “The Age of Innocence.”
FireWife
By Tinling Choong
Anchor, $13.95
In this novel, a photographer spends five months photographing women from around the world and learns much about herself, fate and sexuality.
Dog Years
By Mark Doty
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A memoir about the author’s adoption of a shelter dog as a companion for his dying partner.
