Daughter of Destiny
By Benazir Bhutto
HarperPerennial, $15.95
This 1988 autobiography of the Pakistani political leader assassinated in December 2007 includes a new epilogue.
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
By Don Robertson
Harper, $12.95
This 1965 novel tells the story of a 9-year-old boy’s trek across Cleveland to visit a friend.
Leonard Woolf
By Victoria Glendinning
Counterpoint, $16.95
A biography of the publisher, author and husband of writer Virginia Woolf.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
By Michael Chabon
HarperPerennial, $15.95
An alternate history/mystery about a Jewish homeland in Alaska.
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence
By Martin Gayford
Mariner, $14.95
This biography brings to life the daily drama of the Studio of the South.
The New Yorkers
By Cathleen Schine
Picador, $14
Five lonely New Yorkers connect through their dogs in this novel of love and human interaction.
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
By Nancy Isenberg
Penguin, $17
A look at the much-maligned Aaron Burr that might make you think twice about America’s most-notorious founder.
The Archivist’s Story
By Travis Holland
Dial, $13
In this novel, an archivist is sent to a Moscow prison in 1939 to authenticate that a story is by Isaac Babel so it can then be destroyed.
Freud’s Wizard
By Brenda Maddox
Da Capo, $18.95
The biographer’s latest subject is Freud’s close colleague Ernest Jones and their intriguing world of psychoanalysis.
Mr. Darwin’s Shooter
By Roger McDonald
Grove, $14
The naturalist’s servant tells all in this imagined novel.
The Master Bedroom
By Tessa Hadley
Picador, $14
A woman is courting a father and son in this novel of emotion, drama and passion.
Frank Lloyd Wright
By Ada Louise Huxtable
Penguin, $14
A Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic explores the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Five Skies
By Ron Carlson
Penguin, $14
The three emotionally wrecked men in this novel work together on a construction project in remote Idaho.
Strawberry Fields
By Marina Lewycka
Penguin, $14
In this novel, migrant workers are kicked off their strawberry fields in England, trudging across the country in search of employment.
The Septembers of Shiraz
By Dalia Sofer
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A family is splintered following the Iranian revolution in this debut novel by a woman who fled Iran in 1982, when she was 10.
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
By Trenton Lee Stewart
Little, Brown, $6.99
In this book for youngsters, four children, each with a different gift, make it through a daylong set of puzzling experiences to discover they are a team chosen for a crucial but mysterious mission.
The Blood of Flowers
By Anita Amirrezvani
Back Bay, $13.99
A novel about a young woman living in 17th Century Persia who struggles when she is left without a dowry after her father dies.
