Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price
By Jonathan Cohn
HarperPerennial, $14.95
A riveting, often petrifying account of what’s going on with the withering health-care system in the U.S.
It’s a Jungle Up There
By Margaret D. Lowman
Yale University Press, $18
An account by a single mom who lived a life of scientific exploration in the tropical rain forests with her two sons.
Rant
By Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, $13.95
A novel set in the future and told as an oral biography of a bad-boy misfit.
Last Chance in Texas
By John Hubner
Random House, $16
Examines the United States’ most intense treatment program for violent teenagers.
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
By Laurie Viera Rigler
Plume, $14
An Austen-rich fantasy ensues when a woman having a personal crisis finds herself stuck in Regency England in the 19th Century.
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family
By Alexander Waugh
Broadway, $14.95
The memoir of a literary family and the many generations of eccentric father-son dynamics.
The Buffalo Creek Disaster
By Gerald M. Stern
Vintage, $11.95
The true tale of forcing coal companies to take responsibility for a 1972 flood that claimed the lives of 125 West Virginians.
Ike
By Michael Korda
HarperPerennial, $17.95
This expansive account details Dwight Eisenhower’s deep, first-hand experience of his country and the world he brought to his appointment as supreme Allied commander and, later, to the presidency.
The Big Girls
By Susanna Moore
Vintage, $14.95
Set in a women’s prison, this novel is a tale of love and pain, intimacy and betrayal.
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
By Juliet Nicolson
Grove, $15
A charming bit of social history about how the rich enjoyed themselves in summer 1911.
The Pesthouse
By Jim Crace
Vintage, $13.95
A novel set in the future that navigates the ruins of an unrecognizable America.
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
By Georgina Howell
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $15
This biography explores the life of an adventurer who broke the mold of the Victorian-era woman.
Writing Motherhood
By Lisa Garrigues
Scribner, $15
A writing teacher intertwines her own personal stories with those inspired by other mothers.
The Great Man
By Kate Christensen
Anchor, $14.95
A shrewd novel of art and love and the inequities between men and women.
FDR
By Jean Edward Smith
Random House, $20
Investigates how an aristocratic son of great inheritance became the voice of the nation’s common man.
To the Castle and Back
By Vaclav Havel
Vintage, $15.95
The former Czechoslovakian president reflects on his years as a leader.
Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
By Liza Mundy
Anchor, $15.95
A look at the complex world of making babies the hard way — through assisted reproduction.
