Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
By Raja Shehadeh
Scribner, $15
After almost 30 years of hill walking, this writer describes his love for the Palestinian countryside.
Summer Reading
By Hilma Wolitzer
Ballatine, $14
A comedy of manners about three women in a book club in New York’s Hamptons who identify with their female literary heroes.
The Diana Chronicles
By Tina Brown
Broadway, $15.95
A biography of the late Princess Diana, by the former New Yorker and Talk editor.
Mister Pip
By Lloyd Jones
Dial, $12
This novel follows a young New Guinea girl who reacts passionately to the main character from “Great Expectations” and explores the story’s parallels to her life.
Spook Country
By William Gibson
Berkley, $15
A thriller about a journalist assigned to do a story about a new virtual-reality art form.
The Office of Desire
By Martha Moody
Riverhead, $14
A novel that details several entangled interoffice relationships in a small Ohio medical practice.
Forever on the Mountain
By James M. Tabor
Norton, $15.95
A look at the doomed 1967 expedition to scale Alaska’s Mt. McKinley.
Flower Children
By Maxine Swann
Riverhead, $14
In this novel, the children of a hippie family in rural Pennsylvania take turns telling their stories.
Stone Creek
By Victoria Lustbader
Harper, $13.95
A novel about two lonely people’s search for love amid conditions of loss and hopelessness.
Gather Together in My Name
By Tracy Price-Thompson
Atria, $14
This novel of love and loyalty tracks an impoverished young man accused of a vicious murder and on the path to execution.
Why People Get Sick: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
By Darian Leader and David Corfield
Pegasus, $16.95
A look at the unconscious relationship between our mental and physical reactions and how they factor into illness.
Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America
By Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel
PublicAffairs, $14.95
A proposal for fixing America’s inefficient, expensive health-care system.
Letters From Point Clear
By Dennis McFarland
Picador, $14
Family drama and psychological crises characterize this novel of dysfunction.
Rules for Saying Goodbye
By Katherine Taylor
Picador, $14
This coming-of-age novel follows a savvy girl sent away as a teen from California to a Manhattan prep school.
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
By Vincent Bugliosi
Norton, $17.95
A reconstruction of the events leading up to and surrounding John Kennedy’s assassination, with a conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole killer.
Peach Blossom Pavilion
By Mingmei Yip
Kensington, $14
In this novel, a Chinese teenager is sent to live in an elite brothel, where she is surprisingly successful and from which she hopes to escape.
The Shadow Catcher
By Marianne Wiggins
Simon & Schuster, $15
A novel about photographer Edward S. Curtis, who spent decades making pictures of American Indians.
