The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Penguin, $14
Recounts the tragic and heroic story of the mandated 800-mile march in the 1830s to what is now Oklahoma, which cost more than 4,000 Cherokee lives.
Anne of Green Gables
By L.M. Montgomery
Modern Library Classics, $8
This edition of the classic novel includes an introduction by Jack Zipes.
The Bestiary
By Nicholas Christopher
Dial, $14
This novel follows a quest for an 800-year-old medieval text believed to describe animals not granted access to Noah’s Ark.
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
By J.M. Coetzee
Penguin, $16
The Nobel Prize-winning author critiques the work of some of the 20th Century’s best writers.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
By Lucy Moore
HarperPerennial, $16.95
Chronicles the stories of the crucial female figures of the French Revolution.
In the Woods
By Tana French
Penguin, $14
In this novel, the murder of a child outside Dublin deeply troubles a detective who, 20 years earlier, survived the mysterious killing of his two childhood friends in the same woods.
China Ghosts: My Daughter’s Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
By Jeff Gammage
HarperPerennial, $14.95
This journalist’s emotional memoir details his family’s experience adopting from China.
The Wild Places
By Robert MacFarlane
Penguin, $15
A celebration of the author’s journeys across England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in search of the epitome of wildness.
The Poisoning of an American High School
By Joy Horowitz
Penguin, $16
A journalist’s account of a cancer cluster at Beverly Hills High School.
Haters
By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Little, Brown, $7.99
A teen novel that follows a young Hispanic girl’s adventures after moving from Taos, N.M., to a cliquey high school in Orange County, Calif.
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
By Edward J. Larson
Free Press, $15
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s research recounts the pivotal 1800 presidential election and its aftermath.
Stormy Weather
By Paulette Jiles
HarperPerennial, $13.95
A novel chronicling one family’s struggle during the Great Depression, especially after the loss of their patriarch.
Georges
By Alexandre Dumas
Modern Library Classics, $15
This novel, originally published in the 1840s and now with a new introduction, explores race relations of its time.
Walk the Blue Fields
By Claire Keegan
Black Cat, $13
A collection of short stories surrounding modern-day Ireland’s struggles with the human experience.
The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World
By Betsy Block
Algonquin, $14.95
A mother’s adventures in feeding her children more healthful foods, including creative tips and tricks.
The Lemur
By Benjamin Black
Picador, $13
A thriller about one man’s family secrets, as the setting alternates between Ireland in the 1950s and present-day New York.
