House of Daughters
By Sarah-Kate Lynch
Plume, $14
Scandal and rivalry mark this novel as three estranged sisters are brought together in the French countryside after their father dies.
Mozart’s Sister
By Rita Charbonnier
Three Rivers, $13.95
Historical fiction focusing on the talented pianist who remained in the shadow of her brother.
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
By Linda Perlstein
Holt, $16
This examination of the devastating effects of school reform measures the aim to judge schools solely on test scores.
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes
By Tess Uriza Holthe
Three Rivers, $13
Linked short stories centering on the train between northern Italy and the French Riviera, and all that happens in between.
Bachelor Degree
By Judith Marks-White
Ballatine, $14
A wealthy, meddling Manhattan mother sets out to find a husband for her almost-40 daughter, who is itching to escape her mother’s clutches.
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
By Noga Arikha
HarperPerennial, $14.95
The history of the medical theory that the four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile — are the basis for how our minds and bodies work.
The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
By Matt Bai
Penguin, $16
Looks at the remaking of the Democratic Party.
End Games
By Michael Dubdin
Vintage Crime, $13.95
The final work of the 11-volume Aurelio Zen crime series by the late English author.
Red Rover
By Deirdre McNamer
Penguin, $14
This novel begins with two Montana brothers before World War II and follows the postwar life of one and the mysterious death of the other.
Q & A
By Vikas Swarup
Scribner, $15
A debut novel about a young, uneducated man arrested for cheating after he correctly answers all 12 questions on the quiz show “Who Will Win a Billion?”
The Price of Privilege
By Madeline Levine
Harper, $13.95
Argues that extreme materialism and parental pressure to achieve are creating a generation of unhappy young adults.
The Night Villa
By Carol Goodman
Ballatine, $14
A novel following the lives of two women — one now, the other centuries past — on the island of Capri.
A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $12
The memoirs of a boy soldier during the 1990s civil war in Sierra Leone.
The Passion of Tasha Darsky
By Yael Goldstein Love
Broadway, $12.95
A debut novel about a talented violinist’s life, her daughter’s skill as a composer and how their relationship is affected by the world of competitive classical music.
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social
Catastrophe
By Robert Gellately
Vintage, $18.95
A look at the dominant powers during the first half of the 20th Century.
The Matchmaker of Perigord
By Julia Stuart
Harper, $13.95
The former barber of a tiny town in rural France becomes a not-so-accomplished matchmaker in this quirky novel.
