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Fiction
Bangkok Haunts - John Burdett (Knopf). A Buddhist police detective is shown a video of the death of a woman he once loved.
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard (HarperCollins). An idyllic marriage begins on lovely Cape Cod, and even after the poet husband leaves his wife for another woman, the couple's relationship continues.
Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich (St. Martin). The popular series hits an unlucky number.
Second Chance - Jane Green (Viking). The death of a friend alters the lives of four men and women.
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (Doubleday). This short novel focuses on the misunderstandings and resentments of a young couple, who marry in 1962 England.
Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje (Knopf). By the author of "The English Patient." A California farmer and his daughters get help from an enigmatic man.
Worshipping Small Gods - Richard Parks (Prime). In his second short-story fantasy collection, Parks blends wry wit and profound insight with myths and folklore from around the globe.
Peony in Love - Lisa See (Random House). The author brings another twist to marriage with a novel set in 17th-century China. Three women obsessed with an opera that causes death are sequentially married to the same man.
Stalin's Ghost - Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster). More than 25 years after "Gorky Park," Arkady Renko returns to a Moscow that is bursting with wealth and corruption and is strangely nostalgic for Joseph Stalin.
Throw Like a Girl - Jean Thompson (Simon & Schuster). The author tells stories about girls navigating adolescence and women tackling marriage, children, illness.
The Assassin's Song - M.G. Vassanji (Knopf). A young man in a village in western India gives up his successorship as caretaker of a 13th-century Sufi shrine to pursue an ordinary life in the West.
The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins (Simon & Schuster). Based on the life of Edward S. Curtis, who photographed American Indians, this novel is told by a character named Marianne Wiggins.
Nonfiction
A Rush to Injustice - Nader Baydoun and R. Stephanie Good (Thomas Nelson). This is the first book out on the headline-grabbing Duke University case against three lacrosse players, who have to reclaim their lives after being wrongly charged with rape.
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