F I C T I O N

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Hey, Joe By Ben Neihart
A jazzy, helium-light first novel, set in New Orleans, about a 16-year-old boy's complicated coming-of-age.

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Tales of Burning Love By Louise Erdrich
The author's sequel (of sorts) to "Love Medicine," portrays an all-night storytelling session between four ex-wives of the same man.

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The Kangaroo Notebook By Kobo Abe
This surreal and playful novel by the late Nobel finalist is a fable about a man whose body begins playing strange tricks on him.

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Roustabout By Michelle Chalfoun
A first novel, related with haunting integrity, about an adolescent girl who is the only female crew member in a traveling circus.

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In the Presence of the Enemy By Elizabeth George
The author brings back her familiar cast of London-based characters for another smart, literary crime novel.

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N O N F I C T I O N

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Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home By Thomas A. Bass
A hard-headed and moving examination of what might be the most enduring legacy of the Vietnam War -- the thousands of Amerasian children born of U.S. soldiers and Vietnamese women.

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Piano Pieces By Russell Sherman
The author, a renowned classical pianist, delivers a series of sprightly, erudite essays about music, musicians and the most remarkable of instruments.

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La Moreau By Marianne Gray
A biography of Jeanne Moreau, the most enigmatic, intuitive and simply beautiful actress to have emerged from French cinema.

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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
By Nicholson Baker
In these essays, the author of "Vox" and "The Fermata" trains his hyper-observant eye on such subjects as model airplanes and library card-catalogues.

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Joe Gould's Secret By Joseph Mitchell
One of the long-time New Yorker contributor's best books -- a pair of wry and earthy essays about a famous Greenwich Village writer and rogue, reissued by the Modern Library.

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