The author known as Trevanian, who is ill, offers what could be his last book, the autobiographical novel “The Crazyladies of Pearl Street,” while John Glusman tells the story of his father and three other Navy doctors who were captured by the Japanese during World War II. Ward Just’s Pulitzer-finalist novel, “An Unfinished Season,” is out in paperback.
FICTION
“The Crazyladies of Pearl Street,” by Trevanian, Crown, 367 pages, $24.95|The secretive author (Trevanian is a pseudonym) of such blockbusters as “The Eiger Sanction” and “Shibumi” offers an autobiographical novel set in Albany, N.Y., during the Great Depression.
“Rococo,” by Adriana Trigiani, Random House, 272 pages, $24.95|Trigiani (the “Big Stone Gap” trilogy) follows the life of a small-town interior decorator who decides to renovate a local church on the Jersey shore.
“Sex, Murder and a Double Latte,” by Kyra Davis, Red Dress Ink, 298 pages, $17.95 |In a chick-lit debut, mystery writer Sophie Katz, who’s half black and half Jewish, hits the dumps when she learns of the suspicious death of the man who planned to film her latest novel.
NONFICTION
“Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941-1945,” by John Glusman, Viking, 608 pages, $29.95|Glusman tells the story of his father and three other Navy doctors captured by the Japanese on Corregidor.
“Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy,” by Ann Blackman, Random House, 377 pages, $25.95|Here is the story of a Washington, D.C., socialite who used her position and cunning to gain access to Northern generals to spy for the South.
“Extremes: Surviving the World’s Harshest Environments,” by Nick Middleton, St. Martin’s, 260 pages, $24.95|
The author follows his “Going to Extremes” with even harsher locales. Middleton’s good-humored attitude makes his often treacherous explorations seem fun.
PAPERBACKS
“An Unfinished Season,” by Ward Just, Mariner, 251 pages, $13|Wilson Ravan, son of a printing magnate, spends his days with working-class reporters and his nights at high-society bashes.
“Holy Fools,” by Joanne Harris, Perennial, 355 pages, $13.95|Juliette is forced to take refuge in an abbey, where she makes a new life for herself and her daughter.
“Dark Voyage,” by Alan Furst, Random House, 256 pages, $13.95|A Dutch sea captain is forced to take his tramp steamer on several harrowing voyages during World War II.
COMING UP
“Anansi Boys,” by Neil Gaiman, Morrow, 432 pages, $26.95, September |Gaiman returns to his “American Gods” territory with a story of “Fat Charlie” and the mysterious brother he didn’t know he had.
“Adored,” by Tilly Bagshawe, Warner, 560 pages, $23.95, July|A debut novel featuring the glamour of Hollywood as Siena McMahon rises on a path to stardom.
“My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Sixties,” by John H. Richardson, HarperCollins, 256 pages, $24.95, August|The author tells the story of his father, a fighter with the CIA during the Cold War, and his relationship with his ’60s-era children.
