HITTING THE SHELVES
“Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell is back with the story of another group of powerful big-city women with “Lipstick Jungle,” while in nonfiction, look for another memoir by Tracy Kidder. In paperbacks, Cynthia Ozick’s moving “Heir to the Glimmering World is out. Also, you’ll find a new legal thriller by Michael Connelly and a different take on Abraham Lincoln by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
FICTION
“Lipstick Jungle,” by Candace Bushnell, Hyperion, 353 pages, $24.95|The author of “Sex and the City” is back with a story of a group wildly successful big-city women who are willing to do just about anything to keep their power.
“Pirate,” by Ted Bell, Atria, 514 pages, $25|In his follow to “Assassin,” Bell tells the story of an unholy alliance between China and France as the two strange bedfellows set out to conquer the world.
“The Hunt Ball,” by Rita Mae Brown, Ballantine, 310 pages, $24.95|This is the fourth in a foxhunting mystery series and centers on the murder of a fundraiser at an exclusive girls’ school.
NONFICTION
“My Detachment,” by Tracy Kidder, Random House, 192 pages, $24.95|Kidder, who wrote the best-selling “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” tells of his coming of age as an intelligence officer in Vietnam during the war.
“Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families,” by Pamela Paul, Times Books, 304 pages, $25|Paul describes how the easy availability of porn affects our daily lives, using interviews and the results of various studies.
“New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan,” by Jill Lepore, Knopf, 323 pages, $26.95|The historian recounts how fear of a slave revolt in the colony of New York in 1741 resulted in a court sentencing 30 people to death.
PAPERBACKS
“Heir to the Glimmering World,” by Cynthia Ozick, Mariner, 310 pages, $13|A character study about a young orphan girl who learns about a family’s secrets as she lives with them during the Depression.
“Cities,” by John Reader, Atlantic Monthly, 358 pages, $26 |The author shows how cities are, contrary to popular belief, preferable to rural areas as places in which to live.
“The Mayor of Lexington Avenue,” by James Sheehan, Yorkville, 420 pages, $14.95|In a small Florida town, an innocent young bi-racial man’s life is in the balance when he is accused of murder.
COMING UP
“The Lincoln Lawyer,” by Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, 404 pages, $26.95, Oct.|Long known for his mysteries, Connelly takes on the legal thriller with a tale about a lawyer who may finally have found the client that will bring him respectability. But it’s not that easy.
“Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, 928 pages, $35, Nov.|As president Lincoln brought his rivals together in the most unusual cabinet in history, while in the process winning their respect.
“The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey,” by Candice Millard, Doubleday, 416 pages, $26, Nov.|After losing the 1912 election, Roosevelt decides on a punishing challenge – the first descent of a tributary of the Amazon River.
