National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman returns with a new novel, “Intuition.” In nonfiction, look for “Three Cups of Tea,” by Greg Mortenson. Thomas De Zengotita looks at the media, all of them, in his paperback release of “Mediated.” Coming in April, look for the novel, “Elements of Style,” by the late Wendy Wasserstein.
FICTION
Intuition, by Allegra Goodman, Dial, 344 pages, $25 |The author of the acclaimed “Kaaterskill Falls” returns with a story set in a cancer laboratory and centering on freedom and responsibilities associated with medical research.
Lost, by Michael Robotham, Doubleday, 341 pages, $24.95|A London homicide detective wakes up in a hospital bed with a bullet wound in his leg and a case of amnesia.
The Woman Who Waited, by Andrei Makine and translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Arcade, 182 pages, $24|In a remote Russian village a woman has been waiting for three decades for her lover to return. He swore when he joined the Russian army that he would come back and marry her.
NONFICTION
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations … One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Viking, 352 pages, $25.95|After a failed attempt to climb K2, Mortenson was nursed back to health in Pakistan. He vowed to build his saviors a school. Twelve years later, his institute has built 55 schools.
America’s Coming War With China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan, by Ted Galen Carpenter, Palgrave, 216 pages, $26.95|The author argues that Taiwan’s growing desire for independence from China and the U.S. support of those aims puts us at odds with China and shows how that conflict could be avoided.
Chasin’ the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker, by Brian Priestley, Oxford University Press, 264 pages, $28|While the author touches on the jazz great’s troubled personal life, the focus here is mostly on his music.
PAPERBACKS
Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, by Thomas De Zengotita, Bloomsbury, 291 pages, $14.95|The author posits that the media have taken over the minds of millions of Americans and that everything we do and think and how we view the world is proscribed by the media.
A Lotus Grows in the Mud, by Goldie Hawn, Penguin, 464 pages, $15|Not a Hollywood tell-all, the author instead tells us about her life from “ugly duckling” childhood, her sudden rise to fame on TV’s “Laugh-In” and through her film career.
We Are All Fine Here, by Mary Guterson, Penguin, 208 pages, $13|In this first novel, the author answers the age-old question of whatever happened to the one who got away. It’s a sarcastic tale of unhappily marrieds in suburbia.
COMING UP
Elements of Style, by Wendy Wasserstein, Random House, 320, $23.95, April|This novel, by the Pulitzer-winning playwright who died Jan. 30 at age 55, is the smart and satiric story about New Yorkers after 9/11 who are the new urban gentry.
A Writer’s Life, by Gay Talese, Knopf, 400 pages, $26, April|Gay Talese has covered the waterfront as a journalist, including the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution. He talks about all this and more in this autobiography.
The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass, Pantheon, 512 pages, $25.95, June|The author of “Three Junes” comes back to us with a tale of a New York pastry chef’s trip out West and of a troubled marriage and about the accidents of life that determine who we are.
