“A Far Country,” by Daniel Mason, who follows his widely praised “The Piano Tuner,” features a young girl in a Third World country who is sent to the city only to find it is far from paradise. In nonfiction, look for “In an Instant,” the story of the courtship and marriage of ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and his wife, Lee, including the year it has taken him to recover from a head wound while embedded with troops in Iraq. In paperbacks, look for Elizabeth Strout’s “Abide With Me,” the story of a minister struggling with his faith. And, coming in July, Howard Frank Mosher’s “On Kingdom Mountain,” tells the story of an eccentric woman living alone on a mountain whose life is disrupted by a planned highway through her land.
FICTION
A Far Country, by Daniel Mason, Knopf, 268 pages, $24 | The author of “The Piano Tuner” returns with a tale of a 14-year-old girl who tries to escape her hard life in the country by moving to the city.
Nerve Damage, by Peter Abrahams, William Morrow, 304 pages, $24.95 | A man who has been given only four months to live desperately searches for clues to his wife’s death.
NONFICTION
In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, by Lee and Bob Woodruff, Random House, 288 pages, $25.95 | Lee, a PR executive, and Bob Woodruff, who had just been named ABC news anchor when he was nearly killed by enemy fire in Iraq, recount their lives.
Letters From Legends and the Incredible Interviews That Inspired Them, by Marian Christy, New River Press, 256 pages, $18.95 | Here are previously unpublished letters from notable people in show business, government and the media, all based on interviews with the author. Included are the likes of Richard Nixon, Jerry Lewis and Tom Brokaw.
PAPERBACKS
Abide With Me, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House, 294 pages, $13.95 | The author of “Amy and Isabelle” returns with the story of a minister struggling to reconnect with his faith after suffering a terrible loss.
Zodiac, by Robert Graysmith, Penguin, 400 pages, $7.99 | The so-called Zodiac killer is known to have killed at least six people in the early 1970s in San Francisco. He’s never been caught. The author has been following the case closely all these years.
COMING UP
On Kingdom Mountain, by Howard Frank Mosher, Houghton Mifflin, 288 pages, $24, July | Eccentric Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson lives alone on a mountain along the Canadian border. Her life is turned upside down when a highway is proposed that would run through her land.
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, by Frederick Taylor, HarperCollins, 512 pages, $27.95, June | Taylor describes how the people of East Berlin awoke one day to find themselves divided from the rest of Berlin by a 103-mile-long wall.
