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We Were Eight Years In Power An American Tragedy By Ta-Nehisi Coates One World. 400p $28 Church, Faith, Future What We Face, What We Can Do By Louis J. Cameli [...]

FAITH & JOY MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST By Fr. Fernando Cardenal, SJ Published by Orbis Books, 254 pages, $29 Instead of cozying up to the rich and powerful, Nicaraguan [...]

Byline: Diane Scharper David Ferry's latest poems look at the tantalizing possibility of life after death and the existence of God. But it's a God that the poet doesn't know [...]

Pity the Beautiful: Poems, by Dana Gioia (Graywolf, 68 pp., $15) Angels--at least according to Hollywood--are handsome, shining, and strong. But the angel in Dana Gioia's new book of poems [...]

Byline: Diane Scharper Compass Rose by John Casey Knopf, 368 pp., $27.95 A woman living in an insular New England town conceives a child out of wedlock. Knowing that the [...]

Byline: Diane Scharper Unless It Moves the Human Heart The Craft and Art of Writing by Roger Rosenblatt Ecco, 176 pp., $13.99 Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French editor of Elle, suffered [...]

Byline: Diane Scharper Cleopatra A Biography by Duane W. Roller Oxford, 272 pp., $24.95 Cleopatra opted for suicide rather than submit to public humiliation at the hands of the Roman [...]

IN THE COUNTRY By Mia Alvar Knopf. 368p $25.95 Mia Alvar was born in the Philippines, spent her early childhood in Bahrain and grew up in New York where she [...]

SUCH GOOD GIRLS: THE JOURNEY OF THE HOLOCAUST'S HIDDEN CHILD SURVIVORS By R.D. Rosen Published by Harper, $25.99 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] R.D. Rosen's compelling new book begins when Selma is 5. [...]

Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg Hyperion, 401 pp., $24.95 In the 1950s public psychiatric hospitals housed nearly half-a-million patients. By 1980 the number had dropped by 80 percent. Several things [...]

Attachment by Isabel Fonseca Knopf, 320 pp., $23.95 Isabel Fonseca's first novel begins with a bang as health columnist Jean Hubbard opens a pornographic letter addressed to her husband, Mark. [...]

Our Story Begins New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff Knopf, 400 pp., $26.95 'The best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to [...]

MULOSZ, A BIOGRAPHY By Andrzej Franaszek Published by Harvard University Press, 526 pages, $35 Czeslaw Milosz did not consider himself to be a Catholic poet. But in his later years, [...]

The novel There Your Heart Lies follows Marian Taylor's attempts to come to grips with her brother's suicide. She holds the Catholic Church responsible, blaming it for her father's decision [...]

THE HOME THAT WAS OUR COUNTRY: A MEMOIR OF SYRIA By Alia Malek Published by Nation Books. 354 pages, $27.99 Since the Arab Spring, more than 11 million Syrians have [...]

THE HUNDRED YEAR WALK: AN ARHENIAN ODYSSEY By Dawn Anahid MacKeen Published by Mariner Books, 368 pages, $15.95 One and one half-million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed [...]

THE MOTH SNOWSTORM: NATURE AND JOY By Michael McCarthy Published by New York Review Books, 272 pages, $27.95 After his mother's nervous breakdown and hospitalization, Michael McCarthy shut himself off [...]

Seizure by Erica Wagner W.W. Norton, 224 pp., $23.95 Janet Ward learns that her mother, who died three weeks ago, left her a beach house on a remote British coast. [...]

Toussaint Louverture A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell Pantheon Books, 352 pp., $27 Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, declared himself commander in chief of the French army in Saint Domingue [...]

How to Read a Novel A User's Guide by John Sutherland St. Martin's, 272 pp., $21.95 On meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Abraham Lincoln commented [...]

LIVING WITH A DEAD LANGUAGE: MY ROMANCE WITH LATIN By Ann Patty Published by Viking, 256 pages, $25 Ann Patty was 58 years old when she lost her job. As [...]

Modigliani A Life by Jeffery Meyers Harcourt, 288 pp., $27 After a night of drunken revelry, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was awakened by someone pulling his sleeve. When he opened his [...]

The Gift of Valor A War Story by Michael M. Phillips Broadway, 192 pp., $19.95 SERGEANT HENDRICKS HAD A BAD feeling about the convoy. Not because of the operation itself--it [...]

THE NOISE OF INFINITE LONGING A Memoir of a Family -- and an Island. By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa. Rayo/HarperCollins, $24.95. In 1994, Luisita Lopez Torregrosa and her family met to [...]

WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED A Memoir. By E. Lynn Harris. Doubleday, $22.95. The first chapters of the novelist E. Lynn Harris's memoir begin with a suicide attempt in 1990, [...]

SCOUT'S HONOR A Father's Unlikely Foray Into the Woods. By Peter Applebome. Harcourt, $24. In 1999, Peter Applebome and his son, Ben, joined Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts in [...]

St. Francis of Assisi loved animals and seemed to have a special affinity for larks. But there's no record of his preaching to the birds. Ditto the story of Francis [...]

AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED By Khaled Hosseini Riverhead Books. 416p $28.95 Khaled Hosseini is a bestselling author whose novels focus on Afghanistan's political, religious, social and cultural upheaval. If his [...]

THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN GEORGIA, A LEGACY OF SECRETS, AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH By Karen Branan Published by Atria Books, 304 pages, $26 At the end [...]

DIMESTORE: A WRITER'S LIFE By Lee Smith Published by Algonquin Books, 224 pages, $24.95 Before Lee Smith became a writer, she was an avid reader, encouraged by her mother, who [...]

THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS: ESSAYS By Marilynne Robinson Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pages, $26 GIRL IN GLASS: HOW MY 'DISTRESSED BABY' DEFIED THE ODDS, SHAMED A CEO, [...]

A HOUSE OF MY OWN: STORIES FROM MY LIFE By Sandra Cisneros Published by Knopf, $28.95 Her first novel, The House on Mango Street, with its rhythmic and evocative blend [...]

AUGUSTINE: CONVERSIONS TO CONFESSIONS By Robin Lane Fox Published by Basic Books, $35 Augustine: Conversions to Confessions may be informative to the nth degree, but it's not dense. Robin Lane [...]

THE TASTE OF SILENCE: HOW I CAME TO BE AT HOME WITH MYSELF By Bieke Vandekerckhove Published by Liturgical Press, $17.95 I LEFT IT ON THE MOUNTAIN: A MEMOIR By [...]

ALL THAT IS By James Salter Knopf. 304p $26.95 Is that it? Phil Bowman mulls over this unspoken question in All That Is, James Salter's first full-length novel in 30-some [...]

THE TESTAMENT OF MARY By Colm Toibin Scribner. 96p $19.99 Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary tells an intriguing, though not always convincing story. Its main character, and to an [...]

* The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2012. c.224p, ed. by Don Share & Christian Wiman. ISBN 9780226750705. $20. POETRY [...]

THE SUBMISSION By Amy Waldman Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 299p $26; $15 Paperback Charged with selecting a memorial for the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. [...]

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING A Novel By Julian Barnes Knopf. 176p $23.95 Winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious fiction award, The Sense of an Ending, [...]

'Those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the church by an almost four to one margin.' That's just one of the many gloomy statistics cited by Tom [...]

Armitage, Simon. Seeing Stars: Poems. Knopf. Aug. 2011. c.96p. ISBN 9780307594839. $25. POETRY British poet Armitage (Forward Prize winner) sets up an absurd situation then tells a story about it. [...]