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Malcolm MacPherson's new novel is Hocus POTUS, a political farce about the shenanigans of White House loyalists in Baghdad's Green Zone, written from the point of view of an American journalist stationed there. MacPherson himself served in Iraq as foreign correspondent for Time and Newsweek.

Obsessive baseball fan has snagged 3,123 baseballs at 42 different major league stadiums. He blogs, appears on TV and radio, gives stadium tours — and his new book is Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks.

For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. In her new novel, she takes a long look back over her shoulder to try to fathom the origins of human life.

If you need to accomplish anything major in the near future, stay away from The Woman in White. This engaging crime novel will have you shunning friends and forgetting to reapply sunscreen.

In The Center Cannot Hold, lawyer and psychiatry professor Elyn R. Saks chronicles her own struggle with schizophrenia, from early symptoms at age 8 through her terms at Oxford and Yale — where she had her first full-blown episodes.

In 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright, a married father, ran off to Germany with a neighbor, the wife of a client. A new novel imagines a scandalous and little-known part of the legendary American architect's history.

Many of the 350,000 Latina girls turning 15 this year will celebrate with a bash called the "quinceanera." It's a rite of passage, and a growing industry in the U.S. Julia Alvarez, author of Once Upon a Quinceanera, shares aspects of the ceremonies with Renee Montagne.

Some years ago, acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon wrote a memoir about her father, revealing how the man she had loved as a Catholic intellectual was actually a converted Jew, a rabid anti-Semite and an academic fraud. Gordon's new memoir, Circling My Mother, is a tribute to the hard-working woman who raised and supported her.

Kaui Hart Hemmings' first novel, set in Hawaii, recalls that first line of Anna Karenina: that "happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In this case, it's a family as wealthy as it is unhappy.

Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitizer Prize-winning novel Middlesex has been on the bestseller list since its publication; it's now available in paperback. Eugenides is also the author of The Virgin Suicides, which was adapted into a feature film.