More new books that are expected this month:
Fiction
"Rebekah" (Shadow Mountain), Orson Scott Card's fictionalized biography of the biblical wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
"Sharpe's Prey" (HarperCollins), No. 18 in Bernard Cornwell's series about British soldier Richard Sharpe, whose latest mission is to protect neutral Denmark from Napoleon.
"The Siege" (Grove) by Helen Dunmore, about a Russian family's struggles during Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad in 1941.
"Under Fire" (Putnam), W.E.B. Griffin's ninth in "The Corps" series, places the U.S. Marines in the Korean War.
"Captain Saturday" (Little, Brown) by Robert Inman, about a TV weatherman whose life turns cloudy when he loses his job.
"Eden Burning" (Morrow), Elizabeth Lowell's reworking of her 1986 novel "Fires of Eden," is about a newly single man who meets a beautiful dancer in Hawaii.
"Wetware" (Shaye Areheart-Crown), Craig Nova's near-future sci-fi about robots on the loose with a virus deadly to humans.
Nonfiction
"Fear Less" (Little, Brown), Gavin de Becker's guide to dealing with risk, safety and fear in times of terrorism.
"Shouting Fire" (Little, Brown), essays about the rights of individuals, by Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz.
"Mars and Venus in the Workplace" (HarperCollins), John Gray's "Mars and Venus" relationship guidance for office situations.
"Tobacco" (Grove) by Iain Gately profiles the seductive plant's role in history, while "Salt" (Walker) by Mark Kurlansky chronicles "the only rock we eat."
"The Cat From Hue" (Public Affairs), former TV journalist John Laurence's memoir about covering the Vietnam War.
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