New & recommended

August 28, 2011

This Is Not Your City By Caitlin Horrocks (Sarabande, $15.95)

Ingenious writing and sprightly heartbreak characterize the stories in this debut collection.

Ethan Allen: His Life and Times By Willard Sterne Randall (Norton, $35)

A biography of the most famous Green Mountain Boy depicts him as a rebel and a hustler.

Starting from Happy By Patricia Marx (Scribner, $24)

A beach-ready love story with absurdist undertones.

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way By Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $9.95)

One literary star blows the whistle on another’s trickery.

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