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Kitty Beer, Human Scale (Plain View Press). Beer's second eco-thriller takes place in 2062, when Boston is mostly under water. In response to climate change chaos, an authoritarian theocracy is tearing families apart and demolishing human rights. How will love survive?

Anita Diamant, Day After Night (paperback edition, Scribner). Four women with four different stories of surviving the Holocaust find themselves in an internment camp. Based on the true rescue story of 200 Atlit camp prisoners. By the author of The Red Tent.

Lois Mathieu, Debut (SterlingHouse). The lives of a mother and child are transformed over time as they experience a deepening reality of irrevocable loss due to their separation, the way dawn comes whether one is ready for it or not.

Randy Susan Meyers, The Murderer's Daughters (St. Martin's). The novel follows 30 years of two sisters' lives after their father murders their mother. The sisters narrate in rotating first-person chapters. Publishers Weekly describes its characters as "psychologically complex."

Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (University of North Carolina/Lookout). Thirteen stories on the themes of young love, old love, thwarted love, and love denied; of Jews and their dilemmas, of marriage, family, death and betrayal. The settings are Maine, Central America,Hungary, Tsarist Russia, and a Boston suburb.

Neil Savage, Jonathan Baker's House on Lime Street (Savage Press). A group of friends — the priest, the rabbi, the cop, the property agent and many more — meet up at the classically-stocked library of Jonathan Baker's House on Boston Beacon Hill, to listen to the stories of each one's journey, from their personal abysses to their mountain tops.

Mark Schafer, translator, Belen Gopegui's The Scale of Maps (City Lights Books). Sergio Prim is a geographer who is thrown into a psychological crisis by the romantic advances of Brezo Varela. He seeks refuge from his fears in an obsessive metaphysical quest: mapping the route to a place where love never results in disillusionment. The novel is a mercilessly revealing examination of a meager and fearful life challenged by desire.

Susan Oleksiw, Under the Eye of Kali (Five Star). The author's sixth mystery. Features an Indian American woman living in India who solves the disappearance and murder of a foreign visitor.

Cecilia Tan, Mind Games (Ravenous Romance). A woman with suppressed psychic abilities, leads a quiet, lonely life until her sister goes missing. She begins to have dreams about a dream lover who visits her at night — could someone be stalking her in her dreams? A novel of love, suspense and scorching sex.

Leslie Wheeler, Murder at Spouters Point (Five Star Publishing). The grisly murder of a visiting yachtsman to a seacoast town tests the loyalties of a white woman and her Native lover. Features Miranda Lewis, a workaholic writer of books about American history, and her boyfriend, a hot-tempered former American Indian Movement activist.

Saloma Furlong, Why I Left the Amish (Michigan State University Press). The author recalls a childhood defined by her father's mental illness, her brother's brutality, her mother's frustration, and the austere traditions of the Amish. A revealing portrait of life within — and without — this frequently misunderstood culture.

Maxine Kumin, The Roots of Things (Northwestern University Press). The best of the poet's essays, ranging from childhood scenes, to "pobiz" (the poetry business), to battles fought on behalf of women, to the lives of animals — plus introductions to other writers' work.

Maria Termini, The Artist and the Spy (Winter Garden). Memoir of an art student's unsettling six-year relationship with a mysterious military officer who tried to leave the world of combat spying to seek a peaceful civilian life but was pressured to return to covert operations, which swept him into a spiral of depression paranoia and poverty. The author struggled to survive as the mother of twins and to fulfill her calling to be an artist, clinging to hope for a better future, which came at a high cost.

Larry Blumsack, Face-to-Face is The Ultimate Social Media (CreateSpace). The Seeker goes on a journey to learn how to make a professional or personal win-win emotional connection in a digital world.

Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating (Yale University Press). Perfect for gardeners, science fans, and lovers of Charlotte's Web.

Karen Szklany Gault, The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Fruits and Berries: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply (Atlantic Publishing Company). A gardening guide for those who would like to grow their own fruits, with a strong emphasis on organic gardening. Order at www.karenszklanygault.com .

Lee Ann Hoff and Betty D. Morgan, Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care. Key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners — theoretical overview, assessment, crisis care basics, alternative therapies, vulnerable groups such as children, adolescents, older people.

Shel Horowitz and Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet. Roadmap showing how to thrive and prosper as a green, ethical business in tough times and good times.

Grace Ross, Main Street Smarts: Who Got Us Into This Economic Mess and How We Get Through It (www.mainstreetsmarts.com). The former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts writes about what we can do to reverse cuts, foreclosures, and job losses, and transform our schools, neighborhoods, health care and futures.

Wayne Soini, Gloucester's Sea Serpent (The History Press). The author, a Gloucester native, tells the story of the sea serpent that came into Gloucester Harbor in August, 1817.

J. Kates, translator from the French of Jean-Pierre Rosnay's When a Poet Sees a Chestnut Tree (New Zealand edition, Cold Hub Press, New Zealand). The "post-Surrealist" writer was active in the 1940s French Resistance to Nazi occupation, and founded the famed post-war Club de Poetes.

Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Norton). Poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin’s farm life and also to poets of the past.