Alexander McCall Smith’s THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY; the first female sleuth in Botswana opens for business; the debut of a series.

Elizabeth von Arnim’s ENCHANTED APRIL; four women, dissatisfied with their lives, rent a medieval castle in Italy.

Steve Martin’s BORN STANDING UP; childhood; jobs at Disney World and Knott’s Berry Farm; stand-up, and success; a partial memoir.

Alice Koller’s AN UNKNOWN WOMAN; a former academic turns to a life of solitude to better understand her life.

Jodi Picoult’s HANDLE WITH CARE; a mother confronts the medical system over her daughter’s brittle bone disease.