Editors" Choice - NYTimes.com THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, by Timothy Noah. Bloomsbury, $25. Why inequality has mushroomed during the past four decades and what it means for American society. BRING UP THE BODIES, by Hilary Mantel. ­ (Macrae/Holt, $28.) Mantel's sequel to "Wolf Hall" traces the fall of Anne Boleyn; its magic lies in making the familiar story fascinating and suspenseful again. THOSE WHO HAVE BORNE THE BATTLE: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them, by James Wright. PublicAffairs, $28.99. The widening gap between soldier and civilian. LAND OF PROMISE: An Economic History of the United States, by Michael Lind. Harper/Harper­Collins, $29.99. This ambitious history, rich with details, argues that America owes its prosperity to the Hamiltonian (pro-big-government) tradition. THE OUTSOURCED SELF: Intimate Life in Market Times, by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Metropolitan/Holt, $27. Hochschild studies the sad effects of using paid strangers to meet our most personal needs. AEROGRAMMES: And Other Stories, by Tania James. Knopf, $24. A chimpanzee and a ghost are among the characters entangled in sticky human relationships in these lyrical, warmhearted tales. INDIA BECOMING: A Portrait of Life in Modern India, by Akash Kapur. Riverhead, $26.95. A journalist's lucid, balanced account shows how rapid change has brought contrast and contradiction. Knopf, $26. In this touching novel, a grieving museum curator immerses herself in 19th-century journals. Morrow/HarperCollins, $24.99. An evil pastor dominates Cash's mesmerizing first novel.