Anchor, $15.95. Barker has traced the psychic reverberations of World War I through a remarkable series of novels: the "Regeneration" trilogy, "Life Class" and now "Toby's Room." A sequel to "Life Class," "Toby's Room" portrays a group of students at the Slade School of Fine Art in London; at its center is Elinor Brooke, a painter who works as a medical illustrator while unraveling the mystery of what happened to her brother, Toby, a doctor serving at the front. MONKEY MIND: A Memoir of Anxiety, by Daniel Smith. Simon & Schuster, $16. The long list of things that, over the years, have made Smith nervous include sex, death, work, disease, people he's related to and people he's not. His fleet and funny memoir is an attempt to grapple with pathological anxiety: to locate its causes, describe its effects and possibly identify a cure. TRIBURBIA, by Karl Taro Greenfeld. Harper Perennial, $14.99. With satire and sympathy, Greenfeld's episodic first novel observes the smugly insular parents of the bohemian Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa, circa 2008. Our reviewer, Jay McInerney, said Greenfeld's "keen observational skills make his characters . . . instantly recognizable as creatures of their time and place without quite denying them their humanity." THE CONFLICT: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, by Elisabeth Badinter. Translated by Adriana Hunter. Picador/Metropolitan/Henry Holt, $16. In this polemic, which set off heated debate when it was published in France in 2010, the feminist philosopher argues that the hallmarks of contemporary motherhood - attachment parenting, co-sleeping, on-demand breast-feeding - are tethering women to the home to an extent not seen since the 1950s. McSweeney's, $15. Set in a parched town on the outskirts of Albuquerque, Brandon's third novel alternates among a handful of unmoored men and women (and a disconsolate wolf), all of them tethered to the story of Soren, an unlikely piano prodigy lying in a coma on the sixth floor of a medical clinic. THE TASTE OF WAR: World War II and the Battle for Food, by Lizzie Collingham. Penguin, $22. Collingham makes a powerful case that the expansionist designs of both Nazi Germany and imperial Japan must be understood within a world political economy in which the single crucial commodity was food. Combatants in World War II, she writes, chose to "export wartime hunger": some 20 million people died of starvation, often far from the battlefield. SUMMER LIES, by Bernhard Schlink. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. With the success of "The Reader," Schlink firmly established himself as the voice of German guilt and conscience. In the stories of "Summer Lies," diffident men - in Amsterdam, New York and elsewhere - contend with the delusions and half-truths of the everyday. THE FRUIT HUNTERS: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession, by Adam Leith Gollner. Scribner, $16. This is a paean to the overwhelming diversity of fruits on this planet, and the explorers, cultivators and smugglers who are passionate about them and often as eccentric as their quarry.