Paperback Row - NYTimes.com INDIA CALLING: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, by Anand Giridharadas (St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99.) Through the prism of his émigré family history, Giridharadas, a columnist for The International Herald Tribune, captures fundamental changes in the very idea of what it is to be Indian. Moving among entrepreneurs, radicals and religious seekers, he notes that the greatest upheaval is "in the mind, in how people conceived of their possibilities." FAITH, by Jennifer Haigh (Harper Perennial, $14.99.) Haigh's novel follows the family of a Boston-area priest in a pedophilia scandal. Seeking his redemption, the priest's sister carefully pieces together "a kind of fifth gospel" to describe the events that ruined his life. "My penance is to tell this ragged truth as completely as I know it," she says, "fully aware that it is much too little, much too late." MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable (Penguin, $18.) From petty criminal to drug user to prisoner to minister to separatist to humanist to martyr. The life journey of Malcolm X has captivated us as much as his ideas, and this book - one of the Book Review's 10 Best of 2011 - offers a more complete, unvarnished portrait of the man than the one found in his autobiography. Marable, a Columbia historian, died last year on the eve of its publication. THE SECOND SON, by Jonathan Rabb (Picador/Sarah Crichton, $16.) Fascism and anarchy in 1930s Spain combine with romantic entanglement in the final volume of Rabb's trilogy of historical thrillers. Thrown out of his job in Berlin because he is half Jewish, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner vows to find his missing son, who has been swept up in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FRASER'S PENGUINS: Warning Signs From Antarctica, by Fen Montaigne (St. Martin's Griffin, $15.99.) The ecologist Bill Fraser has observed the habits of Adélie penguins and other seabirds in Antarctica for some 35 years. Montaigne, who worked with Fraser in 2005-6, describes the stark beauty of the continent and the climate change that threatens its delicate ecosystem. THE EMPTY FAMILY: Stories, by Colm Toibin (Scribner, $15.) Toibin's eloquent collection strips open the inner lives of characters separated from home and longing for love. The novella-length finale, "The Street," is a sensitive account of a romance that blossoms, despite daunting obstacles, between two men newly arrived from Pakistan, living in the claustrophobic immigrant community of Barcelona. In this hair-raising memoir Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, catalogs the iron-willed ways she drove her two young daughters - no TV, no sleepovers, no grade lower than an A, hours of music practice each day - all in the name of Chinese tradition. THE SECOND SHIFT: Working Families and the Revolution at Home, by Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung (Penguin, $16.) First published in 1989, this study of dual-career households argued that the social revolution that ushered women into the work force would go no further until men took more responsibility for child care and other chores. In this revised edition Hochschild, a Berkeley sociologist, examines whether working parents in America today are any better off.