Paperback Row - List - NYTimes.com THE GLORY GAME: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever, by Frank Gifford with Peter Richmond (Harper, $14.99.) A Sports Illustrated headline labeled the 1958 championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants "The Best Football Game Ever Played" because of its great action, its seesaw progress and the 17-17 tie at the end of the fourth quarter that led to the first sudden-death overtime in National Football League championship history. This lively account by Gifford, the Giants" Hall of Fame running back, leaves the reader "almost wondering, 50 years later, how it will turn out," Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said in the Book Review. HALLELUJAH JUNCTION: Composing an American Life, by John Adams (Picador, $16.) Mixing ruminations on the creative process, assessments of his and his peers" work, memories of his New England childhood and rants against pomposity, this "wry, smart and forthright memoir," as our reviewer, David Hajdu, called it, is "among the most readably incisive autobiographies of major musical figures." Translated by Frederika Randall (Picador, $15.) This funny novel both celebrates and satirizes 21st-century Sicily, where donkey carts share the street with sports cars and everyone has a cellphone. An avant-garde director decides to stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet" that returns the play to its origins in street theater; meanwhile, the children of rival Mafia families enact a real-life version. BLOOD MATTERS: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene, by Masha Gessen (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.95.) When she tested positive for a genetic mutation that significantly increases the risk of dying of breast or ovarian cancer, Gessen, a Moscow-based journalist, became a medical sleuth. Her effort to determine the best treatment option is recounted "elegantly and without self-pity," Jennifer Senior said in the Book Review. The book is also "very lucid, even when the science gets complex." PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, by Joan Breton Connelly (Princeton University, $35.) Connelly's "well-documented, meticulously assembled portrait" of these formidable women, scattered over the Greek world and across a thousand years of history, contradicts the conventional vision, our reviewer, Steve Coates, said. Far from being confined to housekeeping and child rearing, priestesses won influence and respect. Connelly draws on literary references and representations in sculpture and vase painting. GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, by John Stauffer. Twelve, $14.99. This original joint biography finds similarities in the lives of the former slave turned abolitionist and the frontier orator who became president. Both were pragmatic self-made men. They began as enemies, but Stauffer shows how they became friends despite their social and political differences. THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE: Perspectives on the Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Oxford University, $17.95. These 16 essays - many previously published in The New York Review of Books, all revised so that they form a coherent whole - ask the big questions of the Civil War: Why was it fought? Why did the South lose? What was the war's effect on those who lived through it? Addressing recent historiography, McPherson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is both masterly and graceful. THE COLFAX MASSACRE: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction, by LeeAnna Keith. Oxford University, $15.95. Keith tells the story of the murder of 81 black people in Colfax, La., on April 13, 1873, by white supremacists, recreating the town's complicated dynamics. DELTA BLUES: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music, by Ted Gioia (Norton, $16.95.) Drawing on interviews with artists and their associates as well as his own careful listening, Gioia writes noncontentiously about the music and its reception. He sees the genre's origin in black antebellum work songs, and work drives the narrative: how economic opportunities affected musicians; what the blues might have offered them. AMONG THE MAD, by Jacqueline Winspear (Picador, $14.) This is the sixth novel in the historical series featuring Maisie Dobbs, a World War I battlefield nurse who becomes an investigative psychologist in postwar London. When a shell-shocked veteran detonates a grenade on Christmas Eve, Maisie joins a government investigation into terrorist groups that recruit unstable veterans to carry out their anarchist agendas. AMERICAN THERAPY: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States, by Jonathan Engel (Gotham, $16.) Engel describes how, in less than 100 years, psychotherapy went from being an obscure treatment for upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siècle Vienna to being a staple of mainstream American medical practice and popular culture. He shows how drug and cognitive therapies, as well as changes in the structure of health insurance, have influenced psychiatric care.