Pantheon, $50. A big, sturdy box containing hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware's demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building. Translated by Robert Finn. Knopf, $26.95. A family is a microcosm of a country on the verge of a coup in this intense, foreboding novel, first published in Turkey in 1983. BRIGHAM YOUNG: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner. Belknap/Harvard University, $35. This non-Mormon historian's biography of the 19th-century Mormon leader is fair and deeply researched. SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen. Norton, $28.95. Quammen's meaty, sprawling book chronicles his globe-trotting scientific adventures and warns of the dangers of animal microbes crossing over to people. TIBET WILD: A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World, by George B. Schaller. Island Press, $29.95. An account of the field biologist's long study of the culture, wildlife and landscapes of Tibet. VOLCKER: The Triumph of Persistence, by William L. Silber. Bloomsbury, $30. This detailed account of the economist Paul Volcker's public service in five administrations shows how he maintained his integrity. PURPOSE: An Immigrant's Story, by Wyclef Jean with Anthony Bozza. It Books/HarperCollins, $26.99. The Haitian-born rapper's escapade-filled memoir offers a diasporic narrative. Two Dollar Radio, paper, $16. A first novel about a Polish immigrant in Los Angeles. A software wizard designs a program that sends e-mails from the dead in this clever novel.