Paperback Row - NYTimes.com ELSEWHERE, by Richard Russo. Vintage, $15. In this bittersweet memoir, the Pulitzer-­winning novelist reflects on his enduring bond with his mother - a proud, idiosyncratic working woman - and the decaying industrial town she spent her life trying to escape. Balancing darkly funny anecdotes and profound sympathy, "Russo has a fine, subtle way of describing how he saw himself and his mother," Meg Wolitzer wrote in the Book Review. Random House, $15. Whereas Dee's 2010 novel "The Privileges" opens with a wedding, "A Thousand Pardons" opens with a marriage's spectacular implosion. Forced to reinvent herself (and get a job) after her husband is tainted by scandal, Helen Armstead joins a public relations firm and discovers her gift for advising sinful celebrities. SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $15.95. In 1900, the society portraitist Edward Curtis began documenting the vanishing folkways of some 80 tribes in North America; his 20-volume text-and-image magnum opus, "The North American Indian," was published between 1907 and 1930. Egan's spirited biography follows Curtis's triumphs and setbacks, portraying him as a hero in the mythic Western mode. Scribner, $16. Rendell's psychological thriller eviscerates the upper-middle-class pretensions on a picturesque London street, where the old boundaries between master and servant are lustfully crossed; housekeepers are recruited into a new association named after the patron saint of domestic help; and a gardener, let out of an asylum for the criminally insane, talks to God on his cellphone. THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, by Paul Preston. Norton, $19.95. Preston, an eminent British historian, chronicles the reign of terror carried out by Gen. Francisco Franco and his supporters in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), in which slave labor, torture, extrajudicial murder and the abuse of women and children were part of a systematic campaign. Riverhead, $16. These electrifying stories bring back the Dominican immigrant Yunior, who narrated several of the stories in Díaz's first collection, "Drown," as well as parts of his Pulitzer-­winning novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Here, Díaz offers glimpses of Yunior's life as he juggles girlfriends in New Jersey, pursues a literary career and comes to terms with his estranged father. "Yunior, like his creator, is a born story­teller," Leah Hager Cohen wrote here. HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?: Money and the Good Life, by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. Other Press, $14.95. Taking inspiration from a 1930 essay by John Maynard Keynes, a historian (Robert Skidelsky) and his philosopher son argue provocatively that people in wealthy countries work too hard and by doing so miss out on the "good life."