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The article reviews books such as "A Land More Kind Than Home" by Wiley Cash, "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires: A Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage" by Pete Dexter, and "In One Person" by John Irving.

The article reviews the book "Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted," by Eric Nuzum.

The article reviews several books including "The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War," by Fred Kaplan, "The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures," by Edward Ball, and "The Marlowe Papers," by Ros Barber.

SISTER, by Rosamund Lupton (Crown, $24.) In Lupton's novel, which is both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, a free-spirited sister's death -- perhaps it was murder -- forces a highly conventional woman to examine the truth of their relationship. ANDES, by Michael Jacobs (Counterpoint, paper, $24.95.) Jacobs, a somewhat unlikely adventurer, describes his trek down South America's great mountain range to its icy finish in Patagonia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GREAT SOUL: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, by Joseph Lelyveld (Knopf, $28.95.) While Gandhi's tenets (a Muslim-Hindu alliance, an end to untouchability) remain largely unfulfilled, it is his role as a social reformer that most interests Lelyveld. FUNERAL FOR A DOG, by Thomas Pletzinger. Translated by Ross Benjamin (Norton, paper, $14.95.) In this German novel, a children's book and the dog of the title reflect the tragic history of a menage-a-trois. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WIDOW'S STORY: A Memoir, by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99.) The prolific author has assembled a book more painfully self-revelatory that anything Oates the fiction writer or critic has ever dared to produce. WIDOW: Stories, by Michelle Latiolais (Bellevue Literary Press, paper, $14.95.) While presenting a world wrapped in spiked barbed wire, this collection also contains passages of searing tenderness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]