The Lucky Ones

By Rachel Cusk

A set of interrelated, perceptive short fictions, from the author of the Whitbread-winning novel ''Saving Agnes" (Fourth Estate, $24.95).

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

By Lynne Truss

With the rallying cry ''Sticklers unite!" former editor Truss reviews the finer points of punctuation (Gotham, $17.50).

GraceLand

By Chris Abani

An intensely vivid portrait of Nigeria that switches deftly between rural and urban life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24).

Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of ''The Birds of America"

By Duff Hart-DavisAudubon's years as an entrepreneur in early 19th-century America and England (Holt, $27.50).

A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

By Rachel Cohen

Cultural collisions, intriguingly viewed (Random House, $25.95).

Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe.