New & Recommended
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
By Philip Bobbitt
A complex analysis of the war on terror from the author of "The Shield of Achilles" (Knopf, $35).
Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
In her latest story collection, the author mines the dislocations of the immigrant experience. (Knopf, $25).
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
By Tobias Wolff
Twenty-one ingenious stories that resonate far beyond their ending (Knopf, $26.95).
The Rain Before It Falls
By Jonathan Coe
A tense and affecting work in which a dying woman recounts her and her family's tangled lives (Knopf, $23.95).
An Incomplete Revenge
By Jacqueline Winspear
The fifth mystery featuring Maisie Dobbs is a gripping tale set in 1930s Kent (Holt, $24).
Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe. 