New & Recommended
The Plague of Doves
By Louise Erdrich
In her new novel, set in North Dakota, the award-winning author examines the long reach of the past (Harper, $25.95).
A Summer of Hummingbirds
By Christopher Benfey
The hummingbird as muse for 19th-century artists is the subject of this deftly written sequence of intertwined vignettes (Penguin, $25.95).
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).
Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe. 