Short List: New & Noteworthy

That Summer in Sicily—Marlena de Blasi's enchanting account of the Cinderella-like life story of an aristocratic villa owner she and her husband meet while traveling through the interior mountain regions of Sicily.

The Other— David Guterson's latest, about two childhood friends: one living a conventional life as a Seattle school teacher, the other ditching modern life entirely to live off the grid in the Olympic mountain wilderness.

The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars— Andrew X. Pham's moving memoir of his father's experience of turmoil and change in Vietnam.