New books, early May

Look for: Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman; Losing the Garden: the Story of a Marriage by Laura Waterman, a true story with a White Mountains setting; Polio: an American Story by David Oshinsky; True Believer by Nicholas Sparks; 101 Days, a Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad, author of The Bookseller of Kabul; legal thriller Falls the Shadow by William Lashner; the well-reviewed A Changed Man by Francine Prose; and Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo, a novel set in present-day Sudan.