Second Time Around

Joyce Maynard shares the heart-wrenching but ultimately hopeful story of finding love only to lose it a short time later in The Best of Us (Bloomsbury). Visit Parade.com/ maynard to read the author's thoughts on marrying again. $27, bookstores and online

Here’s to You

In What Is It All but Luminous (Knopf), available Sept. 26, Art Garfunkel, one-half of the celebrated musical duo Simon & Garfunkel, offers up this part memoir, part diary and part collection of artful musings. $28, bookstores and online

Big Sky’s Dark Side

Montana Noir (Akashic Books), edited by Six

Days of the Condor author James Grady and Keir Graff, is the latest in a series of hometown short-story collections set in specific places (Boston, Atlanta and more) and written by authors with local ties. This one focuses on the “dreams and disasters of the true Montana.” Go to Parade.com/noir to sample stories, including one from Up in the Air author Walter Kirn. $16, bookstores and online