Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, October 15:
War by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273) explores the presidential election and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino (Penguin Press, $35, 9780593655115) is the memoir of the iconic actor.
The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $30, 9780316563796) is the sixth mystery with Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard.
A Christmas Duet by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine, $24, 9780593725337) is a romantic Christmas novel about an aspiring musician.
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $28, 9780593701768) is the 25th No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery.
What I Ate in One Year (and related thoughts) by Stanley Tucci (Gallery, $35, 9781668055687) is a culinary memoir by an actor and food writer.
Alliance Unbound by C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher (DAW, $30, 9780756415969) is book two in the sci-fi Hinder Stars series, set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe.
Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson (Morrow, $32, 9780062334497) is the first entry in a new espionage series set at the dawn of the Atomic Age.
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear by Junji Ito, trans. by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media, $28, 9781974747306) is a memoir chronicling the career of a horror manga master.
Bi-Polar: Photographs from an Unquiet Mind by Cory Richards (Ten Speed Press, $50, 9781984862419) collects 300 photographs from the career of a bipolar National Geographic photographer.
Bella Ballerina by Sharon M. Draper, illus. by Ebony Glenn (Atheneum, $18.99, 9781534463967) is the author's first picture book and features a shy ballerina who is steadied by the help of her friends.
Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee (Quill Tree, $19.99, 9780063327191) features a snake spirit who transforms into a boy and falls in love with a prince.
Paperbacks:
If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens (St. Martin's Griffin, $18, 9781250292902).
Creepy Crafts: 60 Macabre Projects for Peculiar Adults by Ashley Voortman (Page Street Publishing, $22.99, 9798890031037).
H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu Manga, adapted and illus. by Gou Tanabe, trans. by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga, $19.99, 9781506741406).
The Kids Are All Right: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World by Gabrielle Stanley Blair and Ben Blair (Workman Publishing, $17.99, 9781523526505).
Lover Girl by Raegan Fordemwalt (Andrews McMeel, $18, 9781524895112).
