AMISTAD
I'm Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work (Nov., $24.95) by Lonnae O'Neal Parker examines how black women balance these competing demands. 35,000 first printing.
BALLANTINE
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Social Origins of Tolerance and Friendship (Sept., $22.95) by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson presents a parable based on his experiment of raising seven animals together.
BILLBOARD BOOKS
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture (Sept., $29.95) by Kevin Phinney reveals, through interviews with musicians, how jazz, blues, soul, country and hip-hop developed.
JOHN F. BLAIR
American Christmases: Firsthand Accounts of Holiday Happenings from Early Days to Modern Times (Oct., $19.95) by Joanne Martell describes how Christmas has evolved over the past 400 years. Author tour.
BROADWAY BOOKS
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building (Oct., $26) by Michael Gross offers glimpses into a moneyed world by focusing on a noted New York City apartment building.
Stars of David (Oct., $24.95) by Abigail Pogrebin collects interviews from 61 of the most visible, famous Jews in America about their own Jewishness and the future of Judaism.
BULFINCH
Sexual Intelligence (Nov., $30) by Kim Cattrall explores the mysteries of sexual desire; companion to the fall HBO documentary.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Sept., $24) by Rebekah Nathan. An anthropology professor recounts her year spent undercover as a freshman.
DENLINGERS
A Greater Pox (Sept., $48.95) by C.B. Mosher studies the ways in which life and lifestyles in 1494 created the perfect setting for a new disease.
FABER FABER
An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America (Nov., $23) examines the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America.
FREE PRESS
The Number: What Life Do You Want, and How Much Will It Cost? (Jan., $26) by Lee Eisenberg supplies insights and questions to make readers rethink money and life.
GOTHAM BOOKS
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Jan., $27.50) by John McWhorter argues for a renewed commitment to achievement and integration as the cure for the crisis of the black community. Author tour.
HILL WANG
My Pilgrimage to Mecca (Jan., $TBA) by Abdellah Hammoudi. A detailed account of the hajj from the author's point of view as both an anthropologist and an ordinary pilgrim.
LYONS PRESS
Men of Salt: Across the Sahara with a Caravan of White Gold (Jan., $23.95) by Michael Benanav recalls an American's life-or-death adventure in the salt mines of the Middle East.
MODERN LIBRARY
Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics (Sept., $21.95) by David Berlinski looks at the 10 most important moments and figures in mathematics over 2,500 years.
NEW WORLD LIBRARY
Storycatcher (Oct., $21.95) by Christina Baldwin explores the personal, social and political power of writing, speaking and listening to people's stories. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Oct., $55) by Elizabeth W. Kiddy discusses the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
The Purchase of Intimacy (Sept., $29.95) by Viviana A. Zelizer challenges the view that economic transactions are dangerous to intimate relationships.
RAINCOAST BOOKS
Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Sept., $26.95) by Roy Miki blends personal and social history to show how a group of citizens addressed their government's violation of their rights.
LYNNE RIENNER
Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History (Jan., $52) by Christopher May and Susan K. Sell traces the history of social conflict and political machinations making knowledge into property.
ROWMAN LITTLEFIELD
Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools and Why It Isn't So (Sept., $24.95) by Jay P. Green argues that much of what people believe about education policy is untrue.
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION (112 E. 64th St., New York, N.Y. 10021)
Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and the Second-Generation Progress (Nov., $27.50) by Joel Perlmann compares the historical paths of today's immigrants with those of yesteryear.
ST. MARTINS/THOMAS DUNNE
Five Families (Sept., $27.95) by Selwyn Raab considers the Mafia's infamous Five Families, the campaign to eradicate them and the Mob's refusal to die. 150,000 first printing.
STEERFORTH PRESS
The Surprising Power of Family Meals (Sept., $22.95) by Miriam Weinstein explains the importance of recapturing the power of family meals in light of today's time constraints and realities.
TIMES BOOKS
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families (Sept., $25) by Pamela Paul looks at the costs and consequences of pornography. Author tour.
TRANSACTION PUBLISHERS
The Quest for Human Longevity: Science, Business, and Public Policy (Sept., $34.95) by Lewis D. Solomon examines the conflict between those who advocate the acceptance of mortality and the partisans of longer life.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Sacred Order/ Social Order, Vol. 1: My Life Among the Deathworks, Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority (Jan., $34.95) by Philip Rieff is the first volume of a trilogy that will encompass Rieff's scholarly lifework.
WARNER BOOKS
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating (Nov., $24.95) by Jane Goodall with Gary McAvoy explores the social and personal significance of what we eat. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
ZONE BOOKS
Death and the Idea of Mexico (Dec., $34) by Claudio Lomnitz is a social, cultural and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign.
