New books by Bay Area authors in October

Nonfiction

Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention,

by Katherine Ellison (Voice; $24.99)

Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America,

by David Talbot and Spain Rodriguez (Simon & Schuster; $19.99)

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing From a Decade Without a Name,

by Timothy Garton Ash (Yale University Press; $35)

Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure,

by Amanda Adams (Greystone; $17.95 paperback)

Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America,

by Bill Barich (Walker; $26)

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession,

by Allison Hoover Bartlett (Riverhead; $15 paperback)

Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade - and How We Can Fight It,

by David B. Batstone (HarperOne; $14.99 paperback)

Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine,

by George Dohrmann (Ballantine; $26)

Preparing for Climate Change,

by Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider (The MIT Press; $14.95)

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter,

by Joan C. Williams (Harvard University Press; $29.95)

Shadow Knights: The Secret War Against Hitler,

by Gary Kamiya and Jeffrey Smith (Simon & Schuster; $19.99)

Smartass: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin: California Rock and Roll,

by Joel Selvin (SLG Books; $19.95 paperback)

Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest,

by Michael Krasny (New World Library; $22.95)

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row,

by Jarvis Jay Masters (HarperOne; $14.99 paperback)

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty,

by Wendy Brown (Zone Books; $25.95)

What Technology Wants,

by Kevin Kelley (Viking; $27.95)

Why the West Rules - for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future,

by Ian Morris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $35)

The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary,

by Robert Alter (Norton; $35)

Fiction

The Adventures of Unemployed Man,

by Erich Origen and Gan Golan (Little, Brown; $14.99 paperback)

The Bigness of the World,

stories by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press; $18.95 paperback)

City of Tranquil Light,

a novel by Bo Caldwell (Henry Holt; $25)

Coming Back,

by Marcia Muller (Grand Central; $24.99)

Haunted Honeymoon,

by Marta Acosta (Gallery; $15 paperback)

Ivan and Misha: Stories,

by Michael Alenyikov (Northwestern University Press; $18.95 paperback)

Sad Stories of the Death of Kings,

by Barry Gifford (Seven Stories Press; $16.95 paperback)

Poetry

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems,

by Alice Walker (New World Library; $18)