Suzanne Finnamore, a journalist and author of Otherwise Engaged and The Zygote Chronicles, offers her first nonfiction work, and it is highly personal. In Split: A Memoir of Divorce, Finnamore writes about how her divorce affected her — from the anxiety of raising a son on her own to the pain of discovering her husband’s infidelity. But she intends the book to help those going through the same thing, with some does of reason and humor (like 10 Simple But Elegant Tips for Divorce, including “change the locks” and “keep everything beginning with consonants”.

Also new this month is River of Heaven from Lee Martin, who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for The Bright Forever. In this novel, the central character is Sam Brady, a man who has kept a secret most of his life that is eating away at him. When a newspaper reporter begins to unravel some of the mystery, Brady and his brother must decide how far they will go to protect their secret.

And in nonfiction, Head Cases by Michael Paul Mason offers stories about the effects of brain injuries in various casers. Mason knows whereof he writes — from 2002 to 2007, he worked as a brain injury case manager for the Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital, a job that required him to travel across the country to help survivors of severe traumatic brain injury find appropriate treatment.