Julia Navarro, whose “The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud” seemed a fairly decent historical mystery thriller to me, is back with “The Bible of Clay.” This time, she gives us “good girl” archaeologist Clara Tannenberg, who is in a race against evil forces (including her own grandfather) to find an ancient document which supposedly contains the story of Genesis as first told by Abraham. Complications of a religious and historical nature ensue, I’m sure. Navarro, by the way, is a Madrid, Spain-based journalist.

On the opposite end of the fiction spectrum, author of “The Reading Group,” is back with “Things I Want My Daughters to Know,” a novel about four sisters who find some joy and (most importantly) closure in wisdom left behind by their mother, who has died unexpectedly. In nonfiction, Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges offer up “Friends of Liberty, in which they introduce readers to Polish revolutionary Tadeusz Kosciuszko and his olderly, black New Englander Agrippa Hull. Both were influential friends of Thomas Jefferson.