THE UNSEEN WORLD, by Liz Moore. (Norton, $15.95.) The daughter of a brilliant computer scientist deciphers the mysteries of his life in Moore's novel. Ada was home-schooled by her father, joining him in his laboratory as he worked to develop natural language processing for computers. When he begins to exhibit signs of dementia, she spends the next decades of her life deciphering the coded message he gave to her, revealing secrets about his history. THE WAY TO THE SPRING: Life and Death in Palestine, by Ben Ehrenreich. (Penguin, $18.) Over three years in the West Bank, Ehrenreich lived with Palestinian families and reported on daily life for publications including The New York Times Magazine. In a series of character sketches of the people he encountered from Hebron to Ramallah, his book offers particular insight into life under occupation. HOT MILK, by Deborah Levy. (Bloomsbury, $16.) Sofia - a deeply unreliable, underemployed anthropologist and the heroine of this novel - follows her hypochondriac mother to a dubious health center in Spain. "The book exerts a seductive, arcane power, rather like a deck of tarot cards, every page seething with lavish, cryptic innuendo," our reviewer, Leah Hager Cohen, wrote. "Levy has spun a web of violent beauty and poetical ennui." EAST WEST STREET: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity," by Philippe Sands. (Vintage, $19.) These concepts form the core of the international justice system, and Sands investigates the two men responsible for bringing them to light. Our reviewer, Bernard-Henri Levy, called the account a narrative "in which the reader observes the life and work of two ordinary men drawn by unwavering passion and driven very nearly insane by the griefs and the hopes bequeathed to each of them." LONER, by Teddy Wayne. (Simon & Schuster, $16.) At Harvard, David Federman, a painfully unpopular and anonymous freshman, becomes obsessed with a beautiful, wealthy classmate whose indifference seems only to spur him further. Class, power and privilege are at the forefront of Wayne's novel, as David pursues his love interest with increasing, unsettling urgency. I'M SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU FROM ALL THIS: A Memoir, by Nadja Spiegelman. (Riverhead, $16.) Spiegelman explores four generations of women in her family in this account, which grew out of interviews she conducted with her mother, Françoise Mouly, the art director of The New Yorker. She borrows tactics from her father, Art Spiegelman, who documented his family's experience with the Holocaust in his graphic novel "Maus."

Wayne's third novel (after The Love Song of Jonny Valentine) is about a Harvard freshman who becomes obsessed with his attractive classmate. David is an intelligent yet largely unremarkable kid from New Jersey, who upon beginning his first college semester, finds himself in the all too familiar situation of being lumped into the second tier socially. But when he spies the pretty Veronica during orientation, he's not just smitten; he's determined-at the cost of everything else in his life-to catch her eye: "This was going to be the best year of my life, a Technicolor romp after so many donnish slogs." David begins dating Veronica's roommate, Sara, solely to be close to and to spy on Veronica, and by following her around he manages to enroll in her English class, where one day she asks him for help on an essay on the voyeuristic themes of Henry James's Daisy Miller. David's efforts and manipulations to get Veronica to notice his devotion grow increasingly discomforting to the reader, a credit to the sly first-person narration. We know something very bad is going to happen, and though some may guess the reveal, the reader is nonetheless compelled to frantically turn the pages. Agent: Jim Rutman, Sterling Lord Literistic. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

In his New Jersey high school, David -Federman was not a member of the in crowd, but he prides himself on having used his superior intellect to outshine his classmates by being accepted into Harvard University. On this elite campus, he pushes to be noticed academically and socially by those who matter, and to distance himself from less desirable peers. During orientation, as others eagerly introduce themselves, David spies a striking girl arriving late, who exhibits a cool, detached demeanor; he feels an immediate connection and senses their destiny as a couple. He quickly learns her name is Veronica, sets himself up to meet her, and works to impress her. On social media he learns that she is a rich, prep-school Manhattanite; he enrolls in the same English class; and he watches where she goes and with whom. Absent a moral compass, David increasingly stalks Veronica, ultimately befriending and bedding her suitemate in an effort to get closer to Veronica and to show off his virility. Suffice it to say, things do not progress smoothly. VERDICT Wayne (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine) offers a witty and fascinating peek into today's youth culture, and delivers an enthralling portrait of male narcissism and voyeuristic obsession through the literary device of an unreliable, though brilliant, narrator. [See Prepub Alert, 3/21/16.]-Sheila M. Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Once described as a loner, David Federman goes off to Harvard determined to upgrade to a higher social stratum. Instead he winds up as the same social pariah he was in high school, a member of a déclassé group of dorm mates that calls itself the Mathews Marauders. But all of that becomes irrelevant when he spots her, Veronica Morgan Wells, the girl of his dreams, and, suddenly obsessed, begins to devote himself to plotting and scheming how to win her. He even begins dating her roommate, hoping to get closer to her. David tells all in his first-person voice, an exercise in affected, polysyllabic style. Consider his rhapsodic description of Veronica's name: the quadrisyllable that halves its beats at the middle name, dividing again at its pluralized terminus of subterranean depths. That says it all. Wayne (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, 2012) tells a story of college life and adolescent lust that is a witty, polished, laugh-out-loud exercise in satire that will resonate with readers who have a taste for the purposely overstated.--Cart, Michael Copyright 2016 Booklist