• "Stolen Fields: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream" by Jean Boggio (Colerith Press, $15.95) is the history of a family farm on Neville Island. Boggio, a graduate of Allegheny College who lives in New Jersey, writes about how the farm was requisitioned for a munitions plant during World War I.
• "Murder Melts in Your Mouth: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery" by Nancy Martin (Obsidian, $22.95). Martin lives in Pittsburgh but her Blackbird Sisters series features three heiresses who live in Philadelphia and manage to find the time to solve crimes. Martin is also the president of the local chapter of the Sisters of Crime.
• "The War Trail: One Early American's Account of the New World" by Charles A. McDonald (Word Association, $19.95) is a fictional account of German immigrants during the French and Indian War. McDonald, a Shadyside resident, is a Green Beret veteran. "The War Trail" is his first book.
