Here are some noteworthy new titles our critics regard highly:

FUHRER-EX: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi, Ingo Hasselbach with Tom Reiss (Random House; 390 pages; $24): The notorious leader of East Germany's neo-Nazi movement (before he renounced it in 1993) shows how Germany's current anti-Semitism movement substitutes Turks, Vietnamese and other foreigners for Jews; uses literature and money from the United States (he describes practicing war games with Ku Klux Klan members); and glorifies violence and explosives just as it waxes nostalgic for World War II concentration camp tortures. It's an eye- opening thriller of a memoir.

SHIP FEVER AND OTHER STORIES, Andrea Barrett (W.W. Norton; 254 pages; $21): Characters who yearn for love and long to unlock the mysteries of science emerge in these stories of past eras and places. In "Rare Bird," set in 1762, Sarah Anne does not believe in the widely held view that swallows hibernate under water. In "Birds With No Feet," set in 1843, Alec both triumphs and fails when he attempts to disprove the notion that birds of paradise have neither feet nor wings. The stories are eloquently told and rich with contrast as Barrett pursues science as a metaphor for longing.

POLLEN, Jeff Noon (Crown; 336 pages; $23): The author of the futuristic, tougher-than-"Blade Runner" novel "Vurt" returns with another hypnotic, hallucinatory excursion, this time in Manchester, England, where shadowcops and dog/men, Xcabs and Zombies do battle with an erupting plant kingdom that threatens to overwhelm human civilization.
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