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Here, four of our favorite new books, by and about women.
· Holly Morris quit her day job for five years of "estro-charged globe-trotting." In Adventure Divas (Villard; $24), she recounts her travels—from a boar hunt in a Borneo jungle to a trek across the Sahara.
· Rachel DeWoskin's rollicking Foreign Babes in Beijing (Norton; $24.95) takes its title from the Chinese soap opera that DeWoskin starred in after moving to Beijing in 1994. Her account of a recent college grad unexpectedly turned leading lady is also a portrait of a city in the midst of upheaval.
· In The Coldest Winter (Henry Holt; $18) Paula Fox, the memoirist, writes of leaving New York City in 1946 to work in battered postwar Europe. Her delicately rendered reminiscences depict a young woman finding her bearings and, with them, her voice.
· In 2003, Joan Didion's husband, John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter were felled by sudden illness —one fatally, the other very nearly. The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf; $23.95) is Didion's lyrical meditation on her life as a wife and mother in New York and California. —AMY FARLEY
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