Recordpub.com - One for the Books: Popular Mystery Series

Several new titles in popular mystery series offer a good read for loyal fans and newcomers alike.

In "Careless in Red," author Elizabeth George takes us to the United Kingdom to check in with inspector Thomas Lynley. To cope with the death of his wife, the Scotland Yard detective is mindlessly walking along the coast of Cornwall when he discovers the body of a young man at the bottom of a cliff. When the evidence shows he was murdered, Lynley, as the first on the scene, is the prime suspect, and he calls on his partner, Barbara Havers, to help him out. The local female inspector has her own family problems and though she suspects Lynley, she needs his help to solve the crime. The book has a wonderful sense of place and an intricate interweaving of parent-child, boss-employee and male-female relationships. The characters -- including a deceitful roller derby fan, a world-class surfer and a parrot with a bad vocabulary -- are interesting, but there isn't enough of Lynley. Author George fleshes out his multi-dimensional character even more, after something like 15 books, and I would have liked to see more of Lynley the man, trying to deal with grief, solve a crime and decide if he still wants to be a detective. The complex plot mixes past and present and has adult situations. George is a master story teller and brings us a thinking person's mystery. Find a comfy chair, because it's more than 600 pages long, but it's a very good book and very well written.

"The Miracle at Speedy Motors" by Alexander McCall Smith is the ninth in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe is back, along with her family and acquaintances. The pace of life is wonderfully slow in Gaborone, Botswana, but there's much to do at the agency. The ladies are getting threatening letters; a lonely woman wants to find her family; and a lame child is offered a miracle. As always, the book, the plot and the characters are all charming, funny and heart-warming. I just love the earnest, compassionate Mma Ramotswe. If she were real, the world would be a better place. She keeps getting sidetracked, discussing life, detective work, the differences between men and women. Smith is always entertaining. My favorite moments are probably when the ladies sit down to have tea and just discuss their day, or when Mma Ramotswe is driving around her beloved Botswana, pondering the meaning of life.

"Death Walked In" by Carolyn Hart is the 18th entry in the popular Death on Demand mystery series featuring husband-and-wife team Max and Annie Darling on the island of Broward's Rock, S.C. The home of a wealthy civic leader has been burglarized, and millions of dollars in gold has been stolen. A woman who witnesses a figure burying something ends up being murdered. Did she dig up the stolen gold and hide it in Max and Annie's house? There's another murder, a spooky late-night meeting at the pier in the dark, a father who doesn't like his daughter's suitor, and siblings who can't get along. When a policewoman finds fault with people who enjoy reading murder mysteries and says, "Murder isn't funny," Annie muses that "murder was never the point of a mystery, that mysteries have to do with goodness and justice and the triumph of right over wrong, that decent and moral people read mysteries because they want for a fleeting moment to inhabit a world that celebrates goodness." Hart writes accessible stories peopled with characters with complex relationships. Again, Annie's mystery bookstore provides lots of suggested books for mystery lovers. It's a good read in the grand tradition of cozy mysteries. As for the killer -- I guessed right! Well, mostly.

The Sister Agatha mystery series continues with "The Prodigal Nun" by Aimée and David Thurlo. Sister Agatha is an extern nun at Our Lady of Hope Monastery in New Mexico. She's also a former journalist. Only a few people show up at the morning Mass, but one of them is a killer. Was the victim random, or was the killer aiming for one of the nuns? What's up with the new young nun who's causing so many problems? Why had the victim sought out Sister Agatha for a talk before Mass? It turns out that the victim was pretty unpopular. Threats against the monastery, and even against Sister Agatha, make Agatha afraid -- "A shiver touched her spine. The danger hadn't passed. She could feel it surrounding them, drawing closer. What she needed to do more than ever now was trust God completely. ... She was all too human, though, and fear came with the territory." There's a creepy man watching the nuns; someone lobs a dead crow over the monastery wall; there's a rattlesnake in the garage; a white van forces Sister Agatha off the road. This is the fifth Sister Agatha book, and it's a good story. This one doesn't have the humor of many of the female detective series. Instead, it's faith-based; the admirable Sister Agatha trusts in God to help her find answers and keep her safe.

Another lady of faith is Faith Fairchild, the owner of Have Faith Catering and wife of a minister in New England. In author Katherine Hall Page's 17th Faith Fairchild mystery, "The Body in the Gallery," Faith's friend Patsy, the president of the board of trustees, lent a valuable piece of art to the local Ganley Museum, but now she suspects the one on display is not hers. She asks Faith to help her sneak into the museum at night to have a good look at it. It turns out to be a fake, and Patsy talks Faith into selling food at the museum restaurant, to keep an eye on what's going on and find out the truth behind the switched art. But forgeries and stolen art lead to murder when Faith finds a young woman dead in one of the museum exhibits. Meanwhile, Faith's son Ben is getting into trouble at school, and Faith also has to deal with an unhappy husband. The story is up to date, with the town experiencing an economic downturn and cyberspace creating problems for teens. It's a satisfying ending. Page also gives us a short essay on food and art, suggesting a few books and some recipes from Faith the caterer.

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LOCAL BOOK CLUBS:

The Book Discussion Group at the Randolph Library meets the first Monday of the month, except August, at 6:30 p.m. in the Randolph Senior Center. The group is open to everyone, and new members are always welcome. The library will stock copies of the books each month.

September: To be announced. Call the library at 330-325-7003.
October 6: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
November 3: City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt
December 1: Manhunt by James Swanson

Pierce-Streetsboro Library's Book Discussion Group meets regularly on the second Monday of each month at 6:45 p.m. in the library's meeting room. New members are always welcome to attend and participate in the discussion. The library is located at 8990 Kirby Lane in Streetsboro, next to the administrative offices of the Streetsboro City Schools. For more information, call the library at 330-626-4458. Here is the schedule of meeting dates and books to be discussed:

Sept. 8: Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach (fiction)
Oct. 20: (third Monday, due to Columbus Day holiday): The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (nonfiction)
Nov. 10: Just Beyond the Clouds by Karen Kingsbury (fiction)
Dec. 8: Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber (fiction)
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The National Catholic Reporter's NCR Book Club has added a new book:

"Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia"

http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/1684

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from Publishers Weekly:

"The latest memoir to be featured in Starbucks stores nationwide, The House at Sugar Beach by journalist Helene Cooper, received a mixed review from PW: "Born into a wealthy, powerful, dynastic Liberian family descended from freed American slaves,[Cooper] came of age in the 1980s when her homeland slipped into civil war There's the halcyon early childhood in Africa, a history of the early settlement of Liberia, an account of the violent, troubled years as several regimes are overthrown, and the story of the family's exile to America. The stories themselves are fascinating, but a flatness prevails.""

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sad news from Publishers Weekly:

"San Francisco Chronicle books editor Oscar Villalon is leaving the paper, having taken a buyout. Buyouts have been looming at the paper, which has been suffering from worsening financial woes along with other major dailies throughout the country. Villalon's last day will be Friday, and it is expected that deputy book editor Regan McMahon will now oversee the section, one of only a handful of print standalone book review sections still running.Villalon's departure leaves McMahon as the only full-time staffer handling books.A Chronicle spokesperson wouldn't comment on the buyouts or what's ahead for the book section, saying only that the deadline to accept a buyout, originally set for last Friday, has been extended."
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Dave Freeman, the author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die," has died. How many of the things did he get to do?

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-freeman26-2008aug26,0,639371.story

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"E-textbooks may not be cheaper than printed ones," says this report from the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-books26-2008aug26,0,7901003.story

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"The Jewel of Medina," the "novel about the child bride of Muhammad, which was dropped by Random House in America and pulled from bookshops in Serbia," is now being looked at by a Danish publisher. Don't the Danes have enough trouble?!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/26/jewelofmedina.islam.controversy

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The book publishing industry in Japan is in big trouble -- people aren't reading.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080826i1.html

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from Shelf Awareness: New Titles Out September 2:

American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
1,000 Dollars & an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire by Sam Wyly
Dark Curse by Christine Feehan
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd
Sinner: The Books of History Chronicles by Ted Dekker
Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters by Bill Tancer
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain

Now in paperback:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Daz
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Publishers Weekly on-sale calendar
-- [c] = children's book

September 1

[c] Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox, illus. by Helen Oxenbury
[c] America by Charlie Samuels
[c] Bliss by Lauren Myracle
[c] Rainbow Magic: Stella the Star Fairy by Daisy Meadows, illus. by Georgie Ripper
[c] Little Scholastic: Welcome Winter by Jill Ackerman, illus. by Nancy Davis

September 2

The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
[c] Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure by Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy Lewin
Dark Curse by Christine Feehan
They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It by Brigitte Gabriel
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
[c] Warriors: Power of Three #4: Eclipse by Erin Hunter
[c] My Dad, John McCain by Meghan McCain, illus. by Dan Andreasen
A Team to Believe In by Tom Coughlin
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Sinner by Ted Dekker
The First Billion is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future by T. Boone Pickens
Rough and Tumble by Mark Bavaro
Wedding Belles by Haywood Smith
Icarus at The Edge Of Time by Brian Greene

September 3

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Supreme Courtship: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
Unintended Consequences by Peter Galbraith

September 4

[c] Madeline and the Cats of Rome by John Bemelmans Marciano

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Publishers Weekly on-sale calendar for comics, graphic novels:

August 27, 2008
Echo Vol. 1: Moon Lake (Abstract Studio)
Young Inhumans (Marvel)
Metal Men (DC)
The Astounding Wolf-Man Vol. 1 (Image)
Barb Wire Omnibus Vol. 1 (Dark Horse)
Rumpus in the Night (IDW Publishing)
Strange Embrace Vol. 1 (Image)
Dance in the Vampire Bund Vol. 2 (Seven Seas Entertainment)
Cross X Break Vol. 1 (Go! Comics)
The Foundation (BOOM! Studios)

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams (Del Rey)
2. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
4. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
5. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
6. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)
7. "Moscow Rules" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
8. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
9. "The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)
10. "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry (William Morrow)
11. "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
12. "Foreign Body" by Robin Cook (Putnam)
13. "Being Elizabeth" by Barbara Taylor Bradford (St. Martins)
14. "Rough Justice" by Jack Higgins (Putnam)
15. "Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin (St. Martin's Press)

NONFICTION/GENERAL
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)
3. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
4. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
5. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
6. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)
7. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
8. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)
9. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
10. "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
11. "Just Who Will You Be? Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within." by Maria Shriver (Hyperion
12. "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
13. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
14. "Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity" by Garrett B. Gunderson, Stephen Palmer (Greenleaf Book Group)
15. "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria (W.W. Norton)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Dell)
2. "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, Howard Roughan (Vision)
3. "Nights in Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision)
4. "The Book of Scandal" by Julia London (Pocket)
5. "Play Dirty" by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
6. "Strangers in Death" by J.D. Robb (Berkley)
7. "Cry Wolf" by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
8. "Left to Die" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
9. "Into The Flame" by Christina Dodd (Signet)
10. "The Burnt House" by Faye Kellerman (Harper)
11. "The Sanctuary" by Raymond Khoury (Signet)
12. "The Manning Brides" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
13. "Turbulent Sea" by Christine Feehan (Jove)
14. "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence" by Gavin De Becker (Dell)
15. "Shadowfires" by Dean Koontz (Berkley)

TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
2. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
3. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
4. "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin)
5. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
6. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
7. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
8. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
9. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle (Plume)
10. "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press)
11. "Barefoot" by Elin Hilderbrand (Back Bay Books)
12. "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library)
13. "Skinny B----" by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press)
14. "Bridge of Sighs" Richard Russo (Vintage)
15. "Eat This Not That!" by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale)

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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS

FICTION
1. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)
2. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
3. "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" by Sean Williams (Del Rey)
4. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (The Dial Press)
5. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
6. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
7. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)
8. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers)
9. "The Bourne Sanction" by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central)
10. "Moscow Rules" by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
11. "Acheron" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Press)
12. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (Ecco)
13. "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
14. "The Lace Reader" by Brunonia Barry (William Morrow)
15. "The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book" by Faye Kellerman (William Morrow)

NONFICTION
1. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
2. "The Obama Nation" by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions)
3. "Stori Telling" by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight)
4. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words)
5. "StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Tom Rath (Gallup Press)
6. "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution" by Gary Harpst (Six Disciplines Publishing)
7. "Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity" by Garrett B. Gunderson, Stephen Palmer (Greenleaf Book Group)
8. "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
9. "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" by Andrew Bacevich (Metropolitan)
10. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
11. "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate" by David Freddoso (Regnery)
12. "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Other's Don't" by Jim Collins (Collins)
13. "You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty" by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz (Free Press)
14. "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" by Ron Suskind (Harper)
15. "Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life" by Spencer Johnson (Putnam)
The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

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The following authors are making the media rounds, talking about their books:
--Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
--Edward Fiske, editor of the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009
--Willy Vlautin, author of Northline
--Doris Lessing, Alfred & Emily
--John Podesta, The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country
--Ricardo Sanchez, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story
--Alexandra Harney, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
--Robert Wexler, author of Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress
--Ronald Sider, The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World?
--Jonathan Rieder, author of The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Erwin Hargrove, The Effective Presidency: Lessons on Leadership From John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
--Melanie Charlton Fascitelli, author of Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet with Style
--David Zinczenko, author of Eat This Not That! for Kids!: Be the Leanest, Fittest Family on the Block!
--Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
--Carol Alt, author of This Year's Model
--Anne Roiphe, author of Epilogue: A Memoir
--Nina Garcia, author of The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own
--John Cacioppo, co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
--Mia Tyler, author of Creating Myself: How I Learned That Beauty Comes in All Shapes, Sizes, and Packages, Including Me
--Scott McClellan, author of What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
--Kathy Reichs, Devil Bones
--Bruce Hulse, Sex, Love, and Fashion: A Memoir of a Male Model
--Melanie Fascitelli, author of Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet with Style
--Billie Jean King, Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes
--Gary Bass, Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
--Stanley Bing, Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working
--Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
--Ralph Reed, author of Dark Horse
--Michael Moore, Mike's Election Guide 2008
--Anne Roiphe, Epilogue
--Mia Tyler (daughter of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and sister to actress Liv), Creating Myself: How I Learned That Beauty Comes in All Shapes, Sizes, and Packages, Including Me
--Nina Garcia, The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own
--John Cacioppo, co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
--Jenny McCarthy, Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
--Ken Wells, author of The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
--David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
--Junot Daz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
--Bill Cosby, author of Come On, People
--Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
--Richard Brookhiser, author of George Washington on Leadership
--John McWhorter, author of All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
--Lee Allen Peterson, author of The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
--Judy Blume, Going, Going, Gone! With the Pain and the Great One
--Michael Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
--W.S. Di Piero, Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems
--Patrick Tracey, Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
--David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
--Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
--Richard Brookhiser, George Washington on Leadership
--Michael J. Agovino, author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City
--Bill Tancer, author of Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters
--Larry Winget, author of You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead
--Senator John McCain, Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him
--Kevin Hayes, author of The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
--Newt Gingrich, author of To Renew America
--Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, authors of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
--Timothy Lynch, co-author of After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
--Ben Wattenberg, author of Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism

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