What’s Next

August 1
	All the Tea in China By Kyril Bonfiglioli $23.95      Inspired by a shotgun blast in the seat of his breeches, young Karli Van Cleef quits his native Holland to seek his fortune. He arrives in early Victorian London and soon he is turning a pretty profit. But Karli sees that true opportunity flowers in India’s field of opium poppies and the treaty ports of the China coast. So, he takes a berth in an opium clipper hell-bent for the Indies.
	Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification By Christopher Hibbert $18.95      Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for independence. During his fight for Italian unification Garibaldi personally led an army of local untrained rebels to victory in Palermo, Naples, and Sicily. His forces suffered from lack of equipment, food, and money, and yet Garabaldi commanded their fierce loyalty.
	Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books By Jenny Bond & Chris Sheedy $12      Before "Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara" ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all lovers of language and literature, it reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating details involving fifty of the best-loved books of the Western world.      - When stacked up, the original manuscript of "Gone With the Wind" stood taller than Margaret Mitchell, its 4' 9 1/2" author        - Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was part of the Allied team that cracked the Nazi's Enigma code      - Leo Tolstoy’s wife copied "War and Peace" by hand... seven times
	Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce By Christopher Hibbert $18.95      With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a Saturday afternoon in 1945 he was shot by Communist partisans on the shores of Lake Como. In the sixty-two years in between those two fateful afternoons Mussolini lived one of the most dramatic lives in modern history.
	Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters By Nancy Pelosi $26.95      When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. She gavelled the House to order that day on behalf of all of America's children and said, "We have made history, now let us make progress." Now she continues to inspire women everywhere in this thought-provoking collection of wise words--her own and those of the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey.      In these pages, she encourages mothers and grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters to never lose faith, to speak out and make their voices heard, to focus on what matters most and follow their dreams wherever they may lead. Perhaps the Speaker says it best herself in the Preface: "I find it humbling and deeply moving when women and girls approach me, looking for insight and advice. If women can learn from me, in the same way I learned from the women who came before me, it will make the honor of being Speaker of the House even more meaningful."
	Disgusting Things: A Miscellany By Don Voorhees $12.95      A collection of extreme, gross-out, cringe-worthy and irresistible trivia.      How long does the human head remain conscious after decapitation?      What fish communicates by farting?      What birds use vomit and poop as weapons?      What worm lives in your intestine and may crawl out your nose?      What is “liquid cat”?      What historical figure drank the ashes of her dead husband?      What men can tie their penises into knots?      From trivia expert Don Voorhees, "Disgusting Things: A Miscellany" is the ultimate book of outrageous, revolting, and repugnant trivia, a collection of equally upsetting and intriguing facts that will leave the reader grossed out and wanting more.
August 5	.
	Eden's Castaways: The Shipwreck That Made America By Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith $26      The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier.      To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's "The Tempest," the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda--a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.
	Foreign Body By Robin Cook  $25.95      A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers, in this chilling tale from the mast of teh medical thriller.
	Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) By Dave Barry $14      Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?      That didn’t happen. Right? But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian’s robe (it’s plush terrycloth) and revisits the defining moments in our country’s recent history from the Bush years to… jeez, it’s still the Bush years! As an added bonus, Barry quickly – we’re busy here – tosses in the complete history of the "last" millennium, covering crucial turning points such as the invention of the pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to tech support).      Fellow Americans, the time has come to bone up with Barry as he puts the "hysterical" in history.
	Envy the Night By Michael Koryta $24.95      Three months before his high school graduation, Frank Temple III joins the rest of the world in learning of his father’s covert career, one that culminated in suicide to avoid prosecution and prison. For the younger Temple, it triggered seven years of anonymous drifting, still unable to believe the father he’d loved so deeply was entirely in the wrong. Then Frank’s attempts to bury the past are interrupted by a message: Devin Matteson, the man who lured Frank’s father into the killing game only to later give him up to the FBI, is returning to the isolated Wisconsin lake that was once sacred ground for both families
	The Blackstone Key By Rose Melikan $14      The first in an exciting new historical trilogy, The Blackstone Key stars the captivating Mary Finch, who sets off to visit her wealthy uncle, hoping to heal a bitter family estrangement and perhaps to avoid a dismal career teaching at Mrs. Bunbury’s school for young ladies. Eager for adventure, she is soon embroiled in one of frightening proportions, for war is raging across Europe, and England faces the threat of invasion
August 12
	Dexter in the Dark By Jeff Lindsay $13.95      Crime scene investigator Dexter Morgan is not unaccustomed to seeing evil deeds--particularly because he commits them himself. But at a particularly disturbing scene, he realizes he’s being hunted by an adversary more sinister than he’s ever faced.
	The Mercedes Coffin: A Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novel By Faye Kellerman $25.95
	End Games By Michael Dibdin $13.95      It's a routine assignment, and Aurelio Zen is biding his time in Calabria while the locals go about their mysterious business. Routine, that is, until an advance scout for an American film company suddenly vanishes. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community--with secrets and loyalties that go back centuries--violent forces are at work. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth behind a brutal murder. However, his mission is complicated by another secret that has drawn strangers from the other side of the world on a hunt for buried treasure-a search that has been launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing a bizarre and deadly obsession.
	The Real All Americans By Sally Jenkins $14.95      Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of "It's Not About the Bike, "revives a forgotten piece of history in "The Real All Americans." In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.
	Seizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory By Richard Kluger $16.95      From the Pulitzer Prize-winning social historian Kluger comes this comprehensive and balanced chronicle of how the vast territory of the United States was assembled to accommodate the aspirations of its people--regardless of who objected.
	Smoke Screen By Sandra Brown $26.95      New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sizzling tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power.
	The Water's Lovely By Ruth Rendell $13.95      When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay's long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, Ismay learns that she may not able to keep the dark truth hidden forever.
	Off Season By Anne Rivers Siddons $26.99      For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.
August 26
	The Wolf of Wall Street By Jordan Belfort $14      Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont in the 1990s, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant stock chopper who led his merry mob of fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers on a wild ride through one of the most outrageous scandals in recent history. Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Belfort, by day, turned microchip investing into a wickedly lucrative game. By night, he spent his money as fast as he could on drugs, sex, and globe-trotting.
	Devil Bones By Kathy Reichs $25.95      In a house under renovation in Charlotte, North Carolina, a plumber discovers a cellar no one knew about, and some rather grisly remains – the severed head of a teenage girl, several decapitated chickens, and a couple of cauldrons containing beads, feathers, bones and other relics of religious ceremonies. In a river not far away, a torso is found, that of an adolescent boy.
	Fade Away: A Myron Bolitar Novel By Harlan Coben $22      Greg Downing was Myron’s old rival both on and off the court as they competed for points and the woman they both loved. Myron discovers more than he bargained for as he starts digging into Greg’s life, unraveling the strange, violent ride of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can’t relive, and a present he may not survive.
September 2
	The Book of Lies By Brad Meltzer $25.99      In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.      In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.      Until now.
	The Elegance of the Hedgehog By Muriel Barbery $15.95      We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renee, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renee is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture.
	Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One- To Four-Year-Old By Harvey Karp $15      From the renowned pediatrician who taught parents how to calm their crying babies in "The Happiest Baby on the Block" comes a breakthrough book that explains a new way to raise a secure and well-behaved 1- to 4-year-old and prevent a toddler's tantrums.
	Interred with Their Bones By Jennifer Lee Carrell $15      On the eve of the Globes production of "Hamlet," Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. But before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe burns to the ground and Roz is found dead... murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlets father. Inside the box Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt.
	India Express: The Future of the New Superpower By Daniel Lak $26.95      In evocative prose and with street-level reporting, Daniel Lak argues that India has become a global superpower because of its religion, caste, politics, and poverty, and not in spite of it. He looks presciently to the future, and concludes that the strength that democracy gives it means that India is much better positioned to sustain its newfound status than China, whose political system is sure to eventually hinder it.
	The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel By Elizabeth Peters $25.95      Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She is also the author, as Barbara Mertz, of Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. She lives in western Maryland.
	The Wednesday Letters By Jason F. Wright $13      Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. They've lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last "Wednesday Letter." When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday. As they begin to open and read the letters, the children -- who are all dealing with present-day challenges -- uncover the shocking truth about the past. Matthew has a troubled marriage, Samantha is a single mother, and Malcolm is the black sheep of the family who has returned home after a mysterious two-year absence. The Wednesday Letters has a powerful message about forgiveness, and quietly beckons readers to begin their own family traditions.
	The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy By David M. Smick $26.95      In The World Is Curved, Smick describes how today’s risky environment came to be – and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of future trouble. The global financial system is vulnerable to a psychological herd effect that could wreck havoc on Main Street, not just Wall Street.
	In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography By John Gartner $25.95      William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, is the greatest American enigma of our age, a brilliant dynamo who captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman. He is a political legend whose influence and popularity rise and fall with his sometimes unpredictable behavior. From his Arkansas boyhood to his affair with Monica Lewinsky to his bruising support of his wife in the recent Presidential primaries, we think we know all there is to know about Bill Clinton, but no one has yet answered the fundamental question “What makes Bill Clinton tick?”
	Warriors: Power of Three #4: Eclipse By Erin Hunter $16.99      Firestar's three grandchildren have just found out they hold the destiny of the Clans in their paws. Now they begin to discover what their power means. Meanwhile, a dark prophecy might spell disaster for the Clans, in this latest installment of the #1 nationally bestselling series.
September 9
	GM: A Football Life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh By Tom Callahan $14.95      The most inside book ever written about the NFL, The GM invites us into the inner sanctum of the legendary general manager Ernie Accorsi, who built much of the team that captured the 2008 Superbowl.
	Untitled on Bush, Volume IV By Bob Woodward $30      In the fourth volume of his blockbuster series, Woodward masterfully reveals the emotions, struggles, and behind-the-scenes maneuvering of Bush’s waning years in office and the wars that will define his presidency.
	Bridge of Sighs By Richard Russo $14.95      Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town, his family, and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel, interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked back.
	The Other Queen By Philippa Gregory $25.95      In her latest foray into the lives and minds of Elizabethan shakers and movers, Gregory takes on Mary Queen of Scots during her 16-year house arrest. By the secret order of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary is held at the estate of George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Bess of Hardwick; the latter three share first-person narrative duties. The book centers on Marys never-ending clandestine efforts to drum up enough support to take her cousins throne, but the real story is in the clash of two women and the earl who stands between them. Shrewsburys refusal to recognize superior intelligence and force of will in his wife, who runs the estate, and in Mary, who tries to make him her instrument at every turn, makes for one delicious conflict after another. The voices are strong throughout, but Gregorys ventriloquism is at its best with Bess of Hardwick, a woman who managed to throw off the restrictions of birth, class and sex in order to achieve things that proved beyond her titled husband.
September 16
	The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English By Henry Hitchings $27      Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try "admiral," "landscape," and "marmalade," just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind us of our past. Henry Hitchings delves into the insatiable, ever-changing English language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages--many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as "shampoo" from Hindi and "kiosk" from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, Hitchings narrates the story of English as a living archive of our human experience. He uncovers the secrets behind everyday words and explores the surprising origins of our most commonplace expressions.
	Bliss to You: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Life By Trixie Koontz $16.95      Everyone knows Dean Koontz. He’s a mega-popular novelist with ten #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit. But do you know Trixie Koontz? She was the Koontz family’s beloved golden retriever, and she had quite a following of her own.
	Ruin of the Roman Empire By James O’Donnell $27.95      What really marked the end of the Roman Empire? Was it a long, inevitable decay, or did real people make real choices with surprising and unintended effects? The Ruins of the Roman Empire takes us back to the 6th century, into the lives, cultures, and events that influenced ancient Rome. O’Donnell restores the reputations of many “barbarians,” while showing that Rome’s last emperors doomed their realm with the hapless ways in which they tried to restore and preserve it.
September 20
	Brisingr By Christopher Paolini $27.50      Christopher Paolini's abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to begin writing his debut novel, "Eragon," when he graduated from high school at fifteen after being homeschooled all his life. Both "Eragon" and "Eldest," the second book in the Inheritance cycle, became instant "New York Times" bestsellers. Christopher is currently at work on "Brisingr," the third volume in the cycle. He lives in Montana, where the dramatic landscape feeds his visions of Alagaesia. You can find out more about Christopher and Inheritance at www.alagaesia.com.
September 23
	The Given Day By Dennis Lehane $26.95      From the New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War – an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future.
	A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity By Bill O’Reilly $26      In his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from being a working-class kid to an immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America's proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent. What will delight his many fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects: himself, and just how O'Reilly became O'Reilly.
	Heat Lightning By John Sandford $26.95      It’s a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Virgil Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you’re keeping count), when the phone rings. It’s Lucas Davenport. There’s a body in Stillwater – two shots to the head, found near a veteran’s memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.      Exactly like the body found last week.
September 30
	Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker By Stacy A. Cordery $18      Our royalty is our presidential families, and the eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt was even referred to in the press of the time as Princess Alice. "Larger than life" is a clichéd description, but Alice Roosevelt Longworth was qualified to wear it. This absorbing, magnificently complete biography, the first to be based on Alice's own papers, presents her as the first female celebrity of the twentieth century. What that meant in terms of how she viewed herself and how she was viewed by her famous father and an adoring public is explored in Cordery's impressively astute psychological understanding of this quite complex personality. Alice's mother died giving birth to her, her father was famously distant, and her stepmother, First Lady Edith, hadn't a clue about how to handle an intelligent, willful—and world-famous—stepdaughter who seemed bent on acting in the most dramatic fashion. Alice's tumultuous marriage to Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth is sensitively appraised, and the true father of Alice's one child is identified. Always the political animal, Alice remained a force in Washington, D.C., politics as well as society throughout her long life, a life she plotted for herself unbound by tradition.
	A Country Called Home By Kim Barnes $23.95      It is 1960 when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, abandon a guaranteed future in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness. They buy a farm sight unseen and find the buildings collapsed, the fields in ruins. But they have a tent, a river full of fish, and fields overgrown with edible berries and dandelion greens: they can survive happily until the house is rebuilt. Thomas discovers he isn't a natural farmer, but there's a local boy, Manny--a sweet soul of eighteen without a family of his own--who agrees to manage the fields in exchange for room and board. Their optimism and desire carry them again and again.
	The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter By James R. Chiles $14      History has known few more inventive minds than those responsible for the helicopter, mankind’s most versatile flying machine. From the aerodynamic artistry of Leonardo da Vinci, through the futuristic tales of Jules Verne, to the prototypes built by the horde of rotationally obsessed enthusiasts who followed, here is the definitive story of a modern icon.      Proposing that humans could hover in the air by hanging a fuselage beneath large spinning blades requires a substantial leap of the imagination–not to mention a pile of precision gadgetry. This unique book bears witness to the challenge of turning the earliest “rotating wing” aircraft into the helicopters that dominate news footage today.
	Islam and the Crusades By Usama Ibn Munqidh $15      A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness accounts of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer.

October 1
	Old World, New World Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning Great Britain and America from the Beginning By Kathleen Burk $35      Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, recently published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, the close international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after the first English colony was established on the newly discovered continent. Burk, a fourth-generation Californian and professor of history in London, draws on her unique knowledge of both countries to explore the totality of the relationship--the politics, economics, culture, and society--that both connected the two peoples and drove them apart.
October 7
	The Way We Work By David Macaulay $35      In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. This one-of-a-kind book takes readers on a visual journey through the human body. With his trademark humor, Macaulay builds a body and explains how it works.
	Scarpetta By Patricia Cornwell $26.95      Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.      The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?
October 14
	American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic By Joseph J. Ellis $14.95      From the prizewinning author of the best-selling "Founding Brothers" and "American Sphinx," a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated and determined group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a time of triumphs; yet, as Joseph J. Ellis makes clear, it was also a time of tragedies--all of which contributed to the shaping of our burgeoning nation.
	The Brass Verdict By Michael Connelly $26.99      Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.      Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.
	The Hero By Jon Krakauer $26      Pat Tillman walked away from a multi-million dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, he became a tool for White House propaganda. Thus a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated, than the fiction sold to the public.
	Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures Edited By Raymond Arroyo $17.95      Editor Raymond Arroyo draws on hundreds of never-before-released private lessons to present the renowned nun's definitive take on the Good Book. Angelica provides readers with guided meditations, and probing personal questions, and unearths an often-overlooked practical spirituality. She doesn't just explain the stories, she relates them to our daily lives, helping even those who've never opened the Bible appreciate its power and life-altering lessons. The apostles Paul (the little shrimp), Peter (that great bungler) and all the characters of the scriptures are suddenly human again, complete with their foibles and triumphs. Here is the Greatest Story, newly told as only Mother Angelica can. The Bible and you will never be the same.
	Searching for Schindler: A Memoir By Thomas Keneally $25           Thomas Keneally met Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, the owner of a Beverly Hills luggage shop, in 1981. Poldek, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, had a tale he wanted the world to know. Charming, charismatic, and persistent, he convinced Keneally to tell the incredible story of "the all-drinking, all-screwing, all-black-marketeering Nazi, Oskar Schindler. But to me he was Jesus Christ."      Searching for Schindler is the engrossing chronicle of Keneally's pursuit of one of history's most fascinating and paradoxical heroes. Traveling in the United States, Germany, Israel, Poland, and Austria, Keneally and Poldek interviewed people who had known Schindler and uncovered their indelible memories of the Holocaust. Keneally's powerful narrative rose quickly to the top of bestseller lists. Steven Spielberg's magnificent film adaptation went on to fulfill Poldek's dream of winning "An Oscar for Oskar." (Keneally's anecdotes about Spielberg, Neeson, Kingsley, and other cast members will delight film buffs.)
	Osteria: Hearty Italian Fare from Rick Tramonto's Kitchen By Rick Tramonto $35      Osteria means "tavern" in Italian. It is always a casual place, usually family-owned, where simple country cooking is served to accompany the local wine. In 2006, acclaimed chef Rick Tramonto opened Osteria di Tramonto on Chicago's north shore. In this spectacular restaurant, he serves the kind of earthy, hearty fare so beloved by Italians--and Americans.      Now, Rick has written a cookbook showcasing the food from his osteria, with recipes ideally suited for the home cook. Osterias tend to be op