By Jay McInerney
Grove
208 pages
$13.95
“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerful evident in Story of My Life … Underneath Alison’s hip, party-girl exterior and flippant vernacular is McInerney’s disturbing depiction or a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
By Michael Lewis
Norton
352 pages
$13.95
“Lewis has made a habit of writing about sport recently, but sport is really only a subtext for a much more meaningful examination of class and race. I wept at the end, something I have not done at the end of a work of non-fiction for a very long time.”
—Malcolm Gladwell, The Observer Books of the Year 2006
By Robert B. Talisse
Cambridge University Press
216 pages
$90
“Robert Talisse has provided us with a timely, original, and unapologetic defense of constitutional democracy. It is, he says, the only form of government suited to persons who are already committed in their everyday lives to giving reasons for their beliefs. Artfully blending careful philosophical analysis with contemporary illustrations and accessible prose, Democracy and Moral Conflict makes an authentically democratic and powerfully reasoned case for democracy.”
—John C. P. Goldberg, Professor of Law, Harvard University
By Tim McGraw & Tom Douglas
Thomas Nelson
32 pages
$16.99
“Tim McGraw and songwriter Tom Douglas once again join forces to write another book about the precocious Katie and her dad. Katie has many talents, but she wonders which one will win her school’s talent show. With the help of Dad and her faithful dog Palio, and after several amusing mishaps, Katie finally chooses one talent that includes Palio. But at the talent show, she decides to drop out of the contest to help her friend, showing kindness is the best talent of all. Katie’s proud dad reassures her that she did the best thing and that while he loves many things about her, he loves her heart most of all.”
—from the publisher
By Kay Hooper
Bantam
320 pages
$26
“When a serial killer tortures, dismembers, and dumps eight women in eight weeks in Tennessee and adjacent states, Noah Bishop, head of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit, gets on the case, along with Noah’s touch-telepath and seer wife, Miranda, and special agent Hollis Templeton, a profiler-in-training and medium who can self-heal and see auras. Hollis and special investigator Diana Brisco, also a medium and healer, travel to the gray time, a corridor between life and death where a young spirit, Brooke, helps them connect the killings to a past threat. Series fans and newcomers alike will appreciate the appendixes, which include bios of Special Crime Unit agents and definitions of their various paranormal abilities.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
By Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler
Cambridge University Press
246 pages
$24.99
“What makes this book genuinely impressive is that it remains grounded at all times in hard empirical evidence while simultaneously advancing provocative arguments about America’s political conflicts (including a certain-to-be-controversial chapter devoted to the role which authoritarianism played in the Clinton/Obama war). … I really recommend this book.”
—Glenn Greenwald, Salon
