Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner
New York Times–bestselling author Steve Harvey zeroes in on what motivates men and provides tips on how women can use that knowledge to get more of what they need out of their relationships.
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester
From the New York Times–bestselling author comes this epic look at the Atlantic Ocean: its history, geography, importance, and wealth of stories.

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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor: Hiroshima: 9/11

by John W. Dower
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
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Decision Points

by George W. Bush

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

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How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

Bakewell has written a thoroughly engaging look at the life and work of Michel de Montaigne, whose incessantly questioning approach to life is both remarkably modern and usefully instructive, even though he composed his famous essays more than 400 years ago.

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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books

by William Kuhn

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals both the serious and the mischieveous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.

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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

edited by Joan Reardon

Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome. Covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

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Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

From Edmund Morris, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, comes Colonel Roosevelt, the concluding volume of the definitive Theodore Roosevelt trilogy. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history.

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The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume

by Tilar Mazzeo

The true brilliance of The Secret of Chanel No. 5 is Tilar Mazzeo's ability to take a subject one would never have thought possible to think very deeply about and then cover it so captivatingly. Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Writing with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit, Hillenbrand tells the unforgettable story of Louis Zamperini's journey into extremity.

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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

by Michael Korda

Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile, including his sun-burnished blond looks and flowing white robes, made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia."

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Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security

by Michael Savage

Conservative talk show host and #1 bestselling author Savage takes on President Obama's alleged socialist agenda, Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and Lenin-like complex, arguing that conservatives can save America from Obama's perceived assault on the middle class.

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Seasons of Connecticut: A Year-Round Celebration of the Nutmeg State

by Diane Smith
A beautiful, four-color celebration of the Nutmeg State by Emmy Award–winning native Diane Smith. The sixty stories included in this book will make people feel good about living in Connecticut, and make others want to visit, revealing the beauty and the personalilty of the state throughout the year.

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Life

by Keith Richards with James Fox
This riveting autobiography by celebrated (and famously hard-living) guitar legend Keith Richards reads with the unforgettable hook and crisp ferocity of the best Rolling Stones songs — most of which you'll rush to replay after learning about their creation.

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50 Modern Artists You Should Know

by Christiane Weidemann and Christine Nippe

A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that beautifully captures the development of art in a new age.

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When London Was Capital of America

by Julie Flavell

Before the Revolutionary War, England had a complex relationship with its colonial properties, but one truth always held: London was the center of the British Empire and therefore, the world, politically, culturally, and intellectually. The stories of the colonials vividly re-create a time when Americans saw London as their own and remind us of the complex nature of America's colonial British heritage.

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Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation

by Kathleen Kelley Reardon and Christopher Noblet
Ever wish that you could have a "do over" after a conversation at work? Do you often find yourself regretting what you've said to a co-worker — or kicking yourself for not saying something better, stronger, or more precise? Management professor and consultant Kathleen Kelley Reardon provides the tips and tools you need to know what to say — and how to say it better — next time.

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Jamie's America: Easy Twists on Great American Classics, and More

by Jamie Oliver
International food icon Oliver puts his own spin on the best of American home cooking — 120 new recipes gathered from New York, Louisiana, Arizona, California, Georgia, and Wyoming. Each reflects his ability to extract enormous flavor from humble ingredients.

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Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter

by Antonia Fraser

A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. Based on the diaries she kept during her 33-year relationship with the dramatist, it is simultaneously a love story, an intimate portrait of a great writer, and an exercise in self-revelation.

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Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop

by Scott Ligon

Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up a pen or paintbrush, or a traditional artist who wants to explore everything a digital canvas might inspire, digital artist and educator Ligon guides and inspires you with clear instructions and exercises that explore all the visual and technical possibilities.

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris
Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith — that a moral system cannot be based on science.

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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford

The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before.

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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

by Guy Deutscher
Acclaimed linguist Deutscher asks if culture influences language — and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is — yes.

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

by David Sedaris

Sedaris diverges from his usual essays to give us a book of fables. Like all good fables and fairy tales, they're pretty gruesome and horrifying, and there's most always a moral to be found. These include a healthy dose of charm and wit, though. Ian Falconer provides the fabulous illustrations.

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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

by Marilyn Monroe
Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts — notes to herself, letters, even poems — in Marilyn Monroe's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft.

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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

by Robert D. Kaplan

With Kaplan's incisive mix of policy analysis, travel reportage, sharp historical perspective, and fluid writing, Monsoon offers a thought-provoking exploration of the Indian Ocean as a strategic and demographic hub and an in-depth look at the issues that are most pressing for American interests both at home and abroad.

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Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes

by Stephen Sondheim

The winner of 7 Tonys, 7 Grammys, an Oscar, and a Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Sondheim has become synonymous with the best in musical theater. In Finishing the Hat he has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he's given readers a rare, personal look into his extraordinary shows and life.

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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

Johnson addresses an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? He provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how the ideas are born that push careers, lives, society, and culture forward.

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Bob Dylan in America

by Sean Wilentz

One of America's finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

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A Journey: My Political Life

by Tony Blair

Alternately beloved and reviled, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is an international figure to a degree matched by few British leaders. Now, for the first time, he details the fascinating journey and difficult choices through his own point of view.

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Obama's Wars

by Bob Woodward

Like all Woodward books, Obama's War plows relentlessly forward like a shark. It is all about narrative and scenes and relationships among its principal subjects, not policy assessments or evaluations of conditions on the ground.

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Madison and Jefferson

by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two extraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America.

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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Jonathan Schneer

A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.

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True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World

by Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd

From the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, Lisa Birnbach's True Prep looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and polar fleece.

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Forever Young: Dr. Perricone's Nutrigenomic Science for Glowing, Wrinkle-Free Skin and Radiant Health at Every Age

by Nicholas Perricone

Pioneering scientist, inventor, and dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone's latest field of research is Nutrigenomics. This fascinating new science demonstrates how we can alter our genetic blueprint for total face and body rejuvenation.

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson

From beloved author Bryson comes a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place people call home. Bryson, writer of A Short History of Everything, takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, and finds it crammed with 10,000 years of fascinating historical bric-a-brac.

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Paint with the Watercolor Masters: A Step-by-Step Guide to Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists

by Jonathan Stephenson

With the aid of this practical guide, amateur artists can explore every aspect of watercolor, from understanding the historical background to learning how to master the many different techniques. The author's own research and experiments shed light on how the watercolor masters actually worked.

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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

by Roy Clark

In this practical guide, readers learn everything from the different parts of speech to why effective writers prefer concrete nouns and active verbs. The Glamour of Grammar gives readers all the tools they need to take advantage of grammar to perfect their use of English.

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The Grand Design

by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world's great thinkers — a marvelously concise book with new answers to the ultimate questions of life. Here in one brilliantly succinct volume is the accumulative wisdom of a lifetime of thinking about the questions that were once addressed by philosophy, but are now the province of science.

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Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

by Charles Seife

Proofiness, as Charles Seife explains in this eye-opening book, is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends, and he reminds readers that bad mathematics has a dark side. This penetrating look at the intersection of math and soceity will appeal to readers of Freakonomics and the books of Malcolm Gladwell.

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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

Casey follows a unique tribe of extreme surfers as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave. In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Laird Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves.

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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

by Paul Bloom
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking and thought-provoking new understanding of pleasure, desire, and value. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

by Peter Watson

In this absorbing cultural and intellectul history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, and he explains how and why it flourished, how it shaped our lives, and, most important, how it continues to influence our world.

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

by Sam Kean

The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the frequently mad scientists who discovered them.

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Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh

by Emeril Lagasse and Steve Freeman

In this extraordinary new book, Emeril Lagasse continues his lifelong commitment to using fresh, local ingredients in his restaurants and home kitchen. This is simply another of Lagasse's highly competent creations, full of flavorful recipes presented with simplicity and minimal chitchat.

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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion through the Astonishing World of Math

by Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos's enthusiasm for mathemateics shines from every page. His exploration of mathematics deserves to become an instant classic, and may well do so. If you want to get anyone interested in math, yourself included, then this engaging series of encounters is just what you need.

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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

By Jane Ziegelman
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century — a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life.
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Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

by William Powers
Using his own life as laboratory and object lesson, Powers demonstrates why this is the moment to revisit our relationship to screens and mobile technologies, and how profound the rewards of doing so can be. Lively, original, and entertaining, this book will challenge you to rethink your digital life.
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The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

by Jeff Yeager
From simple money-saving tips to truly life-changing financial strategies, the cheapskates next door know that the key to financial freedom and enjoying life more is not how much you earn, but how much you spend.
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