Hardcover Non-Fiction
1. The Last Lecture  - Randy Pausch (Hyperion)
2. Audition - Barbara Walters (Knopf) New
3. A Remarkable Mother - Jimmy Carter (S&S)
4. Just Who Will You Be? - Maria Shriver (Hyperion)
5. The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria (Norton)
6. Home - Julie Andrews (Hyperion)
7. In Defense of Food - Michael Pollen (Penguin Press)
8. Ladies of Liberty - Cokie Roberts (Morrow)
9. The Downhill Lie - Carl Hiaasen (Knopf) - New 
10. Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam)
11. A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin`s)
12. Girls Like Us - Sheila Weller (Atria)
13. What Now - Ann Patchett (Harper) 
14. A Long and Strange Voyage - Tony Horwitz (Holt)
15. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne (Atria/Beyond Words)

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith        $26.99    (Hardcover)
ISBN 9780446509256

 Rising Soviet state security force officer, Leo Demidov, encounters the test of his career when a serial killer challenges his beliefs about the paradise of the working world, resulting in his demotion and threats against the lives of his family members. 

  So Brave, Young, and Handsome by  Leif Enger         $24.00 Hardcover
ISBN   9780871139856    

In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket, a novelist who has lost his sense of purpose, joins Glendon Hale, an outlaw intent on reconciling with his family, which he had abandoned more than 20 years earlier, on his journey to California, but he is forced to leave his own family and is pursued by Charles Siringo, a relentless former Pinkerton agency.

The God of War  by Marisa Silver      $23.00   (Hardcover)
ISBN   9781416563167   

Prompted by the burden of responsibility he has asumed for his mentally handicapped younger brother, 12-year-old Ares Ramirez is drawn into a dark and dangerous world od rug, violence, and sex for which he is not prepared.      

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga     $24.00 (Hardover) 
ISBN  9781416562597      

Balram Halwai is a complicated man.  Servant, Philosopher. Entrepreneur, Murderer.  Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, he is disillusioned by the city`s 21st century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.

The Girl with no Shadow by Joanne Harris   $24.95   (Hardover)   
ISBN  9780061431623 

Vianne assumes a low-profile new identity in Paris, where she opens a chocolaterie and hopes to escape the ghosts of her past before a devious new friend threatens everything she has worked for.

The Resurrectionist: A Novel by Jack O`Connell      $24.95  (Hardcover)
ISBN  9781565125766   

Sweeney, a druggist, takes a job at the fortresslike Peck Clinic, where he hopes his comatose son will be "resurrected" as other patients there have been, but finds that salvation may instead lie within a comic book. 

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout        $25.00   (Hardcover)
ISBN  9781400062089

The larger-then-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and an unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.

Girls in Trucks  by Katie Crouch        $21.99   (Hardcover)
ISBN  9780316002110    

Unable to emulate the model of a perfect debutante, Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced southerners struggle to  make sense of the city`s sophistication.

The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer       $24.95   (Hardcover)
ISBN  9781594489785  

Ten years after leaving high-powered jobs to raise their children, 4 New York friends enter their forties while struggling with the differences between their past ideals and their present realities, a situation that becomes turbulent when one of them meets a successful working mother of three who seems to have it all.

The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose 
 $23.95   (Hardcover)             ISBN  9780312427689   

A tragic car accident that kills his wife transports Rick Hamilton to a different dimension of the universe, where he is forced to confront his alter ego and swallow a disturbing new version of reaility.  

1858 by Bruce Chadwick         $24.95   (Hardcover)
ISBN   9781402209413              

The author of The First American Army offers a close-up study of a pivotal war in American history and at seven noted American leaders who will play key roles in the battle over slavery, the secession of the Southern states, and the events of the Civil War.

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock       $22.95   (Hardcover)
ISBN  9780385523820         

A collection of stories spanning the era from the mid-1960s to the late 1990s journey inside the world of the diverse inhabitants of Knockemstiff, a tough, Midwestern town, as their lives change and intertwine, capturing such characters as the fathr pumps his son full of steriods to relive his own days as a body builder, a psychotic rural recluse, and an incestuous pair of siblings.

The Tenderness of Wolves          $15.00  (Paperback)
ISBN   9781416571308         

When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered 19th century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and harrowing forces of nature.   

The Blue Star: A Novel  by Tony Earley       
$23.99   (Hardback)        ISBN   9780316199070 

A sequel to Jim the Boy finds teenage Jim falling in love with classmate Crissie Steppe, whose boyfriend has joined the Navy on the eve of World War II and whom Jim vows to win over in the young soldier`s absence, until the sobering realities of war bring all of them a new perspective.

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood  by Robyn Scott     $24.95    (Hardcover)       ISBN  9781594201592

Documents the author`s adventures growing up in Botswana with her eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father`s yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mid-set embraced by their white neighbors.

The View from the Seventh Layer  by  Kevin Brockmeier 
$25.95    (Hardback)                    ISBN  9780375425301      

A compilation of short fiction features the title story about an asocial young woman who ponders her troubled life and imagines an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity, as well as "The Human Soul as Rube Goldberg Device" and "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth.  

Memory  by Philippe Grimbert         $19.95   (Hardback)  
ISBN   9781416559993

A sickly French child invents a make-believe older brother, only to learn from a family friend that he did, in fact, have an older half-brother who was killed in a concentration camp during World War II, a fact which leads to darker family secrets.

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence by John Kessel
$16.00   (Paper)     ISBN  9781931520508  

 A collection of short stories that play on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his-luck man thrown into extraordinary  circumstances.  "The Juniper Tree," "Stories for Men," "Sunlight or Rock," and "Under the Lunchbox Tree" explore the limits placed on a man`s life in a beautiful, woman-dominated city on the barren moon. In "Powerless," a hapless inventor finally perfects a strange new power generator, while destroying his relationship along the way, and in "Pride and Prometheus," Mary Bennet meets Victor Frankenstein.

The Fourth Man  by  K.O. Dahl       $23.95   (Hardcover)
ISBN  9780312375690  

Rescuing the lovely Elizabeth Faremo from a crossfire during a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Folich of the Oslo Police becomes caught up in an affair with her, unaware that she is the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang, until a young guard in killed during a robbery attempt, Elizabeth vanishes, and he finds himself a prime suspect in the gang`s crimes.

In the wake of a classmate`s disappearance, a 6th grader and his older brother begin observing stange events in their 1960s small-town suburb, including the appearance of a man in a large white car, the night activities of a peeping tom, and the deteriorating mental state of the school librarian.