Fiction
Ford County - John Grisham; "Stories set in rural Mississippi."
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton; "In the 17th-century Caribbean, a British pirate attacks a Spanish galleon; this manuscript was found in Crichton's files after his death in 2008."
The Road - Cormac McCarthy; "A father and son travel in post-apocalypse America."
Tales Designed to Thrizzle: Volume One - Michael Kupperman; "A stiff, deadpan drawing style that suggests the textures of woodcuts, clip-art and old Mary Worth strips."
The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics - Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly; "A handful of these stories feature familiar names, including Carl Bark's Uncle Scrooge, C.C. Beck's Captain Marvel (in an adventure involving surrealist art) and Walt Kelly's Pogo; many others are long-forgotten wonders, like George Carlson's supremely ridiculous Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg and Sheldon Mayer's high-whimsical Sugar and Spike."Nonfiction
The Book of Codes, Understanding the World of Hidden Messages: An Illustrated Guide to Signs, Symbols, Ciphers and Secret Languages - Paul Lunde; "Meant to introduce the reader to many overt and covert codes, it is more sampler (each code is given two pages) than in-depth analysis."
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - Henry Watson Fowler; "(Reissue of) the classic first edition."
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Children’s Book - Anita Silvey; "A delightful nostalgic exercise in which prominent people reflect on the children’s stories that shaped them."
Guinness World Records 2010 - Craig Glenday; "Tallest, fastest, youngest, most."
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth of America - Steven Johnson; "A satisfying genre-blending consideration of Joseph Priestley and his fertile ideas."
A New Literary History of America - Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors; "From the first appearance of the word 'America' on a map to Jimi Hendrix's rewrite of the national anthem."Shakespeare and Modern Culture - Marjorie Garber; "Survey of the uses to which Shakespeare has been put."
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith - Joan Schenkar; "Especially fascinating are Schenkar's extras, such as a reproduction of the list Highsmith made to rank and compare her lovers, and a list of the books on her shelves."
Talking About Detective Fiction - P.D. James; "Unpretentious celebrations of reason and order in our increasingly complex and disorderly world."
Why We Suck - Denis Leary; "Sardonic essays from the actor and comedian."
Poetry
Easy - Marie Ponsot; "We're past get-ready, almost get-set."
The Mind-Body Problem - Katha Pollitt; "Death can't help but look friendly / when all your friends live there / while more and more / each day's like a smoky party / where the music hurts and strangers insist they know you."
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