by Cindy Orr

Here’s our compilation of “good reads” in nonfiction to be published during the summer months. Enjoy!

Walter Alvarez – In the Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geological Events That Shaped Our Earth

Christopher Andersen – Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve

Simon Baatz – For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago

Lewis Black – Me of Little Faith

Philip Carlo – Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

Janet Carlson – Quick, Before the Music Stops: How Ballroom Dancing Saved My Life

David Carr – The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life: His Own

W. Hodding Carter – Off the Deep End

Tommy Chong – Cheech and Chong: The Unauthorized Biography

Christopher Ciccone & Wendy Leigh – Life with My Sister Madonna

Kevin Conley – The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen

Alan S. Cowell – The Terminal Spy

Edward Dolnick – The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Barbara Ehrenreich – This Land is Your Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Richard Engel – War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq

Iain Gately – Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

Kathryn Harrison – While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family

Janis Ian – Society’s Child

Jamie James – The Snake Charmer: A Life & Death in Pursuit of Knowledge

Daniel Levitin – The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

David Maraniss – Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World

Larry McMurtry – Books: A Memoir

Gavin Menzies – 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

Michael Moore – Mike’s Election Guide

Philip P. Pan – Out of Mao’s Shadow

Nancy Pelosi – Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters

Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi – The Monster of Florence

Anne Roiphe – Epilogue: A Memoir

David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames

John & Jean Silverwood – Black Wave: A Family’s Adventure at Sea & the Disaster That Saved Them

Lucy H. Spelman & Ted Y. Mashima – The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets & their Patients

Ron Suskind – The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Noah Andre Trudeau – Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea

Tom Vanderbilt – Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)

Bob Woodward – Untitled on George Bush

(embargoed until September 1)

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