Outliers: The Story of Success By Gladwell, Malcolm 2008/11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316017923 Check the Library Catalog BookPage Notable Title Gladwell embarks on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest and the most successful. He investigates what makes high-achievers different by looking at their culture, family, generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. ...More

Too Fat to Fish By Lange, Artie Bozza, Anthony 2008/11 - Spiegel & Grau 9780385526562 Check the Library Catalog When stand-up comic Lange joined the cast of "The Howard Stern Show" in 2001, he provided a wit quick enough to keep pace with Stern's own. Wild, shocking, and drop-dead funny, "Too Fat to Fish" is Lange's reflection on his rise to stardom. ...More

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World By Myron, Vicki Witter, Bret 2008/09 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446407410 Check the Library Catalog BookPage Notable Title An Indie Next Selection The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the library. For the next 19 years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. Grand Central Publishing ...More

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House By Meacham, Jon 2008/11 - Random House 9781400063253 Check the Library Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Franklin and Winston" and "American Gospel" comes a magnificent portrait of Andrew Jackson, the man who shaped the modern presidency. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. ...More

Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America By Huckabee, Mike 2008/11 - Sentinel 9781595230546 Check the Library Catalog Part campaign memoir, part manifesto, this work from the former governor of Arkansas and a rising star of the Republican party lays out his optimistic vision for America's future. 8-page b&w photo insert. ...More

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America By Friedman, Thomas L. 2008/09 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374166854 Check the Library Catalog BookPage Notable Title Friedman's bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. ...More

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life By Schroeder, Alice 2008/09 - Bantam 9780553805093 Check the Library Catalog This highly-anticipated book recounts with intimate detail the life experience and life-wisdom of the man known as The Oracle of Omaha: Warren Buffet. ...More

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity By O'Reilly, Bill 2008/09 - Broadway Books 9780767928823 Check the Library Catalog In his most intimate book yet, Bill O'Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from being a working-class kid to an immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. ...More

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid By Leary, Denis Leary, Dr Denis 2008/12 - Viking Books 9780670031603 Check the Library Catalog In this hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from an award-winning actor and comedian, Leary uses his common sense, and his biting take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes himself too seriously. ...More

Annie Leibovitz at Work By Leibovitz, Annie Leibovitz, Annie 2008/11 - Random House 9780375505102 Check the Library Catalog The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras. Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation and ending with Barack Obama's presidential campaign. ...More

Letter to My Daughter By Angelou, Maya 2008/09 - Random House 9781400066124 Check the Library Catalog BookPage Notable Title Letter to My Daughter is Angelou's first original collection in 10 years. Combining personal experiences with the distilled knowledge of a lifetime, these short but spellbinding essays take the reader on an inspirational journey that explores ideas from a well-lived life. ...More

Call Me Ted By Turner, Ted Burke, Bill 2008/11 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446581899 Check the Library Catalog The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalleled success as a businessman and philanthropist. ...More

The American Journey of Barack Obama By Life Magazine Kennedy, Edward M. 2008/10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316045605 Check the Library Catalog The editors of LIFE Books have collected a richly illustrated biography of presidential candidate Barack Obama. This work includes intimate pictures from Obama's childhood and his time as editor of Harvard's Law Review, and culminates with the historic Democratic National Convention. ...More

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Obama, Barack 2004/08 - Three Rivers Press (CA) 9781400082773 Check the Library Catalog In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. ...More

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream By Obama, Barack 2007/11 - Three Rivers Press (CA) 9780307237705 Check the Library Catalog Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to the Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. ...More