Traveling Light
by Katrina Kittle

A dancer-turned-school teacher encounters a string of bad luck in the form of a career-ending injury and the slow death of her brother. But it is in trying to fulfill a promise made long ago that Summer will meet her greatest challenge and realize how truly fortunate she is. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures from the Lucasfilm Archives
by S. Sansweet & P. Vilmur

Created with the full cooperation of George Lucas to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars, this portfolio reaches deep into the Lucasfilm archives for interactive reproductions of memorabilia--most never before seen--from all six films, complemented by striking photos and art, plus two audio CDs with sound effects, early radio ads, and original promotions. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Race
by Richard North Patterson

Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, this timely and provocative novel takes on the most incendiary issues in American culture: racism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own agenda and lust for power. Read More... | Request a copy »

Jeeves in the Morning
by P. G. Wodehouse

The ever-faithful Jeeves convinces the impetuous Bertie Wooster to visit Aunt Agatha and her husband, Lord Worplesdon, who live with Bertie's former fiance, Florence Cray, and her troubled younger brother. Of course, Bertie's visit becomes an ill-fated one. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin

With the whip-smart analysis for which he is known, Toobin shows how-since Reagan-conservatives were long-thwarted in their attempts to control the Court by some of the very justices they pressured Presidents to appoint. That struggle ended with the recent appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Court, and Toobin relays the behind-the-scenes drama in fascinating detail, as well as the ensuing 2007 Court term. Read More... | Request a copy »

Ava's Man
by Rick Bragg

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Read More... | Request a copy »

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
by David Maraniss

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of When Pride Still Mattered comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace. Read More... | Request a copy »

Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Read More... | Request a copy »