New Releases

Here’s what’s on sale this week (blurbs courtesy of the books’ publishers):

HARDCOVER FICTION

Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan

From the author of the acclaimed best seller The Gates of the Alamo. Remember Ben Clayton vividly depicts a rich swath of American history, from the days when the Comanches ruled the Southern plains to the final brutal months of World War I. It ranges from outlaw settlements on the Texas frontier to the cafés of Paris, from Indian encampments to artists’ ateliers to the forgotten battlefield in France where Ben Clayton died.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

The Greater Journey: American in Paris by David McCullough

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales

The first complete and never-before revealed history of ESPN is a wild, smart, effervescent look at the triumph, genius, ego, and rise of an empire unlike any television has ever seen.

The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather

Within a single week in 2009, food journalist Robin Mather found herself on the threshold of a divorce and laid off from her job at the Chicago Tribune. Forced into a radical life change, she returned to her native rural Michigan. There she learned to live on a limited budget while remaining true to her culinary principles of eating well and as locally as possible. In The Feast Nearby, Mather chronicles her year-long project: preparing and consuming three home-cooked, totally seasonal, and local meals a day–all on forty dollars a week.

PAPERBACK FICTION

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Four new, unforgettable short works from the #1 internationally bestselling author . . . “Four raw looks at the limits of greed, revenge, and self-deception” (Booklist, starred review) from the greatest storyteller of our time.

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco

Winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.  A rich and dramatic family saga of four generations, tracing one hundred and fifty years of Philippine history forged under the Spanish, the Americans, and the Filipinos themselves.

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

From the authors of Freakonomics. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department store Santa? Who adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?