Lucy Sanna

ERIK LARSON
"In the Garden of Beasts" - Widely acclaimed as the master of page-turning nonfiction sagas, Erik Larson once again brings a past world alive--this time, the ominous and ever-changing realm of Nazi Berlin during Hitler’s first full year as chancellor. With its focus on the experience of an American family suddenly transported to that city, "In the Garden of Beasts" presents a fresh and wholly original look at the people, politics, and dazzling social life of Berlin as Hitler inexorably tightened his grip on power.

Larson is the author of six nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers "Isaac’s Storm," "Thunderstruck," and "The Devil in the White City," which was a #1 New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award, and a winner of the Edgar Award for fact-crime writing. He is a former writer for the Wall Street Journal and Time.

RUSSELL BANKS -
"Lost Memory of Skin" - "Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."--Cornel West "Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time... I trust his portraits of America more than any other--the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it."--Michael Ondaatje

Banks is the former president of Cities of Refuge North America, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards.

MELISSA CLARK
Melissa Clark's work has been published in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Wine & Spirits, Town & Country, and Real Simple. She has written more than 20 cookbooks, including "In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite," "The Deen Bros. Cookbook: Recipes from the Road," and "The Deen Bros. Cookbook: Y'all Come Eat."

About "Melissa Clark, Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can't Wait to Make" - A journal-style narrative about the author's first year of feeding her family seasonally, sustainably, and sumptuously--eating real, fresh, whole, non-processed foods, choosing local and seasonal and sustainable whenever possible, and eschewing factory meats and over-fished seafood. But also about eating well and not making herself crazy. This will be a look at her choices, how she succeeds and fails, and most importantly, what she's choosing to cook.

CALVIN TRILLIN
"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff" - There's no such thing as "quite enough" of Trillin, which this collection should prove by offering highlights of his best work. Worth considering even if you have all his other books.

Trillin has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1963. Since 1990, he has also been the Nation's "deadline poet." He is the author of twenty-seven books.

KATHRYN OTOSHI
"Zero" - Zero is a big round number. When she looks at herself, she just sees a hole right in her center. Every day she watches the other numbers line up to count: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 . . . ! "Those numbers have value. That's why they count," she thinks. But how could a number worth nothing become something? Zero feels empty inside. She watches One having fun with the other numbers. One has bold strokes and squared corners. Zero is big and round with no corners at all. "If I were like One, then I can count too," she thinks. So she pushes and pulls, stretches and straightens, forces and flattens herself, but in the end she realizes that she can only be Zero. As budding young readers learn about numbers and counting, they are also introduced to accepting different body types, developing social skills and character, and learning what it means to find value in yourself and in others.

Otoshi is a cat lover and an award-winning author and illustrator who has always wanted to do a children's picture book based on her own Japanese heritage.

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
"A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel" - Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.

Winspear is the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "The Mapping of Love and Death," "Among the Mad," and "An Incomplete Revenge," as well as four other national bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a "New York Times" Notable Book.