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A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of the September 11th attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s name–and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. “A coherent, timely and fascinating examination of a grieving America’s relationship with itself,” The Washington Post.

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In the late 19th century, the game of football only remotely resembled the sport millions follow today. There was no common agreement about the basic rules and it was incredibly violent. Some tried to abolish the game but Theodore Roosevelt , a longtime fan of the game, fought to preserve football’s manly essence, even as he understood the need for reform.

The Buddha in the Attic

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In the early 1900s, numerous Japanese mail order brides came to America seeking better lives. Otsuka’s (When the Emperor was Divine) novel paints a delicate, heartbreaking portrait of these women. Using a collective first-person narrator Otsuka looks at the experiences of these picture brides. “Otsuka’s prose is precise and rich with imagery,” Publishers Weekly.

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Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination – showing that memorization can be anything but rote. Foer’s experience shows that the memory championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.

When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put

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After years on the road, Swift decides to put down roots.  This memoir is a charming, beautifully illustrated celebration of puttering, doodling, daydreaming, and settling down in a small town on the edge of the Long Island Sound.

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The Tea Shop Mystery Series continues.  Amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, finds herself investigating a murder which took place at the Heritage Society’s Pirate and Plunder party.  Recipes and tea time tips are included.

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For all Yankees fans and lovers of baseball history, this is the story of Babe Ruth’s Yankees, John McGraw’s Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.

Doc

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It’s 1878, Dodge City, Kansas, at the peak of the cattle trade. This is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp really begins – before the O.K. Corral gunfight that links their names forever. “Filled with action and humor yet philosophically rich and deeply moving – a magnificent read,” Kirkus Reviews.