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Summer Reading List ....from the good guys at Steeeeeeeeful... We have had several people ask us to re-send the reading list compiled for Spring Break - for some good choices on Summer Break reads. we've added nothing new to the list - the following is exactly what we sent this Spring-Break Season. See Attached.. Dave Lutz The Top Mentioned books were: Antifragile, No Easy Day, Thinking Fast and Slow, Unbroken, American Sniper, Team of Rivals, Gone Girl, and The Secret Race Click on Hyperlinks to take you to the Genre (May be Ctrl+Click): FICTION: FINANCE COMEDY - MYSTERY & THRILLER - SCIENCE FICTION - HISTORICAL - GENERAL FICTION NON-FICTION: FAMILY & KIDS - FOOD & DRINK GENERAL NONFICTION - HISTORY & TRAVEL BIOGRAPHY - WAR PRE 9/11 - WAR POST 9/11 POLITICAL RELIGION - SCIENCE & BEHAVORAL - FINANCE, POST CREDIT CRUNCH FINANCE GENERAL - TRADING & INVESTING SPORTS / SOME OTHERS ON MY KINDLE FICTION / FINANCE Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders (2) - Scott Patterson - A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them. Ghosts of Manhattan: A Novel - Douglas Brunt - Former Internet exec Brunt offers up a savage, jaded, and comical depiction of freewheeling Wall Street bond traders during their precollapse heyday in this engaging debut As Nicks life, his marriage, and the U.S. economy edge closer to meltdown, Brunt brings all the pieces together for a satisfying climax to this compulsively readable novel. The Fear Index - Robert Harris - High tech finance and sophisticated computer programming combine in this terrifying and fiendishly smart new novel from Robert Harris. The Leading Indicators - Gregg Easterbrook - Tom Perrotta meets David Brooks in a powerful modern parable about one American family's fall from grace during the recession The Shadow of the Rock: A Spike Sanguinetti Novel - Thomas Mogford - Shadow of the Rock is a complicated mystery, involving international investment, new energy sources, the romance of the Bedouin people. Mogford is a new voice in international crime fiction, writing of a place that has an intricate history and culture, and

complicated contemporary politics, and Spike Sanguinetti's point of view is a marvelous expression of that voice. FICTION / COMEDY A Confederacy of Dunces (3) - John Kennedy Toole - American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Tooles hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (2) - Adam Corolla - Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free- for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell -George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF. Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad - Dan Zevin - Its a book about a regular guy taking his first tentative, sometimes scary steps toward being a fully formed adult, and it is always funny and sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious. Misadventures include Zevins courtroom battle to get a bogus ticket thrown out; his being hired, inexplicably, to deliver a commencement address at a nearby college; and his and his wifes borderline-frantic search for a new nanny. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace -A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are Not Taco Bell Material - Adam Corolla - author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcasterreveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today. The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel - Garth Stein - A heart-wrenching but deeply

funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope--a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it. The Average American Marriage - Chad Kultgen - Now married with children, Kultgen's lewd and sex-obsessed narrator once again offers up his deep (and not so deep) thoughts on love, marriage, kids, and (naturally) sex: from birthday sex to interns to parenting, The Average American Male looks upon the institution of marriage with the same deadpan smirk he has brought to the rest of his sex-addled, perennially disaffected life. This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel - Jonathan Tropper - Tropper is wickedly funny, a master of the cutting one-liner that makes you both cringe and crack up. But what elevates his novels and makes him a truly splendid writer is his ability to create fantastically flawed, real characters who stay with you long after the book is over. Simultaneously hilarious and hopeful, This Is Where I Leave You is as much about a family's reckoning as it is about one man's attempt to get it together. Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau - Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. FICTION / MYSTERY / THRILLER Gone Girl: A Novel (4) - Gillian Flynn - On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy disappears. There are signs of struggle in the house and Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Nick hasn't been completely honest with the police and, as Amy's case drags out for weeks, more and more vilifying evidence appears against him. Nick, however, maintains his innocence. Told from alternating points of view between Nick and Amy, Gillian Flynn creates an untrustworthy world that changes chapter-to-chapter. 11/22/63 ( John F. Kennedy Assasination) (3) - Stephen King - Jakes friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insaneand insanely possiblemission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jakes lifea life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. Shantaram: A Novel (2) - Gregory David Roberts - Crime and punishment, passion and loyalty, betrayal and redemption are only a few of the ingredients in Shantaram, a massive, over-the-top, mostly autobiographical novel. Shantaram is the name given Mr. Lindsay, or Linbaba, the larger-than-life hero. It means "man of God's

peace," which is what the Indian people know of Lin. What they do not know is that prior to his arrival in Bombay he escaped from an Australian prison where he had begun serving a 19-year sentence. He served two years and leaped over the wall. He was imprisoned for a string of armed robberies peformed to support his heroin addiction, which started when his marriage fell apart and he lost custody of his daughter. All of that is enough for several lifetimes, but for Greg Roberts, that's only the beginning. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series (2) - Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. The Last Child, Down River, The King of Lies - John Hart A Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett - In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts All the Books by Vince Flynn - American Assassin Thrillers Anathem Neil Stephenson - alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions. Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway - Edie Banister retired long ago from her career as a British secret agent. She spends her days with a cantankerous old pug for company. That is, until Joe repairs a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism, inadvertently triggering a 1950s doomsday machine. His once-quiet life is suddenly overrun by mad monks who worship John Ruskin, psychopathic serial killers, mad geniuses and dastardly villains. Any Jack Reacher book - Lee Child - Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army Military Police major. Since leaving the army, the authorities have not been able to locate him, although his name crops up mysteriously from time to time in connection with investigations into murders, terrorism, and other breaches of the law. Billy Boyle books - James Benn - Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else

expected Blindness - Jose Saramago - A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers- among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Borderlines (Joe Gunther Mysteries) - Archer Mayor - Introspective and deliberate in his methods, Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vt., police is a reliable since they're practically synonyms focal point in a mystery that includes graphic emergency medical scenes, adrenalin-producing car chases and lots of cat-and- mouse suspense Case Histories : A Novel - Kate Atkinson - Private detective Jackson Brodie finds himself entangled in three distinctly different cases only to thread the needle time and again and come across remarkable connections between them Defending Jacob: A Novel - William Landay - fast, compelling, and compulsively readable courtroom drama, Defending Jacob tells the story of a district attorneys son who is accused of killing a classmate. As the father attempts to prove his sons innocence, Landay explores uncomfortable territory: can a tendency toward violence be inherited? Is the capacity for murder a genetic disposition? The author, a former district attorney, gets the taut nuances just right, capturing the subtleties of a trial in a packed courtroom, where a small rustle or murmur can signify a lot. Gabriel Alon Series - Daniel Silva - "If you think Italians have a long memory, you should spend some time in the Middle East. We're the ones who invented the vendetta, not the Sicilians." So maintains Gabriel Allon, art restorer and Mossad hit man, star of Silva's second thriller series" Inferno: A Novel - Dan Brown - In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of historys most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dantes Inferno. Live by Night: A Novel - Dennis Lehane - Set in Boston - Live by Night, an epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties. Quantum of Solace - Ian Fleming - A collection of James Bond short stories Savages: A Novel - Don Winslow - Ben, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican

Baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly engrossing thrill ride, an ultracontemporary love story that will leave you breathless. Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel - Peter Heg - When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor---a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend---has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smillas Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic. "Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey - This is, quite simply, one of the great classics of the 20th century. Its pace and moody evocation of the American North West are stunning. The collision between the traditional and the modern, the past and the present make riveting, enthralling reading. The Stamper family are loggers, rough, hard men and women who care for no ones opinion but their own. They are fighting the union, the neighbours, the town, their whole world. Their motto of ""never give an inch"" was the title of the film of the book. Into the strike-breaking start of the book comes the dope-smoking, college educated half brother, the prodigal son. His arrival triggers a tidal wave of events that spiral gradually out of control until everything that has been permanent before is now threatened." The Columbus Affair - Steve Berry - A familys secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American governmentall are linked by a single puzzling possibility. What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world? The Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay Faye - Lyndsay Faye puts the drive and passion of a modern thriller onto the mean streets of 1840s New York. She brings a fascinating page of history to life with a gripping, twisty plot, vivid characters, and seamless research. This is historical fiction at its best Travis McGee novels - John MacDonald - Some of the books are better than others, but they're nearly all worth a couple of lazy summer days. They are the ultimate summer time, quick-read beach books. At their core, they're good mysteries. But Travis McGee is such a great character, with such a wry outlook on life, that often the mystery seems secondary to McGee's views on whatever topic author John D. McDonald has selected for his soap box. Most of them take place in Florida, (a Florida no one will ever see again given they were written mostly in the 60s and 70s) SCIENCE FICTION

 The Game of Thrones Series (4), "Dance with Dragons" latest - George R.R. Martin - in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin--dubbed the "American Tolkien" by Time magazine--has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2) - Max Brooks - Brooks tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first- person accounts "as told to the author" by various characters around the world. A Chinese doctor encounters one of the earliest zombie cases at a time when the Chinese government is ruthlessly suppressing any information about the outbreak that will soon spread across the globe. The tale then follows the outbreak via testimony of smugglers, intelligence officials, military personnel and many others who struggle to defeat the zombie menace. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia - Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins - In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live TV The John Carter of Mars Series - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Barsoom is Mr Burroughs vision of Mars as an exotic world slowing sinking towards its eternal slumber. Barsoom is populated by various intelligent species, both human and non-human who vie for the dwindling resources of the dying planet. - Enter John Carter (aka Captain Jack Carter, C.S.A. and gentleman of the State of Virginia), an Earthman transported to Mars by some strange type of astral projection from his dying body on Earth. Once on Barsoom our Earthly hero quickly begins to show his physical and moral superiority by joining together groups that have been warring against one another for generations. HISTORICAL FICTION A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett - In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics and position, are bound by their search for a place called freedom

 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo - Katherine Boo spent three years among the residents of the Annawadi slum, a sprawling, cockeyed settlement of more than 300 tin-roof huts and shacks in the shadow of Mumbais International Airport. From within this sumpy plug of slum Boo unearths stories both tragic and poignant--about residents efforts to raise families, earn a living, or simply survive. Cloud Atlas, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell - A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. Coal Black Horse - Robert Olmstead - Set in the Civil War - At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safetyblue on one side, gray on the other Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness, bravery, and self-posession Comanche Moon, Dead Man's Walk, Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Epic story about two former Texas rangers who decide to move cattle from the south to Montana. Flashman at the Charge - George MacDonald Fraser - The premise of these novels is that the "Flashman Papers" were discovered in a Leicestershire attic in 1965. In them, the English soldier and adventurer, Harry Flashman, recounts his adventures throughout the British Empire during the latter half of the nineteenth century. They are helpfully "notated" by the "editor," George MacDonald Fraser, who occasionally comments upon the authenticity of Flashman's recollections. And what do you know! Flashman just happens to have been present at just about every single major military event in English history of these times! Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis - A portrait of an underclass thug who wins the lottery, Asbo amplifies the earlier novel's hyperbolic farce "A ripper of a story, in the Dickens mode... the novel mingles in genuine characters with the usual comedic grotesques, and is tender, almost earnest, in its emotions" Northern Borders: A Novel - Howard Frank Mosher - life in northern Vermonts Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the county fair, doings at the annual family reunion and Shakespeare performance, and

conflicts at the one-room schoolhouse are all recounted The Bloodletter's Daughter - Linda Lafferty - Inspired by a real-life murder that threatened to topple the powerful Hapsburg dynasty, The Bloodletters Daughter is a dark and richly detailed saga of passion and revenge The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Falsely accused during the final days of Napoleon's reign, Edmond Dants is imprisoned in the bleak Chateau d'If. After a hair-raising escape, he launches an elaborate plot to extract a bitter revenge against those who betrayed him The Given Day: A Novel - Dennis Lehane - Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, bestselling author Dennis Lehane's extraordinary eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads where past meets future. Filled with a cast of richly drawn, unforgettable characters, The Given Day tells the story of two familiesone black, one whiteswept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - he story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck - During World War II, a German sympathizer lures local men and the town's twelve soldiers into the forest long enough for the Germans to take the town. They occupy the home of the mayor as a sign of their power and commandeer the local coal mine. Mayor Orden has never before been a brave or very forceful man, but he is not a fool, and while he tries to keep order in the town, as the Germans demand, he refuses to use the power of his office to betray the ideals of his people The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafn - Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealers son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julin Carax. But when he sets out to find the authors other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms - Gail Tsukiyama - Tsukiyama tackles life in Japan before, during and after WWII. The story follows brothers Hiroshi and Kenji Matsumoto through the devastation of war and the hardships of postwar reconstruction. GENERAL FICTION A Visit From the Good Squad - Jennifer Egan - Bennie is an aging former punk rocker

and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self- destruction and redemption. Anthem - Ayn Rand In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Atlas Shrugged Ann Rand - Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit. Deliverance - James Dickey - The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance. Empire Falls - Richard Russo - Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self- respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe its Janine, Miles soon- to-be ex-wife, whos taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps its the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in townand seems to believe that everything includes Miles himself. Faust (Part I) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Goethe's Faust reworks the late- medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. Fifty Shades of Gray Trilogy - E. L. James - When college student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly Ana realizes she wants this man, and Grey admits he wants her, toobut on his own terms. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christians secrets and explores her own desires. (Graphic Sexual Content and Themes)

In One Person: A Novel - John Irving - A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled lovetormented, funny, and affectingand an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse - With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self- discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. The Corrections: A Novel - Jonathan Franzen - After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman - The Dude and the Zen Master doesnt read like a traditional book at allbut rather riffs like a jam session....youll feel as though you yourself sat in on the sessions with the dude behind the Dude in The Big Lebowski and Buddhist buddy, Bernie....And whats so cool is that the two of them manage to address many of lifes profundities relationships, politics, working, aging, living, dyingin this very funny and readable jam session. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow - This searing and heartwrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with societys ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice. The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman - Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goings-on at a scrappy English- language newspaper in Rome. Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out the intersecting lives of the men and women who produce the paperand one woman who reads it religiously, if belatedly The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky - a story about what its like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school. the world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends. of sex, drugs, and the rocky horror picture show. of those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick - Meet Pat Peoples. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure him a happy endingthe return of his estranged wife, Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has spent several years in a mental health facility.) The problem is,

Pats now home, and everything feels off. No one will talk to him about Nikki; his beloved Philadelphia Eagles keep losing; hes being pursued by the deeply odd Tiffany; his new therapist seems to recommend adultery as a form of therapy. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - When hot-blooded young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he finds himself challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the King's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis are to become his greatest friends, and companions in dangerous adventure when he becomes embroiled in the intrigues of the Court and the beautiful, evil Lady de Winter. NON-FICTION, FAMILY/KIDS Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History - George Howe Colt - Colts new book, Brothers, is an equally idiosyncratic and masterful blend of memoir and history featuring both the authors three brothers and iconic brothers in history the Booths, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx Brothers, and the Thoreaus. Colleges that Change Lives - Loren Pope - Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original to create a totally updated, more expansive work. Organized by geographic region, every profile includes a wealth of vital information, including admissions standards, distinguishing facts about the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and what faculty say about their jobs. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity - Andrew Solomon - He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, as are the triumphs of love Solomon documents in every chapter. Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know - Meg Meeker - Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years experience counseling girls, reveals that a young womans relationship with her father is far more important than weve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her fathers attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her lifeand his ownfor the better The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression - Lisa Machoian - Adults are increasingly concerned about the rising rate of depression in teenage girls and the frequency of alarming behaviors including wild conduct, explosive outbursts, back talking, sexual escapades, drug experimentation, and even cutting, eating disorders, and suicide attempts.

The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined - Salman Khan - A free, world- class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. NON-FICTION, FOOD / DRINK Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher - Bill Buford - A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of restaurant cooking, Buford soon finds himself drowning in improperly cubed carrots and scalding pasta water on his quest to learn the tricks of the trade Sex, Death and Oysters - Robb Walsh - When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decides to look into the matter. Thus begins a five-year journey of discovery into the culture of one of the worlds oldest delicacy, and adventure that takes him from oyster reefs to oyster bars and from corporate boardrooms to hotel bedrooms The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life - Timothy Ferriss - tools needed to learn to cook well can be deployed in every manner of endeavor, from skinning a deer to memorizing a deck of cards. The author distills them into minimal, learnable units and examines how to order the units so as to keep readers engaged in their endeavors. Ferriss is a beguiling guide to this process, at once charmingly smart aleck-y and deadly serious, and he aims to make readers knowledgeable and freethinking. The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution - Alice Waters - With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients, The Art of Simple Food is an indispensable resource for home cooks. Here you will find Alices philosophy on everything from stocking your kitchen, to mastering fundamentals and preparing delicious, seasonal inspired meals all year long The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine - Benjamin Wallace - The Billionaires Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Chteau Lafite Bordeauxsupposedly owned by Thomas Jeffersonthat sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist?

 The Wild Vine: A The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine by Todd Kliman - A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. NON-FICTION, GENERAL Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It (2) - David Goldhill - A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea - Steven Callahan - Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. Busting Vegas Ben Mezrich - unbelievably true story; a riveting account of monumental greed, excess, hubris, sex, love, violence, fear, and statistics that is high- stakes entertainment at its best. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 - Charles Murray - In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death Fate is the Hunter - Ernest K Gann - Ernest K. Ganns classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother by B. Morrison - Growing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother. Disowned by her parents and facing destitution for herself and her two small sons, she was forced to accept the handout so disdained by her parents and their world: welfare

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny - In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide. Space Chronicles - Neil DeGrasse Tyson - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world. SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future - Richard Martin - A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War Sutton - J.R. Moehringer - The career of America's most successful bank robber. Over three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, and such a master at breaking out of prisons, police called him one of the most dangerous men in New York, and the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives - Zbigniew Brzezinski - As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the worlds only superpower: no other nation possesses comparable military and economic power or has interests that bestride the globe. Yet the critical question facing America remains unanswered: What should be the nations global strategy for maintaining its exceptional position in the world? The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future - Jonathan Cahn - Before its destruction as a nation, ancient Israel received nine harbingers, prophetic omens of warning. The same nine harbingers are now manifesting in America with immediate ramifications for end-time prophecy. Hidden in an ancient biblical prophecy from Isaiah, the mysteries revealed in The Harbinger are so precise that they foretold recent American events down to the exact days. The revelations are so specific that even the most hardened skeptics will find it hard to dismiss or put down. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb - When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed.

Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma The Next 100 years - George Friedman - The U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; Chinas role as a world power will diminish; Mexico will become an important force on the geopolitical stage; and new technologies and cultural trends will radically alter the way we live (and fight wars). The Next Decade: Where We've Been...and Where We're Going - George Freidman - The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade. The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J. R. Moehringer - In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club, J.R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar is a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson - In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. NON-FICTION, HISTORY / TRAVEL In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century - Geert Mak - From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Ordinary Wolves: A Novel - Seth Kantner - Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichs of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantners vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawclys life on the Alaskan plains through the characters own words feeling the pliers pinch of cold and hunkering in an igloo in blinding blizzards. Seraphine: A Provincetown Story Julianne Papetsas - Seraphine is a novel that explores and condenses Provincetown history and lore into the framework of one family and their evolving life in the early part of the 20th century. It is full of playful humor, biblical allusion, local color, and immigrant sagas. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival - Dean King - Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a

hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. Smoking Poppy : A Novel - Graham Joyce - Dan Innes has received shattering news from the British Embassy in Bangkok: his daughter, Charlie, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in two years, has been imprisoned in a Thai jail for drug smuggling. Angry, terrified, seething with reprimands and questions, Dan leaves for Thailand. But the jail at Chiang Mai marks the beginning of his search rather than the end. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander - Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition--one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. The Lotus Eaters - Tatjana Soli - A unique and sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed - At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington Stateand she would do it alone NON-FICTION, BIOGRAPHY The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (4) - William Manchester Life" (2) - Keith Richards The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (2) - Robert A. Caro

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Total Recall Bossypants - Tina Fey Bruce (Springsteen) - Peter A Carlin Catherine the Great - Robert Massie - the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Chronicles: Volume One - Bob Dylan Clapton: The Autobiography - Eric Clapton Coolidge, An American Enigma - Robert Sobel In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran John Taylor Life Itself: A Memoir - Roger Ebert Open - Andre Aggasi Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers) - Anthony Kiedis Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Timothy Leary: A Biography - Robert Greenfield When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin - Mick Wall Who I Am: A Memoir - Pete Townshend NON-FICTION, WAR - PRE 9/11 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (5) - Laura Hillenbrand - As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (4) - Erik Larson - a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real

time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror. The Land at the End of the World(2) - Antnio Lobo Antunes - recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war. Like the Ancient Mariner who will tell his tale to anyone who listens, the narrators evening unfolds like a fever dream that is both tragic and haunting. The result is one of the great war novels of the modern age. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution - Nathaniel Philbrick - Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II - Arthur Herman - how two extraordinary American businessmenautomobile magnate William Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiserhelped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the arsenal of democracy that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II. Gettysburg, Grant Comes East, Never Call Retreat, To Make Men Free - Newt Gingrich Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam - Mark Bowden - a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, Americas first battle with militant Islam Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl - Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far - John C. McManus - explores World War IIs most ambitious invasion, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. Operation Market-Garden is one of the wars most famous, but least understood, battles, and McManus tells the story of the American contribution to this crucial phase of the war in Europe. The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger - a remarkably gripping account of Americas Bay of Pigs

crisis, drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering, as never before, the vivid truthand consequencesof five pivotal days in April 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality - Sheldon Stern - This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. The Gathering Storm (Winston Churchill World War II Collection) - Winston Churchill - Told by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, this book is also the story of one nations heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Having learned a lesson at Munich they would never forget, the British refused to make peace with Hitler, defying him even after France had fallen and it seemed as though the Nazis were unstoppable. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago - The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library) by Michael Shaara - This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman - Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. Third Reich Trilogy - Richard J. Evans - Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it NON-FICTION, WAR - POST 9/11 No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (7) - Mark Owen - For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

 American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (5) - Chris Kyle - American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirmed kills Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (2) - Eric Blehm - Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators. Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior - Rorke Denver - Denver takes you inside his personal story and the fascinating, demanding SEAL training program he now oversees. He recounts his experience evolving from a young SEAL hopeful pushing his way through Hell Week, into a warrior engaging in dangerous stealth missions across the globe, and finally into a lieutenant commander directing the indoctrination, requalification programs, and the Hero or Zero missions his SEALs undertake. In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War by Naval Academy Class of 2002 - This is a must read for all Americans--an up close and personal account of duty and sacrifice by graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Youll stand a little straighter when you mingle with these remarkable fellow citizens Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds by Rusty Bradley - One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to the theater who has only recently returned from combat there. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell - Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible - Douglas Farah - "A riveting investigation of the world's most notorious arms dealer- -a page-turner that digs deep into the amazing, murky story of Viktor Bout. Farah and Braun have exposed the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive businesses--the international arms trade." Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor - Award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaidaafter easily defeating the ragtag

Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan by Sean Parnell - A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnells stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Armys 10th Mountain Divisions heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan. Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan by Malcolm MacPherson - Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the mans fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now: leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there accountbased on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking researchjournalist Malcolm MacPherson thrusts us into a drama of rescue, tragedy, and valor The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan (P.S.) by Eric Blehm - Set in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the untold story of the team of Green Berets that conquered the Taliban and helped bring Hamid Karzai to power in Afghanistan. The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor - Jake Tapper - The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education - Craig M. Mullaney - While stationed in Afghanistan, a deadly firefight with al-Qaeda leads to the loss of one of his soldiers. Years later, after that excruciating experience, he returns to the United States to teach future officers at the Naval Academy. Written with unflinching honesty, this is an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of war while coming to terms with what it means to be a man. NON-FICTION, POLITICAL Team of Rivals (5) - Doris Kearns Goodwin - This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (3) - Bill O'Reilly - A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (3) - Bill O'Reilly - A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln America the Beautiful - Dr. Ben Carson - Carson shares experiential insights that

help us understand ... what is good about America ... where we have gone astray ... which fundamental beliefs have guided America from her founding into preeminence among nations Written by a man who has experienced America's best and worst firsthand, America the Beautiful is at once alarming, convicting, and inspiring. You'll gain new perspectives on our nation's origins, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our educational system, capitalism versus socialism, our moral fabric, healthcare, and much more. American Gridlock: Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - H. Woody Brock - Pessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps. Right-and Left-wing ideologues talk past each other, with neither side admitting the other has any good ideas Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? - Edward Behr - Great insider view into history of wars in India (WWII era), Algeria and Vietnam. Also, really good insights into how journalists *really* see the world they report on Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann - Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime Ideology and Utopia, Karl Mannheim, 1936 - Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. On China - Henry Kissinger - On China illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and tight line modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino- Soviet alliance, the Korean War, and Richard Nixons historic trip to Beijing. On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present - Alan Ryan - Alan Ryan evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes reading about them a transcendent experience. Whether writing about Plato or Augustine, de Toqueville or Thomas Jefferson, Ryan brings a wisdom to his text that illuminates John Deweys belief that the role of philosophy is less to see truth than to enhance experience. The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order - Benn Steil - A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn

 The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity - Nancy Gibbs - members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for historys favor. Among their secrets: How Jack Kennedy tried to blame Ike for the Bay of Pigs. How Ike quietly helped Reagan win his first race in 1966. How Richard Nixon conspired with Lyndon Johnson to get elected and then betrayed him. How Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter turned a deep enmity into an alliance. The unspoken pact between a father and son named Bush. And the roots of the rivalry between Clinton and Barack Obama Trinity - Leon Uris - sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. NON-FICTION, RELIGION Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright - Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologistsboth famous and less well knownand years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World - Chris Lowney - In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self- awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander - While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super- physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism - Timothy Keller - Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics and non-believers bring to religion. Using literature, philosophy, anthropology, pop culture, and intellectual reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. NON-FICTION, SCIENCE / BEHAVORAL Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (8) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Just as

human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. Thinking, Fast and Slow (6) - Daniel Kahneman - ahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities and also the faults and biasesof fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. How Will You Measure Your Life? (4) - Clayton M. Christensen - a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights designed to help any readerstudent or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or childforge their own paths to fulfillment. The Signal and the Noise (3) - Nate Silver - Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing (3)- Michael J. Mauboussin - Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands to offer the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck. He offers concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage. Once we understand the extent to which skill and luck contribute to our achievements, we can learn to deal with them in making decisions. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2) - Richard H. Thaler - For fans of Malcolm Gladwells Blink and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahnemans Thinking Fast and Slow, a revelatory new look at how we make decisions Outliers: The Story of Success (2) - Malcolm Gladwell - we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2) - Susan Cain - At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introvertsRosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak-- that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2) - Siddhartha Mukherjee - magnificent, profoundly humane biography of cancerfrom its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Contagious - Jonah Berger - If you said advertising, think again. People dont listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral? Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide - David Daniels - The most fundamental guide to the Enneagram ever offered, this book features effective self-tests to determine simply and accurately what your personality type is. Daniels and Price provide step-by-step instructions for taking inventory of how you think, what you feel, and what you experience Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone - From the back rooms of New York Citys age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stones quest to join the ranks of master magicians. Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter - concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed - Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the worlds problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. How We Decide - Johan Lehrer - the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we blink and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the minds black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, theyre discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reasonand the precise mix depends on the situation. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by

Thomas Gilovich - When can we trust what we believe - that "teams and players have winning streaks", that "flattery works", or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right" - and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims - What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Bestselling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment - George Leonard - Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author Gorge Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives. Whether you're seeking to improve your career or your intimate relationships, increase self-esteem or create harmony within yourself, this inspiring prescriptive guide will help you master anything you choose and achive success in all areas of your life. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer - recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely - Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictablemaking us predictably irrational. Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health... - Rudolph E. Tanzi - A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The Art of Contrary Thinking - Humphrey B. Neill - "When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong." The ten words quoted above are, according to Humphrey B. Neill, a potent factor behind the economic booms and busts that blight our civilization The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine,

and after dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion - "I've come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess," he says. "What I am best at is the art of learning." The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande - avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industryin almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to peopleconsistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow - vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. The Honest Truth about Dishonesty Dan Ariely - examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave - From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycleand inescapable parts of the human condition. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny - Robin Sharma - tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life- changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris - Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - David Brooks - This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brains work gets done. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations -

Ori Brafman - If you cut off a spiders head, it dies; if you cut off a starfishs leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional top-down organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world. The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand - sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society. Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order) - Joe Peta - Peta shows how to subtract luck--in particular "cluster luck," as he puts it--from a team's statistics to best predict how it will perform in the next game and over the whole season. His baseball "hedge fund" returned an astounding 41 percent in 2011-- with daily volatility similar to funds he used to trade for. Peta takes readers to the ballpark in San Francisco, trading floors and baseball bars in New York, and sports books in Vegas, all while tracing the progress of his wagers Wait: The Art and Science of Delay - Frank Partnoy - Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life even when time seems to be of the essence. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction - David McRaney - Whether youre deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But heres the truth: You are not so smart. Youre just as deluded as the rest of usbut thats okay, because being deluded is part of being human. Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond - Chris Crowley - These are the books that show us how to turn back our biological clocks how to put off 70% of the normal problems of aging (weakness, sore joints, bad balance) and eliminate 50% of serious illness and injury. NON-FICTION FINANCE, POST CREDIT CRUNCH Boomerang (4) - Michael Lewis - Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and

greediest of debtor nations. After The Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, The Response, And The Work Ahead - Alan S. Blinder - Blinder shows us how the U.S. financial system, which had grown far too complex for its own goodand too unregulated for the public good experienced a perfect storm beginning in 2007. Things started unraveling when the much-chronicled housing bubble burst, but the ensuing implosion of what Blinder calls the bond bubble was larger and more devastating. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown - David Wiedemer - Just as many are wrongly forecasting a full recovery ahead, Aftershock, now updated and revised, warns of a very different economic future. Home prices and stocks will continue to fall, inflation and unemployment will rise, and the current recession will not automatically cycle back to recovery. Bailout Nation - Barry Ritholtz - Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Written by Barry Ritholtz, one of today's most popular economic bloggers and a well-established industry pundit, this book skillfully explores how the United States evolved from a rugged independent nation to a soft Bailout Nation-where financial firms are allowed to self-regulate in good times, but are bailed out by taxpayers in bad times. Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street - Neil Barofsky - Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his job in the esteemed U.S. Attorneys Office in New York City to become the special inspector general overseeing the spending of the bailout money. But from day one his efforts to protect against fraud and to hold the big banks accountable were met with outright hostility from Treasury officials. Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors - Charles Gasparino - a riveting account of the Wall Street scam in which ordinary investors lost literally billions of dollars -- in many cases their life savings -- in one of the greatest deceptions ever - Drawing on his research and interviews with industry insiders, Gasparino takes readers into the back rooms of Wall Street's top investment firms and captures the outsize personalities of three key players Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World - Deirdre McCloskey - The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.

 Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis - James Rickards - Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, Currency Wars provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian adventurism, and the current scramble for gold. Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry - Helaine Olen - goes behind the curtain of the personal finance industry to expose the myths, contradictions, and outright lies it has perpetuated. She shows how an industry that started as a response to the Great Depression morphed into a behemoth that thrives by selling us products and services that offer little if any help. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis - a brilliant account character-rich and darkly humorousof how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy - Michael Pettis - Pettis explains how China has maintained massive--but unsustainable--investment growth by artificially lowering the cost of capital. He discusses how Germany is endangering the Euro by favoring its own development at the expense of its neighbors. And he looks at how the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency burdens America's economy. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History - Tyler Cowen - merica is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and talk of a double-dip recession persists. Americans are not pulling the world economy out of its sluggish state -- if anything we are looking to Asia to drive a recovery Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy - Christopher Hayes - describes how the society we have come to inhabit utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. NON-FICTION, FINANCE The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (4) - William N. Thorndike - Drawing on years of research and experience, Thorndike tells eye-opening stories, extracting lessons and revealing a compelling alternative model for anyone interested in leading a company or investing in oneand reaping extraordinary returns.

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (2) - William Poundstone - In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory--the basis of computers and the Internet-- to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (2) - Nicholas Wapshott - As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess (2) - Turney Duff - portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence (2) - William L. Silber - Noted scholar and finance expert Silber draws on hours of candid personal interviews and complete access to Volcker's personal papers to render dramatic behind-the-scenes accounts from Volcker's career at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World - William J. Bernstein - a sweeping narrative history of world tradefrom Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization todaythat brilliantly explores trades colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer - William Knoedelseder - ritically acclaimed journalist William Knoedelseder tells the riveting, often scandalous saga of the rise and fall of the dysfunctional Busch familyan epic tale of prosperity, profligacy, hubris, and the dark consequences of success that spans three centuries, from the open salvos of the Civil War to the present day. Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley - Patricia Beard - In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. Less than four months later, a group of eight retired, multimillionaire executives had orchestrated a stunning revolt within the most prestigious anduntil recentlymost successful financial-services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire behind-the-scenes story, exposing the tale that shook high finance.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins - Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire Dying of Money - Jens O. Parsson - Jens O. Parsson performs the neat trick of transforming the dry economic subject of inflation into a white-knuckles kind of blood-chiller. He begins with a freewheeling account of the spectacular inflation that all but destroyed Germany in 1923, taking it apart to find out both what made it tick and what made it finally end. He goes on to look at the American inflation that was steadily gaining force after 1962. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System - Barry Eichengreen - This classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists, but also a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international relations. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities - John Cassidy - describes the rising influence of utopian economiesthe thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in todays economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isnt just misguidedits downright dangerous. Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism - Slavoj Zizek - For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World - Liaquat Ahamed - Ahamed's central thesis is that the critical decisions made by these four bankers not only caused the Great Depression but also created the conditions for World War II. The most fateful event of all was the decision to adhere to the gold standard. Money Mischief - Milton Friedman - Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten - Stephen Few - We use tables and graphs to communicate quantitative information: the critical

numbers that measure the health, identify the opportunities, and forecast the future of our organizations. Even the best information is useless, however, if its story is poorly told. This problem exists because almost no one has ever been trained to design tables and graphs for effective and efficient communication Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle - Dan Senor - addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin - Reads like a detective story which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again or a banker. The Dow Jones averages, 1885-1980 - Phyllis S. Pierce The Forgotten Man - Amity Shlaes - offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today. The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions - William A. Sherden - In this piercing and provocative expose, business consultant and forecasting expert William Sherden casts an unblinking eye on the booming business of predicting the future, separating fact from fallacy to show us not only how best to use the forecasts we're given, but how to "select the nuggets of valuable future advice from amongst the $200 billion worth of mostly erroneous future predictions put forth each year. The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It's Too Good to Be True - Simon Lack - Although hedge fund managers have earned some great fortunes, investors as a group have done quite poorly, particularly in recent years. Plagued by high fees, complex legal structures, poor disclosure, and return chasing, investors confront surprisingly meager results. Drawing on an insider's view of industry growth during the 1990s, a time when hedge fund investors did well in part because there were relatively few of them The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick - A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africas talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. The Last Partnerships : Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties - Charles R. Geisst - narrates the rise and fall of the great financial houses--from the "Yankee Bankers" at the turn of the 19th century, up to Goldman Sachs's historic IPO in 1999-- tracing their origins, their successes and failures over the years, and the reasons for their ultimate demise. The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street - Justin Fox - A lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former Time Magazine economics columnist Justin Fox, describes with insight and wit the rise and fall of the worlds most influential investing idea: the efficient markets theory. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley - makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and changewhat Ridley calls cultural evolutionwill inevitably increase human prosperity. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Bethany McLean - takes the reader deep into Enron's pastand behind the closed doors of private meetings. Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, the book follows Enron's rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. It reveals as never before major characters such as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, as well as lesser known players like Cliff Baxter and Rebecca Mark When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany - Adam Fergusson - In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. Germanys finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake NON-FICTION FINANCE, TRADING / INVESTING Anatomy of the Bear - Russell Napier - How does one spot the bottom of a bear market? What brings a bear to its end? There are few more important questions to be answered in modern finance. Financial market history is a guide to understanding the future. Looking at the four occasions when US equities were particularly cheap - 1921, 1932, 1949 and 1982 - Russell Napier sets out to answer these questions

 Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge - David Dreman - Warren Buffett called that rarityan extremely readable and useful book that will be of great value both to the layman and the professional, Dreman introduces vitally important new findings in psychology that explain why the stock market is inescapably given to bubbles, panics, and periods of high volatility. He also shows how we can use these findings to reliably profit from market errors, crash-proof our portfolios, and earn market-beating long-term returns. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win - Jack D. Schwager - Jack Schwager comes a behind-the-scenes look at the world of hedge funds, from fifteen traders who've consistently beaten the markets. Exploring what makes a great trader a great trader The Alchemy of Finance - George Soros - details Soros's innovative investment practices along with his views of the world and world order. He also describes a new paradigm for the "theory of reflexivity" which underlies his unique investment strategies. Filled with expert advice and valuable business lessons, The Alchemy of Finance reveals the timeless principles of an investing legend. The Battle For Investment Survival: How To Make Profits - G. M. Loeb - protecting and increasing capital is in fact a "battle." In addition to experience, flair and contacts, matters like this need uninterrupted time and attention and also a need to succeed The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money - Steven Drobny - provides investors and traders with the latest thinking from some of the best and the most successful players in money management, highlighting the specific risk and return objectives of each, and discussing the evolution of certain styles and beliefs in money management The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor - Howard Marks - explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed, with a number of broad takeaways The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable - James Owen Weatherall - While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us from fin- de-sicle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from

options pricing to bubbles. The Value Investors: Lessons from the Worlds Top Fund Managers - Ronald Chan - Ronald W. Chan interviewed 12 value-investing legends from around the world, learning how their personal background, culture, and life experiences have shaped their investment mindset and strategy. Why Stocks Go Up (and Down) - William H. Pike - An in-depth introduction to stock and bond investments. Assumes the reader has no prior background. Covers in narrative form with examples: fundamentals of financial statements, financial ratios, primary and secondary offerings, price/earnings ratios, commonly misunderstood terms such as "capitalize", "equity", "cash flow", "diluted earnings" and more. Book is not just a glossary, but explains things in depth You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits - Joel Greenblatt - You're about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss -- uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards SPORTS The Secret Race- Inside the Hidden World of the Tour De France (4) - Tyler Hamilton - The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrongby former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle. The Art of Fielding (3) - Chad Harbach - At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World (2) - Jack McCallum - acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Mens Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. The power of negative thinking - Bobby Knight - legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why negative thinking will actually produce more positive results, in sports and in daily life. Coach Knight, the second-winningest coach in NCAA history with 902 victories, explains that victory is often attained by the team that makes the fewest mistakes.

A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee - Tom Coyne - Tom Coyne was familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father has taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawn on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it-on foot. Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son - John Jeremiah Sullivan A wide- ranging investigation into the history and culture of the horse, particularly the Thoroughbred racehorse. Spurred by his father's recollection of Secretariat's Kentucky Derby victory in 1973, the author devoted two years of intensive reading and travel to understanding the various aspects and allure of Thoroughbred racing Calico Joe by John Grisham - A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame - Franklin Foer - a timeless collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about assimilation, first-person reflections, and, above all, great writing on some of the most influential and unexpected pioneers in the world of sports. Featuring work by today's preeminent writers, these essays explore significant Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters, trainers, and even team owners Race France to France: Leave Antarctica to Starboard - Rich Wilson - He endured broken ribs, a bloody facial gash, a climb up the mast on his run to Cape Horn, sleep deprivation, exhaustion and fear, while ten gales battered his trusty GA3 on her 4th race around the world. Wilsons tenacity, perseverance, determination and skill inspire and motivate: that we can all do more than we think. Rebels for the Cause: The Alternative History of Arsenal Football Club - Jon Spurling - Spanning almost 120 years, and set against a backdrop of turbulent social and political change, Rebels for the Cause assesses the legacy and impact of Arsenal's most controversial players, officials, and matches. From hard men like '30s player Wilf Copping to the reformed wild ones of recent years such as Tony Adams, Jon Spurling highlights the infamous figures whose refusal to conform has made them terrace legends. Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future - John Eisenberg - in an unlikely series of events, two young oil tycoons started their own professional football franchises in Dallas the very same year: the NFLs Dallas Cowboys, and, as part of a new upstart league designed to thwart the NFLs hold on the game, the Dallas Texans of the AFL. Almost overnight, a bitter feud was born. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods - Hank Haney - Hank Haney's candid,

surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There's never been a book about Tiger that is as intimate and revealing--or as wise about what it takes to coach a star athlete. The Bullpen Gospels - Dirk Hayhurst - "The Bullpen Gospels is a funny bone-tickling, tear duct-stimulating, feel-good story that will leave die-hard baseball fans--and die- hard human beings, for that matter--well, feeling good." The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever - Mark Frost - In 1956, millionaires Eddie Lowery and George Coleman made an off-the-cuff bet on a golf match and inadvertently set up one of the sport's most climactic duels; this one casual game has become the sport's great suburban legend. Frost (The Greatest Game Ever Played) diligently covers the two pros slightly past their prime, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, who squared off against two top amateurs, Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It - Neal Bascomb - There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey - For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels the globe, hunting these monsters of the ocean with Hamiltons crew, she witnesses first-hand the life or death stakes, the glory, and the mystery of impossibly mammoth waves Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps - Chris Jericho - Fighting his way through Mexico, rinky-dink leagues and a battery of thieving, sleazy promoters/managers, the book ended with the author's WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) debut. Never one to leave his fans hanging, as demonstrated by his recent return to wrestling glory, Jericho now tells the story of life in the big leagues Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball R.A Dickey - In 1996, R.A. Dickey was the Texas Rangers much-heralded No. 1 draft choice. Then, a routine physical revealed that his right elbow was missing its ulnar collateral ligament, and his lifelong dreamalong with his $810,000 signing bonuswas ripped away. Yet, despite twice being consigned to baseballs scrap heap, Dickey battled back. Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game - Joseph Parent - noted PGA coach and

Buddhist instructor, Dr. Joseph Parent, draws on this natural connection and teaches golfers how to clear their minds, achieve ultimate focus, and play in the moment for each shot. Zen Putting: Mastering the Mental Game on the Greens - Joseph Parent - Zen Putting takes a thinking-outside-the-box approach based on the idea that by tuning into the process of putting rather than worrying about the result, golfers can get out of their own way and maximize performance. Key principles include using mindful awareness to recognize and clear away distractions and negativity Some books not mentioned that reside on my Kindle A Pirate looks at 50 - Jimmy Buffett - Here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it Jimmy takes us from the legendary pirate coves of the Florida Keys to the ruins of ancient Cartegena. Along the way, we hear a tale or two of how he got his start in New Orleans, how he discovered his passion for flying planes, and how he almost died in a watery crash in Nantucket harbor. We follow Jimmy to jungle outposts in Costa Rica and on a meandering trip down the Amazon, through hair-raising negotiations with gun-toting customs officials and a 3-year-old aspiring co-pilot. American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by Jon Roberts - Roberts was much more than the de-facto transportation chief of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic. As Wrights tape recorder whirred and Roberts unburdened himself of hundreds of jaw-dropping tales, it became clear that perhaps no one in history had broken so many laws with such willful abandon Argo Antonio Mendez - On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery by Sam Calagione - Calagione offers a deeper real-world look at entrepreneurship and what it takes to operate and grow a successful business. In several new chapters, he discusses Dogfish's most innovative marketing ideas, including how social media has become an integral part of the business model and how other small businesses can use it to catch up with bigger competitors. Calagione also presents a compelling argument for choosing to keep his business small and artisanal, despite growing demand for his products. Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to

Your Pet by John Bradshaw - uses the latest scientific research to show how humans can live in harmony with--not just dominion over-- their four-legged friends. From explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective (and less damaging) way to control dogs' behavior than punishment to demonstrating the importance of weighing a dog's unique personality against stereotypes about its breed, Bradshaw offers extraordinary insight into the question of how we really ought to treat our dogs. Don't stop the Carnival - Herman Wouk - It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.) Everything Bad is Good for you - Steven Johnson - Forget everything youve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. Food Inc - Karl Weber - Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the book poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably? Gonzo, Life of Hunter S Thompson - Jann Wenner - "A fond and exhilarating look back at the wild man of American journalism, put together by a couple of guys who were pretty close to him." Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson - the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It - Mark Cuban - Using the greatest material from his popular Blog Maverick, he has collected and updated his postings on business and life to provide a catalog of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. Cuban tells his own rags-to- riches story of how he went from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends' couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion dollar success story

 In Cold Blood Capote - The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the new journalism. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson - September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history John Adams by David McCullough - unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain - Bourdain's deliciously funny, delectably shocking, wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade are now hand-annotated throughout by the author himself, with Bourdain's updated insights and commentaryand a new Afterword about the radically changing food and restaurant industry a decade after the book's original publication. The drugs, sex, and haute cuisine are still here, but given a fresh new perspective from the bona fide super-celebrity chef Liars Poker - Michael Lewis - From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewiss knowing and hilarious insiders account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson - a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before. Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West: William McKeen - True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Americas southernmost city - For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later

generationone defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompsonthere was another moveable feast: KeyWest, Florida. Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove - Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders by Connie Bruck - During the '80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough - One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980s. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber - a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefevre - First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people than years of experience. This is a timeless tale that will enrich your lifeand your portfolio. The Rolling Stone Interviews by Jann S. Wenner - The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars, and cultural icons--uncensored and unfiltered--are published together in one remarkable volume in celebration of "Rolling Stones" 40th anniversary. Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps: How the NFL Became the Most Successful Sports League in History - Mark Yost - offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the league and examines the maverick owners whose ideas could have lasting repercussions for the players, owners, coaches, and ultimately the fans The Best of Callahan - John Callahan - From the warped mind of one of Americas most twisted cartoonists comes The Best of Callahana wildly satirical, wickedly funny collection of favorite cartoons, of fans and author alike. Warning: This book is not for the timid, the easily offended, the politically correct, or your grandparents. Its for people who like their humor dark The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell,' by Mark Kurlansky - Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insightalong with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photosthis dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the seventeenth-century founding of New York to the death of its oyster beds and the rise of Americas

environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattans Gilded Age dining chambers. The Buddha Walks into a Bar...: A Guide to Life for a New Generation by Lodro Rinzler - a book for those who are spiritual but not religious, who are disillusioned by the state of the world, who are sick of their jobs (and just started last Tuesday), who like drinking beer and having sex and hate being preached at, who are striving to deepen their social interactions beyond the digital realms of Twitter and Facebook. This is Buddhism presented to a generation leaving the safe growth spurts of college and entering a turbulent and uncertain work force. The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich - a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community. Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes - Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles-the equivalent of ten marathons-without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley, and to the South Pole-and is probably the first person to eat an entire pizza while running. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward. Stifel Nicolaus Institutional Equity Sales Seth Hamed, CFA | 443-224-1245 | jshamed@stifel.com | aol im: sethhamedstifel Tim Jones | 443-224-1246 | ptjones@stifel.com | aol im: timjonesstifel Chad Chilcot | 443-224-1258 | cbchilcot@stifel.com | aol im: cbchilcotstifel