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Peter Cunliffe-Jones
My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence (Hardcover - Sept. 14, 2010) - Palgrave Macmillan
His nineteenth century cousin was paddled ashore by slaves. Fifty years later, his grandfather came to rule, and helped craft Nigeria's constitution at independence. Four decades on, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the country’s vibrant and dangerous main city, Lagos, just as military rule was ending. Part family memoir, part history, part exploration of one of Africa's emerging powers, My Nigeria explains why the country fascinates those who go there, how British rule led to collapse at independence and why, if Nigerian voices are heard, their future could be brighter than their past.
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Michael Blanding
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink (Hardcover - Sept. 16, 2010) - Avery
Ever since its “I’d like to teach the world to sing” commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world’s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well—making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and “Coca-Cola” the world’s second-most recognized word after “hello.” However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world’s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet. Journalist Michael Blanding’s The Coke Machine probes shocking accusations about the company’s global impact, including:
- Coca-Cola’s history of winning at any cost, even if it meant that its franchisees were making deals with the Nazis and Guatemalan paramilitary squads
- How Coke has harmed children’s health and contributed to an obesity epidemic through exclusive soda contracts in schools
- The horrific environmental impact of Coke bottling plants in India and Mexico, where water supplies have been decimated while toxic pollution has escalated
- That Coke bottlersstand accused of conspiring with paramilitariesto threaten, kidnap, and murder union leaders in their bottling plants in Colombia.
A disturbing portrait drawn from an award-winning journalist’s daring, in-depth research, The Coke Machine is the first comprehensive probe of the company and its secret formula
for greed.
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Sister Madonna Buder and Karin Evans
The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80 Year Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun (Hardcover - Oct. 5, 2010) - Simon & Schuster
What Sister Wendy did for art, Sister Madonna does for fitness in this inspirational firsthand account of “the Iron Nun,” who at age eighty still regularly competes in marathons and triathlons, and in the ultimate physical test, the Ironman.
One-of-a-kind hero: Sister Madonna Buder laced up a pair of hand-me-down sneakers to run her first race at age forty-eight, at the suggestion of a priest who advocated running as a way to harmonize mind, body, and soul. Praying while she ran, Sister Madonna started to run longer and longer distances. By the time she became the oldest participant to complete the Canadian Ironman competition at seventy-five (in 2005), she was already setting records worldwide and inspiring athletes and onlookers alike. She has completed forty-four Ironman events to date.
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Rae Meadows
Mothers and Daughters: A Novel (Hardcover - April 2011) - Henry Holt
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS is a luminous exploration of motherhood that follows three generations of women—one riding an orphan train at the turn of the 20th century, one facing death at the end of a long life, and one who uncovers a family secret when a box unexpectedly arrives on her doorstep.
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Sarah Maizes
The Modern Mom's Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great, and Rocking a Minivan (April 5, 2011) - Berkley Trade
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Jael McHenry
The Kitchen Daughter (May 2010) - Gallery/Simon & Schuster
Julie & Julia meets Jodi Picoult in this poignant and delectable novel with recipes, chronicling one woman’s journey of self-discovery at the stove.
After the unexpected death of her parents, shy and sheltered twenty-six-year-old Ginny Selvaggio, isolated by Asperger’s Syndrome, seeks comfort in family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning—before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.
A haunted kitchen isn’t Ginny’s only challenge. Her domineering sister Amanda insists on selling their parents’ house in Philadelphia, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents’ belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn’t sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn’t know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father’s photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there’s only one way to get answers: cook from dead people’s recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.
Offering a fascinating glimpse into the unique mind of a woman struggling with Asperger’s and featuring evocative and mouth-watering descriptions of food, this lyrical novel is as delicious and joyful as a warm brownie. |
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Meg Mitchell Moore
The Arrivals: A Novel (May 2011) Reagan Arthur Books
Meg Mitchell Moore's THE ARRIVALS, set in Vermont, is about three siblings who return to their parents' home for the summer and must contend with the adult problems they've brought with them under their childhood roof.
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Bianca Turetsky
The Traveling Fashionista (May 2011) Poppy/Little Brown Books for Young Readers |
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