Thomas Friedman yearns for a "geo-greenism," while Bob Woodward covers the Watergate... er, the waterfront...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America
By Thomas L. Friedman

"Green is the new red, white, and blue." Oh my. Thomas L. Friedman proposes a "geo-greenism" in Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America, an elaborate national strategy to save the planet from overheating. It’s a necessary measure to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure in the coming E.C.E. - the Energy-Climate Era, of course. Green-oriented practices and technologies, says Friedman, are both the only way to alleviate climate change and the best way for America to — platitude alert! — "get its groove back," to "reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad, retool America for the new century, and restore America to its natural place in the global order." Hooray for the red, white, blue, and green.

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
By Bob Woodward

Vital reading for many in this election year, Bob Woodward's fourth volume about the Bush presidency at war declassifies the secrets of America's political and military involvement in Iraq, revealing the emotions, struggles, and behind-the-scenes developments of Bush's last years in office and the wars that will define his presidency. Inveterate investigative reporter Woodward covers the waterfront (if not necessarily the Watergate), from the White House to the Pentagon, from the State Department to the CIA, from the bureaucracy of Washington to the battlefields of Iraq. Moreover, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 expounds upon the principles and exposes the process of decision-making and commitment to action - including secret plans, meetings, memos, and conversations.

The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives
By Cheryl Jarvis

Cheryl Jarvis’ The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives is the story of an impulsive social experiment about some apparently bored women who "transformed a symbol of exclusivity into a symbol of inclusiveness." And what sounds like a dull, trivial book.

And yet, there's more...

Reagan: The Hollywood Years
By Marc Eliot

Hurry Down Sunshine
By Michael Greenberg

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army
By Paul Douglas Lockhart

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
By Somaly Mam

John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845
By Gary May, Arthur M. Schlesinger (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor)

The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values
By Brad O'Leary

Bob Schieffer's America
By Bob Schieffer

American Widow
By Alissa R. Torres, Choi (Illustrator), Sungyoon Choi (Illustrator)

Trouble with Boys
By Peg Tyre