LET'S EXPLORE DIABETES WITH OWLS
By David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown • ISBN: 9780316154697
A humorist returns with more wry takes on contemporary life.
LEAN IN
By Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
Publisher: Knopf • ISBN: 9780385349949
The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
PROOF OF HEAVEN
By Eben Alexander
Publisher: Simon & Schuster • ISBN: 9781451695199
A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.
COOKED
By Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin Press • ISBN: 9781594204210
A celebration of braising, baking, grilling and fermenting.
WILD
By Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage • ISBN: 9780307476074
An account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. Originally published in 2012 and a 2014 movie.
TRIDENT K9 WARRIORS
By Michael Ritland with Gary Brozek
Publisher: St. Martin's • ISBN: 9781250024978
A former member of the Navy SEALs describes his subsequent career finding, training and supplying working dogs to the U.S. military.
WAKING UP IN HEAVEN
By Crystal McVea
Publisher: Howard • ISBN: 9781476711874
What happened to a teacher from Oklahoma during nine minutes of unconsciousness.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
By Ben C Carson and Candy Carson
Publisher: Zondervan • ISBN: 9780310330912
A doctor explores what makes America great.
DIRTY WARS
By Jeremy Scahill
Publisher: Nation • ISBN: 9781568586717
America’s new covert wars, fought by secret commandos.
CARRIE AND ME
By Carol Burnett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster • ISBN: 9781476706412
The comedian recalls her oldest daughter, who died in 2002.
AMERICAN SNIPER
By Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Publisher: Harper • ISBN: 9780062238863
A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
MY NEXT STEP
By Dave Liniger with Laura Morton
Publisher: Hay House • ISBN: 9781401943417
The founder of Re/Max recounts his ordeal with a staph infection that left him paralyzed.
QUIET
By Susan Cain
Publisher: Broadway • ISBN: 9780307352156
Introverts — approximately one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.
THE NEW DIGITAL AGE
By Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Publisher: Knopf • ISBN: 9780307957139
The promise and peril of the continuing information and technology revolution for people, nations and business.
WAY OF THE KNIFE
By Mark Mazzetti
Publisher: Penguin Press • ISBN: 9781594204807
The Times’s national security correspondent describes how the lines between the C.I.A. and the American military have been blurred.
GULP
By Mary Roach
Publisher: Norton • ISBN: 9780393081572
A science writer’s pilgrimage down the digestive tract; by the author of “Stiff,” “Spook,” “Bonk” and “Packing for Mars.”
DUCK COMMANDERS
By Willie and Korie Robertson with Mark Schlabach
Publisher: Howard • ISBN: 9781476703541
Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
By Daniel Kahneman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux • ISBN: 9780374533557
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN
By Jackie Hance with Janice Kaplan
Publisher: Gallery • ISBN: 9781451674774
The experience of a mother whose three daughters were killed when her sister-in-law drove the wrong way down the Taconic Parkway.
UNBROKEN
By Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher: Random House • ISBN: 9781400064168
An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Read by Edward Herrmann. 13 hours, 56 minutes unabridged.