The Family
The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
by Jeff Sharlet
ISBN: 9780060559793 
$25.95 Hardcover 
Harper

This penetrating book reveals the untold story of Christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. The Family is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power. No other book about the right has exposed this group or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy.

Moose
A Memoir of Fat Camp
by Stephanie Klein
ISBN: 9780060843298 
$24.95 Hardcover 
William Morrow & Company

In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation, Stephanie Klein shares the cutting details of what it truly feels like to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts of classmates to the off-color remarks of her own father to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body.

How the States Got Their Shapes
by Mark Stein
ISBN: 9780061431388 
$22.95 Hardcover 
Collins

How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny (and little known) parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey.

Saving Darwin
How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
by Karl W. Giberson
ISBN: 9780061228780 
$24.95 Hardcover 
HarperOne

In Saving Darwin, a professor of physics and a Christian paints a clear picture of the creation/evolution controversy and explores its intricate history, from Darwin to the current culture wars, carefully showing why--and how--it is possible to believe in God and evolution at the same time.