BOBBY FLAY’S BURGERS, FRIES AND SHAKES
by Bobby Flay

Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9780307460639

Author Website: BobbyFlay.com

Usher in summertime with Flay's creative recipes for America’s favorite laid-back fare and cook a feast that'll have the neighbors begging for invitations to your backyard.

In BOBBY FLAY’S BURGERS, FRIES AND SHAKES, he shares his best recipes for making juicy burgers, crisp golden-brown fries, and creamy, frothy milkshakes. But Flay doesn't stop there; he offers tasty variations that are sure to become new classics. Check out Bobby’s Crunch Burger (featuring potato chips), Cheyenne Burger, Patty Melt Burger and even Provençal Tuna Burger with Roasted Garlic-Tomato Aïoli. To top it all off, he includes his ultimate recipes for killer homemade condiments --- the insider secret to burger-and-fries bliss.

Throughout the book, Flay gives expert instruction on taking these foods to a higher level with ease --- from forming burgers that cook evenly every time and picking the right bun to avoiding pale, soggy fries (whether you fry, grill, or oven-roast them) and getting the perfect ratio of ingredients for a thick, delicious milkshake. With Flay's tips in hand, you’ll be able to master your own unique summertime cookout spread.

Bobby Flay is the chef-owner of three Mesa Grill restaurants (New York City, Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas and the Bahamas), Bar Americain, Bobby Flay Steak and Bobby’s Burger Palace. He is the host of numerous popular cooking shows on Food Network, from the Emmy-nominated “Boy Meets Grill” to the “Iron Chef America” series, “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” and “Grill It! with Bobby Flay.” A New York Times bestselling cookbook author, he is also the food correspondent for "The Early Show" on CBS. This is his ninth book. His website is www.bobbyflay.com.

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THE BOOK OF DADS: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood
Edited by Ben George

Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9780061711558

At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, THE BOOK OF DADS brings together 20 well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers --- or anyone who has been or loved a parent --- unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and on point, but with an eye toward becoming a classic for readers return to again and again. Contributors include Ben Fountain, Charles Baxter, Jim Shepard, Clyde Edgerton, Neal Pollack, Rick Bragg, Anthony Doerr, Michael Thomas, Davy Rothbart, Richard Bausch, Nick Flynn, Brandon R. Schrand, Rick Bass, Sebastian Matthews, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Steve Almond, David Gessner, Darin Strauss, Brock Clarke and Sven Birkerts.

Ben George is editor of the literary journal Ecotone. His work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best New American Voices. He lives with his wife and daughter in North Carolina, and teaches at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

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DIAMONDHEAD
by Patrick Robinson

Price: $25.95
ISBN: 9781593155094

When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford’s fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche. Mack suspects that Foche will succeed in his campaign to become the next French President and fears that his election will promote the spread of international terrorism.

So when Mack is asked to help assassinate Henri Foche, he finds himself agreeing. But before Mack can reach Foche, a jilted mercenary group warns the Frenchman of the threat, greatly increasing the difficulty of Mack’s solo assassination attempt. Can Mack track down and murder the French tyrant before it’s too late?

Patrick Robinson is the co-author of the recent New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller LONE SURVIVOR. He is also the author of seven international bestselling suspense thrillers, including TO THE DEATH, NIMITZ CLASS and HUNTER KILLER, as well as several nonfiction bestsellers. He lives in Ireland and spends his summers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE: A Memoir
by Michael Greenberg

Price: $22.00
ISBN: 9781590511916

When Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad at the age of fifteen, her crack-up marked a turning point in both their lives. “I feel like I’m traveling and traveling with nowhere to go back to,” Sally said in a burst of lucidity while hurtling away toward some place her father could not understand or imagine. Beginning with Sally’s sudden, visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continuing in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward, HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE tells the story of a family broken open, then movingly stitched back together again. Unsentimental, nuanced and deeply humane, HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE is an indelible portrait of a family under siege, and the enduring bond of love between a father and his daughter.

A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement, where his wide-ranging true life stories have been appearing since 2003. His writing has also been published in such varied places as O, The Oprah Magazine and The New York Review of Books. HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE has been published in sixteen countries and was chosen as one of the best books of 2008 by Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com and Library Journal. Greenberg’s new book, BEG, BORROW, STEAL: A Writer’s Life, will be published by Other Press in September 2009.

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NUDGE: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Price: $16.00
ISBN: 9780143115267

NUDGE is about choices --- how we make them and how we’re led to make better ones. Based on their decades of research in the burgeoning field of behavioral science as it relates to economics, Thaler and Sunstein first explain the different psychological and social factors that go into making decisions, noting that despite our best intentions, we often make bad choices. Using examples from many different aspects of life --- from diets to retirement savings to speeding --- they examine the ways in which institutions, businesses and other “choice architects” can use these factors as they design various choice-making situations to nudge people to make better decisions.

Richard H. Thaler is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and the director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

Cass R. Sunstein was Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Univesity of Chicago Law School and Departent of Political Science from 1993-2008. In the fall of 2008 he will be the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and will also become director of the new Program on Risk Regulation

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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated by Lucia Graves

Price: $16.00
ISBN: 9780143034902

The international literary sensation about a boy's magical journey through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona in search of a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. An epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón lives in Barcelona. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND is his first novel. It was voted by La Vanguardia, Barcelona's main newspaper, the best book of 2002, has spent two years at the top of Spain's bestseller lists, and has been sold in over 20 countries. Zafón, 39, is also the award-winning author of four successful young-adult novels, and a screenwriter.

Translator profile: Lucia Graves, the daughter of the poet Robert Graves, was raised by her parents in postwar Spain on the island of Majorca. After graduating from St. Anne's College, Oxford, she returned to Spain to pursue a career as a literary translator and writer. She has published Spanish-language versions of the works of her father and of books by Katherine Mansfield and Anaïs Nin. Her first novel, LA CASA DE LA MEMORIA, was recently published in Barcelona, as was her memoir, A WOMAN UNKNOWN.